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 Well, good morning, everyone.

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 What an amazing celebration that was.

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 To have four baptisms, it's going to show the hand of God is in this place.

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 And we certainly just...

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 It's a great reminder of how God works in each and every one of our lives.

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 And that God works in some incredible ways.

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 I'm reminded of just meeting all of these people and getting to know their own story.

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 It's a great reminder for every single one of us here, whether you're here in person or you're watching online,

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 that no matter who you are, no matter what it is you're going through, what you have been through or what you will go through,

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 God extends an invitation for every single one of us, calling us to something greater.

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 When you think about it, the world that we live in, there's so much hatred.

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 There's so much division.

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 There's so much anger and animosity towards one another.

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 You turn on the news and when is the last time you've heard anything positive on it?

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 Show of hands.

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 It's getting harder, isn't it, right?

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 And we think about the world that we live in and we think about how so many people are searching for meaning and purpose in their life.

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 And they go to things of the world.

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 They may go to money.

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 They may pursue power.

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 They may pursue knowledge.

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 They may pursue all different things in the world.

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 But when you really think about it, more often than not, when you search the things of this world,

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 it does not satisfy the void or the emptiness that exists in us.

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 And only God can really fulfill that void in our lives.

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 It goes to show that Jesus Christ, being the way, the truth, and the life, provides a much better way for all of us.

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 And so we're going to go into, we've been going through Revelation.

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 I started this last year, going through the seven churches in Revelation.

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 This is actually a 42-week sermon series through Revelation, which is a very ambitious thing, I've got to admit here.

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 And in this, it has been rewarding.

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 Thinking about the depth of Scripture, the connections, the context, and all sorts of things.

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 How many of you have heard that Revelation is a scary book?

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 Yeah?

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 And let's be honest here.

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 We live in a culture where most people neglect Revelation, right?

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 And how divisive and how confusing it is, right?

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 And then you go on to the news or you read the paper or you read an article and it's talking about things like the mark of the beast, right?

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 Is it Social Security?

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 Is it a barcode?

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 What is it, right?

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 And then you have things like the beast, right?

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 Is it America?

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 Is it Russia?

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 What is it?

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 And there's so much confusion.

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 But here's the thing.

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 There's a lot of mystery in Revelation.

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 There's a lot of beautiful and wonderful connections that is found within the Old Testament as well as the parables of Christ.

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 And so we've been going through it.

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 We went through the seven churches in Revelation.

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 And we went through Revelation 4, 5, and now we're at Revelation 6.

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 This is part one, which is the first four seals found in Revelation 6, verses 1 through 8.

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 And I've titled this sermon, The Final Say.

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 It's important for us to realize that we live in this world where lots of people are saying different things, right?

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 All different types of opinions, right?

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 And when we think about God, which is higher than all of us, it is God that has the final say.

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 That is the main idea.

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 That is the main purpose and objective that we find in here.

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 We have found within Revelation that God has the final say.

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 In the world that we live in, there are four words we'll go into before we even open our Bibles.

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 If you want to go ahead, it's in Revelation 6.

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 Conquest, war, famine, and death.

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 That's some light reading, isn't it?

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 Right?

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 Four very heavy things that we find in Revelation.

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 Conquest, war, famine, and death.

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 These kind of judgment type of language.

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 It is God who controls all of heaven and all of earth.

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 We think of these words, we don't think of the most positive of things, right?

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 Many of you have heard those verses of wars and rumors of wars.

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 But we think about it.

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 The most powerful thing that we can take to heart, even before we open the text,

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 is that God has the final say.

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 It is God who sent his son, Jesus Christ, who is victorious over death.

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 Amen?

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 Right?

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 That's important for us to recognize.

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 We think of famine, war and conquest, the things of this world,

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 the condition and darkness that exists within the world.

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 It is God who is truly in control.

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 Now, when we think of the world and the brokenness and the darkness that exists into it,

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 we are...

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 Anyone here perfect?

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 Good.

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 No one's raising their hand, right?

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 It's just like that scene in Scripture, right?

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 When Christ says,

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 let he who is without sin cast the first stone and nobody throws a stone, right?

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 It's important for us to recognize we are imperfect people.

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 Nobody here...

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 I'm not perfect.

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 You're not perfect.

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 Nobody here is perfect.

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 But we worship a God who is perfect.

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 And so we're living on this world that is broken.

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 And here's the thing.

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 God gives all of us a choice for that better life.

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 A plan for salvation.

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 A plan for purpose.

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 A plan for transformation for all of us.

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 And so as we've gone through in Revelation,

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 Jesus Christ is the one who is worthy.

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 We've sung those songs before.

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 Some of you may have.

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 Some of you may not have.

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 Worthy is the lamb who was slain, taken straight from Revelation.

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 Evil may think they have the final say.

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 Very often in the lives in which we live in and even throughout Scripture,

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 there's a question that comes up so often.

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 Why do the wicked prosper?

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 Why does it seem like evil has the final say?

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 Why does it seem like all this darkness exists in the world?

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 Right?

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 You don't have to raise your hand,

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 but I can tell you I've asked that question a number of times.

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 Right?

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 And perhaps you have asked that kind of question before.

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 God is in control.

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 We may think that God is absent.

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 Many people, they cry out for justice.

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 Many people pray to the Lord and they're wondering when God will answer.

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 And it's important for us to recognize that God answers in his divine timing,

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 which is essentially beyond our understanding.

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 Just like God's love and God's forgiveness, God's care and mercy is beyond our own human understanding.

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 How many of you have ever played Monopoly before?

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 How many of you have won at Monopoly before?

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 I'm sure everyone's going to raise their hand.

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 Right?

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 You like getting the boardwalk.

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 Right?

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 Right?

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 You want to get those blue tiles.

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 Right?

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 So that you essentially win.

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 Right?

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 Well, that's very different than when you think of how would you be as a judge?

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 We have human judges on this earth, don't we?

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 Now, there's good judges and there's bad judges,

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 much like there are people who are very good at playing Monopoly

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 and those that aren't very good at playing Monopoly.

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 Right?

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 But to think for a moment that God's justice, love, care and mercy and compassion is beyond us.

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 Quite frankly, I'm glad that God is the judge.

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 I don't want to be the judge.

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 How many of us can forgive very easily?

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 You don't have to raise your hand.

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 Right?

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 But yet God forgives us.

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 How many of us love with the kind of capacity that is...

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 I mean, for a lot of us, when someone hurts us, do we continue to love?

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 Are we quick to show forgiveness and mercy?

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 But yet God does that?

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 That God loves each and every one of us no matter what our status is?

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 That's an incredible type of love.

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 And I can tell you it's beyond even my capacity, beyond all of our capacities.

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 Something for us to think about.

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 And so, when we're going through this, there is a connection that is found within Zechariah.

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 Notice we still haven't even gone through the text yet.

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 This is building the scene here.

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 Now, how many of you have heard of the Four Horsemen?

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 Right?

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 In Revelation, right?

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 I got to tell you, even when I was looking up images on Google or using AI to generate something,

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 oh my goodness, the type of apocalyptic, type of end of the world, kind of like the Grim Reaper type of images that come on are just wild.

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 For some people who like metal music, it's the coolest thing ever.

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 I get it, right?

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 Let's be honest here, right?

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 So, for some people, like, uh, no.

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 And the others are like, yeah, that's awesome, man.

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 What's going on there, right?

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 And so, we have this scene that exists in Revelation that actually comes from Zechariah.

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 And it's actually very remarkable.

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 In there, I'll just read a little bit from there.

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 Where again I lifted my eyes and saw, behold, there were four chariots that came out between two mountains.

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 The first chariot had a red horse, a black horse, a white horse, and the fourth dappled horse.

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 They're going out of the four winds of heaven after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.

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 I always think it's fascinating when you see something within the Old Testament that is speaking to something directly in the New Testament,

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 especially when it goes into Revelation.

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 It's the same colored horses.

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 It's the same divine commission.

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 It is the same God.

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 And it's funny that Zechariah saw it at least 500 years before John saw it.

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 That's kind of cool, right?

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 And so, we've been going through Revelation 4, 5, and 6, going to what's happening here, right?

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 Chapter 4, God is on the throne, right?

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 God is in control, right?

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 That's how we understand that part of Revelation.

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 Chapter 5 was Christ alone is worthy to open the scroll.

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 No one.

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 There is a scene where everyone is weeping because no one was found worthy to open the scroll.

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 And then the Lamb comes onto the scene.

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 Who is the Lamb?

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 That is Jesus Christ who is worthy.

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 That's why you have that lyric, worthy is the Lamb who was slain.

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 Worthy to what?

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 To open the scroll, right?

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 You got to keep going with that, right?

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 And now in chapter 6, what's happening, church?

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 Let's read it.

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 He opens it, right?

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 And the creatures say, come.

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 So, let's now turn our Bibles over.

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 Revelation 6, verses 1 through 8.

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 If you, you can use a ESVP Bible.

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 That's on page 1222.

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 Or you can use your Bible of choice or a mobile device up to you.

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 What I'd like for us to do is for us to read it together.

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 Because here at Ontario Community Church, we utilize a method known as the OIA method.

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 What does that mean?

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 O stands for observe.

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 We read the text.

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 I is interpret.

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 What are the underlying lessons from this?

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 And A is the application.

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 What do we do about it?

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 So, it's important for us to keep all of this in mind.

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 So, are we all there, church?

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 All right.

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 And church, let's read it together.

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 Did you know that Revelation is the only book in the Bible where it says you'll receive a blessing from reading this book?

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 Isn't that kind of cool?

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 A little fun fact there.

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 So, not just for the blessing, but for us to read it together for that sake, right?

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 Let's read it together.

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 Beginning verse 1.

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 Now I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals,

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 and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a loud voice.

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 Let's say it together.

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 Come.

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 And I looked, and behold, what?

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 A white horse and its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him.

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 And he came out conquering and to conquer.

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 When he opened the second seal, I heard a second living creature saying what?

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 Come.

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 Right?

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 Okay.

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 Okay.

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 And out came another horse, bright red.

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 Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth so that people should slay one another,

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 and he was given a great sword.

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 Ooh.

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 That's a heavier verse, isn't it?

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 Right?

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 Verse 5.

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 When he opened the third seal, I heard the living creature say, come.

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 And I looked, and behold, what color horse?

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 A black horse.

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 And its rider had a pair of scales in ten.

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 Right?

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 You think you've seen those in courts.

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 Right?

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 Pair of scales.

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 Right?

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 That's what's going on there.

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 Verse 6.

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 And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying,

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 a quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not

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 harm the oil and wine.

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 That's kind of interesting there, right?

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 Verse 7.

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 When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say what?

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 Come.

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 And I looked, and behold, what kind of horse?

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 A pale horse.

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 And its rider was named what?

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 Death.

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 Have you ever named a horse Death before?

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 No?

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 I wouldn't want to name my horse that either, right?

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 And Hades followed him.

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 Well, that's, that's, there you go.

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 And they were given authority over, how much?

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 A fourth of the earth to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and wild beasts

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 of the earth.

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 My goodness.

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 What in the world's going on here, right?

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 We read that, and it's just something that's, it's a little heavier, right?

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 Because we're talking about judgment here.

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 It's important for us to recognize as we read this text.

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 There are a lot of people on the earth, I mean, just think in biblical times and think

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 of nowadays, where something bad has happened to them.

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 Or something bad has happened to a people group, right?

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 And people are crying out for justice, right?

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 Well, in the sense here, it's not just the fulfillment of justice.

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 It is judgment that is happening in here.

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 So in verse one, right?

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 Watching the lamb open one of the seven seals.

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 So the lamb who took the scroll in chapter five, right?

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 The one that is worthy, that's Christ, is now opening it, right?

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 It's the continuation of the throne room scene.

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 What is now sealed is being revealed, right?

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 In verse two, when you're going in there, there you have the white horse, the wider, the

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 rider had a bow, a bow and a crown was given to him.

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 There's actually a lot of debate on who that is, right?

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 Some say that it's Christ, others say that it's not.

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 Some say it's an evil person.

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 There's so much debate on who that is.

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 The reality is we don't know.

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 We can debate all day on that specific who that person is.

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 But what's important though, is understanding the significance of what this rider is doing

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 on a white horse.

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 So as I said, some see it as Christ, some see it as the gospel, some see it as a counterfeit

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 conqueror.

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 So there's just, like I said, a lot of debate on that.

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 And you notice that the four living creatures then, they were worshiping God and now they

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 are calling for using the word come, right?

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 They're now summoning the horsemen, right?

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 It is the same creation that praises God is calling forth judgment.

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 And so we read that.

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 That's some pretty, like I said, some pretty heavy things on there.

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 I'm going to go to the next one.

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 Yeah, so the first four seals, right?

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 The white horse is representing conquest.

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 The red horse is representing war.

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 And the black horse representing famine.

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 And finally that, I guess the fourth horse is the pale horse, which is representing of

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 death here.

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 And so the bright red horse, the rider, if you notice in verses three and four, it's in

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 verse four.

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 Out came out another horse, bright red.

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 The rider was permitted to take peace from the earth.

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 Notice that language in there, right?

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 That there is this sense of God giving permission for judgment to happen here.

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 That's something that is very important for us to take note of, right?

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 So that people could slay one another and he was given a great sword.

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 It's for some of us, we've been raised in talking about sin and dwelling within sin.

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 And there comes a point in time where you basically become a slave to sin.

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 How many of you have heard that kind of language before?

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 And so in that, for a wicked country or a wicked people or evildoers, there comes a point where

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 they're doing so much wickedness that they become consumed by their own vices.

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 I remember once I was reading a book that was talking about an alcoholic.

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 That at first, it appears that this person was drinking from the bottle, right?

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 Well, there comes a point in time when you're no longer drinking the bottle, but the bottle is

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 drinking you.

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 There comes a point in time when it's basically using you.

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 And that's heavy.

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 That's hard language.

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 But we think about that same kind of thing from peace that is being removed from a people

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 group.

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 It's absolutely wild.

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 So the rider does not cause war, but he is permitted to remove peace.

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 And I certainly hope that doesn't happen to any of us, let alone that that happens in

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 this area or let alone this country.

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 So then we have the third seal, right?

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 The black horse.

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 The rider had a pair of scales, right?

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 So the text is mentioning a quart of wheat for a denarius, the three quarts for barley

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 for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine.

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 Now, there's actually been debate on what the oil and wine represent.

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 There's some that say that that's a representation of the remnant of Christians, of those that

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 still believe in the Lord.

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 There's also some that say that this is a representation that even in a famine, there's still hope, despite

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 the abundance of food that happens.

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 So there is some, again, we can argue on that.

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 But in any sense, there is still the sense of there are some things that are there despite

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 judgment.

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 So then we have the fourth seal, right?

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 The pale horse.

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 The rider named Death and Hades followed him.

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 They were given authority over a fourth of the earth to kill with sword and with famine

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 and with pestilence and by wild beasts of the earth.

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 I always thought that was very interesting, that type of language of wild beasts, right?

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 There's so much unknown we see in the...

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 I mean, do you guys know how much of the ocean has actually been explored?

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 It's actually a very small percentage and it's actually very wild.

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 We think of the earth that we live in and there's still parts of the earth we haven't even explored.

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 Think of the Amazon rainforest, for example.

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 I think it's what?

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 Less than 1% has actually been explored.

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 That's...

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 I can't even fathom that, right?

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 And you think of the depths of the ocean.

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 Are there wild beasts?

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 Well, there's got to be, right?

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 I think there's something down there.

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 I just don't know what, right?

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 So in there, an authority over a fourth of the earth, right?

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 And so we have these four representing death, sword, famine, pestilence, right?

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 That language is actually tied into Ezekiel 21, which is another prophet, right?

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 And I'll read this to you from Ezekiel 14.

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 How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, which is

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 sword, famine, pestilence, and wild beasts, the same kind of language that is being used

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 over there.

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 So my goodness, that's what we can observe.

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 What does that...

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 What can we learn from that, okay?

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 There are some underlying lessons, right?

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 And so the first thing, I put the prayers of the saints and the justice of God.

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 For many of us, we pray to the Lord.

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 Some of us pray every day.

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 Some of us pray every once in a while.

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 Some of us pray when we really need help, right?

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 Oh, my tire went out.

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 Lord, I don't want to die, right?

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 Recently, my son, for the first time, he cut himself with a knife, and it was a pretty

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 bad cut.

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 He had to get three stitches.

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 And I was praying because the amount of blood that was being...

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 It was a terrible scene, right?

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 But I was praying right there.

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 You bet I was, right?

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 Lord, I pray that he gets well and that he's not losing too much blood kind of thing, right?

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 Now, that may not be your specific situation, but there are situations in which we pray those

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 kind of prayers.

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 But there's also times where we thank the Lord for what he has done for us.

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 There's times where we're asking the Lord to comfort us whenever we're lonely.

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 Now, there's also prayers of when someone has done us wrong.

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 Times when we are turning to the Lord and saying, Lord, I need your help because this person did

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 me wrong.

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 You do not have to raise your hand on that, but I'm sure for many of us, if not all of

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 us, we have been backstabbed or betrayed or hurt by people, right?

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 And what's important, especially when someone does us wrong, is that especially in Revelation

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 chapter 5, verse 8, we had this imagery of our prayers being put in a golden bowl as an

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 offering of incense.

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 And it's such a powerful and unusual way of looking at prayer, right?

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 You think of the type of sacrifices, the Jewish system, right?

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 An offering that is going before the Lord.

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 And what's important for that, and I find very comforting, I hope you as well, is that

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 the Lord hears your prayers.

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 It's just the timing in which he will answer, right?

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 How many of us, we can be honest here, when we pray, we want it answered now, yeah?

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 I think everyone would pretty much raise their hand on that, right?

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 And we have to think that so many things on the earth and in life, they take time.

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 They absolutely take time, right?

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 Don't you wish you could just snap your fingers and you got your four-year degree?

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 Don't you wish you could snap your fingers and say, you know what, I'm ready for retirement.

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 I just want to snap my fingers and it's a done deal.

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 And we live in this world where we are told, hey, you can have everything instantly, right?

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 Ever seen Netflix before?

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 How quickly, I mean, it's just what, a few seconds and it's loading.

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 You're constantly entertained.

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 I mean, let's not even think about social media and all the algorithms and all the things

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 that are going on in there.

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 But that's not a concept of the deeper things, that some things just take time.

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 And regardless of all the technological innovations and advancements that happened in society,

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 there are some things we just have to wait for.

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 Now, for many of us, we have children, right?

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 You've taught the lesson, you got to wait, right?

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 Son, you got to wait for dinner.

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 You just had lunch.

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 I don't know what you're doing, right?

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 And for how many of us as adults, we still think that way, right?

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 We could be honest here.

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 And so, we cry out to God.

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 The tears that we weep.

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 The moments where we are crying out to the Lord, saying, I need your help and I need your

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 comfort.

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 And as we pray and we cry out, even when we cry out for justice, God's divine justice

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 comes in his time.

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 Much like when we think of God's final judgment.

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 And the four living creatures, they're holding the bowls of prayer.

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 They're the ones that are summoning the horsemen in chapter 6.

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 So, these prayers are not lost.

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 They're actually acted upon.

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 There's a famous parable.

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 Some of you may know it.

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 It's called the Prayer of the Persistent Widow.

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 How many of you have heard of that?

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 Prayer of the, the parable of the persistent widow.

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 The story goes, there's a widow who's going to a judge who's wicked, right?

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 And constantly asking for justice.

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 And when Jesus is telling his disciples about this, the judge gets so bothered by this woman

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 that would not leave him alone.

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 Saying, come on.

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 I've already, I'm not going to give you any sort of justice.

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 No.

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 But she keeps going and keeps going until what happens.

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 Justice is finally served.

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 And at the end of that parable, Jesus ends up saying,

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 look at how much justice a wicked judge will give through persistent prayer and effort.

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 How much more will I give for the people that I love?

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 Wow.

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 Think about that.

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 Because in the text, when it's talking about this wicked judge,

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 neither feared God nor respected man.

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 Oh, I don't want to, I don't want to be in front of that judge.

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 Right.

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 And I hope none of us do.

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 Right.

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 We think about that.

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 But that's on a human level.

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 Talk about a divine level that is far greater.

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 Even if he was a righteous judge that feared God and respected man,

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 God's level of justice and mercy would still be transcendent to what our human understanding is.

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 I say all of this because God's justice and God's judgment is far beyond our understanding.

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 And that's important for us to realize.

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 In this, that leads us to the second thing.

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 What was sealed is now revealed.

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 This is a very difficult one.

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 You know, there is so much to scripture.

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 The more you read and the more you study, you find that you learn something new each and every time.

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 And I found that to be one of the most rewarding things in my own walk with the Lord.

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 Sometimes things I'm like, I've read this so many times and I didn't understand it like that.

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 Or I didn't see this connection with Zachariah.

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 Or I didn't see this connection with Daniel.

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 Right.

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 What do you mean Daniel and Revelation are so intertwined with one another?

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 What do you mean by that?

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 What do you mean that there's a wonderful underlying connections with the parables of Christ?

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 It's just, it's part of our own spiritual growth when we think about it.

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 And so things that are hidden are revealed in God's time.

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 Now, I'm sure if we all raised our hand at one point or another,

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 we find that we learn different things, especially when it comes to scripture in its own timing.

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 And how wonderful is it for to continue to learn and to grow the different things of God.

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 And so I bring that up because these horsemen, right, these four horsemen,

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 you can kind of see the background image here.

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 It's not anything new.

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 Isn't that fascinating?

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 That that's been shown within the Old Testament and it's shown within Revelation.

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 Now, for some of us, we may think, oh, this is a brand new thing.

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 This is something that's, no, it's been there.

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 It just hasn't necessarily been revealed.

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 And so it's just like how I mentioned, I love mentioning Daniel 12, 4,

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 where Daniel is seeing all these visions and all these things that are going on.

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 And he's asking God, what is going on?

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 I don't understand all these images.

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 And God's like, quiet.

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 Can you imagine?

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 You're seeing all these things and you want to, and you're, hey, hey, God, I want to understand what, what,

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 what is this you're laying before me?

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 He's like, don't worry about it.

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 Don't worry about it.

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 And he tells him, seal it up and seal it up in the seal until it's proper time.

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 What?

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 That'd be a very frustrating thing.

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 I mean, I don't know, maybe for me personally, but maybe for you as well.

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 So these are not isolated events.

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 It's recurring realities.

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 It's happened throughout history and it's something that will intensify before Christ's return.

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 In fact, when Jesus mentions in Matthew 24 that you will hear of wars and rumors of wars,

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 there'll be famines and there will be earthquakes, right?

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 All of these are the beginning of, the text says, birth pains.

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 What a weird language to have in there, right?

00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:31.860
 Now, I mean, I don't think any of us remember when we were about to be born,

00:29:31.980 --> 00:29:37.900
 but I don't think the language of earthquakes is in to describe that experience.

00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:41.960
 But it's showing that God is creating a new thing,

00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:46.200
 that through judgment, there's going to be new life, right?

00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:51.700
 Much like when we talk about baptism, the former life, right?

00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:53.980
 Or we talk about salvation, the old life.

00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:55.799
 Gone.

00:29:57.299 --> 00:30:00.559
 Having a new life in Christ, being a new creation.

00:30:02.259 --> 00:30:05.160
 And being able to live not just on this earth,

00:30:05.259 --> 00:30:07.819
 but to be in the presence of the Lord,

00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:11.900
 to dwell with him forever in the new heaven and in the new earth.

00:30:11.900 --> 00:30:13.860
 It's fascinating.

00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:18.759
 And finally here, the third one is that God has the final say.

00:30:19.540 --> 00:30:21.080
 That's important for us.

00:30:21.620 --> 00:30:24.380
 It's important we find throughout all of Scripture.

00:30:25.740 --> 00:30:30.300
 These questions of why do wicked people seem to do so well?

00:30:31.500 --> 00:30:33.500
 Well, God's going to have the final say, right?

00:30:33.500 --> 00:30:38.799
 I want you to think for a moment and really reflect on this,

00:30:38.859 --> 00:30:41.279
 because this is where it will hit home for a lot of us.

00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:44.480
 Many of us, I'm sure we can all raise our hand,

00:30:44.579 --> 00:30:46.680
 but you don't have to, but think about this.

00:30:47.099 --> 00:30:52.619
 We have all been wronged by someone in some capacity, right?

00:30:54.539 --> 00:30:55.819
 Some of you are nodding your heads.

00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:56.859
 Some of you are shaking your heads.

00:30:56.900 --> 00:30:57.579
 I get it, right?

00:30:57.579 --> 00:31:00.939
 And when we think about that,

00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:04.119
 sometimes we ask ourselves,

00:31:04.399 --> 00:31:08.319
 why did this person do this to me, right?

00:31:09.179 --> 00:31:10.759
 Why did this happen?

00:31:10.859 --> 00:31:13.119
 It shouldn't have never happened to begin with.

00:31:14.139 --> 00:31:19.359
 That is the wickedness and the evils of humanity.

00:31:20.500 --> 00:31:22.439
 But when you really think about it,

00:31:22.980 --> 00:31:26.799
 God is going to have the final say in terms of judgment,

00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.399
 judgment, but also in conviction.

00:31:29.539 --> 00:31:30.159
 Here's the thing.

00:31:31.659 --> 00:31:35.960
 For many of us, we may have had a past life.

00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:40.119
 Where we lived a certain way and we were pursuing pleasures

00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:43.899
 or wealth or fame or notoriety or the list goes on.

00:31:44.379 --> 00:31:48.039
 You would logically think that all you need

00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:49.500
 is all the money in the world, right?

00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:51.339
 Isn't that what society tells us?

00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:53.759
 You got to have all the money, right?

00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:57.819
 So then why is it that those that are the wealthiest people in the world,

00:31:57.900 --> 00:32:00.220
 there's a lot of people that are just miserable?

00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:02.539
 Think about that.

00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:04.099
 So it's not wealth.

00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:06.079
 What about the famous actors?

00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:08.220
 They've got it all together, right?

00:32:08.539 --> 00:32:11.960
 They have everybody worshiping the ground that they stand on, right?

00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:16.240
 But yet, no, right?

00:32:17.019 --> 00:32:18.240
 They too are miserable.

00:32:18.519 --> 00:32:19.420
 You hear about it.

00:32:20.059 --> 00:32:23.059
 You know, it's like, oh yeah, I can buy a $10,000 steak,

00:32:23.180 --> 00:32:24.660
 but life is so miserable.

00:32:25.019 --> 00:32:26.720
 They're not being hipsters.

00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:28.940
 They're not saying that to be cool.

00:32:29.400 --> 00:32:31.840
 More often than not, they actually mean that.

00:32:32.519 --> 00:32:35.700
 That all that fame and fortune is meaningless.

00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:37.360
 Okay.

00:32:38.120 --> 00:32:39.920
 Well, what about gambling?

00:32:40.460 --> 00:32:41.600
 Maybe that's what it is.

00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:46.039
 Maybe I can just go to Las Vegas and win a lot of money, right?

00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:50.080
 Well, how many people lose everything in the process, right?

00:32:50.840 --> 00:32:52.960
 So much so there's ad campaigns saying,

00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:55.420
 don't gamble away this,

00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:58.500
 because there's some things you should not gamble away.

00:32:59.800 --> 00:33:01.380
 Maybe it's drugs.

00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:02.420
 Maybe it's alcohol.

00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:08.920
 You know how often people feel worse after the fact?

00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:12.000
 It's that continued emptiness.

00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:15.539
 Do you really think that going to the bottle is going to fix it?

00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:19.779
 Do you really think that the next high that you have is going to fulfill you?

00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:22.980
 I know this is very convicting,

00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:27.080
 but it goes to show that the things of this earth

00:33:27.080 --> 00:33:29.560
 are not going to fulfill us and give us purpose.

00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:35.339
 Very often when we are lost and confused,

00:33:35.539 --> 00:33:38.659
 we're looking in the wrong places, right?

00:33:39.220 --> 00:33:43.599
 How many of you have gone as a kid Easter egg hunting before, right?

00:33:44.639 --> 00:33:47.539
 Well, what happens when the kid goes the wrong way

00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:50.799
 and you're like, the Easter eggs are over here, kid, right?

00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:52.299
 Right? That's happened before.

00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:54.980
 Or my favorite, years ago,

00:33:55.180 --> 00:33:56.799
 my wife and I were at this one church

00:33:56.799 --> 00:33:59.399
 and we used to hide Easter eggs in this one bush.

00:34:00.019 --> 00:34:04.039
 Well, one time, there was this kid that found a golden egg.

00:34:04.899 --> 00:34:07.139
 Well, it was last year's golden egg.

00:34:07.940 --> 00:34:09.099
 It was disgusting.

00:34:10.699 --> 00:34:12.679
 And I'm like, all right, you found a golden egg.

00:34:12.699 --> 00:34:13.880
 We're going to get you a prize, man.

00:34:14.059 --> 00:34:15.559
 Don't eat that, please.

00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:17.079
 We'll figure something out, right?

00:34:18.259 --> 00:34:22.039
 But in any sense, it's like searching in the wrong place.

00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:26.719
 And it's so important for us to not seek the things of the world,

00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.079
 but look in the right direction.

00:34:29.940 --> 00:34:34.880
 To find meaning, purpose, transformation, and healing.

00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:39.000
 To come to God is the greatest decision you can ever make in your life.

00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:40.980
 So God has the final say.

00:34:41.759 --> 00:34:43.519
 I want to go into the application here.

00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:45.380
 I know we're a little over on time here.

00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:48.960
 How should we live and how should we respond?

00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.039
 When I read Revelation, I don't understand.

00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:55.759
 And I do the best I can to read and study the text

00:34:55.759 --> 00:34:56.799
 and find the connections.

00:34:56.940 --> 00:34:59.739
 How many of us have read part of the Bible and didn't understand?

00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:00.739
 You don't have to raise your hand.

00:35:00.860 --> 00:35:02.059
 And I understand.

00:35:02.219 --> 00:35:03.360
 Some of you are, some of you aren't.

00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:04.579
 That's okay, right?

00:35:05.420 --> 00:35:09.539
 The call for each and every one of us is to believe in the Lord.

00:35:10.500 --> 00:35:12.400
 Just like how we had for baptism,

00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.880
 it is to believe the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:19.079
 That sounds a little too simple, Pastor.

00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:21.340
 That's because it is.

00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:23.139
 That's it.

00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:24.920
 That is your baseline.

00:35:25.740 --> 00:35:26.760
 You got to believe in that.

00:35:26.820 --> 00:35:27.440
 And here's the thing.

00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:29.220
 As you believe in the Lord,

00:35:29.900 --> 00:35:32.700
 be on a journey to understand the things of God.

00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:36.059
 Be on a journey of being transformed.

00:35:36.720 --> 00:35:38.659
 Transformation of the way that you think.

00:35:39.659 --> 00:35:42.399
 How many of you have heard the word repentance before?

00:35:43.319 --> 00:35:43.599
 Right?

00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:45.940
 You got to turn from your sin, right?

00:35:45.980 --> 00:35:47.460
 Many of us have heard that language before,

00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:49.059
 which is absolutely accurate.

00:35:49.379 --> 00:35:51.659
 But repentance is much more than that.

00:35:51.659 --> 00:35:54.259
 It is defined as metanoia,

00:35:54.799 --> 00:35:57.980
 which means the changing of your mind in how you think.

00:35:58.299 --> 00:36:00.519
 So it's not just turning from sin.

00:36:00.739 --> 00:36:03.839
 It is changing the very way that you see the world,

00:36:04.059 --> 00:36:05.980
 the way that you think about Christ,

00:36:05.980 --> 00:36:09.639
 the way you look at your spouse or your family.

00:36:10.659 --> 00:36:14.639
 That is much more deeper and a lot more powerful

00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:16.440
 than just turning from sin.

00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:22.719
 A change of mind, a renewed spirit, a softened heart.

00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:24.760
 I think I've mentioned here a couple times.

00:36:25.300 --> 00:36:29.960
 It's in Ezekiel talking about having a heart of stone.

00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.980
 Oh, Patrick, nobody has a heart of stone.

00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:35.500
 Oh, yes, they do.

00:36:35.980 --> 00:36:38.480
 It may not be a literal stone,

00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:43.219
 but there are people that have got cold hearts, right?

00:36:44.420 --> 00:36:47.820
 And the language talks about having a heart of stone,

00:36:47.980 --> 00:36:51.059
 changing it to a heart of flesh.

00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:54.920
 You can understand what that means.

00:36:56.199 --> 00:36:59.539
 Not to be cold-hearted or hard-hearted,

00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:01.420
 much like how the Pharaoh,

00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:04.659
 how his heart became hardened, right?

00:37:04.659 --> 00:37:05.799
 Very important for us.

00:37:05.879 --> 00:37:07.339
 So trust in the Lord,

00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:08.839
 even when you don't understand.

00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:11.379
 The disciples in the Easter story,

00:37:11.460 --> 00:37:13.099
 they believed even though they didn't understand.

00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:17.599
 We don't have to understand all the complexities of God and his word.

00:37:17.839 --> 00:37:19.719
 We have to believe in Jesus Christ.

00:37:19.899 --> 00:37:20.839
 That is the baseline.

00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:23.599
 That is the greatest decision that you can make in your life.

00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:26.480
 You may see conquest in the world.

00:37:26.839 --> 00:37:28.379
 You may hear about wars.

00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:29.819
 There is a war that's going on.

00:37:29.820 --> 00:37:30.700
 Let's be honest here.

00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:32.400
 There's a lot that's going on,

00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:34.539
 hearing about famine and death in the world,

00:37:34.539 --> 00:37:37.780
 and we may not understand why it is happening.

00:37:38.820 --> 00:37:41.440
 But we are called to trust in the Lamb who was slain,

00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:44.360
 the one who is worthy to open the seals.

00:37:45.100 --> 00:37:47.500
 Nothing is outside of his authority.

00:37:47.500 --> 00:37:50.539
 For the person that is struggling right now,

00:37:50.639 --> 00:37:53.099
 you may be struggling with grief or with loss,

00:37:53.219 --> 00:37:54.800
 or maybe there's been an injustice.

00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:57.260
 Maybe there's fear that's existing in you.

00:37:58.340 --> 00:37:59.880
 And maybe you don't understand why.

00:38:00.940 --> 00:38:03.199
 God provides a much better way.

00:38:04.219 --> 00:38:05.880
 Comfort, restoration,

00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:08.780
 and my favorite is stability.

00:38:09.900 --> 00:38:10.679
 Let me tell you,

00:38:11.019 --> 00:38:12.260
 how much has the world changed?

00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:12.900
 Don't answer that.

00:38:13.780 --> 00:38:15.179
 The world's changed a lot.

00:38:15.179 --> 00:38:18.359
 I mean, you even think a couple years ago,

00:38:19.059 --> 00:38:21.319
 before artificial intelligence,

00:38:21.460 --> 00:38:22.179
 that wasn't even like,

00:38:22.460 --> 00:38:23.659
 that was science fiction.

00:38:23.839 --> 00:38:25.259
 That was, what is that?

00:38:26.219 --> 00:38:27.279
 Space Odyssey movie,

00:38:27.539 --> 00:38:29.039
 2000, 2001,

00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:30.279
 a Space Odyssey, right?

00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:32.259
 Where he had Hal, right?

00:38:32.539 --> 00:38:33.359
 That was AI.

00:38:33.500 --> 00:38:35.679
 That wouldn't exist in the world that we live in.

00:38:36.319 --> 00:38:37.179
 But now it's here.

00:38:37.739 --> 00:38:39.319
 We think of all the cultural shifts

00:38:39.319 --> 00:38:40.679
 and all the things that are happening,

00:38:40.819 --> 00:38:41.279
 and it's like,

00:38:42.279 --> 00:38:43.359
 it can be overwhelming, yeah?

00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:45.480
 It can be absolutely overwhelming.

00:38:45.980 --> 00:38:48.300
 But yet, despite all of the cultural changes

00:38:48.300 --> 00:38:50.420
 and society doing its thing,

00:38:51.099 --> 00:38:54.400
 we have a God who is constant,

00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:56.660
 and he remains the same.

00:38:57.620 --> 00:38:59.840
 That's why the text says that Jesus Christ

00:38:59.840 --> 00:39:02.039
 is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:08.539
 We do not need to fear the horseman.

00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:11.119
 We need to trust in the lamb.

00:39:12.139 --> 00:39:14.679
 The second thing is pray

00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:16.579
 because your prayers matter.

00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:19.820
 That image that I've talked about

00:39:19.820 --> 00:39:23.279
 of the bulls and your prayers being incensed,

00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:26.279
 go to show that every prayer that you pray matters.

00:39:26.900 --> 00:39:28.380
 So how's your prayer life?

00:39:28.380 --> 00:39:31.360
 Maybe it's time to start praying to the Lord.

00:39:32.059 --> 00:39:33.380
 If you don't know what to pray,

00:39:33.740 --> 00:39:34.940
 you can always do the Lord's Prayer.

00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:35.820
 We do that every week.

00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:36.700
 That's why we do it.

00:39:36.740 --> 00:39:39.119
 It's the prayer that the Lord taught us.

00:39:40.660 --> 00:39:42.019
 So every time you pray,

00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:45.519
 you're asking God to hear your prayer,

00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:46.960
 and your prayers are not wasted.

00:39:47.059 --> 00:39:47.760
 I don't know about you.

00:39:47.820 --> 00:39:49.160
 That is the most comforting thing.

00:39:50.019 --> 00:39:52.280
 I think of times before I was a Christian

00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:53.619
 when my mother would tell me,

00:39:53.700 --> 00:39:54.820
 hey, I'm praying for you.

00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:56.119
 I'm going to pray that you know the Lord.

00:39:56.720 --> 00:39:57.960
 I was like, no, thank you, Mom.

00:39:58.780 --> 00:40:02.000
 But now I thank her every single day for praying.

00:40:02.980 --> 00:40:04.780
 So continue to be in prayer.

00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:06.000
 If you haven't prayed,

00:40:06.539 --> 00:40:08.199
 begin to pray to the Lord.

00:40:09.900 --> 00:40:13.039
 And so pray for those that are oppressed.

00:40:13.300 --> 00:40:14.740
 Pray for those that have been wronged.

00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:15.800
 Pray for your city.

00:40:16.220 --> 00:40:17.559
 Pray for those that are in famine.

00:40:19.179 --> 00:40:21.199
 Pray for those that are in war.

00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:24.360
 It's not a political statement.

00:40:24.500 --> 00:40:26.420
 These are biblical statements.

00:40:26.420 --> 00:40:28.159
 To be in prayer.

00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:29.700
 Why is it in Scripture?

00:40:30.240 --> 00:40:32.320
 It says to pray for those in authority

00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:33.820
 so that you live a peaceful life.

00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:34.559
 Why is it in there?

00:40:35.300 --> 00:40:38.119
 That's such an odd verse in Scripture.

00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:40.380
 But yet we're called to pray for those in authority.

00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:42.099
 Even if you don't agree with them,

00:40:42.220 --> 00:40:44.139
 which I know we can go on about politicians

00:40:44.139 --> 00:40:45.260
 we agree and don't agree with.

00:40:45.300 --> 00:40:45.720
 I get it.

00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:47.700
 We're called to pray for them.

00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:48.519
 Right?

00:40:48.519 --> 00:40:51.159
 And so finally the third thing

00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:54.500
 is live as people who know the ending.

00:40:55.300 --> 00:40:58.079
 We find within all of Scripture

00:40:58.079 --> 00:41:00.880
 that God rules and reigns.

00:41:01.259 --> 00:41:03.579
 That He has the final say

00:41:03.579 --> 00:41:05.099
 and that's the most important thing.

00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:08.500
 You should know how this ends.

00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:11.199
 The new heaven and the new earth.

00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:13.280
 That revelation, right?

00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:15.880
 The apocalypse is known as the,

00:41:16.019 --> 00:41:17.240
 literally, the unveiling.

00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:19.820
 The revealing kind of language.

00:41:21.420 --> 00:41:23.160
 So it's revealing what,

00:41:23.460 --> 00:41:25.019
 the fact that God wins

00:41:25.019 --> 00:41:27.460
 and that He is victorious.

00:41:29.060 --> 00:41:30.700
 We think of all of this.

00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:32.560
 That the kingdom of the world

00:41:32.560 --> 00:41:34.640
 is nothing compared to the kingdom of God.

00:41:36.220 --> 00:41:38.200
 And so let us live with confidence

00:41:38.200 --> 00:41:39.519
 of people who know the ending.

00:41:39.640 --> 00:41:41.140
 Don't be afraid of those horsemen.

00:41:41.139 --> 00:41:43.259
 The lamb has already conquered.

00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:46.799
 We walk by faith and not by sight.

00:41:48.019 --> 00:41:49.980
 In Luke 21, it says,

00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:51.879
 when these things begin to take place,

00:41:52.139 --> 00:41:53.619
 straighten up and raise your head

00:41:53.619 --> 00:41:55.500
 because you know your redemption

00:41:55.500 --> 00:41:56.639
 is drawing near.

00:41:57.619 --> 00:42:00.599
 So we find that despite all the apocalyptic

00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:02.179
 and scary language,

00:42:03.039 --> 00:42:04.139
 you got to know Jesus

00:42:04.139 --> 00:42:06.619
 and you got to know the lamb.

00:42:07.359 --> 00:42:07.559
 Right?

00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:10.420
 Those, the images of those horsemen

00:42:10.420 --> 00:42:11.720
 is pretty scary, I admit.

00:42:12.340 --> 00:42:13.519
 But I have confidence

00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:15.260
 in the lamb who was slain.

00:42:16.139 --> 00:42:17.659
 And so the lamb who is worthy

00:42:17.659 --> 00:42:18.619
 to take the scroll

00:42:18.619 --> 00:42:20.440
 has opened the first four seals.

00:42:20.980 --> 00:42:22.659
 What was sealed in Daniel

00:42:22.659 --> 00:42:24.420
 is now revealed in Revelation.

00:42:25.099 --> 00:42:26.039
 The four creatures

00:42:26.039 --> 00:42:27.900
 who worship God in the throne room

00:42:27.900 --> 00:42:29.079
 are the same ones

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 that are saying,

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 come.

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 Right?

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 And every rider

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 has permission.

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 It goes to show

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 that every judgment

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 has its limit.

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 And every prayer

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 is held in a golden bowl

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 before the throne of God.

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 Let us remember

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 that it is God

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 that has the final say.

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 Not the horsemen,

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 not evil people,

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 and not the condition

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 of the earth.

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 It is God

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 who has the final say.

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 Let us trust in Him.

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 Let us pray to Him.

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 And let us live

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 as people

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 who know the ending.

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 Let us pray together.

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 And Father,

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 we thank You

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 for the time

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 and the opportunity

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 for us to go over

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 this very difficult,

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 very heavy,

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 but yet very powerful

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 part in Scripture.

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 We know there is

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 a lot of mystery.

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 And there is a lot

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 that we don't know.

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 But there are some things

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 we do know.

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 And that is

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 You sent Your Son,

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 Jesus Christ,

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 being the way,

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 the truth,

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 and the life,

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 providing salvation

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 for all who believe.

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 Just as it says

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 in Scripture

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 that whosoever believes

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 shall not perish,

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 but have eternal life.

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 You call every single

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 one of us,

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 regardless of where

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 we come from.

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 What matters

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 is making that decision

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 in believing

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 the death, burial,

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 and resurrection.

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 And from that decision,

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 may we all grow

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 to know You

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 and to become

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 more like You

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 so that we live

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 and love

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 like Your Son,

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 Jesus Christ.

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 We thank You

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 so much for this time,

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 and I pray for everyone

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 who is here

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 in this place,

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 friends,

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 visitors,

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 family,

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 and those who are

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 tuning in online.

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 May you know

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 that Jesus loves you

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 and calls you

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 for something greater

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 than this,

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 and that God

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 has the final say.

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 In all of this,

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 we say in the name

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 of Jesus Christ,

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 the cornerstone

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 of our faith,

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 and we all say together,

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 Amen?

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 Amen.

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