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#20221211 - The Breathing Word - Luke 24:13-35 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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free Calvary Church app now. Let's open our Bibles and study
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God's word. All right, if you guys would go
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ahead and open up with me to Luke chapter 24, the Gospel of
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Luke. If you're not familiar with the
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Bible, halfway through, there is a section, says, New Testaments
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about halfway a little more than halfway and it would be the
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third book to the right will be the Gospel of Luke.
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So we're going to be in chapter 24.
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We're going to start at verse 13.
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And the reason why I chose this passage, even though it's not a
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very Christmassy message is because God's just been turning
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it in my heart that's been weighing in my heart.
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I didn't know that I would be teaching until Friday and so
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when it came up I was like, oh, I think this is why the Lord has
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given this to me. And so I want to be faithful to
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bring it but even at Christmas is were fixing our eyes on
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Jesus. We remind ourselves that the
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King has come, that he is establishing his Kingdom that
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his Reign is coming. We read a 600 years before.
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Jesus was born and Isaiah chapter 9, it's prophesied.
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Instead of Jesus that the people who were walking in darkness,
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they saw a great light and the light Shone upon them, right?
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And so, the Lord is establishing the kingdom of Jesus.
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And it's ever-expanding, it's an ever expanding Empire of Grace.
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That Jesus is putting together. Together and the Lord is
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establishing this Kingdom by his Zeal.
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And so, as we think about that, and we remember that, we
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remember that the points of our faith is reconciliation and
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intimacy with the Lord setting aside sin setting aside
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everything that encumbers us and going after Jesus, as hard as we
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can. And that is the focal point of
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our faith. And so this morning, as we take
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in, and we join these guys, As they're traveling on the road to
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Emmaus, which is a little town outside of Jerusalem, about
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seven miles down the road, we're going to find them in a very
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difficult spot. You see these guys were in a
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place where they had felt a lot of expectancy for what God might
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do in their life. They were excited to join him in
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his ministry, they were excited for the things that he spoke
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when Jesus was in the room. How are went forth and they
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watch that. And they began to let that stir
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within them more and more and more Messianic expectation.
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They were excited for what he might do if for a few different
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reasons one, he would be prophetic fulfillment.
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That the prophets had talked about for centuries, but on the
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other hand, what would also happen in a very patriotic
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political sense, for these guys was, they lived in an occupied
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country. They were not in control and in
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complete or total way of their lives.
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The Romans over saw what happened?
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And so they were waiting for this King to come to rise up to
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overthrow the Roman government, and that they would have their
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freedom and that they would be able to walk and move in the
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ways that they had only dreamed of.
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And so they had a certain kind of desperation, that drove them
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and Jesus likes. Raishin, Matthew 5:6, The Sermon
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on the Mount. It says, blessed are those who
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hunger and thirst for righteousness?
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And the blessing is, if they do this, they will be filled.
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It's a promise, they will be filled.
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So these guys, they take Jesus at his word there, his
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disciples, and they want to walk with him.
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They want to be around him. When he is doing things, they
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want to be near. Just the little everyday things,
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the big things, Things, whatever, it doesn't matter.
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I just want to be by him. I just want to be in the room
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with him and so as they have this excitement and and Jesus
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has come and he has left the throne room of heaven and Jesus
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has chosen to come and to be born into poverty to be born and
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to live in a Backwater town of Nazareth and to come up learning
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a trade of carpentry. And then Jesus would begin a
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Ministry where some people loved him.
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Some people exploited him Some people hated him.
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They didn't respect the Throne of Heaven, they didn't respect
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his kingship. And so Jesus, put himself
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through that. He was betrayed.
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He was murdered violently and that's where we find these guys
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is these guys followed after the Lord with a lot of desperation.
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And now, everything has come to a screeching halt They murdered
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Jesus. Now, what what are we supposed
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to do? Where do we go?
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We definitely did not see this coming.
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This is something that is horrific.
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It's traumatizing and a lot of ways for these guys.
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And so they're on this road and they are beginning to discuss
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what's going on in. Sometimes this morning, I want
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to encourage you that if you're in a similar place where you're
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feeling despair, For whatever reason, even though the holidays
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are a time where you're supposed to, in our minds, be happy,
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sometimes we pretend or whatever.
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I want to encourage you just to be honest with the Lord, these
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guys had some very real questions and some very real
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concerns about what was going to be next.
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They wanted the kind of power that Jesus offered, they wanted
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the kind of Hope and Faith and love that they saw in Jesus eyes
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when they were with him and now that he was gone, Who knows in
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their mind? And it's very important.
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I think for us may be a helpful illustration is this idea of a
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lightning rod, right? And so lightning rods are set up
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to handle power, right? Lightning strikes.
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It they hit it and it goes to the bottom and it disperses
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because it's grounded when you're not grounded and you try
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to handle power, it's bad, it explodes.
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It causes a mess, it can destroy things.
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And so these guys, Eyes, and their context.
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And in verse 13, they're beginning to try to make sense
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of the power that they saw was happening in verses where they
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are now. And so, it says, Now Behold, two
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of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus,
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which was seven miles from Jerusalem, and they talked
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together of all these things which had happened.
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And so was that while they conversed and reason, That Jesus
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himself Drew near and he went along with them.
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It's interesting. These guys, we will learn as we
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go through the passage had heard, that Jesus was gone.
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He was killed. They put his body in a tomb.
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Some women who were also disciples with them, had gone
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along to the tomb and the stone was rolled away.
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And Jesus body was gone. And so you would think that
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these guys would give any kind of a glimmer of hope that maybe
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Jesus was who he said he was. But what happens when you're in
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fear, when you're in anxiety or despair is you don't think
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rationally, you're not remembering things.
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You're so enveloped and what you're feeling and what's going
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on at this moment. And so, these guys are trying to
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trying to sort it out and there was Walking, this lonely road
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and they had to learn a lesson because in this moment, they
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were unhappy with God. They were unhappy that God did
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not do things in the way that they expected, and because he
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didn't do things the way that they expected, they were left in
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a Lurch in their mind. But these guys had to understand
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and they had to learn how to follow and not try to lead what
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God was doing. They had to understand that they
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needed to wait on him. If you're taking notes this
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morning, the first point that I would have you consider Is we
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cannot walk in power until we learn how to walk and
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submission. These guys wanted to be way out
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ahead of Jesus. They wanted to take his power.
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They wanted it to play out in the way that they were thinking
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and they had to learn instead to submit to what the Lord had for
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them. So that way when the power came
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at Pentecost, they would have the right perspective and using
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that power. And a lot of times we think in
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terms of Jesus, you order our daily walk, you take care of
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things, which is true and it says George me.
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Euler sorry, the Great British evangelist, he said God orders
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our steps but he also orders are stops.
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God doesn't just take us forward.
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Sometimes God makes us pause. We need to wait upon him.
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And waiting is hard. Waiting is difficult.
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It's not something that we particularly saver or enjoy.
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We may enjoy it more. If we're in a season of waiting
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that we have appointed or we're comfortable, we feel good about
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things. It is not comfortable to wait in
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a season of pain. It's very, very hard to just sit
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and wait on the Lord to move in a way that we don't expect to,
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we don't see. And so Jesus knows what's going
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on. He understands he's Drawing Near
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as he draws near, he's listening to them reason and they're
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trying logically and the very natural order of things to come
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up with any kind of like a grid to somehow plot out.
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What has happened to them? What on Earth could be going on?
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And so, as they We wonder what they're talking about and in
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verse 21 it'll go on and give us a clue.
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But we know that at least some of the things that happened was
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they didn't believe that Jesus said had risen or was maybe who
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he said he was because they were really wrestling.
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In this moment fear had hijacked their perspective and so they're
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struggling through these things and we don't know what they
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said, but maybe they felt bad for the women who showed up at
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the tomb. Like, man, they just come
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Formation bias. The seen the things that they
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want to see, you know, it's kind of kind of sad.
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I wish he was alive, you know? And, and I love Jesus, too.
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And maybe they just can't accept the reality of the natural order
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of things, people, live and people die.
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But you see what was happening? Was Jesus wasn't doing anything
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natural, he was doing something Supernatural it, required
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different Vision to trust the Lord in this season, where these
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guys were. So as their reasoning, its Says
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in verse 16 or sorry at the end of 15 says.
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While they conversed in reason that Jesus himself Drew near and
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went with them but their eyes were restrained so that they did
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not know him. Mark chapter 16 verse 12, it
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says that he appeared to them in a form that they did not
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recognize, you see even in the middle of their pain and their
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struggling. Jesus was there Even when they
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didn't recognize how he was present, or what it is that he
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had for them. It didn't make it any less.
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True. That Jesus was there among them?
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So Jesus comes to them and he's walking with them.
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And you think about how interesting this is that Jesus
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knows what's going on, and Jesus doesn't avoid them.
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He doesn't think I'm going to hop to some people who are in a
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better mood or who have more faith or in a better place but
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Jesus chooses to stop with these men.
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On this road outside of Jerusalem and we don't know why
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they left Jerusalem. It had been three days, maybe
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they were so discouraged because the women had told them that and
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they just couldn't believe it that they needed to get out of
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town. I don't know why.
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But for whatever reason, these guys were headed down the road
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and Jesus draws near to them in the middle of their despair.
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And so as he comes to them in verse 17, it says he said to
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them, what kind of conversation is this that you have with one
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another as you walk and are sad. Then one of those whose name was
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cleopas answered and said to him, are you the only Stranger
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in Jerusalem and have you not known the things which had
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happened in these days and in verse 19, it says, and he said
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to them, What things? Jesus wasn't confused about why
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these guys were struggling, Jesus didn't approach them
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because they were in a good place, Jesus approached them
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because he loves them. Jesus, approached them in
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tenderness and in compassion, because these guys were wounded,
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if you could look with spiritual eyes at these guys heart, these
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guys hopes and their minds, you would see deep gashes, Deep
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wounding upon them in. Jesus doesn't push them out.
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He doesn't push them away. He doesn't move past them.
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He doesn't skip them because they're wrestling.
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Jesus draws near to them. If you're taking notes, I want
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to encourage you to write down this thought.
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Fear can't be a substitute for the goodness of God in your
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life. You know, sometimes we get into
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Seasons that we don't understand Seasons that we dislike
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significantly and we began to try and work things out or sell
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for we begin to Panic or we have anxieties and we kind of find
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ourselves obsessing about how we think things are going clearly.
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Jesus is alive. He's with them, they don't see
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that. And so from their perspective,
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fear is all there is And it's imitation is to lean into this
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fear and let it engulf them. So as they're, they're working
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through this, they're fighting through this.
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Fear can make you, do some really weird things but praise
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God, that he is not given us a spirit of fear.
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A man is given us a spirit of power.
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A spirit of love and he's given us a sound mind.
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And so the church in times where we're facing great tasks we're
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facing. What things we cannot reach out
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for fear because they will be nothing there.
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It's intimidation, it's an illusion.
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It's a process that we go through, in our minds of looking
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forward. But removing Hope from the
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equation, these guys had vision and their Vision was bad.
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It was not pretty what they thought was happening here.
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There was a prominent Pastor who shade that in a more succinctly.
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And he just said, you know, fear here is the gift of Vision
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Without hope. It's looking forward to the
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things that you think will play out in a certain way and you
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begin to suck and remove anything good, anything that
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looks like the graciousness and goodness of God out of that
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equation until what you're left with is somewhere.
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You don't want to be but you're not sure how to get out of it.
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and so, if you're in that place this morning and I want to
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encourage, you don't be afraid Jesus is near.
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Don't run away from the processes that God has set in
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Motion in your life. The things that he has set for
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you to walk in from before you were born.
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Let it play out. Trust the father, you see, all
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the prophecy didn't go by the wayside, all the power, the
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kingdom, the might of the king of glory, the one who is there
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in creation, the one who oversaw everything?
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It didn't pass away didn't crumble because some religious
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leaders didn't like it and decided to poison him.
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And go after him by poisoning, the minds of one of his
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followers. Who would betray him What?
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We get so crazy and so bound up in the natural order of things.
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We forget how big our God is. We forget how strong he is.
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You forget what he pulled you from, and he is not in a
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position of weakness or knowing. Defeat this morning.
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God doesn't know fear, he doesn't feel it.
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God is not concerned about what's going to happen.
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God is Not shaky and his confidence of his identity.
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God doesn't stay up at night. With ulcers wondering how things
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are going to play out. That is not the God, we serve
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the God, we serve is the commander of the armies of
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Heaven at Creation in Genesis, when he spoke everything into
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being literally all matter, formed and bent around his
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words. That is your king this morning.
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So as we look at this, we have to remember that the deepest
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kinds of Faith often emerge from the most strenuous and difficult
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circumstances. And if you find yourself there
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this morning, where you don't know what, the next step will
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be, let God take it for you, do not surrender it.
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So, we read on and verse 19. Jesus is asking them what things
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not because he doesn't know, he wants them to talk, he's getting
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them. To open up.
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Jesus is inviting them to share their pain from our perspective.
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How awkward, right. We're complaining about Jesus to
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Jesus because we don't like how Jesus is doing things, right?
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So from our perspective, like it's a cringe-worthy moments,
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but from this perspective, Jesus is the only one who has full
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access and knowledge here and he is drawing them out.
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He is inviting their concerns. He is inviting them to have very
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real and honest conversations with him.
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Jesus likes it when you're wrong with him.
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Jesus invites it it's okay. It is okay.
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You know, it's a good reminder for us is Jesus.
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Does these things that we don't need to be afraid of people when
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they are in despair struggling. We don't need to give people
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cliches. We don't need to try and Patch
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it up or put a bandaid on it. Jesus isn't a Band-Aid and
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Jesus, doesn't heal halfway. Jesus heals fully and completely
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with the authority of heaven. And so when we meet people that
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are in these positions, it's important for us to remember
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that we need to be concerned for helping them progress in their
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walk. Helping them move forward.
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We need to disciple them in a way that invites them and
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encourages them to take the next step, we never shame.
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Jesus didn't shame Jesus, engage them.
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And so the reminds me of a quote by the founder of the vineyard
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movement, his name was John Wimber and he said when raising
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the bar becomes more important than helping people over it,
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we've missed the call of the Kingdom.
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When we are more concerned about making things difficult, and
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making people behave a certain way.
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Then seeing them, transformed, we've missed it, you missed it.
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Our messes are no threat to Jesus Majesty.
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He's not afraid of what we're going to say.
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He already knows. He's inviting them to lean on
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him to rest on him because it is the only support that will.
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Last it is the only sure thing that they will be able to put
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their weight in there. Hope into.
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And so they begin this process of unloading their hearts to
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Jesus and says, so they said to him, well, the things concerning
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Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, Mighty in deed and word
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before God, and all the people, and how the chief priests and
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our rulers, delivered him to be condemned to death and crucified
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him. Can you pick up on the tone of
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their voice? Can you pick up on the things
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that they're focused on right there?
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Giants. Are consuming their entire field
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of vision. Their entire scope has been
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consumed with the things that have gone.
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Like, they weren't expecting and how bitter they are about that.
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In verse 21, we get a little bit of crushing insight into where
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these guys are, but it's important to recognize that
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Jesus allows them to Continue. It says.
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What we were hoping. But we were hoping.
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You get what he's saying? They had hoped that God would
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come through. And hoped that God would do
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something. They'd hoped that he would see
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me drowning. He would see me struggling, he
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would see my depression. He would see the addiction that
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I wrestle with her. How hard I'm trying to just
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can't get it, right? We were hoping that he was this
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person, right? We were hoping that it was, he
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who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed.
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Besides all this today is the third day, since these things
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that Happened. So it's fresh on their mind for
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them. It was this morning when they
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thought, Jesus body had been taken for them.
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They're living in a very real personal torment.
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It says in verse 22. Yes in a certain women of our
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company who arrived at the tomb early astonished us.
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When they did not find his body they came saying that they had
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also seen a vision of angels who said he was alive and certain of
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those who were with him. Sorry who were with us went to
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the tomb and found it just as the women had said catch on to
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this part though but him they did not.
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See, Jesus wants to say something at this moment.
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He's listened, he understands where they're coming from, he's
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heard their concerns, but he is not about to let fear and doubt
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dominate the topic of conversation.
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He is not going to let the enemy who thought he'd just won a
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great Victory and crushing the church before it got started.
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He's not going to let it take root here.
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And Jesus is going to say something.
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And he's going to address what's happening.
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So in verse 25, it says then he said to them o foolish ones and
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slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken
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ought, not the Christ to have suffered these things and to
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enter into his glory and beginning at Moses and all the
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prophets, he expounded to them and all the scriptures and the
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things concerning him. Now, what's really interesting
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about this is Jesus understands that to push back he needs to
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ground them. Again, ground them in the word
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ground them. In what they know to be true,
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these guys are living in a hurricane of emotions.
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There's a lot of swirl that's going on in their life and so
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Jesus has to fix their feet, he has to Anchor them and so he
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begins by saying, like guys here's the thing, verse 26.
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You knew that the Christ had to suffer so that God's glory could
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go forward. And then what he does is he
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opens it up to them. He doesn't leave them with a
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quick gentle rebuke, he takes them into scripture, he draws
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them deeper. Jesus is always drawing you
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deeper. So he begins to open up the
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scriptures. And as he's expounding, he's
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explaining about himself to these guys, and as Jesus is
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speaking, When you can feel in the scripture in the passage,
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something is happening. They're starting to shed some
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fear. I vaguely.
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Remember, yeah. Jesus said something like that.
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Well, yeah, there's a lot of Prophecy written on this.
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Oh, yes. The Lord has established his
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word. And so, what's happening is the
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heart that had stopped because of everything.
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They had experienced begins to pump a little bit.
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Feeling something Jesus is not taking out a smoldering Wick,
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he's not breaking off a bruised Reed.
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He's meeting these guys where they are and pushing back
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because he's allowing their faith to be revived to be
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restored. The words Jesus speaks is not to
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abuse authority to shame them. Some of us grew up in homes,
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maybe where we felt shame. Where Authority was used in
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inappropriate ways and it's hard to not transfer what we have
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experienced into other positions of authority.
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But that is not how Jesus deals with things.
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And so as this is going on, Jesus in a very real way, is
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dismantling the stronghold that the enemy has begun to build in
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their life, in their thought, process in their View and it's
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important that Jesus does this by establishing, what is It out
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supernaturally, right? Because this is a living.
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Look. As you read the Scripture, it
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reads you wherever you are in your journey.
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God has a word for you. He has not abandoned you.
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He has not forgotten about you and he has not left your side.
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He will never leave you or forsake you.
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And so as he's speaking this and he's pushing back these guys,
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they're starting to get excited. They're starting to think.
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Well, maybe God is doing something bigger than I knew.
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Maybe there is something grander going on here verse 28.
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It says, then they drew near to the village where they were
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going and he indicated that he would have gone farther but they
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constrain him. Him saying abide with us for it
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is toward the evening and the day is far spent and he went in
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to stay with him. I hope you notice What's
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Happening Here. Jesus is Dashing the hopes of
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hell The hopes that they would come to subtly believe in the
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enemy hijacking, God's plan subtly focusing on the power of
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the enemy instead of the power of the Lord.
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And Jesus is dismantling that and as this is happening,
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something very important is happening.
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They don't want him to leave, Jesus is going to be moving on.
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It looks like and they don't know that it's Jesus, but they
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know the faith in the presence of God.
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And it is a hook for them and so they they were restrained in
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their Vision before they couldn't see who he was.
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But now it's then he was doing the constraining.
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Don't leave us. Stay.
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Jesus stay with us. Like they don't understand that.
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It's Jesus once again but they understand the presence and the
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life. That's on the word of God.
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In John chapter 6, when Jesus is addressing a certain situation,
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he says, the words that I speak to you are both spirit and life.
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They are both truth and their presence.
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The presence of God rests within his words because Jesus is the
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Living Word. So as he is speaking, these
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things, as they're beginning to take On Heavens perspective, say
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Jesus, Don't go just just be with us a little bit longer and
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so he goes in with them in verse 30 says now it came to pass as
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you said at the table with them and he took bread blessed and
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broke it and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and
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they knew him and he vanished from their sight.
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What just happened? Jesus, he came in, he had dinner
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with them. They broke bread.
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They ate together and all of a sudden, they shifted fields of
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vision their natural order, came colliding and smashing down.
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Underneath the supernatural reign of God.
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The order of God, he was doing something bigger, and not just
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something good, and not just something that we were happy
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about this blew away. A thing that we thought he might
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be up to and their eyes were opened in a second and they
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realized just exactly what had happened who they were pouring,
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their hearts out to how tender how compassionate he had been
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with them. And they begin to understand
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that the way that God lays things out are solid.
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You can put weight into it, you can trust it just like in the
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natural order of things you have taking, for example.
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The law of gravity and you'll meet somebody along the way.
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And I say, well, I don't care about your gravity, it's like,
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well, I don't really care that you don't care much for Gravity,
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because it is what it is. You jump off that thing and
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you're going to fall, it is what it is because it's just the way
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things function, you can like it, you cannot like it, but it
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is how things are laid out. And so in the spiritual realm,
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there's a similar Dynamic here, there's a principle that's
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happening as when Jesus Lays out what he's going to do, who he
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is, and what he can do with in your life.
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Those principles are ever steady.
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They're not rocked, right? And so, you might not like who
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Jesus says, you might not like how Jesus has done things.
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It is nothing against the power of God, right?
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If they can't stand against the power of what Jesus is doing.
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And so as he's doing this is They're becoming Quicken.
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They're becoming awakened. We remember John 1:14 and it
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reads like this and says, and the word became flesh and dwelt
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among us and we beheld, his glory, the glory, as of the only
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begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.
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The word that says, Jesus dwelt Among Us.
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The original idea is that he tabernacled The idea is that
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when he left heaven and he came, he didn't leave it because he
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thought Humanity was so much farther along.
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He thought you were going to be such a better disciple than you
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are. He's not confused about that.
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He tabernacled, the idea is that he literally pitched his tent
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among Humanity. He chose it.
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Because he loves you. Not because he thinks that
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you're somebody else. Not because he has Illusions
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about the things that are going on in your mind right now.
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Or the shadows of your heart of the recesses of your quiet
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times. Jesus knows and he's here and
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he's ready to do something. And so in this word in the flash
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is speaking God's touching their hearts, it's an important
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reminder for us to remember that, we don't need to Market
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Jesus, to people, we simply introduce him.
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Jesus speaks for himself when you have an encounter with Jesus
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and you have an Embrace of Heaven, it changes everything.
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We don't have to try and convince people or Market,
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Jesus, in some way or try to get anything that would, that would
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make Jesus more attractive, because he's simply already is
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you just need to meet him and he's much grander than anything
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that you could have imagined, and God is quite content with
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offending your understanding. Of him, if it helps you to
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understand him in a real way. Does that make sense?
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Sometimes we look at Jesus as we are instead of as he is.
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And so the perspective that we have is coming from us instead
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of coming from him, these guys are having this this this
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reality check and all of a sudden their understanding that
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the expectations that they had originally are partially true
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but they're actually even better and fear.
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Panic anxiety. That's not even on the radar
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anymore because Jesus has just left, but he has left them with
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hope and with life. And so it carries on here in
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verse 32 and they turn to each other.
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Now it's just the two of them and it says did not our hearts
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burn within us while he talked with us on the road, while he
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opened up the Sirs to us, if you're taking notes, I want you
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to consider this thought the word of Jesus candles, even the
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weakest of face when Jesus word goes forward in power and it
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goes forward. Unrestrained, what happens is a
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lot like what? The British evangelist Charles
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Spurgeon shared. He said the word of God has the
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power to awaken the conscience and vibrate the soul.
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These guys everything that was on them was coming off because
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they were resonating with who Jesus was with what he wanted to
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do. All of a sudden, their
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perspective faded to Heavens perspective and they began to
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understand the gift that they had been given.
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That death had been crushed that the strongholds had been shaken
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and depleted, and that Jesus alone remained Supreme So I want
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you to consider right now, what is it that Jesus might be
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speaking to you this morning? You see if we just read
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scripture and we understand that and we become good bereans, it
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doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to change us.
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If you read scripture and your glass over it and you read it
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without it affecting your behavior, you read, it
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fruitlessly. This Demands a response.
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What Jesus is doing on the Earth today as the enemy would try to
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intimidate and instill fear and get the church to back down, get
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the church to hide get the church to lash out because of
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whatever the weirdness is. That's not Jesus.
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And Jesus is not lacking confidence in his plan, a man.
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And so, in verse 33, they rose up there.
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Mobilize this very hour right away, they get up here.
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Spanish. They have this quick
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conversation and then says, they want the seven miles back to
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Jerusalem. They hooked it.
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They hold it. They weren't, they have to go.
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And so it says that that very hour, they returned to Jerusalem
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and found the 11, those who were with them gathered together
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saying the Lord is risen, indeed and has appeared to Simon.
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And they told about the things that had happened on the road
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and how he was known to them. Them in the breaking of the
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bread. Their testimony comes forth, it
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Roars, fourth. It's like Jesus said, Jess,
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loose their mouth. They had to speak about it.
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They had to get it out. They had to share it.
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They had to build up the body. People had to know who Jesus
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was. They had to know what Jesus was
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doing. They had to be a part of it.
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Jesus is Alive. The King has come.
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He wasn't defeated Satan, doesn't have more power than you
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think. Think that God does in your
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life. God reigns Supreme You know,
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back to that conversation in John chapter 6.
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Jesus is speaking with his disciples and he's saying, you
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know, you're going to be eating my flesh and drinking my blood.
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And some of the ones who were with him, heard it and we're
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like, this is crazy. This is weird weird weird and so
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they left. He just left Jesus, excuse
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themselves, walked away, and they were gone.
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And what's interesting is in that moment, Jesus asks them his
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disciples, are you going to go away, too?
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Will you leave me? Because you don't understand
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what I'm doing. Are you going to abandon me?
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Is that the value of our friendship?
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The value of our faith things? Things are hard, you don't
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understand. And you just bail And Peter
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speaks up and he says, here's the thing.
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Jesus, where else could we go? You alone, hold the words of
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life. And that was the same.
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Then as it is this morning in your circumstance, there is
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nowhere to retreat to we rest on God.
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We cannot lean on our own understanding.
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Our vision is bad. We know that we understand and
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we see only in part one day we'll know fully but until that
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time comes we lean into God. And it's Jesus spoke in their
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heart burn within them. It was like Jesus shout out
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strings into them and these strings had Hooks and they
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attach their minds the way that they process the way that they
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consider things, they shot out and an attached to their hearts.
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The way that they felt the way that they were progressing and
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experiencing what was happening and it shot out to their will
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and Jesus challenge them not to give up just because their
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Vision was bad. And so we see in John chapter 1
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and tells us that Jesus, who is the Living Word was there at the
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beginning, Colossians chapter 1, verses 13 through 17.
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Say he has delivered us from the domain of darkness and he has
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transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.
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In whom we have Redemption, the Forgiveness of sins.
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Speaking of Jesus, he is the very image of the invisible.
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God, The firstborn of all creation for by him, all things
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were created in heaven and on Earth, the visible and the
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invisible. And it says, whether Thrones or
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dominions or rulers or authorities, all things were
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created through him and for him, and he is before, all things.
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And in him all things, hold together.
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Are you afraid this morning of what's playing out in your life?
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I would challenge you that Jesus is orchestrating all of
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creation. Everything that is lay down the
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breath that you are breathing. As you are hyperventilating,
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breath was given to you for another purpose to share your
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testimony from Jesus everything that we believe.
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And that we see and that we know and don't know.
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It's because God spoke his word into creation like we said,
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creation, bent around it and that is what we have today.
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Hebrews chapter 1, it says that he upholds, all things.
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Some translations say that he upholds the universe by the
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power of His word. He upholds your Universe from
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moment to moment. How big is your god today?
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Is the god that you're following intimidated by the things that
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you wrestle with. I don't think so, and that's not
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to make you feel bad. That's to invite you to the
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feast, the Feast of Faith. That's to invite you to the
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things that Jesus has for you. That are so much better so much
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grander, so much more than even what you think is happening.
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And you might think some good things are happening.
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And I promise you, it's way more because Jesus didn't merely
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speak, God's word. He is God's word.
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He is Both truth and presence. And when Jesus is in a
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situation, everything else will submit everything else will
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fade. It might not happen in the way
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that you want it to happen. It may not play out in the
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direction or the timing that you thought it was, but you can be
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assured that God does not know what it looks like to fail.
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He's never taken a loss. He doesn't understand what
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that's like for in a very real sense from personal experience
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because cuz it's never happened and it didn't happen then and it
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won't happen. Now it's important to recognize
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that where the kingdom manifested where Jesus came to
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them, was to two guys who were broken.
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The kingdom is at home among Brokenness.
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Jesus seeks out Brokenness. Not because he wants to gawk at
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the situation, but because he wants to turn it upside down.
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God takes Delight in rescuing, and then God takes those who are
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rescued and he makes them Rescuers.
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He sends them out to fill that position for other places.
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God has not moved by your Merit because his disciples were so
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great. And what they were doing, God is
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moved by his Mercy. He loves his son, he sees
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Humanity has a great void, and God is very happy to fill it if
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you will allow him to. So I want to invite the worship
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team to come back out. And I want us to just consider
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as we're winding up. That Jesus is undefeated.
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He's undefeated. He is a king that we will never
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ever ever have to worry about experiencing being let down.
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His guys were terrified of it that they had misplaced their
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hope in Jesus addressed it and he put that myth to bed.
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If you're here this morning and you need a touch from the
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master, don't hide from him. Here's the deal.
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God cannot heal. What he cannot touch and so it
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is on you to decide if you're going to allow him to come and
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tenderness and compassion to those places.
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And it's not on you in a bad way but it's a very clear and
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comforting invitation for you to be drawn into his Embrace drawn
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into the perspective that he has for you.
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Maybe you're here this morning and you're just battling some
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things. Maybe you're here.
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The season is just overwhelming. You you distracted?
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Finding it hard to wait on the Lord to just settle for his
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word. Maybe you just need to take a
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minute and just sit. That's okay.
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Jesus will sit with you. Maybe you're here this morning
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and you're wrestling with your life to the point of where
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you're not sure you want to continue feeling the pain that
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you're feeling and I would tell you that, that comes from the
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depths of hell. The enemy is lying to you.
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The enemy wants to make you believe that there is no hope
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and there's no way out and that's not true.
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Jesus is happy to meet you where you are many people have great
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Theology and they know a lot about Jesus and they don't spend
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any time with him. Don't be that guy.
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Don't be that lady. Don't miss it, don't miss the
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authority of Heaven. That is in the room right now is
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God's spirit, ministers and fans out in this room.
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Let Jesus touch you. Let Jesus hit on the things that
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are bugging you as I'm talking. You can trust him with it.
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He's not going to shame. You is not going to push you
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away. He's going to walk with you.
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He's going to love you. And he's going to heal you.
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I'll leave you with Ecclesiastes chapter 8, verse 4 when it's
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talking about kingdoms and says where the word of a king is
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there is power and who can say to him, what are you doing?
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There was a king in the room right now.
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He's not intimidated. Let him have his way.
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So, if you're here this morning and I want to make you
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uncomfortable, we've all been there.
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I personally have wrestled with anxiety at a very deep level,
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but I want to ask you, would you stand so that we can pray with
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you? If you're wrestling with letting
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the Lord, touch some areas that you've hidden away, just let him
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have it. Just give it up, what's so great
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about it that you want to hold onto it just be done with it,
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put it away. see if you've you guys someone in the back over
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here, here's what I want to do. If you're around somebody who's
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standing, would you stand up next to them and put your hand
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on them? We want to minister to them.
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We know that the spirit of God is within his church is within
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those who believe. And the scripture tells us that
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the same spirit, is there who raised Christ from the dead is?
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Resurrection power in what Jesus does, and if your life is coming
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apart, let me encourage you, it's no harder for God to
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recreate your life, then it was for him to form it in the first
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place. So let him have it.
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If you hate this morning, you don't know Jesus you know really
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understand who I'm talking about, but it's attractive and
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you want to know him all that you need to know is that he was
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crushed. He lost his life for you because
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he was God In the Flesh who did that, so that he could be the
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ultimate sacrifice for all the sin in your life that is hurting
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you. It's bogging you down,
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strangling you. You and Jesus has authority over
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that and he would have authority over your life if you will, give
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it to him. And we plead the blood of Jesus
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and we call on the blood of Jesus.
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And we asked him to come and minister to you.
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And all you have to do is pray a prayer similar to what I will,
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what I will lead you in, It's not nothing magical about the
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words. It's what's happening in your
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heart. But it's a Jesus.
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I Need You. Jesus ask that you would take my
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sin, take the filth, but take the Brokenness in my life.
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And would you clean me? Would you forgive me for that?
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I believe that you are God. I believe that you did these
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things, you were killed, you were the sacrifice but you also
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rose from the dead and you stand Mighty and Eternity on my behalf
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and ask that you would take my life.
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Holy Spirit. For those who are in the room
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who are experiencing pain for various reasons, experiencing
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confusion struggling with core things about who they are and
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how they live. We ask that you would counsel
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them. We know that you are the
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counselor we know that you bring us into all truth.
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We know that you were the comforter so we plead the blood
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of Jesus and we ask Lord that you would bring total and
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complete healing in these areas. And it may not happen in one
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moment, but we trust you to do the things that you can do.
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We love you, Lord. We love you and we agree with
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how you feel about those who are standing in the need of prayer
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and we agree with what you think about them.
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Jesus, we ask that you would have your way.
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Even the things that it's too hard for us, you say, we can
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bring it to you because it's easy for you.
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So we ask that you would have your way this morning.
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Jesus Come Holy Spirit. Amen.
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