Dudley Rutherford - Behold a White Horse (Part 1)

April 15, 2026 | 27:29

Pastor Dudley Rutherford seeks to "lift up the name of Jesus across the country and the world through uncompromising biblical teaching."

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| Dudley Rutherford - Behold a White Horse (Part 1) | April 15, 2026

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Male announcer: from the beginning of creation
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To the fall of man, through it all,
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Coming up next on "lift up jesus,"
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"a journey of a lifetime."
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Pastor dudley rutherford: that he's the king
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Of every throne, that he's the king of every power,
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That every authority that has ever mattered
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Now bows down to the one wearing every crown.
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Kayla francis: hello, i'm kayla francis,
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And thank you for joining me on "lift up jesus"
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With pastor dudley rutherford.
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Do you know what really takes
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Your christian life to the next level?
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It's not just reading the bible or listening
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To christian teaching.
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It's doing it on a regular basis.
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That's why being here every week
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And hearing these messages is so important,
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And today my father, pastor dudley rutherford,
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Has a teaching that will give you
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New insight on god's word.
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So take a quick moment and grab your bible, a pen,
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And your notes, and let's begin our lesson.
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Pastor dudley: so today, i want you to take
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Your bibles and turn to revelation chapter 19,
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Revelation chapter 19.
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As i thought about our final message
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In our journey in this very last book
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In the bible, book of revelation,
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The book of revelation is a book that is filled
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With prophetic visions and symbols and promises
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And warnings.
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It's full of imagery. it's full of drama.
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It's full of revelation.
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It was written in a coded language,
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Which i'll explain in a little bit.
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But throughout the entire book, full of symbols and imagery,
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There is one--one scene, one moment, one imagery,
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That rises above all the others.
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And it's a scene that is found
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In revelation chapter 19 that captures the essence
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Of christ's ultimate victory over everything in our world.
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Revelation chapter 19, verse 11, john writes:
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"i saw heaven standing open and there before me
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Was a white horse, whose rider is called faithful and true."
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So we begin our final message with what we call
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A cosmic courtroom, and a heaven that opens.
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Now, john wrote this, everybody say "john."
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John was one of the disciples.
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He was called the beloved disciple.
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He was an author, he was an apostle,
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And we believe, kind of like nana,
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That he lived to be almost 100 years of age.
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And as the time he writes this, he's the last living
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Original apostle.
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The romans have tried to silence him.
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They have sent him off into exile in isolation.
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That last remaining prophet of old was left
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To die on a forgotten island in the middle of the aegean sea,
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An island called the island of patmos.
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And there john closes his eyes
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And in a vision, god reveals to him,
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John the beloved, he allows john to see
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And to record for all the ages
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A cosmic courtroom and an epic battle
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That takes place in the heavenlies,
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What is known as the final battle of the ages,
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And john writes everything that he sees in this vision.
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He writes about the seven golden lampstands
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At the start of the book.
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He writes about a throne with a lamb
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That sits upon the throne.
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He writes about a group of elders
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That fall before the lamb.
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In revelation chapter 5, he writes and sees the scene
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Of 10,000 times 10,000 angels that are worshiping the lamb.
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In revelation chapter 8, 9, 10, and 11,
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He writes of a judgment that shakes the entire world.
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Revelation chapters 12 and 13, he writes
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About an evil empire that rises up in full fury.
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There are other empires that rise and fall.
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There's a beast that roars, and then you come
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To revelation chapter 18, the great babylon collapses,
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And there's a dragon that wages his final war,
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And then you turn the page and you come
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To revelation chapter 19.
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And at this part of this vision, he looks up and he sees heaven.
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Can you imagine if god pulled back the curtains
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Only for a few seconds and allowed you
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To see what heaven looked like?
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That's what he did with john.
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This is one of the few times the bible says
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That heaven opens, and usually when heaven opens,
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It's for somebody to go up.
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This is one of the few times in the bible
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Where the heavens opens for someone to come down.
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The bible says that john looks up
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And "there before me," and this is the culmination
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Of the entire bible.
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He writes: "there before me was a white horse,
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Whose rider was faithful and true,"
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And the great question is, who is that rider?
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I want you to turn to your neighbor and say,
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"inquiring minds want to know."
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Of course, the horse.
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The rider, write this down as point number two,
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Is a conquering savior.
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He is a victorious symbol.
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This rider we know
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Is the lord jesus christ our savior.
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Now, as you read through the bible,
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And especially in the book of revelation,
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There are several horses that we see.
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There's all kinds of animals in the book of revelation.
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There's dragons and there's an eagle,
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And there's a lion, and there's oxen.
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Nowhere do we see a cat in there, just so you know.
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I looked, i couldn't find a cat.
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But there's several horses, and then you gotta be careful
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When you're reading about the horse
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In revelation chapter 19,
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Which is our study today, you don't wanna ever confuse
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The horse in revelation chapter 19
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With the other horses that you read about.
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In fact, the horse in revelation chapter 19
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Is the opposite of the horses that we read about
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In revelation chapter 6.
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If you read revelation chapter 6,
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There's a white horse and there's a red horse
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And there's a black horse and there's a pale horse,
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Revelation 6, verse 2, 4, 5, and 8.
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Now that white horse back in revelation chapter 6,
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It looks a lot like that horse in revelation chapter 19.
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In fact, some people can't really tell them apart,
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But there's a big difference.
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Because the horse in revelation chapter 6
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Is the antichrist.
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That's why it's very confusing for some people.
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And of course, the red horse in revelation chapter 6
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Is a picture of warfare and bloodshed,
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And the black horse is a symbol of famine and death,
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And the pale horse is a picture of plague and sickness.
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They're called the four horses of the apocalypse
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Who bring deception upon the earth,
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And there's cataclysmic destruction
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Of the world as we know it.
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That's in the first 18 chapters,
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This cosmic battle, this cosmic courtroom,
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Where the antichrist deceives and destroys
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Everything he can get his hands on.
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Of course, jesus warned us that the devil would come
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To kill, steal, and to destroy.
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And as you read revelation, the first 18 chapters,
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You see the devil at work, next-level stuff.
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But as in any novel or any book or any good movie
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Or any good story where it appears--
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It appears that evil is winning, you then turn the page
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And you come to chapter 19 and you see
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The true savior of the world, jesus christ,
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Comes riding in on a white horse to save the day.
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Now, i don't know if you know this,
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And this is important for you to understand this,
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That the book of revelation
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Was written in this coded language.
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It's called apocrypha.
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And john was writing what he was seeing,
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And he was, you know, he was looking into the future and,
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You know, he didn't understand half the stuff
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He was looking at because it was futuristic to him,
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But he wrote, you know, the best that he could,
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And he was, of course, writing under the direction
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Of the holy spirit, but i believe
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That he was writing, we know this to be true.
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He was writing to a group of christians
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That were facing persecution by the hands of rome
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Because rome was occupying the world
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At that time.
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Rome was the one that had banished him
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Off into the island.
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Christians were being persecuted.
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And so, when john writes his revelation,
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I believe he writes it in such a way,
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This is my own opinion.
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I'm telling you this is my own opinion,
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But i believe that the christians
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Who lived in the first century under the persecution of rome,
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I believe when they read the book of revelation,
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They understood exactly what john was talking about.
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But that if a roman soldier came by and saw you
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As a christian, "hey, what are you reading there?
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Let me see what you're reading."
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And you--and he, the roman soldier
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Picked it up, the roman soldier would look
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At all this and go, "this is all silliness,"
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And just throw it back at you.
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So i think that's what's happening here.
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Certainly we know the context that rome
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Was definitely persecuting the church,
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But in ancient times, and you have
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To understand this or you won't understand
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This imagery, when rome ruled the world,
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Whenever a general won a massive war,
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Rome would give that general a triumph.
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He would give that general a parade.
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It was one of the greatest honors
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Of the empire.
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A general would ride through the city
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On a white stallion with crowds cheering
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And trumpets blasting, soldiers behind him
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And captives in chains.
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And what you're seeing here in revelation chapter 19,
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John is saying this is not a triumph
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Like any other triumph.
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John is saying this is the triumph of all triumphs.
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You can write this down, not rome celebrating caesar,
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This is the heavens celebrating jesus christ.
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Jesus christ is not coming back
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For a victory parade.
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Jesus christ is the victory.
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And when he returns-- they clapped a lot louder
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At 9 o'clock so i-- just to let you know.
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I'm just--i'm-- when he returns,
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The enemy will be crushed.
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And saints, the saints will be vindicated
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And creation will be renewed,
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And a new heaven and a new earth
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Will descend, and god will wipe
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Away every tear and night will be
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Banished forever, and the lamb of god
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Will reign in unstoppable glory
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For all of eternity.
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Now, we know all this to be true because, and write this down,
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Point number three,
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Because of the christ-like qualities.
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When we continue to read, we see all these
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Christ-like qualities.
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And of course, jesus is our blessed hope.
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Everybody say, "blessed hope."
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Let's read through this and you'll see
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All these pictures, then we'll go back
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And touch on them briefly.
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John says, "i saw heaven standing open
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And there before me was this white horse,
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Whose rider is called faithful and true.
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With justice," everybody say "justice,"
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"he judges."
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You see, today we're living in a world where there's
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So much turmoil going on, and everything seems unfair.
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And it doesn't matter what you say
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Or what your opinion is, there's about
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1,000 other people who have different opinions.
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And so, we're fighting with each other
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And things happen and there's two sides
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To every story, and we can't get along
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And there's so much disagreement.
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It just seems like the whole world is divided
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And we're always trying
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To seek justice and revenge and make everything right.
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And it seems like the more we try,
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The worse things get.
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But there's coming a day where this rider
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Who comes riding on, who's faithful and true,
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He will judge and he will make all things right.
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He alone will bring the justice that we're all looking for.
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And it says: "with justice he judges and makes war."
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Verse 12: "his eyes are like blazing fire,
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And on his head are many crowns.
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He has a name that is written on him that no one knows
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But he himself."
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Verse 13: "he's dressed in a robe,
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And this robe has been dipped in blood, and his name
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Is the word of god."
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And verse 14 says that when he comes,
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He doesn't come alone because "the armies of heaven
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Were following him,
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Also riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen,
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White and clean.
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And out of his mouth comes this sharp sword
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With which to strike down the nations.
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And he will rule them with an iron scepter."
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The bible says: "he treads the winepress of the fury
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Of the wrath of god almighty."
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And verse 16 reads: "on his robe and on his thigh
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He has another name written down:
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The king of kings and the lord of lords."
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Now, each of those points-- each of those points
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Would be a sermon in itself.
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I want to go back and just touch on them briefly.
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But first, the fact that he's faithful and true.
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I look around at our world, i don't know if you've noticed,
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It's hard to know what's true and what's not true.
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There is so much misinformation.
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That's why i continue just to cling to this book
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Because this is the only thing i know
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That's true right here.
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And when he returns, he is faithful and true.
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We live in a world that calls things
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That are pure evil that we-- the world calls those things
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Are good.
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And things that are good, the world says those things
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Are evil.
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So then you have the media, you have the press,
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You have two sides.
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It's crazy, it's confusing.
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Now we have this thing called ai and with ai,
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I'm telling you, i reached them, i don't know,
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I don't know if it's true, if it's ai, i don't know.
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Everything, i don't know.
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How many of you know what i'm talking about?
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But listen, when jesus appears, all lies will be exposed.
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All lies will be totally exposed when he comes.
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The bible says: "his eyes are like blazing fire."
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That means that they're penetrating,
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They are purifying, there is nothing hidden.
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That's why he alone can be judge
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Because he sees everything.
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You ever heard that phrase, ladies,
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You know what i'm talking about, "mama's got eyes
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In the back of her head," what does that mean?
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What does that mean that mama's got eyes
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In the back of her head, what does that mean?
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That means that mama can see the mess in your room
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Without even going in there.
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Ladies, can i get an amen?
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Mama can see everything.
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But what this means is that god can see the mess
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In your heart.
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God can--god sees and knows everything
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That's going on in our lives.
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There's a--the bible says on his head are not one crown.
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The bible says there are many crowns.
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What does that mean?
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That means that he's the king of every nation.
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That he's the king of every universe.
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That he's the king of every throne,
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That he's the king of every power,
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That every authority that has ever mattered
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Now bows down to the one wearing every crown.
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History crowned jesus with the crown of thorns.
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But when he returns, heaven will crown him
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With the crown of triumph.
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The bible says he has a name written on him
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That no one knows except he himself.
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What does that mean?
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Well, that means that he is so unique,
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That he is so powerful, that he is so intimate,
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That he is so vast, that he is so eternal,
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That he is so limitless, that you might think
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That you know him, but you cannot exhaust him.
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This speaks to the unsearchable depths
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Of his divineness.
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And the bible says that he wears a robe
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That has been dipped in blood.
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What does that mean?
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That means you need to understand this,
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That blood that's on his robe is
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Not the blood of his enemies.
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That blood on his robe comes from the--
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His--the sacrifice when he laid down his life
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And shed his blood willingly.
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His victory comes from his sacrifice
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On that cross.
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The bible says his name is the word of god.
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We know what john 1:1 says.
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We know that he is the written expression of god.
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Then the bible says that armies will be following him.
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They're not out in front of him. they're actually following him.
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He's leading the way.
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Who is this army up in the heavens?
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It's the redeemed, it's those of us who are saved,
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For the battle is already over.
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The battle has already been won.
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And then the bible says he will rule all the nations.
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And of course, that means that every knee will bow
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And every tongue will confess.
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The first time that jesus came, the world barely noticed.
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But the second time jesus comes,
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The world will not be able to ignore him.
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And he has a moniker that he's the king of all kings
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And the lord of all lords,
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Which means that he cannot be impeached,
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He cannot be replaced, he cannot be defeated.
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That christ will stand where all others have fallen.
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And when you look at all this, when you look at all this,
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This white horse riding in, robe dipped in blood,
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That's not a threat.
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That's our hope.
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Kayla: as i said at the beginning,
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It's listening to the preaching and teaching from god's word
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On a regular basis that makes
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Such a powerful difference in your life.
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So plan to be here next week, same place, same time,
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And please call or text a loved one,
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And invite them to join us.
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I believe you both will be blessed
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And encouraged by the message.
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And remember, if you're in the southern california area,
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We'd love to meet you on a sunday morning here
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At shepherd church.
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It's an amazing community that will have a powerful
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And positive impact on your life.
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And don't forget, your monthly financial support
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Makes such a difference as we buy television airtime
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So that millions of people around the world
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Will be transformed by this message of god's grace.
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Would you help us?
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Just reach out and let us know that you believe in this message
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And you want to help us make a difference.
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I'll see you next week and in the meantime,
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Wherever you're going and whatever you're doing,
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Don't forget to always lift up jesus.
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Daniel: my life before jesus was pretty complicated, and i made
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My own life complicated.
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I was involved in drugs, in alcohol, and just living
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A really, really ungodly life.
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I hit a bottom that really, really made me reach out
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To jesus.
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It was a time in my life where i've never been so desperate.
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You know, i didn't want to die, but i wasn't sure that i wanted
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To live.
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I was in a treatment facility to address my addiction and my
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Alcohol issues.
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The treatment center was in long beach.
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So i was way out there where i heard pastor dudley.
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And every morning i would get up early in the morning before
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Everybody else would get up and i would turn on the tv
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And follow some pastors and preachers on tv.
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And you know i followed a few of them, but none of them really
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Touched me like pastor dudley did.
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Pastor dudley would speak, i was feeling his words more than
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I was really you know hearing them.
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So a few months later maybe like six months later, i found myself
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Here in the valley starting a new life out here.
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And found out that pastor dudley was the main pastor
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At porter ranch, so that was like weird.
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I was like, wow, that's crazy.
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So yeah, i started attending porter ranch every week and
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Found out that there was a smaller church down the street
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From my house so i wouldn't have to commute all the way
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To porter ranch, west valley.
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So as soon as i came here, it was like perfect.
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It was cozy, everybody was so friendly.
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I felt like i arrived, like, i'm home.
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You know what i mean?
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Like, there was an overwhelming sense of peace when i walked
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In here because i've been struggling for so long out in
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The trenches of addiction and alcoholism and crime
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And all that.
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Basically, it was off to the races after that.
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I started getting to know men here and they surrounded me
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With love.
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And it was nice to actually be in a life group and talk about
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Something other than 12-step programs or something other than
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Drugs and alcohol.
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Every day there's these prayers and signs and i read the word
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And i get something different every time and i just try
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To follow that throughout the day.
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There was a point in time where i kind of slid, fell back,
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I stopped coming to church and i kind of fell off the wayside,
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You know what i mean?
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And that just goes to show you, it goes to show me that just
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Because i gave my life to the lord doesn't mean
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That life is going to get easier because i'm a christian.
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It just shows you that there's going to be struggles.
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At that point when i was sitting in a detox at the treatment
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Center, i really knew that i had to get baptized.
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It was one of those dark moments where it was like, lord,
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Please help me, like get me out of this.
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I've had enough, you know?
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And i just had the thought get baptized, was it.
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Like, sign the deal, sign the contract, you know,
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Get baptized and come roll with us, you know?
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And that's how it was for me.
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So i reached out to a brother that's here at west valley,
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Brother greg, and i said, hey, man, i need to get baptized
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Right now.
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Let's get this done.
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So we arranged to get that done right as soon as possible.
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And i made a promise to god that day that i'm going to go ahead
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And live that life.
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And now today, now that i found jesus, i am thankful
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For every single day of life that i'm blessed with.
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I make sure that i give thanks to jesus and the lord
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For every day that we are all blessed to have.
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Pastor dudley: hey, it's pastor dudley,
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And i wanna thank you so much for tuning in today.
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You know that i love to preach, i love the word of god,
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And i love lifting up the name of jesus christ.
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And this program, it's called "lift up jesus,"
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And that's why we exist-- up lift up jesus
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Because we know he will draw all people unto himself.
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We need people like you who watch week after week,
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Who give, offer financial support,
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Who pray for us that makes all of this possible.
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I just wanna encourage you to call us on the number
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On the screen or go to our website.
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We would appreciate any gift,
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Any amount of support you could give us,
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And remember that we'll take every dollar
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And use that to lift up jesus, that the world might believe.
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God bless each and every one of you,
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And remember, whatever you're doing,
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Don't forget to always lift up jesus.
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Michael north: you know, pastor dudley
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Enjoys hearing from everyone watching him
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Through this ministry.
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Your emails, phone calls, and social media contacts
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Are very important to him.
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We want you to know you can also write
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To pastor dudley at our mailing address,
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Lift up jesus ministry, 19700 rinaldi street,
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Porter ranch, california 91326.
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Your financial support, large or small,
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Is greatly appreciated.
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You can be assured your gifts to this ministry go directly
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To help touch and change the lives of many
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Who are hearing the gospel of jesus christ
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Dudley Rutherford - Behold a White Horse (Part 1)

April 15, 2026 | 27:29

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