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When Jesus Was Angry | 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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  Jesus said, when you see these things begin to take place
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  straighten up, Lift up your head for your Redemption draws, nigh.
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  And so, I am not among those who sees the calamities of our time
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  and say, yeah, we've been through this before, actually,
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  we haven't. Paul told Timothy to things
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  would be bad and they would only get worse.
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  And so though, they may have familiar themes.
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  They will intensify in their evil and in their influence.
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  And so you and I have every right to say, my Redemption is
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  coming near. My Redemption is almost 9:00 it
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  is here. Very soon.
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  And I want to be found faithful, I hope you feel the same way and
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  so let's equip ourselves by God's word and Mark chapter 3
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  together. We read this passage last week.
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  We're revisiting it this week. Because there's just so much in
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  it for us to contemplate. Lord, as we come to this chapter
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  in The Gospel of Mark. Sanctify us.
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  Lord. Our hearts need you.
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  Our minds need you. We are so weak and we confess it
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  gladly because you are strong in our weakness.
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  And you are gracious. Help us, learn help us.
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  Apply help us worship. Help us obey and Jesus name we
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  pray. Amen.
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  First one again, he entered the synagogue and a man was there
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  with a withered hand and they watched Jesus to see whether he
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  would heal him on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him and
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  he said to the man with the withered hand come here and he
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  said to them is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm
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  to sit to save life, or to kill, but they were silent and he
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  looked around them with anger. Grieved at their Hardness of
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  Heart and said to the man stretch out your hand, he
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  stretched it out and his hand was restored, the Pharisees went
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  out and immediately held counsel with the herodians against them,
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  how to destroy him. The synagogue is more full than
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  it was a custom to the miracle-working rabbi from
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  Nazareth is in town and he is standing in the midst of this
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  assembly who have gathered for the Sabbath, his disciples.
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  Excited sitting by him closely anticipating that he is going to
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  do something wonderful. They've been used to his
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  leadership up to this point when Jesus comes to a place he is
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  unafraid of speaking the truth and he has unparalleled power
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  And across from their leader sits a man sheepishly. as he is
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  there to worship but his hand is withered handicapped disabled
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  broken and he does not realize that in a brief moment, his life
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  is going to be radically altered And so on.
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  This sabbath day, in this specific congregation, there was
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  a particular atmosphere a strange one.
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  The air was filled with excitement and yet, it was also
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  mingled with tension because on the scene were the Pharisees
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  sitting on the edges of their seat hoping and waiting for
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  Jesus to do something that in their minds would break the law
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  so that they can smear his Reputation.
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  And hopefully even indict him. And so with the see now before
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  us a fresh, I hope that you are prepared to behold something of
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  the Majesty, magnificence of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Last week, you and I took this text and we saw how the three
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  parties who were in that house of worship.
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  Provide, a wonderful illustration of just, some of
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  the reasons why people come to houses of worship today and what
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  they should be doing in some cases when they come to the
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  house of worship and so like Jesus, we must Just come to the
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  Fellowship of the Brethren ready to serve.
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  Not looking for the best seat, like the Pharisees, but looking
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  for the best in others. And for others, and we ought to
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  come to the house of worship. Just like this man who was
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  withered, but he was worshipful. Come in your Brokenness.
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  Don't isolate yourself, don't Reserve yourself, don't hide
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  yourself. Throw yourself into the presence
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  of God's people and allow the hands and feet of.
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  Jesus to bring healing to your soul, our Brokenness varies, but
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  our solution is the same Christ Works in and through his body.
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  Therefore, you must be with his body to know his power.
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  And lastly, I pray that there is not even one person in this
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  place who will ever remain in the place of what being like the
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  Pharisees, who knew enough about Jesus, who watched Jesus, who
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  studied Jesus, who knew the ways of Jesus enough to be saved a
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  thousand times over but never came to saving faith.
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  I hope that you are now among those who will say to Jesus on
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  that day, Lord, we ate and drank in your presence, you taught in
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  our streets. And he will say, I do not know
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  where you came from, just because you hang out with
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  Christians and you like to have potlucks at churches, doesn't
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  mean that you will be saved. With all of this here before us,
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  we still have much more to learn.
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  The Holy Spirit has so much yet to say in this text, especially
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  with the gospel of Mark because in Mark's gospel, he has a
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  detail significant detail about the Lord Jesus Christ that Luke
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  and Matthew have not etched in their versions and we will
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  discover that today it's something about Jesus that that
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  we for some reason do not see clearly in the word of God and I
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  believe it's because of an imbalance view of who God is.
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  We will do this by coming to this tax and looking at three
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  things about the Lord, Jesus Christ, three things about his
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  heart and the first thing is the heart behind his commands.
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  The second thing is the heart behind his confrontation.
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  And lastly, his heart. As he sees the callousness and
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  some. And so, we looked at verse 1 and
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  2. Last week, let's look at verse 3
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  and 6. We see here that Jesus said to
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  the man, with a withered hand, come here in this place, not
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  knowing how much time has passed.
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  Jesus now breaks, the silence. He breaks the Silence by
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  speaking up and took control of the situation and the Lord did
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  not give a length. Discourse.
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  You didn't give a powerful Parable at least at this point.
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  Mark tells us that he turns his attention to this man with a
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  withered hand. And he says, two simple words
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  come here That is a command and that is a command worthy of
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  reflection. But before we go into that
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  realize that in these verses in this scene, we actually have two
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  commands. Jesus gives to commands to the
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  same man and when we actually just just look at what these
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  commands say and what they mean we will know something about the
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  nature of the lordship of Jesus Christ.
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  Even over us the first we saw it in verse 3.
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  He said come here. Then you scroll down to verse 5
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  and we see in the middle of verse 5u says, stretch out your
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  hand to commands for the same person and again, it would do us
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  good to realize that there's something behind these commands
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  that deal with us. And if we would respond
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  appropriately and understanding the nature of Jesus lordship, we
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  will know what this man knew. What did he know, healing, what
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  did he know, wholeness? What did he know life?
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  This is what's available. This is surely for you.
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  And I Now, when we understand that behind Christ orders and
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  his charges is our good, our blessing, his glory, and he
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  seeks to heal you, he seeks to heal you and what way?
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  Well, look at Matthews version. Go to Matthew chapter 12 and
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  look at verse 13, So it shall be the same for us who trust and
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  obey. In Matthew 12 13, we read after
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  the man was healed. Look at this.
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  Then he said to the man stretch out your hand and the man
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  stretched it out and it was restored healthy like the other
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  Matthew includes that detail healthy, like the other,
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  implying, what? What, why would that even be
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  given to us? Why is that even necessary?
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  Because it's a statement that Jesus wants us to be completely
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  whole. Completely whole, not partially
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  Sanctified, not some aspects of your life that had been
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  influenced by the work of the spirit and others that are still
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  dead and by the flesh Christ wants to complete his work in
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  you, he wants to bring fruit in every aspect of your existence
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  and every Arena of your day-to-day life.
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  And so if you long for that, if you yearn for that, if you're
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  tired of saying, you know, yeah, like since I became a Christian
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  this change but I could not shake this off.
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  This is just something it's I guess.
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  My nature to my culture. This is how we are.
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  Forget that. Christ wants to come and do a
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  complete work, make you completely whole and what that's
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  going to require, is us to understand his commands and what
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  is required of us and responding to those commands.
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  And we will arrive to the fullness of the life of the
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  spirit. And so, let's examine these two
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  commands. Shall we the first one in verse
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  3, come here, What's so significant about that?
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  Well, this man was obviously sitting in a way in the
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  synagogue that he was outside of the full view of the
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  congregation and so Jesus and wanting to display his power
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  before all, who were there brought him into the center of
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  the room, come here and what's amazing is when Jesus says, come
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  here, he did not see it necessary to explain what he was
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  going to do. You didn't say come here because
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  he just told them what to do come here and this man who has
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  silently compliant gets up, and I'm sure there was thoughts
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  going on in his mind as he was taking those few small steps,
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  what's this all about? He listened.
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  And I wonder if it's because Jesus taught in the synagogue
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  and this man realized there's something different about this
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  man in comparison to the teachers who have walked through
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  this place. And I wonder if it was the
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  authority and the compassionate with the power that compelled
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  and convince them to trust in his voice, come here.
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  All right, and so he comes and he approaches Jesus and Jesus is
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  going to do something wonderful for him.
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  And I want you to understand that there is a lesson here,
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  even in these two words, when we understand the lordship of Jesus
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  Christ, Our obedience to him, should never ever be influenced
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  by our inability to perceive what will happen on the other
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  side of that. Yes.
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  Our obedience to Jesus should never be influenced by our
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  inability to see what will this bring about in my life?
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  If I say yes. Or if I say no, there are many
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  who feel this Unholy, hesitation to actually follow Jesus and
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  particular, instructions for their lives and they'll
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  Christians have this General understanding.
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  Yes, trust and Obey for, there's no other way.
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  God will bless your life if you walk in his ways.
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  For some reason, that's not enough to give him the
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  confidence to actually move forward when it comes to real
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  life situations. And so these crashing thoughts
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  come in different ways. Well what if what if my friends
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  see me as a fanatic? What if my co-workers realize
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  that I'm so serious about Jesus that they begin to criticize and
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  even determine the environment of my day-to-day job?
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  What if, what if I do, what Jesus said and lovingly
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  confront, a brother or sister, that I will make this
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  relationship that I cherish awkward.
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  Right? What if my faithfulness cost me,
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  fine? She lost what, what if I preach
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  in a certain way and people don't come like the church,
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  right? All these thoughts.
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  All these hesitations but I want to tell you something, Jesus
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  does not owe us a personalized outline of what will happen if
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  you just trust him. He doesn't.
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  He doesn't owe us anything. He doesn't have any reason to
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  tell us this will play out in this way because that's not what
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  obedience is about. The sole motivation for our
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  total submission to the sovereignty of Jesus and the
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  Simplicity of his word is what I'm just doing.
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  What he told me to do. It's a simple as that.
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  No matter what comes out of it, no matter what comes out of it,
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  knowing that I've done my part in obeying him suffice us
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  whether it's praise or persecution promotion, or
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  eviction life or death, Smiles, her frowns.
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  When Jesus has come here, I will come.
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  And when he says go there, I will go. and I will trust that
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  the reward or the lack thereof, in this life will be his
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  bidding, his doing, not mine, You see that in so many ways in
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  the Bible, I think of the Apostle.
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  Paul one day, he's thrown into prison with Silas.
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  There they are chained hand and foot and they begin to pray and
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  sing and that Midnight Hour. And what does God do?
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  He brings an earthquake. I would like a few earthquakes
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  in my life, he shakes things up the prison doors, swing open and
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  the Jailer who was on shift that night gets saved and not just
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  him but his household Glory. And another time he gets
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  arrested by me, Paul was a frequent visitor to prisons, but
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  this time he's not leaving prison According to second
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  Timothy without his head being cut off.
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  God was glorified in both ways. I loved that story goes, He
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  three Hebrew boys. We were talking about them.
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  We're hearing about it through Pastor, Daniel just a couple
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  weeks ago and I'm paraphrasing, but they looked at
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  Nebuchadnezzar, they said, okay, do what you want.
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  We're not doing what you say, throw us in the fire, and if God
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  Saves us, he says he doesn't. We're not doing what you're
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  going to tell us to do those. Men were worried to be those
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  guys were ready to be rather cooked alive.
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  And instead, they were promoted. You can't determine these
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  things. All you can determine is, I will
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  trust what he says. He does have to explain what my
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  life is going to look like if I do it.
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  I will just trust and Obey but we come back here to the second
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  command in verse 5, stretch out your hand.
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  Stretch out your hand, what a strange command to give somebody
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  who is incapable of doing the very thing that was asked of
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  him. This man's hand was paralyzed.
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  And here's, Jesus telling him to move and extend it Forward
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  impossible. It doesn't make sense.
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  The man doesn't have life, he doesn't have ability.
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  He doesn't have the grace to be able to do this simple thing, no
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  matter how much he wanted to do it.
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  And yet Jesus in his lordship in his Is them in his grace.
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  Looks at this man and he says, would you stretch it out?
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  and we look at this, and we think, How can Jesus asked this
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  man to do something that he could not do?
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  And that's how many Believers feel about many of the commands
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  of Jesus. Impossible.
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  Lord, how is it that I look at these truths and I hear what the
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  preacher saying you're asked me to live like this.
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  You're asking to be sexually pure, I can't even walk a week
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  without indulging in filth. You're asking me to, to be
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  genuinely free from bitterness and to forget what people have
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  done in the sense of forgiving them.
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  Though, I may rehearse it in the paint is still really asking me
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  to actually go beyond just forgiving but loving such people
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  that if they're in the shop at my front door and ask for a
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  meal, or ask for help because their car broke down.
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  You want me to actually extend Greys?
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  You want me to Rejoice? Always, I can even Rejoice at
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  all. Rejoice.
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  Always. I'm trying to be a Godly mother.
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  I'm trying to be a Godly wife, but it would be really easy.
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  If you gave me a better husband or better children, And you're
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  asking me to do this with nothing in view of return with
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  no help here. Huh.
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  But here's the hoping this miracle that applies to our
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  spiritual paralysis. The glory of Jesus Christ being
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  Lord, is that he always enables us to do that which we cannot
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  exercise in our own strength. That's the point of this miracle
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  stretch out your hand and this man.
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  As he did it, with the little effort of faith that he had
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  would sense, an infusion of power that would make it
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  possible. Jesus is not a cruel master that
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  dishes out unrealistic, prescriptions and smiles while
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  you painfully perform. He is an empowering Savior and
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  all he says is give me your faith and I will give you my
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  power. That is the glory of the Gospel
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  of Jesus Christ. And it's it's a truth woven from
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  cover to cover in this Bible, especially when you seek to
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  understand your inheritance in the New Covenant, what Jesus,
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  blood purchase for you and tapping into that power to live
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  and walk as he walked as we sang.
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  And here's an example that we have before us.
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  Let me give you another one, not with a man with his hand.
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  But with a man with his feet in the Old Testament, want to this
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  bless me when I read it and I just chewed on it for days.
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  How is it that this man? Experience is disgrace in the
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  old Covenant and I myself would dare to even complain that these
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  things in the Christian Journey are not realistic.
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  Go to Ezekiel chapter 2 verse 1. I want you to see this with your
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  own eyes Ezekiel's in the presence of God.
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  And a measure that was overwhelming.
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  Like an unimaginably, holy atmosphere, and Ezekiel to after
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  being thrown to the ground laying prostrate by the glory.
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  That was before him. God calls us profit to do
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  something so simple, but yet so impossible.
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  Is he go to one? And he said to me, son of man,
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  stand on your feet and I will speak with you.
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  And as he spoke to me, the spirit entered into me, And set
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  me on my feet and I heard him speaking to me.
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  Stand on your feet and this servant of God cannot even lift
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  his face. From the dust that his nose was
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  buried in because of the Blazing Majesty of God.
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  And yet God would say and commissioned him, get up.
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  And here's how Ezekiel rights of his experience.
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  Once I heard that command, that seems so impossible in that same
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  moment. Immediately came a supernatural
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  help that entered into me and lifted me up and place my feet
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  on Solid Ground. And when you see that, you have
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  to understand that that is a picture of what you and I have
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  permanently in Jesus Christ. See what we celebrate as
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  Christians. Is that the spirits enabling
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  work is not reserved for some profits, or special Servants of
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  God. Jesus purchased this access for
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  all of us to know the energizing assisting work of the third
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  person of the godhead, the holy spirit of God.
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  This is what we have. This is what we sell, this is
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  what we rejoice in Christ. Now made a way for the spirit
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  not just to enter into me but the live in me, he sealed me and
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  he's always ready to fill me and to help me.
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  And to meet my meager efforts by bringing about such a Grace that
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  I myself would give him glory for any kind of stride of
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  Holiness and that's something that you have to believe.
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  We need to recover the supernatural ality of our faith.
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  We got so caught up with people criticizing us for not being
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  rational or scientific. I believe we went to the Other
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  Extreme and now we promote psychology and philosophy and we
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  have almost drained this thing from the supernatural element of
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  it. Christ can set you free, he
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  really can. So here's my question to you
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  brother. Here's my question to you,
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  sister. What part of you is withered
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  Yes, Christ. Did a work in.
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  You praise the Lord, he saved you, Hallelujah.
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  But what part of you is still lifeless that can't seem to
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  become a branch where there's fruit hanging off of it, is it
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  your lack of love. Is it your lack of patience?
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  Is it your rage is your Purity? Is it your humility?
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  What is it? That you need God to do.
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  Well here's what I say to you. Stretch it forth by faith and
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  choir of the spirit of God and ask him to infuse the power that
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  you yourself. Could never ever, ever come to
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  on your own and he will meet you there, he will meet you there.
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  I'm not ashamed. To give such simple advice.
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  I'm not ashamed because I see the simple promise here.
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  I believe that Jesus. Purchase that for you and I that
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  he can actually change you. It does not matter what your
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  history is. It doesn't matter what
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  generationally a pattern might have been, doesn't matter if
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  you're a hot-blooded, middle easterner, doesn't matter.
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  Christ can change. He sanctifies our personality,
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  he can do something with your attitude, he can do something
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  with your mindset. He can do something with your
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  habits believe. Believe, we believe him by
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  faith. And justification.
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  Is that where it stops in Galatians, 3?
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  Know your faith continues in your sanctification.
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  What you have begun in the spirit?
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  Continue in the spirit. Paul says, don't rely on the
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  power of the flesh. There is no power in the flesh.
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  Give yourself to the holy spirit's work.
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  A great price has been paid for us to tap into such a mercy.
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  So we see these things with these two commands.
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  Do we not? Come here, availed command.
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  That doesn't, give us all the details, but such as the nature
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  of Christ leadership. He doesn't owe you any
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  explanation. Just know who he is, and let him
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  lead the way and it stretch forth your hand.
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  Whatever, you deem impossible. Whatever you see that seems to
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  be such a challenge. He is right there behind every
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  command. With a promise to help you.
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  Every single time, this is the heart behind Jesus commands.
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  As we see here, let us now move forward to the heart behind this
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  confrontation. In verse 4 of Mark chapter 3 and
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  he said to them. Now he's looking at the
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  Pharisees. He takes his attention away from
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  this man. I wonder if he was hiding his
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  hand. I wonder if he was showing his
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  hand to give Jesus a clue that he wants to be healed regardless
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  Jesus. Oh, with that Authority.
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  But that Authority. What a man Jesus was come here.
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  This man moves into the crowd and he comes forward and he
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  looks at this man oozing with compassion.
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  Then he looks at the Pharisees, I'm sure they were maybe sitting
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  on either side and he asked them a question, is it lawful on the
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  To do good or to do harm to save life or to kill and Luke 68.
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  You'd have to turn. There we are.
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  Told that Jesus knew their thoughts.
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  So he knew why they were sitting there.
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  He knew exactly why they attended on that day to witness
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  a miracle. Yes.
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  But not for the same reason that you and I would want to see
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  Jesus heal somebody, right that's out of desire and love
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  and compassion. These men wanted to try to find
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  a reason. To criminalize him evil,
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  ambition to condemn him for breaking one of their silly
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  traditions. And so the Lord asked the
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  question. It's really a brilliant
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  question. He says, is it lawful on the
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  Sabbath to do good or to do harm to save life or to kill you?
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  Can't like either way you answer that you're gonna look like a
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  fool, what you gonna say? It's evil to do good.
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  It's evil to save lives, they don't know.
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  They can't and that's why they are literally silent.
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  The breath has been sucked out of them, but it's even deeper
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  than that. Deeper than that.
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  Because this is what Jesus is saying, knowing their thoughts.
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  He knows that they're there to kill him.
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  Are these trying to reason, find a reason to kill him?
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  And so, in essence, what he's saying in this question is here,
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  I am on the Sabbath wanting to heal this man and to do good to
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  him. And here you are on the same
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  Sabbath. And you want to kill me.
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  Who's really fulfilling the law of God here?
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  I want to restore this man. You want to destroy this man.
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  Me. So who's really observing the
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  heart of God behind the Sabbath? You are me?
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  You can imagine that this simple question, created a deafening
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  silence. I mean, if you thought it was
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  tense before this, add the awkwardness, add the
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  embarrassment on their part, add the fury and the anger that was
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  just coming out of their ears. Actually, do you want to know
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  how I know? They were angry.
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  Go to Luke, and I'll tell you exactly why.
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  And it's enlightening for us because I want to make a strong
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  point with this. Luke 6.
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  This is Luke's version and he says, and says, in verse 9 to 11
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  And Jesus said to them, I ask you.
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  Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm to save
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  life, or to destroy it. And after looking around at
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  them, notice you didn't mention the anger of Jesus will get to
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  that in a moment. After looking around at them, he
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  said to him, stretch out your hand and he did.
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  So, and his hand was restored, but they were filled with Fury.
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  They were filled with Fury and discuss with one another what
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  they might do to Jesus, anger, frustration, vexed.
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  How can this man speak to us in such a way?
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  And I love it because what Jesus does here is what these guys try
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  to do later on. Remember they try to Corner him
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  it was so cute. And try to try to trick him and
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  put him in a place where he couldn't answer.
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  Like he did that to us as try to do it to him.
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  Jesus did it so gracefully. So powerfully.
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  So effortlessly, then when they try they just they just fail.
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  It was embarrassing part 2. you know, I was reading this and as
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  many ways you can go about this verse, but I was thinking about
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  this, I made a comment last week, I don't know if you heard
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  it. As you study the gospels you'll
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  realize how much real estate, the Pharisees, take up and God's
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  word. It's really interesting.
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  I mean, the encounters with Jesus, even let the woes that
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  Jesus has, I mean, they're they're from the, almost the
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  beginning of his ministry to the end of it.
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  And I thought to myself a very simple question, why why did the
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  Holy Spirit Reserve so much about the details of what?
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  Ferris, Liam looks like and and, and how it was so real in Jesus
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  time. And so obvious in our Bibles And
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  I came to think about in there are many reasons, but there is
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  one clear statement that Jesus makes that proves to me, why the
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  Holy Spirit has decided to enclose and keep these things
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  for generations to come. You don't have to turn there,
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  but just listen at one point in Mark, he doesn't in different
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  gospel accounts, he looks at his own disciples Jesus and Mark 8
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  and verse 15. And he says, watch out.
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  This is what Jesus says, watch out for what, Beware of the
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  leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod.
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  Jesus warned his own disciples don't let the leaven creep into
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  your life. The leaven of the Pharisees and
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  that leaven is not just speaking about false Doctrine.
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  A speaking about hypocrisy hypocrisy, He's warning his own
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  people. I'm telling you to be careful.
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  It is easy to slip into. Superficial spirituality, it's
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  easy, my disciples for you to become frauds.
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  To adopt external religiosity but to have no power of
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  godliness in you. So watch out.
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  And so I look at that statement, I think to myself, is it
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  possible that the reason why we have so much about Pharisees,
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  what they do, how they think for the reason that Jesus stated,
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  because he wants to warn his people not to be like them.
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  And if we want to know whether we are like them, he has all
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  these examples, all these interactions all these insights,
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  so that throughout the generations, I would look at my
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  Bible and see. Am I a Pharisee?
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  Am I a Pharisee? You know what the common picture
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  of a Pharisee is two people long robes.
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  Long beards incense, Bells Traditions over God's word,
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  okay? But have you ever thought about
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  this concerning a Pharisee? One of the marks of somebody
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  being a Pharisee is that they are easily offended by the
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  truth. Oh yeah, so now the picture is
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  enlarged, right? You don't believe me.
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  That's okay. Don't believe me.
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  Believe Jesus, in Matthew, 15 turn there with me because what
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  you see here in Mark chapter 3, is a common characteristic of a
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  Pharisee. so, we think Pharisees are those who come from
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  traditional backgrounds, I'll show you what the Holy Spirit
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  tells us what a Pharisee looks like.
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  In Matthew 15 12. Then the disciples came and said
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  to him. Do you know that the Pharisees
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  were offended? When they heard the saying, He
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  answered every plant that my heavenly father has not planted,
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  will be routed up, let them alone, I love that.
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  Jesus didn't go around chasing offended, people, let them
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  alone, they are blind guides. And if the blind lead, the
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  blind, both will fall into a pit.
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  There it is. One of the marks of being a
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  Pharisees that you are easily offended by a truth that you
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  don't like. Disciple said, Jesus, probably
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  concerned that perhaps Jesus should be on good terms with the
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  religious leaders of his day. Hey, Jesus.
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  Do you realize after Sunday morning the whole roll of
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  Pharisees left upset, after what you said in your sermon?
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  They're all talking to you see the fuming, there they're upset.
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  She's like, yeah, let him alone. They're blind.
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  And whoever follows them is blind also.
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  And I look at this and I thought, wow, maybe there are
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  more Pharisees than I thought. Because a Pharisee claims to
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  know the truth and love the truth.
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  But is agitated when the word exposes a particular wrong that
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  is found in a habit or a belief that they've held on to for so
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  long. That's a Pharisee.
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  The Pride cannot acknowledge that they're wrong.
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  My brother my sister, how do you respond?
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  Never mind from a sermon standpoint but when a brother or
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  sister sits with you and opens God's word and says this is out
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  of line. They cannot accept how God would
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  ever disagree with them, especially with the things that
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  they think is harmless or tolerable Pharisee.
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  The mark of a true child of God and relationship to the word is
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  that whatever is presented before them.
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  If they know, it's God's will, if it's clear then they joyfully
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  accept it even if it stings at first.
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  I embrace it. If it's God's will God's word,
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  God's wisdom, God's precepts. I embrace it, I want it, I will
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  surrender to it. One of the ways that you and
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  we've talked about this at Maranatha that you can actually,
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  decipher between false and true. Spirituality is very simple.
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  How does that person engage and respond to the word of God?
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  That's all you need to know, because that's the foundational
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  thing. Even when Paul is teaching the
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  church in Corinth, he ends one of his arguments that would
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  today be deemed as controversial.
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  And you know what he says? And First Corinthians 14, don't
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  turn their verse 37. Listen to these words.
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  He says if anyone Things that he is a prophet or spiritual, he
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  should acknowledge that these things.
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  I am writing to you are a command of the Lord because so
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  so yes. Some people in Corinth that were
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  going around saying what Jesus told me and I'm and look at my
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  gifts. So this this is this has to be
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  right? And Paul says, hold up.
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  Let's just, let's just deal with this.
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  If anybody is really a profit. If anybody is really spiritual,
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  they will hear what I say from this letter and they would
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  acknowledge that this is from God and then they I will submit
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  to it. And you know what, the context
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  of this is when Paul said it woman's role in the church.
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  That was the context. And I think that is a very, very
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  applicable truth in our day. Today, when you have so many
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  people are going around saying, well, Jesus appeared to me in
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  Jesus told me, and Jesus did this.
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  And Jesus, if you're really spiritual, the word is what you
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  will submit to. No matter what, what your
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  experience was, no matter what your denomination says, no
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  matter how much you were requested, this not matter.
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  Pharisaism and Pharisees are offended by the truth.
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  They cannot tolerate it. Do they?
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  Yes with lip service, acknowledge it.
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  But when it touches a nerve, haha, They pull back, Jesus
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  heart behind his confrontation. You know what?
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  The Lord wants to do in you and me, I believe that there is
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  something here. About the Heart of Jesus behind
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  his teaching, he always wants to save us from hypocrisy really.
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  And I want to be like Jesus, if Jesus was at leader and a
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  teacher, I want to be like Jesus.
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  And what way I want to first look at my own life and make
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  sure there's no leaven of hypocrisy and I want to exhort
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  others to do the same. Be free from it flee from it.
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  So you want to know God's heart. Whenever you hear a word that
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  might be strong, he wants to save you.
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  And I from the leaven of the Pharisees, he absolutely hates
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  hypocrisy. I You Don't See Jesus.
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  Dedicating a chapter in Matthew woing over prostitutes and tax
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  collectors, but religious people.
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  Oh, woe to you woe to you. That says something there's
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  Greater Grace for prostitutes and drug dealers and gang
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  members and pimps. Than people who put on a
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  religious face when in reality they're fake.
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  The heart of Christ in its confrontation lovingly is to
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  save us to cleanse us, to wash us from that Levin that so
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  easily can come in and make us like a Pharisee, and you don't
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  need the robe with a long beard. Either the heart of Christ
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  behind his commands, the heart of Christ behind his
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  confrontation, the heart of Christ.
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  When he sees callousness in our hearts, First 5 of Mark, 3.
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  And he looked around at them with anger.
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  Grieved at their Hardness of Heart.
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  I'm sure you would agree that marks writing style up to this
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  point has been very fast pace, he loves to jump from one scene
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  to the next. She loves to use that word
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  immediately but it's as though the Holy Spirit does something
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  in this one verse. It says though he puts this on
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  slow motion, And he slows the vehicle down so to speak so that
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  we can look into the window and through the window of God's
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  word, and take our time to digest the details of this
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  portrait. Jesus looked at them.
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  Angry And he was grieved. You know, I read that, and I
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  read that, and I read that in every single time I read that I
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  cannot help, but feel the force of that picture, it almost makes
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  me just step back and I wonder what his face look like.
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  Doesn't look like the common paintings that you see on walls
• 38:05
  today, I could tell you that Jesus just staring out into the
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  distance. Know when you see Jesus here,
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  whoever the eyewitness was the help Mark, right this.
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  Yes by the spirit that person knew hey Jesus on that day
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  didn't say a word and we all knew he was angry.
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  He was angry that his eyes, widen that his nostrils, they
• 38:30
  extend. That is the the something
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  happened with his face that had become a frown.
• 38:38
  What was it? All I know from this is that
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  there is a penetrating gaze that pierced in that synagogue and as
• 38:50
  I look at this, I think to myself What we're going to hear
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  today is probably some of that you're not going to hear very
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  often on a Sunday morning service especially in any
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  service for that matter. Jesus gets angry.
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  Jesus gets angry and we could praise God.
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  That isn't get angry for the reasons that we do generally
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  speaking, but that doesn't make his anger, any less intense, if
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  anything, it makes it more Fierce because his anger is
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  Holy. It's pure.
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  It's a reflection of his righteousness.
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  There is a fine line between righteous anger and unrighteous
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  and a very fine line. But when it's righteous anger is
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  actually to a degree a manifestation of what you love.
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  What you're angry about can reveal either your pride your
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  selfishness, you're undisciplined attitude, your
• 39:53
  lack of dependency on the Holy Spirit or it can show that you
• 39:58
  hate what? God hates.
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  And it moves you to action righteous action.
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  And I want to tell you that although hearing on a Sunday
• 40:07
  afternoon especially as we heard earlier that, this world is very
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  angry may be hearing that Jesus gets angry is not the most
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  edifying thing. But I can guarantee you, if you
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  understand why he gets angry, you'll love him even more,
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  you'll love him even more. Why did Jesus get angry?
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  We're told at their Hardness of Heart.
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  He saw their thoughts, he read their minds.
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  And his heart was angered by their heart, and here's the
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  thing, unfortunately, the majority of our anger is stirred
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  by our selfishness, right? We don't get our own way.
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  We get upset at minor inconveniences.
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  We don't get the attention that we think we deserve.
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  There's a, there's a sense in which it's my way or no way.
• 40:52
  And if it doesn't happen my way, I get all flared up.
• 40:57
  That's not Jesus. Rarely do people even God's
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  people get angry for the same reason Jesus Does.
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  And one of the most explicit versus of Jesus being angry.
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  And we're we being told informed that Jesus was angry was
• 41:10
  connected to an insensitive and on an unbelieving heart of
• 41:14
  another. This is, this is what this is
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  what caused him to look with such a fierce penetrating stare.
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  I wonder if it was for an extended amount of time that
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  made them feel uncomfortable, but understand this, Jesus is
• 41:31
  anger. He's very patient.
• 41:33
  This was not his first interaction with these
• 41:35
  Pharisees. How many times has he rebuked
• 41:37
  them? How many time has he taught him?
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  How many times has he displayed his power before them?
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  And yet, time and time? Again, resist time.
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  And time again, reject, refuse and it's come to a point now
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  where Christ and seeking to even redirect the Pharisees Minds?
• 41:55
  Do you think Jesus was Engaging with these Pharisees, just to
• 41:57
  win an argument. We read an ax last week that
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  Jesus and his gospel Sate, some who belonged to the party of the
• 42:03
  Pharisees. Yes, Christ even wants to save a
• 42:06
  Pharisee. And Jesus here, with his anger
• 42:10
  has reached a point where their unbelief was was dangerous.
• 42:15
  Very dangerous because when a person grows in their rejection
• 42:19
  to a truth, the truth that they are continually exposed by and
• 42:24
  to their only in curing a growing anger on The Lord Of
• 42:27
  Love who desires to woo, their souls to be saved.
• 42:33
  There just comes a point where after all that God says, and all
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  that God does in your life and you continue to say no to him
• 42:40
  and turn your back on him, that are righteous anger arises.
• 42:45
  And there is something called it's a theological term in the
• 42:48
  Bible called the judicial hardening Israel's going through
• 42:50
  it right now that when you continue to refuse refuse,
• 42:54
  reject reject, that God will accompany that personal Harding
• 42:58
  that you are responsible for by finishing the job for you.
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  You want to stay there? Stay there.
• 43:05
  We don't know where that line is.
• 43:06
  I wouldn't play with it. That's why the Bible says today
• 43:08
  is the day of salvation. Jesus looks at their hearts and
• 43:13
  he's angry angry at their unbelief, but angry at the
• 43:16
  unbelief that caused them to be insensitive to others in
• 43:20
  Matthews version, Jesus gives a little teaching.
• 43:22
  He says, you're willing to actually go and help a sheep
• 43:24
  that falls into a pit on the Sabbath, but not help a brother
• 43:27
  who's suffering. How skewed can you be in your
• 43:30
  religiosity? And so what angers Jesus that
• 43:34
  also is when we lack that compassion for others and and
• 43:39
  our faith, cause us to be more self-righteous and treat others
• 43:43
  with contempt, this angered is hard, Jesus gets angry at evil.
• 43:48
  And we should be to, this is the plague of Our Generation.
• 43:52
  This is the plague of modern Christianity, don't get upset,
• 43:55
  be neutral, don't call things out.
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  Jesus intentionally. Disrupted their tradition.
• 44:05
  He intentionally did it. If you wanted to heal and
• 44:08
  secret, he would have met the man behind the synagogue and
• 44:10
  heal them uses a a come here. Come here, he was
• 44:13
  confrontational and he was holy and doing it.
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  And we have to understand that there is something that is
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  needed today. That same holy confrontation.
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  So Jesus here is angry at evil and there's nothing that can be
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  more evil than rejecting, the gospel that seeks to save evil
• 44:31
  men. And so we see the reason for it.
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  But look notice the grief with it.
• 44:40
  And he looked around at them with anger grieved at their
• 44:43
  Hardness of Heart. You know what that means?
• 44:45
  There is genuine deep sincere sadness, That seems like a
• 44:52
  contradiction. But it's not for Jesus, at
• 44:56
  least, because he's holy, he's filled with love with this
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  anger. There was a sorrow and I believe
• 45:04
  the sorrow is because in realizing the hardness of their
• 45:07
  hearts, he also knew the fate of their constant Rebellion against
• 45:11
  God. He knew what this was going to
• 45:14
  lead to. He knew the Eternal damnation
• 45:17
  that they would receive because of the attitude that they were
• 45:19
  entertaining in that moment. And so, as much as he was angry,
• 45:23
  he was also broken. There was a Pity there was,
• 45:26
  there was a deep sense of Mercy because he knew the cost of not
• 45:30
  following Jesus Christ. We always talk about the cost of
• 45:33
  following Jesus Christ. There's a greater cost of not.
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  And limitations 3 verse 33. It says about the Lord for he
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  does not afflict from his heart. He does not afflict from his
• 45:45
  heart or grieve. The children of men.
• 45:48
  You know what that means down deep inside God's ultimate
• 45:51
  desires for us to turn to him and be saved.
• 45:54
  He finds Greater Joy in redeeming than in judging.
• 45:59
  He finds greater Delight in seeing people saved from
• 46:03
  suffering than seeing people suffer even under his wrath.
• 46:07
  That is his preference. That is his desire, that is not
• 46:10
  to say that he will not judge, he will, and it will satisfy his
• 46:13
  Justice. But we do have an understanding
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  the complexity of all of this. That if there was a choice on
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  God's part, it would be to save and to see all come to
• 46:23
  repentance Spurgeon had a wonderful way of describing this
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  moment and it's interesting because it sounds almost sounds
• 46:33
  almost unfamiliar. Spurgeon says, even when he
• 46:39
  grows angry with men, he is angry with them because they
• 46:43
  will not let him bless them. Interesting, isn't it?
• 46:49
  Because they will not let him bless them, because they will
• 46:52
  persevere in opposing him for reasons, which they cannot
• 46:54
  themselves support. And dare, not even own, you
• 46:57
  know, what made this even worse. I mean, Jesus presents a truth
• 47:00
  and they could not even defend their position and they still
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  refuse Jesus Christ. Even when their arguments fell
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  in, there was nothing to stand on.
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  They still resisted him and this is what made him angry.
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  How much more do I need to prove to you that you're wrong.
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  And that I'm right. But Spurgeon goes beyond that
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  and he says that the sorrow that Jesus knew was because he really
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  wanted to bless them and their rejection of his lordship
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  canceled that possibility and only encouraged judgment
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  instead. That's that's God's heart.
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  Can you imagine that? You might disagree with Spurgeon
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  but I think he has something going on there.
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  But I see something else in a very, very powerful way that is
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  applicable to us. I don't just see the reason for
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  his anger or the grief of his anchor.
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  I see the control of his anger. Notice what he's what happens
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  here? He looked around at them with
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  anger grieved at their Hardness of Heart and then what happens
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  and he said to the man stretch out your hand.
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  Majestic control Mastery over his emotions.
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  He did not lose his composure. Be angry and sin, not be angry
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  and sin. Not and here's the Lord standing
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  before these men infuriated by their unbelief and by their
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  resistance and you know what Jesus doesn't do.
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  It doesn't look at them and He doesn't curse underneath his
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  breath. It isn't cussed them out, didn't
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  give them a Unholy attitude or an Unholy.
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  Look He channels that and he directed towards even greater
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  compassion to this man. Here's the thing, I look at
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  Jesus and I think to myself, if I'm going to follow him in all
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  of his ways and I want to know how to be angry like him.
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  Have you ever thought about that being angry like Jesus?
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  No, emotion of Jesus ever interfered with his testimony or
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  his obedient to the father. Remember that man, who was a
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  leper? Jesus healed him says, don't go
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  tell anybody. Just go to the priest and he
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  goes tells everybody and doesn't go to the priest and we try to
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  figure out why. That was maybe he was excited,
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  maybe he was thrilled. Maybe you couldn't contain
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  himself out of Joy but it's still led to Disobedience.
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  Our emotions can lead us to Disobedience, especially the
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  emotion, the feeling of anger. And yet Jesus here, We can feel
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  that anger in that room without a word being said.
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  Was also radiating, the fragrance of the spirit.
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  I want to say something to you. I work of the spirit is seen
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  here just as much as in the man who stretched forth his hand and
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  in Ezekiel being stood on his feet.
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  As full circle as a knot. As Christians.
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  We feel I know some Christians don't like feelings and they
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  don't want people to have feelings.
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  I don't know what's wrong with you.
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  Feelings are a gift, they're engaged.
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  They shouldn't guide us, but they're a gift from God.
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  Jesus felt very powerfully but he never permitted.
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  What he felt to determine from pleasing, his father or
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  dishonoring the father. He was in control.
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  And this was a man who is as we know from The Book of Mark and
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  example, of strew servanthood and the name of God. and I want
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  you to know that in these days if you feel angry if you feel
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  angry, why they ingest this and the evil around us and the
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  corruption Be like Jesus and allow that feeling to lead you
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  to do something of good service. Let that channel into something
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  where you bear fruit just as he does here.
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  And what happens the Pharisees and verse 6 went out and
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  immediately held counsel with the herodians against them, how
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  to destroy him. I don't want to speak about the
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  herodians too much. But do you notice what I said
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  about mark 8:15 that there isn't just a leaven of the Pharisees?
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  There's a leaven of Herod 11 of Herod.
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  You know what the leaven of Herod is, you got to come to
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  church next week and find out. Let's pray.
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  I encourage you in this moment in silence.
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  Not the silence like the Pharisees, who were infuriated
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  with the truth. That was preached to them, but a
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  Silence of adoration. To just meditate on these
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  things. It's speak to the Lord as a
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  response and ask him, maybe you don't even need to ask him for
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  anything. Maybe he's just to worship him.
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  Lord, you are beautiful. You are perfect in all of your
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  ways. I thank you that you are angry
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  at evil and that you will one day do something about evil.
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  But I thank you. That even in your anger, you
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  long, you long to see men and women turn to you and when they
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  don't It Grieves, you. Because you want to save them
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  and bless them. Lord.
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  We thank you for this service. And we are moved by.
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  By Your Word. It Lord in silence.
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  We worship you. But we want to obey you when you
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  say come we want to come when you say stretch out we want to
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  stretch out, help us trust your word.
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  Even though it might be a scary thing to move in obedience,
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  especially in this day, help us believe and trust in your word.
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  For the weak brother or sister. Let them know that your powers
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  ready to meet their faith. So that they can walk and
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  wholeness. Thank you, that Lord you love us
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  enough to confront us to continually confront us to save
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  us from the leaven of the Pharisees.
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  We are not offended by your truth.
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  We love your truth. It is honey to our lips water to
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  our souls finer than gold. Even Feingold more precious than
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  silver. Thank you that your word whether
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  it's a rebuke or Comfort is our Delight.
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  Save us from unrighteous anger. Help us be angry for the things
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  that anger you and may it lead us to Greater Holiness, greater
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  sacrifice, greater compassion, May our anger at the evil around
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  us only cause us to preach this gospel more. at the serve, those
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  who are undeserving even more Help us know a grief of
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  Brokenness for sinners. Even a Brokenness for those who
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  are in the church, but not in Christ to feel to feel
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  absolutely sad. And for that to lead us to pray
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  and to be faithful and preaching, truth, regardless of
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  the lack of fruit. Low.
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  It's so much before us today at this Feast.
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  We thank you and we worship you. In Jesus name.
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  Amen. Let's stand and Worship the Lord
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  together.