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Jesus & The Wild Animals | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Do you have the word of God in your hands this afternoon?
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  If you do meet me in the Gospel According to Mark chapter 1,
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  beginning in verse 12 I was so eager this morning to Behold The
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  Glory of Jesus with you and we will do it.
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  Now as we read these two verses, which will be our Focus today as
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  a family and Mark 1. 12, we read in the word The spirit
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  immediately drove him out into the Wilderness and he was in the
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  wilderness 40 days, being tempted by Satan and he was with
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  the wild animals and the Angels were ministering to him.
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  Lori asked you from the bottom of our hearts.
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  Do a miracle in our hearts, help us see Christ.
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  Help us see the wisdom that he has for us.
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  Help us see the glory that he alone.
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  Possesses Lord. Please bring us into a new
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  revelation. Revelation that is not added to
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  this truth, but a revelation that is hidden because of our
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  flesh. Lord Open the Eyes of our hearts
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  so that we can see a facet of the beauty of the son of God.
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  We play with you Lord in Jesus name.
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  Amen. Generally speaking, when one
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  seeks to Endeavor to explore the famous 40-day, temptation of the
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  Lord. Jesus, Mark's account is usually
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  not the primary reference for discussion and perhaps for the
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  apparent reason that it is summarized in, but to versus his
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  report is much briefer than that of Matthew and Luke When you go
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  to Matthew and Luke, you see it much more elaborate
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  understanding of what took place at Lisa.
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  A snippet of what happened during that 40 day, test that
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  the Lord Jesus endured and succeeded in.
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  Now, what's amazing is that as Mark summarizes it, there are
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  still so many similarities that all three of them share and
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  those similarities are things that the believer who loves the
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  word of God, who studies, the word of God are familiar with,
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  almost by heart. We all know that the Holy Spirit
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  and all accounts is the agent that leads Christ to be tempted
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  by the devil. We all know that it was a 40-day
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  trial and we also know that as Jesus comes into this, he leaves
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  to begin his public Ministry. And so, what we see here is
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  though, it may seem like it is totally in line with the other
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  accounts there are still differences.
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  Yes, even in these two verses there are things for us to be
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  able to look at and say, what is, what is the Lord saying
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  through marks narrative that he, that he might not be saying as
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  much in Matthew or in Luke and that should excite us.
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  Because there is no random detail in the word of God.
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  And that is certainly true with this.
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  So as we come to Endeavor to understand this familiar event,
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  in the temptation of Jesus with a prayer, Ambition, we will
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  trust and see that. As we understand this, we will
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  have a fresh love for him, a fresh adoration for the master.
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  And so we come to verse 12 and notice this, the spirit
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  immediately drove him out. This was right after the
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  coronation of Jesus by physical manifestation of the Holy Spirit
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  and by an audible affirmation from the father in the heavens.
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  But from that to this, we hardly take a breath before the scene
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  quickly shifts. It's it just happens at such a
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  rate in, which we're almost like, well, where are we here?
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  What just happened? And that is on purpose,
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  obviously. Matthew and Luke are
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  chronologically consistent with Mark, with this temptation
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  account in, that it happened after Jesus was baptized by
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  John, that is the same. That is something that they all
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  share, but Mark has a different way of saying it, then, Matthew
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  and Luke. Notice the language this,
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  Immediately drove him out. You know what Matthew would say,
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  you know what, Luke would say that the Spirit Led Jesus out.
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  That is not the same when you come to that word drove in the
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  original. It is a very forceful one.
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  It is the actual word that is used in describing the
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  Deliverance that Jesus would bring upon those who are in
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  bondage to Demons when he would cast those demons out when he
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  would drive them out. It's the very same word Iqbal.
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  Oh it is very forceful, it's almost violent and yet the
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  spirit of God wants to tell us That the spirit drove drove, the
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  Lord, Jesus Into the Wilderness now to understand that meaning,
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  and then to see how it's used elsewhere, only to interpret
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  that Jesus was perhaps hesitant or reluctant or not willing to
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  go. And so the Holy Spirit almost
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  takes over and drags him into the Temptation.
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  Would be false would be a misunderstanding.
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  What we are learning here about, Jesus is the first thing in
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  consideration of what, we're studying number one, the
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  submission of the Lord Jesus to the spirit.
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  All this is really trying to say is that the influence of the
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  Holy Spirit was so great, over the life of the Lord, it was so
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  powerful. It was all-consuming and the
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  Lord, Jesus willfully, and joyfully submitted to the
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  leadership of the spirit. This one short word is a massive
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  statement into what the great humility of our savior.
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  He relinquished any control in his life in his Humanity.
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  He surrendered any kind of authority in the sense that he
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  wanted to submit to God. And so the spirit and seeing
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  that humility and hearing, that prayer does what he occupies the
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  driver's seat of Jesus's life so to speak.
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  And what is so powerful about that?
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  I've often said, and I'll say it again that to be full of the.
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  Holy spirit is not so much about us having more of him.
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  So as Believers, we're not saying, Holy Spirit, I want more
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  of you. When we say, I want to be filled
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  with the Holy Spirit what's actually happening.
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  Is he's having more of us. To be full of the holy spirit is
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  not about us having more of him at, it's about him having more
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  of us. And that makes total sense when
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  you compare the activity of the spirit here in Jesus life and
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  the experience that Jesus had in the same scene told elsewhere
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  with the spirit because you know what Luke adds to this.
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  And this is what makes what makes studying the word of God.
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  So exciting. What makes this so amazing is
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  that Luke tells us in chapter 4 and verse 1.
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  It says Too far. He's a neighbor so you can turn
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  there in your Bibles to see it for yourself.
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  Look what Luke says in chapter 4 verse 1, And Jesus full.
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  Full of the Holy Spirit returned from the Jordan and was led by
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  the spirit in the wilderness. So so Luke says, Jesus was full
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  of the Holy Spirit. Mark says that he was driven out
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  by the spirit. And when you bring these verses
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  together, you come to a conclusion and it is this that
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  the result of being full of the holy spirit is that we come
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  under the rain of the Holy Spirit.
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  And it's impossible to claim my brother and whom I love my
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  sister and whom I love to claim that we are filled with the Holy
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  Spirit. If there is no tangible evidence
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  of his leadership, In our lives. And that is the great blessing
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  that awaits us as we obey the command in the word of God, that
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  says seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  There is much to be known in that experience, an experience
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  that is available to all of us. Yes, we are all sealed a holy
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  spirit but it would be a false statement to say that we are all
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  equally filled with the Holy Spirit.
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  In other words, we all have the Holy Spirit by faith.
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  But the Holy Spirit having all of us in the same way is not
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  true though. It is the standard.
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  It is not the experience. Unfortunately of the collective
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  body. The Holy Spirit here as he fills
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  a vessel. You know what?
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  We get, we inherit his prompting.
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  We know something of his persuasion, we know a protection
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  and we know a power over the flesh.
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  When we say that the holy spirit is driving Jesus out.
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  And when we say that when we were filled with the holy spirit
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  that we know his influence, it's not like we become lifeless
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  puppets and we move and we speak unconsciously.
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  What happens is there's an enablement and enablement from
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  the born-again hearts desire that wants to walk in the ways
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  of the Lord. And the Holy Spirit says I'm
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  going to lift you up. Now, I'm a take you there.
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  I'm going to make it possible. And then what we experience
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  there is that he begins to drive every part of our Lives into the
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  purposes of God for us. And so that looks like my
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  thoughts being influenced by the spirit, my tongue being driven
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  in a certain way, my reactions being overcome by the spirits
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  influence and not my flesh. The flesh doesn't have the
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  driver see anymore, the spirit does.
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  And that's why. I know you love to fill your cup
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  of coffee every morning to get you going, but do you daily?
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  Ask him, fill me with all these Spirit.
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  Fill me with the Holy Spirit. I don't want to leave this room
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  empty. Again, that imagery helps but we
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  would get the wrong idea to say that I'm 30% filled with the
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  spirit and my brother over. There is 70% filled.
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  That is not the case. The case is this, the Holy
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  Spirit, having us controlling us influencing us and it is a real
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  thing. It is observable.
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  It is tangible. You can almost step outside of
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  yourself and say there is no way that if it wasn't for the spirit
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  that I would have responded in the way that I responded to
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  that. This is what Christ purchased
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  for you and I and Jesus is in humanity and his Humanity.
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  Here is exemplifying that and as exciting as that sounds, we also
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  have to be realistic you and I can't move forward from verse 12
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  without seeing the, the reality, the realistic reality of what a
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  life filled with the Holy Spirit, looks like what it means
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  to be led by the Holy Spirit. We see the submission of Jesus
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  to the spirit. And if we don't understand what
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  that entails, Then many of us are setting ourselves up for
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  great disappointment and grief in the Christian experience.
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  What do I mean by that? When Jesus according to Luke was
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  full The Holy Spirit. And according to Mark when he
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  was driven by the Holy Spirit, here's our understanding
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  majority, at least when I'm when I'm seeking for this Spirit lead
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  life when I'm seeking to be full.
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  What we imagine is we are going to just progress from one
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  Blissful experience to the next. Along the lines of what Jesus
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  knew at his baptism. Oh, Open Heavens.
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  And manifestations, Supernatural, manifestations,
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  great. Sensations of the father's,
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  affirmation and affection for us.
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  And God is willing to do that. And there are times where we are
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  caught up with him in a very special way if he chooses to
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  manifest himself in such a way. But what happened, when the Holy
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  Spirit descended Upon Jesus? He was driven out into the where
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  Wilderness. That's where the Holy Spirit
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  took him. That is the direction of the
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  Holy Spirit In Jesus life before his public Ministry.
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  And the Wilderness was nothing like what Jesus experienced at
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  his baptism. Someone observed wisely when he
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  said that, a life of obedience will remove all unnecessary
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  trials and tribulations in life. The sorrow that your sin and my
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  sin and Disobedience will bring walking in the path of obedience
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  eliminates. The unnecessary trials in life,
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  yet. Let me say this.
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  At the same time, we have to know that a life of obedience of
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  being led by the spirit. Asher's us appointments with
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  necessary, trials and tests. Life. and I know a lot of people
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  who don't understand that, The spirit drove Jesus Into the
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  Wilderness left to ourselves. We would not dare to step foot
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  into such an environment. Or such a season.
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  What was in the wilderness? A unique test for our Lord?
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  Yes. But let's be specific.
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  There were solitude There was baroness.
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  It was difficult Terrain. It like provision it lacked, the
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  care of other humans. Other people there are real
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  dangers. There there are, there was
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  hostility, there are threats at the baptism.
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  The voice of the father was booming loud and in the
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  wilderness. What was Amplified?
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  The voice of Satan. And this is where the spirit was
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  leading Jesus. This is where God wanted him to
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  go and when we dare to believe any differently for our own
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  lives. Do not be surprised that in your
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  pursuit of being a vessel for the spirit of God, that you find
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  yourself in long periods of pressure, that will test your
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  trust in God. And how you really rely on his
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  word But, for what reason, I mean, this is, if this is what
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  it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit, I don't know, I
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  think I'm not interested. Who wants to go in a Wilderness
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  with the Devil? Who wants to go and be tested?
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  But that's what the flesh says. Be comforted to know that our
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  God is Not sadistic. You know what that means that he
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  takes, Pleasure and Pain and torturing us.
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  He doesn't toy with your life. He's not Reckless with your
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  future. He's not uncalculated.
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  He is perfectly in righteously intentional.
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  With every single step that you take.
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  He is orchestrating it and you will know a a journey and a
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  security in that Journey when you live a life led by the Holy
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  Spirit which brings me to the second observation.
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  The first one was the submission of Jesus to the spirit which is
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  awesome. But consider with me the
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  security in the spirits leading. Look at Mark again and verse 12
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  and verse 13. Jesus completed this Mission
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  without abandoning his post without evacuating prematurely.
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  And what's so fascinating is when you go to Matthew and Luke,
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  you see this drawn-out encounter with Satan, right?
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  We are all familiar with that the back and forth that goes on
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  that battle between the devil and our Lord.
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  But when you come to this, it almost skips.
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  All of that. It's almost as though.
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  Mark, just wants us to see who and what happened to Jesus,
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  right before the Temptation, and what happened right after He
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  just wants to just kind of skip over it very quickly and that's
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  not because he doesn't think it's important but even in the
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  brevity of it, it speaks of what he wants us to see and what you
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  are left with. As we come to these two verses
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  is this simple thought Jesus succeeded?
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  He succeeded in his suffering that he experienced in this
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  Wilderness. He completed it, he passed.
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  And that is so crucial to understand because we would come
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  to this and we asked ourselves, what we asked with the baptism.
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  But why, why did the spirit have to drive Jesus out?
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  Why did he have to be tempted for 40 days?
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  What was it? That that because Matthew says
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  he went in there to be tempted by the devil for that purpose.
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  And again, we might scratch our heads and wonder what is the
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  purpose behind? This was it to make manifest the
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  purity of Christ. You better believe it.
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  Was it to Showcase his power over the devil over all
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  temptation. Absolutely.
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  But there's more, if Jesus identified with you and I as
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  sinners in his baptism, then surely Jesus identifies with our
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  Temptations in the wilderness. He identifies with our
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  Temptations in this. Heightened extreme face off with
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  the tempter himself. And that is something so
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  crucial. Because you see, as Jesus,
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  walked in solitude in that Wilderness and that lifeless
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  desert, something was gained something happened in his
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  Humanity. That is why the scriptures
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  unashamedly tells us about Jesus, in regards to his
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  temptation and how it translates to how you and I relate to him
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  Hebrews 2:18. For because he himself has
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  suffered. When tempted, he is able to help
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  those who are being tempted. Now, we know, and this is
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  important, that there is nothing in Jesus, that would cause him
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  to be tempted. That's you.
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  And I because we inherited something from Adam that
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  corruption but that does not negate or diminish, the
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  intensity of the Temptation though, it was outside of him.
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  How can Jesus suffer with a sinless nature when it comes to
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  Temptation the same way you? And I, when we are walking in
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  the spirit, when we were walking in Holiness when we are, when we
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  are in fellowship with the Lord, Not suffer in the presence of
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  evil. Doesn't that take your heart?
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  Doesn't that tear you apart? And the Soul, when you go out
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  with your family, to some sports game, or whatever it is and you
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  hear people, blaspheming the name of Jesus, doesn't that send
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  a shiver down your spine when you see all the wickedness that
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  is being propagated to our children.
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  Does it? Not do something to you?
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  How much more the one who is without sin?
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  How much more the Holy One? Who suffered when tempted.
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  And what I want to say in light of this is that the Lord did not
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  come into this world merely to be our substitute for sin.
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  That is the climax that is the mission.
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  Yes. But not merely to be our
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  substitute for sin. He also became our sympathizer
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  in temptation. Sympathizer in Temptation, he
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  suffered. And in his suffering, there is
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  something of a sympathy. The Temptations here during
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  those 40 days. Ensures us that we can approach.
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  A God who is experiencing overcame, what what may seem to
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  overwhelm Us in the moment. This will mean a lot to those
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  who know the Great War for Holiness and christlikeness, you
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  know what this means. The Lord the king of glory.
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  The resurrected one, he feels for you and me, he feels for you
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  and me. His heart is connected to us.
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  You can relate because there is a shared experience and I don't
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  know if we understand that the depth of that implication.
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  But I hope I hope you get an idea of it because I'm sure you.
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  Yes, you at one point in your life, in dire need of help, felt
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  this natural pull to. Go to those who, you know, have
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  shared your suffering. You feel as though you can go to
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  them, go to her because you heard you need to speak to mrs.
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  So-and-so or brother so-and-so, because they went through
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  something very similar and they came through.
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  And so you find yourself coming to those people, and unloading
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  your heart and bearing your heart more naturally because you
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  realize that their counsel will be cushioned with a Grace.
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  And with a patients and with surgical advice because they'd
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  been through it, they know they felt the fire themselves and so
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  that's what that's why you go to them.
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  And and your little bit more hesitant to go to somebody who
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  might not have that experience. Because there's a concern that
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  they may not know what to say to you are at worse.
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  Be even indifferent to your suffering because they can't
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  understand why this is so crushing to you.
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  There's almost like this glass window between you and them and
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  there's no touch there, there's no heart to heart there.
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  And here's what we know. The Lord Jesus himself can help
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  us because he can relate to us in all things because he was, he
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  was tempted in all ways. What that means is I can come
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  limping into the presence of Jesus Christ.
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  I can come broken smashed shattered.
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  Barely able to keep myself up and I can communicate though.
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  In reverence yes. But also freely in my suffering
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  because I have an awareness that he patiently.
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  Here's me. Because he endured.
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  All things. So I'm not speaking to a god
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  that looks and he's so distant. This distant deity.
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  I says okay come on, let's go here but one who actually
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  inhabits the Brokenness of his people and he sits close and he
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  now only gives me his listening ear.
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  He then now provides the precise, wisdom and counsel and
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  power, so that I can overcome and like he did He's so
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  attractive. He's so wonderful.
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  And and the spirit as glorious as I truth, it's not the main
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  point of what I'm trying to communicate.
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  Because what I want to say is that it was the spirit who led
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  Christ to suffer in this way. And in doing so he could be a
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  sympathizer with us. And that is just one aspect to
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  why he was tempted. And what does that mean for us?
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  Surely the spirit as he leads us as he guides us, what may be
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  unpleasant what may be a season with wild and strange people you
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  know what I'm talking about? No just do ministry a little
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  longer. Serve got a little bit longer
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  and sometimes even leading us into while we're obeying.
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  Threats. and slander, and Can all these strange things that
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  are not warranted? That don't make sense.
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  And am I here? Because of Disobedience?
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  Be careful. Jesus was perfect and the spirit
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  perfectly led him into such a thing.
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  A Wilderness with wild animals. In a vicious devil for what?
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  For the same aim with the Masters so that incoming out of
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  it, you would inherit something sweet.
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  And that you would gain something sacred.
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  In such a way, that others will be blessed by it.
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  The spirit, that's the security in his leadership.
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  I have no reason to be afraid. It doesn't make sense Jesus,
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  just obey Jesus, just finished, humbling himself in the presence
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  of a crowd before God. And he was showered with the
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  spirit and he was given affirmation.
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  And immediately you're brought into such a thing.
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  Do you believe for a moment that a Spirit Led Life Is void of
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  Temptation? Is void of challenge.
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  Is void of danger. And hostility and problems.
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  Not the unnecessary ones but necessary ones.
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  And that is what we see with Jesus here.
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  And that should encourage us as we seek to live in obedience to
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  him. I can trust his leadership.
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  No matter. What is around me or, who is
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  around me? The security in the spirits
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  leadership of may also add the standard of service to God the
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  submission of Jesus, to the spirit, makes you want to
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  worship Him. The security of the spirits
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  leadership and makes you safe, feel safe, knowing that the
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  spirit will never lead you to something that is without profit
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  even when it comes with the great problems.
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  But there is also an example here by Jesus, there's a
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  standard of service to God. What do I mean by that?
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  When we understand the timing of Jesus Temptation here, it's good
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  to know that it was right before his public Ministry.
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  It was right before he would go out into Galilee and he would
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  begin preaching and doing great signs and wonders.
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  And when you go to look for, again, look with me in verse 14
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  and notice what we are told. And Jesus returned after the
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  Temptation in the power. In the power of the spirit to
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  Galilee, you come back to Mark and what do you read?
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  Or read a verse 14. Now after John was arrested in
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  chapter 1 verse 14. Jesus came into Galilee,
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  proclaiming the gospel. Luke wants to make us know that
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  he came also in power and Power. You know what I find amazing is
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  that the spirit of God that We Came Upon Jesus didn't make him
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  go into public ministry, right away.
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  And I think this is a great great reminder.
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  For those who are aspiring Servants of God, please pay
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  attention to what I'm about to say.
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  Because I think, I think this is one of the reasons why there is
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  so much powerlessness in Christendom in the West.
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  You may disagree with me, but that's okay.
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  If any aspiring servant of God desires to be effective
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  publicly, is that you the know this, he first must know victory
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  over Temptation privately. If any aspiring servant of God
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  wants to be effective for Christ publicly.
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  He first must know, Triumph and victory over Temptation
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  privately. The church.
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  Can I expect to make an impact on the world?
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  When she is flirting and Sleeping With the Devil behind
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  the scenes. It's not going to happen.
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  Jesus came into Galilee with power because he resisted
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  Temptation when no one was looking.
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  David killed Goliath. But what was he doing before?
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  When no one was looking, he was killing bears and lions.
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  And we will not see great advancements.
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  We will now know great blessings of the spirit of God as the body
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  of Jesus Christ. If we cannot do the first and
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  most important thing and that is saying no to unholiness and no
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  to evil. when we are, when we are not in sight of the world to
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  see And I make that case from the example of Our Lord, that
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  there is a correlation listen to powerful Ministry.
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  And private holiness. Consider the example of Jesus,
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  he came into the Wilderness triumphed over the devil and
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  then he went out and was able to minister and bless those who are
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  oppressed by the devil. You can imagine how there can be
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  a series of messages just from combining the Temptation
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  accounts from Matthew Mark and Luke, but we will focus on just
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  what is presented before us. Today, when you come to verse 13
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  of Mark, what do you see? He was in the wilderness forty
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  days, we know that being tempted by Satan, that it seems to be
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  common knowledge and then we read at the end and Angels were
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  ministering to him. Matthew says the same thing,
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  Mark doesn't at the end of the Temptation, when he did succeed
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  and Satan left, Until another opportune time, God sent
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  servants, Heavenly beings to come and to minister unto Jesus.
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  Now, the nature of the ministry is unknown, but it could very
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  likely be that, these Angels Came seeing.
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  Their glorious savior wrapped in flesh, who also knew the
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  limitations of the flesh. He was hungry, he was thirsty,
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  he was weary and it's very likely.
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  I just like a weary. Elijah in the wilderness of his
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  day, the Angels Came to feed him.
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  To encourage him with their presence.
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  And that is mentioned so that you and I are reminded of the
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  humanity of Jesus Christ. He didn't bulldoze through the
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  desert necessarily. With Glory.
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  He went in as a man depended upon the holy spirit and he knew
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  how exhausting it was. He knew how draining it was and
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  then I can relate to him in that and he can relate to me.
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  And so even in my obedience and yours when we come out and we
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  were exhausted and dress, we he can he understands he doesn't
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  look as a come on, what kind of serving are you get up?
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  Nothing of the sort. And so the humanity of Jesus
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  here, highlighted but there's something that Mark says that
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  Loop is Mentioned neither. There's Matthew.
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  It seems to be an insignificant detail, seems to be unimportant,
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  it seems to just maybe put some color to the scene.
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  And it is this and he was with the wild animals.
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  He was with the Wild and Luke doesn't say that.
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  Matthew doesn't want to mention it.
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  But Mark wants to let us know that when Jesus went into that
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  desert. He was surrounded.
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  By Wild. Animals.
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  Why? Why does that matter?
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  I think it's much deeper than just knowing another layer to
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  the potential potential danger, while he was traveling through
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  that Wasteland. When you put the other pieces
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  and these two verses together, perhaps the light bulb will go
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  off, here it is. Animals.
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  Satan. Temptation.
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  Animals. Satan.
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  Temptation. I believe what we're seeing
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  here. Are the elements that were
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  present in the world described by the word of God before the
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  fall? With a much different setting of
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  course. Right before the encounter
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  between Satan, and our first parents, Adam was in a luscious
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  Lively Paradise like Garden. Not a wasteland, not a desert
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  now where there was danger and death, and he was also with
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  animals, not wild, beasts, but tamed beasts, approachable
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  friendly. Ones that presented no threat of
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  any kind of danger. There is no fear there in
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  relation to these animals. But even though Adam was in a
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  more favorable and ideal environment, when it came to
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  Satan tempting him in that atmosphere, he failed He failed.
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  Collaterally. He failed you and I are still
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  experiencing the consequences of that.
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  But then comes Jesus. Who is led by the spirit Into
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  the Wilderness and while traveling he's surrounded with
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  the looming danger of the threats of animals that are no
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  longer tamed but are by Nature aggressive.
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  And there is a limitation there between how much you can
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  actually relate to these beasts. And there is no Garden.
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  There is no glorious Rivers. There is no abundance of trees
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  is just dust and dirt and death. And it seems as though Mark is
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  trying to communicate this. The conditions that Jesus was in
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  were far less favorable than what Adam was experiencing but
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  he still was able to triumph over Satan.
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  He still was able to resist and conquer the lies of the evil
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  one. and the point, the point is this, it's not just for a clever
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  connection, massive implication, Massive implication and you only
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  really understand it. When you understand one of the
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  titles that Jesus was given by the Apostle Paul and I'll just
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  read it to you. Hold it as a reference for
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  another time and First Corinthians 15:45 listen to how
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  Paul in this in this really in his essay, a trying to explain
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  and prove the resurrection. He goes back and forth between
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  Adam and Christ and he says in First Corinthians 15:45 thus it
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  is written the first man. Adam became a living being the
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  last Adam. The last I saw the last human
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  being who's going to exist the last item is Christ.
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  The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
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  Jesus is known as the last item. What's the connection?
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  Why is the spirit of God wanting us to relate Adam and Christ?
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  What do they share? I think the main thing that they
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  share is that they had both a representative role in humanity.
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  They both shared a representative role in humanity.
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  Meaning, what? Adam is your father and mine in
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  the flesh. Being the first man created.
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  He, the theological term is the federal head of mankind.
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  The federal head of mankind and because he's the federal head,
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  the decisions that he makes whatever consequences come
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  about, we share in them. That is why you and I are born
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  into this world with corruption. That is why your precious little
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  child? Does it need to be taught how to
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  lie. Does it need to be taught?
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  Not to bite John it. And he knows how to bite Johnny.
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  You got to tell him not to bite. Johnny, you got a time to tell
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  the truth. You gotta tell him not to be
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  selfish. That is all because of our
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  representative in the flesh Adam and yet a man who is outside of
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  the curse Christ entering into our world seeking to be a new
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  head seeking to be a new representative wants to create a
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  new people who experience. The blessing.
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  Not the consequence of his obedience You and I are
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  suffering of the Disobedience because of our first father, and
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  Adam, and Jesus comes in untainted by Adamson, so that he
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  can walk as a representative for Humanity.
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  And those who would come to faith in him would be linked to
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  him. And then know the blessings that
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  he brings as the one who stands in our place.
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  I hope that makes sense. God so loved us.
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  Listen, he came into our broken world to rescue us from being in
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  Adam and remaining in Adam and I'm paying for the consequences
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  of being an atom by opening a way so that you and I can be in
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  Christ and hide in Christ and be linked to Christ.
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  And to experience the glories that Christ made possible for
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  us. So you don't you and I don't
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  share in the consequences of Adam anymore.
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  Who failed in the garden. You and I enjoy the blessings of
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  The Obedience of Jesus. Yes, on the cross, but also in
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  the wilderness, You and I are not going to pay for failing.
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  For failing to resist temptation.
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  You and I inherit Christ, Perfection over every kind of
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  Temptation that came his way. And that is why Jesus being with
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  the wild animals is so significant because he was
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  reversing the curse. That Adam brought into the world
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  that didn't just affect us who are created in the image of God.
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  But affected even the animal kingdom and nature itself.
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  And so he seeking to heal it. The things that have been
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  fractured because of Adam and now he comes in and he right
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  from the beginning is already ceiling.
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  As we read this. He's already sealing the victory
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  by overcoming Satan and only is going to bring it into full
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  effect at the cross. By saying I overcame what man
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  failed to do and the full effect of this reversal is not yet,
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  it's not yet, it's to come and even Isaiah hundreds of years
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  before Christ gives us a little glimpse into it.
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  You know, the verse the United Isaiah 11:6, the wolf shall
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  dwell with the lamb. And the leopard shall lie down
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  with the young goat and the calf, and The Lion, and the
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  fattened, calf together. And a little child shall lead
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  them. A little child shall lead them.
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  Some would say this is allegorical very difficult to
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  make the case. I see a universal redemption in
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  Jesus Christ, that's what it is. He's not just coming to save us.
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  He's coming to bring a new heavens and a new Earth.
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  He's coming to restore everything.
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  Everything that has been tainted by sin, everything that Adam
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  messed up. He's going to come and clean up
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  and restore and renew. So that everywhere you look in
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  that Millennial Reign and everywhere you look in that
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  Eternal age, you will see. Christ is a strong savior.
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  He saved. Yes, us.
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  But he saved the universe all things.
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  And he is giving us a glimpse of that Victory as he comes in
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  these two verses to show off. I overcame what Adam could not
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  overcome, even though the surrounding environment was not
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  in my favor, I'm still able To obey the father.
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  And that obedience is transferred to you.
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  I want to end by saying this, our culture is trying to create
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  all these categories. Of how humans can identify
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  themselves and it's getting weirder by the week.
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  I can't keep up with this stuff. And here's what I want to tell
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  you today, I don't care what PhD says, what?
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  I don't care, what university teaches, what I don't care what
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  anybody in the white house, has to say, God's house has a word,
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  and this is what I want to tell you, no matter what Humanity
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  creates in terms of categories, no matter how kind of what kind
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  of race ideology and narrative is being presented.
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  The Bible draws a simple line Of where Humanity falls into and
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  it's your choice, you're either in Adam or you're in Christ.
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  As one preacher said it, you're either dead in sin or you're
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  dead to sin. That's it.
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  Nothing else. You're either in Adam or you're
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  in Christ? Where are you?
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  Where are you today? Have you been transferred from
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  the domain of Darkness into the kingdom of his light?
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  Have you been driven from conviction into the loving arms
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  of a savior to say I no longer want to be under the headship of
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  Adam, I must come and make you my Lord.
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  I want to be covered by your righteousness.
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  I want to be restored. I want to know this renewal save
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  me. Renew me.
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  Have you done that? I want to let you know that
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  today. It can all change.
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  It can all change by decision of humility, to say hi.
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  No, I know that Jesus Christ is not my Lord.
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  I know that I have not crowned him my savior.
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  I have not fully understood the legal implications of what he
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  did while walking in this world and dying on that cross.
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  But now I know, I know what it means for me and I know that he
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  bids me to come so that I would know that his obedience is Mine
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  by faith. That's what you have to do.
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  That's what you have to understand because until then I
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  don't care what kind of money you have.
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  I don't care how smart you think you are.
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  I don't care what kind of future you're trying to build for
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  yourself. Satan owns you Satan owns you.
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  You're a slave to sin, aren't you?
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  You can't shake it off. No matter how much you pump into
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  self-will and selfish ambition you fall, don't you?
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  It's because you have a merciless Master over your life,
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  that's why. And there is a Merciful Savior
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  who wants to rescue you and deliver you.
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  And not just be your substitute listen to this for your sin but
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  that as you become the Redeemed by faith, he becomes your
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  sympathizer in Temptation. So that as you walk in this life
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  and you with a brand new heart filled with the Holy Spirit
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  desire to live for him and you fall and Temptation seemed so
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  strong and the tide seems to be pulling you.
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  Almost sweeping you off your feet.
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  You come to the master who saved you say, help me again and he's
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  there to help you again. And if you do fall, you come to
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  seek forgiveness. He forgives you, he doesn't kick
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  you out. But he binds up your wounds and
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  he heals you. He restores you.
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  And he is for you. This is who I present to you
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  today. The Glorious Majestic
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  infinitely, Beautiful. Jesus Christ of Nazareth who was
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  risen from the dead. Can be your savior today.
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  Make him your savior today. There is no other in Jesus name,
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  let's pray. Father, thank you.
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  That Jesus Christ identifies with our temptation.
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  Thank you. That we have a high priest who
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  is sympathetic, whose heart feels for us, who knows exactly
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  what to prescribe to us, because he has been through it himself.
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  For we ask that you would receive worship worship, not
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  just in song, but by your grace worship to say, no to Temptation
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  that, that itself would be worship as your word says, that
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  our body should be a Living Sacrifice acceptable, worship
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  unto you Lord. May we see the fight against
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  temptation as an opportunity to exalt Christ in our know, in our
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  rejection and our Triumph by your power and Lord, we pray by
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  your mercy that we would be a powerful.
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  For group of Believers because in private, you've helped us
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  overcome sin. So that in public, there is no,
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  there is no Authority lost because of hypocrisy, there is
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  no grievance of the holy spirit so that he will not work in and
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  through US, Lord, we want all that he has, we wanted to take
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  the driver's seat of Maranatha, Bible Church, And Lord not just
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  in our meetings but in our lives and our families and our
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  relationship with others. Lord, we want your leadership.
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  We thank you for the head of the church, Jesus Christ, we thank
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  you that in him. We have life in him, we have
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  reward in him. We have eternal life.
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  Thank you that you've rescued us from from Adams Race and brought
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  us into. The securing provision as a
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  child of God. We worship you.
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  We want to just magnify you for giving us a taste of your glory.
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  In these two verses in Jesus name we pray.
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  Amen. Can we stand and Worship the
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  Lord?