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John chapter 2. Let us pray.
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O Heavenly Father, your good Father.
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Lord, we love you. We love you, Jesus, for all the
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many blessings that you've already bestowed upon us.
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Lord, we get out of our own way. Lord, we lay prostate at your
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feet. Lord, we are asking for a touch.
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Father, we are asking that you will heal us in the name of
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Jesus. Lord, I pray that you will help
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us today as we go about our day. Lord, I pray that as we
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acknowledge you today, Father, you will direct our steps.
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Lord, I pray that we can hear you, we can hear that still
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small voice. God, nudge us into greatness.
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Father, help us to know what to do and when to do it and how to
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do it. God, we put our hand to the
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plow. Lord, we lock eyes with you.
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Father, I pray against distractions in the name of
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Jesus. Lord, I pray that we will not be
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disturbed. In the name of Jesus, I pray
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that we will be resolute, Father, that we will be
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steadfast in our obedience, God. And I pray that you increase our
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love for you, increase our love for our neighbor.
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God, I pray that you'll help us to finish this race well.
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Help us God, to be your hands and feet.
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Help us, Lord, to have compassion for the masses.
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God, I pray for every nation, every people group, every
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tongue, God, every language. God, I pray that the good news
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goes out to all people. Lord, I pray that you will help
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us to make the decision, God, to follow you each and every day
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for every moment. Completely sold out.
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God to the King of kings and the servant of servants.
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Lord, we love, King Jesus, you are our everything.
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We hang on your every word. We study your movements.
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Lord, we want to mirror our lives after your ministry.
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And so Jesus Christ, you're the cornerstone.
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Jesus Christ, you are the firm foundation.
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Jesus Christ, you are the rock that we are built upon.
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Lord, let us produce fruit today that is in accordance to your
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Holy Scriptures. Lord, let us have peace and
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patience and love God for our neighbors.
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Lord, I pray that you'll help us.
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God, help us today. Help us to understand these
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scriptures. Help us to understand these
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words. Lord, heal our broken bodies,
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heal broken marriages. God, bring the prodigals home.
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Father, in the name of Jesus, help us, Lord, to know how to
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steward the resources that you have entrusted to us.
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God, let us be faithful with the little Lord.
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And Lord, I pray that you'll increase the dominion that you
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have given us. God, I pray that we'll be good
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stewards of all the many blessings that you give us.
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And Lord, I pray that we can hear you, Lord, and that we know
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what to do. And God, let us obey these
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scriptures today. And Jesus Christ, holy and
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precious name, I pray, Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and
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the mother of Jesus was there. So here we go.
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The third day, perhaps this was a couple days after the calling
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of his disciples. He had a small band of them at
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this time. It was not the complete 12 yet.
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And here this is Jesus's very first public miracle, friends,
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and we know that Mary is there with him, his mother.
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Let's see how this goes. Verse 2 and both Jesus was
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called and his disciples to the marriage.
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So we know that Jesus loved people and he loved them well.
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And we see that even though he had all the hardships that he
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knew he was to endure, he was able to go into enjoy this
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wedding. And what a vision for us.
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What a call for us. Friends, in the midst of all of
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the chaos and the turmoil, we can have peace.
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Friends, I pray that your relationship with God through
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His Son Jesus Christ brings you the peace.
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This surpasses all understanding.
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In the midst of all of the turmoil, in the tumult that is
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raging all around us, all the birth pains and contractions,
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Friends, we can rest and we can have peace in the midst of it.
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We're in the eye of the storm. When we are connected to the
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vine, we can have that peace. Friends, take that peace today.
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Verse 3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus said
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unto him, they have no wine. This is actual wine friends,
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this is not grape juice. This is wine that has been
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diluted though, So what a a balance that we must see.
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We cannot be steeped in alcoholism and be drunk friends,
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what a sin that is. But we can also not err in the
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traditionalism of the fundamentals who think that this
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is just grape juice. This is wine friends.
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Verse 4 Jesus said unto her, woman, what have I to do with
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you? My hour is not yet come.
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So verse 4, Jesus knows that his mother here and his relationship
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is about to change. He's not calling her a
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derogatory term by saying woman, but he's also not referring to
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her as mother. So you could see it is in this
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moment that the relationship with his maternal mother changes
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and he sees that he must go to the Father and he can only do
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what the Father instructs him to do in this moment.
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And Mary has seen all of the things that have precluded this
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moment where Jesus has been baptized by John the Baptist.
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Mary knows that he's starting to get his disciples together.
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She's treasured all these things up in her heart.
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And here she is telling him that whatever the Father tells him to
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do, that is what he needs to do. So Jesus here is wrestling, and
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Jesus here is about to obey his mother, and at the same time he
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must only do what his father tells him to do.
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Let's see how the story goes. Five, His mother said unto the
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servants, whatsoever he says unto you, do it.
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So she's not demanding a miracle.
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His mother here is not trying to manipulate the situation, she is
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giving it into Jesus's hands. And we would do well, friends,
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to model this behavior. We take everything, all of our
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issues, all of our grievances, all of the perceived lack that
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is in our house, and we take it to Jesus and we completely give
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it over to Him. We lay it at His feet and we
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refuse to pick it up. And whatever His decision is
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that is based upon the communion that He has with the Father is
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the best decision. And that is where Mary is at.
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She looks to the servants and says whatever He says, do it.
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And she raised this child from birth, a Immaculate Conception,
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this virgin birth. She has raised this child who
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she has she has been perplexed by in the sense that she's
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treasured all of the prophecies about him in her heart.
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And now she knows that he is capable.
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She knows that he can do anything and there is faith
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involved and she must get to the place where she no longer sees
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him as her child and she sees him as Lord.
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Can you say that about Jesus? He's not just your friend,
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buddy. He's not just your pal guy.
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He is Lord, He is Adonai, He is our El Shaddai, He is all
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powerful, He is all encapsulating.
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It is by the breath of His mouth that everything is created and
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sustained. He is our everything.
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And this is where Mary, His maternal mother, must get to.
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Whatever He says, you do it. 6 And there were set there 6 water
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pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews,
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containing 2 or 3 firkins apiece, 20 or 30 gallons apiece.
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Perhaps these water jars were of different variants of height and
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size, but we know that they were between 20 to 30 gallons.
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And let's see what Jesus says. 7 Jesus says unto them, Fill the
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water pots with water, and they filled them up to the brim.
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That is what we must do. We cannot just be filled halfway
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with the Holy Spirit. We cannot just be filled a
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little with the Holy Spirit. We must be filled to the brim,
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friends, overflowing, friends, as we move and as we have our
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being and as we are in this world, we're overflowing because
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we are filled to the brim. Let your spirit spill out into
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the streets, friends, and let others get a taste and see that
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the Lord is good. Let's see what happens here as
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the servants are getting the blessing of being part of
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Jesus's very first miracle, and that is part of God's plan.
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Look at how many times throughout the Bible it is while
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men were working that God placed His calling upon them.
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Look at how these servants were there to serve and they got to
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partake in Jesus's very first miracle.
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It's no different. We cannot just sit on the
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sidelines as bystanders, just as observers, casually engaged.
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We must get in the game. We must put our hand to the
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plow. We must be found serving him.
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We are just but unprofitable servants, friends.
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We're bondservants. We are yoked with him, and we
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can only do what He empowers us to do in the supernatural.
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A and he said unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the
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governor of the feast, And they bore it. 9 And when the ruler of
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the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not
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where it was from, but the servants which drew the water,
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new, the governor of the feast called the bridegroom. 10 And he
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said unto him, Every man at the beginning does set forth good
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wine, and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse,
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But you have kept the good wine until now.
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You can see in the natural this would be with this would have
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been and made the most amount of sense that people in the
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beginning would have been more scrupulous in their tasting.
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But as time went on, and as they were more in bibayed and as they
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were more relaxed, worse quality could be brought out without
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being suspected, without being known, without being detected by
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the guests. And here you can see how the
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enemy works, friends. He promises us the best upfront,
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but as time goes on, we only get the death sentence that he can
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only deliver. He is to steal, kill and
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destroy. And we see that in the beginning
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it looks ripe and it looks sweet.
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And here we're going to see how this ends. 11 This beginning of
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miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth his
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glory, and his disciples believed on him.
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They attached themselves to him. We could see that the way of the
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Lord here is that we must have the lesser quality now because
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we only get to taste in heaven in part now.
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But when we get to heaven, we're going to get the good wine.
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We're going to get the best wine.
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We're going to get to drink from the fruit of the vine at the
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marriage supper with the lamb, friends.
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And it is going to far surpass any of the joy, any of our
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happiness. Anything that we could ever
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taste here on this earth is just microscopic in comparison to the
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fullness that we will one day enjoy with our Bridegroom.
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I pray that you are adorning yourself and getting ready.
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Make yourself ready. Look up and see that your
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redemption is drawing near. You can see that it is on the
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cusp, friends, and we are closer today than we were yesterday.
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I hope that you are looking forward to drinking of the fruit
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of the vine with our bridegroom, with the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And you can see here that his disciples believed on him.
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This was not a casual believing. This was not just them being
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spectacularly amazed. This is them attaching and
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becoming one with Him. And you can see as time goes on
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they say, where else would we go?
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And that is started here in this first miracle.
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They knew that Jesus was not just a rogue St. preacher, but
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he was authentically the Son of God, the long-awaited Messiah.
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12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and
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his brothers and his disciples, and they continued there not
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many days. So we can see here this marriage
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at Cana, the first miracle of Jesus.
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He still is halfway attached to his family and then he is
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starting his earthly ministry that's going to last for three
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years. And he was on a divine timeline,
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friends. He knew that all of it was going
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to culminate on the Passover week of the 3rd year where he
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would be offered up as the spotless lamb to take away the
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sin of the whole world. Friends, He knew it.
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And here, this is when that divine timeline started.
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Perhaps Joseph, his stepfather, perhaps he was out of the
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picture. A lot of scholars believed that
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he had died, that Jesus had to take up as the oldest son.
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He had to take up the responsibility of providing for
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for his mother and for his siblings.
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And here you can see that they're all mentioned, the
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mother and the brothers. And then you can see the slow
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increase of Jesus pulling away and the relationship changing,
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and you can see him amassing his disciples to himself. 13 And the
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Jews, Passover was at hand and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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So John here, he's mentioned the Jews a couple time, but John
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himself was a Jew. And so you can see that his
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audience here as he's writing this gospel would have been for
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those that weren't primarily familiar with the customs of the
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Jews. So here again he was talking
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about the purification water pots.
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And then here again he's talking about the Passover.
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And so Jesus is going up to Jerusalem.
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This was when he went in for his Passion week.
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It was not the first time that he had entered into Jerusalem.
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And we can see here in John's gospel at the very beginning of
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his ministry. And then we know through the
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other gospels, at the very end of his ministry, Jesus went in
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and purified the temple and flipped over the tables and
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drove out the money changers. Friends, and that's what we must
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do is we consecrate the temple. Do you not know that you are the
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temple of the Lord? Friends, those of us who have
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been indwelled with the Holy Spirit, who have had our baptism
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by fire, do you not realize that you are the temple of God?
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And He desires to drive out all of the things that do not
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belong? And you can see it was on His
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mind at the beginning of His ministry, and it was on His mind
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at the end of the ministry. And it would seem as if the
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moment that Jesus left the scene, they went right back to
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business as usual. They were awaiting for a
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Messiah. They had the Messiah, especially
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during the Passover. They had their long-awaited
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Messiah on their mind, the one that they thought was coming in
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to overthrow the Roman rule. And hear Jesus.
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After he cleanses the temple, he goes back out and lives a normal
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life as a wanderer. Who is?
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Misunderstood at best. And they were wanting a king to
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come in. They were wanting to even make
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him king, and Jesus would not allow it.
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And he went out into the wilderness and he went out to
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camp and he went from town to town, and it was nothing like
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what they wanted or expected. Let's see how this beginning of
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Jesus's ministry is going to turn out. 14 And found in the
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temple those that sold ox and sheep and doves and money
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changers sitting. 15 And when he had made a scourge of small
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cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and
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the ox, and poured out the changers money and overthrew the
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tables. He has all authority.
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Friends. Jesus has every single right to
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go in to the temple and drive out anything that is impure and
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unclean and that is no different for us today.
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Give him full access to your database and all your files.
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Give him full access. Give him your passkey.
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Give him your code. Give Him all authority over your
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very breath and life and mind friends, and watch how He
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cleanses it and watch how He comes in and how He gives you
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peace that surpasses all understanding and understanding
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friends, that is greater than anything you could ever desire.
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He's going to allow you to have the mind of Christ as you
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operate in this world. You'll see the whole world
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through the lens of how Jesus does.
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Your worldview will be His view on how things are going all over
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the globe and you will not be blown by every wind and tossed
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by every wave. You will be resolute in your
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steadfast obedience to Jesus Christ when you allow Him to
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have full access to the temple. Friends, consecrate it and get
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rid of anything that is not of Him.
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Confess all the times that you've got it wrong.
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Repent and turn back. Allow him in.
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Allow him to take up residence. Do not just compartmentalize
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your spirituality with Jesus Christ.
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Do not just compartmentalize the access that you give to him.
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Give him full access and watch how He drives out every impure
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and unclean spirit and thing and thought and emotion that you
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have allowed in all of the lies of the enemy.
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How the Adversary is the accuser of the Brethren, and how he
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consistently bombards us with lies.
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And he is the Father of lies. And his whole goal is to steal,
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kill and destroy. And if we give him an inch, if
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we even crack the door, he's coming all the way in.
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And we must drive that out by allowing Jesus to take up full
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residence. We cannot just have Jesus in
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part. We must have him in the full if
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we're going to take advantage of the abundant life that He has
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promised us. And get rid of the depression
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and get rid of the anxiety. Get rid of the suicidal spirit.
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Get rid of the asphyxiating spirit that tries to choke us
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out of the fruitfulness that God has for us.
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Friends, we must do things the way that He desires.
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We must be connected to Him. We must be connected to the vine
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and bear much fruit. Friends, that is the whole point
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of the whole passage is to allow Jesus in and do not allow the
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money changers to set up shop on your heart and your mind.
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We've got to supersede and get outside of the greed and get
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outside of the almighty dollar and we must allow Jesus Christ
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to have full residence and be almighty God over our lives.
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And Jesus never made it about money in His ministry.
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He never made it about that. He knows that we need it, but we
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must rely on Him daily for Our Daily Bread.
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Give us today Our Daily Bread. Jesus 16 and said unto them that
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so doves, take these things from here.
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Do not make my Father's house a House of merchandise.
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And that is what he tells you, and that's what he tells me.
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Your life is way more than the money that you have.
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Your life is way more than how much money you can make.
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Your life is way more than what your bank account says.
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You could be in the negative, but you are going to bust heaven
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wide open, and your inheritance is way far more superior than
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anything that this life could ever offer you.
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We must get connected to Him and see this world the way that He
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does, see our finances the way that He does.
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Friends. 17 And his disciples remembered that it was written,
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The zeal of your house has eaten me up.
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Has the zeal of God's house eaten you up?
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Friends, I pray that it has. I pray that the zeal of the
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Father's house has consumed you. It has eaten you up.
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I pray that you were wrecked by His presence.
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I pray that you are undone and you will never be the same.
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Those of us who have completely sold out our entire lives to the
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King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and we're not playing
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games that this is the reality and we have stepped in to the
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fullness of what God has for us, trusting Him for our very next
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breath. Then the zeal will eat you up.
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You could never be the same, you could never go back to your
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vomit. Friends 18 Then answered the
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Jews, and said unto him, What sign do you show us, seeing that
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you do these things? So as Jesus is going in and
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flipping over the money changers, and as Jesus is going
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in and making a scourge of cords and driving them out, they are
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sitting on the sidelines and they are wanting to know by what
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authority do you come in here and drive us out?
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And they knew that he had done nothing illegal in the sense
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because it was greed that had eaten them up.
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And what was supposed to be a convenience had a steep
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convenience fee attached to it as the people came in to make
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their sacrifices, instead of having to bring the animal from
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wherever they were from, they could just come into the court
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of the Gentiles where they were supposed to be.
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The teaching and the prayer for those to come in and learn about
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Jehovah, to learn about Yahweh. And instead they had turned it
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into some kind of merchandise shop.
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And so here they are. They know that they are in the
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wrong. And so they don't even try to
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push back against what Jesus has done.
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They just want to know by what authority does he think this
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rogue St. Preacher, this carpenter's son,
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this son of Joseph from Nazareth, where do you think you
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get your authority? And what they wanted to hear is
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Him pronouncing that moment, I am the Messiah.
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But instead, what does He do? He gives them a paradoxical
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response that hides His deity from them but reveals it to
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those who will earnestly seek it.
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And it is no different. That is the reason that He uses
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the term Son of Man so much. It was something that would not
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necessarily give Him away to those who were not actually
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seeking, and that is no different for us today.
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Jesus does not want false allegiance.
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He could in a moment's notice, instantaneously 8 billion souls
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fall down and worship Him. He can raise up sons to Abraham
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from the stones. He can make the rocks cry out
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friends, in a moment. But He doesn't.
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And what a thought. Why would He not?
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Doesn't He want us to have eternal life with Him?
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Doesn't He want them to place their full faith and trust in
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Him? But the reality is that Jesus
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Christ does not want false allegiance and love to Him.
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He is a wonderful bridegroom who never forces Himself on us.
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And here you can see that these men did not truly want to know
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if He was the Messiah. They wanted to keep their little
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merchandise scandal scam going on their little Ponzi scheme.
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They wanted to keep it going. And they were in love with evil
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more than they loved the truth, because the truth was in their
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midst, and they refused to see it. 19 Jesus answered and said
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unto them, Destroyed this temple, and in three days I will
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raise it up. So they wanted a sign And we
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know that he talks about the sign of Jonah being three days
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in the belly of the whale and being resurrected on the third
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day. And here he tells them that if
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they destroy the temple, which he's saying that he is far
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superior to any man made material temple, that he is the
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authenticated temple and that we must come to him and he's saying
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destroy it and I'll rebuild it. But they were only thinking in
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the natural and it's no different for us today and our
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day and our our friends. There are so many people who
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refuse to see the truth because they're so wrapped up in the
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natural and they will tell you all kinds of worldly wise man
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advice and they miss it. They missed the whole point.
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To them, it's shrouded in shrewdness.
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But the reality is, we must trust God for everything,
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always. And yes, He does call us to
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steward our finances well and to trust Him in the process.
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But every single dollar, every single time that you get paid,
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you must go to the Father and ask him what it is that he wants
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you to do with it. We cannot just get steeped in
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traditionalism. We cannot get steeped in the
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fundamentals. We cannot just get steeped in
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the ceremony. We cannot just get steeped in
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legalism. We must be yoked up with Him and
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worship Him in spirit and truth, friends.
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And that's what he's going to tell the Samaritan woman, that
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no longer will they worship in the temple, but we will become
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the temple friends, and we must worship Him in spirited truth.
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And every single time that we have any increase, we must take
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it to the Father, the first fruits to the Father, and ask
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him what it is that he wants us to do with it.
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And that is what pleases him. 20 then said to Jews, 46 years was
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this temple in building and will you rear it up in three days?
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He said it took us 46 years to complete this second temple.
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Do you think that you could build it in three days?
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And look at how they missed it. And it's no different, friends,
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when we're reading scripture and we're only thinking of it from
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the natural, and we're trusting our emotions and we're trusting
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what the circumstances around whatever issue plagues you, you
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must get outside of that and realize that God can do
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anything. He is not limited.
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He is not limited. He can do anything, friends. 21
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But he spoke of the temple of his body.
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So the gospel writer John, he wanted us to know not to just
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close the book after reading it and reading that last passage,
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but he wanted us to know the truth.
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And isn't it just like God? God is so gracious to reveal to
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us His inner motives and how He truly thinks about all of the
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natural, all of the things all around us.
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Friends, He was Speaking of His body. 22 When therefore He was
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risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that he had
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said this unto them, and they believed the Scripture and the
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Word which Jesus had said. Look at how it took after Jesus
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was brutally murdered and after Jesus was resurrected and
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ascended that they remembered this moment.
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And it meant much more to them after that.
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And perhaps it was after Pentecost when they had received
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the Holy Spirit and they had received the understanding that
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you and I are Privy to, that we actually have the indwelling
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helper, the Advocate, who comes and gives us discernment.
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Friends, I pray that you increase that discernment today.
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I pray that you don't sear your conscience today.
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I pray that you don't grieve the Spirit today.
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I pray that you tap into that power source and allow Him to
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guide you. Walk in the Spirit, friends, and
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don't satisfy the lust of the flesh.
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Just remember that the pride of life, the lust of the eyes, and
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the lust of the flesh are not from God.
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We must walk in the Spirit, friends.
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We must walk in the light, walk in truth, and watch how God, God
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is leading us home from glory to glory.
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Hallelujah, Amen. 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the
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Passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name when they
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saw the miracles which He did. So we know that the book of
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John, the Gospel of John, is going to record 7 miracles for
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us. And here he's referencing them.
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And you can see here that it was in Jerusalem that the people
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were believing on him because they were seeing these miracles.
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And you can see that Jesus was not impressed. 24 But Jesus did
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not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men.
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He knows the inner motives. And again, he's not looking for
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the false allegiance. He wants true, sold out, born
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again, blood bought believers who love him and who trust him
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and who hear him, His sheep hear his voice.
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He's not looking just for the pseudo believers who only follow
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him for the miracles. They only follow him to get
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their bellies full. They only follow him because of
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the power that's connected to him.
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And that is the wrong approach, friends.
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And there are many like that today who are only propagating
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Jesus for prophet. He's not impressed. 25 and
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needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what
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was in man. There is nothing good in US, no,
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not one thing, friends, all of our righteousnesses, but filthy
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rags. And we must come to Him and know
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that we are in desperate need, that we are sinners, and that we
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are in desperate need of salvation.
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And we cannot save ourselves and we cannot behave our way into
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heaven. We need to be covered in the
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blood of Jesus Christ, Friends. That is the only way that we're
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going to get there. And we must be filled with the
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Holy Spirit. Friends, hope you've been
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blessed by this amazing chapter here in the Word of God.
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Hope that you meditate upon it. There's a lot here.
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There's a lot to be said here, but Jesus shows us his love.
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He shows us that he is all powerful.
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What an amazing savior that we have.
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I'm praying for you. I love you, so does God.
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I'll see you back here tomorrow. God bless you.