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Luke chapter 18 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Luke chapter 18. Let us pray, O Heavenly Father.
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  Thank you, Lord, for another day.
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  Thank you Lord for waking us up this morning.
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  We thank you, Lord, for all the many things that you do for us
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  each and every day. Thank you God for life and life
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  abundant. Thank you Lord, for our
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  families. Thank you, Lord, for our
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  abilities. Thank you, Lord, that you've
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  given us the full counsel of your word.
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  Thank you, Lord, that we know that it is trustworthy, it is
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  true, it is reliable, and Lord, it is useful, God.
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  And I thank you, God, that you have revealed to us that you are
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  coming back, and Lord, that you have a plan for the ages.
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  And Lord, that plan is good. So, Lord, we rest in the
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  finished work of the cross we rest, and the promises contained
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  in this book. We rest, Father, knowing that
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  you are holding everything together and that nothing is
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  missed on you and that it's all moving in accordance to your
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  plan. And God, you've seen the
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  beginning from the end and the end from the beginning.
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  And so God, we as your little flock, we as your sheep, Father,
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  we hear your voice. Help us to obey God, Help us to
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  love you more. Help us to know you more.
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  Help us to trust you more. God, I pray against all of the
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  negative voices, Lord, that are trying to pull us into all of
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  the world and all of the world systems and the way that the
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  world works. God, I pray, Lord, that we will
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  see Your Word as reliable and true and that we don't have to
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  succumb to all of the negative things that are pulling us away.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that You will strengthen
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  us for this day. Lord, strengthen us for this
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  hour. Help us, God, to put on the full
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  armor today. Help us to put on truth.
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  Help us to put on righteousness. Help us to put on peace.
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  Help us to put on salvation. God, help us to increase our
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  faith and to do war with the Word.
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  So, God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you help us.
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  Lord, help us today. We are in desperate need of a
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  touch from you. Lord, heal our bodies.
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  Heal our minds. Lord, I pray you'll heal our
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  senses. Lord, I pray that we will not be
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  depressed, Lord, or anxious. God, I pray against the suicidal
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  spirit. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus against the squeezing God of the Spirit of asphyxiation,
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  Lord, of all the things that are trying to draw us away from you.
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  So, Lord God, I pray you'll strengthen us for this hour,
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  strengthen us for this day. Help us, Lord, help us to see
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  you correctly. Help us to see you rightly.
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  Help us to know that you're fighting our battles.
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  Help us to know that you are so much greater than any of our
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  circumstances or emotions. God silenced the accusations of
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  the enemy. God, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, that you will rebuke the devourer from off of
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  our minds. Rebuke the devourer from off of
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  our hearts. Rebuke the devourer from off of
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  our families. Rebuke the devourer from off of
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  our very lives. So God, I pray that you'll help
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  us. Lord, help us to look up and see
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  that our redemption is drawing near.
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  God, help us to look up to the Maker of heaven and earth and we
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  know where our help comes from. Lord, help us.
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  Let us get yoked up with you. Father, your burden is light,
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  Your yoke is easy. And God, we desire to feel the
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  pressure come off. Lord, we desire to walk in the
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  right relationship with you. God consecrate this temple and
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  help us to see anything that we've allowed in that is not of
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  you and for you. God, that is not pleasing to
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  you. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that we have the strength to rid this temple of anything.
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  God, that is not of you. So God, help us not to delight
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  in evil, but help us to love the truth.
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  Help us to walk in the truth. Help us not to send God against
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  you in heaven. God, I pray that you'll set us
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  in heavenly places. Give us victory over the enemy.
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  Help us to put our heel on the head of the snake.
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  God, help us to crush the rebellion.
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  Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray all these things.
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And he spoke a parable unto them to this end, that men ought
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  always to pray and not to faint. What a word for us for this hour
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  and for this day. We should be men of prayer.
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  We should be women of prayer. We should be people of prayer.
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  Friends, don't let the enemy knock us off of the high
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  position that we have with the Lord.
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  This is our lifeline. Prayer is our lifeline to the
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  Father. You can see the disciples as
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  they watch their Master working miracles in the land.
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  They saw that it was all connected to His prayer life.
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  And you can see our need, our desperate need to be people of
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  praise and people of prayer. Friends, do not let the enemy
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  silence that. The Lord is well pleased with
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  our prayers. He desires to hear your voice,
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  lift up your voice today and say Jesus is Lord.
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  Give them all of his praise. Give them all of his do praise
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  today friends, glory in the highest.
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  We need to be increasing our prayer life, not decreasing.
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  Prayer is the lifeline to the Father to saying there was in a
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  city a judge who feared not God, neither regarded man.
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  So you can see he's going to start talking about an
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  unrighteous judge who cares nothing for God.
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  Three And there was a widow in that city, and she came unto
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  him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary, For and he would not
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  for a while, but afterward he said within himself, Though I
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  fear not God, nor regard man 5 yet because this widow troubles
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  me, I will avenge her, unless her continual coming she wearies
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  me. So we can see that this is how
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  the Lord views our prayer life. We cannot just keep throwing up
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  these popcorn prayers, friends. We need to get in the prayer
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  closet. We need to get serious about our
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  Father's business. He told us to pray.
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  He told us how to pray and we disregard the ministry of
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  prayer. He told us to rejoice always and
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  pray without ceasing. He told us not to worry about
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  anything, but to pray about everything.
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  He told us to take every thought captive and make it obedient
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  unto Christ. And what do we do?
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  We let our thoughts and imagination run wild.
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  And it's all of the negative worries and cares and anxiety
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  that chokes out the faith, friends.
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  We must be people of prayer. And you can see here that God
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  desires for us to be like this widow and come to him
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  continuously and wear him out. He desires for us to wear him
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  out with our prayers, friends. And he moves mightily in that.
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  And He desires more than anything the communication.
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  Friends, He will up your communication with Him one way
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  or another. And we might as well up the
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  communication when the chips are high, when things are good.
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  Don't wait until they're down in the dumps before you start
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  crying out to the Lord. Don't let the abundance that you
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  have and the blessings that you have make you forget about God.
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  Let's praise Him in the abundance, friends.
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  Give Him all of His praise and glory.
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  Do honor today because He is so faithful to us and so good, and
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  He answers us when we wear Him out.
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  Don't give up just because the healing didn't come.
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  Don't give up just because the mountain didn't move.
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  Don't give up, friends, just because the affliction didn't
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  leave. Don't give up, friends, just
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  because you see the negative demonic attacks still continuing
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  on. Don't give up.
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  Increase your prayer life, friends.
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  Six. And the Lord said, hear what the
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  unjust judge said. What did he say?
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  He says, though I fear not God, nor regard man, yet because this
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  widow troubles me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual
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  coming she wearies me. And then Jesus says, Listen to
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  what he said. Wear God out, friends. 7 And
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  shall not God avenge his own elect, which cried day and night
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  unto him, though he bears long with them?
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  God's long-suffering friends? How many times do we turn our
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  backs on him because things are going good?
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  How many times do we turn our backs on Him because we don't
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  see Him and we can't feel them and we don't hear them?
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  And we are so drawn to all of the amusement in our lives,
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  Friends, we are so drawn by all of the things of this world.
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  The pride of life, friends, the lust of the eyes and the lust of
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  the flesh. They draw us away from God.
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  And here we see that God desires to increase our prayer life.
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  Hey, I tell you that He will avenge them speedily.
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  Who? His own elect.
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  God will avenge his own elect speedily, Friends.
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  Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, shall he find faith
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  on the earth? When the Son of Man comes, will
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  he find faith on the earth? When the Son of Man comes, will
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  he find faith on the earth? What is he telling us here,
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  friends? This is an indicator.
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  This is an intelligence indicator.
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  As life goes on, you're going to see people become lovers of
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  pleasure and lovers of self, lovers of money, greedy and
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  idolaters. You're going to see the whole
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  world, friends, fall away. You're going to see the
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  reprobate mind increase. You're going to see, you're
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  going to see it, friends. This apostate church rising up.
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  You're going to see it, friends. And then what he says, will he
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  even find faith on this earth? Friends, if you have breath in
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  your lungs, increase your faith today.
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  It's like that heavy shield, friends.
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  And the full armor. It's been dipped in the water
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  and the leather bands are soaked to extinguish the fiery darts of
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  the enemy. But guess what?
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  That shield is heavy. But thank God, Hallelujah, Jesus
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  is the heavy lifter, and he helps us to lift up our faith
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  over our minds, over our thoughts, over our
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  circumstances, and over our emotions.
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  We must have the faith. And Jesus is asking here, will
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  he even find faith on the earth when he returns?
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  What a word. 9 And he spoke this parable unto us, unto certain,
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  which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and
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  despised others. So these are the ones who are
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  holier than thou, these are the ones who are the hypocrites.
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  These are the ones who look down the nose at those that don't
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  look like them or smell like them.
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  We would do well to have church that allows the homeless to
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  enter in and to worship God because if you remember, foxes
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  have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere
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  to lay his head. How many times have we been
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  visited by angels that did not look like us?
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  Or perhaps they were in a state that we were disagreeable with
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  and we kicked them out of the congregation.
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  What a thought. 10 Two men went up into the temple to pray.
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  One was a Pharisee, the other was a publican.
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  So that would have been a tax collector.
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  Friends, these publicans, they were in charge of collecting the
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  publica, which was the Roman money. 11 The Pharisee stood and
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  prayed thus with himself. God, I thank you that I am not
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  as other men are, extortioners, unjust adulterers, or even as
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  this publican. 12 I fast twice a week.
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  I give tithes of all that I possess. 13 And the publican
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  standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto
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  heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful
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  to me, a Sinner. 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house
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  justified rather than the other. For everyone that exalts himself
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  shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be
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  exalted. Humble yourself before the Lord.
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  Operate in humility, friends, and just remember that the root
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  of humility is humiliation. Let yourself be humiliated
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  before man and be exalted before God.
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  Almighty God is the only one that we need to impress,
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  friends, God is the only one that we need to be concerned
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  about. Do not let the fear of man
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  control your thought process friends.
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  Get rid of all that garbage. You can see here how God views
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  our prayer lives. Look at how this Pharisee who
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  was doing all of the ceremony and tradition, just right to the
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  letter, he was making sure that he checked every box.
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  He had his church attendance, he had his nice attire, he had the
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  right vehicle, he lived in the right neighborhood.
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  He made sure that his tax records showed how much money he
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  was giving to charitable contributions.
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  And God wasn't impressed. And look at how this tax
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  collector who saw his need for repentance, that there is more
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  rejoicing in heaven over 1 Sinner who sees his need for
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  repentance Repent today. Friends, that's not a nasty,
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  dirty word. That is a beautiful word that
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  God has given you one more opportunity today to turn it all
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  around. If you woke up this morning, if
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  you have breath in your lungs, it's not too late.
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  Make it right with God, beat on your breast and cry out to him.
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  Say, Lord, have mercy on me. I've made it all about this
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  world. I've made it all about money.
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  I've made it all about position. I've made it all about the wrong
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  things, about my reputation, and my pride has crept in and I am
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  not worthy of you. I am an unprofitable servant.
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  And watch how the Lord comes in and fills you, friends.
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  You must be emptied of yourself. You must be emptied of this
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  world to receive the feeling that the Lord desires for you
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  for today. And then do it again tomorrow.
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  And if you get another day, do it again that day.
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  And if you get another day, do it again that day.
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  Friends, don't let a single day go by without being emptied of
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  yourself, so that you can be filled with the Holy Spirit. 15
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  And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch
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  them. But when his disciples saw it,
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  they rebuked them. So we can see, Jesus blesses the
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  little children, He loves the little children, and unless we
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  become like little children, we shall not enter into the Kingdom
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  of God. 16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer
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  little children to come unto me, and forbid them not.
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  For as such is the Kingdom of God.
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  Truly I say unto you, Who so ever shall not receive the
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  Kingdom of God, as a little child shall in no way enter
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  therein. We must have the faith of a
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  little child. What is the faith of a little
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  child? Friends, it's very simple.
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  It's just that it's the simple gospel.
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  We believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus came to the
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  earth as a baby. We believe that Jesus died for
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  our sins, and we believe that he was raised from the dead on the
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  third day and appeared to many. And we believe that he ascended
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  to the right hand of the Father, and he went to prepare a place
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  for us. We believe that Jesus is God.
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  We believe that he's coming back again.
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  We believe that where he is, we will be.
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  We believe that we're heading into the New Jerusalem.
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  We believe that all of the evil in this world will be dealt
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  with. We believe that we have an
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  eternal inheritance that this world can never take.
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  We believe that our Heavenly Father takes care of us.
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  We believe that He's the one that provides our clothing and
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  our food. We believe that He gives us our
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  next breath, the next beat, and our chest of our heart.
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  We believe He is good. We believe that we desperately
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  need Him. We must have the faith like a
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  little child. 18 And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good
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  master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
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  19 And Jesus said unto him, Why do you call me good?
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  None is good except one, and that is God.
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  So he's telling this rich young ruler, Do you understand that
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  you are calling me God? And if you do acknowledge that,
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  then you must obey what I have to say. 20 You know the
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  commandments don't commit adultery, do not kill, do not
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  steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and
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  mother. 21 And he said all these things I've kept from my youth
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  up. He was so excited, he thought
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  that he could work his way into heaven. 22 Now when Jesus heard
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  these things, he said unto him, Yet you lack one thing.
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  Sell all that you have distribute unto the poor, and
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  you shall have treasure in heaven.
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  Come follow me. He knew that his possessions
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  possessed him. He knew that all of the material
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  gained in the position and even his youth was a hindrance to him
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  being able to enter into the Kingdom of God.
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  And the proverb says, don't give me too much that I might forget
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  about you, and don't give me too little that I might have to
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  steal, but give me just enough. And we can see that the material
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  blessings that this rich young ruler had was actually a
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  stumbling block to him. 23 And when he heard this, he was very
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  sorrowful, for he was very rich. How many rich people here will
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  not enter the Kingdom of God? And perhaps they give God a nod,
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  perhaps they say they believe, but in the reality they trust in
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  their wealth more than they trust in God.
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  Far be it from us, friends, far be it from us to have faith in
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  our finances, we must have complete and total sold out
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  faith to the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.
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  And do not worry about where your next meal is going to come
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  from. Do not worry about what you're
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  going to put on your body for clothing.
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  Do not worry, little flock. 24 And when Jesus saw that he was
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  very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have
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  riches enter into the Kingdom of God?
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  25 For it is easier for a camel to go through the needle's eye
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  than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.
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  So we can see here, This is an eternal truth Friends, that
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  these riches keep rich man, rich men from entering in Friends
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  because they do not see their need for a savior.
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  They do not see their need for provision.
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  They have everything that they need and it is actually the
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  chains that they wrap around their bodies that choke out the
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  faith. Friends 26 And they that heard
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  it said, who then can be saved at this time?
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  They thought that the material blessings was proof that God was
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  in it and God was for them and God actually loved them.
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  They thought that by being rich it proved.
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  And it's no different. In our hour and our day, we
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  exalt the rich. No matter what their morality
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  is. We are fascinated by the most
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  wealthy. Why?
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  Because we think of them as being superhuman.
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  We think of them as idols. And far be it from us to turn
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  our backs on Yahweh because we are obsessed about Mammon.
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  And you cannot serve both God and money.
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  You will love 1 and you will hate the other.
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  It's that simple. Friends, just think about it.
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  If you love God, then you hate money.
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  Why? Because of what money does.
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  It separates us, keeps people from being able to have access
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  to clean drinking water and nutritious foods and safety of
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  their house. Think about it friends and thank
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  God. Hallelujah, in the Kingdom of
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  God it will be a different economy. 27 And he said, the
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  things which are impossible with men are possible with God.
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  So we can see in Joseph of Arimathea, we can see in
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  Nicodemus, we can see that there is a way that a rich man can
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  enter into heaven, but it must be a calling placed upon his
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  life friends to steward the blessings of God and to steward
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  them well. There is a way that someone can
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  drink alcohol and not become an alcoholic, but by and large,
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  99.9% do not know how to steward the blessings of God in an
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  appropriate manner. And that's what Jesus references
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  here. With God it is possible, but
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  with man it is not possible. And most of us, when we get the
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  taste of wealth, we're not willing to come back down from
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  that high mountain, and we die in that, and we're eternally
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  separated from God, because money was our God. 28 Then Peter
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  said, Lo, we have left all, and followed you. 29 And he said
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  unto them, truly I say unto you, there is no man that has left
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  house, parents, brothers, wife, children, for the Kingdom of
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  God's sake. 30 Who shall not receive manifold more in this
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  present time and in the world to come?
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  Life everlasting, Life everlasting, manifold more, life
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  everlasting. And the greatest gift that God
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  could ever give you is the forgiveness of your sins.
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  You had a debt piled up that you could never repay.
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  It was billions and trillions of dollars worth of debt that you
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  could never get out of friends. And Jesus paid it all.
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  Here you can see Peters heart being revealed.
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  Perhaps at this time they still thought that Jesus was going to
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  take over in a military mighty way and to go in and usurp the
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  authority over the Roman government.
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  And perhaps they were following like Judas, thinking all about
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  the finances that they could receive and the power and
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  position. Perhaps they were like James and
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  John and they just wanted the high position in his Kingdom.
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  And Jesus shows them it's not the way of God.
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  We will receive manifold more in this lifetime, and in the one to
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  come, friends. 31 And then he took unto him the 12 and said
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  unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that
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  are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man shall
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  be accomplished. 32 For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles.
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  He shall be mocked, spitefully entreated, spat upon, and they
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  shall scourge him and put him to death.
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  And the third day he shall rise again.
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  He gives them line by line, friends, what is about to
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  happen. He doesn't hold back.
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  He shows them what is about to happen.
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  He tells them that he is heading to Jerusalem, that all the
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  things are going to be accomplished that were written
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  about him. He said I will be delivered to
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  the Gentiles, I will be mocked, I will be spitefully treated, I
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  will be spat upon, I will be scourged, I will be put to
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  death, and I will rise on the third day.
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  And here you can see that they missed it. 34 And they
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  understood none of these things, and this saying was hid from
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  them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
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  And we've got to let them have a break because they were not yet
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  indwelled with the Holy Spirit, like you and like me.
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  And sometimes I think we squander that inheritance,
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  Friends. We have the Holy Spirit living
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  inside of us. And what do we do?
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  We don't cultivate that relationship.
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  We don't sit and allow the Holy Spirit to have the last say in
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  our lives. We don't use the discernment.
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  We are led by our emotions, friends, and we're squandering
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  our inheritance. We're searing the conscience,
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  we're grieving the spirit when we are not spirit led and spirit
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  fed friends. 35 And it came to pass that as he was come near
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  unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the wayside begging.
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  36 And hearing the multitude passed by, he asked what it
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  meant. 37 And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth is passing by.
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  38 And he cried, saying, Jesus, you, son of David, have mercy on
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  me. 39 And they which went before rebuked him, that he
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  should hold his peace. But he cried so much more.
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  You, son of David, have mercy on me.
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  Do we have that kind of desperation, friends, for the
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  mercy of God over our lives? Doesn't matter if you messed up
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  yesterday, make it right today. Don't live in that sin, friends.
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  Don't live in that condemnation that is not from God.
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  Only conviction comes from the Holy Spirit.
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  He will convict you of all the times that you do things wrong.
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  Whenever you turn your back on God, when you care nothing for
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  him, whenever you are doing things your own way, when you're
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  not seeking wise counsel from the Spirit, He'll convict you of
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  that. But if you keep going down that
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  road, there is silence. That happens.
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  We need to cultivate and break up the fallow ground and make
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  sure that we allow the Holy Spirit to start speaking to us
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  again. Sit in His presence and ask the
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  Holy Spirit what it is that He wants to say to you.
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  There's something in your life that is holding you back from
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  receiving the fullness that God has for you.
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  We should cry out like this blind man.
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  We are blind without him and we're deaf without Him, and
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  we're dumb without Him, friends, and we're all like animals
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  without Him. And we need to come up to the
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  higher ground. We need to come up to the
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  celestial beings. We need to come up to the
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  inheritance that God has for us. We need to start walking in our
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  bridal identity now. Friends, don't wait for heaven.
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  We can have it now. We have our inheritance now.
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  He gives us the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to walk in this
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  world, and to not satisfy the lust of the flesh, and with food
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  and clothing be content. 40 And Jesus stood and commanded him to
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  be brought unto him, and when he was come near, he asked him, 41
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  saying, What will you that I shall do unto you?
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  And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight. 42 And Jesus
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  said unto him, Receive your sight, your faith has saved you,
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  Gwend on 43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed
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  him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they
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  saw it, gave praise unto God. Can you even imagine this real
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  story, real place, real time? Friends, can you even imagine
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  the sight of seeing blind man receive his sight?
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  What an amazing story in the Bible.
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  And we were once blind, but now we can see.
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  We need to know that God is still doing the miraculous.
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  He's not done. There's no cessation of these
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  miracles, Friends, it's available today.
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  I've seen it with my own eyes. I've seen those who suffer
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  receive their healing. And it still is going on today.
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  And we would do well to ask the Lord what it is that He wants us
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  to do for today. And then as He leads you in
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  those places, be obedient to the voice of God.
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  Be obedient whenever the Holy Spirit is nudging you, do not
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  just discount it and discredit it as your own voice.
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  The Lord's voice sounds holy and pure and good and righteous,
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  pleasing. And He will tell you things
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  about yourself that you know does not come from your own
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  mind. He tells you that you were
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  loved. He tells you that you are His.
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  He tells you that he desires a relationship with you.
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  He tells you that you are a child of the Most High.
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  He tells you that you are more than a conqueror.
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  He tells you that every spiritual gift is available to
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  you. He tells you that he loves you.
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  He tells you that you are His and that you're headed towards
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  an eternal home and where He is, you will be.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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  I know I sure have many times over.
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  Praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you, God loves you and be blessed today and stay prayed up
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  today. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.