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Do Not Fear, Only Believe | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Christ is alive, he's alive. And well, Jesus has heard our
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  voices, he sits at the right hand of the father and he is
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  patient as he desires all to reach repentance.
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  But there is a day coming when that number will be complete and
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  he will return and take us home. And we be with him forever and
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  ever and ever. And until then we want to please
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  him. Do we not, we want to.
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  Seek him, we want to know him and I pray as much as we've sang
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  about our freedoms and Jesus, we would also fear Him for he is
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  alive and he is Holy and he can intervene.
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  In this very moment, he can bring life and he can also cease
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  life, he can bring restoration and he can and his perfect
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  Justice. Bring destruction.
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  And so the Christ that we just sang to is the Christ that we
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  are going to hear from. And I pray with you, I'm sure
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  you are with me on this that his voice.
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  And his voice alone would be heard and we're going to hear it
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  in Mark chapter 5 together. The Bible is God's word.
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  And the word of God is the voice of God.
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  So meet me in Mark chapter 5. And scroll down in that chapter.
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  Down to verse 35. If you were here last week, you
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  know, where we ended, we ended at a very awkward place because
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  we didn't complete the story as because the story's written a
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  little differently. It's two stories really
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  conjoined. Together, there's an
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  intersection. There is a meeting of two people
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  who had the same desire and desperate plea for Christ to do
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  something in them. And at this time, we will
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  continue where we left off and where we left off is with a
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  crowd that is fixated on an interaction between the Jesus
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  that we love in. No, and a broken woman who has
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  been made whole by not him touching her but by her touching
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  him And in this atmosphere of faith and compassion and love a
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  group of Messengers. Come to gyrus, the the man who
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  originally invited Jesus to his home because he also has a need.
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  He has a little baby little girl.
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  The age of 12 who is terminally ill and she is ready to give her
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  final breath at any second. And this group of people come to
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  update gyrus with what had taken place with his child and in that
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  very precious moment where so many hearts came alive.
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  Gyrus would have the wind of Hope knocked right out of him as
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  he would hear. The words that no father would
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  want to receive concerning their ailing child.
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  Your daughter is dead. Your daughter is dead and you
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  can imagine how the heart of this desperate father sank to
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  his stomach. He can also Imagine The
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  intrusive thoughts, the crashing ideas that would have visited
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  him in that very moment. A flood of confusion may be
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  frustration and fear that would have buried him further into
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  despair, unless the Lord had interjected immediately and
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  provided a word of a show. Assurance, a revelation that
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  would have rescued him and it did.
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  Do not fear only believe. Do not fear only believe and
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  there is no doubt that gyrus here would have experienced this
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  temptation as a prevailing one. The prevailing thought could
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  have been that he would have connected the death of his
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  daughter with the delay that Jesus had prolonged.
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  Let's read this together. They understand what I am
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  saying. In verse 35, while he being
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  Jesus was still speaking. There came from the rulers
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  house. House some who said your
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  daughter is dead? Why trouble?
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  The teacher any further? But overhearing what they said.
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  Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, do not fear, only
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  believe. And he Allowed no one to follow
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  him, except Peter and James, and John, the brother of James.
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  You read that in verse 35, while he being Jesus was still
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  speaking. Speaking to the woman that he
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  just restored. This woman who was stunned by
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  the fact that this man who was a obvious men of God, a prophet
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  more than a prophet Messiah turning to her and saying
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  daughter daughter and reassuring her.
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  Not just of her restoration physically, but of a
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  relationship, a relationship with the true and living God.
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  He's speaking to her And while he's speaking to her, these
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  Messengers came and tell this father your daughter is gone.
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  Why bother him? And he further Why move forward.
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  This is it this is the Finish Line let's just let's just go
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  home. There's a funeral waiting for
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  you. Could it be that gyrus thought?
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  Oh, Jesus. If you had just kept walking
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  instead of talking What would you think if you were gyrus in
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  this moment? What would be the thoughts?
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  What would be the calculations you would have made?
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  Maybe my daughter wouldn't have died if Lord, you weren't I'm
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  sorry to say distracted. May be distracted.
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  And here we have already an instruction from the school of
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  faith. That is absolutely important for
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  you and I to know about ourselves.
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  Our fear comes from many things, but let me tell you what the
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  strongest, or one of the strongest motivations for our
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  fear. It is from a perception, a false
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  perception that Christ supervision over our fares is
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  subject to negligence or oversight.
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  One of the things that create fear is our, our failed
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  perception, that Jesus is subject in his lordship of my
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  life, to being negligent forgetful.
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  Overwhelmed. Maybe sometimes.
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  Emotionally unstable. And I didn't do my best this
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  week, so he changed his ideas about how he's going to bless me
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  and guide me and provide for me. You know, if I were to ask every
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  single person in this place, do you believe Jesus is The
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  Shepherd of your soul? Do you believe he really guides
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  you? Do you believe you can provide
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  everything that you need? It would be very hard for me to
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  believe that one of you would even say I don't think so unless
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  you're a non-believer. I don't think that's the object
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  of our doubt. I think we all can say yes it's
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  right. Jesus Does lead us he promises
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  to not forsake us. But it's our doubt that comes
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  from his ability to do so consistently or adequately.
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  And if we're not careful that kind of fear when it is
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  nurtured, and tolerated can convince us that we can evaluate
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  the Lord's faithfulness based on whether or not he comes through
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  according to our timetable, or are preferred type of provision.
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  And then we sit on the Judgment seat. looking down at our Lord
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  and saying, You claim to be faithful.
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  But look I can point to different things where to me, it
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  wasn't really the best that you can do.
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  I know that's not easy to hear, but listen, are ugly hearts.
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  Can testify of what I'm saying. We've had those thoughts.
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  We've had those ideas come through.
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  And gyrus did the right thing of coming to the Lord.
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  He did the absolute perfect thing to come to the Lord.
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  And to just unravel his heart and say, here I am.
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  This is something that I can do. I give it over to you.
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  And because of the nature of the problem, the nature of the
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  issue, that's all gyrus could have done.
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  And that's a freeing thought that.
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  When you and I come to the Lord with a burden in that very
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  moment, we also have to rest and knowing that's all I could do.
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  This is all I can do. This is what gyrus need to do
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  this very moment that the same Jesus you called upon as the
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  same G's as you are supposed to continue to trust in moment,
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  after moment, day after day, regardless of how things play
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  out and here is why the rest comes from the Revelation that
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  you have surrendered, it to an all Sovereign God who actually
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  cares about you? That's where the rest comes.
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  You've placed it before him and because of that, there should be
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  a Serene Stillness. That is unshakable.
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  In fact it's amazing how the Bible describes what should come
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  about for those who claim to have faith in this God and I
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  want to show you one of the most precious promises attached to
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  simple Faith like simple trust in the Lord.
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  It's an Isaiah 28. And I would like you to go there
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  with me in verse 16. Despite delays despite the
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  circumstance of concern, that seems to grow worse and worse
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  before your eyes. here's what God says about those who really
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  believe who truly believe Isaiah 28, verse 16.
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  Therefore, thus says the Lord God.
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  Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation and Zionist
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  own. A tested Stone, a precious,
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  Cornerstone of a sure Foundation here it is.
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  You ready whoever believes will not be in haste whoever believes
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  will not be in haste. What does that mean?
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  It means that a person who really believes is not overcome
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  by uncertainty. They're not fidgety.
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  They're not fickle. They're not frail.
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  They are someone who understands the foundation that they've laid
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  their life on, Is something that you can rest on continually
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  regardless of the trembling beneath your feet.
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  A person who is not in haste as somebody who doesn't scatter,
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  and abandon his post to try to find a different recipe of
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  success. You're not the soil that is
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  received this thing with joy immediately, but the moment
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  Trouble Comes, you uproot yourself and move somewhere else
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  to give your roots to know a person who really believes is
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  not in haste. His faith.
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  Empowers him by the grace of God to be composed and calm,
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  regardless regardless of anything that would demand
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  otherwise. He will not be in haste. and
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  then Paul, the Apostle borrows from this very scripture in
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  Romans 9, To make a case about faith.
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  But even though he is making the same point as the prophet
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  intended, the Holy Spirit puts a different shade on it.
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  Not that Paul changes this verse but he borrows the Greek version
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  of the Hebrew text called the Septuagint.
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  And it is still scripture obviously, but there's a
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  different shade to this promise that only adds to the blessing
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  of what it means to be a person who believes.
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  And so you have to see it for your own eyes and with your own
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  eyes and Romans 9. And in Romans 9 33, look how
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  Paul gives the same verse and notice the difference in the
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  promise though, it is the same heart.
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  Romans 9:33. Isaiah said, whoever believes
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  will not be in haste. Paul says, as he quotes the same
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  text as it is written, behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of
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  stumbling and a rock of offense and whoever believes in him will
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  not be put to shame. Will not be put to shame the
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  same text a different shade. And what he means here is that
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  the emphasis for the believer, the promise toward him, who
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  believes, is that? Because of his faith, he will
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  never be disappointed. Never, he won't be embarrassed.
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  He won't be regretful. He will in hindsight realized.
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  Oh, this Foundation is the only foundation.
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  And this Messiah is a faithful, God.
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  And so put those things together, the believer will not
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  be in haste. He's not panicky.
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  He doesn't drift. He's solid.
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  Because the foundation is solid and more than that beyond that
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  he will never be put to shame as you continue to trust the Lord
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  and petition. The Lord, and wait on the Lord.
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  His promise to you is I'll never make you blush.
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  I'll never make you think that I really, really, really do the
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  right thing and giving myself to this truth You will know the
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  light. So you'll be stable through and
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  you will be joyful when you come through, whoever beliefs The
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  news of his daughter's death is not the only thing that these
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  Messengers brought forth to him. What did they say afterwards?
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  Your daughter is dead. Then they went on to say why
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  trouble the teacher any further. In other words, these Postman
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  came to gyrus and they said there's no more that Christ can
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  really do at this point. Your daughter's been sealed with
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  the fate of the grave. So just dismiss him and move on
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  and let's just go and mourn your loved one.
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  And yet again, we have another instruction, here concerning the
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  school of Faith because we're all in the school of Faith.
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  We're just at different levels. And God has one goal for all of
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  his children that they would graduate.
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  So, here's another truth gyrus here, unfortunately, was the
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  recipient of Agents of fear. Instead of faith.
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  These men came to him not to build his faith in the person of
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  Jesus, but the cast more doubt. If it caused him to ultimately
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  deny the power of Jesus. And if we are not continually
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  aware of that, if you're not prepared for that, you can be
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  caught off guard. And you can be swept up by the
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  skepticism and by the Limited understanding of others who
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  might mean well, but don't know the God of this Bible the way
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  they should. Not everybody is an agent that
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  will benefit you and bless you. Unfortunately, there are some
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  who will come to stifle and to dampen and to bring you low and
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  here's the thing. Yeah they're unbelievers there
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  on my social media to do that. No, no.
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  I'm talking about people who have some kind of grasp of who
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  Jesus is and what he can do. These people understood that he
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  was a teacher and they understood that he could do some
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  things. But their problem was their
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  scope of Faith was very limited Christ, demanded so much.
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  Why bother the teacher any further, meaning he could have
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  done something up to this point, but beyond this point, he's not
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  very helpful. You have people who are like
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  that in the realm of Christendom.
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  They have an idea of what Jesus can do but they really don't
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  have a full understanding of what he can do.
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  And those kind of people affect those who are really believing
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  God for something and trusting and waiting on the Lord more
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  than anybody else. What should have the counsel of
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  these men be, I don't want to add to scripture, but we have
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  enough scripture to know exactly what true friends, true
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  Messengers should have done. I suggest that they shouldn't
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  have downplayed the death of the daughter.
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  But also, instead of saying, why bother the teacher any further,
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  you know, what, I would have said to drivers Why not seek the
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  teacher further? Why not teach yourself by coming
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  to Jesus and trusting that there is nothing too great for him.
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  And that in that moment, whatever counsel he gives rest
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  in that truth, that would have been much better message.
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  Hey, this thing escalated gyrus turn to the Lord now and beseech
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  him and implore him and see what he says.
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  Let him make the final call, let him draw the line.
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  But that is not the case, not everyone around us will spur us
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  on to Christ and to trust them more.
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  So be aware be very aware fear is just as contagious as
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  faithless. Fears just as contagious as
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  faithless and this is an instruction throughout the
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  Bible. Even when Israel would go to war
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  before they would head out, they would have a pep talk and the
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  leader would look out and see if any of you are afraid.
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  Go home. If any of you are afraid go home
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  less, you make your other Brethren's, Hearts melt and
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  fear. So the Bible is very aware and
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  clear and telling us that people who are fearful can rub off on
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  even those who have a little bit of faith.
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  There's so many examples of that, but I want to move on.
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  We see here. That Christ was speaking to this
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  woman at this time. And guess what?
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  Jesus heard it verse 36. But overhearing what they said,
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  Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, do not fear only
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  believe based on how Jesus is dressed in.
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  Do you know how we know what happened to gyrus?
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  Clearly, he was smitten. By some kind of anxiety or
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  Terror and we can understand that.
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  And so Jesus addresses that he focuses on Isis.
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  Listen, I know what you're feeling right now.
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  Do not fear, do not fear, and then he provides the antidote to
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  overcome it and it's summarized in two simple words, right?
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  We all know it only believe. Only believe fear might have
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  many faces, I'm telling you, the object of people's fears are
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  vast and wide though. The fear itself is universal, we
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  all know what fear feels like. One's fear might be another's.
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  Forte might be their strength and might be you actually
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  bothered by this. Nevertheless, the remedy is the
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  same for all types of fear, whether that fear is financial
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  challenges, potential failure, the fangs of enemies who are
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  merciless or the unknown future. The solution is the same only
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  believe, only believe And in Luke's version of the same text,
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  the Holy Spirit tells us that Jesus added something to that.
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  So he said in Luke 850, you don't have to turn there unless
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  you want to Do not fear only believe and she will be well.
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  And she will be well, okay. I'm going to just be very
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  pastoral now We're gonna do some discipleship.
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  Just very practical impartation here.
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  One of the most effective ways to Prevail against the energy
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  draining night. Stalking feeling known as fear.
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  This is the best way to do it, is to Face it with the most
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  tailored promise that you can find in God's word regarding
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  that very same thing. That is trying to nudge you
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  Here's the point that I'm trying to make the more specific, the
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  truth is the sharper, the blow will be against that, very lie,
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  that wants to ravage your faith. Believer.
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  I want to stretch you hear God wants you to grow.
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  Don't settle in spiritual warfare for generalities about
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  who God is. Don't try to go out there and to
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  live this life for the glory of Jesus Christ and depend upon
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  vague ideas of who God is and what he can do.
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  It won't take you too far. The best thing that you can do
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  the most brilliant thing that you can do to whether trials or
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  to endure, those Seasons where you are really struggling to
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  maintain peace and trust and glory to Jesus Christ is to take
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  what came from God's mouth. And then to play it over and
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  over again in your mind and especially in your prayers.
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  What did God say? What did he say?
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  What did he really say? No, it become familiar with it.
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  Hide it. Rehearse it.
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  We need to go beyond in those hours of Crisis.
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  God, you're good. I need some help here that that
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  is okay. But there's better.
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  Reach deep in the Armory of faith and pull out those weapons
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  that come from the words of God about you and toward you.
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  Wield it and watch it / Every Lie.
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  And cut deeper. Until it bleeds to death.
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  When I think about this, I have so many examples that come to
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  mind, but the one that came to mind was that a Jacob?
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  Remember Jacob was told go to your uncle laban's house.
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  And his mother said. I'll fetch for you when his
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  anger subsides and we have no indication that she ever sends
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  an email. Hey, he says doing better.
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  You can come back home. He stays for years, he gets
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  married. Got tricked into one of them.
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  It's married. Again, has children, he has an
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  Empire of a business and the next thing that he hears about
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  his brother, Esau who comforted himself of murdering his own
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  blood, is what you see. In Genesis 32, I want you to see
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  it in verse 7. Let's go to the beginning here.
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  And see how the Bible is harmonious with its precepts and
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  promises and principles. Here is the next thing that this
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  man hears. About his brother.
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  Let's go to verse 6 of Genesis 32 and The Messengers returned
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  to Jacob saying we came to your brother Esau and he is coming to
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  meet you and there are four hundred men with him.
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  How comforting is that? If you had just said, Isa was
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  coming. I can deal with Esau.
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  But for whatever reason he saw it necessary to bring 400 guys
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  with him, some kind of reunions. You can imagine how he felt
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  verse, 7 tells us so you don't have to go too far with your
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  imagination, then. Jacob was greatly afraid.
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  Greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people who are
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  with him and the flocks and herds and camels into two camps
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  thinking if he succumbs to the one camp and attacks it, then
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  the camp that is left will escape so he plants I don't
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  blame him. Okay let me break this thing up
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  so that he doesn't completely devour me.
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  One side can at least accept Escape if he's to come the way.
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  He is planning to come. That's not all he does.
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  He does what you and I should do.
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  He does what gyrus did verse 9 and Jacob said, oh god of My
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  Father, Abraham God of my father Isaac.
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  Oh Lord, here's the part. Look at this.
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  Who said to me, Who said to me, you said something to me.
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  You inscribe something over my fate.
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  You've determined my future. Who said to me, return to your
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  country and to your Kindred that I may do you good?
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  so, the sphere Just unannounced, visits him and he knew exactly
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  how to wrestle it. He wrestles it with what God had
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  said to him. I got news about Esau, I'm now
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  going to combat it with the news that God already gave me And he
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  begins to now in the presence of God before God tell God, not
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  that God is forgetful. But for his own heart, his own
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  soul. You told me, you told me return
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  to your country, He didn't just stay there, scroll down to verse
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  12 and see what he continues to do.
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  Verse 12, but you said he's still praying.
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  But you said I will surely. Do you good and make your
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  Offspring as the sand of the sea?
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  Which cannot be numbered for multitude.
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  Jacob new. The promises of God.
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  There right there. The bullets were in the chamber,
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  they're ready to fire. And so he says you said this and
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  Lord, you also said this. That's how you overcome that's
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  how you see Victory, that's how you see yourself, escaped the
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  clutches. Of anxiety and worry.
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  Despair. And if you're serious about
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  living, Fearless, if you're serious about knowing and
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  coasting in life, With peace and serenity.
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  And Repose, then you'll be serious about what God had said.
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  You'll be serious about what God had said, and I get it.
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  Because I've been there. I've been there.
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  Here's where I've been Putting great effort into looking at the
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  word of God, trying to memorize the word of God. and when the
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  Trouble Comes, it seems as though things just evaporate,
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  And you can't hold on to anything and it's very hard to
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  remain calm and to recollect when your heart, and your mind
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  is being flooded with so much. So, the best thing really is in
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  that moment to have it ready on your lips, right?
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  And just to know what to say in that time, but if you can't find
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  those specific promises for every single situation in life,
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  though, that would be the greatest thing and do the next
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  best thing and have have just a couple solid solid promises
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  about who God is descriptions of the faithfulness of God,
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  examples of what God has done in other people's lives and have
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  those things ready to apply to anything.
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  At any moment, I shared this a few Fridays ago and I think it's
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  worth sharing. Now, I remember years ago,
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  talking to someone who reached out to me and I barely talked to
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  this person, they just felt that impressing their hearts to
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  update me and to hear what's going on in my life.
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  And when we just share, what's going on and that person asks,
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  how can I pray for you? I shared a couple of requests
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  and in that moment he prayed like any of us would pray what's
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  on our hearts, what we may be said before, but in that prayer,
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  he paused and I knew he wasn't reading a text or a verse or
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  anything from an Actual page. But just from his heart came out
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  a passage from Isaiah. And when he had said it, that
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  was the most impactful thing he prayed for me.
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  Because God said it, it came from God's mouth. and to this
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  day, that left an imprint on my heart and I forgot everything
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  else that men prayed for Have something ready?
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  Have something ready for you. Have something ready for a
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  brother have something ready for that.
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  Emergency phone call have something ready.
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  When you bump into a person, and in that moment, you have nothing
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  to turn to, but it's there and you can rehearse it, and you can
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  declare it and you can share it. And you can also see perhaps
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  somebody else delivered, If you can't, if you can't even get
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  yourself to get there, if you're still rather, I'm being honest.
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  It takes takes much for me to arrive there.
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  Then do the next best thing. Here's the next best thing apart
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  from this. I don't know.
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  I was to help you, I'm sorry. Be familiar enough with the map
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  of the Bible. Your Bible get a copy of God's
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  word in your hand. I'm a book guy, get God's book
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  in your hand because there's something about even not being
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  able to know references at the top of your head.
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  There's something about reading it, consistently enough being
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  familiar with it enough where, you know, where it's vaguely
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  connected in some page in the right side than the side of the
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  book and that book. And here's the next best thing.
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  No, at least where you can find the promise of God with the word
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  of God in your hands. So you can turn there as you're
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  breathing heavily and sweating profusely and you can look at a
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  scripture or Psalm that you know where to go to and just rehearse
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  it and read it and wash yourself in it.
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  I know our faith is about Grace by, God's not going to help us
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  do this. He gave us a brain.
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  He gave us a book and he gave us principles so that we can grow
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  and no greater strength against our foes and this flesh.
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  Jacob knew how to wrestle because he knew what God had
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  said. Something was set the gyrus.
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  Do not fear only believe. Luke says, she will be well,
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  that's what he held onto, and we have every reason to believe
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  that he trusted and obeyed. What Jesus had said, because we
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  find ourselves in the next portion of this, text
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  approaching gyrus is home. But before we enter into his
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  house, we're told something quite interesting in verse 37.
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  We're told by the spirit of God, that Jesus only allowed.
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  Peter and James, and John, the brother of James to go with him.
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  So remember there was a crowd, that was following Jesus.
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  And then there was a checkpoint, the woman grabs ahold of His
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  Garment Jesus pauses and a dresser gyrus now is they're
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  filled with fear because these messenger said your daughter is
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  dead and so at that at that point Jesus looks at the crowd
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  and he dismisses them. and not just them, he looks at his 12
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  and he says, you, you come with me Come with me.
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  Peter James and John. Let's go.
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  No reaction from the others. This is the first time that we
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  are introduced in our study of the gospels of Jesus, Inner
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  Circle, Jesus had Inner Circle and it was the same Trio.
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  We find them here, we find them in different portions and
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  different miraculous events. We find them even in those final
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  moments, in the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus would,
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  you pray with me and they couldn't even do that for an
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  hour. I'm not going to spend time here
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  explaining why Jesus had an inner circle.
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  But I want to show you for one brief moment who was in a circle
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  and why that should bless us three people mention, you know
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  who moves me? the fact that Peter went, out of
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  all of them, Peter Yeah, he had leadership qualities but he
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  messed up a lot. And you're saying, well, where
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  did he mess up here? He actually did.
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  Go back to verse 30 and 31. We didn't cover this in depth
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  last week, but it's worth looking at it.
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  Now, when Jesus was touched by this woman, it says, in verse 30
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  perceiving in himself, that power had gone out from him
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  immediately turned about in the crown and said, who touched my
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  garments? Who touched my garments and his
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  disciples said to him, you see the crowd pressing around you
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  and yet you say who touched me? Okay, here are the disciples
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  again proving that they are lagging.
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  And are limited and their understanding of divine
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  perspective, Jesus experienced something, Jesus perceive
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  something, they couldn't register why he would ask such a
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  question when there is pendemonium going on and people
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  pressing in on him perhaps even others trying to grab him as
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  well. And yet, Jesus is asking who
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  touched me? And there's a hint of criticism
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  here from the disciples. Are you actually asking this
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  question? And you can also imagine that
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  these disciples are feeling a little squeeze because they feel
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  the stress and the pressure of getting to gyrus is home before.
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  It's too late and here's the Lord pausing and asking a
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  question. Like that, who touched me Lord?
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  Is it really important? Now to figure out the obvious?
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  Everyone is touching you They understand that there was power
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  that came out of him. There is someone who really
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  touched me. They didn't perceive that.
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  But when you go to Luke's version, who do you think the
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  main spokesperson of the criticism was, you don't have to
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  guess it, but I want to show you so don't think I'm lying Luke
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  8:45. Luke 8:45.
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  We're told in Mark all the disciples side this but Luke by
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  the spirit highlights, the spokesman Luke 8:45 and Jesus
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  said who was it that touched me? When all denied it, Peter said
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  Master the crowds around you and you are and are pressing in on
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  you. Peter Peter, Peter.
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  So quick to speak. So quick to sound Superior and
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  smart. So quick to bring correction,
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  you didn't do it just this time he brought correction on
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  different occasions to Jesus. What kind of audacity have to
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  criticize? Someone who is perfect?
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  That's who we're dealing with you Peter?
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  And think about if Peter was responsible here for these
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  comments, you would think that he would be the last guy to get
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  a front-row seat to a resurrection.
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  And yet Jesus, when he chose his Trio, said, Peter, let's go.
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  That was the others as we really, Lord m.
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  And I looked at that, and I thought to myself meditating on
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  it last night and here's the question that came to mind.
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  Rhetorically, are you not happy? Are you not glad that?
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  Jesus still allows us to follow him to gives us, give us
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  glimpses of his glory and his goodness, even though at times
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  we doubt and maybe even internalized criticism towards
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  his leadership. I'm just so blown away from time
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  to time that the Lord allows me to still play on his team.
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  And doesn't bench me. even though I do things like what
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  Peter's done, it's amazing to know that we can slip up mess
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  up. He had the Lord is still willing
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  to invite us deeper. Take us further.
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  See, that's not fair. Well, that's what Grace is.
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  It's not fair. Well, wouldn't that encourage us
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  to just mess up even more, not, not if you love him.
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  It will melt you, it will mold you.
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  It will be the greatest encouragement to Holiness that
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  you can imagine. So, Peter gets to go. and Jesus
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  brings three, because there is a law in Deuteronomy that On the
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  basis of two or three Witnesses. A thing is established.
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  So he brings three to testify. What's about to take place?
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  So they come. As encouraging as that point is,
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  we have to balance it. We have to balance it with an
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  honest view of how Jesus responds to Faith.
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  And it is true that it he is patient and he beckons us
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  despite our imperfection and are stumbling.
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  But look at what he's about to do.
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  Now is he encounters a crowd that is crushing into the home
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  of gyrus verse 38? They came to the house of the
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  ruler of the synagogue and Jesus saw a commotion people weeping
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  and wailing loudly. And we had when he had entered,
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  he said to them. Why are you making a commotion
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  and weeping? The child is not dead, but
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  sleeping and they laughed at him.
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  And they laughed at him but he put him out all outside and took
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  the child's father and mother and those who are with him and
• 38:40
  went in with a child was, they laughed at him?
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  So here's what happens. Jesus enters into the scene and
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  it's chaos. Wailing weeping, pulling
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  screaming. Screeching And the Lord steps
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  in. And he provides comforting
• 39:00
  correction. What is this all for?
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  She's asleep, she's not dead. And it makes you question.
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  Whether this grieving was a performance or if it was sincere
• 39:15
  because they were able to shut that off so quickly and turn to
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  him and begin to mock him. It's very difficult for a
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  morning person to do. Jarvis was unimportant, man.
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  It's not a mystery. Why?
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  There are so many people attending his daughter's
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  funeral. And the Lord wants to now do
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  something even in their hearts. By elevating their perspective
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  about this situation to God's Viewpoint of her condition and
• 39:42
  of her hopeful future by saying she's not she's not dead.
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  She's asleep. Listen.
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  When you're in Christ and when you believe this Christ and when
• 39:52
  you follow this Christ, you see things differently, everything
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  differently. When you're truly born again.
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  May God help you. If you are selling for a cheap
• 40:06
  fake salvation, just to have some social credit among other
• 40:10
  professing Christians don't settle for anything.
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  But the true thing because when you're truly born again, I'm
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  telling you, you'll know you're born again and when you know
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  you're born again, here's one way.
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  You see things differently? You see things differently.
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  Your eyes are open to New World though.
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  You've traveled through these streets before, and come into
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  these buildings before. And ate the same food before and
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  handled the same money. Before everything now is
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  changed, there is a redefining of all aspects of life,
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  including the dreaded appointment that you and I have
• 40:41
  with death. Because of the supremacy of the
• 40:47
  Lord Jesus Christ, his authority, his vicarious death
• 40:52
  and Resurrection. He's able to look at something
• 40:55
  as permanent as death and give it a different definition.
• 40:59
  He's able to give it a different metaphor, different figure and
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  say, This is just a transition. This is temporal.
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  She's not sealed in this condition forever, she's coming
• 41:15
  out of it and every time you go through the New Testament and
• 41:18
  you read the reference of death labeled as sleep, it is a
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  reminder from the Holy Spirit to you that one day your body.
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  Will be awakened at a resurrection morning.
• 41:34
  We don't believe in Soul, sleep. We don't believe that when you
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  die, it's like when you go to sleep, and then when the
• 41:39
  Resurrection comes, then you will be present with the Lord,
• 41:41
  we believe that the moment you give your final breath, your
• 41:43
  soul is in his arms and you come into His presence.
• 41:48
  And the resurrection that we're speaking of here, the sleep is
• 41:53
  the body that same body that has been corrupted by sin, scarred
• 41:57
  by iniquity traumatized, by your own decisions, and by the force
• 42:01
  of others that same body, one day when Christ, makes the call,
• 42:05
  will know a glorification, a healing and a renewal forever
• 42:09
  and ever and ever. It's sleep.
• 42:15
  So why grief Christian that's why our funerals should look
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  different. That's why our morning is not
• 42:21
  extended. Can I tell you something?
• 42:27
  Christian marriages are a joy and this may sound strange, but
• 42:31
  it may be just as strangest. Death being referred to as sleep
• 42:34
  funerals are also exciting when it comes to a person that you
• 42:37
  know who's in that casket walk with God.
• 42:41
  I don't like the funerals. I go to where people claim to be
• 42:43
  Christians but their life, testifies otherwise and you just
• 42:45
  hope that they're in heaven. I don't like those funerals.
• 42:49
  I like those funerals where you go and you're like, I know where
• 42:52
  that guy is, I know where she is.
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  Oh, that person. Loved God.
• 42:57
  That person served. That person was truly a saint
• 43:01
  because of the grace of Jesus, guys in them and through them.
• 43:04
  Celebration. They're sleeping and I can go up
• 43:08
  to that casket and pay my respects and say, I'll see you
• 43:11
  soon. Do you have that confidence?
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  Death is referred to in the Book of Job as the king of Terrors.
• 43:25
  People say I'm not afraid of death, really.
• 43:29
  You just flinched at them and you see them go like that,
• 43:31
  clearly, you're afraid of being hurt.
• 43:33
  If you're afraid of being heard and you're afraid of dying, But
• 43:40
  Christ delivers you from death. He delivers you from the fear of
• 43:45
  death. And he gives you a whole new
• 43:48
  dictionary on life. Were you able to look at death
• 43:52
  itself and say? Because of Jesus, this is sleep
• 43:56
  for the believer that stirs you to worship for the unbelieving.
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  It's a cause for derision and Scorn.
• 44:01
  And that's exactly what we just said.
• 44:03
  And heard. They laughed at him.
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  It's not just a chuckle because of a surprising comment made by
• 44:11
  some stranger to just deal with the awkward tension.
• 44:14
  It was a collective effort. To mock Jesus and his message.
• 44:20
  It was continual, they kept jeering at him.
• 44:25
  And it came to the point where the reaction of these people was
• 44:29
  enough for Jesus, to say, okay, I know what I'm going to do with
• 44:31
  you and he pulls them away from the whole thing and pushes them
• 44:35
  out. That's how much Authority had.
• 44:36
  I don't know how he did it. That's kind of like a cleansing
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  of the temple thing but he managed to take a packed house
• 44:43
  and with his authority, get out. And the same way that we read
• 44:51
  this reaction and believe that it points to a reflection of the
• 44:55
  culture that we are in today, which blasphemes God's truth.
• 45:00
  On so many fronts I believe that the Judgment that Christ gave
• 45:04
  this crowd is also a foreshadowing of what will come
• 45:07
  on that final day to the same type of people.
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  They laughed at him and we read but he put them all outside.
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  He put them outside of a home to not witness a resurrection, but
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  there will be a final evasion where people will not be in the
• 45:26
  presence of God and will not know the resurrection unto life.
• 45:30
  Because during this life, they mocked him.
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  They hated him, they despised him and they rejected his truth.
• 45:40
  When it was given to them. Don't be that person.
• 45:43
  Don't be that person. You will miss out on so much.
• 45:50
  not just in this life, but in eternal life, these people were
• 45:54
  exposed to the truth but they were expelled.
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  And one day there will be a people who have been exposed to
• 46:00
  truth. And there will be an eternal
• 46:03
  expulsion. Where there will be weeping and
• 46:06
  gnashing of teeth. I pray that your soul would be
• 46:08
  saved for real if you're not born again, in this place.
• 46:14
  Jesus tells them to leave. Let's finish this together with
• 46:19
  an alertness, shall we? Verse 41.
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  Taking her by the hand. I love that.
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  Because Mark is very descriptive of how Jesus is personal and his
• 46:33
  miracles. He looks around to see, you see
• 46:36
  a lot of seeing from Jesus in, Mark, there's a lot of touching
• 46:39
  with the Miracles and Mark to show that he's personal.
• 46:43
  He's compassionate, he wants to be near.
• 46:45
  He doesn't just want to dispense his power from afar.
• 46:48
  He wants you to feel him and know his love and every touch
• 46:51
  taking her by the hand, he said to her talitha, koum.
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  I Aramaic. Which means little girl, I say
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  to To arise. You can imagine the suspense of
• 47:02
  that moment, right? And immediately, the girl got up
• 47:07
  and began walking for. She was 12 years of age and they
• 47:10
  were immediately overcome with amazement.
• 47:17
  This healing was so complete. There was no need for Rehab.
• 47:19
  There was no need for any kind of supervision or inclination
• 47:24
  towards restoration. It was immediate she left.
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  She just jumped out of bed and began walking around with full
• 47:30
  strength in Her Bones in her muscles in her nerves.
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  They were amazed that what they had seen And it could have ended
• 47:41
  there but it ends with verse 43 and verse 43 is so insightful
• 47:46
  and he strictly charged them. That no one should know this.
• 47:52
  Why why not? Well, one reason for certain is
• 47:57
  because Jesus again did not want to fuel The hysteria of people
• 48:02
  coming to him just for miracles, he had a message, there is
• 48:07
  healing in his gospel that he wanted to prioritize.
• 48:09
  And to throw this out there with would probably just cause people
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  to get all caught up in the Miracles all over again.
• 48:15
  And so he hesitates for this news to go out just yet, But
• 48:22
  there's something else, he tells them.
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  And told them to give her something to eat.
• 48:30
  Now, we look at that were like, okay, that's, that's a sweet
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  gesture know. It says something, it says
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  something about Christ. Because again, let's go back
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  into that scene that bedroom, right?
• 48:40
  This young girl gets up, she starts walking and you can just
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  imagine the joy just bursting forth.
• 48:46
  You can imagine that belief but this belief, you can imagine the
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  embrace, you can imagine the tears, the crying if she had
• 48:52
  siblings, while she was the only one that maybe other relatives
• 48:55
  in there, that would hear later on the reunions, that would
• 48:57
  happen that and all these things, right?
• 49:00
  And yet, with all of that, Holy commotion, Jesus is aware of
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  something that nobody else is aware of.
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  Hey, she needs to eat. Give her something to eat.
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  She probably hasn't eaten in days.
• 49:14
  Give her some food, somebody preparers some lunch.
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  And reflecting on that. I thought to myself that showed
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  that the Lord was more attentive to her needs.
• 49:23
  And anyone else in that house, he knew exactly where she was at
• 49:27
  and the depth of his awareness of what she needed.
• 49:33
  Is an insight about how he is. More knowledgeable, more caring,
• 49:39
  more present, more aware than anyone, you know, anyone you
• 49:45
  know. You might have a mom who adores.
• 49:48
  You. It might have a father who
• 49:51
  provides for you. You might have siblings who will
• 49:53
  die for you. You might have friends who make
• 49:56
  so many promises to be there for you.
• 49:58
  You might have a pastor who supports you but no one like
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  Jesus. They all missed it.
• 50:08
  He didn't. You see Christ, what he does
• 50:11
  here. Is it brings to the attention of
• 50:14
  the people, something that he knew that she needed that they
• 50:17
  didn't, and Christ does this in ways that I hope you would never
• 50:20
  be blind to. I think about even Elijah, how
• 50:24
  God tells him go to the east of the Jordan.
• 50:26
  And I have commanded the Ravens to feed you there.
• 50:30
  So, he goes in twice a day, the Ravens come and they provide him
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  a meal. And notice when the Ravens come,
• 50:35
  they provided me exactly what he needed for that meal.
• 50:37
  He had no leftovers. So you have to trust that
• 50:40
  dinnertime a Ravens, going to come and the next day another
• 50:45
  Raven other Raven. And then from there, he tells
• 50:48
  him to go to Zarephath which was inside on and he says, go there
• 50:52
  for. I've commanded a widow to feed
• 50:54
  you there. God has all these instruments.
• 50:59
  All these vessels around us and whether you're aware of it or
• 51:02
  not, he moves through people through Providence because he's
• 51:06
  aware of what you need and he places it perfectly in your
• 51:10
  path. How the Lord knew how to take
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  care of Elijah, how he knew how to take care of this woman.
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  The Lord knows how to take care of you and me.
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  Remember how it mention Grab ahold of one or two promises
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  that you can tuck in here and from time to time, sharpen your
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  memorization of it so that you be ready to face that fear that
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  wants to viciously. Rip it out from you.
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  Here's one to consider Isaiah 49:15.
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  Can a woman forget her nursing child That she should have no
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  compassion on the son of her womb, you know what the Lord is
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  doing their, he's pointing to one of the strongest
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  demonstrations of human love. A woman, a mother for her
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  nursing child. That baby can't do anything in
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  return for that mother. And yet there's something
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  churning in her, there's something, keeping her up at
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  night. There is no doubt in any part of
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  who she is. That she will give 10 lives for
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  that baby to survive another day.
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  And the Lord points to that kind of love.
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  And he says extreme in as high as that love is it is still
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  subject to fail. It's possible.
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  Even for a mother to forget on some level.
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  And then he contrasts that love with his love my love as we read
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  here. Even these may forget yet, I
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  will not forget you, my love is not only stronger, it's
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  Unbreakable It's constant. It doesn't have episodes, It's
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  dependable. It's strong and it's something
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  you can lean on and I don't get tired of it.
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  A mother may know. Exhaustion, I do not sleep.
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  A mother may burst out from time to time.
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  What did I get myself into I don't.
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  Even these may forget. Yet, I will not forget you.
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  But secondly this command shows how practical God is.
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  Does it not give her something to eat?
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  Lord, you just raise her from the dead.
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  Maybe you can also make a meal. All right, you can feel her
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  belly. You, you filled her body with
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  breath. You can feel her belly.
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  Maybe you can make something appear before her on her lap
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  before she even takes another step.
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  But he doesn't do that. He did his part, he looks at the
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  parents and he says, now make her something.
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  God is very practical. And what you see here is that
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  the power of Christ in our lives does not discourage us,
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  discourage us from participating and making things happen.
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  Let me put it this way. Not every situation in your life
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  requires a miracle. God has expectations on you.
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  He has instruction, he has wisdom, he has given us skills
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  resources, and he expects us to plan and prepare accordingly for
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  things to be accomplished. From time to time, he may allow
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  us to face a situation like what gyrus face, so that we would
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  have to call on him because there's nothing else we can do.
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  And in those moments where only a miracle makes sense, Do not
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  fear. Only believe.
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  Let's pray. Even these may forget.
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  Yet, I will not forget you. Father, help us believe in your
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  personalized. Love for each person here.
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  Help us. Not wait for a subjective surge
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  of emotion. Help us, not look to events to
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  qualify how you care for us. Like Jacob.
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  May we be greatly acquainted with what you have said, already
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  in your word. Help us believe your word.
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  Lord, you know. The fears in this place, the
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  unspoken fears. The fears that might be
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  embarrassing to share about because they seem so silly and
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  trivial. the Lord, as you showed with this young girl, You know.
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  And you care. We love you for that.
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  It's loading this very moment. We want to worship you. because
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  as we leave this place and go and deal with the Affairs of
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  life, As we go into our bank account and look at numbers that
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  might not be the most favorable. Or a calendar and see things
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  that are coming up. That might be overwhelming or
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  going back to a home. That might seem anything but a
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  home. Will might receive a report.
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  I will rattle us to the Core. We just pray.
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  That this word would not be forgotten.
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  Help us ignore the Agents of fear in our lives.
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  That don't believe fully what you're able to do.
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  Mute every other voice. And magnify your own.
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  And Lord in those moments. Where we feel lazy toward your
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  word indifferent. Help us.
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  God cultivate a familiarity so that we can be prepared.
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  We sing to you because we are grateful to you.
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  You deserve the glory. We love you Lord in Jesus name.
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  Amen let's Stand Together.