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1 Year Lectionary – Last Sunday of the Church Year – Sunday November 26, 2023 | Pr. Chris Rosebrough

Welcome to the Teaching Ministry of Kongsvinger Lutheran Church. Kongsvinger is a beacon for the Gospel of Jesus Christ and is located on the plains of Northwestern Minnesota. We proclaim Christ and Him crucified for our sins and salvation by grace through faith alone, and now, here’s a message from Pastor Chris Rosebrough:

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0:22	The holy Gospel
0:29	According to St Matthew the 25th [Music]
0:38	chapter Jesus said when the son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him then he will sit on his
0:44	glorious Throne before him will be gathered all the nations and he will separate people one from another as a
0:49	Shepherd separates the sheep from the goats and he will place the sheep on his right the goats on the left and then the
0:56	king will say to those on his right come you who are blessed by my father inherit the the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world for I was
1:03	hungry and you gave me food I was thirsty you gave me drink I was a stranger and you welcomed me I was naked
1:09	and you clothed me I was sick and you visited me I was in prison and you came to me and then the righteous will answer
1:16	him saying Lord when did we see you hungry and feed you or thirsty and give you drink and when did we see you a
1:22	stranger and welcome you or naked and clothe you and when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you and then the
1:28	king will answer them truly I say to you as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers you did it to me and
1:35	then he will say to those on his left depart from me you cursed into the Eternal fire prepared for the devil and
1:40	his angels for I was hungry and you gave me no food I was thirsty and you gave me no drink I was a stranger and you did
1:47	not welcome me naked and you did not clothe me sick and in prison and you did not visit me and then they also will
1:54	answer saying Lord when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not
2:00	minister to you and then he will answer them saying truly I say to you as you did not do it to one of the least of
2:06	these you did not do it to me and these will go away into Eternal punishment but
2:11	the righteous into eternal life this is the gospel of the Lord in the name of
2:16	Jesus amen amen the end of the world it’s an anxiety causing thought if you
2:22	were to put it in those terms you’ll note that this kind of sits in our psyche Even in our pop culture we have
2:30	really bad movies and I mean bad movies that kind of cover the end of the world they’re all terrible if you think about
2:36	it and and if you think about it in in a kind of a broader scope I mean some of the movies that we have that kind of
2:42	address the end of the world are like ones that involve alien invasions right
2:47	always and again you know when humanity is on the precipice income the aliens and they’re they nearly destroy the
2:54	planet and we always come up with a way of right at the end of licking those aliens and turning the tide back but
3:01	you’ll note that when Christ returns in glory to judge the living and the dead despite all the Gnostic fantasies to the
3:07	contrary they will not conquer Christ they will not turn back the day of
3:12	judgment and as a result of it the world is about to change and change
3:18	dramatically then change in a way for us that we look forward to and in a way for
3:24	the world that they loath despise and actually fear and the reason why they Fe
3:29	is the same reason why you and I have that tendency to fear the end of the world and that is is that because at the
3:35	end of the day when we look at God’s law and we compare Our Lives to the mirror of God’s law the image that comes
3:43	back all right it’s worse than the one I see in the mirror in the morning right look in the mirror of God’s law and you
3:49	see somebody well who’s a rank Sinner and as a result of it we all know deep
3:56	down inside it’s like it’s like on the ROM chip you know let me use a technology thing it’s down in the down
4:03	in the innards of our psyche that we all know that we deserve God’s Eternal wrath
4:09	but you’ll note over the past few weeks as we’ve studied the end of the world I
4:14	have not been preaching don’t be left behind I have not been preaching that you got to make sure that you’re ready
4:21	right you know and I I was thinking about how The Simpsons covered the Rapture have you ever seen the way the
4:26	Simpsons covered the Rapture it’s quite ridiculous what’s really funny is that everybody in the pop culture talks about
4:33	how The Simpsons have predicted so many things that they look now at how The Simpsons cover the Rapture as if somehow
4:40	it has prophetic significance and I’m thinking oh good grief even The Simpsons
4:46	got this one wrong but what’s really funny is is that in the Simpsons version of it the people who got raptured were
4:53	the pious the goody T shoes and the and the people like that but I’m just sitting there going they don’t really
5:00	understand that there’s nobody like that on planet Earth we are all sinners and
5:05	as a result of it we have earned God’s Wrath and so the ones who are raptured
5:11	although they may be Pious piety is not the issue they have faith in Jesus
5:17	Christ they have confessed their sins they have heard the merciful loving
5:22	response from Christ that their sins have been pardoned and forgiven and you’ll note then that as we look at our
5:29	text today from Matthew 25 I think we should Rejoice I think we should look at
5:35	the positive aspects of it and thank God that he has brought us from death to life in fact Ezekiel sets it up
5:42	wonderfully because in the in the prophet Ezekiel in our reading today listen to the kind words that begin this
5:49	reading for thus says the Lord Yahweh behold I will I myself will search for
5:54	my sheep I will seek them out as a Shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered
6:01	that’s you and I and here you have this beautiful picture of Christ on the last
6:06	day seeking us out so that he can gather us together as a Shepherd seeks out his
6:12	flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered so I will seek out my sheep and I will rescue them from all
6:19	places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness and I’m thankful for this because I’ve been
6:25	scattered to Minnesota you know to North Dakota Minnesota I’ve been scattered to American Siberia hopefully he won’t
6:32	overlook this place you know but and what’s with the snow this morning where did that come from right I didn’t see
6:38	that in the forecast at all but you’ll note that he says I will bring them out from the peoples these are from the
6:43	Nations I will gather them from the countries I will bring them into their own land I will feed them on the
6:49	mountains of Israel by The Ravines and in all the inhabitant places I will feed
6:54	them with good pasture and on Mountain Heights of Israel shall be their their grazing land there they shall lie down
7:02	in good grazing land on Rich pasture they shall feed on the mountains of Israel I myself will be the shepherd of
7:08	my sheep I myself will make them lie down declares the Lord Yahweh I will seek the lost I will bring back the
7:15	strayed I will bind up the injured I will strengthen the weak beautiful pictures by the way because you’ll know
7:22	this is where we all sit we are the weak the Stray those who are injured and we
7:30	need Christ to strengthen us as to the fat and the strong those are the people who just want to exploit others uh
7:36	spiritually financially in other ways and basically have their best life now
7:42	he says I will destroy them I will feed them Injustice but that is not our fate brothers and sisters so we need not
7:48	despair instead consider then Christ’s final Parable in the all ofate discourse
7:54	when he says when the son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him then he will sit sit on his glorious
8:00	Throne if you want to get an idea of what that looks like go back to the beginning of our Ezekiel study it is
8:06	quite the Glorious Throne before him will be gathered all the nations he will
8:11	separate people one from another as a Shepherd separates the sheep from the goats and I have to point this out over
8:18	and again because there are many who use this text for the purpose of saying we
8:25	are not saved by grace we are not saved by our faith we are saved by our works
8:31	remember what I brought up last week in the sermon when I pointed out that in Ephesians chapter 2: 8 9 and 10 we read
8:41	those wonderful words that we are saved by grace through faith this is not our own doing it is the gift of God it is
8:48	not by work so that no one may boast for we are God’s workmanship created in
8:53	Christ Jesus for good works so the reason why sheep do good works is cu
9:00	they are sheep and remember without faith it is impossible to please God so
9:07	you cannot turn this text into a Salvation by works text so you have to pay a care careful attention to the
9:13	nuance and understand what’s going on here so when Christ shows up he separates you by what you
9:21	is is you a sheep you over here on his right is you a goat you’re over here on
9:28	his left how do we how are we to understand the difference between the two the Sheep are those who
9:34	believe as sinful as they are they cry out to Christ to forgive them he is bled
9:39	and died for them because Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and they trust in his promises
9:46	and they are awaiting his coming the goats on the other hand they’ve been busy dealing with all the things of the
9:52	earth only the things of the earth they they have no Heavenly mind or at all or Worse they’re believing beling in false
10:00	gods and things of that nature and have never trusted in Christ in fact they even hate him and so they are on the
10:06	other side once this takes place the Judgment has already
10:12	happened it’s already taken place before there is any discussion of works first
10:19	you are judged by what you are and your fate is determined at this point only
10:25	now that your fate has been determined can we discuss works and you’ll note for
10:30	the Sheep it’s a very interesting thing they’re kind of unaware of how they’ve done all these great things cuz sheep
10:36	are not the brightest bulbs in the in the animal kingdom but you’ll note this so he will place the sheep on his right
10:42	the goats on his left then the king will say to those on his right these are the Sheep come you who are blessed by my
10:48	father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world
10:54	you’ll note that they are already blessed whom are they blessed by they are blessed by the father who sent the
10:59	son who bled and died for your sins and mine and Christ who sent the apostles to preach the good news of the Forgiveness
11:05	of our sins in Jesus Christ and who died martyr’s death for their confession that
11:10	they saw the Risen Jesus who was crucified for the sins of the world and so note they are they are blessed
11:17	already by God and inherit the Kingdom prepared for you he doesn’t say now here
11:23	are your wages here’s what you get for what you did all the good things you do
11:29	instead here eternal life is described and you’ll note in many other passages is described in this way as well as an
11:35	inheritance in order to receive an inheritance you have to do nothing except for be breathing when the person
11:42	who wrote the Will dies it’s just that simple inheritances are gifts they are
11:48	not wages given for a you know for a fee and so who is the one who has died so
11:54	that we can receive this amazing inheritance it is Christ himself he is the one who laid down his life and in
12:01	his last will in Testament he gifted you and willed for you the inheritance of
12:08	eternal life in a new Earth in a world without him and with him as king all of
12:14	this is gift and then he mentions the good works and here’s the thing these are not works in general done as Works
12:22	of Mercy instead these are very specific uh good works done part particularly to
12:29	a group of people and you’ll see this in the context he says for I was hungry and
12:35	you gave me food note the language I was
12:41	thirsty and you gave me drink I was a stranger and you welcomed me I was naked
12:50	and you clothed me I was sick and you visited me I was in prison and you came
12:55	to me now this kind of inv provokes some interesting texts one of them is in the
13:01	earlier part of the Gospel of Matthew where Jesus has his mother and brothers
13:07	come to want to talk to him they think Jesus has lost his mind he’s kind of off his marbles a little bit and they want
13:13	to collect him up and so somebody says hey your mom and your your brothers are outside they want to talk to you and
13:20	Jesus just completely changes the subject he say who who are my mother who are my brothers right and he says those
13:27	who do the will of my father father they are my mother they are my
13:32	brothers keep that in mind so the one who does the will of his father what is the will of the father well we got clear
13:38	passages that make it clear that the will of the father is that you believe in the son that you trust in him and so
13:43	Jesus has a very specific thing when he talks about brothers but there’s another text that we have to think about here
13:49	remember the Apostle Paul before he was the Apostle Paul he was Saul of Tarsus and Saul of Tarsus was a u well he
13:57	wasn’t really known for being a kind person to Christians in fact quite the opposite he murdered them he persecuted
14:04	them he had them flogged in synagogues every time I think about that I’m thinking we haven’t had a good flogging
14:10	here at kongsvinger in a while but uh you know alas we’ll just have to let
14:15	that pass but uh but you get the idea this is a guy who was on a tear he
14:21	legitimately hated Christ and anyone who confessed him and so he was on his way to Damascus and we learn from several
14:29	accounts in the book of Acts where Paul Recs us with the story of his conversion that Christ himself showed up and we’
14:36	like to say he was knocked off his horse but you’ll note that in no passage in Acts does it actually say that Paul was
14:43	riding a horse so we don’t know if he was knocked off his horse he might have been just knocked to the ground either
14:48	way Christ shows up in his glory and says to him
14:54	Saul Saul by way that’s when Jesus uses your name twice that’s kind of similar to
15:01	like when your mother uses your middle name when you’re in trouble right I always knew my mother if my mother would
15:08	say my full name Christopher Michael
15:13	Roseboro o I knew I was in deep trouble right so when Christ says to you your
15:20	name twice Saul Saul next words out of the mouth of Christ why are you
15:26	persecuting me and Paul resp responds Saul responds who are you Lord I am
15:33	Jesus whom you are persecuting so you’ll note there’s there’s this thing that happens when Jesus’s disciples are
15:40	mistreated when they are persecuted when they are made to suffer when they are they are murdered and killed and other
15:47	things like this jesus takes it personally you mess with my disciples
15:55	you messing with me that’s the way Jesus talks but you going going to note that that runs both positive and negative
16:02	where you mess with Christ’s disciple you’re going to be messing with Jesus whereas if you treat kindly Christ’s
16:09	disciples those who believe in him who bring the good news of the Gospel to us that Christ returns that kindness
16:17	because he takes that personally because the one who hears the apostles hears him
16:23	so this Litany of all these things that the Sheep did that that he was hungry
16:28	and they and they fed him he was thirsty they gave him a drink he was a stranger and and they welcomed him he was naked
16:33	and they clothed him he was sick and he and he visited him then the righteous don’t let that little sentence get by
16:40	you then the righteous how are they righteous by grace through faith because they’re clothed with the righteousness
16:46	of God that depends on faith and is for those who believe then the righteous will answer him saying Lord when did we
16:54	see you hungry and feed you or thirsty or give you a drink and when did we see you a stranger and welcome you or naked
17:00	and clothe you and when do we see you sick or in prison and visit you again sheep are not that bright okay just but
17:08	you’re going to note just put the things together so the king will answer in them saying truly I say to you and listen to
17:14	the words as you did it to one of the least of these my
17:20	brothers you did it to me so how is it how’s that going for us
17:27	by the way you’re going to note here that uh when I came to kungs of ingr Lutheran Church I I did not come by the
17:34	way for the big benefits package just did not that was not a thing but you’re going to note here you
17:41	guys have done a fantastic job because I have come to bring to you the Gospel of
17:46	Jesus Christ I am your brother in Jesus Christ and Christ sent me to you for the purpose of preaching the gospel
17:53	forgiving your sins administering the sacraments caring for your spiritual needs and uh and being an UND Shepherd
18:00	of Jesus Christ Our Good Shepherd and you know what you have done you have fed me and my wife and my kids you’ve
18:07	clothed me the very clothes that I have on right now the these have all been supplied by your kind way of paying me
18:14	for the work that I do and when I was a stranger you all welcomed me here some of you didn’t by the way but that’s a
18:21	whole other story that yont Loven thing is a big deal but you welcomed me and uh
18:26	you’ve clothed me and when I have been sick you have been there praying for me and and been helping me all along so no
18:34	and here’s the thing we’ve all done this for each other too have we not who Among
18:39	Us has gotten sick and we have not gone to visit them in the hospital who Among Us has fallen into need and we have not
18:46	risen to the occasion to meet those needs we have but why are we doing these
18:51	things cuz this is just what we do okay you’ll note that we don’t sit there and go boy cogs finger look at all the good
18:58	works we’re doing we can’t wait to get to heaven and Christ will say Well done wow look at the here’s your wages you no
19:05	we just do this CU this is what we do we’re being sheep right and we with this
19:12	with each other and so I must point this out to you not for you to boast but for
19:18	you to be comforted you were created in Christ Jesus for good works and your
19:23	good works are noticeable among each of us and in even in the community so as
19:29	you did it to the least of these my brothers you’ve done it to me but what about the
19:35	unbelievers do they have the time of day to listen to The Gospel do they really
19:40	care about that crucified guy in fact um I showed this to one of the Bible
19:46	studies yesterday um it was a men’s study if you if you’re familiar with the
19:51	actor stepen fry uh back about 8 to 10 years ago as the British would say there
19:57	was a row okay it’s it’s actually spelled r o w and one time I said row
20:03	what’s a row and so somebody emailed me from the UK so it’s not a row it’s a row okay all right there was a row a Kur
20:10	fuffle in the media because he was interviewed by somebody and Steven fry is an
20:16	avowed denier of the existence of God at least the god of the Bible and somebody
20:22	asked him what what what would happen if you were to die and you were to stand before the god that you don’t believe in
20:29	and uh what would you say to him and he immediately without even skipping a beat said I would say to him really God you
20:38	give five-year-old children bone cancer what is this world of misery that you’ve
20:44	put us into right and so he then just just railed on God you can look this up
20:49	on YouTube it’s still there it’s horrible and you’ll note that he exemplifies that attitude and so and and
20:57	somebody said well don’t you want to be saved he says not on that God’s terms not on God’s terms I don’t want to be
21:02	saved I’d rather go to hell that’s what he said it’s quite the thing and you’re
21:08	going to note here what he exemplifies is exactly the mindset of everybody who
21:13	is still dead and trespasses and sins if it were not for the grace of God and him fulfilling his promises to you in the
21:20	preached word and the Waters of baptism you and I would be no better and fact
21:25	quite the same as step fry so do does Steven fry invite the local Lutheran
21:31	Pastor over to his house to share the gospel with him not at all do any pagans do that no they’re quite annoyed by the
21:38	things that we Christians have to say so then he will say to those on his left
21:44	depart from me you cursed into the Eternal fire prepared for the devil and
21:49	his angels and here’s the first mention that hell is eternal you’ll note that there are some people who believe that
21:55	well God in order for God to be just he’s only going to punish those who are damned up to the point where they’ve
22:01	they they’ve they basically have paid their debt to God you know and so after that they will cease to exist baloney
22:10	the fires of hell are Eternal because those who are in hell are there for that long eternally right depart from me you
22:19	cursed into the Eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels I was hungry and you gave me no food and this
22:26	isn’t talking about feeding homeless people at the local soup kitchen I was thirsty and you gave me no drink I was a
22:32	stranger you didn’t welcome me naked and you didn’t clothe me sick and in prison and you did not visit me and then they
22:38	will answer saying Lord when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or
22:44	naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you then he will answer them
22:50	saying truly I say to you as you did not do it to one of the least of these and
22:56	the least of these he’s pointing to the Sheep deep as you did not do it to one of the least of these you did not do it
23:01	to me and then one of the most poignant and terrifying and comforting verses in
23:09	all of scripture in one sentence it says and these these the goats will go away
23:16	into Eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life how long is
23:23	the punishment it’s Eternal how long is eternal life it’s Eternal the two are
23:28	bound together and an you can’t unbind them they’re bound together as one is eternal so the other is eternal if you
23:35	say that hell is an eternal then eternal life isn’t Eternal you know if you were to think of it kind of in that term well
23:41	well if God only punishes somebody for as long as they were you know as much as their sin needs to be paid for and after
23:47	that they cease to exist then conversely you must come to the conclusion that anybody who ends up in the new heavens
23:53	and the new Earth along with Christ can only stay there as long as they good works last you know as much as their
24:00	good works have earned and after that poof they see cease to exist and by the way I’m pretty sure that based upon my
24:08	proven track record of sinning every single day of my life week after week
24:13	month after month and OD in add infinitum that um what I’ve earned from God as far as time in heaven is probably
24:21	less than a nanosecond uh it’s it’s it’s if at all any you get the point
24:28	but here’s where we will come back to this and focus on this point the
24:34	righteous that is you and I we have heard that our sins were forgiven today
24:39	we again today will Feast on the body and blood of Christ given and shed for the Forgiveness of our sins Christ has
24:47	taken your sin and my sin he became a sinner so that you and I can be clothed
24:52	in his righteousness as a gift by grace through faith and we have been promised
24:58	eternal life I’ve used this metaphor before and I recently taught on this uh
25:04	in San Diego at a a conference put on by the 1517 folks and I did a um a lecture
25:11	on narnian eschatology seems like a kind of a weird topic but if you know the
25:16	chronicles of narnius cus Lewis they were written as Christian allegory and the final book in the series is called
25:23	the last battle and in the last battle in the last page of the last battle
25:28	there is something just so brilliant and this is where I think we need to take uh
25:34	we need to transition and consider what it is that that is ahead of us in the last battle once everybody gets into the
25:42	new Narnia and that’s going to include Lucy and Peter and Edmund it doesn’t
25:49	include Susan if you know you’re lying the witch in The Wardrobe because she had become too big for her britches too
25:55	focused on things of the earth to know longer no longer believe in in Narnia or in aan but once everybody’s in and
26:03	here’s the funny bit Lucy and Peter and Edmund had no clue that they were even
26:12	dead got to let that sink in for a second that’s some good theology right there by the way that’s some good
26:18	theology because remember in the Gospel of John chap 11 this is the the the passage where Christ raises Lazarus from
26:25	the dead Jesus says he says I am the resurrection and the life anyone who
26:31	believes in me even though he dies yet shall he live and then he takes it and goes even farther anyone who believes in
26:38	me will never die and to then punctuate
26:44	the point he ask the question do you believe this do you believe that you will never
26:50	die well I’ve never known Jesus to be a liar so yep we ain’t we ain’t G to die
26:56	so here’s some good eschatological stuff borrowed from CS Lewis so Alan he sees
27:02	the paven SE kids they’re adults at this point and they’re not quite happy yet
27:09	they’re kind of worried and have a little bit of anxiety that they’re going to be sent back to planet Earth because
27:14	every time they’ve been to Nar they all got sent back and they don’t want to go back they want to be there forever so
27:20	aan says to him you don’t yet look so happy as I mean you to be so Lucy speaks
27:25	up and she said well we’re we’re so afraid of being sent away Alan and you’ve sent us back into our own world
27:32	so often so aan interrupts her and says well there’s no fear of that have you not guessed so their hearts leaped and a
27:40	wild hope Rose within them there was a real Railway accident said a Alan softly
27:49	your father and your mother and all of you are as you used to call it in the
27:56	shadow lands and and what a great way to describe this Earth the shadow
28:01	lands yay though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death this is
28:06	this world you are as he used to say in the shadowlands you are
28:12	dead and then alen’s next words are beautiful the term is over the holidays
28:18	have begun the dream is ended this is the morning in one sentence he just
28:25	encapsulates that great great anticipation that joy that o I can’t
28:31	wait for that to come you guys remember when I was growing up kids didn’t go to school all year round I don’t think they
28:37	do that here but in in in California now they have year- round schools but when I was a kid you would have to do do the
28:44	drudgery of school from early September all the way to the first or second week
28:49	of June and it was terrible I hated it right and so what would happen is is that when you got closer and closer to
28:57	the last day of school you your your your your ability to do homework flew
29:02	away like a bird and you can only think about things that were coming up in the summer warm weather days at the beach
29:10	body surfing playing Kick the Can with your friends playing whiffle ball until
29:15	the street lights go out and just all the joys that come with drink with
29:22	eating ice cream swimming in the public swimming pool and all the things that you do as a kid and this is the only
29:27	thing that’s filling your mind as we get closer and closer to the end of the school term that’s what he Lewis is
29:35	invoking for us consider the joys that are before us the drudgery of this world
29:41	being under the curse of sin and under the toil under the curse because Adam and Eve brought on us a sinful nature by
29:50	transgressing God’s law this world that just seems like a dream which often times turns into a complete and abject
29:57	nightmare this will finally be gone and off in the Horizon we can see the sun
30:04	beginning to come up it is about to end and this is what we have to look forward
30:09	to Lewis then concludes he says as he spoke Alan no longer looked to them like
30:15	a lion but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that it cannot I cannot write
30:22	them and for us this is the end of the all the stories and we can most truly say that they lived happily ever after
30:29	but for them it was only the beginning of the story all their life in this
30:34	world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page and now at last they were beginning
30:42	chapter one of the great story which no one on earth has read which goes on
30:49	forever in which every chapter is better than the one before eternal life the
30:56	prophet Isaiah describes it in these terms behold Yahweh says I created new heavens
31:04	and a new Earth the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind but
31:11	be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create for behold I create Jerusalem to be a joy and her people to
31:18	be a gladness I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people no more shall be heard in it the sound of
31:25	weeping and the Cry of distress no more shall there be an an infant who lives
31:30	but a few days or an old man who does not fill out his days for the young man shall die a 100 years old The Sinner 100
31:37	years old shall be considered a cursed they shall build houses and inhabit him they shall plant Vineyards and eat their
31:43	fruit they shall not build and another inhabit they shall not plant and another eat for like the days of a tree shall be
31:51	the days of my people and My Chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands
31:57	they they shall not labor in vain or bear children for Calamity for they shall be The Offspring of the Blessed of
32:03	Yahweh and their descendants with them before they call I will answer while they are yet speaking I will hear the
32:11	wolf and the lamb shall graze together the lion shall eat straw like the ox the
32:16	dust shall be the Serpent’s food they shall not hurt or destroy in all of my Holy Mountain says
32:23	Yahweh this is what we have to look forward to the current world that we are
32:28	in is passing away it’s terminally ill the the sickness is hit stage four at
32:36	this point there’s no turning back this world that we live in will die Christ
32:43	will bring it to an end only to create a new heavens and a new Earth Genesis all
32:49	over again and now rather than two human beings an entire Kingdom full of those
32:55	who’ve been forgiven by Christ gifted the Forgiveness of their sins and granted by God an inheritance in the
33:02	world to come that is you and I so Brothers take heart the day is far
33:09	spent the the sorry the night is far spent the day is at hand Christ is at
33:15	the door he will be here soon in the name of Jesus
33:25	Amen

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