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well good morning friends this is pastor

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david packard international

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baptist church in stuttgart germany so

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we have been going through the

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seven letters of seven churches in the

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book of revelation

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and um it has been a great journey for

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me personally as i've shared these

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messages and my faith has also grown my

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insight

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into what it means to be a christian and

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what it means to be a follower

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of christ as a church what that means

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now just introduction to these all these

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messages

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some of the things we've stressed is the

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number seven is symbolic of completeness

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so these seven letters the seven

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churches these seven churches represent

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all the churches in the church age and

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each of these letters is meaningful to

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every christian and every church

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another way these can be understood and

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if this was not

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part of the original intention it

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certainly serves as a great

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illustration of these seven churches

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let's understand them as a panoramic

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view of western church history

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we have seven uh letters of seven

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churches and we can see

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seven different stages of these churches

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well last week we looked at the church

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at sardis

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that we mentioned is illustrated by the

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church of the reformation

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that had a reputation that they were

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alive but actually they were dead

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i see that the reformation started in

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1517

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usually that's the date you choose

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although it was going on before then but

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1517 is when um when

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martin luther put the 95 theses on the

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door of the church in wittenberg

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so from that day until around 1800

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that's the church the reformation

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uh and it had a i had a great beginning

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but then it entered into a time of just

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debate and arguing

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and it was the pietest that god used

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uh phil spiner number one uh tool of

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god's

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uh god's choice in those years uh but it

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was the pietest that

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uh began to emphasize a spiritual life

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of the believer that god used to

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change hearts in the 1700s the great

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awakening

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happened in america and uh people began

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to be revived and not only in america

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but also

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during those same years things were

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happening on the continent

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one of those groups was the moravian

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brethren

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in 1722 um

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they were trying to find a way to live

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and to carry on because they were facing

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persecution

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and a wealthy young man by the name of

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count

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zinzendorf he was a pietist and his

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heart was touched

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once seeing a painting of christ

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in the german city of dusseldorf uh

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and uh and he came away from that

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spiritual experience

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wanting to do more for christ and so he

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opened up his land

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and that land by the way is in is in

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saxony today in germany part of germany

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uh and uh he uh let these people

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move and live in on his land and gave

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them protection

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they were known as the moravian brethren

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uh and the place they lived they called

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and it was a just incredible work of god

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that group although they did not have

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very much most of them were just common

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laborers

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they committed to pray together and they

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actually had

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a hundred year prayer meeting a prayer

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meeting that continued

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faithfully for a hundred years and also

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they committed to take the gospel to the

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world and that group

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it began around 300 people but that

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had one in three of them became

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missionaries

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and they began to send missionaries

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in the eighth in the 18th century uh

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to many places to greenland uh to the

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american

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indians to the caribbean area and many

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other places as well

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and and they were faithful to to take

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that gospel and spread it around the

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so in the 1700s roughly 200 years after

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the reformation

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uh began in the 1700s we see a new

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spirit began to be in the hearts of

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evangelical christians

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and it was the spirit of world missions

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we're going to look later in the message

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about the baptist movement william carey

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uh in 1792 but this hern hoot

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group pictures this church uh

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pictures this this church in

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philadelphia

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it says this if you look at the

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scripture we're looking at revelation

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chapter 3

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verse 7 through the uh through verse 13.

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it says to the angel of the church in

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philadelphia write

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these are the words of him who is holy

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and true who holds the key of david

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what he opens no one can shut him what

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he shuts no one

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can open i know your deeds see i place

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before you an open door that no one can

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shut i know that you have little

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strength yet you have kept my word and

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have not denied my name i will make

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those who are of the synagogue of satan

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who claim to be jews though they are not

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but are liars

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i will make them come and fall down at

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your feet and acknowledge that i have

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now this is a description of great faith

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among the people

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christ describes himself as the one who

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is holy

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and in this setting holy means set apart

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for our mission he is the one set apart

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for salvation

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and he is also the one who is true he

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doesn't say he

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speaks the truth that would be true he

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doesn't say he holds the truth that also

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would be true

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but it says he is the truth he is true

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itself and it describes that the message

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that we preach

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jesus christ is the center of that

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we preach the history of his life of his

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death and resurrection

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we preach of his miracles and his

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teaching we preach also

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the writings of the gospels and the

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writings of the new testament

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what it means to turn from sin and put

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your faith and trust in him that he died

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for our sins

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but whenever the gospel is preached

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jesus looms

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bigger than even the gospel itself he

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becomes the message

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now in this setting when he speaks about

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this open door and the keys

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of the the key of david he's really

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describing a prophecy

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that is in isaiah 22. you can go back in

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isaiah 22

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and read this it's about a a certain uh

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steward of the palace

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uh named shepna who was dishonest now

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the steward took care

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of the whole he ran the palace uh but

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shabna began to think

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he was even more important than the king

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and began to build a great

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tomb for himself uh he wanted his name

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to be great

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and a steward should never do that a

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steward exists

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for the king and you can imagine if

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someone could get an

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audience with the king well they would

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maybe get a favor

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and they could they could become a

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wealthy or powerful person

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and should not apparently control that

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so he'll be the type of steward that

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would take bribes in order to get people

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in and he really was not a man of

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and the prophecy simply said that he

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would be removed

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he would be removed in fact the prophecy

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said this god will take you and roll you

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into a ball and sling you into a wide

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and there you will die the strong words

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but then we also see that the man

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who would replace him would be eliakim

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said he will be like a father to people

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not someone who took bride but someone

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loved them and cared for them and that

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would hold the key to the house of david

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that he would let people have access

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uh and so when this description of what

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he opens no one can shut

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what his shuts not go but the

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subscription is given uh to the church

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it's describing the spirit uh the spirit

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who looks for sincerity who loves us

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holy and looks for sincerity uh

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in his servants he looks for those who

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are genuine and sincere he is the one

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who is set apart

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and as his followers we are to be like

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so every christian every church needs to

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be set apart for the gospel

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every church and every christian needs

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to be set apart

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for world missions that's what it means

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to be a follower of christ

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to support missions is not just one more

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thing we may or may not do

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it is the heart and soul of being a

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follower of christ

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and he says i will open a door for you i

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will close the door now that means two

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things first of all

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it means that access to god in prayer is

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opened by the gospel through our faith

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but also it means that doors to serve

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the lord are open now it'd be very

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different

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when someone comes into the king's

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presence asking for a favor that was

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already on the king's heart

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if they knew what the king wanted and

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said i have come

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to do your will king that would get a

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very different reaction

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from the king and the same way when a

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church says lord we want

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your will we want to follow you we want

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to take your great commission

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and continue to fulfill it when a church

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then we'll see that that's the type of

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church same spirit of the church of

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philadelphia

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so they did not have much they did not

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have a lot of money a lot of power

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but what they did have was faith and

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commitment

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they believed the word of god and they

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his name and that's basically what we do

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in missions and we take the bible

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and we take the name of jesus and we

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preach the gospel

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and we share the love of christ with the

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lost world

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now the difference in the between the

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philadelphia church and the

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uh church in sardis was the issue of the

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lordship of christ

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the sardis church was lazy and selfish

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but the the philadelphian church was

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submissive to the lordship of christ

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and received the life of christ in them

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and they wanted to share

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the life of christ with the world so god

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opened the door

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now as he evaluated them he speaks about

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this

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this synagogue of satan that's not an

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anti-jewish statement rather it was a

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description

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of the specific synagogue in that place

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many of the churches started in

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synagogues sometimes the whole synagogue

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became a church

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but sometimes they opposed the message

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and

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the christians left the synagogue and

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started a church

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and in this setting the synagogue

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opposed the church and they

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worked against them uh and he's simply

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saying these are not people of faith

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they don't even believe the old

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testament their

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their spirits reveal a different

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attitude

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well um the the church

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this church uh was the one though

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that was really committed to the great

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commission and they were going to

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continue

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to serve now verse 10 says this since

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you have kept my command to endure

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patiently i will also keep you from the

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hour of trial that is going to come upon

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the whole world

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to test those who live on the earth

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that's the description by the way

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to the the great tribulation the

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tribulation the great tribulation

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that's seven years long uh leading up to

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the return of christ

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and that will try the whole world but

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this particular generation

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will be saved from them from from that

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now let me talk about the baptist

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mission work out of england

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uh it was amazing when you look and see

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the

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change in those people's hearts

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when the gospel is being preached in the

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americas during the

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uh the great awakening

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there was a young man by the name of

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david brainard who was touched

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under that movement of the spirit he was

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touched he was a student at yale

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university

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but as young people are sometimes known

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to do

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he criticized one of the faculty members

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at yale

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and questioned whether he was a

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christian at all

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and because of that he was expelled

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from yale but brainerd decided he would

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go ahead

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and serve the lord as best he could so

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he went

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uh with the burden of god on his heart

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to evangelize the american indian

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particularly the delaware and the

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susquehanna

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tribes and he did not live very long

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he died at 29 years of age for

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tuberculosis

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but he spent those seven years in

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missionary service

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even in a very sick condition in

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one of the one of the greatest books

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that we have in the christian

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uh library is this diary of david

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brainard

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and i would encourage you to get it if

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you don't have it

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but he said this he said i could have no

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freedom in the thought of any other

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circumstances or business

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in life all my desire was the conversion

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of the heathen and all my hope was in

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god

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god does not suffer me to please or

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comfort myself with hopes of seeing

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friends or returning to my dear

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acquaintance

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enjoying worldly comforts well that was

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a passion

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he had of evangelizing the american

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indians oh he went up

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in very difficult conditions uh

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and uh and did what he could for those

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seven years

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of of winning them to christ well

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william carey was a shoe cobbler and a

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baptist pastor in england

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in the latter part of the of the 1700s

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and he read brainerd's diary and god

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used that as well as other things to

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touch his heart

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william carey wrote a groundbreaking

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book now the title would not sell today

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but it did work

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in those years here's the title an

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inquiry

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into the obligations of christians to

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use

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means for the conversion of the heathens

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well the calvinism of that day said that

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christians don't need to do anything to

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win the lost god will do it when he's

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ready

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and carrie questioned that he said we

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need to use means in other words we need

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to do something

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about it and he preached a great sermon

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at a meeting of a bad dispatcher he said

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expect great things from god attempt

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great things for god and it's just the

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idea of faith and putting faith to work

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he did not have much the pastors of the

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baptist churches in england

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they barely had enough to feed their

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families but still he says we

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need to be faithful so he went to india

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as a missionary

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and things began to be organized in in

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those

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years we see by the end of the

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of the 18th century by 1800 itself

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we see changes and changes more changes

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coming

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for example in the latter part of the of

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the of that century in 1793

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you had the baptist missionary society

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in england formed

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and then you had the london missionary

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society forum for other denominations

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1795. the protestant american missionary

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society was formed

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in 1814 and the berlin missionary

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society was formed in 1824

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and western europeans evangelical people

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began to have the world

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on their hearts by the time you get to

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our day

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200 years more than 200 years of world

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missions has gone on

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200 years ago even a hundred years ago

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almost all the

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evangelical christians in the world

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would be white

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but today it is just the opposite

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that we have people of color and our

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different races

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of different nationalities of different

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ethnic groups around the world

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that have embraced christ and not only

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have they become

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followers of christ but they have also

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sent missionaries out and some of them

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have been sent missionaries

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back to the west and we need it in the

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west

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but they have become reverse

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missionaries sending

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people back here to win people in europe

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well this is the

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age of the church of philadelphia this

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is the age of the church of the open

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door

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and god opened a great door and he says

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though he says that i will save you

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so i believe this generation will need

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to be raptured before

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the great tribulation or it will simply

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die off before the great tribulation

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already we can see some doors closing in

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people's hearts

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when i went to seminary in the 1970s my

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seminary southwestern baptist

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theological seminary

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was the largest seminary in america

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we had 4 500 students studying for the

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ministry

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in that seminary today there's about a

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thousand

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and many generations many

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many people in this generation has

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stopped responding to the call of god so

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we need to pray

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that the lord of the harvest would send

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forth laborers

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into his harvest we need to continue to

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do that

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the rest this passage jesus says this he

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said i

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um i'm coming soon hold on to what you

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have so the node will take your crown

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and that's the message for all of our

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churches i believe as i'm sharing this

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message

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someone in this in this hearing is

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thinking about not giving the missions

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this year

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maybe because the coronavirus locked

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down maybe your salary has been cut

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maybe you don't have as much

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as you as you used to have but don't

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use that for an excuse this is the

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church in philadelphia they did not have

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much

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their strength was little but their

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faith was great

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and their commitment was great to the

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lordship of christ and to the great

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commission

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and a church maybe the church is saying

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how can we give to missions

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friend every year a church ought to give

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to missions the world

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still needs jesus and we need to

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continue in spite of what we don't have

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to support missions now the one who

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overcomes he says this

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hold on to what you've got keep doing it

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him who overcomes i will make a pillar

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in the temple of my god

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never again will believe it i will write

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on him the name of my god in the name of

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the city of my god the new jerusalem

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which is coming down out of heaven from

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god and i will rile him

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my new name he who has an ear let him

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hear what the spirit says

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to the churches i believe is simply

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describing heaven for us

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that those who have the great commission

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on their heart who understand the

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mission of christ has been given to the

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christian this should be the christians

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mission today in the church's mission

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today

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those people have a unique view of

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heaven it's god's view of heaven really

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and that's what he's describing that we

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will be future oriented we always have

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hope

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knowing that we will be welcomed into

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god's kingdom

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and warmly welcomed and there we will

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see people

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that we were instrumental and they're

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coming to faith

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as well now not everything is called

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missions

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as missions um some people think that

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anything you do

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that's good in the name of christ that's

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missions

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but missions have priority and the

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number one priority is to preach the

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gospel to help churches be established

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training pastors helping them be

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independent and strong so they can lead

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their churches

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but also to do things in the name of

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christ so that people

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uh can't have freedom and help we ought

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to be doing those things but

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still the great commission is about

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preaching

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and then helping them obey christ we

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ought to love our neighbor as

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ourself we ought to help all those we

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can

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but the the heart of mission is the

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preaching of the gospel that's what we

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ought to be giving ourselves to

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to support it so let me encourage you to

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be faithful to mission

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keep on giving praying supporting and

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that you would pray but also about

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whether you should go

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let's pray father thank you for your

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love and your grace i pray from this

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message you would call

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someone into world missions let them say

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i will go lord here i am send me just

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like isaiah did

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we pray lord bye because stuttgart would

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continue to be faithful

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to your mission for them bless us lord

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and we thank you for your grace we thank

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you that someone was faithful

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some ones were faithful so that we heard

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about christ

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and let us return that favor it's in

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your name we pray

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amen god bless you my friends