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Matthew chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 4 Let us pray Jesus, holy, holy, holy, the
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  Lord God Almighty, who was, who is, who is to come, hallowed be
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  thy name, your Kingdom come, your will be done here on this
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  earth, just as it is there in heaven.
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  Lord, we cry out, worthy is the lamb that was slain.
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  Lord, we thank you for salvation.
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  God, we thank you for Our Daily Bread.
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  We thank you for the scriptures that you've given us God to
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  study. Lord, we know that we'll never
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  touch the the bottom. Lord, we know that there is
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  unsearchable truths. God, we know that you are deep
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  and you call out to deep. Father, Spirit Lord cries out to
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  Spirit. Lord, we're thankful for the
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  healing that is on your wings. Father, we are thankful for the
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  divine appointments. God, we're thankful for your
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  sacrifice. We're thankful for your mercies
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  that are new every day. We're thankful for the cross and
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  Calvary. We'll thank.
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  We are so thankful for our food and raiment, God.
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  We're so thankful, Lord Jesus Christ, for what you've done for
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  us, what you have wrought for us on the cross.
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  Lord, I pray for forgiveness. Lord.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll put your finger on any unconfessed
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  sin. God, I pray that you will
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  highlight anything in my life, Father, that does not belong.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll give me the strength.
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  Lord, You'll give us the strength, God, to be able to
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  purge out and to cleanse the temple and to burn away all the
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  dross. God, I pray that we'll lay all
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  of our iniquities and sins and trespasses, God in a heap, God,
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  and burn them. Father, in the name of Jesus.
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  God, I pray that you will help us to not be LED into temptation
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  today. God, we rebuke the devourer.
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  God, in the name of Jesus, the Lord rebukes thee.
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  Satan, get behind us, Satan, in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Lord, we're going to live on purpose.
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  We're going to live with power. We're going to live, God, the
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  way that you would desire for us to, Lord, help us not to be
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  distracted. Help us to not be despondent,
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  God, but we want to be yours and marked by your goodness and
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  grace and mercy and love and joy and patience and peace.
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  God, in the name of Jesus, I pray healing.
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  Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray for clarity.
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  God, give us a sound mind. Let us take every thought
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  captive, God, in the name of Jesus, Lord, reveal to us
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  eternal truths. Father, and where you are, we
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  desire to be. God, Come and take residence up
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  in our hearts and minds and bodies, our spirits and soul.
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  God, we just want you. We want more of you, Father, we
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  desire a greater measure. Father, heap on to us a greater
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  measure of your power, Lord, and understanding God.
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  Lord, we just, we want to see you.
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  Lord, let us see, let us see you.
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  Father, help us today. Lord, help us to extend mercy
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  out to those all around us, for yours is the Kingdom of glory
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  and of power, forever and ever. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one then. Was Jesus LED up of the Spirit
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  into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil?
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  How ridiculous is this enemy of ours?
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  You know what I used to tell my children?
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  You're no match for the devil, you no match for the demonic.
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  They will overpower you 10 times out of 10 when you're moving in
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  your own strength. But praise God, Hallelujah.
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  When you bring the name of Jesus Christ on your lips, praise God,
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  Hallelujah. When you're full of the Spirit
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  of God, praise God, Hallelujah. Just that name dispels all
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  darkness. Bring that name upon your lips
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  today, friends. It's the name of Jesus that
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  overcomes. There is power in that name,
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  Wonder, working power. It breaks every chain, too.
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  And when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he was afterward
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  hungry. So 40 days and 40 nights.
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  This is likened all the way back to Moses when he was up on the
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  mountain. We can see Jesus Christ here,
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  fasting and being fueled by the Holy Spirit, being fueled by
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  God. I don't know friends, if you've
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  ever tried to fast for any length of time, I'm not sure if
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  it gets any easier, but it's pretty difficult.
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  And here you can see Jesus Christ because he was all God
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  and all man. Here he is able to fast 40 days
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  and this is a literal fasting of taking no food for 40 days.
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  This would be a very difficult task in these hunger pains would
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  be a signal that he's close to death that he is starving away
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  and his body is is giving him indicators that if it doesn't
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  get nutrient soon is going to cease with the functions 3 And
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  when the tempter came to him, he said if you are the son of God,
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  command these stones to be made bread.
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  So here he's asking Jesus to act autonomously apart from God.
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  He's asking Jesus to use his divinity to command the stones
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  to become bread. Let's see what Jesus has to say
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  to old Satan for but he answered and he said it is written, man
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  shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds
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  out of the mouth of God. So here Jesus is going to
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  reference the book Deuteronomy. He's going to reference chapter
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  6 and chapter 8. He's going to reference it three
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  times here. And that is our call, friends.
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  Our call is to use the entire council of God's Word to defend
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  ourselves against all the attacks of the enemy.
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  Let no unwholesome talk come from your mouth, but only that
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  which is for the edification of the Saints.
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  Friends, we need to make sure that we respond out loud.
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  Respond vocally and verbally to the enemy, not just inwardly.
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  Don't just process things inwardly.
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  Speak it out loud and command the darkness to flee in the name
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  of Jesus Christ. Use the Word of God.
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  Use the sound counsel of Genesis to Revelation to dispel darkness
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  in your life and in your house and in your room and in your car
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  and in your workplace. Friends 5 Then the devil took
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  him up into the holy city and set him on a pinnacle of the
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  temple. So here he's he's got him about
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  200 feet up in the air. Perhaps like in Ezekiel, he had
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  taken him there in the Spirit. Perhaps this was a literal Jesus
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  was led up to this high place overlooking, and here comes
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  Satan and he's going to talk to him.
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  What did he say? He said, if you are the Son of
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  God, cast yourself down. For it is written, He shall give
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  his angels charge concerning you, and in their hands shall he
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  bear you up, lest it at any time you dash your foot against a
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  stone. So here the devil is trying
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  again. Second attempt.
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  He actually does the same thing to Jesus that he did to Eve in
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  the Garden. And he twists scripture.
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  And just so you know, it is like a coach on the football field
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  handing the coach on the opposite side his playbook and
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  saying, here's all the routes that we're going to run this
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  game and we're still going to defeat you.
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  And that's what God has done. God has handed Satan his entire
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  playbook and said I'm still going to beat you because there
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  is no competition there. God allows Satan to do what he's
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  doing. And Satan is so ignorant and
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  Satan is so prideful and full of so much hubris that somehow,
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  someway he thinks he can thwart the plans of God.
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  And God Almighty is just using him to reveal the true
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  intentions of man today. Friends, so many of us in this
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  day and this age are choosing to go to hell.
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  God's not sending us there. We have chosen it.
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  And here Satan is using God's word.
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  And how many ministers of our day, how many pastors of our
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  day, how many church leaders of our day are twisting scripture
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  for their own benefit? Friends and the heresy is thick.
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  Whenever we say that the gays are OK, Whenever we say that
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  it's OK to mutilate children, whenever we say that it's a
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  woman's choice to abort. There's so much heresy within
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  the Church, friends, and all we have to do is study the Word of
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  God and see. The heart is for the family
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  unit. The heart is for children.
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  The heart of God is for all people everywhere and so many of
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  us choose to stiff arm God and the goodness of God in what His
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  Word says and that is why it's so important to get rooted in
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  the Word of God and not just cherry pick verses 7.
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  Jesus said unto him, It is written again, You shall not
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  tempt the Lord your God. So here Jesus is combating
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  Scripture with Scripture. There's so many pastors who are
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  taking Scripture out of context and they're trying to twist it
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  for their own benefit. And it's no different.
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  Jesus saw right through it and Jesus was able to combat it.
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  And that is what we need to do when we rightly divide the word
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  of God. Friends 8 Again, the devil took
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  him into an exceeding high mountain, and he showed them all
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  the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.
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  So just remember this. Satan is called the Prince of
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  the air. Just remember that Satan was
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  cast down to the earth. Just remember that God is
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  allowing Satan to have the dominion over the limited
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  resources that he has. And we just need to go and study
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  the book of Job to see that Satan has the power to enter
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  into the throne room of God, and God can allow it.
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  And God shows him who the Saints are.
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  And then there's this testing and there's this tempting that
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  comes in, and God never tempts us to do wrong.
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  He always provides a way out. But there is this dance that the
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  Lord allows, and he shows Satan his Saints, and Satan is able to
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  try and sift them. And these are biblical
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  principles, and you might not agree with them or you might not
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  like him, but it doesn't change the facts, friends, of how it's
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  all working all around us. And God's ways are not our ways.
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  And praise God that He knows better.
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  And praise God that He uses the enemy to highlight things in our
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  lives that do not belong. And here we can see in the
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  temptation of Jesus that He overcame the enemy.
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  He was able to subdue the enemy. And we have the same power even
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  within us, friends. We have the Word of God, which
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  is our sword, and we are able to combat him by putting on the
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  full armor of God and able to subdue him and to completely get
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  him behind us for a time. And he'll always look for these
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  opportune times whenever we start making it all about
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  ourselves, when we start letting pride creep in and greed creep
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  in. And then Satan will come in and
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  he'll tempt us away from the goodness of God.
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  And we need to be guarded from all of these temptations,
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  friends. And Jesus was able to, and he
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  showed us the model of how to combat the devil.
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  He showed him the kingdoms of the world and he wanted Jesus to
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  bow down and to worship him. Because the nature of Satan is
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  no different than what we read in Isaiah 14, what we read in
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  Ezekiel 28, that the nature hasn't changed of Satan.
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  He desires to be like God. He desires to be worshipped.
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  He wants to be higher than God, and he knows his end is near the
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  lake of fire. It is near, Friends.
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  It's nearer today than it was yesterday, and he knows it well.
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  And that is why he is flailing in this day and this hour.
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  He's grasping at straws in this day and this hour, because he
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  knows that his head is going to be crushed. 9 And he said unto
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  him, All these things I will give you, if you will fall down
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  and worship me. How pathetic. 10 And then Jesus
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  said unto him, Kit, you Satan, behind me, for it is written,
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  You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you
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  serve. And that is a word for us today.
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  Tell Satan to get behind you and remind him of his end, that we
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  are only to worship God Almighty.
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  We're not worshiping self. We're not worshiping vanity.
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  We're not worshiping money. We're not worshiping any of the
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  power and the greed and all of the things of the world.
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  We are not worshiping materialism.
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  We're not worshiping our own self.
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  We are only going to worship God and God alone.
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  He is the only one who is worthy of our worship, friends.
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  Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and
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  ministered unto him, and God knew he needed it.
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  Perhaps they brought him manna. Perhaps they brought him this
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  nourishment to get him back on track.
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  They ministered unto him, praise the Lord. 12 Now when Jesus had
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  heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into
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  Galilee. So here we're getting to see
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  some of the things that the other Gospel writers are going
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  to expound upon. But we just know that John was
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  here thrown into prison. So now Jesus is coming out of
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  the water straight into temptation, out of temptation,
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  straight into his earthly ministry. 13 And leaving
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  Nazareth, he came and dwelt at Capernaum, which is upon the
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  seacoast in the borders of Zebulon and Nepheli.
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  So if you were paying attention back there in the Old Testament,
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  this Zebulon and Naphtali, they were mentioned and we're going
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  to talk about it 14 that it might be fulfilled, which was
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  spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying, 15 the land of Zebulon
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  and the land of Nephilim by the way of the sea beyond Jordan and
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  Galilee of the Gentiles. And then we're going to hear
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  what he had to say in Isaiah. That was a messianic prophecy
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  here that is being fulfilled. 16 The people which sat in darkness
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  saw great light, and to them which sat in the region and
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  shadow of death, light sprung up.
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  And that is Jesus coming into that region, and he's blessing
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  them with his presence. And we know that a prophet is
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  without honor in his hometown. And so Jesus went out of
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  Nazareth, and Jesus left and went to Capernaum, and he
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  blessed them, and they got to see the great light shining in
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  the darkness. 17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to
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  say, What did he say? Repent, for the Kingdom of
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  heaven is at hand. That is what John the Baptist
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  was saying. So John the Baptist is locked
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  up. And now Jesus shows up on the
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  scene and he says the same thing.
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  Repent the Kingdom of heaven. Is near and that is our call
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  today, friends. We need to go out into the
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  highways and the hedges. We need to go out into the
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  byways. We need to go out to the
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  overpasses. We need to go out and proclaim
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  that the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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  It's closer today than it was yesterday, friends, and you do
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  not want to be swallowed up in that day and not be connected to
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  him and not give your life to him.
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  You do not want to be those that perish. 18 And Jesus, walking by
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  the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and
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  Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were
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  Fisher. So here we can see the calling
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  of Simon and Andrew. We can see that they were
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  fishermen. And what did Jesus say?
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  19 And he said to them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers
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  of men. So he's showing them these
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  simple unlearned men, they were not worthy to be part of the
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  Sanhedrin. They were not worthy to be part
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  of the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the priests of
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  that day in the temple. They were just simple men and
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  that is a word to us today. He still calls the unlearned to
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  take the word of God to the whole world.
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  Do not get caught up in the fact that you didn't go to seminary.
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  Don't get caught up in the fact that you are just a lawyer or a
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  doctor or that you are just a teacher or a mechanic.
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  God calls us into the circle of influence that we have to be the
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  great high priest of that area. We need to be able to share the
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  Word of God with everybody that we meet.
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  And it starts by learning it and owning it and hiding it for
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  yourself, friends. 20 And they straightway left their Nets and
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  followed him. Praise God for their immediate
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  obedience. 21 And going from there, he saw two other
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  brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother,
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  in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their Nets, and
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  he called them. So here again, fisherman 22 and
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  they immediately left their ship and their father and they
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  followed him. Imagine that friends, here goes
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  Jesus and he's coming out of the temptation.
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  And he sees these men who are fishing, four of them.
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  And he says, hey guys, come and follow me and I will make you
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  fishers of men. They immediately left their
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  ship. Are you able?
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  Do you live a life? Here's a little caveat, brother,
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  Sister St. Do you live a life where you're
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  able to let everything go in a moment's notice?
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  Do you live your life with your hands, your palms wide open?
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  Are you holding everything loosely?
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  That if God says go, you can go? Because that is the Great
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  Commission, friends, many of us have so many cares of this world
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  that is choking us out from the calling that God has placed on
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  our lives. And Jesus went about all Galilee
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  teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the
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  Kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of
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  disease among the people. Praise God, Hallelujah, praise
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  God for Jesus is healing. This is on his wings.
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  Praise God for the Sun of Righteousness that is dawned
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  upon the land here. Praise God.
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  And we learned a little bit about these synagogues.
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  These were the circles that the men and women of the Jewish
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  nation had formed in exile and coming out of exile.
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  And they this was not the temple of the Lord.
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  These were like little outposts where they would sit around and
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  discuss the law. And here Jesus enters into them,
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  and he preaches the gospel, which is the good news of the
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  Kingdom. And then to prove his authority,
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  he's able to heal all manner of disease and sickness.
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  Verse 24. And his fame went throughout all
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  Syria, and they brought unto him all the sick people that were
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  taken with diverse diseases and torments, and those which were
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  possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those
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  that had the palsy. And he healed them.
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  You know, today and our day and our hour, we just medicate all
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  of them. We give them a little tag and we
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  tell them to take medication. And all we're doing is we're
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  suppressing the demonic. And by the power of the name of
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  Jesus Christ, we are able to lay hands and to drive out the
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  demonic friends. And that might be a scary thing,
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  and that might be something that is offensive to those who have
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  loved ones who suffer from mental illness and suffer, but
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  the by and large, the vast majority of it is cured by the
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  name of Jesus Christ. I've seen so many people who
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  suffer from mental illness be cured in a moment just by the
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  name of Jesus Christ, by acknowledging him as their
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  Savior. They're healed in a moment.
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  Praise God. 25 And there followed him great multitudes of
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  people from Galilee and from decapitals and from Jerusalem
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  and from Judea and from beyond the Jordan.
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  And what they wanted was a military leader to come.
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  They wanted the gifts more than they wanted the giver.
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  They wanted the presents more than they wanted His presence.
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  They wanted the food more than they wanted a Savior.
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  And He was amassing an army. What they thought was to take
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  over and overthrow the Roman oppression there in the land.
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  But Jesus is going to flip the script soon.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here and Matthew.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  So does God. See you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.