What Heaven Knows About Earth (With Greg Laurie)

all right let's have a bible study together grab your bibles and turn to revelation chapter 6. we're going to look at two chapters together revelation 6 revelation 7. the title of my message is what heaven knows about earth we come to a new section in our series on the book of revelation and for the sake of an illustration let me compare it to a film remember when we used to go to theaters right and we would take our seats now i don't know about how you guys go to a movie but for kathy and i it always involves popcorn and milk dots i'm not sure how that started those two things but that's what we get popcorn and milk duds now sometimes i'll say kathy come on the movie's starting and there's a long line at the concession stand this is all ancient history now isn't it and she'll say but i have to get the popcorn and i'll say but kathy you don't want to miss the beginning of the film you find out who the main characters are the plot lines are being established and she always shows up about four four minutes late and then she's saying who's that why did they do that i'm again that's why you have to be there in the beginning of the movie so if the book of revelation were a film we would now know who the main characters are both good and bad the hero appears in chapter one and of course it's jesus christ the good guys are in chapters two to three that's the church that's us now the villain and his bad guys come barreling in in chapter six as the four ominous horsemen of the apocalypse and now the real action of the book is beginning to build the music is swelling in and we're sinking deeper into our seats and i don't know about you coming back to theaters but after i'd walk out of a theater it was embarrassing to see how much popcorn i dropped on my seat and on the floor i felt bad for the people cleaning it up so now this is the big moment as the story continues on and now we see conflict in fact it looks at this moment in the book of revelation as though the bad guys are winning because we see wickedness taking hold as satan rides roughshod over planet earth the good guys are getting pummeled by the antichrist but spoiler alert jesus christ returns in the end and we win in the end just in case you didn't no so revelation chapter 6 to 19 are really the heart of the book these chapters contain 21 judgments that will be unleashed on the world during the seven year tribulation period we have three distinct series of judgments that will befall planet earth during this time known as the tribulation basically it's going to be seven seals seven trumpets and seven bowls let me say that again seven seals seven trumpets and seven bowls but let me say at the outset god takes no pleasure in this you know sometimes people want to portray god as angry you know with a lightning bolt in his hand so excited about bringing judgment on planet earth nothing could be further from the truth because the lord says in scripture i take note the light and the death of the wicked you know sometimes people will say something along the lines of well i believe in the god of the new testament not the god of the old testament because the god of the old testament is wrathful and angry but the god of the new testament is loving and gracious clearly you have not read the bible because yes we see a god of holiness we see a god of righteousness but a god of love and a god of mercy in both the old and the new testament let's go back to the old testament as an example we remember that the plagues came upon egypt and upon pharaoh the lord didn't want to do that pharaoh was warned over and over by moses to let god's people go and he refused and his heart got harder but he had opportunity after opportunity to repent and it was really on him he had no one ultimately to blame but himself go to the story of noah in the book of genesis well god sent the judgment through the flood there was plenty of time for people to turn to god and to repent before one drop of rain fell again the lord took no pleasure in that another classic example of god being merciful in the old testament and the story is the story of nineveh remember this was a city renowned for his wickedness run by the assyrians that were very cruel in the way that they uh treated their enemies just unbelievable atrocities and god warned them that judgment was coming but the lord raised up a prophet named jonah who obviously didn't want to go at first but he eventually got there and he gave them the message 40 days in nineveh will be overthrown but notice there was a warning first and what happens that people repent and god does not send judgment there are positive aspects of the judgment of god believe it or not number one god's judgment frightens us and that's not a bad thing it's supposed to judge god's judgment scares the hell out of us and that's good to have the hell scared out of you it'll make you think twice before you do that thing and as you watch uh god's judgment or the repercussions come into a person's life when they've done the wrong thing it's a warning to you to not also do the wrong thing number two god's judgment sobers us it forces us to reassess the way we've been living our lives and sometimes it causes us to change our priorities it's c.s lewis who wrote that cane is god's megaphone to reach a deaf world the psalmist said before i was afflicted i went astray but now i have kept your word so god can use these things to get our attention another thing about the judgment of god it humbles us it strips away our self-righteousness and reminds us of how sinful we are reminding us that we're not in cruel in control of our own lives and it reminds us that we desperately need god in our life and one last thing about the judgment of god it reassures us say no greg you got that one wrong no it reassures us it reassures us that they'll finally be justice in the world every day we get up in the morning and we read news sites about horrible unthinkable events that take place crimes that are committed horrible sinful things that are done and we think that's not right but we remind ourselves one day there's a final court of justice that's what we're seeing unfold here in the book of revelation revelation chapter 6 is like a flyover of the whole book starting with what we call the four horsemen of the apocalypse we talked about this last time remember that the first horse is white and the writer is none other than the antichrist not jesus christ but antichrist who inaugurates the tribulation period coming on a white horse that sort of looks like he's a good guy and in the beginning of the tribulation period he comes with overtures of peace and solutions to economic problems of the world and much more but then he shows his true colors bringing us to the next horse the red horse of war because antichrist was never a peacemaker he always was a troublemaker and he uses the offer of peace as a ruse to deceive people and it appears as we read through the book of revelation that god allows men to unleash his significant military might and nuclear weaponry closing time has come for our planet as we know it an antichrist begins to enforce his agenda on planet earth and his so-called benevolence gives way to blood thirsty vengeance on all who disagree with him following that is a black horse a famine and finally the pale horse that brings pestilence famine disease and all the things that inevitably follow war but now we come to a group of courageous believers who are put to death people that would not take the mark of the beast people that would not pledge their allegiance to the antichrist in fact maybe even people that you have shared the gospel with that will miss the rapture but come to faith later we read about them in revelation 6 starting at verse 19 and when he opened the fifth seal i saw under the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of god and for their testimony which they held you might underline those two things they'll come back to them two of them again they're slain for the word of god and the testimony they held and they cried with a loud voice saying how long o lord holy and true until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth then a white robe was given to each of them and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer until both the number of their fellow servants and of their brothers who would be killed as they were was completed so we'll stop there who are these people that appear in heaven who've been put to death for their faith in christ these are people who have come to believe in jesus during the tribulation period again these are people who miss the rapture these are people who refuse to take the mark of the beast why were they put to death two reasons are given look at revelation 6 9 they were slain for the word of god and for the testimony they helped number one they stood for the word of god number two they had a powerful testimony let me ask you a question do you stand for the word of god do you speak up for what is true maybe people are saying things in a conversation that you know contradict what the bible says do you have the courage to say well let me just offer my opinion and the bible says it's funny man you bring a bible out and people freak out don't they just the very presence of a bible alarms some people but you may quote it because you have one nearby or you may have memorized the verse and you share what the bible says and then also they were put to death because of their testimony listen every christian has a testimony now the question is is it a good one or is it a poor one a testimony is your story of how you came to faith in jesus christ we read later in the book of revelation of people that overcame the devil and we'll get to this in a future message that i'm calling how to overcome the devil but we read that they overcame the devil by the blood of the lamb by the word of their testimony and they loved not their lives until the death and so they use the blood of the lamb and their testimony so your testimony your story of how you came to believe in jesus is a powerful bridge to start a conversation about your faith you might even be surprised to know that when i'm sharing my faith with people i don't start with a sermon i don't cruise around with a little pulpit like this on wheels you know that i have in the market and i'll stop and preach a sermon now i usually start with my own story of how i came to believe in jesus as a young kid at the age of 17 and what really got through to me so they have their testimony and they're persecuted and if you stand for the word of god and if you're bold with your story of what christ has done for you you will face a degree of persecution in fact we're told in second timothy 3 12 all who desire to live godly lives will suffer persecution now we come to the heart of this message remember we're talking about what do people in heaven know about what's going on here on earth follow-up question do they even care are people in heaven watching us right now are they looking down from glory and observing what we're facing and what we're going through it seems there are two trains of thought on this subject some would suggest that when you're in heaven the last thing you would care about is what is happening on earth and to the point if you knew of something tragic or sad that it happened on earth it would ruin heaven for you the other train of thought is people in heaven are watching our every move they sometimes even intervene in our lives sometimes they speak to us and they guide us okay you might be surprised to hear me say both of these views are incorrect and both of these views are not biblical so let me give you a biblical view of what people in heaven know about earth now someone might be thinking well why even talk about this who even cares well you care if you have a loved one in heaven now as you probably know our son christopher went to be with the lord 13 years ago he was only 33 years old it was a life-altering event i had a very close relationship with christopher as i do with my son jonathan we talked every single day and to suddenly have communication cut off and no longer be able to hear from them or talk to them or know what they're doing it's like you've been cut off and so there were two things i wanted to know about in the aftermath of my son's death number one i wanted to know more about heaven so i wouldn't say i'm an expert on heaven but i would say i'm a student of heaven and i would add this i also wanted to know more about how i can bring hope when tragedy strikes because when you lose a loved one or when you find out that you're terminally ill or something huge happens to you you wonder how am i going to survive it i wanted to know how i can bring hope to people like this because god brought hope to me in my hour of need because there's the bottom line as you get older you're going to know more people that have gone on to heaven you're going to know more people who die some of you are thinking y'all think so that depressing thought preacher well it's just reality someone's got to tell you so i guess it's going to be me listen to this i hate to break the news to you life is hard it just is but god is good and god's going to give you what you need in life so don't be afraid he'll he won't necessarily give you what you need before you need it he'll never give it to you after you need it he'll always give it to you when you need it the bible says he's a present help in time of trouble so before we dig into this passage here in revelation 6 let's think of some other passages that tell us a little bit about what heaven knows about earth the first one that comes to mind is found in luke 16 and here's the point i want to make people in eternity are aware of the fact that their loved ones are not saved people in eternity are aware of the fact that their loved ones are not saved going back to luke 16. it's a behind the scenes look at the after life some think it's a parable but a parable is an illustration this is a real story because names are attached and it's a story of two men one was rich one was poor one had no interest in god one believed in god they both died the rich man had a big funeral that would have been on all the television stations everyone would have known about it the poor man nobody even cared about him by the way his name was lazarus and lazarus lived from the food that fell from the rich man's table so they both died and they entered into eternity lazarus not the same lazarus that christ raised from the dead by the way but lazarus in this story is immediately escorted by the angels into heaven into what is called abraham's bosom the rich man meanwhile is sent down to hades or a place of torment and he's literally in flames he realizes how horrible this is and we read in 1628 him saying i have five brothers and i want to warn them about this place of torment so they won't have to come here after they die so this indicates a knowledge in heaven in the afterlife about what is happening on earth and i bring this up because sometimes people say things like well you'll be oblivious of what is happening on earth and and you won't remember anything about what happened on earth what are you talking about this guy is aware of the fact that he has brothers that are alive on earth still and he doesn't want him to end up in this horrible place of judgment that he finds himself in so when you get to heaven you don't know less you know more right because the bible says that in that day we will know as we are known first corinthians 13 12 we will know as we are known by the way that word means to come to know this indicates that there is still a process of learning in heaven and in the new earth it's not like you die and go to heaven and all of a sudden you know everything you know as much as god knows no that's not true only god is omniscient all knowing i will keep learning and growing in heaven in fact ephesians 2 6 says god has raised us up with christ and seated us in the heavenly realm so in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace and that word show means to reveal so this phrase coming ages indicates there's a progressive ongoing revelation in which we learn in heaven more and more about the grace of god isn't that going to be exciting here's another point number two when people believe in jesus on earth it's public knowledge in heaven when people believe in jesus on earth it's public knowledge in heaven in luke 15 jesus told three stories of people who lost something there was a woman who lost a coin there was a father who lost a son and there was a shepherd who lost a sheep and in the case of this shepherd he went searching until he found that stray sheep and brought it back wrapped around his neck rejoicing and then this point is brought there in luke 15 jesus says in the same way there'll be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over 99 righteous people so know this when you're engaged in evangelism this is pleasing the heart of god and when a person believes in jesus on earth there is joy in heaven but notice it says that there's joy in the presence of the angels of god sometimes we'll say when an unbeliever comes to christ the angels rejoice well that's kind of true but it's not exactly what it says it says there's joy and the presence of god could that verse actually be suggesting that the great joy is not among the angels alone but it's among us in other words is it possible that in heaven i would be aware that my life or testimony or witness had some impact on someone who would just believe in other words i'm in heaven and i know someone that i shared the gospel with just came to faith maybe it's my son or my granddaughter or maybe a relative even beyond that or someone else but there's a direct connection between heaven and earth we think kevin is so far away think of it more as a another dimension that you enter into when you go into the afterlife so coming back to our text here now in revelation 6. we have the martyrs crying out how long oh lord holy and true until you judge and avenge our blood and those that dwell on the earth bringing me to my next point people in heaven may know more about the time and place of events on earth than we realize again people in heaven may know more about the time and place of events on earth than we realized who are these people they're mere mortals they're people like you and me they've been put to death for their faith but they were aware of things for starters they're aware that they were killed for following christ and they know that was an injustice so they're the same people in heaven that they were on earth there's a direct continuity the martyrs are fully conscious rational and aware of each other aware of god and aware of what is happening on earth also note they're aware of the passing of time on earth you see in verse 10 how long o lord holy and true until you judge and avenge our blood and then in verse 11 it said to them that they should rest a little while longer now i bring this up because sometimes people say in heaven we're not aware of the passing of time why would you say that these folks who were put to death for their faith are fully aware of the passing of time also i would add there's a direct connection between these believers in heaven and those that are still on the earth they refer to their fellows servants and their brothers again this is connected to these people in particular but if it's true of them could it not be true of us so my point is simply this heaven knows more about earth than you realize now we come to another part of chapter six the sixth seal is open and god's judgment comes to planet earth in full force and there are cataclysmic events that are happening they're so big uh the people are freaking out look at revelation 6 verse 12. and i look and he opened the sixth seal and behold there was a great earthquake and the sun became a sackcloth of hair and the moon became like blood and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as the fig tree drops its late figs when it's shaken by a mighty wind and then the sky receded as a scroll when it's rolled up and every mountain and island was moved out of its place and the kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men the commanders the mighty men every slave every free man hid themselves and the caves and the rocks of the mountains notice that everyone is affected the famous and the unknown the powerful and the weak the rich and the poor verse 16 of revelation 6. and they said to the mountains and the rocks follow us and hide us from the face of him that sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb verse 17 for the great day of his wrath has come and who is able to stand these non-believers want to hide from god they say to the mountains and rocks fall on us you know it said there's no atheists and foxholes i don't think that's completely true there are people that on their very deathbeds will reject god of course there are some that will believe and thank god for his mercy that is extended what if i'm talking to somebody right now who's on their deathbed and you've done some horrible things with your life and you've made some horrible decisions and you've said things to god that you wish you could take back and you think it's too late for me it's never too late for you no matter what sin you've committed if you will call out to jesus christ he will forgive you the bible tells the story of a what we call the thief on the cross he actually was guilty of a far more serious crime than theft he was hanging next to jesus he probably was a murderer and he turns to christ and says lord remember me when you come into your kingdom and jesus says truly truly i say to you today you will be with me in paradise listen no matter what you've done god will forgive you of your sin and you can have a second chance and if you want to know more about that i'll tell you how in just a few moments but these people are not turning to god they're pretty much dying as they have lived in effect they're calling out to mother nature they're not saying god hide us or god forgive us and even more god save us they're saying rocks and mountains hide us from this judgment that is to come have you ever tried to hide from god have you ever tried to run from god remember when my grandkids were small we would play hide and seek and they hadn't learned the art of deception yet and they would go and hide like behind the curtains and i i would see their feet and they'd be laughing and i'd act like i didn't know where they were where are you ali where are you lucy christopher and i would find them and then i'd say let's do it again go hide and they'd hide in the same place that's us hiding from god you really think you can hide from him do you really think you can escape from him should you even want to escape from him the answer is no the psalmist says in one psalm 139 i can never escape from your spirit i can never get away from your presence if i go up to heaven you're there i can have some darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night but even in darkness i cannot hide from you you can't hide from god now the scene closes with the asking of the rhetorical question in verse 17 who is able to stand and the answer is no one yes again i want to emphasize god will give chance after chance or people to believe even in the tribulation period but if people end up being judged in this final day it's on them it's not on god he takes no pleasure in this he doesn't want to do it but because he is just he will now we come to revelation chapter 7. look at verse 1. after these things i saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth or on the sea or any tree and i saw another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living god and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea saying do not harm the earth and the sea or the trees till we have sealed the servants of god on their foreheads who are these servants of god that will be sealed on their foreheads we've already already been introduced to them we call them the hundred and forty four thousand who are the hundred and forty four thousand spoken of in the book of revelation simple answer they're not jehovah's witnesses i bring this up because the watchtower society says that there are 144 000 jehovah's witnesses they're the fulfillment of this prophecy well that's ridiculous because this hasn't happened yet this is a future event that will happen in the tribulation period which has not begun yet so who pray tell are the hundred and forty-four thousand well we know they are jews because they come from the twelve tribes of israel and in verses four to eight you have the specific tribes that they will actually come from including the tribes of judah asher and zebulun these jews have embraced jesus as their messiah some might call them messianic jews call them what you like these are jewish people that have embraced the jewish messiah and they believe in him and now god has called them to a special purpose they're sort of like supercharged super powered missionaries combing the planet with the everlasting gospel it's said of them that they have their own song which is kind of cool they have their own song it's unique to them it's also said of them at their spiritually pure then later in revelation 14 4 it is said of the 144 thousand they follow the lamb that's jesus they follow the lamb wherever he goes it also is uh said to us here that no lie is found in their lives and they're blameless they're sort of like spiritual superheroes nothing can stop them they're literally indestructible and this really ticks off the antichrist because he wants to stop them but he cannot there's a special mark on them that distinguishes them and the antichrist cannot stop them and did you know god has put a mark on you now when we think of mark we think of it in a negative way like the mark of the beast but there's a good mark think of it this way it's like an id tag right you put your id tag on your luggage like when i go to the airport and i wait for my luggage it's like everybody has black luggage right and a lot of us have luggage probably from the same company and so it comes down the little belt there and and i've had people walk up with my bag and a couple of times i've walked off with someone else's bag so check the id tag to figure out who the luggage belongs to you have an id tag it says something along the lines of property of the lord jesus christ he placed that mark on you when you believe ephesians 1 says after you heard the message of truth that is the gospel you believed in you were sealed in him with the holy spirit of promise given as a pledge or a down payment of our inheritance so god has put his mark on you uh you belong to the lord you're the lord's property i heard the story of an older man who had walked with the lord for years and one day he was getting tempted to sin and he prayed lord your property is in danger again so it's a great thing to know that god's id tag is on you that you're under the protection of god but isn't this a stark contrast because we have those that have the mark of the beast and those that have the mark of the lord listen if you have the mark of the lord no one can stop you listen to this i am indestructible until god is done with me there's an interesting passage at the end of the gospel of mark chapter 16 where it says of the followers of jesus they will take up deadly serpents and they will not be harmed and they can drink deadly poison and it won't kill them now we've heard about these churches that have services where they can't rattle snakes around that's ridiculous that's not trusting the lord that's testing the lord and i just read about some preacher that was bit by the rattlesnake and died it doesn't mean we should be foolish and take unnecessary risks what it does mean is you're not going to go before your time case in point paul the apostle was shipwrecked on an island and he was warming himself over the fire and we read a venomous snake bit him and we just read he shook it off under the fire everyone thought he was going to die he just got bit by a venomous snake he didn't die because god wasn't done with them by the way i've been bitten by many snakes and that's because i used to have snakes as a kid i would go out and catch him in the wild and buy them in pet stores and so many times i was bit bit bit bit by stakes which is not a pleasurable experience by the way but i was never bit by a venomous snake but here's the point you're going to go as long as god wants you to go so don't worry about it don't think oh what if this is my last day well if it is it is and if it isn't it isn't but here's what you need to know you'll go as long as god wants you to go and when your time has come you'll be escorted by the angels into the presence of god so the 144 000 are protected by god because they have his mark those that follow the antichrist have his mark as well so let me ask you this if you were alive at this time whose mark would be on your life antichrist or jesus christ let me bring it into the present moment whose mark are you carrying right now the mark of christ or the mark of antichrist now some of you will push back and say well greg even you said antichrist has not appeared yet so clearly i'm not carrying the mark of antichrist well in a broad sense you are either for christ or you're for antichrist because antichrist is not just referring to a man that is coming also known as the beast and the son of perdition and other phrases that are used it also speaks of a mentality for instance if you deny that jesus is the son of god you are antichrist because first john 2 22 says who is a liar it's a man who denies that jesus is the christ such a man is antichrist who denies the father and the son listen to this when someone professes faith in jesus and walks away they're antichrist first john 2 18 says dear children this is the last hour and as you've heard the antichrist is coming but even now many antichrists have come this is how we know it's the last hour they went out from us but they did not really belong to us for if they belonged to us they would have remained with us but their going out showed that none of them belonged to us so if someone professes faith and walks away from jesus and never returns their antichrist and if someone follows jesus and falls away and returns well they're just prodigal that's a lot of people out there maybe i'm talking to a prodigal right now someone that was raised in the church someone that knows what is right but you've gone astray and you feel well i've gone so far i could never return no you can return that will confirm that you belong to jesus christ but if you don't return it confirms that you are actually anti-christ so we should seek to follow the example of the hundred and 000. remember they follow jesus wherever he goes they live honest blameless lives and they fearlessly proclaim the gospel everywhere 144 000 of them it's amazing what one life can do the story is told of a man who spoke to another young man whose name was dwight and he said dwight the world has yet to see what god can do with and through and in the man who is fully committed to him well the young man named dwight who heard that was also known as dwight moody better known as dl moody and moody went on to become the greatest evangelist of his generation one man i just finished writing a book about billy graham it's called billy graham the man that i knew and it was just amazing for me to revisit his life life it's almost like a bible story i mean it reminds me of gideon how the lord just called this young man to go deliver the israelites he was living in obscurity that was billy graham a farm boy living with his parents there in north carolina getting up really early in the morning to milk the cows as a young man he aspired to be a professional baseball player and god had another plan an evangelist came to his town and preached under a tent and and young lanky billy frank as he was called walk forward and gave his life to christ who would have known that god would use this young farm boy to touch the world who would have known that god would have used this unknown boy from north carolina to be the greatest evangelist in human history and who knows if i'm not talking to someone right now that could be the next dl moody the next billy graham the next corey ten boom the next whoever god wants to use what god can do in and through a man or a woman who is totally committed to him look at what he does to this group of 145 000 so many people come to christ as a result of their testimony revelation 7 9 says behold a great multitude that no one can number of all nations tribes peoples and tongues that may be the largest revival in human history so much for the vengeful god that enjoys judging people this happens in the tribulation period let me land this plane now and come back to what heaven knows about earth these scenes that are happening on earth are viewed in heaven and right now heaven is watching do you want to make heaven share believe in jesus christ and then he will put his mark on you he will put his id tag on you and you will come under his protection and you will have the absolute assurance that when you leave this life and go to the afterlife you go into god's presence in heaven as i said before we decide in this life where we will spend the afterlife my question to you is if you were to die today where would you go according to the bible there are two destinations heaven or hell if you put your faith in jesus you go to heaven if you end up in hell you have no one to blame but yourself god is giving you a warning right now this is your wake-up call and he's saying believe in me he's calling you to himself jesus christ the son of god died on the cross for you 2000 years ago and he was crucified and he bore your sin jesus came to pay a debt he did not owe because we owed a debt we could not pay but the good news is is jesus rose again from the dead three days later and he's alive that's right jesus christ is alive and he's standing at the door of your life wherever you are and he is knocking and he's saying if you'll hear his voice and open the door he will come in would you like him to come into your life would you like your sin forgiven would you like to go to heaven when you die would you like to be ready for the next event on the prophetic calendar known as the rapture if so you need to pray and ask jesus to come into your heart and life right now in a moment we're going to do that and i'm going to lead you in a simple prayer so if you want your sin forgiven if you want to go to heaven when you die if you want to be ready for the lord's return or if you're a prodigal and you need to come back home again pray this prayer with me you can pray it out loud if you like or you can pray it in the quietness of your heart but just pray this simple prayer after me right now pray these words lord jesus i know that i am a sinner but i know that you are the savior who died on that cross for my sin and rose again from the dead i turn from my sin now and i choose to follow you from this moment forward thank you for hearing this prayer thank you for answering this prayer in jesus name i pray amen did you just pray that prayer if so i want to just say to you congratulations and welcome to the family of god i want to help you to grow in your faith and i have a gift for you it's 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Length: 43min 40sec (2620 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 08 2021