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440 | Even Jesus Rendered Unto Caesar · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  God is in control.
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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl,
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  So often, we get discouraged and offended by the actions of other people toward us.
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  We find ourselves with hurt feelings because we didn't get what was rightfully ours.
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  Perhaps we were overlooked for a part, a position, a promotion, or an award.
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  These are all things that, when they happen, our flesh not only feels badly,
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  but also wants to retaliate, push back, and even sometimes get even.
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  But when we take the time to look at all that Jesus endured and take his words
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  to heart, we see that these kinds of injustices are nothing more than a ploy of the devil,
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  an obstacle meant to trip us up, and are minor compared to the glory we will
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  receive as we run the race with patience and let our light shine.
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  Join us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes us on a
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  journey through the scriptures, revealing the hope of Jesus to carry us through
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  our trials and make us victorious.
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  Hold on. The King is coming.
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  Hello, and thank you for joining us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  As we begin to think about what it's like when Jesus said to us in Luke chapter 9 and verse 23,
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  that if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
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  When we begin to think about what that means, it helps us a little bit to understand
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  the things that happen in our lives.
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  The Bible says that a man is born of a woman and a few days full of trouble.
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  We live in a world that is desperately wicked. Who can know it, the scripture says.
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  We live in a world where we are not to be friends with the world.
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  In fact, he says that to be friends with the world is to be an enemy to him.
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  He was pretty clear when he said that following me was going to cost you.
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  You'll have to daily choose me, and you'll have to daily choose a cross to bear.
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  Yet at times, when we are in the midst of trouble, turmoil, abuse,
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  just injustices happening to us, we often look more at the event that's taking
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  place than the grand plan that Jesus has for each of us.
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  And in jeremiah 29 11 he's clear that he has a plan for us to prosper us and
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  to give us a hope it's a good plan that he has for us in romans 8 28 he says
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  that we know that all things work together for the good to them that love the
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  lord for them that are called according to his purpose.
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  All of those things when we're not being berated when we're not being overlooked
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  when we're not being shoved down in a box and put over in a corner make perfect
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  sense But the practice of walking through those moments of unfairness,
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  those trials and temptations, those events of hurt, the practice of walking
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  through with your eyes fixed on Jesus is what we as Christians must do.
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  If we're going to carry out that commission in Matthew 5, 16,
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  which says that we need to let our light so shine before men that they see our
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  good works and glorify our Father which is in heaven.
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  Peter often was a person who found himself in situations, but he's the one who
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  tells us, look, it's easy to love when everything's going well.
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  It's easy to do the right thing when everyone around you is doing the right thing.
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  But the hallmark of integrity, even the world knows this, is doing the right
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  thing when no one is watching.
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  And true Christianity, a person who is sold out to Jesus Christ,
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  who's placed their faith completely in him,
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  truly is the only person who can walk in the midst of trial,
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  endure pain and affliction, and give Jesus the glory,
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  and continue to live in his joy all in the midst.
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  Now, as humans, I think we probably slide all over that rock.
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  And some days we are so filled with the Holy Spirit that we are doing what he
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  said to do in 1 Peter 5, 6, when he said to humble yourselves,
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  therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.
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  Have you thought about what it means to humble yourself under the mighty hand of God?
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  See, he's telling you, place your trust in Jesus and realize that he is mighty
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  to save, he's mighty to protect,
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  he's mighty to help, and his grand plan for you that he tells us about in Jeremiah
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  29, 11 that he has for us must be mighty.
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  And it must be mighty good. Because if your earthly father knows how to give
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  you good things, How much more will your heavenly Father know how to give you good things?
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  And no good thing does he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
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  Jesus not only wants to save you, he wants to have constant,
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  continual communication and fellowship with you, and he wants you to follow him.
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  And when you follow him in his footsteps, you will be led to the life that he
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  promises is in John 10.10 that says he came to give us life and to have it more abundantly.
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  So how does all of that work in the midst of someone tearing you down,
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  shoving you aside, consistently demeaning you?
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  Well, first we have to look at the situation. If we're where we shouldn't be,
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  then we need to remove ourselves from it.
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  God does not expect us to be a punching bag. He does not expect us to live in misery.
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  But sometimes we walk in ways to be a blessing to someone else.
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  Sometimes we walk in ways to be a living testimony of who God is, His grace and His mercy.
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  Sometimes we walk in ways so that we can instruct others who aren't as close.
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  And who don't understand that daily we choose to follow Jesus and to pick up his cross.
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  But how do we manage to do that when we know that we're in the place we're supposed
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  to be, but the place we're supposed to be feels lousy?
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  How do we continue to keep putting one foot in front of the other so that we
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  are standing in the center of God's will, experiencing joy unspeakable and a
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  peace that passes understanding?
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  Because that's the only way you
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  can endure the hardships of this life that are meant for you to endure,
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  is if you do realize that you humble yourself, you submit yourself,
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  you put yourself below the mighty hand of God.
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  And I think it looks a little like Psalm 91, where he says, he that dwelleth
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  in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
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  The shadow behind his protection in the coolness of the shade,
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  in the footsteps that are right.
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  In Psalms 91, he goes on to say, I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and
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  my fortress, my God in him will I trust.
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  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noise and pestilence.
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  He shall cover thee with his feathers and under his wings shalt thou trust.
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  His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
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  And he goes on to say thou should not be afraid because he's our shield and our buckler.
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  So how is it that we can do that? It's because the battle isn't ours.
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  1 Samuel 1747 ties all of this together.
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  You might be in a battle, but it's not yours to fight.
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  You might be the physical presence of the spiritual warfare.
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  You simply might be the person God is using to stand in the gap for someone else.
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  And we're not going to be able to pull that off if we're not trusting completely that His plan is for us.
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  We're not going to be able to pull that off if we are looking for every moment
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  of every day to reflect we get what we think we deserve.
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  But I'd like to just insert a truth here. If we get what we deserve, we get hell.
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  And life is but a vapor. So this moment of uncomfortableness that you may be
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  living in, which surely it will pass, there's nothing like the hell we deserve.
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  And we signed up for the army of God. We said, I believe you,
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  Jesus. I believe you shed your blood on Calvary.
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  And that you covered my sins, and that you've washed me white as snow,
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  and you've placed inside of me the Holy Spirit to lead me, to guide me, and to comfort me.
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  So how do we walk through the valley of the shadow of death?
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  How do we walk and fear no evil?
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  How do we take each step on the path of hardness in this world?
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  Troubles, we've got some.
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  Listen, he said, don't be surprised. Hey, they didn't like me either,
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  so they're not going to like you.
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  But he said, be of good cheer, for I have good news.
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  I have overcome the world.
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  Jesus in this, these few verses of a plethora of others, has given us an understanding of, hold on.
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  Jesus has you. And let's look at him for a minute. He's trustworthy.
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  Before you were even born, he knew you had a sin debt that you couldn't pay.
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  So he took on a sin debt he didn't owe so that you could be freed from the bondage
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  and the slavery of sin. But you know what we do?
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  We have one foot in the world and the rest of us trying to do the spiritual thing.
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  That's a recipe for disaster because
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  he wants the whole of us because we
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  get the whole of him he wants our every thought he wants our every heartbeat
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  he wants our energy he wants our talents he wants our skills and he wants our
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  devotion and he says hey if you give me that I got you.
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  I'll surround you with my feathers. I'll pull you up on my lap.
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  I will protect you. I will provide for you.
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  I will lift you up.
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  But we're short-sighted. We somehow think that this is the prize.
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  When yet we're told that the best is yet to come. Eye hath not seen and ear
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  hath not heard what lies in store for them that love the Lord.
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  It's never even entered into the mind of man.
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  Were short-sighted. It is a great privilege to serve the King of Kings.
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  Jesus' love for us is unquestioned. His dedication to us is unmatched.
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  His provision for us is unbelievable.
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  But have you thought about what it cost Him? We all think about the cross,
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  and I don't think any of us ever really can fathom what it meant to give his
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  life on the cross, the pain and the suffering he endured.
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  And he was fully man when he was on that cross and fully God.
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  The fully man part makes it possible for me to know that every trial,
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  every temptation, every pain, every negative situation, he understands.
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  He's been there, done that, and has the scars to prove it.
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  His fully guard part shows me that my redemption draweth nigh and my Redeemer lives.
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  And that though I'm a vile sinner, I am saved by the free gift of grace.
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  Jesus loves me. This I know.
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  But sometimes my fleshly mind and my finite mind struggles to understand the
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  depth and the breadth of his infinite love and wisdom.
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  And so when trials are coming my way, when people are hurting me,
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  when my feelings are getting tramped on, when I'm being bypassed by others,
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  when I am being overlooked, not respected,
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  and completely disregarded, it is then I want to know how Jesus walked.
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  Because only then, understanding what Jesus went through, understanding what he walked through,
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  understanding what he gave up, that's the only way that I'm going to understand
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  that this King of kings and Lord of lords is going to carry me through.
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  I've got to get my eyes fixed on Jesus.
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  I've got to understand that my battles don't belong to me. They belong to the Lord.
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  King David understood that in 1 Samuel 17, 47, when he said,
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  All this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear,
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  for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you unto my hands.
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  I'm telling you, hold on.
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  The king is coming. Hold on. The king has got you.
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  Hold on. In 1 Peter 5, 6, he says, Humble yourselves, therefore,
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  into the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Don't give up.
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  Just before the revelation that it's your time.
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  See, this King of Kings and Lord of Lords, as we're told in Matthew 28, 18,
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  when he said that Jesus came to spake unto them, and he said this,
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  All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. All power.
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  That means he's it. He's all that in a bag of chips.
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  He's supreme authority. there's none like him, and there's none above him.
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  In other places in Scripture, we are told that everything is created by him
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  and under him, so he is above all.
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  But yet, I want to bring to your attention how he lived.
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  When he came into this world, he came as a babe. We learned that in Luke 2.
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  The innkeeper there didn't have any room for him.
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  So he pitches him out into a stable-like area.
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  So he who owned it all has an humble beginning as an outcast as all the other
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  people there was room for.
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  But it didn't stop there.
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  See jesus spoke to.
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  Us in very distinct ways to give
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  us hope because hope has a name and his name is jesus and so he says to them
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  remember the word that i said unto you that the servant is not greater than
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  his lord if they have persecuted me they will also persecute you if they have kept my saying,
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  they will also keep yours. In other words, listen.
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  Remember he said, be of good cheer. I've overcome the world.
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  But don't expect this world that doesn't understand you, this world that does
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  not respect Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
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  Don't expect it to be a friendly place for you.
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  Don't get comfortable.
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  Because we are pilgrims sojourning through, looking for a city whose builder and maker is God.
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  In John 15, 20, he said, Remember the word that I said unto you.
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  I think that would be incredibly smart for us all to remember many of the words that he said unto us.
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  But Jesus tells us, Look, your life here is not going to be easy.
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  Keep your eyes on me.
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  Fact, he says, wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses,
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  let us lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily beset us,
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  and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.
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  This trial, this obstacle, this seemingly disrespect, this overlooking,
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  this neglect, this meanness and cruelty.
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  It's the road and the race that's been set before you.
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  And he says, endure it with patience.
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  And you're saying, well, I can't. How can I? I'm telling you, give it to the Lord.
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  Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God. Victory is coming.
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  How do I know that? Because in Romans 8, 37, he says, Nay, in all these things,
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  we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. Jesus loves me.
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  This I know. And he tells us in 1 Corinthians 1557 that we be thanks to God,
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  which give us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  He is not slack concerning his promises.
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  And he said, I will supply your every need.
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  He said, I will never leave you nor forsake you. and he said,
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  I'll give you the strength of your need.
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  But you got to keep your eyes on the prize.
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  You got to keep your eyes on Jesus. You got to hang on.
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  The king is going to exalt you.
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  The king is going to notice you. Nail-scarred hands are going to clap for your performance.
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  Nail-scarred hands are going to wrap them around you. The attaboy you get from
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  Jesus is way more than anything earth can compare or create.
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  All of heaven is looking over the balcony,
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  supporting you and cheering you on and giving you what you need,
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  because that person who's pushing you down, putting you in a box,
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  throwing you in a corner, I promise you there's going to be a day of reckoning.
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  Perry's sisters used to sing a song called, There's a Payday Someday.
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  And for those of us who are in the trenches and we are dodging the bullets or just,
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  hunkering down in the arms of jesus and allowing
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  his wings of feathers to block them allowing the shield and the buckler that
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  he is for us to turn those shots away those of us who are walking that path
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  straight and narrow trying hard not to look left or right trying hard not to talk about the storm,
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  but seeing Jesus for who he is, allowing him to let us walk over the problems,
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  to walk on the water of his life.
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  The sustaining, thirst, fulfilling, successful, life-giving blood is something
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  that quenches all the thirst because it gives us a water that will make us never thirst again.
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  And we're walking on the water of his provision. We're walking on the water of his protection.
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  We're walking on the water of the procedures and the processes that God has
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  laid before us in the race that he has set us.
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  It is now time to hunker down.
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  Let him be the shield. Let him be the buckler. And in the face of any kind of
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  problems and any weapon formed against you.
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  Set your eyes upon Jesus.
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  Look straight in his face, and the things of this world will grow strangely dim.
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  How do we endure the stuff that the devil throws at us?
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  We throw our hands up and say, Lord, save me. We fix our eyes like a flint on
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  Jesus, and we don't look at the circumstances.
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  When Peter looked at the circumstances, he failed. And my friend,
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  we don't count the points.
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  We don't measure the score.
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  We live in the blessings and we trust completely and we put every ounce of faith
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  we have in a God that cannot fail.
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  I want you to see what he did in Matthew chapter 22.
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  I'm going to read verses 16 through 21 in your hearing.
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  This is the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
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  This is the one true living God who is greater than all. And this is what he says.
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  They sent unto him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying,
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  Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth.
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  Neither carest thou for any man, for thou regardest not the person of men.
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  Tell us, therefore, what thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
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  But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me,
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  ye hypocrites? Show me the tribute money.
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  And they brought it unto him, a penny.
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  And he said unto them, Whose is the image and subscription?
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  And they say unto him, Caesar's. Then he saith unto them, Render therefore unto
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  Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God.
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  Jesus is telling his disciples that God is supreme and God is above,
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  but I'm on earth like a man, and right now the authority that God has given on earth is Caesar.
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  And so you give to Caesar what is Caesar's. He subjects himself to the rules
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  of the land so long as they never contradicted the rules of God.
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  Now, I don't know about you, but I'm pretty certain that I know what I'm talking about here.
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  You've never been disrespected, overlooked, discarded, mistreated,
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  been treated hurtful or mean.
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  Anybody who had as much authority over you as the king, Caesar,
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  was exerting over Jesus.
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  Jesus submitted when he could have called 10,000 angels to smite him,
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  when he could have looked at him and said, let's go one-on-one.
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  You show me what you can do, and I'll show you what I can do,
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  and then I'll raise you to.
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  Let's see you speak the world into existence. Hey, let's see you tell that rock to bring forth water.
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  Hey, you tell that ocean wave to stop.
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  See, Jesus could have pulled his punches at him.
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  He could have exhibited great power because as we were told previously in Matthew
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  28, 18, all power is given unto him in heaven and on earth.
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  But Jesus didn't do that.
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  Jesus knew who he was. And rambling and fighting with someone not worthy to
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  tie his shoelaces wasn't in his plans.
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  Jesus knew that Caesar couldn't do anything that Jesus didn't let Caesar do.
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  So when you're looking at the power trip somebody's having over you,
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  the jealousy they may be exhibiting because of you, or the way they're treating you.
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  Remember that as a Christian, you wear the title Christ-like.
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  And Christ said, humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God,
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  that he may exalt you in due time.
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  Caesar's long dead and gone. Jesus still reigns. and one day he's coming back.
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  Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that he is Lord.
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  Friends, Jesus endured, I believe, so that we would understand some things aren't
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  worth a fight and it's not your fight to fight.
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  It's mine, he said. The battle belongs to the Lord.
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  I want to give you another example And for this, I would ask you to turn in
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  your Bibles to Matthew chapter 27, verses 12 through 26.
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  This is Jesus, who left the splendor of heaven, who's fully God and fully man.
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  He is the second part of the Trinity. There's God the Father,
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  God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
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  This is who we're talking about, who's going to stand, be ridiculed, mocked.
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  But for the race that was set before him, for the job God had given him, he stayed fixed on God.
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  And he allowed God to raise him, to save him, to help him, to strengthen him.
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  Beginning in verse 12, we read this.
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  And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
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  Let's read that again. And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
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  He said not a word.
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  And he answered him to never a word insomuch that the governor marveled greatly.
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  Now at that feast, the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner whom they would.
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  And they had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas.
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  Therefore, when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them,
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  Whom will ye that I release unto you, Barabbas?
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  Or Jesus, which is called Christ. For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
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  When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him,
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  saying, Have thou nothing to do with this, that just man?
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  For I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
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  But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitude that they should
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  ask Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
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  Oh, friends, the way of the cross is difficult and lonely.
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  The crowd is going to go along to get along. The crowd is going to do what's popular.
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  The crowd isn't who you answer to. The crowd isn't the supreme authority.
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  You've got to set your faith and your trust in Jesus Christ,
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  and you've got to set your heart and mind and life like Flint.
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  In the direction that he's calling you.
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  When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife had told him not to do anything about it.
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  But like many, Pilate isn't listening to good advice.
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  So Pilate saith unto them, what shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?
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  That's a question you're being asked today, too. What are you going to do with Jesus?
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  They all say unto him, let him be crucified. And the governor said,
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  Why? What evil has he done?
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  But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
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  Pilate knew what he was doing was wrong, but he could not stand against the
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  crowd. Is that you today?
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  Do you have fickle love? You're good inside the church doors,
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  but outside the church doors nobody can tell?
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  I'm not sure what kind of love that really is.
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  When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a turmoil was
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  made, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude,
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  saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. See ye to it.
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  Then answered all the people and said, His blood be on us and on their children.
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  Then released he Barabbas unto them.
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  And when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
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  Let's go back to verse 12.
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  And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
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  He wasn't afraid.
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  He was following the will of God. He wasn't helpless.
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  He was standing in the most strength you'll ever see exhibited in this world.
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  He was standing in the most strength you'll ever see exhibited in this world.
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  Was completely humbled to stand in the presence of God and allow God to take this battle.
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  He was running the race that was set before him.
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  Now, I know that many of you have been abused, hurt by life,
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  betrayed by friends you loved,
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  by churches, by church people, by people of the world at work,
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  but none of you have a race set before you that comes close to the race that God set before Jesus.
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  And Jesus showed us how to run that race.
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  He showed us to walk in the ways that God has prescribed for us to walk.
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  He showed us to be bold in our faith, strong in our trust.
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  He showed us to set our
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  purpose like flint against what god has given us to do so the next time you're
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  walking being shoved and pushed jostled and forgotten pierced with words,
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  shoved aside in deafening silence look up your redemption draweth nigh Hold
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  on just a little longer, because the anchor holds,
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  and your day is coming.
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  The King is coming.
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  Remember, you are loved. Jesus loves you.
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