John Tweedie - Apostasy and Delusion

June 29, 2026 | 27:29

Rev. Dr. John Tweedie calls on Christians to express love in action to the people of Israel by presenting a biblical perspective of God’s plan for Israel and the church.

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Apostasy and Delusion | June 29, 2026

There are places in the western world
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Where the christian church is struggling to survive.
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If there are other places in the third world where,
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Despite intense persecution,
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The church is thriving as never before.
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Why the discrepancy?
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Next, on the prophetic connection.
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Behind me.
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The church of the transfiguration.
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The place where, according to tradition,
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Jesus was transformed before three of his disciples.
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Peter, james and john.
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His garments were shining as bright as light.
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When the spirit of the lord came upon him,
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And god the father spoke to him.
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The christian church began not far from here.
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I'm standing on mount tabor, near the sea of galilee.
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So this is where christianity began
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With 12 ordinary disciples.
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But today that church can claim over 2 billion adherents.
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Yet all is not well with the church in all places.
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In europe, for example, the birthplace
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Of the protestant reformation.
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Many of the great cathedral churches
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Are virtually empty, devoid of worshipers.
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Yet in the third world, among the poorest of the poor,
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The church is thriving and growing as never before.
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So 2000 years later, after the church began,
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There are still individuals, followers of jesus,
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Who find joy in the message of christianity.
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And in following the one who came from nazareth in galilee.
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For nearly 2000 years.
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True christians in every generation
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Have positively influence their worlds.
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It is also true that over the centuries, many wars
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Have been fought and many lives lost because of religion.
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True christianity, however, is not so much a religion
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As it is a relationship.
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A day by day walk with jesus of nazareth.
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Jesus told his disciples to be his witnesses.
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He said the world
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Would recognize them by their love for one another.
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A lovely were also called to share with others
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By word, and indeed especially those less fortunate.
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Yet today, in the 21st century, christian influence
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Appears to be suffering a steep decline. why?
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Among the signs that jesus yeshua mentions in matthew
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24 is that the love of many will grow cold.
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Now, as i understand reading it, the greek word is agape.
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So it's particularly reference to god's people's love.
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And you could just never think that that would ever grow cold.
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Because once a person is touched by the love of god,
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What can cause you to become cold?
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What did jesus mean when he prophesied
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That the love of many will grow cold?
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The very fundamental command of the old and new testament
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Is that we should love the lord
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With all of our being, and love our neighbor as ourselves.
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If we're not loving, then we are not really in the kingdom.
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Of course, in paul paul's letter to the corinthians, chapter
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13, he says, if we don't love, we're nothing.
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We've got nothing to offer.
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And for jesus to say that the love of many
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Will grow cold before his coming means that basic
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Religion, basic truth, and
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Spirituality will unravel that across the world.
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The basics of what we're supposed to do
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Loving, god loving neighbor will begin to collapse.
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That's a scary thought, and i think we're seeing
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Signs of that around the world.
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Jesus also said that his followers
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Were to be salt and light.
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Salt acts as a preservative,
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While light hinders the onset of darkness.
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If christian influence is waning,
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Does this also mean that society will experience
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Greater decay in the world, will be engulfed
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By an encroaching spiritual darkness that prevents
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Individuals from knowing god?
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Now let's take that down to a practical step,
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A practical way of thinking of what is happening in our world
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Today begins with the word called terrorism.
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Terrorism has become so rampant among societies,
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Not only amongst islamic countries, but also in western
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Democratic nations.
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Today, everybody's worried about terror and violence.
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There is a power called terror and violence,
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Which is invading the nations
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Today, not only in the middle east,
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But in the nations of the west.
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And as terrorism becomes more,
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Kind of a threat
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To western societies, and we're beginning to become used to it,
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Our hearts are also becoming more self preserving
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And becoming more protecting of us and our own families.
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And we'll do anything to have peace.
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Is the apparent decline in christian influence
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Simply that in an increasing selfish world, christians
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Themselves have become more selfish and self preserving?
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Or is it simply that christians have slowly
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Lost sight of the mandate jesus gave them?
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They were to deny self in order to help
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And influence others in god's name.
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Now what yeshua was also
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Referring to in matthew 24.
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He goes on to say that also this
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Will be a sign of the end times, as it was in the days of noah.
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But what was it about noah's day?
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Was it simply because people were committing adultery?
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Or the moral fiber of his nation was like our nations today?
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Where abortion is rampant and sex classes today
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In school teach promiscuity throughout our school systems?
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No, i think
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There's an even greater sign we can look at because, as
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In the days of noah, we can look at genesis chapter six,
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And it says that there was violence over all the earth.
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And the word for violence in the original hebrew
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Is the word pronounced hamas.
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And that word brings a very clear revelation to me,
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Because the greatest threat today
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On israel's southern borders is an islamic terrorist
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Jihadist group known as hamas, which is not only a threat
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To israeli jews, but israeli arabs as well.
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And this word, hamas to me, reflects a very prophetic spoken
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Word in scripture throughout most of the old testament
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When it refers to violence, it uses the word hamas.
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Is this any accident of time and vocabulary usage
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Back to the beginning of time?
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No, i think it's actually reflective of an ancient power
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Known as hamas, which equates into terrorism
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And violence in this day and age.
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And for that reason, i can easily see
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That the love of many believers
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And the love of many in society today could easily grow cold.
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The bible teaches that god
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Destroyed noah's society because it was full of violence,
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And people were increasingly prone to evil thoughts and acts.
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Does this describe society today?
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I think one of the great threats to the church today is that
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People have access to information like never before.
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There was a day
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100 years ago where the pastor, the preacher, he was the
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The fountain of truth, and people would go to church
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And they would listen
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To his sermon and they would get knowledge.
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But today, knowledge is almost infinite.
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It's available everywhere.
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The internet, of course, provides us anything we need.
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We can google everything.
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Why would i need to go to church for truth?
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And of course, there are churches
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On the internet you can watch live streaming.
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You can listen to christian radio,
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You can go to this or that,
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But you could also hear
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Every other message from every other spiritual source
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That you want.
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And some of it
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Just hits you in the face and you get curious
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And you start to read about these things.
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And people were not grounded in the word, can easily be swayed
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And moved off track and be deceived by the enemy.
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And so there's a great danger in the church today.
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Hebrews says that we should not neglect
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The gathering of ourselves together,
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Especially in as the days are evil.
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And i see that there is a scattering of the sheep,
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And there is not the gathering,
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And the loyalty and the faithfulness to coming together.
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Where we learn truth together, whether it's in a small group or
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Whether it's in a large group.
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And i think that's a great threat to the church today.
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Perhaps it is
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That while ready, access to information can be helpful.
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Too much information increases
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Confusion, making the truth harder to discover.
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People today are much more mobile than earlier generations.
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They also have more options.
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This means more distractions.
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The church, which for centuries enjoyed a central place
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In community life, has been pushed
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To the periphery of human experience.
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Not only that, the church today is but one option among many.
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One thing
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I can add to this is from isaiah chapter 24.
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If i were to take tracing paper
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And take matthew 24 and lay it over isaiah 24,
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I think it's very easy to see this pattern.
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For in isaiah 24 we also see, that it talks
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About the world will lie in languish in the end times
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Because people have become haughty or proud and arrogant.
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And there's no place for god.
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And we see this in society, in a post-christian europe
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And post-christian western society.
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But then it goes on to say,
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And therefore, because of all of this,
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The world throws off the torah, the laws of god,
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The ten commandments.
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And in addition, the world comes under a curse
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If the church is truly losing its influence.
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What can be done to turn things around?
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Thankfully, there's a
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Remnant people in the nations
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That have the love of god that comes through
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The holy spirit, that comes from the new birth,
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And their lives are changed.
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And it's a miraculous love because you're going
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Against the grain of society
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Where there's so much hate, so much animosity,
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So many broken lives and marriages and families.
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I think this is where the testimony of the kingdom
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Is going to be so powerful, because it will stand out.
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It'll be a point of light in the midst of gross
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Darkness.
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Don't go away.
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When we return, doctor john tweedie continues his teaching.
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And. it's a
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Beautiful, if wet morning by the sea of galilee.
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It was along these shores that jesus walked
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And called his first disciples to follow him.
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Two sets of brothers, simon called peter and andrew
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His brother, and james and john the sons of zebedee.
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But listen to mark's account in chapter one,
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Beginning in verse 16.
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And as he jesus walked by the sea of galilee,
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He saw simon and andrew, his brother,
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Casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
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Then jesus said to them, follow me,
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And i will make you become fishers of men.
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They immediately left their nets and followed him.
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When he had gone a little farther from their,
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He saw james, the son of zebedee, and john his brother,
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Who were also in the boat, mending their nets.
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And immediately he called them, and they left their father
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Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants,
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And went after him.
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Considering what that meant for james and john,
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But more for their father zebedee, who had hired servants,
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And presumably he thought his sons
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Would take over the business so he could retire
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And enjoy life by the sea of galilee.
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But it was not to be because of that
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Itinerant preacher from nazareth.
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Jesus, who walked along the shore, gave the invitation.
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And as mark has it,
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They immediately left their fishing nets, their boats,
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And followed him in a grand adventure
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That would take them even to jerusalem itself.
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And some of them far beyond the shores of israel.
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What do we do with jesus?
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In every generation, across cultures.
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This same invitation has been given.
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Come follow me, and i will make you fishers of men.
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And then each individual then has a choice to make.
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Either we believe he is the son of god,
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The savior of the entire world, or we reject him.
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Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.
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And because lawlessness will abound,
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The love of many will grow cold.
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And that could mean the natural love of many will grow cold.
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But it also could mean love for jesus.
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Those who had begun by following him would later leave him
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Because lawlessness is abounding.
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The apostle paul is mindful of this theme as well
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When he writes to the church in thessalonica,
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In second thessalonians, in chapter two.
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Listen to paul's words also about lawlessness.
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Now, brethren,
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Concerning the coming of our lord jesus christ,
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And are gathering together to him, we ask you
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Not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit
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Or by word, or by letter, as if from us, as though the day
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Of christ had come,
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Meaning the day of christ's second coming.
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Let no one deceive you by any means, for that day
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Will not come unless the falling away comes first,
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And the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
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Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called god,
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Or that is worshiped, so that he sits as god
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In the temple of god, showing himself that he is god.
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Two very important things here that paul is saying.
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One is that there will be a time of lawlessness,
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Great lawlessness, and it will cause many who began with jesus,
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Who responded to his invitation to fall away from the faith.
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The church uses the term apostasy to describe
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Those who began with christ, but who did not continue with him.
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But this is also linked in paul's letter to thessalonica
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By saying that the time of lawlessness
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Will be when the man of sin is revealed,
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The son of perdition, or, if you like, the son of hell.
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And paul will go on here and explain
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This more in this letter.
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And then he says in verse five of second thessalonians
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Chapter two, do you not remember that
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When i was still with you, i told you these things?
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And now you know what is restraining?
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The he may be revealed in his own time.
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So in other words,
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Something is holding back the appearance
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Of the man of lawlessness.
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We in the church speak of this individual as the anti christ.
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He is against god.
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He opposes everything that is of god, but he exalts himself.
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He is is prideful, an arrogant.
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So something is holding him back.
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And this is a great debate about what that something is.
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It could be the ministry of the holy spirit
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Working through christians in the world.
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It could be the church itself,
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The individuals that make up the church of jesus christ.
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But something holds him back
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Until the time of his revealing occurs.
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And then we read verse seven for the mystery
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Of lawlessness and notice the emphasis on lawlessness.
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Again, the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.
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Only he who now
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Restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way,
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Whether that's the holy spirit or the believing church.
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It's open to interpretation.
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And then it says, whom the lord will consume
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With the breath of his mouth,
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And destroy with the brightness of his coming.
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And now we have another allusion to armageddon.
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And then in verse nine, the coming of the lawless one.
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So here is another title for the antichrist.
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He is the lawless one is, according to the working
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Of satan, with all power signs and lying wonders.
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And so lying is another characteristic
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Of this lawless age, and of this antichrist
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Individual, and with all unrighteousness.
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Deception among those who perish. why?
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And paul answers the question
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Because they did not receive the love of the truth.
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That is the gospel.
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The good news of the message of the life,
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Death, resurrection, and ascension of jesus christ.
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That is the gospel.
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The good news, and that they might be saved.
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So here again, the choice is emphasized.
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The truth of christ is preached, and each individual
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Throughout history has to make a decision.
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Do i believe this?
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Do i accept it to make
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Do i become a follower of jesus, or do i reject it out of hand?
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And if so, then
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Not saved by his salvation.
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And then this in verse 11 of second thessalonians two.
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And for this reason
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God will send them strong delusion,
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That they should believe the lie,
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That they all may be condemned, who did not believe the truth,
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But had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Paul is saying, there is going to be an age
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Of incredible lawlessness and wickedness
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Unrighteousness.
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People will be unrighteous.
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They will not do the right thing.
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They will do the wrong thing.
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There will be widespread deception, false prophets.
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This antichrist figure.
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But notice the emphasis here is that god
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Is going to allow this, in fact, not just allow it.
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He's going to send it.
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God is going to send strong delusion and deception
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Into the world's population,
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And many will be deceived. why?
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Because they refuse to believe the message of jesus christ,
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The truth that was proclaimed to them.
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But we have one more thing to add from
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The pen the lips of the apostle paul.
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It's found in first timothy in chapter four,
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And it is a warning that comes from the holy spirit
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To all who will listen, who will pay attention
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To what is being said.
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Paul says this now the spirit, meaning the holy spirit,
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Expressly says, this is a prophetic word.
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This is
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Speaking into the future,
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But is coming through the lips of the apostle paul.
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The spirits expressly says that in the latter times,
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Meaning the generation,
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If you like, just before christ returns,
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Some will depart from the faith that is apostasy,
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Leaving the faith, the christian faith.
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Why? giving heed to deceiving spirits
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And doctrines of demons.
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Speaking lies in hypocrisy.
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Giving heed to seducing
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Spirits and doctrines of demons.
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And in the christian church today, in the 21st century,
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Many things are being adopted that were rejected
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By previous generations of christians all the way down
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Through history.
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But the church today is compromising its message.
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Compromising the gospel of jesus christ and embracing
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Things that are not taught in the word of god.
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Things that are not god's truth.
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In fact, the antithesis of god's truth.
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Seducing spirits.
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They sound good.
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The doctrines they bring sound attractive.
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They sound reasonable to any reasonable person.
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But they are the doctrines of demons that infiltrate the age,
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But worse, infiltrate the church of jesus christ
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In an age of lawlessness.
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Stay tuned for more from doctor
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Said would point to his second coming.
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The apostle paul, the servant of jesus, added some of his own.
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He talked about apostasy, a falling away from the faith.
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Those who began with christ but who did not continue with him
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And really compromise
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Has entered the church in the 21st century.
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Paul also talked about deception.
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That god was going to send grand delusion over the earth.
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So many would be deceived. why?
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Because they would not receive
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The truth that was preached to them.
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The apostle john had something to say about this as well.
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Listen to his words
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In his first letter in chapter two, beginning in verse 18.
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Little children, he's speaking to those in the faith.
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It is the last hour,
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Meaning the time before the coming of the lord.
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He's prophesying far into the future,
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Even beyond this moment.
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And as you have heard that the antichrist is coming,
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This single individual.
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But he says more than that.
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Even now many antichrists have come
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By which we know that it is the last hour.
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And in the world today there are many antichrist spirits.
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Christians are suffering all over the world
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Because of their faith in jesus christ.
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They are being persecuted by those of other religions.
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Verse 19 then he says, they
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Went out from us, but they were not of us.
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For if they had been of us,
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They would have continued with us.
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But they went out that
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They might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.
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Jesus said his disciples would have to endure to the end.
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So when we give up
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And we give up on the church, then we're really not
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Truly called of him because we've given up on him.
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And then he says to the christians in verse 20,
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But do you have an anointing from the holy one?
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And you know all things i have not written to you,
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Because you do not know the truth,
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But because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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Who is a liar?
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But he who denies that jesus is the christ,
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He is antichrist who denies the father and the son.
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Whoever denies the son does not have the father either.
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He who acknowledges the son has the father also. so
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We bring these messages through television so that god's
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Truth can be proclaimed to the ends of the earth.
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Our desire is that people would know the son,
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And by knowing the son also know the father.
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To bring them to you through television.
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We need you to partner with us, and in so doing, partner
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With the kingdom of god and the prophecies
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That have stood the test of time.
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Behind me, holy jerusalem.
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Shining in the morning sunlight.
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And the jewish people are back here.
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And that's the fulfillment
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Of prophecies that were given more than 2000 years ago,
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But were fulfilled 2000 years later.
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To the ends of the earth.
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Before christ comes.
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John Tweedie - Apostasy and Delusion

June 29, 2026 | 27:29

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