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Easter 2025 · The Bread of the Word Podcast

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  Blessed is the man
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  who walketh not in the council of the ungodly
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  Nor standeth in the way of sinners
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  nor sitteth
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  inceited the scornful,
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  but his delight is on the law of the LORD
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  and on his law
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  doth he meditate.
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  Day
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  and night
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  he shall be like a tree
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  planted by the rivers of water
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  that bring forth his fruit in his season
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  his leaf also
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  shall not weather
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  whatsoever he doeth
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  shall prosper.
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  Welcome
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  to the Bread of the Word Podcast,
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  a podcast striving to feast on god's Word
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  and let the Bible speak to us all
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  let us, as a former generation said
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  go add fontaise
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  to the fountain
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  and be nourished and sustained by all that God is
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  let's dig in together
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  hello and welcome back to the Bread of the Word podcast.
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  Rigo adfantes to the fountain to the Word of God
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  to be nourished and sustained by all the God is
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  as he's revealed himself to us.
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  My name is Tyler,
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  and this episode will be the official Bread of the Word
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  Easter production
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  if you will.
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  Easter also happens to Mark the
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  5 year anniversary of doing Bread of the Word.
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  I've been doing this for 5 years now as of today
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  Easter is always the the carrier Verdes the next year
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  with my calendar,
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  so he's risen.
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  He's risen indeed as you've probably heard a time or' 2
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  already,
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  so we are going into Sermon on the Mount today
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  normally we be in Joe,
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  but we are. We've been taking
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  last week and this week to give some time to
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  the new humanity to
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  this
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  new view of humanity that Christ has called us into
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  as his
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  church as his children
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  the First Corinthians 517 says that if anyone is
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  in Christ, he is a new creation, a new creature,
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  if you read the King James Version,
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  what is that new creation? What is so new
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  about what Christ has accomplished for us what does he
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  beckon us to? That is the question today
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  and with that we actually are directing our eyes to
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  the beginning
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  of Christ ministry to address that question.
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  So Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter 5,
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  picking up in verse one
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  says, And seeing the multitudes,
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  he went up into a mountain
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  and when he was set his disciples came up unto him
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  and He opened His mouth and taught them
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  saying, Blessed are the poor and spirit,
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  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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  blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted,
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  and blessed are the meek,
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  for they shall inherit the earth
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  blessed are they
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  which do hunger and thirst after righteousness
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  for they shall be filled
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  blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy
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  blessed are the pure and heart for they shall see God,
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  blessed are the peacemakers,
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  for they shall be called the children of God,
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  blessed are they
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  which are persecuted for righteousness sake
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  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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  blessed are ye
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  when men shall reval you and persecute you
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  and shall say all men are of evil against you falsely
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  for my sake.
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  So this is a series of statements that
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  oftentimes we call Beatitudes
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  and there's a
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  I'm not entirely sure where the word itself comes from
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  but
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  essentially what they are
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  there be attitudes.
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  They're attitudes that' we are called to adopt
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  as people who are in Christ.
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  These are things that are not natural to
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  us, but these are things that God delights
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  and these are the kinds of people that God blesses.
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  And so he says blessed are the poor and spirit
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  blessed are the meek, which is to say the gentle,
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  blessed are the peacekeepers,
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  blessed or sorry peacemakers,
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  blessed are
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  they which hunger and thirst after righteousness
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  this there is a progression in this list,
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  but right off the bat with the very first one is
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  blessed are the poor
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  in spirit,
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  blessed are the spiritually bankrupt
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  right off the bat, he says you are blessed
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  we realize that you have nothing.
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  You are blessed when you see
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  that you have no independence.
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  When you recognize your need for God,
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  it says to people like that theirs is the kingdom
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  of Heaven.
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  That is the promise
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  that
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  the Kingdom of heaven belongs to those who are poor
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  in spirit if we are to
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  enter the Kingdom of heaven
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  as we're told in John.
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  III. That accept ye be born again
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  ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven
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  we're also told here
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  that the Kingdom
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  of Heaven is to those who are poor in spirit
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  to those who are spiritually bankrupt
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  who recognize who have come to the end of theirselves
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  and realize that they lack something.
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  And so blessed are the poor and spirit
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  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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  blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted,
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  blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
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  blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
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  righteousness,
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  for they shall be filled
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  all of these points to something that we don't have
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  that we are poor in spirit.
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  We are in mourning,
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  we are meek or gentle. We are
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  hungering and thirsting after righteousness
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  why? Because these are things we don't have
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  there is a blessing from God
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  in recognizing that which we do not possess.
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  If we go over to
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  to paul's letters to Corinth,
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  second Corinthians, chapter 12,
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  verse 7,
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  he says, and, lest I should be exalted above measure.
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  Through the abundance of these revelations
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  there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,
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  the messenger of Satan to buffet me
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  lest I should be exalted above measure
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  for this thing I besought the Lord thrice
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  3 times that it should depart from me
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  and he said unto me, My Grace is sufficient for thee
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  for my strength is made perfect
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  in weakness
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  so. Paul has weakness.
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  Paul has shortcomings
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  and what exactly he's referring to
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  is debated by people far smarter than I,
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  but the point of state of saying this
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  was not to give attention to what the thing
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  was necessarily,
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  but to say I have weakness,
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  and I have asked God to rid me of this weakness
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  and God said no
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  because there is something about Himself
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  that I learn through having weakness.
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  This is my strength
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  speaking of God. His strength is made perfect in my
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  weakness
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  and he says most gladly, therefore well, I rather glory
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  in my infirmities
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  that the power of Christ may rest upon me
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  and in the King James Version
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  we have to see the word glory used as a verb
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  because essentially
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  what it means in the original languages is to shine
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  is to direct a light source
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  and so we often see that use as a verb
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  in the King James
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  because that is what we're talking about is
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  we are giving attention
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  we are giving focus
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  to something,
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  and so he says I glory in the midst of my infirmities
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  so that the power of Christ may rest upon me
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  why? Because the poor and spirit
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  are the heirs of the kingdom of heaven
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  those that are in mourning,
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  those that are hungering and thirsting after
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  righteousness,
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  those that recognize what they do not have
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  and are going to God for that thing
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  they are the type of people that God says.
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  Is blessed. These are the people that God bless
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  and we might even
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  go so far as and say that these are signs that you are
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  blessed,
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  that these are the blessings
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  you are blessed when you are meek
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  for they shall inherit the
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  blessed are they
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  which do hunger and thirst after righteousness
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  why? Because they shall be filled
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  and where are we filled
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  in God?
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  God feels that God feeds us. That is
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  that is the promise of Luke 9
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  with the feeding in the multitude,
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  which if you're gonna be in Newton you're gonna hear
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  hear about that at the 2025 Laborers Conference
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  on the feeding of the multitude and many other things
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  as we work together through
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  what it means to take up your cross
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  daily and follow after Christ,
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  but Luke 9
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  He feeds them in a way that echoes back not only to
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  the Promised Land and the wilderness,
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  and Moses and the Israelites
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  wandering through the desert
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  but it also hearkens back to Eden
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  when they doubted the goodness of God
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  in the Garden.
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  And yet the example that
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  Christ gives of meeting those needs
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  shows us
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  2 things. It shows us that Jesus was
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  in fact God and could cause that to happen
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  but b
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  it shows that He had a heart full of compassion for us
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  that He fed people, not just because He was God,
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  but Jesus fed people
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  because He loved people
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  because He was filled with compassion that
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  is a common phrase throughout the Book of Mark
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  that He was taken with compassion for them
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  and so
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  we will be filled. We will be fed
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  by God, not just through God, but by God,
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  and from there
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  this list transitions
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  from
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  that inward,
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  blessed are the poor in spirit to something more
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  outward. Blessed are. The merciful
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  for they shall obtain mercy,
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  blessed are the pure in heart
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  for they shall see God,
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  blessed are the peacemakers,
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  for they shall be called the children
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  of God.
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  So you are blessed when you show mercy
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  because you have received mercy.
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  Psalm 136 says give thanks
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  to God. Why?
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  For his mercy endureth forever
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  give thanks unto the Lord for he is good
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  his mercy endureth forever.
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  That is a constant phrase
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  throughout the psalm
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  it repeats, it's almost like a sea shanty
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  every other line,
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  oh give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good
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  for his mercy endureth forever
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  oh give thanks unto the God of gods
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  for his mercy endureth forever
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  o give thanks to the Lord of Lords for his mercy
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  endureth forever
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  to him alone who doeth great wonders
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  for his mercy endureth forever
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  to him that by wisdom made the heavens
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  for his mercy endureth forever
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  and to him that stretched out the earth
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  above the waters for his mercy endureth forever
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  and if you were to read that in Hebrew
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  which I can't do,
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  you would find that the word endureth is not there
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  tamefully, literally it says His mercy forever
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  we put some version of endure in our translations
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  to make it flow better,
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  but His mercy is forever
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  and so blessed are
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  the merciful,
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  for they have obtained mercy.
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  They shall obtain mercy and have obtained mercy
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  god has made us to be merciful people
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  through
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  what Christ accomplished on the cross
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  that will. We believe this message
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  that Jesus Christ
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  put on human flesh dwelt among us lived
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  33 perfect years
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  and went to the place of sinners intentionally
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  and his body was nailed to a cross and put in a tomb
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  but he was risen from the dead
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  by the power of the Holy Spirit
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  when we believe that message
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  and all that that entails
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  that he has suffered in our place
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  for sins that we could never be,
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  we could never atone for.
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  This is what we become
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  is this. This. Is where we are going
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  if we truly wholeheartedly believe
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  that Jesus Christ is God,
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  that he dwelt among us, that he
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  suffered for our sake and was risen from the dead
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  if we believe that this will become true of us
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  maybe not instantly, maybe not overnight
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  firstly, I am still trying to be this
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  but these are things that come from God.
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  These are indications
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  of Christ within you.
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  Let's go to Romans 8.
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  Romans chapter 8
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  says there is therefore now no condemnation
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  to them which are in Christ Jesus
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  who walk not after
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  the flesh, but after the Spirit,
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  for the law of the Spirit of life
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  in Christ Jesus, hath made me free
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  from the law of sin and death
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  for what the law could not do
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  in that it was weak through the flesh,
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  god sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh
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  and for sin condemned sin
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  in the flesh, that the righteousness of the law
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  might be fulfilled in
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  us
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  who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit
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  for they that are after the flesh
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  do mind the things of the flesh
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  but they that are after the spirit.
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  The things of the spirit
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  for to be currently minded is death
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  but to be spiritually minded is in life
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  and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity towards God.
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  It does not subject to the law of God.
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  Neither, indeed can be
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  so. Then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
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  That is our natural state is we are
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  in such a state of rebellion to God that we cannot
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  please God. That is our starting point
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  but ye are not in the flesh, but in the spirit
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  if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you,
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  and if Christ be in you,
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  the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life
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  because of righteousness,
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  but the spirit of him that raised up Jesus
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  from the dead
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  dwells in you
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  he that raised up Christ from the dead
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  shall also quicken your moral bodies by his Spirit
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  that dwelleth in you.
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  The very same spirit that rose Jesus Christ
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  from the dead.
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  That rose that body out of the tomb
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  lives in us, and makes us,
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  these things that makes us to be poor in spirit
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  makes us meek
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  Makes us to hunger and thirst after righteousness
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  it makes us merciful
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  the Holy Spirit enables this to be true of us
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  and by the power of God we have become
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  new
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  and are continuing to be made new
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  go back to First Corinthians.
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  Go to Second Corinthians. Chapter 5
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  says the love of Christ constraineth us,
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  because we thus judge that if one died for all
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  then
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  were all dead,
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  and that he died for all
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  that they which live
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  should not henceforth live unto themselves
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  but unto him which died for them
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  and rose again
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  wherefore henceforth
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  know we that no man after the flesh
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  though we have known Christ after the flesh
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  yet now know we him no more
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  therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
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  All the things
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  have passed away
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  behold, all things are become, new
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  and all things are of God,
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  who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ,
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  and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation
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  to which that God was in Christ,
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  reconciling the world unto himself
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  not imputing their trespasses unto them
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  and have committed unto us the word of reconciliation
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  now that. We are ambassadors for Christ
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  as though God did beseech you by us
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  we pray that you in Christ dead be reconciled to God,
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  for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin
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  that we might be made the righteousness of God in him
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  this is what the Beatitudes are
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  this is the righteousness of God
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  being realized in our lives
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  1stelonius chapter 4th is this is the will of God,
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  your sanctification,
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  that we would become more like Christ,
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  that we would begin to embody
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  part of what is good about Jesus. Not that we become God,
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  but that we love what He loves and hate
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  what he hates
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  this is what he's beckoned us into
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  is a new way of seeing the world
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  a new way of seeing ourselves
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  and a new way of seeing God,
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  because blessed are the poor in spirit
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  that we have to start
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  knowing that we are weak and He is strong
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  That we are nothing and He is everything
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  that is our beginning point.
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  From that
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  there are
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  practical things that He begins to work in our
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  lives that don't stay in here
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  but come out
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  one is being merciful because we have received mercy
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  he also says blessed are the pure in heart
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  for they shall see God
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  in the Old Testament.
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  They were told that no
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  one could look upon his face and live
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  that they could not see God.
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  Moses wanted to see God. He did long to see God.
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  He said, show, me thy face
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  and God took him and put him in the cleft of the rock
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  and he passed over
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  and
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  the text actually says that
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  Moses caught a glimpse of his backward parts
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  so to speak
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  what does that mean?
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  We're not entirely sure what that means?
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  How that actually
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  works in practice,
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  but there wasn't a direct.
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  I have seen god,
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  but we're told' here that' the pure and heart
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  will see God.
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  In the Book of Revelation.
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  We are told that the sun will no longer be needed
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  because the
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  glory of the Lord will shine upon the earth
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  this is where we are going
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  is that the pured heart shall see God,
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  that what has been veiled from us
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  will no longer be veiled from us.
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  Psalm chapter 24
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  deals with a similar illustration
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  sound 24
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  immediately after
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  Psalm 23 that many of us know extremely well
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  but Psalm 24
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  says the earth is the lords and the fullness thereof
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  the world and they that dwell therein
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  for he hath founded it upon the seas and
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  established it upon the floods.
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  So we start with a picture, the greatness of God,
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  the magnanimity
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  of his creation,
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  that the earth is the lord's and everything in it
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  and He has made it
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  entirely
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  verse 3 who shall ascend
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  into the hill of the LORD
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  who shall stand in his holy place.
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  This is about the temple
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  a temple. That has likely not been built
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  because this is a Psalm of David.
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  So he is looking forward
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  to a temple that has not yet come to be.
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  David wanted to build a temple
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  to build a house for the Ark of the Covenant,
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  and God told him, no
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  it is not for you.
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  And so much of the Psalms.
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  Are David longing to be in the house of God, to be
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  in this thing
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  in so verse 3,
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  who shall ascend unto the hill of the LORD
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  who shall stand in his holy place,
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  who shall be in his presence? He says
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  the answer, He that hath clean hands and a pure heart
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  who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity,
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  nor sworn deceitfully.
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  That is not inherently true about any of us
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  that can only be true about Jesus,
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  who put on flesh, dwelt among us and lived a perfect
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  sinless life
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  and yet that has been granted to us by his death
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  that he became sin
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  which just saw then second Corinthians that He made him
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  who knew not sin
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  to be sin,
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  that we might
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  be his righteousness,
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  that we might become the righteousness of God.
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  So this becomes true of us because God has granted it
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  to us as believers.
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  We have clean hands and a pure heart
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  we have not lifted up our soul unto vanity
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  nor sworn deceitfully in the eyes of God,
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  because we are reckoned this way
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  by the mercy. Of Christ.
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  And what does David say of this kind of person
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  who has a pure heart
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  he shall receive the blessing from the LORD
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  and righteousness
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  from the God of his salvation
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  this is the generation of them to seek him
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  and that seek thy face.
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  So the pure and heart
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  shall see god shall receive the
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  fullness of what the Old Testament
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  many times long to see
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  what Moses long to see what David long to see
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  will be ours. One day
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  we catch glimpses of that today
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  but one day we shall see him
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  with unveiled eyes
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  we will see him as he is
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  we will worship him in his natural environment
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  in a place where sin does not exist
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  we will ascend the hill of the Lord
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  and we will stand in his most holy place
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  because blessed are the pure in heart
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  verse 9, blessed are the peacemakers,
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  for they shall be called the children
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  of God
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  again. This comes back to mercy
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  comes back to what we saw with being merciful
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  that we have also
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  become people that make peace
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  that peace is something that we
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  are wired for.
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  We want quiet lives, we want quiet cities, we want quiet
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  we want rest
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  in it were told that the blessed people of God
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  seek out to make peace,
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  for they shall be called the children of God,
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  and these last 2 are a little different
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  blessed are they
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  which are persecuted for righteousness sake
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  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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  blessed are ye
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  when men shall revile you
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  and persecute you and
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  shall say all manner of evil against you falsely
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  for my sake
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  that these last 2
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  indicate that we're going to suffer,
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  the things will not always be
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  happy Sunshine,
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  but that there will be persecution, there will be
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  insult, there will be
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  suffering,
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  and yet these people are also the people that God bless.
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  We go to. We go to. James
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  James chapter one
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  my brother, and count it all joy
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  when ye fall into diverse temptations knowing this
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  that the trying of your faith worketh patience,
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  but let patience have her perfect work
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  that ye may be perfect and entire
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  wanting nothing that is lacking, nothing
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  if any of you lack wisdom,
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  let him ask of God
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  that giveth to all men liberally and uprateth not
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  and it shall be given,
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  but let him ask in faith
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  nothing wavering
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  for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea
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  driven with the wind and tossed
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  we're told that counted all joy
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  by James. We're told that Paul counted all joy
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  countless times in the New Testament.
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  How many of these letters did he write
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  from prison or while being persecuted in the? Midst
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  of all of this
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  he was shipwrecked he was snake bitten
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  and all this he said it was worth it
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  why
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  that Christ would be magnified
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  that He weighed the sufferings He weighed the
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  persecutions in light
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  of who
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  Christ was
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  we look at Acts chapter 4,
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  verse 13.
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  Now when they
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  the authorities saw the boldness of Peter and John
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  and perceived
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  they were unlearned and ignorant men,
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  it's always a good selling point
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  that they were unlearned and ignorant men.
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  They marveled and they took knowledge of them
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  in that they had been with Jesus.
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  This is in the presence of scribes and elders
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  and priests
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  that do not believe
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  in this.
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  They did not
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  support this idea that Jesus was God,
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  that he was the Messiah and that the disciples
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  had his we're speaking on his authority'
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  they didn't
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  and yet
• 5:02:04
  were told in the Scriptures in the very words of God
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  that they even noted
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  that Peter and John had been with Jesus
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  blessed are the pure and heart
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  for they shall see God.
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  Blessed are they which are
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  persecuted for righteousness sake
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  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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  just like the way this list begins
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  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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  these are the people that God blesses,
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  these are the people
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  that God calls us to be,
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  these are the people that Christ,
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  the Holy Spirit and the Father
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  are molding us to be
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  day by day moment by moment Decision by decision
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  this is where we are going
• 5:03:02
  is to be poor in spirit
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  to be people who mourn
• 5:03:07
  with hope
• 5:03:09
  To be, people who are meek,
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  to be people who hunger and thirst after
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  righteousness To be people who are merciful,
• 5:03:17
  To be people who are pure and hard
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  To be people who make peace
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  and to be people who will
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  face persecution,
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  counting it all joy
• 5:03:29
  for christ's sake
• 5:03:32
  this is the new humanity this
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  is part of what Christ died to accomplish
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  that we would be made new
• 5:03:43
  for if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature.
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  Old things have passed away and behold, the new has come.
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