The Rapture is Closer Than You Think!

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Welcome to the Ignite with Barry McGuire podcast.

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How would you like to have the time of your life for the rest of your life?

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How would you like to defeat fear effortlessly, knowing for sure God is hearing and answering your prayers and directing your steps and making everything work for good?

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This is exciting.

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Here's the question.

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How would you like to ignite your life?

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Stay tuned.

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Hi everybody, welcome back to Ignite.

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I want to talk to you today about the rapture.

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What's the rapture?

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Have you heard about the rapture?

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Do you know about the rapture?

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I'm not sure of all of you who are out there, you probably heard the term.

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And probably not paid a whole lot of attention to it.

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I mean that's somewhere off in the you know somewhere away far far away But it's not anymore You know I'm a car guy and I can't mention that enough because I am a car guy.

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I mean that's my life It's a car shows all the time and I I have the most amazing friends who are car guys that are the best

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best people I know.

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I mean, they just, they just so generous and so kind, and there's so many, they would do anything for me.

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Now, if I was in trouble, I could one phone call, and they would be there to help me.

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Car guys are special.

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The frustration I have is that so few of you are Christians.

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You think you're Christians.

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You know 70% of America says they're Christians?

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Thereabouts, 70% of America.

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Do you think we'd be having all these problems in our country if we were 70% Christians like back when our founders founded our country or even 60 years ago when you could leave your doors unlocked and your kids out at night when we were a Christian nation?

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But we're not anymore.

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For the last 60 years, we've stopped telling people about Jesus, we've stopped, we just pulled back.

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It's interesting how the dark side of our world are unapologetic, and they're just going for it.

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And we who are Christians are...

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We just want to love everybody.

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It doesn't matter what you do, and I may not agree with it, but I'm going to love you anyway.

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And that has evolved into a thing of affirming.

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Affirmation, I think, is one of the biggest problems we have today.

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In that we see people doing things wrong.

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I won't, I'm not going to start hanging clothes on a clothesline, but you see them all the time.

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In fact, in most of the church, you're seeing them all the time, unfortunately.

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And by our silence, we affirm.

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It's the easy way out.

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But then judge not lest I be judged.

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So I can't judge that.

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Well, yeah, but you also know them by their fruit.

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Is there any fruit?

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Is there anything coming out of them?

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Are they breeding fruit?

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Are they bearing fruit?

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Good question.

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When Jesus had that last parable, and I talk about it often at the fig tree, it's his last parable.

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And he says, when you bear fruit, because he of course is the tree, right?

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And then you have the branches, right?

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We're the branches, but we're just there.

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But we're supposed to bear fruit.

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and bear more fruit.

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That's Christians, that's what we're called to do.

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The Bible's repleting and all, you can't get away from it, it is the Great Commission.

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That's what he wants us to do.

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And he says, when you bear fruit, ah, boy, now you're my disciples, and my joy remain with you, and your joy remain full.

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And I have to say, I think that's one of the greatest scriptures in the Bible.

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Because Christians for the most part are not having joy.

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They're getting beat up by the world.

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They're complaining about everything.

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And people are looking at them and saying, if that's a Christian, I don't need to be a Christian.

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Do you know that most Christians are not Christians because of Christians?

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because not showing the love of God by our apathy, by not caring, by our focus on ourselves, by not talking about Jesus, by not exemplifying Jesus, being where they would see Jesus in us and what we have, that's what we should be doing, but that's not what we're doing.

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I'm with Christians all over the nation and I,

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I'm not being judging here.

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I'm just saying that God is not their uppermost priority.

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The church may be in the largesse in that they're doing stuff for the church.

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I gave this money to this ministry and this ministry.

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And guess what?

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They give me a deluxe suite at the Ritz Carlton at their conference.

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Free meals.

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They're lauding me.

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They're honoring me because of all I've done for them with my money.

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God help us.

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You know, pastors, you honor people who are not Christians because they're giving you money.

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You're affirming them.

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And then the people around look and say, that's who the pastor loves, so I guess I can live like them and I can indulge like them and have that kind of language and be honored by my pastor.

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I mean, the church is broken and needs to be woken up.

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Then the rapture.

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So what is the rapture?

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I have so many friends say, you know, I know who Jesus is, I'm good.

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Well, the demons in hell, the scriptures say the demons in hell know who Jesus is and they tremble in fear.

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So just knowing Jesus, just knowing him really and praying to him, you may pray to Jesus every day.

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But at the end of time, when you stand before him, he will probably say, depart from me.

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I don't even know who you are because you're not in communion with him.

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You're not joining the family.

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His gift to you is eternal life.

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He spent your entire life wanting to win you, save you, forgive you of your sins, and have you spend eternity with him.

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Do you know that the greatest default we have, one of anyway, in our lives is rewards and punishments.

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We're born with that.

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A baby knows that.

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The baby knows when he steals a cookie, you don't have to teach him to steal a cookie.

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He's going to do it because we have a sinful nature.

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And when he does it, he looks around.

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He wants to make sure he doesn't get caught because he knows there'll be some punishment.

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It's basic to us.

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Do you know we've taken that out of the equation?

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Do you know that half the gospel is the punishment and half is the rewards?

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That's how it's broken out.

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In fact, do you know there's more scriptures on hell than there are in heaven?

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We know more about what's going to go on in hell than we know it's going to go on in heaven.

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Why?

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People say, I don't believe God would create a hell.

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Why would a living God create a hell?

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Why would he send me to hell?

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He doesn't send anybody to hell.

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He came, he sent his son.

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Do you realize Jesus Christ made everything?

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He made man.

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And the very men he made, he allowed to crucify him, to shed his blood as a perpetuation, as a forgiveness of sin.

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He did that for us so we'd have eternity.

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So it's not a small thing to him.

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But he gave us free choice, gave you free choice.

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And so the biggest decision of your life is, do you or do you not accept Jesus Christ as your savior from hell and the Lord of your life?

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It's very simple.

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And if you don't make that decision, you've made your decision.

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Listen to me.

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I'm talking to those of you right now who are

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who know who God is, or living good lives, or trying to earn your way into heaven, you can't.

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When I speak to car guys, I often say to them, if you could earn your way into heaven, you guys would be at the front of the line.

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But you can't earn your way into heaven.

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There's only one way to heaven, and that's to realize and recognize that you're a sinner.

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That you're lost.

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And do you understand, heaven is pure and holy.

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God can't let sin into heaven, he can't.

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He can't justify, he's a just God, but he can't justify letting you into heaven in your sinfulness.

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So he comes up with this great plan, only God.

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You know, he made us for nothing, right?

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He's always been there, always was, always will be.

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He spoke the universe into existence.

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Can you imagine?

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50 million light years, he's there right now.

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And he's here right now.

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Do you know since you were born, since you were born, he knit you.

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Before the foundation of the world, he knew your name.

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He knew where you'd be right now.

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He knew you'd be listening to this message.

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That's the truth.

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When he died on the cross, he knew your name.

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Do you understand the largeness of God?

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There's no end.

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He's all knowing.

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Do you know, he knits you in your mother's womb.

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He knows everything you've done, every thought you've had your entire life.

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The scriptures say his thoughts for you are like the grains of sand.

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Who can know it?

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He knows what you're going to say before you say it.

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He knows all that, and he still loves you.

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If that doesn't bring you to your knees, I don't know what does.

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He knows.

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I... How is he gonna love me?

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I don't know.

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But he does.

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Totally.

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And he wants me to spend eternity with him in heaven.

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In spite of all the stuff, the thoughts, the craziness.

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We're all lost.

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We're all sinners.

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Understand that.

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We're all sinners.

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Saved by grace if we allowed that to happen.

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And all you have to do is accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

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The single most important decision you ever should make in your life.

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And when he's your Savior, he saves you from hell, because hell is a real place.

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If you don't believe in hell and most people don't, I think we've taken half the gospel away.

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We don't talk about hell.

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Do you know most Christians don't believe there's a hell anymore?

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It's in the Bible.

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Check it.

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Google right now whatever search engine you use.

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What is hell?

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It'll scare the hell out of you.

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It's horrible.

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Why would a loving God do that?

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To scare the hell out of you.

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He doesn't want you to go there and he's telling you it's gonna be bad.

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It's a fearful thing to be in the hands and outs of God.

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His wrath is real for those who refuse to follow him.

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And his love and mercy and grace is there for you if you recognize you're toast without him.

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And he wrapped his arms around you.

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The thief in the cross, he led a horrible life

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He did nothing deserve heaven, yet Jesus looked at him and he said, today you'll be with me in paradise.

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Don't you wanna have that settled in your life?

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Seriously, don't you wanna know without a shadow of a doubt that you're on your way to heaven, that you're gonna be there?

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And once you do that, you're gonna want your wife

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your husband, your kids, your grandkids, everybody you know, and having with you.

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And that's when life gets really exciting.

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Life is like, um, it's like a bootcamp.

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We get so caught up in the bootcamp.

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And some wash out.

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But if you make the team, oh my goodness, if you make the team, then you're on the team.

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When you accept Jesus Christ, you join the team.

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And your goal from then on is to get as many other people on the team as you possibly can and live your life by that.

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I am not a pastor.

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I'm not a pastor.

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I'm not an academic for sure.

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I'm not a Bible scholar.

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I'm a businessman, you know, and I applied this to my business and I went from nothing and not knowing anything about the retail marketplace to being the number one selling brand.

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How did that happen?

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Because I made my business my pulpit and my business wasn't my God.

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My God was my God and I used my business as a poet to promote God, if you will.

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Even when they turned me down, I kept loving on people and moving them closer to Jesus.

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And when you do that, when you live for his purpose, not your purpose, when you live for his purpose, to seek and save the lost, when you do that, he makes this great promise, I think it's the second biggest promise in the entire Bible after John 3.16.

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He said, I'll make everything in your life work for good.

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He didn't say everything's good, and he didn't say I'll make everything work for good in my own life.

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It doesn't say that.

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He says, I'll make everything work for good.

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It wasn't good for me when I lost Nicole.

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I can tell you that, 49-year-old daughter.

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That was not good.

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It was not good for me when I had more pain than they could quench, and I was in the hospital, I was dying.

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That wasn't good for me.

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I could go on and on and on.

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Good for God is souls.

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It's souls.

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And whatever pain you're in, if you're using it to lead people to Him, you're living for God's purpose and He'll make it right.

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And every bad thing's happened to us.

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We've never had a bad day.

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Karen and I don't have bad days.

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Not allowed.

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Nothing quenches of our joy.

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Why?

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Because we live for His purpose.

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We live to move everybody every day closer to Jesus.

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Okay, that's the backdrop.

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Okay, I want to talk about the rapture.

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But unless you understand this, you can't understand the rapture.

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And a lot of you are thinking, particularly if you're younger, you know, I got a long way to go.

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I can worry about that later.

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Meanwhile, I'm going to make hay while the sun shines.

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I got to go and party and do stuff and whatever.

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Well, I have news for you.

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Time has run out.

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It's run out.

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And this and some other podcasts I'll do, I will spell that out to you in specificity, using the words of man and not my words and not the word of God.

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And we'll convince you that it's amazing that rapture hasn't happened sooner.

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So what is the rapture?

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The rapture?

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comes just before the seven years of tribulation and the Antichrist and times you will not want to live in for sure.

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That is for sure.

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And the times, you know, Bible prophecy is amazing.

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it spells out exactly what's happening.

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You know over 300 Bible prophecies, up to 1,500 years earlier about Jesus, over 300 prophecies he fulfilled exactly,

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And those prophets also told us what today is going to look like.

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So we might want to pay attention to them, you know.

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I don't normally read scripture, but this is more than I can say.

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And I want you to hear because this is the word of God.

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It's talking about perilous times at the end of times.

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But you know this, that in the last days, perilous times will come.

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For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, you think.

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Boasters, proud, even in the church.

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I wanna say especially in the church, I'm seeing this today, I cannot believe what's going on in the church.

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What's happened to us?

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Blasphemers, disobedient parents.

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Do you know kids are suing parents today?

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Proud, unthankful, unholy, gracious.

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Just turn on the TV for five minutes.

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Turn on your social media for five minutes.

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Talk about unholy, unforgiving.

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People are not giving a stint.

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You do that to me and I'm gonna get back at you.

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Never giving a moment of grace, slanders, without self-control, there's no self-control.

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Brutal, I mean, it's a brutal world.

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You see things going on today?

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Every day, the morning news, you see,

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You can't even believe people act this way, treat people this way.

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Despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

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Oh, listen to this, having a form of godliness but denying its power.

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Small wonder people don't wanna be a Christian.

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They see the people that are protesting that they're a Christian and turning more people off.

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People in Washington proclaiming Christianity, they're an abomination.

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I don't care what they say.

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They'd be praying in their office one moment and two hours later they're cussing somebody else on public TV.

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People say, if that's Christianity, I don't want that.

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That's where we are today.

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It's happening without hesitation.

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And for such people to turn away.

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And with a lot of people who say they're Christians, I'm thinking, God, tell me, I need to get away from these people.

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They'll corrupt me.

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They'll make me like them.

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I don't want to be like them.

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For out of this sort are those who creep inside households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins.

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Don't you see that all over the place?

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We watch them in public places.

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Sweet girls, nice looking girls, seductively, yes, seductively dressed, walking in, meeting up with some guy who's done it a million times, and off they walk arm in arm like they are married.

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You look, they were led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of truth.

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They're learning.

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Everybody wants to learn, but nobody's learning the truth of the gospel.

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And the only truth is the gospel.

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God is truth.

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So these also resist the truth, men of corrupt minds, disapproved, concerning of the faith, but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all.

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This is where we are today, okay?

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And it's deadly serious.

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I have one of my best friends, I love to death, and I've been telling him for 30 years, I don't want to go to hell without you.

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I mean, I don't want to go to hell.

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I don't want to go to heaven without you.

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And he knows I mean it.

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And I said, you're 84 years old.

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You're playing.

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You're literally playing with fire.

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And how about your wife?

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And how about your kids?

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And how about your grandkids?

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Don't you want to be in heaven?

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It's a real place.

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And you keep saying, I'll make that decision down the line sometimes.

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You've been telling me that for 30 years.

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When is the time?

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Now is the time for your salvation.

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You could die in a moment.

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Now this is what I'm talking about.

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His wife, I want to be with her.

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She's not doing well and I need to talk to her.

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And he says, oh, she's all right.

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She's a good Presbyterian.

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What?

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Like, that makes any difference?

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Do you think you're going to get to heaven if you're a good Presbyterian?

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I mean, that's outrageous.

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There's one way to heaven.

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Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

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No man comes to the Father except through me.

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There is no other way.

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So, I'll give you an example of...

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Signs of the times.

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See if I can find them here.

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I'm not used to doing this on camera.

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I usually just speak.

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I like to talk.

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Yeah, let's find this scripture right quick if I can.

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Yeah, listen to this.

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This is about ready to happen.

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The bullet line is our final victory.

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So now I say this, brethren, that flesh of blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

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You can't do it in your own, in your own self.

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You can't do that.

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It's not of works lest any man should boast.

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Nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

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Behold, I tell you a mystery.

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Hear me.

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This is God speaking to you.

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If you're not where you should be yet, I'm telling you, time is running out.

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Behold, I tell you a mystery.

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We shall not all sleep.

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We're not sure.

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Not all just die.

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I'll just die someday and life's over.

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I have people telling me that I did break my heart.

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They just say, I just die.

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It's over.

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Done.

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No, behold, I tell you mystery.

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You should not sleep, but we shall all be changed, all changed in a moment.

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Get this, in the twinkling of an eye.

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The scriptures repeat on this, but when this day comes, I'm talking about the rapture now.

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In the twinkling of an eye, bam, happens.

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That is about to happen any moment.

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And that's why I'm pleading to you, if you've not received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you need to do it now, not tomorrow, not tonight.

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You need to do it right now.

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In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last, and there's a trumpet sound, God's trumpet sound, for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed forever.

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And death, where is your victory?

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We fear death.

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We don't want to die.

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I swear to the brother, the sweetenado brother, I don't want to die.

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Pray to death.

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Oh, death, where is your sting?

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Oh, Hades, where is your victory?

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There's none when you've made this decision because to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.

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Hey, that's pretty doggone cool.

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That's pretty cool.

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Okay, I've got to bring it down here if I can find this other scripture.

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Hopefully I can here.

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And again, I don't normally use it.

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I just talk extemporaneously.

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I like to do that.

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But here's the word.

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You can find it.

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I'll tell you for sure.

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You'll find this in 1 Thessalonians.

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Get a Bible out today.

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Would you do that?

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After I do this, prove what I say.

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Almost everybody has a Bible.

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Okay, get to a Bible and write this scripture down.

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Write it down very quick.

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It is 1 Thessalonians 4.17.

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It'll tell you all you need about the rapture.

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1 Thessalonians 4.17.

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Listen to what it says.

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Wow.

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For the Lord himself, God Almighty, the Lord himself would descend from heaven with a shout.

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Can you imagine?

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Bam!

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It's a trumpet.

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God, holy God comes down.

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Think about it.

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With a shout.

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With the voice of an archangel.

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With a trumpet of God.

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And then guess what happens?

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Wow.

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And the dead in Christ will rise first.

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And then us.

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Karen and I said, we're not gonna die.

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We're going to the rapture, we're resolved.

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I don't want her to go before me, and I don't want her to go before me.

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She doesn't want me to go before her.

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So we're just resolved.

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We're going up together, all right?

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Then we who are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds.

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Can you picture this?

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All of us who accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior all over the world, at one time, the trumpet and the sound, bam, we're in the clouds.

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And there shall we always be with the Lord.

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Always.

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It's over.

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The battle's over.

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Can you imagine being in that place?

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You know, the battle's over.

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We're with God forever and ever.

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Can you imagine that?

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And then it finishes with what?

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Therefore, comfort each other with these words.

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If you're in this spot, if you receive Jesus Christ, your Lord and Savior, and you're looking at all this chaos going on and say, where are you, God?

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Comfort.

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I want to comfort you with these words.

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In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we're going to be with him forever after.

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God comforts.

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I'm pleading with you right now for everybody watching this video.

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It's just words.

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I mean, it's not a smooth presentation.

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I'm not an actor.

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I'm just telling you what it is.

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It's what it is and what your word says.

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It's true.

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I can't wait to see you.

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I can't wait.

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There's a phrase that says, even so, come Lord Jesus.

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How often do I think of that phrase?

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Except I say, wait, not yet.

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I have too many friends that aren't there yet.

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God, don't come yet.

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I got too many people I need to get into heaven.

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And when I plead with them, even with tears in my eyes, they don't even understand what I'm saying.

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But for those I'm talking to now, Lord, don't let one of them be lost.

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You've come to seek them out, that not one of them would be lost.

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You're speaking to them.

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These are not my words.

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I've been reading your word.

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This is your words to them.

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Thank you, holy God, for loving us, providing a way of escape, and providing us a way that we don't have to go to hell.

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Your scripture says, most will go to hell.

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Broad is the way, and broad is the way to destruction.

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Most will make the wrong choice.

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It's terrifying.

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I see it every day.

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But you say, narrow is the gate, and few will find it to eternal life with you forever, joint heirs with Jesus Christ.

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God, I pray, I pray that everyone listening to us right now will find that narrow way.

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And if you're at that place right now, you can pray this simple prayer.

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You just pray this simple prayer, it's so easy, with conviction.

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Just tell God right now, God, I recognize I'm a sinner.

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I realize you can't tolerate sin.

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Thank you for sending your son to die on that cross, knowing my name, shedding his blood as a pardon for me so that I can receive your gift of eternal life.

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Wow.

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Holy God, you're awesome.

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We have joy evermore, everlasting joy being with you for the rest of eternity.

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All that holds because you loved us that so much that you gave your only son that whosoever believeth on your son will have eternal life.

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Romans 10 9 says it will.

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If you believe folks

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in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord, and you confess it with your mouth.

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Tell people, tell people today, tell people every day that Jesus Lord, you will be saved.

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Hallelujah.

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Thank you for listening to me.

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This is real.

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The rapture is coming.

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I'm going to talk about how eminent it is in a future broadcast.

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Stay tuned.

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All right.

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