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Mark chapter 9 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Mark Chapter 9, let us pray. Lord God Almighty, we love you.
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  Lord Jesus, thank you so much for another day to come to you.
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  Thank you so much that we can come and learn more about you.
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  Thank you Father, for this holy word that we hold in our hands.
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  Thank you God that you have implanted it into our hearts and
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  minds. Lord, thank you for our
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  families. Lord, thank you for life and
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  life abundantly. Thank you for the breath and our
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  lungs. Thank you God for the love that
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  we share. Thank you, Father, for the
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  freedom to come and to learn God more about you and to know you,
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  the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the judeo-christian.
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  God, I pray God for the nation of Israel.
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  Lord, I pray for those people. Lord, I pray God that you will
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  have your will and have your way upon this earth.
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  God, let us be your hands and feet today.
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  Let us take the message out to the whole world.
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  God, I pray that there will be many who make the decision today
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  to come and to follow you, God, and to forsake all comfort and
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  to forsake all of their own ideas and their own ways.
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  Father and to take up your ways, God, To take up your mind,
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  Christ, and to go into the darkest places.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus, God, that we will get off
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  of our blessed assurance, Lord, and that we will be found doing
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  what it is that you have called us to do for today, God.
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  Let tomorrow worry about itself. But Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus for strength, for the battle for today.
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  God, I pray, Lord, that you will fuel us.
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  God, you will fan the flame. Father, iron sharpens iron.
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  God, I pray that brothers and sisters, God will come together,
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  Lord, and that we will not forsake the assembling.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us,
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  Lord, to understand our worth. God, give us our dignity.
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  Help us to see ourselves in light of eternity.
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  Help us to see ourselves in light of Jesus Christ.
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  God, our Lord and our Master. Lord, we pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you will continue to grow God your church.
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  Lord, I pray that you will grow us, Lord, and sharpen us God and
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  refine us. God, I pray that you will
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  continue, Lord, to see you're playing all the way through.
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  God, I pray for prophecy to unfold all around us.
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  God, I pray against fear. God, I pray against fear of man.
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  Lord, I pray, Lord, that you'll rebuke the devourer from off of
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  our families. Lord, I pray for clarity today.
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  I decrease as you increase. Holy Spirit, you guide us.
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  Holy Spirit, you teach us. Give us discernment for the text
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  today. Help us to see it, God, the way
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  that you intended for us to see it.
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  Lord, get rid of all of the presuppositions, get rid of all
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  of our desires, God, of how we want to read this text.
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  And Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll help us to see
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  it the way that you intended for us to see it, God, and not only
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  Lord, for interpretation, but for obedience.
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  God that is born out of love. God for you and for Jesus and
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  Holy Spirit, Yes, fill us today in the mighty name of Jesus, I
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  pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And he said unto them, Truly I say unto you, that there be some
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  of them that stand here, which shall not taste of death until
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  they have seen the Kingdom of God come with power.
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  What's he talking about here? Well, if you've been following
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  along for any amount of time, you're going to know that Jesus
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  has all of the disciples banded together at this moment and he
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  is telling them what it's going to be like when he comes back
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  with all of the angels. He is making his deity known to
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  them that he is the Messiah and he is to suffer.
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  And then he flips the script and he looks upon them and says some
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  of you will not die before you see the Kingdom of God come.
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  So here we're going to get to see this mount of
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  Transfiguration, perhaps on Mount Hermon of that time, and
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  Jesus is going to get together his special forces team, perhaps
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  either his special forces team or the ones that he knew had the
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  propensity to call down lightning and stick their foot
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  in their mouth. Oh, Peter, James and John here,
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  he's going to get this band of brothers together and he's going
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  to take them up on top of this mount to see a wonderful work,
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  to see the Kingdom of God coming and descending upon that
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  mountaintop. Let's see how it goes.
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  Verse 2. And after six days, Jesus took
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  with him Peter and James and John, and he led them up into a
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  high mountain apart by themselves, and he was
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  transfigured before them. OK, So they left the 9 disciples
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  down at the base camp. And here he's taken Peter, James
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  and John up to the top of this mountain, and here he is
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  transfigured. And if you flip over to Romans
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  chapter 12, verses one and two, you're going to read that He
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  tells us to not be conformed to this world, but to be
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  transformed by the renewing of our minds.
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  And here you're going to see this transfiguration happening.
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  And this is what happens, friends, whenever we are
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  indwelled with the Holy Spirit within us, there are moments
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  that you can have that you see, and the person might not even be
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  aware of what's happening, but the Holy Spirit shows up.
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  The Holy Spirit radiates through that person.
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  They might say something that you were just praying or
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  thinking or wondering about and something you've been wrestling
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  through, and they will speak a word and they didn't even know
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  it. They were not even aware.
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  And this is what happens when we're connected to the vine.
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  And Jesus here is showing Peter, James and John that he is the
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  Christ, that he is God Almighty Incarnate, and he is allowing
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  his glory to come through. He is allowing the glory to
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  shine. A bright like a billion Suns
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  here, and brighter than anyone could ever launder those
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  clothes. Let's see what he has to say
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  here. Verse 3.
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  And his clothing became shining, exceeding white as snow, so as
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  no fuller on earth can white them.
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  This is glory. This is glory, glory, glory.
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  This is Jesus just revealing what has always been.
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  This was not a gift from the Father to allow them to see that
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  this was Jesus taking off the shroud, taking off the veil,
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  taking off the the obstruction that was keeping the disciples
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  from knowing who he was. And he had just got done telling
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  them that he's going to have to suffer and go to the cross.
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  And then Peter tries to rebuke him.
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  And then here he is showing them who he truly is.
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  Let's keep moving. For And there appeared unto them
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  Elijah, Moses. And they were talking with
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  Jesus. Elijah is representative of all
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  the people that will be raptured in the end.
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  And then Moses is a picture of the people that are dead in
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  Christ that will be raised to life.
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  And you can see that this is the Kingdom of God coming to earth.
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  This is what it will be like, friends, during the thousand
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  year reign of Christ. He's showing them, he's giving
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  them a pictorial friends. And we know that the disciples,
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  at this moment, just like in the Garden of Gethsemane, they had
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  fallen asleep. They almost missed this moment.
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  And if we're not careful, friends, we're going to miss the
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  miracles that God is doing all around us every single day.
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  Friends, this isn't just a one off thing.
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  God is desirous to reveal to us His Kingdom come and His will be
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  done right here on this earth, just as it is there in heaven.
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  And God gives us glimpses and slivers of those moments that if
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  we're not careful, we will miss them.
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  Friends. And we'll relegate them to luck.
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  And we'll relegate them to chance.
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  And we'll relegate them to a doctor, or we'll relegate them
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  to medicine, or relegate them to some kind of advancement in the
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  scientific community. We'll relegate them to our own
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  power. And we'll miss what God is doing
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  all around us, Friends. And here the disciples had
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  fallen asleep. And what a word for you, what a
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  word for me. Wake up, O sleeper, Look around
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  for today is the day of salvation.
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  Look around. God is moving in our midst.
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  God is healing. He has healing on his wings.
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  Here comes the sun, here comes the glory.
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  Look around. Bask in His presence friends,
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  it's all around and He is going to come in the fullness during
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  that thousand year reign friends and I pray to the Lord that you
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  are there with us. Five.
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  And Peter answered and said to Jesus, Master, it is good for us
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  to be here and let us make 3 tabernacles, one for you, one
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  for Moses, one for Elijah. He did not know what to say.
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  He was so overwhelmed he could not believe his eyes. 6/4 He
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  with not what to say, for they were sore afraid.
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  So you can see that He as they woke from their slumber, they
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  look up and see Elijah. They look up and see Moses.
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  They look up and see Jesus Christ, their Rabbi, their
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  teacher. They are seeing Him transfigured
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  before them in his glory, glory glory. 7 and there was a cloud
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  that overshadowed them and a voice came out of the cloud and
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  said, this is my beloved Son, hear him.
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  God corrects Peter. God says listen to him.
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  We would do well to be still and know that He is God and He is
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  Lord and He is Christ. We would do well to sit and
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  listen to that still small voice and then to obey God.
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  Give us the strength to obey the still small voice that tells us
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  what it is that we are to do for today.
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  Hear Him 8 And suddenly when they had looked around and
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  about, they saw no man anymore except Jesus, only with
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  themselves. Jesus will never leave you nor
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  forsake you. Jesus is there in the car.
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  Jesus is there in the closet. Jesus is there in the workplace.
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  Jesus is there when you sleep. Jesus and Jesus and Jesus is our
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  everything. Grab a hold of the hem and the
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  garment and be healed. Today Jesus is there with you.
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  Jesus is so kind, He loves well. 9 And as they came down from the
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  mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what
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  things they had seen until the Son of Man were risen from the
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  dead. So here he comes back into his
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  earthly tent, He comes back to the mortal body.
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  He comes back to being all man, all God.
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  And as he's walking along, the disciples are trying to put
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  their minds back together, trying to pick their brains up
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  off of the floor because they were so completely undone by
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  this vision and Jesus coming back into his earthly tent.
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  And he's telling them, do not say anything to anybody about
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  what you just saw. Wow, what a what a moment this
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  must have been for those three. What a moment they had to
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  wrestle with what they were had just seen.
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  And now they're masters back, just like he's always been, and
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  they're trying to figure it all out.
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  It is no different for us today. When we know that God can but He
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  doesn't. When we know that He is all
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  sufficient but there seems to be lack in our house.
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  When we know that He can heal but we're still sick.
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  When we know that He can raise life back from the dead, but he
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  leaves them in the grave. And we must wrestle with this
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  point of contention here. And the disciples in this moment
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  had just seen Jesus Christ in all his glory, and now he's back
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  to walking along with them, and he's telling them not to speak
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  about it. Sometimes, friends, what the
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  Lord does for you is for you. And when you run around trying
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  to tell everybody about it and they just look at you with a
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  very puzzled look on their face, or they say, yeah, yeah, that's
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  pretty cool. And you say, no, you don't
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  understand it. You don't get it.
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  This is what it must feel like because he's speaking to you.
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  That was for you. Jesus wanted to comfort you.
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  And don't be surprised, friends, whenever others don't quite
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  marvel in the miracle. Don't quite marvel and what
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  Jesus said to you or did for you like he was whenever he spoke it
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  to you and you felt like you were going to jump out of your
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  skin. And here the disciples were
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  trying to figure it all out. And it's no different for you
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  and for me. We're trying to figure it all
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  out to friends. How can God be so grand and big?
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  How can God be all powerful? But there's still people in the
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  world that are starving, unclean, drinking water.
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  We must wrestle through these moments ourselves.
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  And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with
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  another what the rising from the dead should mean.
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  They missed the whole thing. And you and I, we have this
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  helicopter view. We're up over the trees.
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  We're getting to see this Birds Eye view of what he meant.
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  But the disciples, they were still down on the trail, they
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  were still down underneath the forest and they were just
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  looking at the very simple, basic ways of literal ways of
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  thinking about all these things. Imagine how they had just seen
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  Jesus in all his glory and now here they are kicking the can
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  trying to figure out what does he mean by the rising from the
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  dead. They had seen Jesus heal Gyrus's
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  little girl, and here they're still wondering about this power
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  within this man. They had seen Elijah and Moses
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  and how did they know it was Elijah and Moses?
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  Praise God, Hallelujah that they knew that.
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  And here you can see that they were questioning what is this
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  rising from the dead mean? 11 And they asked him, saying,
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  why say the scribes that Elijah must first come now they had
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  just seen Elijah, but they're saying, how can you be the
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  Messiah when Elijah was supposed to come first, even though
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  Elijah had just come? You were here before that.
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  So they're trying to figure out this biblical prophecy and here,
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  friends, what a word for you and what a word for me.
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  We can get so turned around and our interpretation of prophecy
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  and what is it all supposed to look like?
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  And here the Jews at this time, they were all turned around with
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  their prophecy, thinking that there was 2 Messiahs, thinking
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  that one was going to come and conquer their enemies and the
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  other one must suffer. And there was more passages
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  about the conquering Messiah than there is about the
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  suffering Messiah. And so we have to give them a
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  little grace, friends, that they had missed it.
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  But it's no different in our day.
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  It's no different in our hour. There are so many people that
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  are turned around on prophecy. And that is why it's so
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  important not to listen to what someone is telling you, but to
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  listen to the Word of God and let the Word of God wash over
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  you and let the Word of God teach you, friends.
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  And then as others come along, and as they are expounding upon
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  the Scriptures, the Spirit within you will leap and you
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  will know that what they are speaking is truth.
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  And there will be a connection, friends.
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  And that is what we must do. We must be in the Word of God
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  for ourselves. We must be eating and munching
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  and devouring the Word of God and not just listening to man
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  made ideas of what this word says.
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  We must know it and own it for ourselves.
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  Get in this book for yourselves. And I'm so excited for those who
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  have taken the faith journey with me, who are getting into
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  this word daily and who are actually studying it and
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  meditating upon it and wanting to know more about it it.
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  You must get in this book friends.
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  This is our life source. We cannot just sit on the
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  sidelines and allow others. To manipulate and allow others
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  to tell us what it all means. This is how we get turned around
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  and our interpretation and obedience to the scriptures and
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  to prophecy. 12 And he answered and told them.
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  Elijah truly comes first and restores all things.
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  And how is it written of the Son of man that he must suffer many
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  things and be set at naughty? So you can see here that Jesus
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  is telling them that if they would accept it.
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  John the Baptist has come in the spirit of Elijah with the camel
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  hair and with the leather belt. And you can see that God put His
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  stamp, that same spirit that Elijah had on John the Baptist.
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  And you can see here that Jesus Christ is saying, if you will
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  accept it, He has already come, but if you will not accept it,
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  He will come in the end as one of the two witnesses. 13 But I
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  say unto you, that Elijah is indeed come, and they have done
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  unto him whatsoever they listed as it is written of him.
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  They would not accept John the Baptist ministry in his message
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  of repent and be baptized. And then Jesus comes and says
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  the same thing, friends, and we should be saying the same thing.
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  And they murdered John, and they murdered the Messiah.
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  And don't be surprised when you're persecuted, friends. 14
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  And when he came to his disciples, he saw a great
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  multitude about them, and the scribes questioning with them.
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  So here is another picture, friends, Imagine how Jesus is
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  Lord, and he's sitting on his rightful throne in the thousand
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  year reign. And then here you see those that
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  have been raptured being represented by Elijah, and those
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  that were dead in Christ being raised to life, and that is
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  represented by Moses. And then you see Peter, James
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  and John, and they are still in their mortal bodies.
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  And that is a representative of the Jewish nation during the
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  thousand year reign. They're still in their mortal
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  bodies and having to figure it all out.
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  And then here you're getting to see that the people down at the
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  bottom of the mountain, these are the nations coming into
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  Israel to learn about the Lord during the thousand year reign.
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  You're getting to see the Kingdom of heaven coming to the
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  earth during this one little moment here.
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  Lock in, pay attention. They came down and they saw
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  people arguing. And 15 straightway all the
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  people when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and they
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  ran to him, saluting him. So imagine this, here you have a
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  father who has brought his demonic possessed boy who is
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  convulsing and who is foaming at the mouth, and this spirit is
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  trying to kill him by throwing him into the water in the fire.
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  And here the disciples were trying their best to drive out,
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  but they could not because they were not connected to the power
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  source. They had wandered away even
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  though Jesus had given them all the authority to drive out the
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  demons. They had not cultivated their
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  faith. They had not went and spent time
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  with the Father. They were just thinking that it
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  was their inheritance. And Jesus told us, whatever we
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  have will be taken from us if we are not careful.
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  And what a word for us today when we go out, like Samson
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  thinking that we'll just go out in the power of the Lord.
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  But he did not realize that the Lord had left.
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  And it's no different for us sometimes whenever we go and we
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  try to hit somebody over the head with the Bible and then you
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  go looking for the passage and you cannot find it because the
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  little bit that you thought you had has been taken from you.
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  And that is such a spiritual reality that it will not make
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  sense if you have never experienced it.
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  And I pray that you are connected to the power source.
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  I pray that you are always on fire for God.
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  I pray that you do not fall away and do not let the flame go out
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  and have to be rekindled. But for those of us who have
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  gone out in our own strength and who have been dismayed and sent
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  back with our tail between our legs, we understand that
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  principle, and you must cultivate that environment.
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  And here the disciples, they were not connected to the power
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  source. Perhaps they were bitter that
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  Jesus had taken Peter, James, and John up with them and left
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  them down at the base camp. Perhaps, perhaps they had let
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  their spiritual hunger die out. And perhaps they were all upset,
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  and that is why they could not. 16 And he asked the scribes what
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  question you with them? 17 And one of the multitude
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  answered, and said, Master, I have brought unto you my son,
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  which has a dumb spirit. 18 And wheresoever he takes him, he
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  tears him, and he foams, and he gnashes with his teeth, and pine
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  it away. And I spoke to your disciples
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  that they should cast him out, and they could not.
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  They could not because they were not connected to the power
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  source. They had allowed their fervor,
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  they had allow their walk, They had allowed their zeal to go
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  out. 19 And he answered him and said, Oh, faithless generation,
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  how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer?
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  Bring him unto me. So here, this is what you can
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  see, that it is the faithlessness.
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  Friends, it is impossible to please God without faith.
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  We must cultivate this faith. We must continue to increase our
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  level of faith. Friends, God help us to increase
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  our faith. Jesus puts his finger on the
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  issue and he tells them that they are faithless.
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  And he's saying I will not be with you forever.
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  He's saying I will go to the right hand of the Father and
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  send to you the Holy Spirit. He left in his bodily form.
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  But yes, he is always among us. Yes, Jesus is always watching
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  his eyes Rove to and fro. 20 And they brought unto him, and when
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  they saw him, straightway the Spirit tore him, and he fell on
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  the ground and wallowed, foaming.
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  So you can see this scene that this demon recognized who Jesus
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  was. And this is one last ditch
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  effort to tear this boy apart and to kill him.
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  And we know from John 10 that Jesus said that he came to give
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  us life into give us life abundantly.
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  But we know that our enemy has come to steal, kill and destroy.
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  And that is what he is trying to do, and that is what He will
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  always do. And in the beginning it looks
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  like beauty, and in the beginning it looks like we could
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  get our glory without the suffering.
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  But Jesus here is going to tell us that we must suffer first and
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  then receive the glory. And that is God's way.
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  But so you know the enemy will always try to destroy you, and
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  he promises you all of the promises, but he cannot deliver
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  upon them. He could never deliver upon
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  them. It is always deception with the
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  enemy, and in the beginning it looks as if it's the right
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  thing, but in the end it bites like a Viper. 21 And he asked
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  his father, How long is it a ghost since this came unto him?
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  And he said of a child. So this boy had been tormented
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  since he was a little child. And sometimes, friends, it's the
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  generational curses that we must break.
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  We must be the chain Breakers for our families, friends.
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  And this father had enough wherewithal to bring the boy to
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  Jesus. And we must do the same,
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  friends, for our families. We must be the priest of our
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  home. We must take our children and
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  our wives. We must take our loved ones.
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  We must take them to Jesus, take them and let him drive out
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  anything that is unclean. And we are inundated with so
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  many things, friends, on the television, so many things on
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  our phones, so many things on every billboard.
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  There are so many things that are coming our way that is not
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  from God. And if we're not careful, we
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  will open ourselves up, friends, and then we will be inhabited by
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  the unclean, impure spirits, and we must take them to Jesus
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  Christ and allow Jesus to drive out.
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  In the name of Jesus we drive out all the impure, unclean,
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  evil, demonic spirits. And it that is the only name
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  that can do that is the name above all names that has the
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  power to drive out anything that doesn't belong.
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  Bring them to the Lord, bring them to Jesus, no matter their
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  age. 22 And oftentimes it has cast him into the fire and into
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  the waters to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have
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  compassion on us and help us here.
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  This man has a little faith here.
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  This man has the audacity to speak to God Almighty Incarnate
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  and to say, if you can, and Jesus is going to correct his
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  theology, he's going to correct his thinking. 23 And Jesus said
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  unto him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him
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  that believes. So Jesus is telling him,
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  increase your faith. He's telling you increase your
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  faith. He's telling me, increase your
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  faith. And it's not the size of your
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  faith, it's who your faith is in.
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  We must take our eyes off of this world and how this world
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  operates and everything that this world is trying to tell us
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  and trying to distract us. And we must put our eyes, locked
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  eyes on Jesus, believe that he can believe that He wants to
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  believe that he's willing. Friends, consecrate the temple.
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  Get rid of anything that does not belong.
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  Friends, are you not able to see that you are the temple of God?
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  That the Holy Spirit dwells inside of you?
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  That all the power is available to you?
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  Friends, to drive out the unclean spirit and to heal.
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  Friends, Jesus has given us that.
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  He's given us a helper. Friends, increase your faith.
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  All things are possible to him that believes. 24 And
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  straightway the father of the child cried out and said with
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  tears, Lord, I believe, but help my unbelief.
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  That should be our cry. Friends, this is our cry.
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  Cry out to the Father and say, Lord, help me to believe.
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  Help me to increase my faith. Help me to see Jesus in all his
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  glory. 25 And when Jesus saw that the people came running
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  together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, You
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  dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter
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  no more into him. What authority?
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  And He gives you that same authority, friends.
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  And we should not go off on these tangents where we think
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  that we find our identity and all these different kinds of
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  ministries, friends. And yes, He gives us.
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  However, we just need to speak plainly.
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  It is not a show and that is what I believe the Word of God
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  is saying. As all the people were coming
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  for a show, Jesus wouldn't even allow it.
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  He saw them coming because they knew what He was about to do,
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  and before they could even reach him, He just very plainly speaks
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  and tells the unclean, foul spirit to come out of him and do
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  not enter. And it is by the name of Jesus
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  Christ that they must obey. The darkness flees at that name.
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  Bring that name upon your lips. It is by that name that we are
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  saved. It is by that name that we are
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  cleansed. It is by that name that we are
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  made whole. There is no other name.
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  There is no other salvation under heaven or in the heavens
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  or in the Galaxy. There is no other salvation
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  other than Jesus Christ. Jesus is our all sufficient
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  sacrifice. Friends, call upon that name
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  today and be saved. 26 in the spirit cried and ripped him sore
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  and came out of him, and he was as one dead in so much that many
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  said he is dead. This little boy lying there
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  lifeless, motionless. He had been tormented since he
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  was a child. And here Jesus just speaks a
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  word. Jesus speaks a better word over
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  our situation. Call upon that name today.
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  Be healed, here comes Jesus and 27 But Jesus took him by the
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  hand, and he lifted them up, and he arose.
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  Let Jesus take you by the hand, Let Jesus take your child by the
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  hand. Let Jesus take your loved one by
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  the hand and lift them up. Cry out to the Lord today for
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  the healing. Cry out to the Lord today for
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  the sanctification. Cry out to the Lord today for
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  that consecration. Cry out to the Lord today that
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  He will make you whole and He will heal and save your loved
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  ones. Look at the faith of this
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  Father. This little faith of this Father
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  has brought about a miracle for the Son.
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  What a word for us parents who need to be taking our children
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  unto the Lord and allowing Him to cleanse them, to make them
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  whole, to put them on their feet, to give them purpose and
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  dignity. There's such an attack from the
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  enemy, but in the name of Jesus, the enemy flees. 28 And when he
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  was coming to the house, the disciples asked him privately,
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  Why could not we cast him out? 29 And he said unto them, This
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  kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
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  What a word for us today, friends.
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  You could pray the paint off the walls, but you must incorporate
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  fasting into your life as well. You need to have this discipline
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  built into the Christian walk, friends, and watch how it moves
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  the heart of God. 30 And they came, and they departed there,
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  and passed through Galilee, and he would.
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  Not that any man should know it. So he's trying to get away.
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  Friends. 31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them,
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  The Son of Man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall
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  kill him, and after that he is killed, he shall rise.
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  The third day He cannot make it any more plain.
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  He is making it as humanly possible to understand.
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  Jesus is telling them eternal truths in the most simple, basic
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  ways, and they still miss it. 32 But they understood not that
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  saying, and they were afraid to ask him.
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  Do not be afraid to ask the Lord to clarify the things in your
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  theology that do not add up. Friends, do not be afraid to
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  come to the Lord and ask the Lord to help you to understand
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  all of these words on the page, this ink on paper.
• 37:52
  Do not be afraid to come and to just be real and raw and open
• 37:59
  before the Lord. He is not offended by all of
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  your trivial questions. Friends, He's not offended
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  whenever we are wrestling through all of the words on
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  these pages. This book is alive and active
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  and it's reading you. He's not afraid of you having
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  thoughts and doubts. Friends, come to the Lord, give
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  it all up. Give it all over and watch how
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  He gives you a sound mind. Watch how He gives you sound
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  doctrine. Watch how He gives you peace
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  that can only come from Him. 33 And he came to Capernaum, and
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  being in the house, he asked them what was it that you
• 38:49
  disputed among yourselves, by the way?
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  So we know that he had just got done telling them for the second
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  time that he's going to be murdered by the Jews and that he
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  was going to rise again on the third day.
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  And now he's want to know, which he already knew, but he's
• 39:08
  pulling it out. He wants to know what it is that
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  they were disputing about 30-4, but they held their peace.
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  For by the way, they had disputed among themselves who
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  should be the greatest. The first time he revealed it,
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  Peter rebuked him. The second time he revealed it,
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  they're arguing about who's the greatest.
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  These disciples had missed it. And if we're not careful,
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  friends, we're going to miss the whole big picture as well.
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  And yes, we might enter in, but however we are going to be
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  robbed of all the rewards that we could have had if we could
• 39:43
  have locked in and understood what it was that he's trying to
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  do for this day and for this hour.
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  And the number one thing you need to realize is that Jesus is
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  Lord and that none of the other stuff all around you even
• 39:58
  matters in the end if it's not in light of eternity, friends,
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  relationships, worship. We need to be living in light of
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  eternity, friends. We should not be serving trying
• 40:11
  to serve both God and Mammon. 35 And he sat down and called the
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  12 and said unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same
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  shall be last of all and servant of all.
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  So here Jesus flips the script. Jesus here shows us the
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  dichotomy. Jesus here shows us this point
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  of conjecture. Jesus here shows us that it's an
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  upside down, inside out Kingdom. Jesus here shows us that if you
• 40:45
  want to be the first, you must be the last.
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  But any of us who are trying to push our weight around and say,
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  listen here, I'm the leader, you will be last friends.
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  We should be the servant heart. We should have humility and be
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  humbled and be like the janitor in the garbage collector, not
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  like the CEO. 36 And he took a child and set him in the midst
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  of them, and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto
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  them, Well here you're going to have to understand that there is
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  an Aramaic word, and the servant and the child are synonymous.
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  It's the same word. So Jesus knowing their thoughts
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  and knowing that they're arguing about who's the greatest.
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  And perhaps that was born out of Peter, James and John getting to
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  go up on the mountain. And here Jesus is going to show
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  them the error of their thinking.
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  And he's going to take a little child and say, you must become
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  like this little child. You must be a servant.
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  And it is no different today, friends.
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  Nothing has changed. He's telling you the same thing.
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  You must have childlike faith to enter into the Kingdom of God.
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  37 Whosoever shall receive 1 of such children in my name
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  receives me, and whosoever shall receives me receives not me, but
• 42:18
  him that sent me. He's talking about God Almighty,
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  he's talking about Yahweh, he's talking about El Helion, the
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  Most High God. He's saying that God has put his
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  stamp of approval. He just got done on the mount of
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  Transfiguration saying listen to him.
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  And he's saying, anybody who receives one of these little
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  children are just so incredibly blessed. 38 And John answered
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  him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils, and your
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  name followed not us. And we forbade him because he
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  followed not us. So here John's trying to show
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  the Lord how zealous he is for him.
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  And it's no different for you, for me.
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  We go around giving our pedigree, we go around giving
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  our resume, we go around telling everybody all the things that we
• 43:14
  have done for God. We've lost the reward, friends,
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  it should not be. Hey, let me tell you about a
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  time where I did this thing for the Lord.
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  No, we should be living it every day, Friends, Every day is a
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  journey, and it's a great adventure with God, and you
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  never know where you're going to be.
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  You might be in the jungles, friends.
• 43:40
  You might be in the desert, friends.
• 43:42
  God might lead you into the inner city, Friends, you never
• 43:45
  know where you're going to be when you're following hard after
• 43:47
  God Almighty, when you're following hard after the Lord
• 43:50
  Jesus Christ, it's a great adventure.
• 43:53
  And every day we can have zeal for His house.
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  He's trying to give him his pedigree here and telling him
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  and Jesus is going to show the disciples that there is no
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  neutrality. There's no spiritual
• 44:09
  Switzerland, friends. There is only you are for him or
• 44:14
  against him. Period.
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  There is no third option, and Jesus is going to show us. 39
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  And Jesus said, Forbid him not, for there is no man which shall
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  do a miracle in my name that can lightly speak evil of me.
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  So he's saying to them that you are either for Jesus or against
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  him, And God knows who belongs to him.
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  And God is making sure that those who do belong to him are
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  going to make it there. 40 For he that is not against us is on
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  our heart. 41 For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to
• 44:52
  drink in my name, because you belong to Christ, truly I say
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  unto you, he shall not lose his reward.
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  Reward, reward, friends. Here it is his built in friends.
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  No, we did not do what we do for the rewards, 'cause if you are
• 45:08
  doing it for the rewards, you've lost your reward.
• 45:12
  However, when you do it, and you do it with the right intention,
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  God will reward you. 42 And whosoever shall offend one of
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  these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that
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  a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he was cast into
• 45:29
  the sea. It would be better for them
• 45:31
  never to be born than to offend one of these little ones.
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  We must have faith like a little child.
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  And he's talking about hell, he's talking about the fire that
• 45:47
  never goes out in the worm that never dies.
• 45:50
  He's talking about those who will never place their faith in
• 45:54
  the Lord Jesus Christ, and they stay hostile towards God and
• 45:58
  towards his believers their entire life, and they die in
• 46:02
  that. It would have been better for
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  them to have never been born. 43 And if your hand offends you,
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  cut it off. It is better for you to enter
• 46:12
  into life maimed, having two hands, and go to hell into the
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  fire that never shall be quenched. 44 Where the worm dies
• 46:22
  not in the fire is not quenched. 45 And if your foot offends you,
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  cut it off, it is better for you to enter halted into life than
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  having 2 feet and be cast into hell, into the fire that never
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  shall be quenched, Where the worm dies not and the fire is
• 46:43
  not quenched. 47 And if your eye offends you, pluck it out.
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  It is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one
• 46:53
  eye than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire 48 where the
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  worm dies not and the fire is not quenched.
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  So we can see that Jesus here he goes on a tangent and Jesus here
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  has already told us to clean the inside of the cup.
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  Friends, Jesus has already told us that so much murder, envy and
• 47:17
  strife, deceitfulness, lies, there's so much that is born out
• 47:22
  of the heart. It's born from all of our impure
• 47:27
  thoughts that we allow to take root.
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  He's telling us that we need to take care of those things before
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  they ever manifest themselves out into the outward open, into
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  our public life, and it will destroy us.
• 47:43
  He's telling us to take care of them at their root here.
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  And He's telling us that there is a literal place called hell
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  where the worm never dies and the fire never goes out.
• 47:54
  Friends, where they'll be weeping, gnashing of teeth, and
• 47:57
  it is forever, It is a billion deaths over, and you can never
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  die. 49 For everyone shall be salted with fire, and every
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  sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
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  So here he is telling us that everybody has to go through
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  trials and persecutions in this life.
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  And it is for the testing of us and the purification of us.
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  It is for the sanctification and consecration of all of us
• 48:30
  believers. And even for those who do not
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  believe and will not believe, they have to go through so many
• 48:40
  trials and tribulations in this life, friends.
• 48:44
  But the sad reality is they wallow in all of their self pity
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  and they never reach up and grab a hold of his hand and allow him
• 48:58
  to pull them up. And out of that pit of despair,
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  of that muck and that mire, they wallow in it and they die in it.
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  And hell is worse than anything that this life could ever throw
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  at you, and the only hope that we have is that we are going to
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  be there with Jesus Christ for all of eternity. 50 Salt is
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  good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you
• 49:37
  season it? Have salt in yourselves and have
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  peace one with another. There is no peace outside of a
• 49:46
  relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ.
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  Do not let a human being stand between you and God.
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  It is only the blood of Jesus Christ that is going to get us
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  there in the end. Friends.
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  We must be salt and light unto this wicked and perverse
• 50:10
  generation, Friends, they need to see him in US.
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  People are tired of hearing about it.
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  They want to see it. We must live it out, friends.
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  We must. We must finish the race strong,
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  Friends. We must have integrity.
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  Friends. Do the right thing even when no
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  one is looking. Have the salt.
• 50:37
  And yes, salt makes things taste good, and you can look at it
• 50:41
  that way. But salt in a wound sure does
• 50:46
  not feel good, but it purifies and it cleanses and we are
• 50:49
  called to be salt. Speak truth in love no matter
• 50:56
  the outcome. But how would you know the truth
• 51:00
  unless you're in this word? Jesus Christ is the truth.
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  He's the way and He's the life and we know that the Word was
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  with God and the Word was God and we must stay connected to
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  the vine and produce fruit. Friends, stay salty.
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  I hope that you have been blessed by this chapter.
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  I know I sure have many times over.
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  I'm praying for you. I love you so does God.
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  See you back here tomorrow. God bless you.