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Matthew chapter 13 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 13. Let us pray.
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  Lord our God, we thank you. Father, we thank you for another
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  day. We thank you that you have given
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  us great gifts this morning. Lord, you've given us breath.
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  You've given us family. Lord, you have given us purpose.
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  And so, God, we tap into that. Lord, we tap into the power
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  source. And Lord, we are asking for a
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  divine touch today. Father, we are asking that you
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  will come and reveal eternal truths to us today.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will continue to
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  push us into greatness. Father, bring about the storms
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  of perfection. God and I pray that as we are
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  placed in the refiners fire, God, that we come out looking
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  more like Christ each and every day.
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  God, sanctify us. Lord, I pray for a consecration.
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  God, I pray that we flip over the tables.
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  God, drive out the money changers.
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  God, upon our hearts and our minds.
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  Lord, I pray that we will elevate Jesus truth above our
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  emotions. We will elevate the gospel of
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  Jesus Christ over our own feelings.
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  Lord, I pray that we will put every circumstance under they
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  heal. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  against any distractions. I pray in the name of Jesus
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  against any demonic attacks. God, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, that you, Father, will completely circle us and hedge
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  us about. Father, I pray that you will
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  protect us. Lord, I pray that you will give
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  us strength for the battle, Father, as we put on the full
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  armor. God, I pray that you will help
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  us to tell the truth and to live the right way.
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  I pray that we'll run the race, Lord, and have peace.
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  God, I pray that we will be pushers of the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ to every person that we meet.
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  Lord, I pray that you will remind us of our salvation
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  story. I pray that you will remind us,
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  God, of all the things that you have done.
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  And Lord, I pray for a renewing of the mind today.
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  Lord, I pray that we will tell our testimony to everyone that
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  we meet. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, you help us to lift up the shield of faith today.
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  I pray that we raise our level of faith up over our
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  circumstances. I pray that you will help us to
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  raise our level of faith up over all of our emotions.
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  I pray that you will help us to raise our level of faith up over
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  the reality all around us, God, the physical reality that we
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  believe is higher than your word, Lord.
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  And so I just pray right now that you give us supernatural
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  faith to look into, peek into, peer into the reality of the
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  spiritual realm. Lord, I pray that you give us
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  the faith to believe God that you can do anything.
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  And so, Lord, I'm praying right now that you help us to do war
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  against the enemy, Lord, with the words that we hold in our
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  hands. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, that your word, Father, that became flesh, Your word,
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  Father, that was there at the beginning, Your word, Father,
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  that is you, Father, You are the word Jesus Christ.
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  And so, Lord, I just pray that as we do battle with the enemy,
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  Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ, help us.
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  Lord, make him flee at that name, the name that is above all
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  names, Jesus Christ, we bring upon our lips.
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  Lord, we confess. Lord, we repent.
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  Lord, we are asking for a cleansing.
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  God, cleanse the temple. Father, drive out anything that
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  is not pure, that is not holy, that is not righteous.
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  Father, I pray that you will help us to identify.
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  Holy Spirit, help us to identify anything within our own lives
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  that does not belong. God, you are so good.
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  You are so worthy, and you're so holy.
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  Thank you Jesus, for another day to come and worship you.
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  Thank you Jesus, for another day to come and sit at your feet and
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  to learn your ways. And God, there's so much
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  tapestry here. Lord, there's so much of your
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  story here. God, we can live 10 lifetimes
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  and never know it all. And God, we just rest in the
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  finished work of Jesus Christ today.
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  Thank you for that. Thank you for salvation.
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  Thank you for saving us to the utmost.
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  Father, thank you for rescuing us from ourselves.
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  Thank you for rescuing us from bondage and slavery.
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  Thank you, Father, that you have rescued us from our sinful
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  desires and God, you have given us the mind of Christ.
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  Lord, you have forgiven us from everything that we've ever done
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  or our doing or will ever do. God, you make us appear.
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  We are holy because you are holy.
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  And it's in the mighty name of Jesus Christ that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  The same day went Jesus out of the house and sat by the
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  seaside. So you have to go back to
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  chapter 12 to figure out which same day is he talking about.
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  This was whenever his brothers and his mother were trying to
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  push in on him, trying to get him to come back to his senses.
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  They had not accurately put their faith in the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. They were still brother, they
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  were still son. They hadn't made the
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  identification of Him as the Son of God, the Incarnate.
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  And so Jesus that same day went out of the house and sat by the
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  seaside. Verse 2.
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  And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so
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  that he went into a ship and sat, and the whole multitude
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  stood on the shore. So think of the acoustics as he
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  entered into the boat. Think of Him with the backdrop
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  of the sea behind him. Think of him sitting to teach.
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  What power? What meekness did Jesus display
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  here as the crowds in the multitude stood to receive from
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  the greatest teacher of all time, the one who slung the
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  stars in the universe, the One who made the depths of the sea,
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  sat to teach. What meekness is this verse 3
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  And he spoke many things unto them in parables saying, behold,
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  A sower went forth to sow. So here comes a very famous if
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  you've been walking with the Lord for any amount of time, you
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  will understand some of these things that we're about to talk
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  about, but let's not miss it in the newness in the reality of
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  what Jesus was trying to portray to everyone.
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  Let's not just become calloused. Let's not just gloss over, let's
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  lock in. Let's let his words wash over us
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  a fresh and a new today, friends. 4 And when he sowed,
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  some seeds fell by the wayside, and the birds came and devoured
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  them up. So he's going to expound upon
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  this parable and you know, this parable was orchestrated.
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  This isn't a an allegory. OK, there is.
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  We can't just read into it. What Jesus was doing is the same
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  thing he does with you today, friend.
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  He gives us very simple truths wrapped up in a mystery.
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  And what we are to do is to go in and think about what Jesus is
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  saying. And it's hidden from those who
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  have hardened their hearts. It's hidden from those who have
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  made a love decision for the world.
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  It's hidden from those who only think of money, who only think
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  of power and greed. And what is happening here is
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  the same thing that is happening in our day, in our age.
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  Jesus is still speaking. He's speaking through His word.
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  If you will accept it, if you will clear out all of your
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  presuppositions, if you will clear out all of your
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  prejudiceness, if you will clear out your hardened hearts, then
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  it will fall upon the soft soil and you will be able to receive
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  it. And that is what He is talking
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  about here. Let's keep going. 5 Some fell
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  upon Stony places where they had not much earth, and forthwith
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  they sprung up because they had no deepness of earth.
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  So again, Jesus is going to expound upon these things for
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  the disciples. They're going to come in,
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  they're going to ask him. Please tell us what this means.
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  Because they had not yet received the Holy Spirit, They
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  had not yet received the Helper, and they were trying to figure
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  out exactly who this man was. What kind of man is this, that
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  the wind and waves obey him? And they're going to find out
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  very soon. Friends, let's keep going. 6 And
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  when the sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had
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  no root, they withered away. 7 And some fell among thorns, and
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  the thorns sprung up and choked them, but other eight but other
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  fell into good ground and brought forth fruit, some a
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  hundredfold, some 60 fold, some 30 fold.
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  Nine. Who has ears to hear?
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  Let him hear. So here, 56789 here Jesus is
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  telling us not just the people there, the multitudes there of
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  that time, but Jesus is telling us to open our spiritual ears
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  up. He's saying, listen, this is how
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  the world works. This is how the gospel works.
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  This is how the Word of God works.
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  And if we were to just do some very simple mathematical
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  equations, you're going to see the broad Rd. here.
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  You're going to see the straight and narrow way.
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  You're going to see that only 25% would receive and produce
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  fruit. And then there was the 100 and
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  the 60 and the 30. So here you can see that only a
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  few find that narrow gate, only a few find this straight way.
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  And most people, even those who are quick to receive the word of
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  God, even those who sit and listen to the word of God, the
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  devil snatches it out. The devil takes God's word and
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  makes them believe that God's not good and he doesn't have
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  their best in mind. You can see them, those that
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  make the quick decision to follow after him, and because
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  there is no substance, as soon as trials and persecution comes,
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  they leave the way. They leave the straight and
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  narrow way. And then you can see those who
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  they are following after him. But the cares of this world come
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  in and choke them out. Friends, you can see it all
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  unfolding here and He's going to expound upon it because the
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  disciples were dull at this time.
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  They had not yet been refined. And He's telling us, listen up
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  in verse 910, the disciples came and said unto him, Why do you
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  speak unto them in parables? So it seems as if the disciples
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  were saying, make it plain, Lord, why are you trying to trip
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  people up with using all of this farming technology, all of this
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  farming terminology? And so you can see the disciples
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  are hungry and they want others to understand what it is that
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  he's saying. And even they themselves were
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  only catching glimpses and pieces of the Lord's parables.
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  11 And he, he answered and said unto them, Because it is given
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  unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven, but to
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  them it is not given. So it's no different in our day
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  and our hour, if you are truly tapped into the power source, if
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  you truly are following after the Lord God Almighty, it's all
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  clear, it all makes sense. But there are so many people and
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  it's outlined in the other seed that has fallen on shallow soil
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  and it's falling on the ground and the birds come and pick it
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  up and it's falling amongst the tares.
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  You can see so many people that have the same word of God that
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  you do. Fruitful friend.
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  And they are not producing fruit because they're still steeped
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  and wrapped up in the world and they only like to tip their hat
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  at God. They only like to have the
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  attendance chart marked. They only like to be seen giving
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  the envelope passing through the plate.
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  They only like to be in their suit and ties in the restaurants
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  to show everybody that they're holier than thou.
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  And it's no different today than it was in his day.
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  And He's telling the true disciples of him, those that
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  will say, where else will we go? For you have the words of
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  eternal life. He's telling them that it is
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  revealed to them. And it's no different for you
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  today, friend. If you truly know God Almighty,
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  these words within Genesis all the way to Revelation, they jump
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  off the page, they jump in your heart, they make perfect sense
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  to you. And it all spells Jesus,
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  friends. From Genesis all the way to
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  Malachi points to Jesus. And then from Acts all the way
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  to Revelation they point back to Jesus.
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  It's Jesus on every page, every jot and every title.
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  It all makes sense. It's him, friends, and all of
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  it, from the sacrifices and the festivals, from all of it,
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  friends, from what we do here in the New Covenant, from the bread
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  and the wine, it all points to Jesus Christ.
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  And he's saying that we will know the mysteries of the
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  Kingdom of heaven. Praise God 12 For whosoever has
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  to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance, but
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  whosoever has not from him shall be taken away even that he has.
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  So here is a principle. It's a biblical principle in
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  verse 12 that you can see that whenever you are hungry for the
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  Word of God, when you are striving after the Word of God,
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  when you're a student of the Word of God, God gives you more
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  and more and more to munch on friends and He can satisfy you
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  and leave you longing for more. But for those who do not care
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  and they just want to do their little devotional at the
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  beginning of the day, they just want to do their church
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  attendance at one time a week, then they what they do have will
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  be taken from them. And you can see that when they
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  get tripped up in their theology and they start believing all the
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  lies of the enemy because they're not truly striving after
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  God Almighty. They only like to look the part
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  13 therefore speak I to them in parables, because they sing not,
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  and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
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  They were there to see a miracle worker.
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  They were there for the healings.
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  They were there to be fed the physical food.
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  They were not there for the bread of life in the living
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  water. They were only there because
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  they were on the hype train. And there's still a lot of
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  people like that today. The people crying out Hosanna
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  didn't even know why they were crying out Hosanna. 14 And in
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  them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which said, By
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  hearing you shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing you
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  shall see and shall not perceive.
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  So Isaiah prophesied that Jesus would come and the people would
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  hear his voice, but they wouldn't actually hear his
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  heart. People would see him, but they
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  wouldn't actually see the Son of God. 15 For this people's heart
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  has wax gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their
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  eyes they have closed, lest at any time they should see with
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  their eyes and hear with their ears, should understand with
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  their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal
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  them. 14 And 15 Really this whole chapter, friends, is
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  profound. Jesus is showing us, He's
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  showing the disciples, then he's showing the history of 2000
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  years of scholars who have gone in and studied these words.
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  He's showing us, he's showing the world that he has the power
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  to convert the entire world at a moment's notice.
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  And we must keep it in mind that every knee will bow and every
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  tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.
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  And that is every single person who has ever been born is here
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  today and or will ever be born. It's every man and woman and
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  child will bow and confess Jesus as Lord, and he's showing them
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  here that it is an intentional mystery and he does not want
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  false allegiance. Friends, he does not want false
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  worship. Friends, he does not want us to
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  choose him because we have to. He does not want us to just
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  follow blindly after him. He wants us to make a love
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  decision for him, Friends. And I remember the time when I
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  made that love decision. It was after reading this very
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  book that we're in, in Matthew. And we got to the crucifixion
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  scene. And I'm sitting there and I'm
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  thinking through why Jesus gave up the ghost.
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  Why did he lay down his life? And it was for me and it was for
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  you. And when I realized this.
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  I made the love decision that no matter what came my way, I would
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  finish this race well. And I pray that you have made
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  that love decision, that this word that you hold in your hand
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  is infallible and inerrant. I pray that you've made the love
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  decision that Jesus is Lord. I pray that you have made the
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  love decision that you could never save yourself.
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  I pray that you have made the love decision that you could
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  never behave your way into heaven.
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  I pray that you've made the love decision that there's only two
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  destinations, there's heaven and hell.
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  And I pray that you've made the love decision for Jesus Christ
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  as your Lord and Messiah and King and Friend because he loves
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  you and he is good. And He shows us here in these
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  verses that it is a intentional mystery because He does not want
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  us to just choose Him because we see Him as the Son of God, but
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  we choose Him because we see Him as our Savior.
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  We choose Him because we see Him as our Lord, and that He loves
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  us. 16 But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for
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  they hear. For you cannot even come unto
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  the Father unless the Spirit of God draws you unto Himself.
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  And then we have to have enough strength to acknowledge that He
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  is God, and He gives us that strength.
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  But so many people will continuously stiff arm, and they
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  are blaspheming the Holy Spirit, because they will not accept
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  Jesus Christ and the goodness and the love that he has for
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  them. 17 For truly I say unto you, that many prophets and
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  righteous men have desired to see those things which you see
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  and have not seen them, and to hear those things which you hear
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  and have not heard them. So all the prophets of old long
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  to see this day. They long to see the new
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  Covenant. They caught glimpses of it, they
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  caught visions of it, they saw it and they longed to see it and
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  they wanted to see it in their lifetime.
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  And they died hide and Jesus had not come.
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  And you can see Anna, and you can see how she was so excited
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  to see the little baby. And you can see how so many
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  people were excited because they knew that all the prophecies
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  were being fulfilled. And here the disciples were
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  still kicking the tires. They were still trying to figure
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  out if Jesus was who He said He was, if Jesus was the Messiah.
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  And even the Pharisees and the Sadducees, they were trying to
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  figure out when the Messiah would come.
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  And you can see it here. You can see how Jesus is
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  announcing that He is here. Someone greater than the temple
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  is there in their midst. And many people missed it
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  because they were just after the gifts of Him.
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  They were not after Him and Him alone.
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  And I pray that He is enough for you, that it is not about the
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  rewards, that it is not about heaven.
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  It is not about seeing your loved ones again.
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  It's all about Him and him alone.
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  Friends 18 hear you, therefore the parable of the sower.
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  When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and understands it
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  not, then comes the wicked 1 And catches away that which was sown
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  in his heart. This is he which receives seed
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  by the wayside. So here he's telling them that
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  the seed that was thrown on the ground, the birds came and ate
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  it up. And he's telling us that the
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  birds are the devil, the birds are Satan, and he's snatching
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  the word that would go down into the soil to produce fruit.
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  The Satan, our enemy, the deceiver, the accuser of the
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  brethren, comes in and sows lies into our mind and hearts, and
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  tells us that God is not who he says he is, that God can't do
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  the things that he said he will, that God is not real.
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  And he steals all of the word out of the unbeliever's heart
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  when it enters in. 20 But he that receives the seed into
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  Stony places, the same as he that hears the word and receives
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  it with joy, 21 Yet has he no root in himself?
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  But he enduresed for a while. But when tribulation or
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  persecution arises because of the Word, by and by he is
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  offended. How many people are offended by
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  God's Word? And I want you to know that the
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  Word of God is an offense. We do not need to worry about
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  offending people. And here you can see it,
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  friends, that whenever the pressures of this world come,
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  when persecution and tribulation come, people who have no
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  substance, they have no grounding, they have no deepness
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  with God, they fall away because they cannot handle all the
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  pressures that come. And you can see what Jesus is
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  talking about here. Make it plain. 30 or 22.
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  He also that received seed among the thorns is he that hears the
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  word and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches.
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  Choke the word and He becomes unfruitful.
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  I would say by and large, the vast majority of people are the
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  ones caught up in this third seed.
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  Friends, you can see so many people start out the right way
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  and then they mix a little bit of the world in with their faith
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  and then eventually they are trying to masquerade as people
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  of light. But in reality, deep down they
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  don't actually believe in God anymore.
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  They're just using God to get their way.
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  They're just using God to get people to win people over.
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  And then they actually are more in love with this world and the
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  worldliness than they are with following after God.
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  And if God was to say, lay it all down, they could not and
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  they would not. They would turn their backs on
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  God because they love the world and the lust of the eyes and the
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  pride of life more than they love following after the King of
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  kings. And it is despicable, friends,
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  and it is unfruitful, friends. 23 But he that receives seed
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  into the good ground is he that hears the word and understands
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  it, which also bears fruit, and brings forth a hundredfold. 60
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  And some 30 This is a tree that has fruit on it.
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  This is the harvest and this is the Grove full of fruit.
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  You can see ministries where they were started and it wasn't
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  long that there was so much deceitfulness that was found out
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  and it shut down. This right here, this fourth
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  seed are the ministries that get started and they end well.
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  They run the race well. They counted the cost and they
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  had the blessings from God to be able to continue running the
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  race. They did not compromise in the
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  little things. They did not do things to be
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  seen. They did not do things for the
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  tax exempt write off status. They did not do things because
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  it financially benefited themselves.
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  They did it because they truly believed in God.
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  They truly believed that there was something more to this life
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  than just getting rich and living in pleasure.
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  They truly believed the words that they read and they did not
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  seek to be known. They did not seek to have books
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  written about them. They did it because they truly
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  believed in God, and God rewards and has rewarded those men and
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  women of faith that were not self seeking, but they truly
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  loved him and believed every word.
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  That is the seed that produces much fruit. 24 Another parable
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  he put forth unto unto them, saying, the Kingdom of heaven is
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  likened unto a man which sows good seed in his field. 25 But
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  while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat,
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  and went his way. We could keep reading, but let's
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  camp out here for just a second. What is Jesus saying the Kingdom
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  of heaven is like? He's saying here that it is like
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  a man that sows good seed in his field.
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  So God sowed the church into the world, but then the devil while
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  the the people of God were sleeping, which is a wake up
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  call to us. Wake up, O sleeper, let's make
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  sure we put our hand to the plow and not look back.
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  Do not fall asleep, friends. Do not let the enemy have any
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  foothold, and do not compromise even in the little things.
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  O sleeper, do not be like the unwise virgins.
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  Keep your Wicks trim, keep your lamps full.
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  Fill it with the oil of the Holy Spirit.
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  That is the difference here. And these men were asleep
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  because they were so worried about the world.
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  They were so caught up in the world.
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  And you're going to see what happens.
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  While they were sleeping, Satan came and he sowed tares among
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  the wheat and went his way. So you can see that the tares
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  were the false believers. These were the ones that crept
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  in unawares. These were the ones who
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  intermingled themselves within the church.
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  They were not actually true believers and they were not
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  actually found out until it was too late.
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  But when the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit, then
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  appeared the tares also. So here you can see how the
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  church is growing, and within the church you see all these
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  different sects come up. You can see the Jehovah's
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  Witnesses, you can see the Mormons, you can see the
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  Catholicism, the Roman Catholicism.
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  You can see all of it starting to creep up within the true
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  believers of Jesus Christ. You can see the legalists and
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  the liberals coming in to the church and saying that evil is
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  good and that good is evil. You can see it right here,
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  friends. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said
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  unto him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field?
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  From whence then has it tears? So the tears in the wheat, when
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  they were springing up, they look the same.
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  But as they started to produce the head on there, then you
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  could see that it was not wheat, that it was the tears.
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  And here the angels are asking God, didn't you sow good seed
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  into the field, which is the earth?
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  And God says, Yes, I did. 28 And he said unto them, An enemy has
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  done this. The servant said unto him, Will
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  you then that we go and gather them up?
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  So the angels are asking God and saying, Do you want us to go and
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  take all the tares out? What does God say?
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  But he said no, unless while you gather up the tares, you root up
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  also the wheat with them. So you can see that God is
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  allowing all of this to happen all around us because He knows
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  that there is this end of the age that is coming.
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  And God is not worried, friends. He's not worried how it's all
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  going to go. God's not pacing about in heaven
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  trying to figure out his next move.
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  God is omnipotent and God is omniscient, and he knows that
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  it's going to bring much more fruit.
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  It's going to bring much more of a harvest for him to leave it.
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  He does not want to root up the good that is in this world,
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  friends. He lets us tarry.
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  There was a time whenever my family had all professed to be
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  believers and they were all baptized and I prayed to the
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  Lord. Lord come.
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  And then he did not, and I was disappointed.
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  And then someone that was close to us, they'd given their life
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  to him. And the Lord whispered to me and
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  he said, what if I would have came whenever you asked me to?
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  What about them? And I wept, and I said, Lord,
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  you take as long as you want. And that is this picture here.
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  30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and then the time
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  of harvest. I will say to the reapers,
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  gather you together first the tares and bind them in bundles
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  to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.
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  These are the true believers coming into heaven.
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  These are the true believers coming into the Lord's presence,
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  and this is all of the Deadwood and those that produce no fruit
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  being bound up and thrown into the fire.
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  There are only two places that when you die, there are only two
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  places you will either go to heaven or hell.
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  There is no third option. It's either eternal damnation,
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  which is separation from God. It is the torment, it is where
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  the worm never dies. And we need to make sure that we
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  live in light of eternity. We need to view every woman and
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  every man and every child in light of eternity, that they are
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  going to spend eternity forever and ever and ever and ever
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  somewhere. And there are only two options
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  here. Friends 31 Another parable he
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  put forth unto them, saying the Kingdom of heaven is like to a
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  grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.
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  So here there's so much study and so much that has been said
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  about these next parables. There's so many things that
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  people have written about when it comes to these parables, but
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  we must keep an open mind. 32 Which indeed is the least of all
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  the seeds, but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs
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  and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come to lodge
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  in the branches thereof. So the basic understanding of
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  this, it's the faith of a mustard seed.
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  It is the starting of the church which grows very large and
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  provides rest. That is the basic understanding
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  of this parable. But you can also see in this
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  parable that this seed that has grown up so large has the birds.
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  And if we liken it back to the parable of the four seeds that
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  are being sown on different soil, you can see how the birds
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  represent the enemy. And you can see how the enemy
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  has crept into the church unawares here.
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  And he's telling us to beware of that fact, and he's liking it.
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  Back to the previous parable there where he tells us what the
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  Kingdom of God is like with the tares that come up amongst the
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  wheat. And it is also likened here
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  again with the birds coming in and resting in the branches.
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  And we need to be on guard of how the enemy has crept into the
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  church and he is systematically shutting it down.
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  He's systematically deluding it and He's systematically
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  polluting it, friends, and we need to be aware of that fact.
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  And Jesus is telling us to here. 33 another parable.
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  He spoke unto them. And the Kingdom of heaven is
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  like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid, and three measures
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  of meal until the whole was leavened.
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  So here's another mystery of the leaven.
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  And leaven is always likened unto sin.
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  And you can see here how Jesus is telling us to beware of the
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  leaven of the Pharisees, to beware of the leaven of the
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  false doctrine, to beware of the leaven of those who creep in
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  unawares. And they sow this leaven into
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  the whole batch. And the whole batch is corrupt,
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  friends, and we need to be aware of that fact. 34 And all these
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  things spoke Jesus unto the multitude in parables, and
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  without a parable spoke he not unto them. 35 that it might be
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  fulfilled which the prophet spoke, saying, I will open my
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  mouth in parables, and I will utter things which have been
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  kept secret from the foundation of the world.
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  So we can see that in Psalms it was prophesied that when Jesus
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  came he would speak in parables, and the disciples would soon
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  find out what all of these things mean. 36.
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  Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house,
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  and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the
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  parable of the tares of the field.
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  So they're just saying, Lord, make it plain our brains hurt
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  from having to play mental gymnastics with all the
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  parables. Just tell us what you mean by
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  these things, so that we can know them and teach them. 36 Is
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  whenever the disciples are asking him. 37 He answered and
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  said unto them, He that sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38
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  The field is the world. The good seed are the children
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  of the Kingdom, but the tares are the children of the wicked.
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  139 The enemy that sowed them is the devil.
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  The harvest is the end of the world.
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  The reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore the tares are
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  gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be at the end of
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  this world. 41 The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and
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  they shall gather out of his Kingdom all things that offend,
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  and them which do iniquity, 42 and shall cast them into the
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  furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and
• 41:35
  gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the
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  Son in the Kingdom of the Father.
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  Who has ears. Let him hear.
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  Wow. Jesus makes it as plain as he
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  possibly can. He tells them who all of the
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  pictures that he was trying to paint.
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  He tells them who all those characters are in the reality of
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  what will come. Friends 44 Again the Kingdom of
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  heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field.
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  The witch when a man has found, he hides, and for joy he goes
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  and sells all that he has, and buys that field.
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  So here in 44, The plain understanding of this is
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  whenever we see Jesus and we go and lay everything down to
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  follow after him, that is the plain understanding of this.
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  But there is a deeper meaning. And he tells us that Jesus
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  bought the entire world because he saw the treasure of the
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  Israelites. Jesus came and shed his blood
• 42:57
  for the whole world because in a very peculiar fashion, friends,
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  He is desirous of the Jews to place their faith in Him during
• 43:10
  the Tribulation. And that is what is going to
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  happen. It is the jealousy that is
• 43:15
  provoked when they see us, the Gentiles, coming in, that the
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  Jews will be provoked to put their faith in Jesus Christ. 45
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  Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like unto A merchant man seeking
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  goodly pearls. 46 who when he has found one Pearl of great
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  price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
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  So here we we have always understood this Pearl of great
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  price as being Jesus, but it is actually the church.
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  This is the persecution, this is the irritant that produces the
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  polished Pearl. And the Pearl, when it is found,
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  it does not get, it does not get cut like a precious stonewood.
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  It is perfect. And that is what Jesus is after.
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  And this is Jesus. He is the one who seeks, and He
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  is seeking after the pure and heart friends, and they shall
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  see God. And he bought it with his blood.
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  47 Again the Kingdom of heaven is like unto a net that was cast
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  into the sea, and it gathered every kind. 48 Which when it was
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  full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good
• 44:42
  into vessels, but castaway the bad.
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  Very simple. You can see that when the net
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  was full there is a fullness. And Peter, Peter tells us in his
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  epistles, he tells us that there is the fullness of those that
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  will come in to the Kingdom of God and he is waiting for that
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  time whenever the fullness happens.
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  God is not slack, God's not dragging his feet.
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  There are many who say that things just keep going as they
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  have been since the beginning of time, but do not forget that
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  1000 years is like a day unto the Lord.
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  He is not slack and there is a fullness and that is what is
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  mentioned here. And He's dragging the net today.
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  And you might say, come Lord, come there and not the the
• 45:39
  Spirit and the bride cry outcome and yes and Amen.
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  We say come Lord, but he's dragging the net and He knows
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  who truly belongs to Him. This is the separating of the
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  sheep and the goats. 49 So shall it be at the end of the world
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  that angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the
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  just, 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire.
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  There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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  He's mentioned that twice here. back-to-back.
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  Bam bam. Hell is a literal real place
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  that people are going to be banished to forever and ever and
• 46:21
  ever and ever. And there is no second chances
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  once you take your last breath, there is no purgatory.
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  There's no praying people out of hell.
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  They have to make the decision now.
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  If you have breath in your lungs, it's not too late.
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  It should burden our hearts. It should break our hearts for
• 46:43
  those who are choosing hell. It is a real place, and there
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  will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, and they will die a
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  billion deaths over and never be able to die. 51 Jesus said unto
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  them, How do you understand all these things?
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  And they said unto him, Yes Lord, they are admitting
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  something that they will be held responsible for.
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  And you and I will be held responsible for having this word
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  hidden in our hearts. We will be held responsible that
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  we had access to the word of God.
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  We had access to the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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  We will be held responsible. Friends, 52 And then he said
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  unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto
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  the Kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man that is a
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  householder, which brings forth out of his treasure things new
• 47:49
  and old. We cannot throw out the old,
• 47:52
  because we are desirous of the new.
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  We cannot think that just because God is doing the new
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  things that there is no value in the old.
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  We need to know that we know that we know that we know that
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  God reigns supreme from the Garden all the way to New
• 48:15
  Jerusalem. We need to know that the new
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  only adds and supplements on to the old.
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  The new does not get rid of the old.
• 48:29
  And Jesus said that. He said, I have not come to
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  abolish the law, but to fulfill it.
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  And that is what Jesus is telling the disciples here.
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  He's saying that us who are called students of the word of
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  God, we cannot just push down all the things of old.
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  We must bring them about, and we must make them relevant to our
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  day friends, and for the people that we are responsible for,
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  that we have been entrusted to share the gospel with.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah. 53 And it came to
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  pass that when Jesus had finished these parables, he
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  departed from there. 54 And when he was come into his own
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  country, he taught them in their synagogue in so much that they
• 49:23
  were astonished, and said, Whence has this man and his
• 49:30
  wisdom and these mighty works? So they are astonished by Jesus.
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  They're wanting to know how has this man so much authority?
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  He speaks with so much authority.
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  He doesn't ascribe all of his sayings to his teachers.
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  He teaches as if he is the teacher of teachers.
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  And if you remember Jesus as a 12 year old boy, and he went in
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  to the temple and he was teaching them the things of
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  eternity, He was teaching them things of antiquity.
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  Jesus is the teacher of teachers. 55 Is not this the
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  carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary?
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  His brothers are James and Joseph's and Simon and Jews.
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  You can see here that Mary was not perpetually a virgin.
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  You can see here that Mary had natural children.
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  You can see here we can completely break down the idea
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  that we're supposed to pray through Mary.
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  This is one of the verses that is plain that God makes sure we
• 50:46
  understand that. We also see in verse 55 how the
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  people who were just astonished, they do the same.
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  They we do the same things that they do.
• 50:58
  So as soon as the truth of God gets taught, we are taken aback
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  by it. But then those that are falling
• 51:07
  in on where the bird came in and snatched the word, it's this
• 51:12
  idea right here. We receive it and then
• 51:16
  immediately we go and break it down.
• 51:19
  We go and discount it. We go and completely remove it
• 51:24
  because we have prejudiceness in our hearts. 56 And his sisters,
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  are they not all with us? Whence then has this man all
• 51:37
  these things? So they're asking how does he
• 51:40
  have such authority whenever he's just a carpenter's son?
• 51:47
  57 And they were offended in him, but Jesus said unto them
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  that a prophet is not without honor except in his own country
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  and in his own house. So this they were offended in
• 51:59
  him. You remember a couple chapters
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  back he said, blessed are those that are not offended by him,
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  they're not offended by his humanity.
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  They weren't offended unless that are the ones that aren't
• 52:12
  offended by the fact that he didn't do the miracles that they
• 52:16
  wanted him to do whenever they wanted him to do them.
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  And they walked away because they weren't, that he was not
• 52:23
  the God that they had formed in their own minds, friends.
• 52:27
  And that is what it looks like when we're offended by Him.
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  When we pray and we pray and we pray and the miracle doesn't
• 52:34
  come. When we pray and we pray and we
• 52:36
  pray and the Spouse doesn't come back.
• 52:38
  When we pray and we pray and we pray and the disease is still
• 52:41
  there. When we pray and we pray and we
• 52:43
  pray and you're still paralyzed. When we pray and we pray and we
• 52:48
  pray and we believe with all our hearts and the healing doesn't
• 52:51
  come and the breakthrough hasn't come and we're offended by them
• 52:55
  and we walk away. And here you can see how his own
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  hometown, they rejected him because he was just a
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  carpenter's son. They were offended that this boy
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  that they had seen grow up into a young adult, into a teenager,
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  how he claimed to be the son of God and they were offended by
• 53:19
  him. And let's not think, oh I would
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  never because we have the final authority which brings much more
• 53:27
  responsibility upon you friend, because you can see Jesus as the
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  true Son of God and they were on the ground.
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  They were boots on the ground. They couldn't see over the trees
• 53:41
  yet like we can. We'll end on 58 and he did not
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  many mighty works there because of their unbelief.
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  Many times it's our unbelief, friends, that causes him not to
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  do the miracle. In your life.
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  There's unbelief. If you just have the faith of a
• 54:02
  mustard seed, friends, you can say to this mountain move and
• 54:05
  it'll move, you could say to the water part and it will part.
• 54:09
  In the name of Jesus, pray and watch the healing come.
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  In the name of Jesus, pray and watch the breakthrough come,
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  friends. It is the name above all names.
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  That is the only name that has the ability to save.
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  Bring that name upon your lips today.
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  He is the Son of God. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter. 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, so does God. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.