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going to jump in to a very personal thing.

And so what I want to talk to you about is something that a lot of people have passionate feelings about, and they should.

People will either embrace or push back or even stay neutral passionately on this particular topic. And so they should. And that is the

biblical, I stress biblical teaching, the doctrine of the harpado. The harpadozo. And we'll get into it

later on, but the harpadoz is the Greek word for the Latin word,

right? Come on. Greek and Latin, two separate languages. Of course, English, yet again, another

separate language. The Harpado, to be cut up, the Latin, where we get the familiar word rapture, rapturous rapture in Latin,

or the English two compound word caught up.

We're going to talk about that, but you may not be, you may not be aware of what I'm about to say. And it is this.

So I came to know the Lord on June 20th, 1977, and I was 19 years old, and I went into a church service, and everything about it was unscheduled in my mind.

God had a plan.

I'd never been to church before in my life.

My family did not attend church.

I hadn't even been to a funeral for anyone at a church prior to that night.

June 20th, 1977, if you check your Google, it should be a Monday night.

That was my first time in a church. Be that as it may, I'm very grateful because at the time

at Calvert Chapel Costa Mesa, Greg Lorry, the evangelist Greg Lorry, many of you know,

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