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Luke Chapter 9. Let us pray.
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Holy Lord, you're so holy. God Almighty, we thank you,
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Lord. Yes, Jesus, allow us to come in
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to the throne room. Allow us to see your face, for
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you are holy, holy and holy. Yes, Lord, we thank you God for
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the nail scars in your hands. We thank you God for your side
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that was opened and poured out the blood in the water.
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We thank you God, that your eyes are like fire and your hair is
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like wool. And the voice, the sound of many
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waters. Thank you God for the two edged
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sword that comes out of your mouth.
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Thank you God for your robe that's drenched in the blood as
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you tread the wine press. Thank you, God, that on your
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thighs, faithful, true. Thank you, God, that you are the
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King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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We worship you, Jesus. We only want to know you,
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Christ, and we only want to know you crucified.
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So yes, Lord, reveal to us eternal truths from everlasting
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to everlasting, glory from on high.
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Surround us in your Shekinah glory this morning.
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God, speak to us mightily and boldly.
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God, let us see you in a new facet, in a new light.
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God put us on the mountain. God, let us see you
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transfigured. Let us see you, God, in all your
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glory, glory, glory, descend upon us.
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Father, wreck us. Ravage us with your love,
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Father. Undo us.
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God, we only want to see you and Lord, out of the overflow, let
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it go into our family and out of the overflow, let it go into our
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neighborhoods and out of the overflow.
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God, I pray that we'll be poured out.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you, Lord, will be
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honored, that you, Lord, will be glorified in the highest.
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Yes, King, Jesus, we love you. We love everything about you.
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Show us more. God, take us to new heights and
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let us sense the depths of your love for this world and for your
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people. And God, I pray that we will be
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more like Christ today and we were yesterday.
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Yes, Lord, sanctify us and consecrate us.
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God, let us consecrate our temples.
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God, we remove all of the unclean, foul things that we
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have allowed in to our eyes and our ears and our minds and our
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hearts. God, I pray that we have the
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strength to get rid of anything that is holding us back.
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Father, all the noise and the commotion.
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God, all of the distractions. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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that we will throw them out of this temple God, and your
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Shekinah glory will fill this temple.
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God, I pray that we will be filled with the Holy Spirit,
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Lord, from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus, you'll give us strength
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from on high, power from on high.
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Father, I pray that You will give us this very day Our Daily
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Bread and show us, God, what it is that You want us to do today.
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Lord, we are acknowledging You this morning and we are
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expecting that you are going to direct our steps.
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Lord, it is you and it is you, and it is you alone that we are
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here for. And so, Father, hide me and hide
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my words. Hide my thoughts, Father, and
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let this be all about King Jesus.
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Yes, Holy Spirit, you teach us. Holy Spirit, you guide us.
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I decrease as you increase. Hide this word in our hearts,
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God, so that we might not sin against you.
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We love you, King Jesus, and it's in your holy and precious
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name that I pray. Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one. Then.
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He called his 12 disciples together and gave them power and
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authority over all devils and to cure diseases.
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You know that same flowing power is available to you, friend.
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This is not something that was just for them, friend.
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We have all authority in the name of Jesus Christ.
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The darkness flees, Diseases are cured.
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We have the healing power available to us friends, through
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the name of Jesus Christ to and he sent them to preach the
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Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
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That is still our mission objective today, friends, go and
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preach the Kingdom of God, letting them know that the
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leaves on the fig tree have appeared.
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The birth pains are here. We can see that the head is
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crowning. We can see that Jesus's second
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advent is imminent. Friends 3 And he said unto them,
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Take nothing for your journey, neither staff nor script,
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neither bread nor money, neither have two coats apiece.
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So here, verse 3. This is one of those verses that
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a lot of people want to pick out and they want to try to become
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hostile towards the Bible. And I want you to know that it
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is saying if you have a staff, take it, but if you do not, do
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not go and buy one. This was a sense of urgency
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here. They are told not to go and buy
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another staff, but if they have one to take it.
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Take nothing for your journey. So he's saying that the the
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worker is worth his wages and they were to go and rely upon
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God and not rely upon their own resources for and whatsoever
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house you enter into there, abide and then depart.
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So he's saying look for these houses of peace.
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Look for these places of peace. 5 And whosoever will not receive
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you when you go out of that city, shake off the very dust
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from your feet for a testimony against them.
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So as we're looking for these places of peace, if anyone is
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hostile towards you, shake the dust off your feet as you leave.
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6 And they departed and went through the town's preaching the
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gospel and healing everywhere. You can see them now, these
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pairs of two, and they're going out and they have all authority
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that has been given to them by Jesus Christ.
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And they watched him and the way that he worked, and then he gave
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them that power from on high. And then they were able to go
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out and do the very things that Jesus was able to do.
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And you know in that that very name is all the power of all the
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universe, of everything seen and unseen.
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Friends, in the name of Jesus Christ, there is no power
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greater than the name of Jesus Christ.
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It is the name above all names. Friends, bring that name upon
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your lips today and watch how the healing flows, watch how the
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unclean spirits are driven out. It is by that name, friends, the
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name above all names, Jesus Christ, call upon that name
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today and be saved. 7 Now Herod the Tetchart heard of all that
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was done by him, and he was perplexed because that it was
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said of some that John was risen from the dead.
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This is the world's response to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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They are perplexed. Friends, what can you do with
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it? Friends, you can't do anything
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with it. It's here to stay.
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Heaven and earth shall pass away.
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But not one of these words, friends.
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You can't do anything with this man.
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He's here to stay. And the whole world has been
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turned upside down by Jesus Christ and we're still talking
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about him today. And you can't discount and
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discredit and you cannot remove the word of God from the scene.
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It's here to stay. And this is the world's
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response. Is this perplexity, friends?
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Because as much as you don't want to believe it, and as much
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as you don't want to be accountable, and as much as you
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don't want to have to give an account for all the sins that
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you are doing and have done and will ever do, you cannot get rid
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of them. Your conscience is there bearing
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witnesses against you. And the Holy Spirit is drawing
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many men to Himself today, and you cannot even come to the
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Father unless the Spirit draws you.
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And we should not blasphemy the Spirit when He's drawing us to
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the Father. And if we were to die in that
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blaspheming of the Spirit, we would be eternally separated
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from God. And that is no place that any
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man, woman, or child would ever want to go.
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Nobody in their right mind would ever choose to go go to hell.
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This is a place where the worm never dies, the fire is never
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quenched, friends. This is a place of weeping and
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the gnashing of teeth, friends. This is a place where there are
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levels of torment, friends, and no man would ever choose to go
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there. And we make a joke and we make
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light of it, and we think it's a party and we think our friends
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are going to be there, friends. But that is not the case.
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This is somewhere where you would die a billion deaths over
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and never be able to die. And the rich man just begged for
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Lazarus to dip his finger in water and to touch his tongue
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because he was in torment there. And this is the world's response
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to the gospel is perplexity because you cannot discount it
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and you cannot discredit it and you cannot get rid of it.
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It's here A and of some that Elijah had appeared and of
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others that one of the old prophets was risen again.
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Here they are. They're trying to marginalized
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Jesus Christ. They're trying to put him in a
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box. And you cannot put this man in a
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box. He is the great I am.
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When you try to figure God out, he will sidestep you friends,
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and the moment you think you have them figured out, He will
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show you a new facet of himself. He is the great I am.
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We cannot box him up and sell him now and inherit, said John.
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Have I beheaded? But who is this of whom I hear
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such things? And He desired to see him.
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You know, Jesus is not a novelty.
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Jesus is not an amusement. Friends, the Spirit of God is
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the Shekinah glory that rests in it is completely undone, and the
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ministers are not even able to minister because of the glory of
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God that descends upon the house.
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Friends, He is not here for our amusement.
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He is here for our salvation. He is here for those who will
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receive Him will receive Him friends.
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And we are chosen and predestined before the
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foundations of the earth. And He knows who belongs to him.
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And He makes it about his business to go out and to find
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those, and to get those to come into the fold.
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And his sheep hear his voice, and we obey him, and produce
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much fruit. 10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told
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him all that they had done, And he took them, and went aside
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privately into a desert place belonging to the city, called
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beside a. You know these apostles, these
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messengers for God. They came back and they were so
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excited that the demons were subject to them.
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And Jesus tells them, do not think that it is a great thing
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that the demons are subject to you, but rejoice that your names
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are written in the Lamb's book of life and that is Our Calling
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today. Just marvel at the fact that
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your name is written in the Lamb's book of Life.
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There are many all around you, even your closest can, even the
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ones that you love dearly. Those are the ones who you wish
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that they could see this Jesus that you talk of and that you
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love and that you've caught a glimpse of.
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And you wish it and you pray for him.
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But we should be so eternally grateful that we are here and we
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are in the fold, and we need to live our lives in a way that
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bring many to salvation. Friends 11 And the people, when
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they knew it, followed him and received, and he received them,
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and spoke unto them of the Kingdom of God, and healed them
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that had need of healing. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. He is the Great Physician, He is
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our Jehovah Rapha. He is the great Healer.
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He is our everything. And if we will come to him and
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put ourselves on the operating table, he will take out our
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heart of stone and put in it a new heart and a clean heart.
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And he will give you a clear conscience, friends, and we can
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stand, and we can gird up our loins, and come into the holiest
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of holy places, and dine and suck with him. 12 And when the
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day began to wear away, then came the 12 and said unto him,
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Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and
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country roundabout, and lodge and get victuals.
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For we are here in a desert place.
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Here the disciples are still looking at the natural.
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Here they're still looking and being reasonable, and they do
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not realize that they are in tune with the very person who's
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spoke all of existence into existence, just with the breath
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of his mouth. God spoke, and it was so.
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And we need to know that all power and all authority has been
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given to Jesus Christ. And if you have seen him, you
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have seen the Father. 13 But he said unto them, You give them
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something to eat. And they said, we have no more
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but 5 loaves, 2 fish, except we should go and buy meat for all
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this people. So they're saying we don't have
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enough to feed these people, we don't even have enough for
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ourselves. We'd have to go buy it.
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Here they are looking at the natural, they're missing the
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spiritual, they're missing that they are connected to God
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Almighty in the flesh. 14 For they were about 5000 men.
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And he said to his disciples, make them sit down by 50s in a
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company. This is a great banquet, and
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they are to sit down and what is Jesus going to do?
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15 And they did so and made them all sit down.
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Sometimes we need to just sit in his presence.
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Sometimes we need to quit running the race and just sit
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and be refueled friends. 16 Then he took the five loaves and the
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two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them and
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broke and gave to the disciples to sit before the multitude.
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So here is a miracle happening. Jesus is able to multiply all of
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it. 17 And they did eat, and we're all filled, and there was
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taken up the fragments that remain to them. 12 baskets.
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So here you can see that Jesus is miraculously providing enough
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for everyone to be full and to have leftovers.
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And it's no different when we give what we have to the Lord.
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He multiplies it. And you will be surprised,
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friends, whenever you have more than what you gave.
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This is the principle of God. This is God math, and God math
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is much better than any math that you and I could ever
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perform of moving decimals and all of our human reasoning.
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God can do anything, friends, and do not discount the
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miraculous. 18 And it came to pass, as he was alone praying,
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his disciples were with him, and he asked them, saying, whom say
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the people that I am? So look at this scene, friends,
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don't miss it. Jesus is alone, but he's brought
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us. 12 Jesus is alone, but he brought us. 12 He wanted them to
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see what he has been about, when he would leave, when he would
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get up early in the morning and be missing in action.
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And they were looking for him and he was meeting with the
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Father here. He takes them into that meeting
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space with the Father. And then immediately after he
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gets done praying, he turns and asks them, who do the people say
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that I am? He is the great I am, that's who
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he is. 19 They answering said John the Baptist.
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Some say Elijah, and others say that one of the old prophets is
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risen again. 20 And he said unto them, But whom say you that I
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am? Peter answering, saying, The
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Christ of God? This is the most paramount
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question that you will ever be asked in your entire life.
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Who? Do you say that Jesus is?
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Is he just a religious leader that had a lot of really good
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sayings? Is he a prophet?
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Is he the greatest prophet that ever lived?
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Is he one of the many prophets? Who is Jesus?
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And how we answer that is paramount for our eternity,
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forever and ever, a billion times over forever.
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And when we've been there 10,000 years, we have no less days.
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Who is Jesus? And I pray that you can answer
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the way that Peter did, that he is the long-awaited Messiah.
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He is the Christ, the anointed. He is the very Son of God, the
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only begotten. He is God Incarnate, God in the
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flesh. He is our salvation.
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He's our Redeemer. He is our everything.
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He is our very next breath in our lungs, our very next
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heartbeat in our chest. He is the great I am.
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He created everything out of nothing, friends, and He
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sustains everything by the breath of his mouth. 21 And he
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straightly charged them and commanded them to tell no man
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that thing. It was not yet his time.
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He knew the perfect timing that he must go into Jerusalem for
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the week of the Passover. He knew exactly when it was that
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he was going to hang on that cross.
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It was all talked about beforehand between the Father
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and the Son and the Holy Ghost. Praise God.
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Hallelujah for this community, Praise God.
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Hallelujah. You can see that they were in
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communion with each other. Friends 22 saying the Son of Man
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must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief
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priests and the scribes, and be slain and be raised the third
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day. He cannot make it any more
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clear. He cannot make it any more
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plain. This is the most simple,
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childlike elementary, elementary school rendering of what is
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about to happen. He tells them line by line,
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friends, what is to happen and they miss it.
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You and I miss it every day. He tells us what is the most
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paramount thing that we should be doing, and we do not do those
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things. Instead, we make it all about
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pleasure and pleasantries. We make it all about self and
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money. We make it all about this world
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and the little life that He has given us, and we miss the fact
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that we should be sowing seed and we should be storing up
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treasures. We miss the whole point of the
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whole matter of the whole life that God has given us, which is
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to glorify God Almighty and to serve him with all of our heart
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and all of our mind and all of our strength, to love the Lord
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thy God, and to love our neighbor as ourselves, and to be
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content with food and clothing. Friends. 23 And he said to them
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all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and
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take up his cross daily and follow me.
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This is a living sacrifice. This is imminent death.
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This is death to self. We have to lay down all of our
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own wants and cares and desires and presuppositions of the way
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that we think that this life should go.
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We must lay everything down, all of it, all of our cares and
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anxieties, all of our needs. We lay them all down knowing
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that death is on the table, friends.
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Persecution is on the table, friends, But we count the cost
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before we ever take up the cross. 24 For whosoever will
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save his life shall lose it, But whosoever will lose his life for
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my sake, the same shall save it. So here's a a group of passages
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that are paramount to the Christian walk in the Christian
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faith. And we would do well to digest
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them, ruminate on them, to meditate upon them, to pick them
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apart, to really sit and to think about what Christ is
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trying to teach us. All of the Old Testament points
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to this moment, and every book after the four Gospels point
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back to this moment. And we need to lock in and truly
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read these letters in red. We need to really, truly
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meditate on what Christ is telling us.
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This is everything, friends. This is paramount.
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Friends. We must obey these words.
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And he tells us if you're trying to hold on to your life, you're
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trying to make it all about this world and for here and for now,
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and you die without him, you will be eternally separated from
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him forever. But if we follow Him, and we
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accept Him and we have Him, and we give ourselves completely,
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totally, utterly over to Him, nothing held back, and we we are
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to be persecuted and we are to be put to death, in that we will
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have eternal life forever and ever in His presence.
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Friends 25 For what is a man advantage if he gains the whole
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world and lose himself? Be castaway.
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Think about it, friends. If you owned the entire world,
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what would it even matter? When you die and you're cast
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into Hellfire, you're cast into utter darkness and separation
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from God Almighty, where you're tormented for a billion times
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over and you can never die. What does it profit you if you
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were to own the entire world? 26 For whosoever shall be
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ashamed of me and of my words of him shall the Son of man be
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ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory and in his
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Father's, and of the holy angels.
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Pay attention, friend. This is turning point.
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This is when Jesus is telling us that we do not need to be
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ashamed of what the Bible says. We need to stand on the Bible.
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We need to drive the stake into our belief that we will not be
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moved and we will not be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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For it is the power, friends, to save and to bring people into a
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saving relationship with God Almighty through His Son Jesus
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Christ. It is the gospel and nothing
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needs to be added or taken away for people to be saved.
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All the power is in the Bible, All the power is in the gospel
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of Jesus Christ. And we do not need to try to
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make any kind of excuses for Jesus and what He really meant
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when He said whatever it is that He said.
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We don't need to try to interpret it all.
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We just need to obey what it is that He said.
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And we err grievously whenever we try to cherry pick verses
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that match our theology of what we think that God should be
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like. And we make God in our own
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image. And we do not take the full
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counsel of God's Word, which is why it is so important that each
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and every single one of you learn the entirety of God's Word
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from Genesis to Revelation. Nothing added and nothing
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subtracted. Friends, we need to know the
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entirety of God's Word so that we can be safeguarded against
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all the things in this world that are trying to drag us away,
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trying to drag us away from the truth of God Almighty.
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And what does His Word say? And we need to obey those very
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things, and we do not need to be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus
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Christ. And because He is coming in
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glory and He is coming with all of the holy angels.
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Verse 27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing
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here which shall not taste of death until they see the Kingdom
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of God. So we know that he's talking
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about this mount of transfiguration that Peter,
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James, and John are going to get to go up to see the glory of
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God. They're going to get to see the
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Kingdom of God. 28 And it came to pass about 8 days after these
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sayings, he took Peter, John, and James and went up into a
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mountain to pray. So we know that from the other
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gospels it states six days, but we know that in the Jewish
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calendar they would count the time before and the time after
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those six days, which is where Luke gets his eight days, that
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there was a piece of the two bumper days attached to those
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six. So he says about 8 days and
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perhaps they are going up on Mount Hermon here and they're
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going to pray. 29 And he and as he prayed, the fashion of his
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countenance was altered and his clothing was white and
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glistering. So imagine that, friends, this
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Shekinah glory coming to rest upon Jesus Christ, and we can
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also see that it was coming out of him, not coming to rest upon
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him, but it was actually exuding from His countenance.
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Friends. 30 And behold, there talked with him two men, which
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were Moses and Elijah. So Moses represented all of the
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law and Elijah is representing all of the prophets here.
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And we can see that this is a continuation friends, that the
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Bible itself from Genesis to Revelation is 1 big love letter,
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friends. It is all congruent and it all
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matches up. And here God is putting His
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stamp on the gospel of Jesus Christ in the New Testament that
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you and I hold by sending Moses and Elijah.
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And you can see that God is the God of the living and not of the
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dead, and that no one ever really dies with God, and that
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every person who's ever been born is born or will be born is
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still alive somewhere, friends. And we will spend eternity.
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And there's only two places. There's heaven and hell.
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There's not a third option. 31 who appeared in glory and spoke
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of his decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
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So you can see the subject matter of why they came.
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They did not just come for the three disciples, for the three
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apostles to see and to marvel and to be entertained.
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No, they came to discuss with Jesus all of the details of what
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He must accomplish on His way to Jerusalem.
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And he set his face like a Flint friends towards Jerusalem,
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knowing that he would be murdered by his own people, that
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he would be murdered and they would not accept him.
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He knew that. 32 But Peter and they that were with him were
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heavy with sleep, and when they were awake, they saw his glory
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and the two men that stood with him.
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Imagine that you see in the garden of Gethsemane they fell
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asleep here on the Mount of Transfiguration.
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They fell asleep. And what a word to you, and what
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a word to me. Friends, we do not need to fall
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asleep. We need to wake up.
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Oh, Sleeper, we need to take the whole word to the whole world.
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We have our marching orders, we have the great commandment, and
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this is a Great Commission. To go therefore, into all the
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world, Judea, Samaria, to Jerusalem, we need to go and
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take the whole word to the whole world, Friends, in any way,
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shape or form, we need to go. Whether that is on a plane, a
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train, an automobile, whether that is to your neighborhood
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friends, to start a Bible study in your house, whether that is
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on whatever platform that God has allowed you to have.
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We need to take the whole word to the whole world and not be
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ashamed of Him, Friends 33. And it came to pass, as they
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departed from him, Peter said unto Jesus, Master, it is good
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for us to be here, and let us make 3 tabernacles, one for you
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and one for Moses, and 1:00 for Elijah.
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Not knowing what he said, we need to make sure that when we
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speak for the Lord that we know what what it is that we believe,
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that we have our own convictions, and that we're not
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just rallying behind the coattails of someone else.
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Because you will get tripped up in your theology, you will get
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tripped up in your doctrine if it is not something that is
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clear to you. We don't need to just speak of
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the things that we don't understand.
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Make sure you're standing on the solid rock on the cornerstone
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and make sure you have your convictions that you are not
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willing to budget from, which is that Jesus is Lord, Jesus is the
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Son of God, and there is no other salvation apart from Jesus
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Christ. 34 While he thus spoke, there came a cloud and
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overshadowed them, and they feared as they entered into the
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cloud, the kind of glory of God coming where they're not even
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able to speak. 35 And there came a voice out of the cloud saying,
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This is my beloved son. Hear him.
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He's God is telling Peter, listen, he's saying the same
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thing to you and to me. Be slow to speak, be quick to
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listen, make sure you are slow to anger as well. 36 And when
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the voice was passed, Jesus was found alone, and they kept it
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close and told no man in those days any of those things which
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they had seen. Jesus told them to keep it from
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the other nine and to keep it until after he departed. 37 and
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it came to pass it on the next day when they were come down
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from the hill, much people met him.
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And isn't that the model of ministry?
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We are filled on the mountaintop, but we must go down
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and be poured out. Friends and people await us, and
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they're messy and people have all their problems.
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And as you are filled with him, don't be surprised when you have
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to get poured out just like Jesus did. 38 And behold, a man
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of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beg you, look
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upon my son, for he is my only child. 39 In Lois spirit took
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him, and suddenly cried out, and it tore him, and he foamed
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again, and bruising him hardly departed from him.
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So this is an evil spirit that was making him convulse. 40 And
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I begged your disciples to cast him out, but they could not, and
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Jesus is going to tell them why they could not. 41 And Jesus
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answered and said, O faithless perverse generation, how long
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shall I be with you and suffer? You bring your Son here.
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So Jesus is looking upon the disciples and saying, Hey, you
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have lost the faith, and you must increase your faith.
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And it's not about the size of your faith, it's about who your
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faith is in. And they were two concerned with
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who is going to be the greatest in the Kingdom.
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And they had let pride creep in friends.
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And pride will absolutely put the faith that you have into a
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box and it will absolutely quench the spirit whenever we
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are so incredibly prideful, when we allow our spiritual pride to
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creep in. There's no place for faith in
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that. They cannot live in the same
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house. And Jesus says, how long will I
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be with you? He knows that he must go to the
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cross and to be ascended to the right hand of the Father, but he
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will send a helper and we will do greater things. 42 And as he
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was yet a coming, the devil threw him down and tore him.
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Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child,
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delivered him again to his Father. 43 And they were all
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amazed at the mighty power of God.
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But while they wondered everyone at all things which Jesus did,
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he said unto his disciples. 44 Let these sayings sink down into
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your ears, for the Son of Man shall be delivered into the
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hands of men. Here it is again.
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Jesus is making it plain. Friends, Jesus is speaking to
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them as plainly as humanly possible.
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He even tells them to lock in. He says, let this sink down into
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your ears. Open your ears up, open your
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eyes up, friends, open your heart up.
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Friends, receive the word of God.
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Take it for face value and watch how the Lord He just will give
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you your purpose. He will completely undo you
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friends. He will wreck you and ravage you
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with His love. Friends, open yourself up to
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Him. 45 But they understood not the saying, and it was hid from
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them that they perceived it not, and they feared to ask him of
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that saying. 46 Then there arose A reasoning among them which
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should be the greatest. 47 of Jesus, perceiving the thought of
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their heart, took a child, and set him by him. 48 And he said
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unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name
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receives me, and whosoever shall receive me receives him that
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sent me. For he that is least among you,
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the same shall be great. So you can see Jesus's plan,
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that the greatest will be the least, and the least will be the
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greatest. And when we try to puff
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ourselves up, we will be pushed back down.
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But if we take the road of humility, God will exalt us in
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due time. 49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one
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casting out devils in your name, and we forbade him, because he
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follows not with us. 50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him
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not, for he that is not against us is for us.
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There is no spiritual Switzerland, friends, that there
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is no middle ground here, friends, it you either for him
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or you are against him, you either lukewarm or you are ice
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cold. There is no middle ground.
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You cannot just play both sides. You must choose, choose you this
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day whom you will serve. But As for me, in my house we
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will serve the Lord. 51 And it came to pass, when the time was
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come that he should be received up, that he steadfastly set his
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face to go to Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers before his
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face, and they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans
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to make ready for him. 53 And they did not receive him because
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his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
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So you know the back story here, these Samaritans were the half
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breeds, and the Jews, the pure Jews, hated them.
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And so there was such a level of division with these two that
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they could not get along. And they saw that Jesus was
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going to go to Jerusalem, and here they would not receive him.
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54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said,
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Lord, will you, that we command fire to come down from heaven
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and consume them, even as Elijah did.
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So here they're trying to do what Elijah did and call upon
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God to send fire from heaven to completely lick them all up. 55
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But he turned and rebuked them and said, You know not what
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manner of spirit you are of. So he sees that it is not coming
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from a pure heart that they had hatred for these Samaritans. 56
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For the Son of Man has not come to destroy men's lives, but to
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save them, and they went to another village.
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So we know that Jesus chose to reveal his divinity to a
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Samaritan woman at the well Friends.
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It's where he announced that he was the Messiah.
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So we see that Jesus has a heart for the world.
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We can see that the division and the racism is not from God,
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friends. That is from the devil.
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And we would do well to kick it to the curb.
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We would do well to get rid of it in its infancy.
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We would do well not to allow ourselves to sink into that
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deplorable state of mind. We need to know where all of
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that is coming from. It's hatefulness. 57 And it came
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to pass that as they went in the way, a certain man said unto
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him, Lord, I will follow you wherever you go. 58 And Jesus
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said unto him, Foxes have holes, birds of the air have nests, but
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the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
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He's telling them to count the cost.
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Before you say that you will follow him, do not go and follow
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him half heartedly, or you will be offended by the way that he
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lives. 59 And he said unto another, Follow me.
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And he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
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60 Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead, but go you
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and preach the Kingdom of God. He's saying here that our
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responsibility to him supersedes any of our earthly
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relationships. Friends. 61 And another also
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said, Lord, I will follow you, but let me first go bid them
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farewell, which are at home at my house. 62 And Jesus said unto
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him, No man, having put his hand to the plow and looking back, is
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fit for the Kingdom of God. We know here that Jesus is
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telling this soon to be disciple that if he wants to follow him,
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he must count the cost. If we think that we are going to
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follow the Lord Jesus Christ, just know that there will be
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many, even within the own 4 walls of your own house who will
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not understand the calling. And they'll try to talk you out
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of it and try to talk you back off the ledge.
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And they'll try to talk you back into worldly thinking, this
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worldly wise man who comes along and tries to talk us into the
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way that the world works. And they'll call it shrewdness
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and they will call it being responsible with all of our
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wealth and possessions. But we need to know that when we
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put our hand to the plow, sometimes God calls us to
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steward his riches, to steward his blessings.
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But sometimes God calls us to be poured out, friends.
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And we need to know that once we put our hand to the plow, we
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cannot look back like Lot's wife did.
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And just remember, when he's talking about the rich man, he
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says that it is easier for the camel to go through the eye of a
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needle than it is for a rich man to make it into heaven.
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And then the disciples asked, well then who can be saved?
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And what did he say? He said with man it is
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impossible, but with God all things are possible.
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So we need to know the context of that passage, friends, that
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we cannot follow God thinking that we're going to get a bunch
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of earthly riches. We need to follow Him because
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He's worthy. We need to follow Him because
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we've counted the cost and we know that it is a great
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adventure and He could lead us anywhere in the world for His
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name's sake. And it's all about Him, and it's
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not about us. And with food and with clothing,
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be content. Godliness with contentment is of
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great gain, friends. And with your pay, be content.
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We need not worry about where our next meal is coming from.
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For He feeds the birds of the air.
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And yes, they get up and they go, and they find it.
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And if you do not work, you do not eat.
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Praise God, Hallelujah, Paul was a tent maker.
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Yes, we need to put our hand to the plow, which denotes work,
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friends, and which denotes action on our part.
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We cannot sit on our blessed assurance, but we need to know
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that He's taking care of everything.
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He's raining down manna from heaven.
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He's giving us Our Daily Bread every day.
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And don't worry about tomorrow, for today has enough worries.
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Let today take care of itself. Do not worry.
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Let God do the heavy lifting. Let God come beside you and be
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yoked with Jesus, for His burden is light.
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Friends, His yoke is easy. Rest in the promises of God,
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knowing that He is in full control and we must surrender
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and we must completely empty ourselves of ourselves to be
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filled with Him, to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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That is how we must live our lives.
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We cannot play both sides. You cannot have one foot in the
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boat and 1 foot in the water. You must be completely sold out
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to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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I know I sure have. What an amazing book that we
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hold in our hands. This is truth, friends.
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This is all power and authority, friends.
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We would do well to obey it, but the love of Christ lead you into
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obedience. I'm praying for every single one
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of you. Take heart today, take courage
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today. I love you, so does God.
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I'm glad you're here on this journey, making it through this
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word. His word never returns void.
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Praise God. Hallelujah.
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We love you Jesus. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.