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Luke chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Luke chapter 4. Let us pray.
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  Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord Jesus, for your holy
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  scriptures. Lord, we thank you for the full
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  counsel of your word. We thank you, God, that you've
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  given us truth to stand upon. We thank you, God, that you've
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  given us our marching orders, that you've given us our
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  purpose, that you've given us your plan for the ages.
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  For now, and for right now, and for such a time as this, God,
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  help us to walk in obedience to your Scriptures.
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  Help us, God, to understand all of your eternal truths, Lord,
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  from everlasting. Thank you, God, that you have
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  promised us a home there with you, that you have gone to
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  prepare a place for us. Thank you, God, for the
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  indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, God, that you've
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  given us the mind of Christ. Thank you, God, that all of your
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  wrath was satisfied at the foot of the cross.
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  Thank you, God, for the blood being spilled that covers us.
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  Thank you, God, for ripping the veil from top to bottom so that
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  we can come in and to dine with you and up with you, God.
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  Thank you, Lord, for all of the many blessings that you've
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  already given us today. Lord, we thank you for family.
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  We thank you, Lord, for all of the things that you've done.
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  Lord, we thank you for marriage. Lord, we thank you for our
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  abilities. We thank You for the ability to
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  come and to reason and to think and amuse and to meditate, God,
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  upon these truths. So, Lord, speak to us loudly.
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  Speak to us boldly. Whisper that still small voice
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  to us, Father, and help us to identify.
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  Help us to obey it. Help us, Lord, to listen.
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  Help us to be students of Your Word.
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  God. Nothing added and nothing taken
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  away. Unadulterated.
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  God the pure word. Father, give to us today.
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  Holy Spirit, you be our teacher and Holy Spirit, you be our
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  guide. And I get out of the way and
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  it's all about you. King.
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  Jesus has always been about you and it will always be about you.
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  So I say yes and Amen. We say yes and Amen to all of
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  the promises contained in this book.
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  Father, help us, Lord, help us today, be right here beside us
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  and show us what it is that you want us to know today for today.
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  Thank you God, for today. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
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  precious name, but I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And Jesus, being full of the Holy Ghost, returned from Jordan
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  and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.
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  So here we know that Jesus was just baptized, and God had said
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  he was well pleased, and this spirit, like a dove, had
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  descended. And we know that Jesus is full
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  of the Holy Ghost, and he's going to be tempted and to get
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  back with old Adam lost. And look at how Jesus is so good
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  as the Son of God and as our Savior.
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  And he knows that he's about to be tempted, and he knows that
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  he's about his Father's business.
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  Verse 2 being 40 days tempted of the devil.
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  And in those days he did eat nothing.
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  And when they were ended, he afterward hungered.
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  So Luke, who is the physician here, Luke is writing and he's
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  writing about a condition that would to be close to death.
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  There is some starvation happening here after 40 days of
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  eating nothing. Luke, as the doctor writing
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  would know what this is doing to the human body.
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  And we know that Jesus was all man and all God, and Jesus
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  resisted and tapping in to the divinity, and he felt all the
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  things that you and I will ever feel.
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  And he was in the complete sense, He was starving to death
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  in this moment. 3 And the devil said unto him, If you be the Son
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  of God, command the stone that it be made bread.
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  So here the devil's coming in, and he's saying, are you really
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  the Son of God? Since you are the Son of God,
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  why are you starving like this? Just go ahead and make these
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  stones into bread. You have the power to do so.
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  For in Jesus answered him saying, it is written that man
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  shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.
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  Friends, here's the thing about it.
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  There's this time coming where we're going to have the option
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  of the mark of the beast and you will not be able to buy or sell
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  anything without receiving it. And you're going to have to make
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  a tough decision. Is your physical well-being more
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  important than your spiritual well-being?
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  And that is what is being presented here in this moment,
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  is that the devil is saying, hey, satisfy your physical
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  needs. And Jesus is saying, no, your
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  spiritual needs far supersede any of your physical needs,
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  friends. And you've got to get to a place
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  where your bread and your water is Christ.
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  And we've got to get to a place where we can stiff arm all of
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  the things of this world, including our own safety
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  friends, our own well-being friends.
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  We've got to get to a place where Jesus is enough and then
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  watch how once you get there, all of your physical needs are
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  met. But if we are so in tune with
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  our bodies, we're going to be out of tune with the Spirit of
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  God. And look at how when the
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  disciples came back and Jesus was waiting at the well and he
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  had revealed himself as the water that when you would, if
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  you drank, you would never go thirsty to the Samaritan woman,
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  this living water. Look at how the disciples said
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  here, eat. And he said, I have food that
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  you know nothing about. And here, this is what Jesus has
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  tapped into. He's tapped into that bread that
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  you know nothing about. And he was full of the Spirit.
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  And here he countered the enemy with the word of God, and he
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  used nothing that is unavailable to you and to me.
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  Friends, being filled with the Spirit and having the full
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  counsel of God's Word is all that we need to resist the
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  devil. Five And the devil, taking him
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  up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the
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  world in a moment of time. 6 And the devil said unto him, All
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  this power I will give you, and the glory of them, for that is
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  delivered unto me, and to whomsoever I will give it. 7 If
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  you therefore will worship me all, all shall be yours.
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  Very interesting. Few passages here and we can see
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  how Adam squandered the inheritance back in the garden
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  and look at how Jesus won it back for us in a desert.
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  Look at how Adam had all of the beauty and luxury in the garden
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  and he squandered it. And look at how the Son of Man
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  came and was let out into the wilderness, out into the desert,
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  and was hungry. And so many of us have full
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  bellies, but we do not have a full spirit of God.
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  And here Jesus was emptied in his belly, but full of the
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  Spirit of God. And we would do well, friends,
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  to fast and to pray and to watch how it moves God and it moves
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  the spiritual realm, friends, whenever we will fast and pray.
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  And some things only go out that way.
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  And we would do well to tap into that from time to time.
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  Friends, as the Spirit leads you, we do not need to be
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  gluttonous. We do not need to forsake the
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  spiritual realm for our physical needs.
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  And here Satan is showing Jesus that he has the power to give
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  him all the things that Adam lost.
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  Adam gave them up this dominion, but Jesus won it back for us.
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  And when you are full of the Spirit of God, when you have the
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  Holy Spirit leading you, you can take back dominion.
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  Friends, it's dominion that was lost.
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  And Satan here is trying to get Jesus to worship him.
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  And Jesus knows better. Even though he's all God, he is
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  all man. And here he sees through the
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  lies of the enemy. And we need to do the same.
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  When the enemy tries to tell us that we can have glory without
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  the suffering, we need to stiff arm him and tell him to get
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  behind us. In the name of Jesus, get thee
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  behind me, Satan. In the name of Jesus, he must
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  flee. Friends, look at what Jesus did
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  for us here at this time. And we know that the devil is
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  the Prince of the air. We know that he has sway over so
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  much here, But we do not give him any kind of accolades.
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  We give him no kind of gossip. We focus our eyes upon the Lord
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  Jesus Christ, and we watch how that darkness flees. 8 And Jesus
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  answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan, for it is
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  written, You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only
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  shall you serve. That is what we need to do to
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  defeat the enemy. Tell him to get behind you.
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  Remind him of his finality. Remind him of his end.
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  Remind him that he has no part in your life, that in the name
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  of Jesus he must flee. This Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus
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  the Branch, Jesus our Christ, Jesus the Anointed, Jesus the
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  Son of God, Jesus the Most High, Jesus our Father, Jesus our
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  Lord, Jesus our everything. Remind the enemy who you serve,
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  remind him of his end and watch how he flees from you.
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  Bring that name upon your lips today.
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  The name of Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth.
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  Bring that name upon your lips, and watch how the darkness
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  flees. 9 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a
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  pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If you be the Son of
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  God, cast yourself down from here.
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  For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over you to
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  keep you, 11 And in their hands they shall bear you up, lest at
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  any time you shall dash your foot against the stone.
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  So here it is as if Satan is trying to get Jesus to commit
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  suicide, Jesus to throw himself down from there, Jesus to kill
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  himself. And it would have ended all of
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  the ministry right then and there.
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  And Jesus being hungered, I'm sure, was weak in this moment.
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  And he has resisted him and resisted him.
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  He's full of the Holy Spirit, even though he is empty in his
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  stomach. And he has the knowledge of the
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  Word of God because he is the Word of God.
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  And look at what he tells them, he And here Satan is trying to
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  twist Scripture. And it's just like in the garden
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  whenever the serpent came and whispered in Eve's ear and tries
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  to twist God's words. And if you go back and read that
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  account, you can see just how twisted it is.
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  And then look at here how Satan has been studying God's Word.
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  God gave Satan his playbook and he's still going to outpace him.
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  And there is no battle between Satan God.
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  God is omnipotent. And Satan is just being used to
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  what? To bring out the evil intentions
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  of the heart of man, of all the things that we store up.
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  And we might look the part on the outside, but it's ravenous
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  wolves on the inside. And be careful, friends.
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  Be careful of those who lead you astray.
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  And we need to know this word of God.
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  We need to study this word of God because look at how Satan
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  tries to even take the word of God, God and twist it.
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  And just because somebody claims that they know the word of God,
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  you need to be able to discern it and be like the Bereans and
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  go back and check the Scripture. Because here Satan is using
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  Scripture out of context. And we need to know the full
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  counsel of God's Word from Genesis to Revelation so that we
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  can stand firm against the attacks of the enemy.
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  And here you can see how the devil is even trying to use
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  God's Word to get the Christ to get Jesus to throw himself off
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  of this pinnacle. Look at what Jesus says in verse
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  12. And Jesus answering, said unto
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  him, It is said, You shall not tempt the Lord your God.
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  Wow. So Satan was trying to get him
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  to throw himself down, saying that God would hold him up and
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  not let him die and hear. Jesus uses Scripture to counter
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  Satan's twisting of Scripture. And that is what we need to do.
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  Friends, we would do very well to keep ourselves on guard, to
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  study the real things so that you can see when the counterfeit
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  comes across. 13 And when the devil had ended all the
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  temptation, he departed from him for a season.
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  Resist the devil. He will flee from you until
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  another opportune time. Don't think that just because
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  you beat him, he's done forever. We need to be on guard.
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  And he's so subtle and sly and how he comes in and he sprinkles
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  a little bit of truth in with the lie.
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  And you would do well to look for those calling cards that the
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  enemy leaves, because he always leaves his dirty handprints, his
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  dirty tricks. He always leaves just enough for
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  you to discover it. If you are in tune with the
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  spirit of the Lord, if the Spirit of the Lord is full in
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  you, you will not be duped. You will not be LED astray.
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  You will not be tricked with the enemy's schemes.
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  He leaves just enough of a calling card for you to be able
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  to identify the lies that are sprinkled in to the truth.
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  Friends 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into
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  Galilee, and there went out a fame of him through all the
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  region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues,
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  being glorified of all. So here you can see that Jesus
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  is returning to Galilee. You can see that Jesus is being
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  asked to speak as a guest speaker in the synagogues.
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  Let's see what happens. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he
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  had been brought up, and as his custom was, he went into the
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  synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up for to read.
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  So here he's being asked to read in the synagogue of his own
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  hometown. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of
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  the prophet Isaiah. And when he had opened the book,
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  he found the place where it was written. 18 The Spirit of the
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  Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel
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  to the poor. He has sent me to heal the
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  broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and
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  recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them
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  that are bruised, 19 to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
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  So verse 18 and 19 was taken out of the book of Isaiah and here
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  he stopped exactly where he needed to because the very next
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  part of this verse in Isaiah talks about the vengeance of the
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  Lord. So there is this comma here and
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  he stopped exactly where he was supposed to because we are in
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  the acceptable year of the Lord, that which is grace, friends.
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  And when Jesus comes back in his second advent, he's not going to
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  be meek and mild. He is going to be the Lion of
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  Judah. He is coming back roaring with
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  the two edged sword from his mouth to devour the enemy's
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  friends. And that is what we all would do
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  well to remember, that when Jesus Christ comes back, he is
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  coming back as the rightful ruler.
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  Friends, for 1000 year, reign 20.
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  And he closed the book and he gave it again to the minister
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  and sat down. And the eyes of all them that
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  were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
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  So here he's claiming that the book of Isaiah was written about
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  him. He is the one who the Spirit of
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  the Lord is upon. He is the one who is anointed to
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  preach the gospel to the poor. He is the one that has been sent
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  to heal the broken hearted. He is the one who has been sent
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  to preach deliverance to the captives.
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  He is the One. That has been sent to recover
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  the sight of the blind. He is the one that was sent to
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  set at liberty them that are bruised.
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  And He is the one that was sent to preach the acceptable year of
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  the Lord and to start this covenant of grace that we are in
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  friends, to start this time period of grace that we are in
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  friends. It all started when Jesus came,
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  and when he gave his life as a ransom and suffered the death of
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  a criminal on a cross between two thieves, and whenever he was
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  laid in the tomb, and when he was resurrected back to life and
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  when he appeared to many and then ascended to the right hand
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  of God, You and I, we were able to house the Holy Spirit inside
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  of us, and we were sent out to go and proclaim the good news of
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  Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth.
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  And here we are in this acceptable year of the Lord.
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  Don't miss it, friends. 21 And he began to say unto them, This
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  day Scripture fulfilled in your ears.
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  What an amazing claim that Jesus is claiming to be the one that
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  Isaiah wrote about. Let's see how they receive it.
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  22 In all bear him witness. And wondered at the gracious
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  words which proceeded out of his mouth.
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  And they? Said, Is not this Joseph's son?
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  They almost had it. They were amazed.
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  They were absolutely amazed. And then doubt crept in.
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  And it's no different for you, friend.
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  It's no different for me friend. We get amazed.
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  At What God Can Do and we get amazed at how grand God is.
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  And then? We look down at the bills piling
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  up and we look down at our failing health, and we look down
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  at all of the troubles of this life.
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  And we forget. And we take our eyes off of how
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  amazing God is and what he can do.
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  And we forget that God is omnipotent and can do anything.
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  And here they immediately went into their own thoughts to say,
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  Is this not Joseph's son? They were familiar with them,
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  and that familiarity bred contempt here, Friends 23 He
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  said unto them, You will surely say unto me this proverb,
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  Physician, heal yourself. Whatever we.
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  Have heard, done in Capernaum, do also hear in your country. 24
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  And he said, truly, I say unto you, no prophet is accepted in
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  his own country. So here verse 23, verse 24, he's
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  telling them, whether you accept me as the Savior, whether you
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  accept me as the Messiah doesn't change anything.
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  He is the Messiah, whether they were familiar with Him or not.
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  And as we get 2000 years removed from the cross of Christ, as we
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  get 2000 years down the road and we're closer today than we were
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  yesterday to His second return to the rapture of the church, as
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  we get 2000 years removed from this moment.
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  Friends, it would be easy to become too familiar with Jesus
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  and think that it's all just a joke and to use His name as a
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  byword. And that is what has happened
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  and that is what is happening. And here He is telling you that
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  do not be surprised when it's your own kinsman and your own
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  family that ridicule you when you're trying to walk in the
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  spirit of the Lord. 25 but. I tell you of the truth, many
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  widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven
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  was shut up. Three years, six months, with
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  great famine was throughout all the land. 26 But unto none of
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  them was Elijah sent, except unto SEPTA, a city of Sidon,
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  unto a woman that was a widow. So here.
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  He's telling these Jews, he's telling these Israelites, he's
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  telling them that when Elijah was with them, he went and
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  ministered unto a Gentile. 27 and many.
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  Lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and
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  none of them was cleansed except Naman the Syrian.
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  Here again he points out two different instances where the
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  prophets of God came true prophets of the Lord, and they
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  left out of Israel and ministered unto Gentiles.
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  And you can see God's infinite plan for the ages that He is for
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  the whole world. Yes, He loves the Jews, yes they
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  are His chosen people, but God's plan is for the whole world and
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  Jesus here knows it and he's telling them don't miss it.
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  That's what he's telling them don't miss it. 28 And all they
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  in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled
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  with wrath. 29 and. Rose up and thrust him out of
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  the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill where on their
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  city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
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  So here this is what they would do right before they stoned
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  someone, as they would take him somewhere and push him off, and
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  once he fell to the ground they would pelt him with the stones.
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  But it was not yet his time. 30 but he.
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  Passing through the midst of them went his way.
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  It's easy for Jesus, friends. It's easy.
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  For him, look at how filled with indignation they were, and wrath
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  and anger, and look at how they put their hands on them to take
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  them to the edge of the hill. And look at how Jesus passes
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  through easily unscathed. Friends, it's easy for him and.
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  When we're. Tapped into the power source
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  when we're plugged in, when we're connected to the Vine,
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  friends, don't be surprised. When you defy.
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  The physical, don't be surprised, friends.
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  Whenever you're able to escape unharmed and you look back and
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  you say, wow, how did that even happen?
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  And it is because you're moving in the power and the spirit of
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  God Almighty. And do you not know that you are
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  the temple of the Lord? And do you not know that you
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  will judge the world? And do you not know that you
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  will judge the angels? We would do well to remember who
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  we serve and who we belong to. It's easy for him. 31 and came
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  down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the
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  Sabbath days. 32. And they were astonished at his
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  doctrine, for His word was with power.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah.
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  The whole word of God is with power.
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  There's not one syllable, jot or title that's contained from
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  Genesis to Revelation. Nothing added and nothing taken
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  away. There is nothing in this book
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  that is without power. His word never returns.
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  Void, Friends 33 And in the synagogue there was a man which
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  had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud
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  voice, 34 saying, Let us alone, what have we to do with you?
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  You, Jesus of Nazareth, are you come to destroy us?
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  I know you who you are, the Holy One of God.
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  So here this demon recognized that Jesus is the Holy One of
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  God, that he had all authority and all power.
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  And you can see here how the demons work, how the unclean
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  foul spirits work. They know that their time is
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  coming, and they know that they only have a short time to do
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  what it is that they're doing, which is revealing the hearts of
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  men and revealing the evil intents within men.
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  They know that they are here for a very short amount of time and
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  that the judgment is awaiting them, and they will be cast in
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  to the Lake of Fire forever, to be done away with, to be
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  completely removed from the scene which will bring about the
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  peace that you and I so desperately desire when the
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  tempter is taken out of the way, when you and I get to go into
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  the New Jerusalem, to be with him forevermore.
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  And he is the temple and the light in that place.
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  And there's no more disease and no more tears, friends.
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  And we look forward to that day. And these demons know that their
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  time is short. 35 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold your
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  peace and come out of him. He has all authority.
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  Friends, in the name of Jesus, the darkness must flee, and when
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  the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him and
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  hurt him not. Praise the Lord God Almighty
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  with Jesus. It's easy in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. The darkness.
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  Flees 36 and they were. All.
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  Amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, What a word
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  is this? For with authority and power he
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  commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.
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  So you can see. Here that Jesus has all
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  authority over all of the spiritual realm.
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  He is our great High Priest and we would do well to call upon
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  that name to get connected to the vine friends, and to not
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  fear and to not operate with the spirit of fear, but know that in
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  Jesus and through Jesus we are more than conquerors. 37 And the
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  fame of him went out into every place of the country round and
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  about. So you can see that Jesus's main
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  ministry is to preach the good news of the acceptable year.
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  It's not necessarily to be a showman.
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  He wasn't necessarily there to try and prove that he was who he
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  is. He came there to let them know
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  that they were in air and they desperately needed a savior.
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  And He did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. 38
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  and he. Arose out of the synagogue and
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  entered into Simon's house, and Simon's wife's mother was taken
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  with a great fever, and they besought him for her.
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  So here we can. See that Jesus heals Peter's
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  wife's mother and many others. You can see here that this woman
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  was plagued with something that Jesus saw was not fitting it.
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  Was not just a. Natural fever.
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  It was not just a natural sickness that this was something
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  that Jesus identified needed to come out of her.
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  And we would do well to know that some of the sicknesses that
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  we encounter are not just a natural kind of sickness that
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  there is a demonic presence in that sickness.
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  And that is not a very popular thought, friends, but mental
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  illness and sicknesses and even paralyzing sicknesses.
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  Are. Sometimes able to be rebuked in
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  the name of Jesus. It's not always a natural.
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  And we have discounted this supernatural realm and we like
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  the easy and we just want to medicate it, and we just want it
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  to be fixed in the natural. And we would do well to remember
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  that Jesus rebukes it and it leaves and she's immediately
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  strengthened. And it is a miracle from God. 39
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  and he. Stood over her and rebuked the
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  fever, and it left her, and immediately she arose and
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  ministered unto them. 40 Now when the sun was setting, all
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  they that had any sick with diverse diseases brought them
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  unto him. And he laid his hands on every
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  one of them, and healed them, every one of them.
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  It's easy for Jesus. He was never stumped, friends.
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  And some things only go out by prayer and fasting.
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  Just remember that. Friends. 41 and the.
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  Devils also came out of many crying and saying you are
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  Christ, the Son of God, and he rebuked them, suffered them not
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  to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ, He's the
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  anointed, He's the long-awaited Messiah, He is the only begotten
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  Son of God. And the demons.
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  Recognized it and he told them to be quiet.
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  It was not yet time for him to go to the cross and to be
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  revealed as the Saviour of the world. 42.
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  And when it was day, he departed, and went into a desert
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  place, and the people saw him, and came unto him, and say and
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  state him that he should not depart from them.
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  They just wanted to keep him around them.
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  And what does he say? 43 And he said unto them, I must
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  preach the Kingdom of God to other cities also, for therefore
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  I am sent. He says This is why I'm sent to
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  go and to preach to the other cities.
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  What is he preaching? He's preaching the Kingdom of
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  God and how many times does he say the Kingdom of God is like?
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  And he teaches us what it is that we are to look forward to.
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  He teaches us what it is we are to be on guard about here in the
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  now. And just remember that we are
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  pilgrims that are passing through a strange land.
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  And look around, friends. Don't be surprised when you feel
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  like you're out of step with the world.
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  Don't be surprised when you're misunderstood.
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  Don't be surprised. When you're even subtly
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  persecuted for your faith and laughed at and jeered because of
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  what you believe. This world has been.
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  Sold a lie. This world has been deluged and
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  they are delusional because they refuse to love the truth and
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  they delighted in evil. 44 and he.
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  Preached in the synagogues of Galilee.
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  So he left his own. Hometown and he goes and rebukes
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  all of the unclean spirits. What an amazing account given by
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  someone who took up a time to go and search out all the facts
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  this Luke and how he is able to go and give eyewitness accounts.
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  He's able to Fact Check everything before he even
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  started to write to Theophilus. And this is how we know that
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  it's trustworthy and it's true and we can bank on it and we can
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  build our life upon it. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  chapter here and Luke. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you and. We'll see.
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  You back here tomorrow? God bless you.