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Matthew chapter 15 · Scripture Unscripted

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Matthew chapter 15, let us pray, Lord, our God who is in heaven.
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Lord, I pray that you will come or send the Holy Spirit.
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Lord, break out. Father, I pray in the name of
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Jesus for many people to be healed and whole.
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God, help us, Lord, in this time, help us.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus, Holy Spirit, that you
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will help us. Teach us today.
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Lord, teach us your words, Teach us your thoughts.
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Teach us the mind of Christ. Father, I pray, Lord Jesus, that
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families will be made whole. Lord, I pray for marriages to be
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made whole. God, I pray for bodies to be
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healed and made whole in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Lord, I pray that as we open up your word today, I pray that you
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will be well pleased. Father, I pray in the name of
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Jesus for this to go out to the ends of the earth, Father, and
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call people to yourself. Call people into the fold.
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Call people into the Kingdom. Lord, I pray that today will be
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the day of salvation for many. Lord, I pray that we will not
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play games, Lord, with you, but we will be authentic and real.
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We will be transparent and raw. Lord, I pray in the name of
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Jesus that you help us, Lord, help us to lay down all of our
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preconceived ideas. Help us to lay down all of our
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past, Lord, all of the trauma, Lord, all of the things that
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keep us from experiencing the fullness that you have for us.
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Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us,
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Father, help us to move in obedience.
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Help us to love you more. Help us to love our neighbors as
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ourselves. God, I pray that you will come
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and wreck and ravish us with your presence today.
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Lord, I pray that you will reveal eternal truths to us
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today. Lord, I pray that you, Father,
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will be the teacher and be the guide.
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Lord, as we open up Your word, let us hide it in our hearts.
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Father, we know, Lord, that You can do anything.
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We know, Father, that You are moving in our midst.
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Lord, we know, Father, that You are all powerful and ever
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present, and You are all knowing.
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And God, you seek our hearts, You seek our minds.
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Lord, you search us out. Father, your eyes Rove to and
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fro over the face of the earth. God, we are sold out, lay down
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lovers of you. Yeshua, we are sold out, lay
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down lovers of you. Yahweh, we are sold out, lay
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down lovers of Holy Spirit. Yes, we pray for a filling
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today. Lord, we pray that today is the
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turning point for many. Lord, we pray, God, that you
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will have your way. Have your will.
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Lord, let us step in to your will today.
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Let us step in to what you have for us today.
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And Lord, I pray that all of the world, Lord, every single man,
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woman and child will cry out that Jesus is Lord.
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And we cry out, Maranatha, come, Lord, come.
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You are coming. You have come.
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So we thank you for Jesus. We thank you for the sacrifice
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on the cross. We thank you for our salvation.
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We thank you that where you are we will be also.
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We thank you that we will drink from the fruit of the vine with
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you, Father. We thank you that you will
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prepare a banquet for us in the presence of our enemies.
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We thank you, Lord, that you are good and you are great.
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You are awesome in power and awesome in might, and awesome
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indeed. Lord, I pray that you will
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continue to push the church along.
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God, in the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
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Lord, let us be strengthened in this hour.
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Lord, let us put on the full armor today.
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God, I pray that you'll put somebody in our path that we can
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share our testimony with today. Thank you, Father, for all the
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many blessings that you continue to pour out on us each and every
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day. Thank you for another day to
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come and learn about you. Thank you for another day to
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come and sit at your feet. Thank you for another day,
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Father, to learn eternal truths, Father, and apply those truths
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and obey them. Lord, hide me and hide my words.
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Hide my thoughts. God, I decrease as you increase.
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Yeshua, I decrease as you increase and I just pray Lord,
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that you'll say what it is that you want to say to this
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generation in this hour and this day.
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God empty me of myself and fill me Holy Spirit with your words.
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In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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Let's start in verse one. And then came to Jesus scribes
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and Pharisees which were of Jerusalem saying imagine that.
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Imagine all of these religious leaders steeped in tradition and
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they see this rogue St. preacher and they are trying to set him
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up. This is not a friendly
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conversation. They were using so many of their
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laws and bylaws and the traditions that were handed
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down, these oral traditions that they were protecting and they
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were exacting over the masses and they were more in love with
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what the rabbi's had to say. They were more in love with all
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their little loopholes in the legal system than they were with
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God's Word. And just so everyone knows,
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God's Word Trump's everything. It is not God's word plus
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anything. It is Genesis to Revelation.
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It is the infallible, inerrant word of God that has the final
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authority upon your life, friend.
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It is not God's Word plus what some preacher has said.
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It's not God's word plus some book that you read.
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It is not God's word plus the book of Mormons.
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It's not God's Word plus the Watchtower Society.
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It's not God's Word plus the Catechism.
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It's not God's word plus any of it.
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It is the inherent, inherent and fallible word of God.
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It is the Holy Bible that is the complete and final authority
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over the land and over the world and over all the generations.
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It is God's Word that speaks. It is the only publication that
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has the ability to predict itself in the manner that it
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does. It is alive and it is active and
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you do not read it. It reads you.
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And here, these legalists and these liberals, here they are
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coming together and they are trying to trap Jesus.
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Let's see what he has to say here, friends, first two, why do
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your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?
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For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.
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So there was the traditions there that said that if a man
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does not wash his hands before he eats, he is no different than
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a man that lies with a prostitute.
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And here they were trying to trap Jesus.
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They were not truly concerned with hygiene.
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Don't miss it. 3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do you
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also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
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Tradition. So he's flipping, he's flipping
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the script here. He is calling them out.
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He is answering your question with the question and Jesus was
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good at this. Jesus knew their intention.
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Jesus could read their minds. He knew their hearts friends.
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He knew that they were trying to trap him.
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He was not going to fall for it. He's so perfect.
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Look at the way that he answers them.
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He says, why do you transgress the commandment of God?
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What was the the commandment that they were transgressing for
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for God command and saying honor your father and mother and he
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that curses father or mother, let him die the death.
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So here Jesus is showing them their hypocrisy.
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They're so worried about his disciples.
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They have come to try and spy on them.
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They are sitting there looking for any possible plausible way
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to trap Jesus in his words, in their traditions and legal
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system, and here Jesus is showing them that they are the
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ones who are guilty. 5 But you say, Whosoever shall say to his
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father or his mother, it is a gift, by whatsoever you might as
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be profited by me. 6 And honor not his father or his mother, he
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shall be free thus. Have you made the commandment of
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God of none effect by your tradition, you hypocrites?
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So here Jesus is showing them their hypocrisy.
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Jesus is saying that you try to sound super spiritual by saying,
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well whatever I would have given to my mother or father, I'm
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going to give it to God. And he's saying that they are
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worthy in the Mosaic law of death, that they are not
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honoring their father and mother because they're not actually
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giving it to God. It released them from any of
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their obligations to their parents by just trying to say
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that they were going to give it to God, but they actually were
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not. And Jesus knew their heart.
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He knew their little loopholes here.
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And he calls them out in verse 7.
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He says, you hypocrites. Well, did Isaiah prophecy of you
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saying, what did Isaiah say? He said verse 8, This people
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draws near unto me with their mouth and they honor me with
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their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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So here Jesus is recalling and recounting all the way back to
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the book of Isaiah. He's saying that they only
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outwardly look the part, but inwardly they are ravenous
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wolves. It's no different in our day and
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our our friends. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for
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doctrines the commandments of men.
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They were more concerned with the fear of man.
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They were more concerned with usurping their power over the
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masses than they were about trying to please God.
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And what a word for you and for me.
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And yes, everything is under the blood of Jesus.
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Yes, we are going to enter in only by that blood.
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Friends, however, God is watching us, God is refining us,
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and we would do well to always keep in mind God and what does
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His Word say and what does He desire?
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And what is the full counsel of God's Word?
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Not just what the traditions are taught and whatever kind of
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denomination you were brought up in.
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And those are the things that you hold fast to and you have
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your bylaws and you think that your way is the only way.
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And I would have you to know that God's Word is the Supreme
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authority over all denominations.
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It has nothing to do with all these divisions and sex,
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friends. This is God's Word, the
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infallible, inerrant word of God.
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And this is what we need to be so completely fixed upon.
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And we need to be purporting and teaching God's Word, not the
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traditions of men. Friends, we would do well to
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always keep in mind what God has to say about it all.
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But we need to be feeding ourselves.
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We do not need to be going and being spoon fed once a week,
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friends. We need to make sure that we
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know and own the Word of God. And I'm so thankful for those
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who have taken the faith journey with me, who are going in and
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digesting and they are actually reading God's word piece by
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piece. And the question remains, how do
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you eat an elephant? It's one bite at a time.
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We should not be overwhelmed by how vast this word is.
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We should not sit and think that it is too grand for us to
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understand. Many of us know a lot about
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different publications other than the Word of God.
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We could sit and talk about a lot of the books and movies and
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shows for hours and hours and sports and all the like, but we
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are not willing to dive in to the Word of God.
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And that is a word for you, friend.
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We need to be preoccupied with the Word of God.
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We do not need to be preoccupied with all the things of the
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world. Do not love the world or
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anything in the world. He calls them out for the
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doctrines of the commandments of men. 10 And he called the
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multitude, and he said unto them, Hear and understand.
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So he's giving the people, the multitudes, the chance to unstop
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their ears and to let the scales fall off of their eyes, to
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soften their hearts that have been hardened.
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He's saying hear and understand, and he says it right on the
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cusp, right on the tail end of saying that the hip, the
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hypocrites, their hearts were far from him, that they saw with
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their eyes, but they did not actually understand it.
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They were listening with their ears, but they could not
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actually hear and hear. He's giving the multitudes the
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opportunity to hear and understand.
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And he says that to you, friend. He says that to me.
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He wants us to hear and understand.
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He does not want us to harden our hearts as in the days of
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Rebellion 11 Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man,
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but that which comes out of the mouth, This defiles a man.
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And for the Jewish audience here, this would have been a
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showstopper. When he says this, this would
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have went against their kosher laws.
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And here he is giving us a sneak peek into the lifting of all of
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the rules and regulations when it came to what we eat.
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Here is the beginning of that thought process for us who are
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on this side of the cross. And so therefore he's showing
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them that it is what they say that defiles them, because all
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the sins are first conceived, and they first are thought about
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before they ever acted out. And he warns us about that,
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friends, that out of the mouth flows the abundance of the
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heart. And you can see here.
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And he's telling them that it is not what they eat that defiles
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them, it is what they say. And God is way more in tune with
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your words than he is with what you're sitting and eating,
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Friends. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Do
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you not know that the Pharisees were offended after they heard
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this saying? This is a humorous remark.
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The disciples are questioning the Son of God.
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And if you remember at the end of the last chapter, when they
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were in the boat and he calmed all the storm in the sea and
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they said that this was the Son of God.
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They acknowledged his divinity and his deity.
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They acknowledged him. And here they're questioning
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him. And they're saying, do you not
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know that this is offensive? And I want you to know, friends,
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that the Word of God is an offense.
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We should not be worried about offending people. 13 But he
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answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not
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planted shall be rooted up. He's going to start talking
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about false doctrine. He's going to start talking
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about heresy. He's going to start talking
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about those that are pushing the false ideas of God's Bible, of
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God's word. He's going to start talking
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about all of the false traditions and what's he going
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to say about it? 14 Let them alone.
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They be blind leaders of the blind, and if the blind lead the
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blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
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He's saying that it will take care of itself.
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And I've said it many times, but everything is moving according
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to plan. If we could just get out of our
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own way, if we could just trust God Almighty, if we could just
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lean in to this word that you hold in your hands, then you
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will do well and you will finish well.
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And that should be our prayer, friends.
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Our prayer should be that God helps us finish this race.
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All of the false doctrines and the heresy will dissolve as time
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goes on. And God is, if you remember the
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wheat and the tares, God is allowing it and it serves a
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purpose, friends. And it is all prophetic, and God
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uses it to reveal the true intentions of man. 15 Then
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answered Peter, and said unto him, Declare unto us this
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parable, praise the Lord for Peter.
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Peter had a knack. You know, in all the lists of
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the disciples, Peter's always mentioned 1st And look at how
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Peter, who Jesus said he was going to build the church upon,
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and we'll touch on that. But look at how Jesus had a way
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of. Allowing Peter to be in on a lot
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of his thoughts. Look at how Peter had a knack
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for speaking up what others were thinking.
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Peter actually would say out loud and a lot of times he would
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stick his foot in his mouth, wouldn't he?
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16 And Jesus said, are you also yet without understanding?
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So this is Jesus looking at Peter, thinking, Peter, come on
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now, you should have it by now. But Peter wants to know.
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He wants Jesus to expound upon these truths so that he can know
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that he's teaching correctly, that he's not just teaching his
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own ideas, but he wants Jesus to make it plain. 17 Do not you yet
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understand that whatsoever enters in at the mouth goes into
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the belly, and it is cast out into the drought?
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So here Jesus is explaining to Peter the same thing that he
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explains to him later on when he's on the roof and he's in a
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trance and the sheet is let down and all of the animals are on
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it. And he says, get up, go kill and
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eat. And Peter says no, I would
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never. I would never.
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Here Peter is being told that it is not what he eats that makes
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him unclean. It's what comes out of his mouth
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that makes you unclean. Friends, we would do well to
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keep this principle in mind. Let no idol talk.
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Let nothing unwholesome come out of you, friends, only that which
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is useful for the building up. And he says that whatever we put
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in our bodies is going to come out the other side. 18 But those
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things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart,
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and they defile the man. Think of all of the sins that we
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allow to build up in our heart, and then they come bubbling up
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out of our mouth, friends. And that is what we need to cut
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it off at the root. We do not need to let it fester.
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We do not need to give it any place.
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Take every thought captive and make it obedient unto Christ. 19
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For out of the heart precedes evil thoughts, murders,
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adulteries, fornication, thefts, false witness, blasphemy.
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He makes it plain, doesn't he? What does he say?
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He says that it's in the heart that we store these things up
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before they're ever even committed.
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These acts are first given a place, a storage place in our
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hearts, and then it is where we talk about it right before we do
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it. And he's saying that it is in
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the heart that we are having our evil thoughts.
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It's in the heart that we're already storing up murderous
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intent. It's in the heart that we have
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started to fan the flame of adultery, of cheating on our
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spouses, of the lust of pornography.
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It's in the heart that we allow these things to take root,
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friends. It's in the heart that we have
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the fornications, which is all of the sexual deviances acted
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out. It's in the heart that we have
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already started to think about stealing things.
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It's in the heart that we are already thinking about lying to
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others. It's in the heart, friends,
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where we blasphemy God first. It's in the heart and he's
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telling us that all those things will be brought up to the
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surface whenever we are talking about them.
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It's what comes out of a man that defiles him and he tells us
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and he makes it very plain. And 19, what are the things that
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we need to be on guard for? And this is not just a
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checklist, friends. This is not just something that
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we could say, OK, I haven't done any of these things, so I'm in
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good standing with God. No, friends, this is just the
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tip of the iceberg. We must be holy because He is
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holy. We must put on His
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righteousness, friends, and have the mind of Christ.
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And it starts with taking every thought captive and making it
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obedient unto Christ, not giving any space within the six inches
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between your ears. Do not give any space to any
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thought that is not good and wholesome and lovely and pure.
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Friends think about these things and we think that we could just
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have the world and sprinkle Jesus in and it doesn't work
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that way. We need to be completely sold
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out to Him and he is good and we should not give any foothold to
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the devil and think that it's OK. 20 These are the things
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which defile a man. But to eat with unwashed hands
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does not defile a man. He makes it as plain as
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possible. Should we practice hygiene?
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Come on, friends, Yes, absolutely.
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That's not the question here. It never was the question.
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They were trapping him in the oral traditions of the rabbis of
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that day, in the laws of that day.
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And Jesus, in the best way possible, completely flips the
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script on them. And he shows them what is the
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mind of God and Christ and what we should be focused upon.
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And it is the things that we are talking about and we're joking
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about, and we think it's just in jest.
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But the reality is we're fanning the flames of all of those major
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offenses that will come about later on. 21 Then Jesus went
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from there and departed into the coast of Tyre Sidon.
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So here we're going to see a very interesting story and it
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has so much context and we need to really lock in to understand
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this Syrophoenician woman and what is the idea behind it.
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This is a true story and a true place, and this is a real person
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and this is something that actually happened and we're
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going to see why Jesus went here to tired Saddam 22 and beheld
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and behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coast and
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cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, you son of
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David, my daughter is grievously vexed with the devil.
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So here you can see in 21 and 22, you can see that Jesus is
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very intentional about going here.
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He did not just stumble upon this place.
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He knew what he was doing. He knew what he was about to
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encounter. And here this woman, this Sierra
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Phoenician woman, she's coming, and she is not a Jew and she is
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a Gentile, and she's like the Roman centurion, and she is
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coming to him. And here he has his Jewish
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disciples with him, and he's going into this Gentile land.
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And you can see God's heart is for the world.
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And there is a peculiar relationship with his chosen
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people, the Jews, and he's showing the Jewish people his
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heart for the entire world. And they do not need to be so
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completely hyper fixated upon themselves.
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They've got to take them their eyes off of themselves and
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actually look through the lens of what how God sees this world.
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And they were called to be a light unto the world and a
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priesthood unto the world and to share God Almighty Yahweh unto
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the world. That is their calling here.
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And you can see she uses this son of David, this messianic
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title that she has no claim to because she's not a Jew. 23 And
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he answered her not a word, but his disciples came and besought
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him, saying, Send her away, for she cries after us.
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Perhaps they were annoyed, perhaps they were entreating
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their master saying, send her away from here, tell her to go
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answer her some way, give her what she wants, or just tell her
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to go away. And here you can understand,
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it's the same heart of the disciples when they were telling
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Jesus, hey, just send the crowds away.
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It's getting late and there's nothing to eat in this remote
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place. Send them away.
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And Jesus has a different heart. And then just the heart that we
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need to cultivate within our own selves is to not see people as a
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distraction, to not see people as an obstacle.
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We need to see the relationships that God places in our path,
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friends, as the main thing that we're going to do for that day
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is to honor the Lord through the relationships, to worship the
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Lord through all the relationships of the imago day
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that we can see people made in the image of God.
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Friends, this is the heart of Jesus and he's increasing this
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woman's faith. He's increasing the dialogue by
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being quiet. He is not hard hardened, He is
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not being rude. He's increasing her faith here.
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And it is all for a purpose for the disciples to understand how
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they are to see the Gentiles. 24 But he answered and said, I am
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not sent, but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel.
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If you remember, whenever he sent out the disciples, he said,
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Go unto the lost sheep of Israel.
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And yes, God had a plan for all the Gentiles, but first he
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wanted to make sure that he gave all the Jews the opportunity.
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And that is what Jesus is referencing here.
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He's saying that the Gentiles time, the church has not been
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built yet. It has not been established at
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this time. And you can see it being hinted
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at throughout these passages here.
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But you can see it was at this time that Jesus is saying to
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this Syrophoenician woman, He's saying it is to the lost sheep
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of Israel is the ministry that he is is doing at this time.
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It is the ministry that he is involved with at this moment.
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And yes, he has the whole world on his mind at this time, but he
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is very intentional to make sure that the Jews have no excuse as
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to say that they did not know that the Messiah was with them.
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He was revealing to the Jews first 25 and then came she and
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worshipped him, saying, Lord help me.
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The longer that the Lord allows us to tarry with Him and to
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learn more about Him, the more and more you're going to see
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that this is the prayer that we need to have on our lips
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throughout the day. There are a couple passages that
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the Lord has revealed to me and they are to take every thought
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captive, make them obedient unto Christ.
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They are to not worry about anything, but to pray about
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everything. They are to rejoice always and
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pray without ceasing. And this is what it looks like
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to pray without ceasing. It is just a very simple prayer
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that we should have on our lips daily from the moment we wake up
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till the moment we go to bed, even while we're sleeping.
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It's Lord help me. And she is saying, Lord help me.
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She is worshipping him. She has changed her title from
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Son of David to Lord. And this is whenever the Lord
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sees that her faith has been increased and she no longer
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tries to take claim of being in the Jewish lineage that a lot of
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the Jews had wrong because they thought they were going to get
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saved. Because their lineage from
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Abraham and Jesus had to come and show them that they were
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going to bust hell wide open if they did not put their faith in
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the Lord Jesus Christ, that they could not lean in on their
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lineage of Abraham. And here Jesus is showing this
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Syrophoenician woman that she cannot claim him as the son of
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David. She must see him as Lord.
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And that should be our prayer. Lord help me. 26 And he answered
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and said, It is not meat to take the children's bread and to cast
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it to dogs. Here you might think that Jesus
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is called this Cyrophoenician woman and Gentiles at large as
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dogs, but what we miss out on is the context.
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He is referencing here a very gentle word towards her, and he
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is being very kind in this moment to this woman. 27 And she
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said, truth, Lord. Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs
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which fall from their master's table.
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So you can see here that these were these were the pets.
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These were what we are so incredibly gentle towards, and
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Jesus was being gentle towards this lady, and she's saying that
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the dogs get to eat the crumbs which fall from their master's
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table in 28. Jesus answered and said unto
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her, O woman, great is your faith, be it unto you even as
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you will. And her daughter was made whole
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from that very hour. It was the faith of this Gentile
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woman. And Jesus looked square at her
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and said, how great is your faith?
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And it is because the faith of this woman.
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And it was, you can see it increasing as the Scriptures go
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on. You can see it as she was going
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along. And he was silent.
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And then he tried to show her that he had just come at this
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present moment to speak to all the Jews, all the tribes of
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Israel, to the lost sheep of Israel.
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And then through a gentle rebuke, he shows her that it's
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not OK for him to give their meat to the dogs.
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And then she and her very persistent way, she says yes,
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but even the dogs get to eat the crumbs from underneath their
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master's table. And this is a picture of what it
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looks like to not give up, to grab a hold of him and refuse to
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leave until He blesses you. This is what it looks like,
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friends, to be persistent in our prayer life.
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To never give up, to not just accept the silence from God, but
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to keep pressing in. And God will answer.
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We should always believe that God wants to heal. 29 And Jesus
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departed from there, and came near unto the Sea of Galilee,
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and went up into a mountain, and sat down there.
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So here we're going to get to understand the heart of Jesus,
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and the multitudes being healed. 30 And great multitudes came
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unto him, having with them those that were lame, and blind, and
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dumb and maimed, and many others, and cast them down at
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Jesus's feet, and he healed them.
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What power flows from this man? Look at how the Lord Jesus
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Christ, He came as all man and all God, and He was able to heal
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them, even the maimed, the dumb and the blind and the lame. 31
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in so much that the multitude wondered when they saw the dumb
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speak and the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the
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blind to see, And they glorified the God of Israel.
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Think about it, friends. Think about what these words are
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actually saying. Think about the picture that
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they are painting. Think about the reality that
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this was actually happening. Think of the multitudes being
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healed here. How amazing is our God, and we
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should glorify Him in the highest. 32 And then Jesus
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called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on
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the multitude, because they continue with me now three days,
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and have nothing to eat, and I will not send them away fasting
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unless they faint in the way. So here we can see that these
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were two separate events from the feeding of the 5000, the
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feeding of the 4000. The 5000 were predominantly
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Jewish and the 4000 were predominantly Gentile and they
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were with Jesus for three days, whereas the 5000 it was only a
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day. You could see that these were
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two separate events. Friends, we can see the God's
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heart here and look at how the disciples at this time they had,
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they didn't come up and say what are we going to do?
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Jesus goes to them and says, I have compassion upon them, And
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they had been with him for three days. 33 And his disciples say
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unto him, Where should we have so much bread in the wilderness
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as to fill so great a multitude? So here little faith comes
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about. What they're looking for is what
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God is looking for in US and in them is great faith, but they
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have little faith at this moment.
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Which is better than no faith. And Jesus said unto them, how
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many loaves do you have? And they said seven and a few
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little fish. Wow.
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We saw in the feeding of the 5000 that there were five
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loaves. Here they have 7 loaves. 35 And
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he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
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So this is a picture of the banquet of God.
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They are to sit and to enjoy themselves. 36 And he took the
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seven loaves and the fish, and he gave thanks, and he broke
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them, and he gave to his disciples, and the disciples to
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the multitude. So the disciples were dispersing
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all the abundance just from Jesus, touching and blessing it
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and thanking God for it. 37 And they did all eat and and were
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filled, and they took up the broken meat that was left 7
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baskets full. So we can see these were a
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different kind of basket than the feeding of the 5000. 38 And
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they that did eat were 4000 men, besides the women and children.
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39 and will end here. And he sent away the multitude
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and took ship and came into the coast of Magdala.
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What an amazing story this is. And when we don't just gloss
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over and think of it as a cool Bible story, when we actually
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see it as authentic and true and real and that it actually
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happened, we get to experience it in the mind and we get to
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imagine it and we can see it all playing out.
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And it's not just a cool story in a historical book.
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This is God's word, and it's trustworthy and true.
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And we can know that we know that we know that we know that
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this is what happened. How cool is our God?
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How amazing is our Lord? He's so incredible.
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I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here, Matthew.
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I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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of you, and I love you and so does God.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.