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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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Hey, one of the greatest theologians in the Bible is somebody that you may not have ever

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thought of as being a theologian.

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And yet, his theology was absolutely perfect in just the nick of time.

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Let's find out who that is right now.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Hey, everybody, listen, I think we're going to have some fun today.

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I hope anyway.

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And this comes out of recently when we had the opportunity to consider the thief on the cross.

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In fact, the crucifixion of Jesus, you know very well that in Luke chapter 23 for one example,

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Luke's Gospel, is that Jesus was crucified between two malfactors, two very, very bad people.

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And we often read that thinking like, you know, what does bad mean?

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I mean, they had like what speeding tickets, they ran somebody.

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These people were bad to the bone, bad malfactors.

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They were both condemned to death by the Roman Empire because they were so bad.

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They had no chance any longer of any kind of appeal.

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They couldn't in any way escape the sentence.

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They were truly condemned to very bad guys.

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And when we see that and hear how they are labeled as malfactors,

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that means that there were guilty of a lot, if not everything, rape, pillaging, murder,

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a thievery, you name it, on and on it goes.

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Just when you think things could not get worse for them,

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the crucifixion of Jesus Christ begins to take place.

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And again, you can look at this for starters as we'll just extract it out in a moment.

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Luke chapter 23, chapter 22, chapter 23.

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And then in Luke 24, the post post resurrection events, it's pretty cool reading.

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That said, just when it couldn't get worse for these guys, it does.

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Because Jesus is crucified and they start, they, those two guys start the day,

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cussing Jesus out while they're crucified.

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In fact, let me read it to you.

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I'm going to pick it up here on the screen and read it.

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You can follow along if you're a Bible or listen carefully if you're driving.

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Luke chapter 23, beginning of verse 39, then one of the criminals who were hanged

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blasphemed him saying, if you are the Christ, save yourself and us.

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Okay?

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But the other answering rebuked him, stop right there.

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They started out, both of them were cursing Jesus at the beginning.

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It's not like we had one really bad guy and one guy that was bad,

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they were both really bad guys.

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But sometimes going on, when you put the four accounts of this

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from the four gospels and do an overlay, you get a really perfectly picture,

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perfect scene.

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And so the other guy begins to review, come saying, do you not even fear God

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seeing you are under the same condemnation?

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And we indeed, justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds,

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but this man, no doubt, he's, of course, referring to Jesus,

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has done nothing wrong.

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Then he said to Jesus, remember, they're all on the cross.

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Lord, so in your note taking, market in your mind,

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this bad guy calls Jesus Lord.

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Number two, remember me when you come into your kingdom.

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Number two, remember me.

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So Lord, remember me, number three, into your kingdom.

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All right?

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So this is what's amazing about this.

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And Jesus said to him, assuredly, I say to you that today,

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you will be with me in paradise.

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What?

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Jesus tells this really bad guy, hey, I got good news for you.

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Today, you're going to go to heaven with me.

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You're going to go to paradise.

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Technically, you're going to go to paradise first,

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which is not heaven.

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Paradise first, and then we're all going to go to heaven.

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I got some work to do.

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I've got an announcement to make.

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You can read that later in Ephesians and in the book of Acts

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and other places, but here's the point.

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What in the world is going on here?

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Two bad guys, one goes to hell, one goes to paradise with Jesus

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and then to heaven forever.

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A convert of Jesus himself, by the way, which technically Jesus

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didn't have many converts, if you think about it.

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I like to say it this way, when you read the accounts of Scripture

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where Jesus preached to somebody or witnessed to somebody

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or shared with somebody, it was most often negative church growth tactics.

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For example, the rich young ruler came to Jesus and Jesus did everything

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to get the guy to exhibit faith, but Jesus didn't make it easy.

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Do you remember that?

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When the woman came to Jesus, she said, I need help from you.

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He didn't even answer her.

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And then he finally says to her, woman, it's not right for you to eat

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what is promised to the children, the crumbs, the bread.

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And she said, oh, that's true.

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She was a Gentile.

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She said, that's true.

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But even the little dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the children's table.

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And Jesus said, wow, that's an awesome comeback.

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You're blessed, that's great faith.

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This is an amazing moment because the guy gets crucified justifiably.

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Both of them.

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This guy is going to die.

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He's at the end.

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He comes to the realization of his mortality.

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He's going to die.

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He's condemned.

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If there is an afterlife in his world,

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it's not going to go good because if he's pagan,

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then the gods are going to really make it bad for him.

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He is already thinking in his world of growing up

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in the Roman Empire highly, highly superstitious jam packed

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with a plethora of deities.

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This guy had offended them all.

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He's in big trouble.

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Let's look at this.

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From the cross, I'm going to argue with you that from the cross

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in an instant of time, I say instant,

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it may have taken an hour or two.

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We do not know how long it took this man to come to a census.

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But notice that his theology is perfect.

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His theology becomes perfect.

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See, Jack, what do you mean?

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Well, let's remember, this guy winds up being with Jesus

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accepted by Jesus, loved by Jesus,

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and is benefited by Jesus.

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He, in some way,

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is like one of the first guys in Jesus' time zone

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to actually not only go to paradise but to enter heaven

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with Christ in all of the saints that were in paradise.

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Abraham included, known as Abraham's bosom,

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was the affectionate term of paradise or haides.

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This is the believers, like Noah, for example,

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that when they died, they did not go to the heaven that you

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and I think about.

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They would have gone to paradise,

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which is talked about in Luke 15 or Luke 16.

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You can look at it later.

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This guy is only going to be in paradise for,

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let's say, a moment because Jesus is going to lead captivity captive

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and take his reward, that is the souls,

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the lives of all those who died believe in Christ.

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He empties out Abraham's bosom or haides

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and he deposits that beautiful, triumphal group

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into heaven above.

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And here's the thief on the cross with perfect theology

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before he died.

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He got it.

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Let's look at it.

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His theology is this.

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When he said, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.

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That's all he said.

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What is he saying?

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Jesus is Lord.

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What is that?

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That's so tearyology.

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The doctrines of salvation.

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You know it too.

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You just didn't put it together with this guy.

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All those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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Wow.

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Lord, he says.

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Number two, remember me.

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Yeah, what's that, Jack?

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Okay, Lord, I get so tearyology, the doctrine of salvation.

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Lord, okay, I get it.

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Never thought about it that way, but you're right.

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Theologically, so tearyology.

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That guy's got it.

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Lord, number two, what are you going to do with number two?

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Remember me.

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Oh, listen, that is eschatology.

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Remember me when you come into your kingdom.

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What does that mean?

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It means that this guy believes Jesus is going to live beyond the grave after he dies.

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So he says to Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.

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He doesn't even ask if he can be in the kingdom.

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He knows he's condemned, but he says, Lord, all I want from you is that you'd remember me.

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What a sorry life, right?

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Think about how sad his life must have been growing up.

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He just wants to be remembered.

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The guy didn't say, you know, save me.

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He didn't say, you know, anything.

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Just remember me.

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By him saying about Jesus, just remember me.

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He's announcing.

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He's confessing.

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I know what's going to happen with you, Lord.

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You're going to live after you die.

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You're going to be resurrected.

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And here's the eschatology.

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Not only does soteriology dovetail with eschatology, but listen,

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the first eschatological verse in the Bible is all about soteriology.

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That's Genesis 3.15.

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The first prophecy ever given in the Bible is when God said in Genesis 3.15,

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that the Messiah is going to come from the descendants of Eve on the female side,

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from a female, not a male, female side.

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A woman will give birth to the Son of God who will come into the world.

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That all started in Genesis 3.15.

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That is prophecy, Bible prophecy, based on the doctrine of soteriology, salvation.

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Eschatology, this guy believes Jesus Christ is coming back as Lord,

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and he's going to receive his kingdom.

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Wow, what is that?

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That's isriology.

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The Bible says that the Son of David, that's Jesus.

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Son of God, Son of David, will return to Jerusalem

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and Israel just establishes kingdom for a millennia, for 1,000 years.

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That's Greek, millennia for 1,000, millennia, 1,000, millennia.

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Okay, listen, Jesus Christ, according to the Bible, how did the guy know this?

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How did that guy know that?

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Jesus Christ, according to the Bible, is going to return and reign from the throne of David,

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in Jerusalem for 1,000 years.

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That is what's meant when you come back, will you just remember me when you come back

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and you reign in your kingdom?

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You're the king, you're the Lord.

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That's isriology.

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The Bible doesn't say any other nation on earth where the Messiah will return and be king.

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By the way, side note.

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It's interesting that there are those who are demonically possessed and or manipulated,

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if not possessed, with the doctrine of the Jewish state must cease to exist.

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We must kill all the Jews.

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No more Jews, no more Israel.

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Let's not call it Jerusalem.

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Let's divide up the land and be done with it.

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Let's nuke them.

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Let's blow them up.

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Hey, listen, look through all the rhetoric.

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Look through the fog and realize.

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The Bible says Jesus is returning to Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem is its ancient name.

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Jerusalem has always been in Israel.

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Think of it.

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There are those evil spirits who want to destroy Israel and Jerusalem.

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Really, they don't even know what they're saying.

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What they're actually trying to do is we're going to destroy the nation of Israel and Jerusalem and the Jews.

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So there's no Messiah coming back to sit on the throne of David and be the king of the Jews.

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We got to stop that.

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Who wants to do that?

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Satan wants to do that.

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So be careful when you ascribe to somebody chanting death to Israel or trying to rename it Palestine.

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It was never historically Palestine.

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So does this guy by his actions really put into question a works based legalistic based theology, doesn't it?

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What did this guy do?

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What did he do?

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What did this guy do to get saved?

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Did he preach to people?

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Did he raise the dead?

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Did he do miracles?

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Did the guy give any money?

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Did the guy work in children's ministry?

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What did he do?

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Did he take a theological course?

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The thief of the cross, come on.

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Jesus himself said you're going to be with me.

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How did he get qualified for that?

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Theologians, listen, if there's a theologian listening to this, how do you explain it?

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It's Jesus himself saying it.

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The man's so tearyology was perfect.

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Jesus is Lord.

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His eschatology is perfect.

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Remember me when you come into your kingdom.

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Kingdom, his isriology is perfect.

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Israel is where you're going to be returning to.

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His theology was perfect.

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Isn't it amazing?

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And I submit this to you.

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The guy did nothing to earn his salvation.

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Neither have you.

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Neither can you.

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I don't care who you are.

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I don't care if you're the Pope right now or the new Pope right now.

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Watch in this right now.

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You are not going to go to heaven, the Bible says, based on your own works.

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You can't do it.

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You and I cannot be good enough.

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Every single one of us, Pope included, are sinners who must be saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and by us putting our faith in him.

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Listen, our salvation is merit-based, but not our merit.

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His merit, 100%.

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It's amazing, but it makes perfect sense.

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In that moment, that thief on the cross answered volumes of books and libraries of debate.

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And from Isaiah, from Abraham to Isaiah to the gospels to the Lord himself,

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whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

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And you say, well, Jack, aren't you missing the great word of the first word of the gospel?

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No, I'm not missing it at all.

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I'm getting ready to say it.

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I'm going to say it because it's not said because it doesn't have to be said in the narrative.

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And that is repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And you shall be saved.

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This man's confession had repentance built into it.

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Just like the woman that was caught in the act of adultery.

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Do you ever hear her saying that she repented of her sins?

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She never said it.

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But Jesus knew she had.

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Isn't that amazing?

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What about the sin?

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What about the prodigal son?

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Did you know that the prodigal son story in the scriptures never mentions the word repent?

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It doesn't have to.

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Repentance is the story.

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You see that?

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It's pretty cool.

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Yes, the first word of the gospel is repentant and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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You shall be saved.

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But in some cases like this one and several others repentance is the story.

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So when it says in verse 41 and we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our deeds.

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He's confessing.

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But this man has done nothing wrong.

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Isn't that awesome?

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Wow.

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So what are they again?

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His theology was.

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His theology is theology.

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He had it more right than most people do today.

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What an amazing thing.

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Hey, that's all the time we got to do today.

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We got to get going.

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You do too as well.

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Again, please tell others.

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The best way you can encourage me and the team is for you to share those with other people.

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We can grow those numbers.

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And by doing so people will see those numbers and say, what is this?

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Why should I watch this podcast?

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Well, it's got a million or 500 or six or 10 views.

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Maybe I should listen.

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And people listen.

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People learn.

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People grow.

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Ultimately they come to the point where I hope they hear this.

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God so loved you friend and his infinite wisdom and his eternal state where he's not limited by time.

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That he gifted to you and to the world, his only glorified son Jesus.

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The perfect lamb who takes away the sins of the world.

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That if you would believe on him, trust him, like the thief on the cross did.

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You will not perish, but you will have everlasting life.

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That's the word of the Lord.

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And you need to do it now, right now.

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Now, because if you say later, you're falling into the lies of the enemy because you may not have a later.

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You may not live to see tonight sunset or tomorrow sunrise.

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Let's do it.

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Want to do it right now?

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If you do this, you don't have to get a hold of this, but I'd love to know that you could just leave a comment.

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I just prayed that prayer.

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How about that?

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That'd be awesome.

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Let's pray.

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Lord, God, we come before you in the name of Jesus the door.

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Jesus the way, the truth in the life.

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Jesus the alpha and the omega.

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Jesus the first, the last, the beginning and the end.

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Jesus the Jesus who is who was who is to come the Almighty Jesus.

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And so father, we pray right now that you might hear the prayer of someone on the other end of this microphone, another end of the screen that would say I want to accept you now.

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Lord is my savior.

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I want to know you personally.

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I want to have you in my life 24-7.

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I want to know that my sins are forgiven like that thief.

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I want to know that the kingdom of God is where I'm going to be living.

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I want to be with you, Jesus.

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I want my sins washed away.

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I confess.

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I have done wrong.

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I have done sin.

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I have done evil.

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I am justly qualified to be crucified.

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I am justly qualified to die and to be in hell because I've sinned against the Almighty Holy God.

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But I, Lord, before I die and while I have the chance because it's not going to be available after death, your Bible will clear no second chances after death.

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None whatsoever.

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I choose now to make Jesus the Lord and savior of my life.

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I ask you to forgive my, forgive me of my sins as I receive your righteousness, Jesus.

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Save me.

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I want to live for you.

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Live with you and for you forever.

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As I proclaim you, my crucified savior and resurrected, Lord, in Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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Amen.

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I hope you prayed that prayer.

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God bless you guys so very much.

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We'd love to hear from you.

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Just look at the information that's provided to you below.

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But stay tuned.

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Because we're all about bringing you closer to Jesus.

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And causing and helping and hopefully playing a part in the Word of God being more prominent in your life.

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Until next time, God bless you guys.

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