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Jul 1, 2025
Tertius Fourie (Remnant Watchman) continue with the study on Revelation. This time we are looking at Revelation 2:1-7. if you haven't already subscribed please click on the link below and also check out the Kingdom Productions Network store. https://youtube.com/@remnantreport8418 https://kingdomproductionsnetwork.myspreadshop.com/
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okay good day brothers and
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sisters um we are going um We are
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continuing with our study on
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Revelation and um it was supposed to
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be initially it was supposed to be a
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study on Revelation chapter one only but
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I've
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decided to um do more studies on the
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Book of Revelation
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now today I want to look at Revelation
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Chapter 2 from vers
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1-7 so Revelation 2: 1-7 is the letter
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to the church in Ephesus okay
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now to the angel of the church in
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Ephesus
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write these are the words of him who
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holds the Seven Stars in his right hand
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and walks among the seven golden l so
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obviously this is um the words of Jesus
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Christ because we know from um
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Revelation chapter one we know that
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Jesus Christ is the one who holds seven
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stars in his right hand and he's walking
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among the um seven golden
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lampstands I know your Deeds your hard
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work and your
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perseverance so he commends them for
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being hard
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workers uh doing good deeds and also
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persevering under trials and suffering
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and
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tribulation I know that you cannot
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tolerate Wicked people that you have
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tested those who claim to be Apostles
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but are not and have found them false so
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these guys um have a certain level of
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discernment but their discernment only
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goes up to a certain level um I'll show
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you now we'll see just now what I mean
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by that so they don't tolerate Wicked
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people but up to a point let's see you
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have persevered and have endured
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hardships for my name and have not gr
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weary now listen carefully yet I hold
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this against you you have forsaken the
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love you had at
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first consider how far you have fallen
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repent and do the things you did at
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first if you do not repent I will come
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to you and remove your lampstand from
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its place but you have this in your
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favor you hate the practices of the need
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Li which I also hate
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Whoever has ears let them hear what the
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spirit says to the churches to the one
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who is Victorious I will give the right
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to eat from the Tree of Life which is in
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the paradise of God the reason why I'm
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saying that they only have discernment
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up to a certain point is
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because
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they have forsaken their first Love Now
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their first love is Jesus Christ that
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that should be the first love of any
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Christian any sincere
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believer um your true love your first
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love should be Jesus Christ okay so if
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you if your first love is not Jesus
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Christ then obviously you you
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are um seeking something else in his
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place you are putting something else in
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his place or you
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are under the illusion that you
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should have Jesus plus something else or
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someone else all right now if we go and
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look at the history of the um Church in
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Ephesus and when you go and you read the
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book of
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Acts and you look at Acts chapter
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19 you'll see that Paul had quite a hard
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time in Ephesus when he went there
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course uh
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Paul first of all he had to explain to
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them that they needed the Holy Spirit
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okay
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then he needed to explain to them
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that having
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Idols is not going to help you
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worshiping Idols is a pagan practice um
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it will cause you to end up in Hell okay
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the moment he started preaching
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Jesus a whole group of pagans basically
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a pagan cult in the city of
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Ephesus um went up against him and they
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cried out blessed is um
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aramus the um the god of
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Ephesus now what's interesting is emus
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is also named Diana okay and this is a
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goddess associated with the moon okay
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it's basically the same Goddess that um
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is spoken of when when people mention is
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and and so she's basically seen as a
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goddess of light of wisdom and so on
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she's a lightbearer now that should
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immediately make the sirens go off in
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your head
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because what is lightbearer and what
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is someone who
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pretends to have light what is that that
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is Spirit of an Christ yes but it's also
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more specifically related to the
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adversary to Satan himself because the
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name
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Lucifer um is means lightbringer okay it
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can also be associated with a light
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bearer but the thing is the Apostle Paul
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warns us and he says
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that uh
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lightbearer uh Satan disguises himself
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as an angel of Light so he's a
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lightbearer and his light looks
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good but it
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is the ultimate deception okay it's the
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ultimate
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deception now that's the
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problem in Ephesus you'll see that the
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moment that Paul start preaching the
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gospel you'll see that there's a violent
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reaction now you you see this time and
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time again with missionaries and so on
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who do missionary
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work you can go anywhere overseas in a
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in a African country you can go to
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somewhere in Canada or United Kingdom
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Australia
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anywhere you can talk about Buddha
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nothing will happen you can talk about
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Allah and Muhammad nothing will happen
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you can talk about Krishna nothing will
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happens but the moment you mention the
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name above all names the name of Jesus
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Christ Our Lord immediately there's
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there's a reaction why because those of
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you who are acquainted with the research
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done by the late Dr Michael eer will
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know
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that um when you look at Deuteronomy 32:
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8
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and9 and you look at it in the way that
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it is phrased in the Dead Sea Scrolls
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and also in the seent you'll see that it
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says that God
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divided the Nations according to the
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sons of God or the Heavenly beings okay
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the mastic text says according to the
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sons of Israel or the
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Israelites but research by Dr Mich has
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shown that the correct reading is the
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one that comes from the dead SE SC aent
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because that's the one that's the
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earliest
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known wording of Deuteronomy 32: 8 and9
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so if you are acquainted with that
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research then you will know
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that uh
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different pces different regions on the
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earth and different countries have been
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allocated to certain principalities and
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entities okay we also read about one of
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those principalities in the Book of
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Daniel where um
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we they we see that the prince of um
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Persia okay there's also another one
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mentioned the prince of Greece now
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obviously these are Fallen entities okay
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who
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are they are basically in control over a
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certain region now the same with Ephesus
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there was a principality in control here
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and in any place that you go on this
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Earth the moment you speak you mention
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the name of Jesus Christ these princip
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ities react and there's a whole
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spiritual atmosphere there that gets
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disturbed because they know who Jesus
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Christ is and they are fearful of
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him and they will do anything in the
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power they will sweep everyone up to
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attack the missionary to falsely accuse
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the missionary to um shout insults at
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the at the missionary in order to get
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the missionary to go away now they tried
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the same thing with Paul Paul didn't go
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away instead of going away he remained
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there for months and in the end I think
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he was like two or three years in
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Ephesus
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okay now this
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um Fallen
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Angel who appears as a woman in this
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case Diana or emus also known
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as this
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entity had AER
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form of control over the region of
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Ephesus okay and the moment Paul
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mentioned the name of Jesus there was a
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violent reaction now if we understand
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that old background getting back to
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Revelation 2 Revelation 2 1-7 we see
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that John is
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um receiving these words from Jesus for
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the letter that he needs to write and
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one of the things that Jesus warned
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Ephesus about is that um he says in
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verse four yet I hold this against you
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you have forsaken the love you had at
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first consider how you how far you have
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fallen in other words he's basically
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saying to the church in Ephesus
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that you have forsaken the love that you
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have first the love for Jesus okay and
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you are under the impression that you
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need Jesus plus someone or something
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else now I will propose to you that the
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church in Ephesus was in a constant
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struggle
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between going back to the Pagan
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practices of the Pagan Cults in
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Ephesus
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um and obviously they were persecuted I
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mean he says it clear clearly you have
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endured hardships for my name and have
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not grown wey so they haven't grown
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weary so they don't give up now the
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devil tries
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another technique and this technique is
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more subtle his direct attacks than but
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now he tries a Techni that's more subtle
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and that is by
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infiltrating the
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fellowship in Ephesus with strange
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teachings and so
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on in this regard it is mentioned
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however that in verse six but you have
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this in your favor you like the
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practices of the nikans which I also now
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the nikans were an obscure cult
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um not much is known about them but it
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seems from research that people have
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done that the nikans were basically
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gnostics okay they um they called
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themselves followers of Jesus but they
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they held on to thetic teachings all
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right so they saw
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knowledge as more
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important um than love for God and love
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for your fellow man okay that's the
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problem of gnosticism over all so this
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church in Ephesus
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had they had um discernment up to a
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certain
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degree they had enough to discernment to
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see through the the Gnostic um agenda of
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the
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nians but they couldn't see through
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certain other false
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teachings okay the this
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principality that was over Ephesus
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constant sweat people up against them
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and when the direct attack didn't
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succeed it tried a more subtle attack
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and that is by infiltrating the church
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or the fellowship with strange
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teachings
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and many times these strange teachings
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are the
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lies that tells you the LIE being told
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to you that Jesus is not enough you need
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Jesus plus something or someone else
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and this it would seem was the main
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problem in the Church of Ephesus
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okay now later on in verse seven the
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final verse in the letter to the church
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in Ephesus it says Whoever has ears let
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them hear what the spirit says to the
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churches now this reminds us of what
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Jesus Christ said during his Earthly
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Ministry and when he said this he quoted
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the prophet Isaiah a lot Jesus Jesus
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Christ said that let those who have ears
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to see let those who have ears to hear
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Let Them hear those who have asked to
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see let them see he was quoting the
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prophet Isaiah because that's something
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the prophet Isaiah said a lot he says if
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you those of you who have eyes to see
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see those who have ears to hear you must
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hear the thing is
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that Jesus Christ knew
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that people who were
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religious okay like the Pharisees and
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the
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sagues he knew that they were physically
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not blind but spiritually they were
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blind so are you
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spiritually are your spiritual eyes open
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or are they are you blind you see it
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comes back again to the discernment and
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the only way in which you can have true
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discernment is when you have a
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relationship with Jesus Christ as your
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lord and savior and um when the holy
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spirit gives you that gift of
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discernment that's the only way okay
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there's no there's no one else who can
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give you the gift of serment it's only
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the Holy
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Spirit Whoever has ears let them hear
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what the spirit says to the churches in
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other words
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the the church in Ephesus heard some of
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the things that the holy spirit said to
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them but not all
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their ears were de to certain things and
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that's why they have forsaken their
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first
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love
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okay to the one who is Victorious I will
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give the right to eat from the Tree of
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Life which is in the paradise of God now
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what's interesting here is in the
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paradise of God we know that you have
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the tree of um the knowledge of good and
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evil as well as the tree of
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life
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and the the tree of the knowledge of
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Good and Evil is one
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thing it's um the tree that Satan temped
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Adam and Eve with he said if you eat of
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the fruit of this tree you will surely
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not die you will become like God in
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knowing good and evil we know that the
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whole lie that he told
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Eve but now the Lord says if you are
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victorious in other words if you keep
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your faith until the end if you Ure
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until till the
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end I will give you the right to eat
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from the Tree of Life that's that's huge
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that's amazing the tree of life is the
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very tree itself in
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Paradise which Harbors life okay this is
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this is the very tree which forms the
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center of
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paradise we human
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beings didn't have the right we don't
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have the right to eat from the Tree of
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us but the Lord
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says if you endure to the very end you
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will be Victorious and I will give you
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the right to eat from the Tree of Life
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in other words you will have life
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eternal and you know at this moment
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where we are on planet Earth and where
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we are in this
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world we with our human understanding
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cannot
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comprehend the aspect of eternal life we
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can't comprehend it it's simply too
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amazing for us to understand and that is
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why the Bible also says that no eye what
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what no eye has seen what no ear has
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heard um so
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amazing will the things be that God has
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prepared for us we know that Jesus said
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I go to prepare a place for
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you here we have another promise I will
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give you to eat from the the fruit of
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the the tree of
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life which is in the paradise Eyes Of
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God but once again one of the key words
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here is repentance if we go back to
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verse five consider how far you have
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fallen repent and do the things you did
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at first in other words go back to your
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sound teaching that you had at the
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beginning don't listen to false Doctrine
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and repent of the false doctrin that you
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did so don't go back and pretend as if
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nothing has happened
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repent of the false teachings that you
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followed and then go back to the sound
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teaching that you had in the beginning
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and continue with that and obviously
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repentance is
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um has sadly become a swear word in in
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many churches today they don't want to
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talk about repentance but we know the
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Bible says that repentance is absolutely
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crucial so that's it for Revelation 2:
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1-7 and um let me just um end this with
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a
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prayer Our dear heavenly father Lord we
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come before you in the wonderful name
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above names the names of the name of
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Jesus Christ through the powerful
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working of the Holy Spirit Lord we thank
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you uh for
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everything Lord we thank you for your
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word which is the truth Lord please
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sanctify us in your truth your word is
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the truth Lord Lord please help us that
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we will endure and that we will listen
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to the voice of the Holy Spirit Lord
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please make our ears deaf to any false
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doctrines Lord please help us to have
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the armor of God on the belt of Truth
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the breastplate of
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righteousness the shoes of peace the
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helmet of
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salvation The Shield of faith and the
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sword of the spirit which is your Living
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Word Lord we thank you for for your word
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the light which drives away the darkness
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we praise and we glorify Your Name Lord
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please God our hearts God our thoughts
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God our minds our speech pleas please
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cleanse our bodies minds and souls Lord
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and help us to Focus On Christ Jesus our
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wonderful
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counselor our Lord and our
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savior I pray this in the name of the
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Father the Son and the Holy Spirit amen
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okay