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Luke chapter 14 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Luke chapter 14. Let us pray.
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  Thank you, Lord, for today. Thank you, God, for all the many
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  blessings that you're pouring out on us.
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  Thank you, Lord, that you've given us life, God, and life
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  abundant. Thank you, Father, that you've
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  rebuked the devourer from off of our families and off of our
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  lives. God, thank you for the promises
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  contained within this good book. Thank you, Father, for all the
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  promises of eternity and all the promises that you're going to
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  come and you're going to rescue us, God, and that we have the
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  power, Lord, to go out and to do war and to go to battle.
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  God and put on the full armor. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you will remove the spirit of timidity.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that we will not be hypocrites.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that we'll practice integrity.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll give us the peace.
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  Lord, that only comes from you. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that everything that you desire to do for today, Lord, you will
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  help us to accomplish. God, I pray that you, God, will
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  get all the glory forever and ever.
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  It's all about you. Lord.
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  I pray for churches God to be full.
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  I pray for revival God to break out from the king to the cattle.
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  Lord, pray in the name of Jesus for all of our government
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  leaders. God, I pray for the school
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  systems. God, I pray for all of the law
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  enforcement and military. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you will bring righteous leaders on the scene.
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  God, I pray, Lord, for the nation Israel.
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  God, I pray that you will continue to protect them.
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  Lord, I pray that you will continue, God, to draw a circle
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  around that land. Lord, I pray that all of your
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  will will be done here on this earth, just as it is there in
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  heaven. God, I pray that you'll continue
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  to bring about all of the prophecies that are contained in
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  this book. Bring them to fruition.
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  Help us not to see this life as our inheritance God, but help us
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  to live in light of eternity, knowing God that what is next is
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  far greater than any pleasure that we could ever have here on
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  this earth. God, help us to be the men and
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  women of faith that you've called us into.
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  God, help us to not shrink back from death.
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  Lord, help us not to fear death. God, help us to know, Lord, that
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  when we were to breathe our last, we're going to be ushered
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  into your presence. Lord, we know, God, that your
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  Scripture is crystal clear. We know, Father, that you, Lord,
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  are going to get all the glory, God, and it's never going to
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  change, Lord. You win in the end, Father, and
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  so we're on the winning side, God.
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  Help us to realize that, Father. Help us to walk in that bridal
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  identity that we are more than conquerors, God, for you are a
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  good God and you are glorious God.
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  Thank you, Father, for all the many things that you've already
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  done for us today, for waking us up and giving us something to
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  eat, the clean drinking water, God for clothing, God for
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  warmth. God for the love that we your
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  God. Thank you that we can know love
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  because you are love. We love you God.
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  We love everything about you. God and Lord, I get out of the
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  way. I decrease as you increase.
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  Holy Spirit, you teach today. Holy Spirit, you guide us, give
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  us discernment for this hour. God, help us to know what it is
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  to do whenever you say to do it. Help us give us the strength of
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  God. I pray in the name of Jesus for
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  power from on high. I pray for healing from on high.
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  God, heal our bodies. Lord, I pray for all those that
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  are sick. God, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, heal them. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus for the mentally ill. God, heal them and give them a
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  sound mind. Father, I pray for the drug
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  addicts and the Alcoholics. God, get them.
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  Lord, clean, I pray in the name of Jesus, you give them all
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  those with the suicidal spirit. God, I rebuke that in the name
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  of Jesus. God, send those devils to the
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  judgment that you have awaiting them.
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  God, in the name of Jesus, Lord, give them a reason to live.
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  God, show them more of yourself. Show them more of your love.
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  God, help them to see a new facet of your face.
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  God, we love you. Yes, God, we love everything
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  about you. Lord, turn your face towards us,
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  God, shine upon us, God, and make us more like Christ today
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  than we were yesterday. We love you, King Jesus.
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  It's all about you, King Jesus, and it's in your holy, powerful
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  and precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And it came to pass as he went
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  into the House of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on
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  the Sabbath day, that they watched him.
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  You know Jesus, here he is, He's getting invited into one of the
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  chief Pharisees house. He knew that they were
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  duplicious. He knew that they were trying to
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  set him up. Let's see what he has to say
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  about it too. And behold, there was a certain
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  man before him which had the dropsy 3 and Jesus answering
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  spoken to the lawyers and the Pharisees saying, is it lawful
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  to heal on the Sabbath day? He already knew the answer.
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  They had made-up all their man made traditions that try to
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  catch people in the act so they can usurp their authority over
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  them and Lord it over them. And that was not the way of
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  Jesus. Jesus had compassion.
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  Jesus had love. Jesus knew what he was going to
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  do. He already knew the answer to
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  the question. And these Pharisees, they just
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  held their tongue because they knew if they answered one way or
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  the other, it was going to be wrong.
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  So let's see what happens. Four.
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  And they held their peace, and he took him, and healed him, and
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  let him go. 5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have
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  an ass or an ox? And it falls into a pit, and
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  will not straightway pull him out on the Sabbath day.
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  And they could not answer him again to these things.
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  So Jesus heals on the Sabbath, and he does it intentionally.
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  And you can see they have invited him into this house to
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  try to trap him, and here he just does what they already knew
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  that he would do, which is to heal.
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  You know, you cannot even come to Jesus and get a touch from
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  Jesus and not be made whole. And the greatest healing that
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  you will ever experience is the freedom from sin and your
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  salvation, friends. And knowing that you're going to
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  stand before an almighty holy God one day and be perfected
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  through the blood of Jesus and be made whole and healed in
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  God's presence and be welcomed and ushered into eternity is the
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  greatest healing that a person could ever receive, friends.
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  And he might leave you in your infirmity here on this earth,
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  and you might even lose your life here on this earth.
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  But what is to come far exceeds anything that we could get in
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  this little lifetime of hours. Don't forget it.
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  They held their peace, and they could not answer him. 7 And he
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  put forth a parable to those that were bidden, when he marked
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  how they chose out the chief room, saying unto them, Eight
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  When you are bidden of any man to a wedding, do not sit down in
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  the highest room, lest a more honorable man than you be bidden
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  of him. 9 And he that bades you, and him come and say to you,
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  give this man place, and you begin with shame to take the
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  lowest room. So Jesus here very simply is
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  saying, Don't try to go to the chief seat beside the host.
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  And then as someone more important than you comes in, he
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  says, Go sit down at the end of the table.
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  And you're ashamed as you get up from that place of honor to go
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  down to the end of the table. And what's he going to tell you
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  here? 10 But when you are bidden, go
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  and sit down at the lowest room. And when he that bade you comes,
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  he may say unto you, Friend, go up higher.
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  Then shall you have worship in the presence of them that sit at
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  meet with you. He's saying, If you go in and
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  you don't think much of yourself, we should always think
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  of others as better than ourselves.
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  By the way, friends, so when you go in and you don't think much
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  of yourself and you sit down at the lowest place and the host
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  sees you down there and he says, what are you doing down there?
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  Come up here as you stand and you walk up to the place of
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  honor. Everyone will see and they will
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  marvel at your position. And we do not seek position and
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  we do not seek titles. But the beautiful thing is that
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  when we take the low place, we will be exalted.
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  But if we try to exalt self, we will be humbled.
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  Friends, it is the way of God, and this is how we should
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  navigate through this little lifetime that we have. 11 For
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  whosoever exalts himself shall be a baston, he that humbles
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  himself shall be exalted. 12 Then he said also to him that
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  bade him, When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your
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  friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor your rich
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  neighbors, lest also they bid you again and a recompense is
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  made for you. 13 But when you make a feast called the poor and
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  the maimed, and the lame and the blind, 14 And you shall be
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  blessed, for they cannot repay you, for you shall be repaid at
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  the resurrection of the just. Here are some biblical
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  principles that we would do well to memorize friends and to
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  meditate upon friends. He's saying that we should not
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  just invite those who have the ability to repay us.
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  We need to invite those that we know could never repay us.
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  And he's saying that we will repaid at the resurrection of
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  the just. Praise God, Hallelujah for the
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  resurrection of the just. I pray that you were there.
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  I pray that you make it there. I pray that you are able to
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  stand in His presence. I pray that you are in the first
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  resurrection where the second death has no power over you,
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  friend. 15 And when one of them that sat at meet with him heard
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  these things, he said unto him, Bless it is he that shall eat
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  bread in the Kingdom of God. Yes, there is a marriage supper
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  of the Lamb that we look forward to.
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  Friends, praise God that this is reality and that we can bet our
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  bottom dollar that we can bank on this.
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  Friends, these are all truths and these are all promises.
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  The Bible is not a book of rules that we must obey.
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  The Bible is a book of promises that God gives to us, and if we
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  will serve Him in this little lifetime that He gives us, and
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  if we will be completely sold out to Him in this little
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  lifetime that He gives us, what we are to gain Far seeds.
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  Anything that we could ever have here on this earth, anything
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  that you give up for Christ will pay dividends.
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  Friends, this is the way of God. And this calls for wisdom. 16
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  And then he said unto him, A certain man had a great supper,
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  and invited many, 17 and sent his servant at supper time to
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  say to them that were invited, come, for all things are now
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  ready. 18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse.
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  The first said unto him, I've bought a piece of ground, and I
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  must needs go and see it. I pray you have me excused 19
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  Another said I've bought 5 yoke of oxen and I go to prove them.
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  I pray you have me excused. 20 And another said, I have married
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  a wife, and therefore I cannot come to. 21 So the servant came
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  and showed his Lord these things.
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  Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his
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  servant, Go out quickly into the streets and the lanes of the
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  city, and bring in here the poor, and the maimed, and the
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  halt, and the blind. 22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done
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  as you have commanded, and yet there is room. 23 And the Lord
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  said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges,
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  and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I
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  say unto you, that none of those men which were bidden shall
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  taste of my supper. This is the parable of the great
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  Supper. We know that he's talking about
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  the Kingdom of God. We know that He's talking about
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  heaven. We know that he's talking about
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  New Jerusalem. We know that he's talking about
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  eternity here, friends. And we can see that He first
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  went to the Jews, and the Jews rejected him here.
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  And there are some in the tribulation that will put their
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  faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and realize that they have
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  murdered their Messiah. But here, here you can see how
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  the Gentiles came in, and it's the jealousy of the Jews that
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  the Gentiles are coming in that actually provokes them to give
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  their lives over to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And it's this divine mystery that's all wrapped up in this
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  little parable that Jesus tells us.
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  And we could study a lifetime on all the principles that are
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  outlined and contained in this little parable that Jesus told.
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  But just know that we came in because of Israel's
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  disobedience. How amazing is our God that he
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  is for the whole world? You can see his love for the
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  whole world. He's not just hyper fixated upon
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  the Jews, but they are his chosen people.
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  And how amazing is that cooperative tension?
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  And it all leads to salvation, and it all points to Jesus
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  Christ. 25 And there went great multitudes with him.
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  And he turned and said unto them, If any man come to me and
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  hates not his father, and mother, and wife, and children,
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  and brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also cannot be
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  my disciple. So you remember a couple
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  chapters back that Christ said that He came to divide, and that
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  people will be set against each other in their own household.
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  And you can see here that He is seems to be purporting hate.
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  But I want you to know that this is in comparison to our love for
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  Him. It should look like hatred for
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  our family. And that's a hard word for
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  especially new believers, those that are not rooted and grounded
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  in God's Word. But it is an easy word, friends,
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  when you have finally captured His heart, when you finally
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  understand the gravity of our salvation, and when you finally
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  get to see His beauty on display.
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  When you finally get to see the glory of God.
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  There is nothing in this earth. There is no relationship in this
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  earth. There is no power in this earth.
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  There is no experience in this earth.
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  There is no person, no thing, no emotion, no feeling that can
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  compare to the love of Christ. And in comparison, it drives out
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  all darkness, it drives out all deceit, it drives out all hatred
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  and malice, it drives out all racism, it drives out all of our
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  prejudiceness. It drives out every single thing
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  because the love of Jesus Christ far exceeds any person, any any
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  amount of money, any position, any title, any emotion or
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  feeling. There is nothing that even
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  compares to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  And I pray that you've caught that.
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  I pray that you've captured that.
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  I pray that you understand that, and that is why when you read
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  this, it is a great divider in your thought processes about
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  God. If you read this and are
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  offended, perhaps you need to go deeper with the Lord. 27 And
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  whosoever does not bear his cross and come after me cannot
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  be my disciple. We cannot fear death, friends.
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  We cannot fear the one that can kill the body.
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  We should not be cowards and we should not have timidity, and we
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  cannot allow fear and faith to cohabitate.
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  One will drive the other out, and if you are trying to hold on
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  to your life, you will lose it. But if you lose your life for
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  the gospel, you'll get an eternal life.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah. 28 For which of you
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  intending to build a tower sits not down 1st and counts the
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  cost, whether you have sufficient to finish it?
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  29 Lest happily, after he had laid the foundation, he's not
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  able to finish it, and all that behold it begin to mock him,
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  saying. This man began to build and was
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  not able to finish. We've got to build our life on
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  the cornerstone. We've got to build our life on
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  the solid rock, and we've got to finish well.
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  That is the parable that is put before us here.
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  We cannot just start to build haphazardly on traditional faith
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  of our grandmother grandfather. We cannot just build on the
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  traditional faith of the church on the street corner.
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  We've got to build our faith on the solid rock friends of the
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  Lord Jesus Christ and the inerrant infallible Word of God
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  and on the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob the Great.
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  I am Yahweh and you will never be put to shame.
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  And those that have started to build on very shallow ground,
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  when persecution starts, they fall away and it is a mocking of
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  the faith friends, those that turn their backs on God and
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  renounce their faith. They were never part of the
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  little flock to begin with. 31 or what king going to make war
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  against another King sits not down 1st and consults whether
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  he's able with 10,000 to meet him that comes against him with
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  20,032 or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends
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  an ambassador and desires conditions of peace. 33 So
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  likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsakes not all that he
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  has, he cannot be my disciples. We've got to count the cost,
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  friends. When you give your life over to
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  the Lord Jesus Christ, don't be surprised if the enemy, our
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  adversary, the accuser of the brethren, actually turns his
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  attention towards you and starts to stir up controversy and
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  starts to stir up dissension and starts to stir up a lot of
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  negative things that happen right after you give your life
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  to the Lord. And if you had not counted the
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  cost, it is in the infancy that you get sniped out, you get
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  wiped out, you get nipped in the bud because before you could
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  even come into bloom, friends, you got dismayed and discouraged
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  and offended and fell away. And you see it time and time and
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  time and time again. You must count the cost.
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  You must make the decision. You must see that Jesus is
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  worthy. You must know that you're going
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  to be ridiculed, you're going to be persecuted, whether overtly,
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  subtly, financially, you're going to have to suffer for His
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  sake, and we should count it all as joy.
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  And if your life doesn't look any different than the world's,
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  it is time to take pause and to make sure that you are actually
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  in the fold, Friends. Our lives should look different.
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  We should not just fit in friends, we are called to be
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  different. We are called to glorify God in
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  the highest, and He will lead us home, and He will show us what
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  it is that we need to do, and He will give us our blessed
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  assurance, and He will let us know that we actually belong to
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  Him. And it is the indwelling of the
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  Holy Spirit where deep calls out to deep, and God confirms His
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  presence in your life, friends. And you'll know that you know
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  that you know that you know that you are His.
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  And if you do not count the cost at the beginning, you will fall
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  away when times get hard. 34 Salt is good, but if the salt
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  has lost its savour, how shall it be seasoned?
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  We'll end on 35. It is neither fit for the land
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  nor yet for the dunghill. But men cast it out.
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  And he that has ears to hear, let him hear.
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  We must stay salty. We are the salt of the earth,
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  and salt in a wound. It hurts, friends, but it
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  cleanses. We need to know that here.
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  Yes, salt makes things bland, things taste better, and yes,
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  this is what we are called to do is season this bland world where
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  everybody's chasing after the wrong things, money and position
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  and power and greed and sex, all of the things that we fill our
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  minds with this reprobate mind. And God is calling us to take
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  every thought captive and have the mind of Christ and to be
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  cleansed. And He tells us to transform our
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  minds with the renewing friends that comes from reading His
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  word, to be not conformed to this world, but to be
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  transformed. This is what God offers us, and
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  He is not the author of confusion, Friends, He's given
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  you a sound mind. And we all would do well to make
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  sure that as we navigate through this life, we are helping those.
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  We're snatching those out of the fire, friends.
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  We're snatching them out of their place here now to be there
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  with us forever more. And don't forget, we are.
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  We are those of us who have taken this faith journey.
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  We are seated with him in heavenly place and he is
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  fighting our battle and He's called us into a war zone and
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  there are so many casualties. Just make sure that we do not
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  have friendly fire. Let's support our brothers and
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  sisters. Let's make sure that we
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  encourage our brothers and sisters.
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  Don't tear them down, friends. Build them up.
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  Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouth, but only that
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  which is useful for edifying, for building up your brothers
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  and sisters. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter here and Luke, I know I sure have many times over
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  praying for you. God loves you, Jesus loves you,
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  the Holy Spirit loves you, I love you and we will see you
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  back here tomorrow. God bless you.