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#20230809 - Hope, Comfort and Restoration - Isaiah 61:1-4 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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Welcome to the Study of God's Word, recorded live at Calvary
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Now let's open our Bibles and study God's Word and so.
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I'd like you to turn in your Bibles.
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To the book of Isaiah and if you're unfamiliar with.
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The books of the Bible. There's an index in the front of
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your Bible. Maybe you need to get a Bible.
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You don't have one. There's some behind the sections
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there, and you can. I would.
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Encourage you to go get a Bible and and find out.
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Where the book of Isaiah is and turn to chapter 61, Isaiah
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chapter 61. That's going to be our text
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tonight and we're going to be looking at the 1st. 4 verses
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this is an amazing. Text Of course we remember the
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Lord Jesus reading from the. Scroll of Isaiah in his own
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hometown synagogue of Nazareth, and it didn't turn out that well
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for them. They tried to kill him and he
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just walked through their midst. But.
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But we'll talk about that as we go through it, but this section
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here is so important. Because it gives us the heart of
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the Father for us and it. Shows us how we're to reach out
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to those who are just as broken as we were when we were.
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Brought to salvation now, some of you listening online,
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watching online, or even here tonight, you might be in a
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situation of life where things are quite broken down and
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there's not a whole. Lot of hope there's not a,
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there's not a way. Through it, it just seems like
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it's a. Black hole, and it just is
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sucking you in and robbing you of life and hope.
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And I want you to know in this section here the Lord.
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Is for you, not against you. And he he wants to show himself
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in the midst of things. And so tonight what we're going
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to do? Is take these 4 verses and we're
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going to split them into 3. The first part is in verse one
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anointed to be sent, anointed to be sent and the second part.
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Is verse one to verse 3 anointed to give hope, healing, and
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comfort? That's where we get our title,
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Hope, Comfort and restoration in our teaching tonight.
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And the third section is verse three and four anointed.
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To rebuild, to raise up and. Repair All three of these are
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are important to understand as we're looking at this section
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and we see it's the. Heart of the Lord not only for.
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But it's the heart of the Lord giving us our target.
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A purpose when we go out and help people and minister to
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people. And so I'm going to read through
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verses one through 4 of Isaiah 61 and then we'll.
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Start with the word of prayer. All right, here we go.
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The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.
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Because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the
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poor, He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim
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liberty. To the captives and the opening
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of the prison to those who are bound to proclaim the acceptable
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year. Of the Lord and the day of
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vengeance. Of our God to comfort all who
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mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them
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beauty. For ashes the oil of joy, For
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mourning the garment of praise. For the spirit of heaviness that
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they may be. Called trees of righteousness,
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the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified, and they.
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Shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up the former
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desolations, and they shall repair the ruined.
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Cities, the desolations of many generations.
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Let's pray our Father in heaven we thank you for.
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The scriptures We thank you for the the many many.
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Bibles we have available today and these.
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Words are sure your Holy Spirit came upon Isaiah and gave him
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this prophecy. Of what would take place, not
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only as. Hope for the people of Israel,
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but also with the Lord Jesus fulfilling these very words, but
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tonight. Father, would you speak to our
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hearts? Would you minister to?
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Us about Our Calling, how you want us to serve in these last
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days and reach a world. That is hopelessly lost without
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you, and so minister to us tonight.
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We ask in Jesus name. Amen.
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Amen. Well, let's take a look at verse
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one a minute and I'd encourage you to get a pen or highlighter
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out and just highlight, underline, circle and and there
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are things that are going to stand out to you that might be
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different than somebody who's on the other end of the aisle
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you're in, but. Just be ready for the Lord to
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show you some things, okay. First of all, verse one says
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the. Spirit of the Lord God is upon
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me. Because the Lord has anointed
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me, I want you. To notice that Isaiah didn't
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earn this anointing. He It wasn't that he convinced.
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God to do this for him. The verse is very clear that it
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was the Lord. Himself that put that anointing
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upon. Isaiah because he's talking to
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the. People of Israel here in this
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second. Half of the book of Isaiah
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especially to bring comfort chapter 40 verse one comfort ye,
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comfort ye my. People says you're God and and.
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So this whole last section is an encouragement, special
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encouragement to. The people of Israel that that
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hope is on its way. But Isaiah didn't do anything to
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make that happen. Comfort is on its way.
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Healing restoration are on its. It was God's purpose that he did
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it, and as the Lord. Jesus speaks this very thing in
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the synagogue. I mean, he was the fulfillment.
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He's he's caught Incarnate speaking in this.
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Group I was starting to read through.
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The Gospel of Luke all over again as and my prayer was.
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God, I want to read it as if I've never read it again.
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And I've read. I've read the Gospel of Luke.
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Dozens of times. But I want it fresh.
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I want to hear it. As if it's all a new discovery.
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And there were things that just stood out to me, like how many
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times. It says he went and taught in
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synagogues in the first. 5 chapters of Luke and I you know,
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I read that. Before, but it's like he's
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presenting the hope of the good news because that's what he came
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came to. Do to preach good tidings.
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That's the gospel good news. And the good news is the power
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and hope. Of what Jesus is is going to do
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on on his sacrifice on the cross and so.
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The Lord has anointed me. It's.
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His purpose? And here's the deal if you're
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believing in the son of. God, Jesus Christ, God has
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placed His Holy Spirit within you.
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He makes his home. There he doesn't.
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You're not an Airbnb. To God, okay, he lived.
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The Holy Spirit lives in your heart.
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He doesn't timeshare. With the devil, he's your.
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He's in you for. He'll abide with you forever,
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Jesus said. But there is this special
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anointing that comes upon the believer.
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It's referred to in acts. Chapter 2 is the Baptism with
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the Holy Spirit and the. Purpose of that feeling to?
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Overflowing of the Holy Spirit is so that you might be sent,
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not so you can have a. Buzz or a special feeling?
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Or oh, I can't believe it. I mean, I have heard so many.
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Strange stories as proof that someone is filled.
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With the Holy Spirit in my days and I'm and there is one guy
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that told me. Oh, you just couldn't believe
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how the Holy Spirit was working in the room.
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Man. The brother so and so was
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walking on top of the folding chairs, not on the seats, but on
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the very tops. He walked.
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All the way through and didn't fall once.
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That is not the. Purpose of the Holy Spirit, I'm
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just telling you. The Holy Spirit in this.
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Text is sent so that we can reach those who need healing,
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those who are brokenhearted, those who are mourning.
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We're going to talk. About those words here, there's
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a purpose. Why He fills us with the Holy
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Spirit when the Holy Spirit lives in us, that's character
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change. That's the fruit of the Holy
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Spirit, like Galatians 522 says. Love, joy.
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Peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness,
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faithfulness, self-control. Those are all character changes.
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That happens because the Holy Spirit moves in but the
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anointing of the Holy. Spirit is to give us power for
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service and that's what we see here in this section, the.
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Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.
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Because the Lord has anointed me to.
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Preach the good tidings and and. This is our target that these
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are the folks that we're to go to.
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We're. We're not to.
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Go to the the incredibly rich and wealthy and comfortable.
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The goal is. That's not the, That's not the.
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Let's bring the. Hope of the gospel to those who
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are hopeless. Now you can be absolutely rich
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and wealthy, like the guy that won the the Mega Millions or
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billions actually, and I just wouldn't want to be him.
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Because all the sudden the whole world and all the evil in the
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whole world is going to focus on that guy.
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I mean that's. Not a pretty sight, but that's
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another issue. But as we see here in #2
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anointed, to give hope, healing and comfort.
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That's why we need the anointing.
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Of the Holy Spirit upon us. Just as Jesus had it upon him,
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and I want you to notice. All the action words in our text
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tonight, and these are things you can circle because they're
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important to note the action words.
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To preach. To be sent.
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To heal. To proclaim to comfort, to
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console. To rebuild, to raise up, to
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repair. This is all a part that we play.
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Yes, it has to be God that does the work, but there's a part
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that we play and that's. Called the yieldedness, Stepping
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out in faith, stepping into areas where maybe you're a bit
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uncomfortable. With it.
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But the Lord is speaking to you saying go to that person and and
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yeah, but I don't know what to say.
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Don't okay. That's a given.
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Just just go and and say hello. My name is and I've noticed that
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there just seems to be an area where you could use some prayer
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and then just see what happens. I mean, you have to.
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Step out on Faith. Take that.
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Take that journey and the. Activities of our Lord Jesus
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Christ during His ministry, when He was anointed with the Holy.
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He walked up to those that all the rest of the society stepped
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away from. One of the first.
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Miracles, specifically that you read in the Gospels is the man
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who was. Full of leprosy, everyone kept
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away from a leper they were afraid to be, not just made
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unclean. But a lepers whole life was was
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his family. Was destroyed.
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His socially he was destroyed, economically he was destroyed.
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It was living death. And when that leper came up to
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Jesus, I am guessing, although the text doesn't say.
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That all the disciples backed away.
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But the Bible says on the request.
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Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean, and I just
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want to say this evening that some of you are living in.
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Leprosy because of what's happened in your life.
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People just stay away from you. It just seems like everything is
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gone. Because of what you have done
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or. Because of what has happened to
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you. You're all alone.
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It's as if you have a kind of leprosy.
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But this leper saw in Jesus the only.
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Hope he had and he went to Jesus and he made the request which
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could have been rejected. I mean, when you make a request,
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you know that he could be just rejected another rejection.
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Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.
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And how did Jesus respond? I will.
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And he touched him, but it didn't make Jesus unclean.
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His Holiness purified the man the.
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Power of the Holy Spirit left him, and touched and healed him.
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He gave him instruction to go into the temple and show
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himself. To the priest, because that
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would be a testimony of the power of the good News.
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That's the purpose of spiritual gifts.
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Is to is to show the truth of the Word of God and the.
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Gospel of Jesus Christ. Of course he didn't do it.
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He was so excited he got his life back, but the point was
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made. Who are those were to search
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out, according to our text I want you.
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To circle these words. The poor, the broken hearted,
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the captives, the prisoners, those grieving and mourning.
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Those who have longterm desolations now in that last
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part when it talks about rebuilding that the longterm
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desolations. Of course the 1st application
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would be the restoration of of Israel and Jerusalem and the
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Temple and all. But it has to go to something.
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Deeper in the Lord Jesus because some of us are living in long
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term desolations and and we'll touch on this a little deeper
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here in a second. These are descriptive words.
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Poor broken hearted captives, Prisoners.
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Grieving, mourning. Long term desolations.
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It's in light of what sin has done in them and to them, in us
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and to us. Poor is not merely a physical
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condition. It's not just a matter.
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Of social justice and taking care of.
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Of social evils. It's something much deeper.
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To be poor is a description of being without.
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Resource without help, without hope, and there are many people
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in. Hollywood who have lots of
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money. Who are poor because they all of
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that glitz and. Glory doesn't satisfy the good
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news of. The gospel of the grace of Jesus
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Christ provides what nothing else can provide hope, lasting
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hope, abiding hope, eternal hope, even when things.
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Are terrible outwardly. I can have joy.
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I can have hope when everything has been taken from me.
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There are heroes that we read about in Hebrews Chapter 11,
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not. Just those who did amazing
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things by faith. But those who were persecuted?
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Those who were sawn in half, those who wandered about with
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hardly any clothing because everything was taken from them
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that they're. Called Heroes of Faith, even
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though outwardly everything was gone and let me.
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Just ask this question. Have you lost true, lasting
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hope? You've been so focused on what
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has not happened in your life. That it's killed your hope, and
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that's what the enemy wants to. Do is just destroy your life
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from the inside. But wait a minute.
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As a believer, you have the Holy Spirit abiding in you.
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He didn't leave. Now you may have in your pride,
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put a boulder on top of the well so there's no water coming out.
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But but you need. To ask the Lord for the strength
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to humble yourself and and lot of times that.
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Boulder is just pride. It didn't happen the way I
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wanted to. And so you're mad at God could
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chunk big. Boulder over the well.
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Well, I don't feel any. I've got a river of life.
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Flowing out of me I don't see. That at all well.
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Dude, you've got a big rock on top of it and your pride because
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you demanded that God did certain things and they didn't
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come through and so you're ticked off at God.
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Can you do that as a Christian? Yeah, sure.
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So what do you do? You got to go.
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Back and confess your sin, pride.
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Is is destructive. Here's the thing though.
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Jesus doesn't want to condemn you because you got off track.
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How do I know that? Matthew Chapter 12 verses 18 to
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21. Check this out.
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Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, referring to the Lord
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Jesus, my beloved, and whom my. Soul is well pleased.
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I will put my spirit upon him. And he will declare justice to
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the Gentiles. He will not quarrel, nor cry
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out, nor will anyone hear his. Voice in the street a bruised.
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Read He will not break and smoking flax he will not quench
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till he sends forth justice to victory.
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And in his name Gentiles will trust smoking flax.
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He will not quench. And we talked about this in an
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earlier study. Sometimes we just don't think
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there's any light at all. We're.
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Kind of a Smoking Candle Wick with a little glow.
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And a bunch of smoke. How's your life going today?
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Well, I feel a. Little smoky, actually.
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Not much life happening, not not so much light.
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I remember the good old days when I was on fire.
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How does the Lord see you? Is he up?
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There in heaven, with his arms folded and he's tapping his foot
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and going, When are you going to get it together?
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I don't think he'd speak in English, but, you know, just
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think about it. Maybe that's how your dad.
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Or your mom. Or those you highly respected
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that. Turned on you, Treated you.
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But look at the Bible for how. God describes himself a smoking
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flax. He will not quench, He's not
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interested in. Putting you out.
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He's interested in fanning you into a flame, but you've.
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Got to come to him first, because he's already come to
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you. How do you come to the Lord when
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you feel such shame over your light going out?
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You just humble yourself, kind of like the prodigal son.
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It says when he came to himself, he said how many servants have
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more food than than I'm having right now?
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And he went back. He humbled himself, and he went
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back. And that's what God is.
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Calling us to do when our fire is going out because we can't
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start it. Again ourselves.
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He has to do the work. Broken hearted is another
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condition here. This is more than just being
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jilted by a boyfriend or a girlfriend who walks out on you.
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This is broken hearted deep broken heart.
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It has to do with the deep. Grief and heartache over what
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sin has done to your life. How many people I've talked to
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in my office, they've destroyed their life.
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By a moment of sin, they destroyed their families.
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And they can't gather it back together.
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It's as if a. Grenade went off and shrapnel
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went everywhere. I've ruined my life.
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I'm broken hearted. I, I, I, I don't know what to
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do. Well, how does God see that?
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Psalm 147 versus 2 and three the.
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Lord builds up Jerusalem. He gathers together the outcasts
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of Israel. He heals the Broken Hearted and
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binds up their wounds. Sometimes in our embarrassment
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and shame, we don't want to come to the Lord and just fess up,
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and we have to see the Lord for how he.
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Has revealed himself to be he wants to heal, he wants to
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restore, he wants to bind up. He wants to pour in the oil to
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bring the healing, but we've got to do it his way.
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And that's what we see here. And we go on here it says the
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captives. And those who are bound, how did
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they get into captivity? Someone stronger than them,
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something stronger than them, took them captive.
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We know what it is physically, but you?
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Know that people can be captive spiritually.
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They can be taken captive in their sin and and and let's move
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away from radical sin and let's go into the sin of anger.
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You know you can be captive to the.
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Sin of anger and wrath in your life.
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You can be religious, but man, if somebody ticks you off you.
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Hit the ceiling. And now you've used your anger
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to control situations, to manipulate people.
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Because it works, you get your way.
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But you don't understand. You're the silent victor, you
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think, because everyone's terrified of you.
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That's not building relationships.
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That's not walking in love. You've been captive by that sin.
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Of wrath, anger, malice. It's destroyed your life and it
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destroys the lives of others. Satan is the One who has hooked
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you, and Jesus is the. One who sets you free.
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He has the power to set you free.
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Maybe you think it's hopeless? No, that's just how.
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I am. I mean every country I've ever
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been to. All of the.
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Cultures think that they have the market on anger.
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You go to the Irish. Oh, I'm just hot and just hot
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and angry, you know. Then you go to the Russians.
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Oh, yes. You know, and every single
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culture thinks they have, you know, they have a right to
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express their anger. You can't do that in the Kingdom
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of God. How do you get rid of it?
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How do you get free from that behavior?
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By the power of the Holy Spirit? Because His love flushes out
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the. Anger.
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He softens your heart. He opens your eyes to see
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what's. Really going on to see people as
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he sees. Them to see yourself as he sees
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you. A lot of times, anger is just a
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defense. So people.
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Don't get close to you. Well, let's keep on going here,
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verse 3. But to comfort all who mourn.
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To console those who mourn in Zion.
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To give them beauty for ashes, the oil.
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Of joy for mourning the garment, of praise for the Spirit.
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Of heaviness, ashes, mourning spirit, of heaviness, All terms
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that communicate deep. Grieving over something or
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someone who has died instead of ashes upon the head to.
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Signify deep sadness and grief. Jesus wants to give beauty
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beauty for. Ashes and it's interesting that
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the Hebrew word for beauty means a beautiful.
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Headdress a crown. Instead of pouring the ashes on
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the head, I want to put a crown on you and and it's interesting
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like in Revelation chapter 4. There are 20 4 elders who are.
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Around the throne and they have crowns and it says that.
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When the four living creatures cry holy, holy, holy.
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The 24 elders there take their. And they cast it at the base.
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Of the throne and say you are worthy, O Lord, to receive.
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Glory and honor and power. God wants to give us a
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headdress. Of beauty in place of the ashes.
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And it's his work. It's a crown of honor and
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blessing. It may not change your physical
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condition. There still may be the deep
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grief of loss, but there's. Hope and there's joy.
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The oil of. Joy and gladness represents a
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soothing ointment that brings freshness and hope.
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Not Psalm 23 comes to mind. Verse 5 you prepare a.
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Table before me in the presence of my enemies.
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You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
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Man, how we need a a fresh. Filling of the Holy Spirit to
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just soothe. And heal and flush out.
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The things that are just defiling in our life, in our
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thought life, in our words. In our attitudes, in our
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actions, and rather than being clothed with sackcloth, in
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mourning, the English Standard version says a faint spirit.
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The New Living, says despair. There's this.
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Garment of praise and joy and Thanksgiving.
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How can you sing praise to God and have joy when your whole
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life outwardly has crumbled? Because it's an inward life that
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changes you and inward life. And so if I have nothing I yet
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have, I have all. Things I have him, he'll take
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care of it. I mean my wife and I of 53
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years. We have been.
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We've had our ups and downs and we've a number of times that
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we've been stripped to to 0. And it's interesting.
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When you look around, you go, wow, then let's just go forward.
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Let's just start. Again, let's, and I mean you'll
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watch the Lord peace. Things together his way.
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And you know what's actually kind of freeing when you put all
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your stuff in a U-Haul and all of a sudden it's in this little
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box? Everything you own is in this
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little box. And then the and then the box
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drives away. You ever see those little pod?
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Things that you can rent and put all your stuff in there for
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storage. And so they're pulling away and
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you're standing there going, we don't you really need any of
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that stuff. Actually, I can live without it.
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It's an amazing feeling for a while.
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Okay, let's go to the last. Section here.
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Verses 3 and 4 anointed to rebuild and raise up and repair.
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This is an interesting section. Here they that they may be
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called. Trees of righteousness, The
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planting of the Lord that He may be glorified.
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God uses a picture of a tree. A planting of the.
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Lord not self planted. This is a work of God, God.
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Wants to do a work so that. He might be glorified.
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That's the. Purpose of you and I serving the
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Lord in these last days. The whole purpose is how has my
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life glorified Him? Because when you stand before
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him on that day, he he removes you from this earth and you
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stand before him. It's not about your net worth,
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it's about how. Has my life glorified you while
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I was on the earth the planting of the Lord?
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That he may be glorified Psalm One verse 3.
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He shall be the righteous. Man shall be like a tree.
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Planted by the rivers of water that.
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Brings forth its fruit in its seizing, whose leaf also.
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Shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.
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And Jeremiah 17 says the same thing, verses 7 and eight.
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Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord.
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And whose hope is the Lord? For he should be like a.
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Tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by
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the river. And will not fear when the heat
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comes, but its leaf will be. Green and will not be anxious in
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the Europe drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit there
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are. Things in our world right now
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that can bring great anxiety. Everything could collapse.
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All your pension that you would hope that you were.
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Hoping on counting on could just go up.
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In smoke we had some friends that had their their their whole
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house just destroyed. By a wildfire recently.
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It was their source. Of income.
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They were using it as like an Airbnb and it was one of the
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main ways that they were getting income.
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And it's gone. Everything's gone, everything is
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gone, but they have a hope because it's just stuff.
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The Lord is my provider. I will not fear what man can do
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to me. Men in verse four, they shall
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rebuild the old. They shall raise up the former
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desolations, by the way. Sometimes in a marriage things
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fall apart to such an extent that.
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The husband and the wife think that there's no hope of any
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reconciliation. It is old ruins it is.
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Former desolations It is a. Ruined city.
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I just want you to know that. God.
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Never gives up pride, selfishness.
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Unforgiveness, bitterness. Satan is using all of those to
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crush the heart, to crush the relationship.
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Some of you are fighting with a captivity to an addiction and it
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might not be an addiction to alcohol and or addiction into
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drugs. It might be an addiction to
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fearing close, intimate relationships.
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And so you're a runner, and that thing of being a runner is an
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addiction to you. Because as.
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Soon as you get close to someone, you've got to run
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because it's too risky. Too dangerous?
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Well, listen to me God. His heart breaks.
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For you. And he knows what to do.
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He wants to heal your life. But there's a process by the
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power of the holy. Spirit, He can change that area
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of your life step by step. Glory to glory, there's such
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hope. In the gospel of Jesus.
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Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit to raise up.
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And and rebuild the old ruins the.
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Planting of the Lord that he might be glorified.
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So as we consider what. We have been talking about here.
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There are people. That we will encounter this is
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their. Situation of life.
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Don't run from them, run to them.
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Secondly, it might be you and where you run is you Run to the
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Lord because. It's not the next counselor that
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you need, it's Jesus that you. Need and the power of the Holy
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Spirit to do that. Work in you first before he
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goes. And does the work around you and
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through you. Let's pray our Father.
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In heaven, this is a powerful scripture.
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And we're dependent upon the Holy Spirit to do what we are.
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Unable to do at all the world. Writes so many selfhelp books.
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One after the other after. The other Why so many if it was
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supposed to work, But you are our hope.
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And we are asking the Lord God that you would show yourself.
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Powerful in the lives of everyone who is here, everyone
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who's listening, everyone who is watching online.
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That you would set captives free That you would.
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Heal the broken hearted that you would restore the old
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desolations. So, Lord, we're not going to
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figure out how to do it, where it's going to look to you
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because you have a separate. Strategy for each individual.
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And so now, Lord, starting tonight, would you do that work?
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In our midst, in Jesus name. Amen.
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