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Luke chapter 17 · Scripture Unscripted

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Luke chapter 17 let us pray our Lord God Almighty who reigned
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supreme on high, El Elyon, El Shaddai, yes Father, we come to
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you in spirit and truth today. God, we come to you, worshiping
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you, worshiping you father, with all of our heart, with all of
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our mind, with all of our strength.
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God we love you Father, we love you so much.
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We, we give you all of our attention today.
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We give you all of our affection today.
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We give you all of our adoration today.
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God, we laid down at your feet. Lord, we are asking for a touch
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from you. Father, empower us, God
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Almighty, and do us from on high.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll give us the
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mind of Christ. God, fill all of our senses with
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your thoughts and with your being.
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Father, help us to take the whole world to the whole world.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us be
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your hands and feet. Help us to love you more.
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Father, help us to serve you wholeheartedly, God, out of the
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abundance and the overflow of what you've already done for us
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and in US. God, we pray that through US,
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Lord, that the Great Commission will be fulfilled, that every
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people group around this entire globe, God will be filled with
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your presence and Christ crying out.
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Maranatha. Lord, we cry out, come, Lord,
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come. The Spirit and the bride says,
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come, Father. And we pray in the name of Jesus
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for a worldwide global revival. God, I pray against all evil.
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Lord, I pray against all of those who take your name in
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vain. Father, I pray that we will be
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crying out, Lord, for you to come.
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And Lord, we just desire more of you.
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We want to know you and to know Christ and the know Christ
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crucified. So Lord, help us.
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Help us to get out of our own way.
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Help us to receive the spiritual blessings that you have for us.
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Cultivate a heart, Father, that is receptive to your still small
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voice. Break up the fallow ground.
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Father, I pray the hardness of our hearts will be dissolved.
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God, give us a clean heart. Give us a clear conscience.
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Lord, help us to know what to do and when to do it and how to do
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it, because You are our all sufficient, and You are the
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atoning for our sins, and You are our everything.
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You're the very next breath and our lungs.
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God, you are the cognition. Lord, thank you for the sound
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mind that you've given us. Thank you, God, for cognition.
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Thank you, Lord, that You have given us the ability to come and
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to read and to meditate upon these words and to know that you
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are real and that you are working mightily in our myths,
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Lord, and you're still doing miracles.
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And so, God, I pray for miracles to break out.
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God, heal people's bodies, Lord, heal their minds.
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God, break off addiction, Lord, from off of those that are
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struggling. Lord, I pray in the name of
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Jesus, Lord, for cancer to go away.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus for bodies to be healed and
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restored and made whole. God, I pray in the name of
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Jesus, you regrow limbs. Lord, I pray in in the name of
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Jesus, you can do anything. Father and God, we know that we
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can't put you in a box. You are the great I am, and
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there is nothing that is impossible for you.
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So, Lord, I pray right now for this wicked and perverse
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generation, God Almighty, that you will come and that you will
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make every wrong thing right, Lord, and help us to be waiting
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upon you and waiting well. Lord, help us to show your love
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to this wicked, dark, perverse generation.
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Help us to show the love of Christ to every man, woman and
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child that we come in contact with today.
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Help us to point them towards You, Lord, help us to know that
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you are waiting, Lord, for the proper time.
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Help us to know that You are moving.
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Lord, help us to know that You are and God, Your word reigns
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supreme over our lives. It is the mandate upon our
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lives, Father. So, Lord, we take up the whole
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council of your Holy Scriptures, Lord, and we meditate upon those
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things and we know that we know, God, that You are, and that we
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can do no thing apart from You. And so, Lord, we love you.
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We love everything about you. Thank you, God Almighty, for
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life. Thank you, God Almighty, for
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eternal life. Thank you, God Almighty, for our
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salvation. Thank you, God Almighty, that
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you sent Jesus Christ. Thank you, God Almighty, that
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where you are we will be. Thank you, God Almighty, that
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you're going to give us resurrected bodies.
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Thank you, God Almighty, for the hope of our eternal future.
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Thank you, Father, for revealing it was it was pleasing to you to
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reveal to us your Son, thank you for drawing us to yourself.
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Thank you God, we love you with all of our heart, with all of
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our mind, and with all of our strength.
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God help us to love our neighbors as ourself.
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And it's in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name, that I pray.
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Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that
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offenses will come, but woe unto him through whom they come.
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Well friends, you must understand that all of these
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things must happen, but woe to the one whom they come through.
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So God can use it without excusing it.
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Haven't we learned that throughout His scriptures?
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Haven't we seen that many times over?
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That all the prophecies that are contained in these Holy
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Scriptures are 100,000% going to happen?
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But it does not excuse the one whom they come through.
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And the best picture of that is Judas.
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Judas is not excused because he sold our Lord out and that it
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must have happened in the way that it did.
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God gives us free will, but He already knows what we're going
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to do. Friends, that is the reason that
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prophecy can be written about in the fashion and form that it is,
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because God already knows what is going to happen.
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He doesn't have to manifest all of it.
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He doesn't have to try to make it all happen.
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God already knows that it's going to happen, friends, and
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that is the power of the great I am.
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And it is hard for our little finite minds the size of a soda
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can. It's hard for us to wrap our
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minds around the fact that God can do anything.
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There is nothing. This is limited to God.
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And we would do well to know that he's sitting and He is
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ruling and reigning and that He is on his throne and no one can
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vote him out, friends. And He is the great I am, and He
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knows that these things are going to happen, but it does not
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excuse the one whom they come through.
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Verse 2 It were better for him that a millstone were hung about
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his neck and cast into the sea, than that he should offend one
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of these little ones. Praise God, Hallelujah, we are
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the little ones, we're the little flock.
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Those of us who have counted the cost but are handed the plow and
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that are out in the field, friends, he sees us and he says
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woe to them whom offend us, who offend the little children.
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We can see it, friends, that unless you have faith like a
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little child, you shall not enter the Kingdom of God.
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Some of us can be so intellectual that we get in our
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own way. Some of us can approach God from
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a scholastic approach and we think of Him as being this
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grandiose idea. But we must have faith like a
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little child, and it is that little faith, friends, that
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moves mountains. And as people blasphemy God, and
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as people say all kinds of heinous things towards God, just
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know that He sees it all, friends, and it's not for us to
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try to judge who's going to be there and who's not going to be
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there. All we need to do is scatter the
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seed, knowing that 3/4 of it is probably going to fall on the
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soil that produces nothing. But thank God Almighty for that
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quarter. Thank God Almighty for the field
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that is fertile, for the soil that is cultivated, for the
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ground that is broken up, friends.
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Thank God Almighty that it's producing A crop that is
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producing a harvest. Friends, in this reproducing
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disciples, disciples that make more disciples.
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Friends three, take heed to yourselves.
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If your brother trespassed against you, rebuke him, but if
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he repents, forgive him. 70 * 7 Here, friends, we would do well
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to have an unoffendable spirit. We would do well to restore our
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brothers back to the faith. We would do well to forgive them
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as many times as they repent and that they come to us and they
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confess that they have sinned and we would do well to never
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hold it and Lord it over them. Jesus doesn't treat us that way,
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and we should not treat our brothers that way, even if it's
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within our own power to do so. We need to be quick to forgive
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friends, quick to forget all of the times that they've wronged
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us and not try to hold it over their heads.
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Blessed are the ones that are not offended by him for it.
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If he trespass against you 7 times in a day and seven times
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in a day, he turns again to you saying I repent, you shall
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forgive him. So you know, it's hard to
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forgive somebody who you don't think is sincere.
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And if they keep doing the same thing, it shows that they're not
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actually sorrowful. But what does Jesus say here?
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He says, receive them. And we are called to be
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ministers of reconciliation, friends.
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And it what a miracle of God, whenever we can be the
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peacemakers within our community, praise God for those
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who put themselves on the line to reconcile marriages and
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reconcile relationships and reconcile the prodigal and
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reconcile their friends and family and neighbors, praise
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God, Hallelujah, what a blessing to those people.
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And you know, whatever kind of unforgiveness you harbor in your
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own mind is the same unforgiveness that you have to
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live with friends, Let it go, forgive those and receive your
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forgiveness as well. Five.
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And the apostle said unto the Lord, increase our faith, yes
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and Amen, increase our faith. Lord God Almighty, increase our
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faith today. Lord, we are asking for you to
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increase our faith today. We need him.
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We need Him to help us to have greater faith.
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We need Him to help us to have a greater measure of His wisdom
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and knowledge and love. Mercy.
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We need God. We need to have our eyes fixed
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upon Jesus, we need to be connected to the vine and we
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will produce much fruit. And these disciples knew that he
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was the one that helped them increase their faith.
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This is not something we can self will.
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It is God who helps us through this journey and it is this
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complete emptying of ourselves so that we can be filled with a
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greater measure of Him. This sanctification and this
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consecration of being made more like Jesus Christ when we rid
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ourselves of all the evil that we have and we can fill those
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gaps in crevices with the love of Jesus Christ and that love
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will producing us this faith and with all the things that we
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need, all the tools in our tool belt to navigate through this
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walk until the end of our lives. When we take our last breath, we
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are ushered into his presence and we hear well done good and
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faithful servant increase our faith Lord. 6 And the Lord said,
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If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say unto
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this, Sick of mine tree, be you plucked up by the root, and be
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you planted in the sea, and it should obey you.
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So it's not the size of our faith, it's who our faith is
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placed in friends. And we need to increase our
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faith as we navigate through this life.
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We cannot just stay as baby Christians.
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We can't just stay in the elementary school.
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We must go through life increasing our faith as we go
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along. And we've seen God do great
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things, and he desires to do even greater things in our
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lives. 7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or
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feeding cattle, will say unto him, bye and bye when he has
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come from the field, go and sit down to eat?
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So here Jesus is going to show us his servants, He's going to
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show us his disciples what the proper way to go through this
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life is, this little 100 year lifespan that we might get, give
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or take. He's going to show us what is
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the attitude of gratitude that we need to cultivate in our own
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life. And he's saying, those of us who
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are out in the field and we see that the harvest is ripe, the
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workers are few, we see it, friends, we look out on the
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horizon, we see it. But what do we do?
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We take a day off, we take a few days off, we slip into sin, we
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slip into compromise, and we think it's OK.
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What does he have to say about it?
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8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may
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Sup and guard yourself, and serve me till I have eaten and
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drunken, And afterward you shall eat and drink.
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He's saying that we as servants shouldn't expect in this
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lifetime to be served. The Son of Man did not come to
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be served, but rather to serve. And so we can see that while we
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are here on this little life that He has given us, we need to
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be constantly in service to our Lord.
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We cannot take a day off. There's lives at stake, heaven
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and hell way in the balance for so many people.
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And we cannot afford to take a day off in the service of our
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Lord. We're only here for a short
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amount of time. And yes, we need the Sabbath and
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yes, we need to rest. But even whenever we are
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resting, think about God. He's always at work, even when
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He rests. So what a what an amazing
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thought there friends, that in six days He created everything
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and on the 7th day he rested. But we know that our Father is
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always at work even up unto this day.
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So what an amazing thought that is, that even while we rest, we
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are still in active service. Praise the Lord 9 Does he thank
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that servant because he did the things that were commanded him?
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I trial not so he's saying here that we patiently await the
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rewards that He has promised us. We don't work for the rewards.
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Our work does not save us. We cannot measure how much we
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love the Lord by how much we work for Him.
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It doesn't work that way, friends.
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He's saying that it is a natural overflow.
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When you love the Lord your God with all your mind and all your
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strength, then you will naturally love those all around
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you. And what you do comes out of the
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abundance of this relationship with God.
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It is easy. His yoke is easy.
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His burden is light. Friends, we don't have to try at
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it. It is a natural overflow.
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I try, not ten. So likewise you, when you shall
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have done all those things which are commanded, you say we are
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unprofitable servants. We have done that which was our
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duty to do Praise God, Hallelujah.
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We can do no thing profitable until we accurately see the Lord
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Jesus Christ in all His glory. We can do no thing profitable
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until we finally, wholeheartedly give our lives completely over
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to the Lord Jesus Christ. We can do no thing profitable
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until we fall madly in love with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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If we are working in our own might, we're going to burnout,
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friends. But he gives a constant supply
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of the oil to our lamps. We are not going to fall asleep
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whenever we are in tune and in love with the bridegroom.
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Thank you Lord Jesus Christ, we love you, and it is just our
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it's our privilege to do the Lord's work. 11 And it came to
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pass as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst
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of Samaria in Galilee. So he's going along the border
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there, and we're going to see He's set his face like a Flint
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towards Jerusalem. He knows that his time is short.
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12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him
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10 men that were lepers which stood afar off.
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So we know just from real quick Bible studies, we know that
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these lepers were not allowed to come close and they had to shout
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unclean, unclean. And it was not uncommon for the
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lepers to congregate together because that was the only
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community that they had. And we know that this disease
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was a wasting away disease where even their fingers and toes and
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nose and their hair fell out and off.
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And we know that this was for this culture and for this day.
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This would have been seen as a judgement from God that somehow
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they had done something that was deserving of this disease and
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they had it all wrong. And we see that the disease was
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a picture of the sin and how the sin rots us away.
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And here we can see that these lepers are desirous of a
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cleansing and to be healed and to be made whole. 13 And they
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lifted up their voices and said, Jesus Master, have mercy on us.
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Can we say that today because of the sin that we have in our
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lives, do we cry out to him and say, Jesus Master, have mercy on
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us, heal us and make us whole? Get rid of this sin in our
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lives. That's eroding us, eroding our
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consciences, eroding our morals, eroding our very lives, and it's
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going to snuff us out and kill us.
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Are you desperate for a healing today, friends?
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14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go show yourselves
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unto the priests. And it came to pass that as they
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went, they were cleansed. So friends, we need to know that
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Jesus heals in a myriad of ways and he's not boxed up.
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You cannot package him. You cannot sell him.
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He is the great I am, and he can do anything.
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And here he told them what to do.
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And they took him at his word and took him at face value and
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moved in faith and obedience. And as they went, they were
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cleansed. We cannot just be cleansing then
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go. We must do as He commands us.
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And He has all different ways. Sometimes He spits in the mud,
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sometimes He heals from a distance, sometimes He puts His
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hands on us, and sometimes He tells us just to go along the
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way and we are healed as we move in obedience.
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You cannot box them up and box a man.
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They were cleansed, 15 and one of them, when he saw that he was
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healed, turned back with a loud voice, glorified God.
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That is the proper response. Look at this, only 10% of the
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people turned back to glorify God and to give him His due
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praise and honor and glory. And what about the other 90% who
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they only were healed outwardly, but their sins we're still
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there. And here he's going to show how
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he feels and what he thinks about that. 16 and fell down on
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his face at his feet, giving him thanks.
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And he was a Samaritan. So we know he was 1/2 breed.
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We know that he was only half Jew.
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We know that they, the Jews from the lineage of Abraham, had such
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disdain for these Samaritans, and the Samaritans were looked
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down upon and look at who came back to give him his glory.
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And it shows God's heart. It shows that he is for the
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whole world. He's not just hyper fixated upon
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his chosen people, the Jews. They were supposed to be the
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priest for the whole world. And just like how Adam
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squandered his inheritance in the garden, we can see that the
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Jews squandered their inheritance by making it all
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about religion and tradition, Friends.
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But God's plan from all time, for all time's sake, is to
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restore us back to himself and to restore the Jews back to
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Himself, and for them to realize that Jesus Christ is the
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Messiah. And John 14-6 says, Jesus said,
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I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes unto the
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Father except through me. We know that He is the only way
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and the Jews are going to have to come to that College in due
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time. 17 and Jesus answering said were there not ten
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cleansed, but where are the 9? So he has a number.
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He knows the full number. He knows all of the people who
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belong to him and he it's not missed on him.
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He knew that there was 10 and only one came back. 18 There are
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not found that return to give glory to God, except this
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stranger. 19 And he said unto him, Arise and go your way.
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Your faith has made you whole. So look at that.
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His faith made him whole. So we can see that the other
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nine, they were only cleansed outwardly and praise God for
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that cleansing. But this one came back and not
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only did he get his healing over his body, but he also was made
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whole on the inside. And God help us, we do not just
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approach God for a healing. And then once the healing comes,
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we turn our back on God. We got what we wanted.
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He says, Go and sin, no more or less.
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Something worse comes upon you. 20 And when he was demanded of
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the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God should come, he answered
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them and said, The Kingdom of God comes not with observation.
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So here we know that we can look upon the fig tree and see that
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the leaves are near and that summer is near and that the
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Kingdom is coming. We know that we can look up to
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heaven and see that our redemption draws near.
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But these are the Pharisees, and they had a hostile
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interrogation, and they were saying, Tell us when these
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things are going to happen. And Jesus is saying, It's not
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for you to know. You cannot just come to me and
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and demand to know. Even Jesus said only the Father
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knows. 21 Neither shall they say, lo here or lo there.
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For behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.
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He's saying that the Kingdom of God is in your midst.
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It's right here, it's right in front of you.
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It's as plain as the nose on your face.
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Look, the King is in your midst. The King of the Kingdom is
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standing right in front of you. You are speaking with him, is
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what he is telling these Pharisees.
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And he's also telling us, don't believe them when they say the
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Christ has come. Come with me to this inner room.
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The Christ has come, and he says that the whole world will know
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when he comes. The whole world will see him
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coming on the clouds in his glory with all the angels.
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Praise God, and with all of us, because we have been taken up to
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meet Him in the air, and there we will be with Him forevermore.
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Praise God. 22 And he said unto his disciples, The days will
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come when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son
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of Man, and you shall not see it.
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So here it's easy for us to say, Well, if Jesus was here now, I
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would be one of the disciples and not one of the Pharisees.
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He's saying here that we will desire that Jesus would come,
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Come, Lord, come, we cry out, Maranatha.
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And he's saying that he is going to ascend to the right hand of
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the Father and wait for the proper time to come back. 23 And
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they shall say to you, see here or see there, go not after them,
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nor follow them. He's saying don't be deceived,
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don't be duped. Don't just fall for every
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religious leader who tries to pretend like they're the
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Messiah. It doesn't work that way.
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We cannot be tricked into all of these cults that rise up.
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Friends, The whole world will see his coming.
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Don't forget it, do not follow them. 24 For as the lightning,
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the lightnings out of the one part under heaven shines unto
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the other part under heaven, so shall also the Son of Man be in
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his day. So we know that it will not be
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hidden. It will be revealed to the whole
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world that he has come. 25 But first must he suffer many things
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and be rejected of this generation.
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It's sad that his own people murdered him.
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It's sad that that generation murdered their own Messiah, and
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they're still waiting. They're still believing that he
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hasn't come yet, and they will eventually come to the saving
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knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
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The Jews will finally come into the fold, and there will be many
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in the Kingdom of God. 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so
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shall it be in the days of the Son of Man.
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So here he's going to reference what it was like when Noah was
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building the ark. And we know that Jesus Christ is
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the ark. And I pray to God that you're in
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the boat. Friends, it's about to start
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raining. He is our lifeboat.
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We must be covered in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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We can't just dip our toes in the water.
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We need a full covering. 27 They did eat drink.
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They've married wise and were given in marriage until the day
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that Noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed
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them all. We must get in the boat if we
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want to be saved, and the boat is Jesus Christ, Nazareth, Jesus
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the Messiah. We must get in the boat and be
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covered with the blood of Jesus Christ, from the tops of our
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heads to the bottom of our feet, friends, every square inch of
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us, nothing hidden, all of us covered in the blood. 28
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Likewise also, as it was in the days of Lot, they did eat, they
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drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded. 29
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But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and
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brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.
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So here this calls for wisdom. Friends, there will be many who
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make this little lifetime that they have all about this world
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and they cared nothing for the promises of God and they miss
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it. They miss the whole point of the
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whole matter, which is glorifying Jesus Christ in the
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highest. It's all about our relationship
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with God Almighty through His Son Jesus Christ.
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That's what this whole walk is all about.
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From the time that you were born until the time that you die,
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it's all about Jesus Christ. We would do well to glorify Him
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in the highest while we have the time and to share his love with
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every single person that we meet along the way, friends, and give
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everybody every opportunity to repent and to believe and to
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enter into life. Friends, Life abundant both here
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and now and for all of eternity. God and His promises will stand
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the test of time. This Word will stand the test of
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time. The Church will never be
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destroyed. The gates of hell will not
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prevail against the Church. Friends, the Holy Spirit
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indwells us and helps us. Friends And we would do well to
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make sure that we count the cost, and we would do well to
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make sure that we're the five wise virgins, and we would do
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well to make sure that we belong to him.
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Friends, give your life to Him every moment of every day for
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the rest of your life. 30 Even the shall it be in the day when
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the Son of Man is revealed, praise God, Hallelujah, he's
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coming on the clouds. 31 In that day, he which shall be upon the
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housetop and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to
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take it away. And he that is in the field, let
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him likewise not return back. So he's saying that our life is
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way more than just all of our material blessings that we have.
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What is this life, friends? It is nothing in comparison of
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eternity. Remember Lot's wife?
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She turned back friends. She was desirous to go back to
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that lifestyle. She wasn't too excited about
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going out into the wilderness. She wanted to go back to her
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luxurious lifestyle. Remember Lot's wife 33 Whosoever
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shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever
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shall lose his life shall preserve it.
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So we know that our lives are way more than just the material
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blessings. We know that if they try to kill
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the body, that cannot take away our eternity.
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Don't worry about if you're going to lose your life.
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Don't worry about persecution. Count the cost.
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Friends. Before you put your hand to the
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plow, make sure you're taking up your cross daily.
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Make sure that you're willing to lay down your life for your
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brother because there is no greater love than that.
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And maybe your life being spilled out, Friends, is the way
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that others are going to come in to the fold.
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Friends, just remember that as we navigate through this life,
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God's ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our
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thoughts. And what is this little menial
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life in comparison to all of eternity?
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34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one
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bed. The one shall be taken and the
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other shall be left. So we know that this is the
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rapture of the Church, friends. We know that it is going to
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happen instantaneously. It's going to be in the blink of
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an eye. At the sound of the trumpet, at
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the twinkling of the eye. We know that it happens, and it
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is in just a fraction of a second.
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It all happens and there will be no preparation.
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It will happen so quickly. I pray that you're not left
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behind. 35 Two women shall be grinding together.
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The one shall be taken in, the other left.
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So here. This calls for wisdom, Friends.
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There will be two standing there, one taken and 1:00 left.
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It's as clear as the nose on your face, friends.
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And there are so many people and it baffles me of all the
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doctrine and all the theology that gets all turned all around.
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Friends, it's so simple. We need to read it at face value
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and believe what these words say.
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And it's not about the interpretation, it's about the
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obedience to His word. 36 Two men shall be in the field, and
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one shall be taken, and the other left. 37 And they answered
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and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them,
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Wheresoever the body is, there the eagles be gathered together.
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So he's saying, It's going to be right for judgment.
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The whole earth, friends, will be ripe for judgment.
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And he says when the Son of Man comes back, will he even find
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faith on this earth? Wow.
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You can see with the increase of technology, you can see with the
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increase of people in droves turning away from the faith.
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You can see it, friends. People are desperate and people
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want to believe in everything but Christianity.
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They want to believe in everything else.
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And the ones that do count the cost.
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And the ones that do make the decision, you can see that
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they're on fire for God. Praise God, Hallelujah for those
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who count the cost before they put the hand to the plow.
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And I pray that you're one of them.
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I pray that you will be with us for all of eternity.
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And if you have breath in your lungs and you woke up this
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morning, then it's not too late. And God's not done with you.
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And we need to acknowledge the Son, acknowledge Jesus Christ.
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Give every second of every day for the rest of your life over
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to Him. Nothing compartmentalized,
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nothing hidden and nothing held back.
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All completely sold out to the King of Kings and the Lord of
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Lords. Every thought, every word, every
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deed, every day, forever and ever.
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It's all about Jesus Christ. Hope you've been blessed by this
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chapter. I know I sure have.
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Praying for every single one of you.
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I love you, so does God. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.