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Matthew chapter 17 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 17. Let us pray.
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  Our Lord God, we thank you Father, we thank you, Lord, for
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  another day. Lord, we thank you that we can
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  come and sit at your feet. Lord, we thank you for these
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  holy scriptures that we hold in our hands.
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  Lord, we thank you for the blood of the Lamb which cleanses us.
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  We thank you, God, for the promise of eternity.
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  We thank you, Father, that you are showing us greater things.
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  We thank you, Father, that you are taking us to new heights.
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  We thank you, Father, that you are allowing us to feel the
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  depths of your love. Father, we thank you that we can
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  swim in the deep end. We thank you that we can search
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  out truth. We thank you, God, that you are
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  truth. We thank you for the gems and
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  the jewels. God.
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  We thank you for all the prophecies that have been
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  fulfilled and are being fulfilled and will be fulfilled.
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  We thank you, God, that you have called us out.
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  We thank you, God, that we are chosen.
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  We thank you, God, that you, Lord, have put your finger upon
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  the things in our lives, God, that do not belong.
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  You're helping us, Lord. You're putting it under the
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  microscope, Lord. You're putting it under the
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  blood of Christ. You're putting it under the
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  cross, God. And so I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you help us to walk in our bridal identity.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you help us, Father,
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  to know that we're children of you, the Most High.
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  God, we thank you, Father, for purpose.
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  We thank you, Father, for meaning.
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  We thank you, Father, that you have set us in heights.
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  You have set us there with you in heavenly places.
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  So thank you, Father, for all the miraculous things that
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  you've done for us just today. Thank you for the breath in our
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  lungs, thank you for the capillaries, our heart that
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  beats. Thank you for sight and thank
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  you Lord, for the ability to hear.
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  Lord, I thank you that we can peek and peer into the
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  spiritual. I thank you, Father, for
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  spiritual eyes. God, that we can see what is
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  actually happening all around us today, each and every day.
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  I thank you, God, that you have called us to be your ministers
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  of reconciliation. You have called us into the
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  ministry, Father. You have called us into the
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  fertile soil. You have called us into rescuing
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  those and snatching them out of the fire and snatching them out
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  of the frigid waters, God, and into the lifeboats.
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  Lord, I thank you that you are the parachute.
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  I thank you, Father, that you are helping glide us through all
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  of the turmoil and the tomo and all the chaos surrounding us.
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  God, I thank you for the place of peace, Father, that
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  everywhere that we go, everywhere that we touch,
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  everywhere that we sit, Father, God is peace because you are
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  there and you said we're two or more gathered together.
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  There you are also. So God, I thank you for the
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  promises contained in this book. I thank you, Father, that we're
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  going from glory to glory. Thank you, Jesus, for all the
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  many things that you do for us. Thank you, Jesus, for what you
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  have done for us. I pray, Holy Spirit, that you
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  come in. You be our teacher.
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  Fill us today, Holy Spirit. Correct us today, Holy Spirit.
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  Discipline us today, Holy Spirit, I pray you'll convict us
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  today. Holy Spirit, I decrease as you
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  increase. Be our teacher, be our God.
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  Hide me, hide my thoughts, hide my words, and let this be all
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  about Yahweh everlasting, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
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  Forever and ever, the Ancient of Days.
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  We say yes and Amen to all of the words and all of the periods
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  and the commas, the jots and the titles.
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  Lord of this book, I thank you, Father, for all of the things
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  that you have done and are doing.
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  We love you, Lord Jesus, We enter your gates with praise and
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  Thanksgiving for you. Our holy, holy.
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  Holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come.
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  We worship you in spirit and truth today.
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  We love you, Father. It's all about Jesus.
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  It's all about you. It's all about the Kingdom.
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  Come here on earth, just as it is there in heaven.
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  Let your will be done, Father, here on earth, just as it is
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  there in heaven. Keep us, Lord, from temptation.
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  Keep us, Lord, from sinning. Keep us, Lord, from distraction.
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  Keep us, Lord, from being double minded.
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  Keep us, Lord, from all of the sinful desires and lusts of the
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  eyes and lusts of the flesh and the pride of life.
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  God, I pray you'll keep us from those things.
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  Lord, make us holy because you are holy.
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  Yes, sanctify us, purify us, consecrate us.
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  God, drive out all of the things in our lives that are not adding
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  up, that are not getting us into the sanctification, making us
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  more like Jesus today. Lord, I pray you will rid us of
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  those things, for you are a holy and gracious God, forever to be
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  praised. We love of you and it's in Jesus
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  Christ, holy, precious, righteous, powerful, strong name
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  that I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And after six days Jesus took Peter, James and John his
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  brother and brought them up into a high mountain apart.
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  So you have to understand that all the chapters and verses in
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  the Bible, they were not placed there before 16 hundreds.
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  So prior, when all of the manuscripts and whenever the
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  original Greek and Hebrew and Aramaic were all compiled, they
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  would have been a long scroll and it would have went on.
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  And we have these breaks in chapters and breaks in verses
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  and it makes it a whole lot easier for us to reference.
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  It makes it a whole lot easier to memorize.
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  Praise the Lord God, Hallelujah, John 316.
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  We can remember it, it's very simple, we can go right to it.
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  But prior to the 1600s, that was not the case.
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  And so therefore this is a continuation of verse 28 of
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  chapter 16 when Jesus said, truly I say unto you, there be
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  some standing here which shall not taste of death until they
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  see the Son of Man coming in his Kingdom.
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  And that would have flowed on the parchment, that would have
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  flowed on the papyrus, that would have flowed right into.
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  And after six days, Jesus took Peter, James and John his
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  brother and brought them into a high mountain apart, which we're
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  going to see in verse 2 what it's all about too, and was
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  transfigured before them. And his face did shine as the
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  sun and his clothing was white as the light.
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  Think about it, friends. Jesus allowed his glory to
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  shine. Jesus finally allowed them to
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  see Him as He truly was. This was not just a special gift
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  from God that allowed Jesus to shine bright like the sun.
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  No, Jesus is God Incarnate and He was unveiling the glory that
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  He hid within from mankind during this time.
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  How amazing is it? And we're going to see what he
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  meant in verse 28 whenever we get to see his Kingdom came to
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  this earth. And Jesus here is revealing his
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  kingship. He's revealing that he is the
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  King of kings here in this moment.
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  So if you can imagine going outside and looking up at the
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  sun, try to stare at the sun. You will not be able to for more
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  than a millisecond. It will blind you.
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  And here it says that he was shining like the sun, and his
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  clothing was white as the light. Can you imagine this, friends?
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  Can you even see it? 3 And behold, there appeared
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  unto them Moses and Elijah, talking with him.
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  So here we get to see the Kingdom come to the earth.
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  Lock in, pay attention. Jesus is the representative of
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  the King on the throne during the Millennium reign, during the
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  thousand year reign. Jesus ruling and reigning on the
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  throne. Here is Moses who is a
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  representative of all those that have died in Christ and they
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  have come back in bodily form. Here is Elijah which is a
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  representative of all those that were taken up that are going to
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  be taken up in the rapture. That is how Elijah left and they
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  are all represented here in this trifecta of Jesus as the King on
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  the throne during the thousand year reign.
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  They are there with Moses who is the representative of all those
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  that have died but come back in their new resurrected bodies.
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  And there is Elijah, all those that were taken up to meet him
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  in the clouds to be with him forever more.
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  And of course, another application is this is Jesus,
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  who is the fulfillment of the law and the prophets, which
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  Moses represents the law and Elijah represents all the
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  prophets. And you can see it all fulfilled
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  here in Christ Jesus. And here are the three
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  disciples, Peter, James, and John, and they're looking upon
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  this scene. They're actually getting to see
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  Moses. They're actually getting to see
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  Elijah. And they were talking with Jesus
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  and they were telling him that He was going to go to the cross,
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  that He was going to glorify the Father at the Passover, that He
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  was going to be the spotless lamb.
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  And there was only one found worthy to open the scroll.
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  And that's what we need to understand.
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  This whole scene is painting such a beautiful picture of what
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  Jesus said. Truly I say unto you, there be
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  some standing here which shall not taste of death until they
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  see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom.
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  This is the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom.
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  Friends, don't miss it. This was a metamorphosis from
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  the inside out. He was shining.
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  He was revealing the glory that was hidden inside of him.
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  Friends, what a beautiful picture, what a beautiful
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  portrait this is for. And then answered Peter and said
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  unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here, if you will.
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  Let us make here 3 tabernacles, one for you and one for Moses,
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  and 1:00 for Elijah. So he's trying to put Jesus on
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  an equal platform with Moses and Elijah.
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  He's trying to degrade the glory of Jesus Christ to the law and
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  the prophets. He's trying to put them on the
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  same platform there. And let's see what God Almighty
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  has to say about it. And imagine here the prophets
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  are, the disciples are looking upon Jesus, who is shining as
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  bright as the sun, a billion Suns, and he's shining bright
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  and his clothing is made like light.
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  And here is Moses and Elijah. What a profound scene.
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  What an amazing scene this must have been.
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  And here they are steadily looking upon.
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  And Peter has a knack for putting his foot in his mouth,
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  and he says, Lord, let us make for you booths like we do in the
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  festivals. Let us make booths for you and
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  Elijah and Moses five, while he yet spoke, behold, a bright
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  cloud overshadowed them. And behold a voice out of the
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  cloud which said, This is my beloved son, in whom I am well
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  pleased. Listen to him, hear you him.
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  The voice of God thunders. I don't know if you've ever been
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  out in the woods and there has been a mighty crack of lightning
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  and Thunder and everything in the woods goes silent.
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  It would have been much like that moment where everything
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  goes silent. You can see that this cloud has
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  overshadowed God Almighty, because no man can look upon him
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  and live. And here the disciples were
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  staring steadily at Jesus and Moses and Elijah, so much so
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  that that Peter could speak. And he says something that is
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  ignoramus. And immediately God interrupts
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  in thunders and lightnings from on high, and he says, This is my
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  son, who I am well pleased. He puts his stamp of approval
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  upon the life of Jesus. And he says listen to him.
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  Listen, is what God is telling Peter. 6 And when the disciples
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  heard it, they fell on their face and were sore afraid.
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  This is the appropriate response.
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  This is when we fall on our face in the presence of God because
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  the Shekinah glory has come and the ministers could not even
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  minister because of the weight of God's presence.
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  I pray that you have been part of this moment.
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  I pray that you understand this weight that comes where you
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  cannot even speak and it is ecstasy and it is a bounding
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  joy. It is the most pleasure that you
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  will ever experience. It goes into the fibers of your
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  being. It supersedes any emotion.
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  It supersedes any feeling. It supersedes any chemical
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  release inside of your body. It supersedes every bit of it.
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  This kind of glory of God, it will cause you to be undone.
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  And here you can see it in these three disciples, when God
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  speaks. 7 And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise,
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  do not be afraid. You know, every time that the
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  angels would appear unto man, they would become sore afraid
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  like this, and they would say, Do not be afraid, do not fear.
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  Here Jesus, He models that so many times.
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  We see the chrystophanes, we see Christ before he was ever born.
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  Show up on the scene so many times and you can see it here in
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  his bodily form saying the same thing.
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  Do not be afraid. He tells you that today over and
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  over and over and over and over throughout the word of God.
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  He says do not fear. Do not be afraid if we will fear
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  God. Everything else douse.
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  Everything else bows unto the weight of God Almighty.
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  He is the Creator of all things seen and unseen.
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  He is the Lord over the entire earth, over the universe, over
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  the angelic and over mankind. Every fish, every bird, every
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  animal that walks on dry land, He is Lord.
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  He is Lord over every geographical place on planet
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  earth. He is Lord, do not be afraid. 8
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  And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man
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  except Jesus only. That is where we have to get to
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  friends. We cannot look to Moses and the
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  Law. We cannot look to the legalism
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  of it all. We cannot think by upholding all
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  of the rules and regulations of the Law is going to get us into
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  heaven. And we cannot look to all of the
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  prophets. We cannot look and try to get in
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  by the way of all of the prophets.
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  We have have to look only to Jesus and Jesus alone.
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  He is the author and the perfector of our faith.
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  He is going to lead us home friends, He is our treasure.
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  He is our everything. Give Him His glory today
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  friends, we need to see no man except Jesus only. 9 And when
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  they had came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them,
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  saying, tell the vision to no man until the Son of man be
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  risen again from the dead. So here in verse 9 he tells them
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  over and over and over. This is how God gets our
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  attention, friends. He tells us the same thing over
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  and over, over and over and over again, just like little
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  children. He reminds us of the same things
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  over and over and over again because He knows that we are
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  thick scold. He knows that we will forget.
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  He knows that he has to drill it in.
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  He knows that there has to be repetition.
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  And here Jesus is telling them again and again and again that
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  I'm going to die. I'm going to be raised again.
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  I'm going to be resurrected. I we'll come back to life and
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  what does the Bible say? 10 and his disciples asked him,
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  saying, why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
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  Are they questioning the Lord? They're saying we see you first
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  and then we just saw Elijah. But the Bible and Malachi
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  chapter 4, it says that Elijah will come first.
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  So. What is happening here?
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  Are you even the Messiah here? Jesus is telling them don't go
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  down and tell the other 9 disciples because they will not
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  understand what it is that you're trying to say and they
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  will think that you are trying to be some kind of super St. and
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  we're going to see a dispute break out amongst them about who
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  is the greatest very soon. And so therefore you can see why
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  Jesus is saying don't tell them. But here they're questioning it
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  all and they're saying why does the Bible say?
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  Why does the Holy Scriptures 400 years ago say that Elijah will
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  come first? Let's see what Jesus has to say.
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  11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elijah truly shall
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  first come and restore all things he's talking about here
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  in the Tribulation. There will be the two witnesses,
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  and Elijah will be one of them. He's talking about right before
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  Jesus comes to restore all things.
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  Elijah will come as one of the two witnesses. 12 But I say unto
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  you, that Elijah has already come, and they knew him not, but
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  have done unto him whatsoever they listed.
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  Likewise shall also the Son of Man suffer of them.
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  So here he's talking about John the Baptist, here he's talking
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  about the ministry of John the Baptist.
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  Even if you look at whenever Elijah, whenever he was opposing
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  Jezebel and King Ahab, and then you can see how John the Baptist
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  opposed Herod the Tetchart and Herodias.
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  What a similarity. Look at the outer garment of the
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  hairy cloak. Look at the leather belt.
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  It's very similar how John the Baptist came as a wild man just
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  like Elijah. And here Jesus is saying that if
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  you will accept it, Elijah has already come in the form in the
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  Spirit, and he was with John the Baptist.
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  So here we need to understand Jesus.
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  This is the second time Jesus has said this.
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  He said, if you would, if you will accept it. 13 Then the
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  disciples understood that he spoke unto them of John the
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  Baptist. Very plain stuff.
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  The Bible makes it as clear as possible here, friends. 14 And
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  when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a
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  certain man kneeling down to him and saying, What did he say?
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  15 Lord have mercy on my son, for he is lunatic and sore
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  vexed, for often times he falls into the fire and often into the
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  water. So here we can see he was
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  seizing and convulsing. He was moonstruck as the literal
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  translation would say, which is why it was translated lunatic.
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  He was moonstruck and we can see in a minute that this was a
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  demonic possession. We can see it was trying to kill
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  the boy, and that is what the enemy will always do.
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  He never changes this. The same mission objective is
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  the same MO since the garden. He is here to steal, kill and
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  destroy. And He will steal your joy, and
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  He will kill your body, and He will destroy your marriage and
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  your testimony. And that is what He does.
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  He might not be able to snatch you out of God's hands, but He
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  sure can get you to make a mess out of your life.
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  Look at all the ministers and pastors who led so many people
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  to the Lord and it was authentic.
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  And then at the end of their life, what happened?
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  It was uncovered that they were fraudulent.
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  It was uncovered that they were deceptive.
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  Does that undo all of their ministry?
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  Does that undo all of those that came into the fold by their
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  testimony? No.
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  But look at how the enemy sure made a mess and a mockery of the
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  cross of Christ by getting them to squander and to compromise on
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  the little things. And it is the same for you and
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  for me if we are not guarded. Friends, he sure will destroy
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  and kill, and he sure will steal your testimony if you allow him
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  to. Friends, let's keep our oil
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  filled, our Wicks trim our lamps full.
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  Friends, be the wise virgin in these last hours. 16 And I
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  brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him. 17
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  And then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse
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  generation, how long shall I be with you?
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  How long shall I suffer you? Bring him here to me.
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  Jesus knew that his time was short.
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  Jesus is asking when he returns, will he even find faith on this
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  earth, this wicked and perverse generation who seeks a sign, and
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  no sign shall be given to it but the sign of Jonah.
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  And here Jesus has already given the disciples power over the
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  demonic. But the disciples, they were not
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  fanning the flame. They were not spiritually
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  mature. They were not spiritually
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  healthy. In this moment they were too
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  preoccupied trying to figure out where the three went and who was
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  going to be the greatest in the Kingdom.
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  And they had let their guard down, and the enemy was
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  whispering lies to him, and they had let their Shields of faith
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  drag the ground. Here, friends, they had not
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  taken up the sword. They had not put on the helmet
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  of their salvation. They had not run the race with
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  the gospel shoes of peace. They were not wearing the belt
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  of truth or the breastplate of righteousness, friends.
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  And here you can see it. And Jesus, he's asking, How long
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  shall I suffer you? 18 And Jesus rebuked the devil,
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  and he departed out of him. And the child was cured from
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  that very hour, from that very moment.
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  And you can see this epileptic and you can see the demonic
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  leaving, and you can see it, friends.
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  And it was because the faith of the Father when he says Lord, he
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  knew Jesus was Lord. And Jesus honored that. 19 And
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  then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, why could we
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  not cast him out? Now you remember they had
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  already been sent out. Now you remember that they had
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  already been endued with power from on high to drive out
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  demons, and to heal the sick, and to cleanse lepers, And here
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  they're confused, and they're wondering, Why could we not
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  drive it out? 20 And Jesus said unto them,
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  Because of your unbelief, truly I say unto you, if you have
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  faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this
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  mountain, remove here to a Yonder place, and it shall be
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  removed, and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
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  So it's not about the size of your faith, it's about who your
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  faith is placed in, friends. And we only need the faith the
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  size of a mustard seed. We need to look upon Jesus.
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  Faith is the currency that we operate out of.
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  Friends and the disciples here, they had missed the mark because
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  they had allowed pride to creep in.
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  They had allowed the world and they had allowed the wanderings
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  and the idea of being great. And they were puffed up in this
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  moment. And Jesus was saying that they
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  were perverse and faithless because their eyes were not on
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  Him. They were put back upon
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  themselves, and they thought of themselves as being more than
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  they should have. It was their unbelief and all
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  they needed is the faith the size of a mustard seed.
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  We need to increase our faith friends, and it's faith that God
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  can do anything. That is what we need to operate
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  out of friends. That is the mark is we need to
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  know that nothing is impossible for God.
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  And it's not just tongue in cheek.
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  It's not just a clever saying. We need to truly believe that
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  God can do anything. We need to get our eyes off of
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  the physical. We need to get our eyes off of
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  the natural, and we need to sit and we need to look upon the
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  face of Jesus knowing that he can do anything.
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  Nothing shall be impossible unto you. 21 How be it this kind goes
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  not out but by prayer and fasting?
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  Some things only go out by prayer and fasting.
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  You can pray the paint off the walls and not see a move of God.
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  But sometimes we need to not just bow our heads and pray.
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  Not just pray when we're driving down the road, but we need to
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  get down on our knees and pray and be humble and have humility.
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  Get down on your knees and pray and pray and pray and don't give
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  up. And if you don't see the
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  breakthrough, fall to your face and pray.
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  Lay prostate as a dead man before God and pray.
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  And if you don't see mountain move in the water part, then
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  fast. Refuse to take any food.
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  Do water only. And watch how your prayers get
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  answered. Watch how you can drive out the
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  demonic. Watch how the healing comes.
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  Watch how the faith the size of a mustard seed can heal and move
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  the heart of God. 22 And when and while they abode in Galilee,
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  Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the
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  hands of men, 23 And they shall kill him, and the third day he
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  shall be raised again here again and again and again.
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  He just told it to them. Likewise shall also the Son of
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  Man suffer of them back in verse 12, and then here again in 22
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  and 23. He's telling them.
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  He's making it plain. He's going to be betrayed. 23
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  they're going to kill him. And then he says that he will be
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  raised again on the third day. How much more plain can Jesus
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  make it unto them? And they were exceeding sorry.
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  You can see here, the disciples did not yet have the
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  understanding of what it all meant.
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  It wasn't going to be until after Christ ascended to the
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  right hand of God that everything was going to make
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  sense to them. 24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they
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  that received tribute money came to Peter and said, does not your
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  master pay tribute? So here Peter and Jesus who were
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  residents of this Capernaum, they, Jesus, Peter was
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  approached by the people who collected these taxes.
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  And this is interesting. This is the only gospel that
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  this is recorded, and it's recorded by Matthew, a tax
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  collector. How interesting is this little
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  story? 25 And he said yes.
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  And when he was coming to the house, Jesus prevented him,
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  saying, what do you think, Simon?
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  Of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute of
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  their own children or of strangers?
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  So here he's asking, do the kings of the earth exact taxes
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  from their children? And Peter's going to answer and
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  say, No 26 Peter said unto him of strangers.
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  Jesus said unto him, Then are the children free?
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  So he's showing that the children of the King are free,
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  and that is you, and that is me. Friends, though that is those of
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  us who belong to him, we're free, and we are free indeed.
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  We are not bound to the tithe. We're not bound to the taxes.
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  We do it so that we will not offend.
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  We do it because we want to bless God's Kingdom.
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  We do it because we want to send it ahead.
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  We do it because we want to be obedient unto the Lord.
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  We are not bound by it. And Jesus is saying who the Son
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  sets free is free indeed. And look at how he knew what
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  Peter was going to ask. He knew what Peter had already
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  gone through before Peter even walked through the door.
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  Look at how Jesus knew everything.
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  He prevented him from even speaking, and He spoke 1st.
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  And he asked him a question, and he made Peter think about it.
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  Let's see how He ends it here. 27 Notwithstanding, unless we
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  should offend them, go you to the sea and cast a hook and take
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  up the fish that first comes up, and when you have opened his
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  mouth, you shall find a piece of money that take and give unto
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  them for me and you. Essentially Jesus is saying, go
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  down, catch the first fish, reach into his mouth.
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  You're going to find enough money in the mouth of the fish
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  to go pay your taxes and mine. What a thought.
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  Friends, look at how God can do anything.
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  There's so much richness in this little story.
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  We need to know that God can bring about provision in any way
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  that He deems God's not limited. You cannot put God in a box.
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  He is the great I am. Everything around you, the soil
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  underneath your feet, the molecules that you're made-up,
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  the air that you're breathing, the clouds and the trees above
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  you, the birds, everything, the universe that expanses, the sky
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  at night, everything the depths of the ocean was all created by
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  his very breath. And if Jesus Christ wants to
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  make the first fish that Peter was to catch, have enough money
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  in his mouth. Nothing is impossible with God.
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  And this is the faith that you and I need to have.
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  Friends, I hope that you have been blessed by this amazing
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  chapter here in Matthew. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you, so does God. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.