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  Luke chapter 13 Let us pray. Our Father, who is in heaven,
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  holy is your name, your Kingdom come, Your will be done on
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  earth, just as it is in heaven. Give us today Our Daily Bread.
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  Forgive us for our sins as we forgive those who sin against
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  us. Lead us not into temptation,
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  Father. Deliver us from the evil one,
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  for yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever
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  and ever man. Let's start in verse one.
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  There were present at that season some that told him of the
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  Galileans, whose blood pilot had mingled with their sacrifices
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  too. And Jesus answering, said unto
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  them, Suppose you that these Galileans were sinners above all
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  the Galileans, because they suffered such things?
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  So here the people are wanting to know Jesus thoughts about
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  what Pilate had done whenever he dressed up some soldiers in
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  civilian clothing and he had them put their weapons
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  underneath and they were in the crowd amongst some protesters
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  because Pilate had brought in some ensigns from the Roman
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  government. And the people were revolting
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  because they're in Jerusalem. He had pictures of Caesar and
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  you can see here that Pilate was no friend of the Jews and you
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  can see here that he had many of them killed.
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  And that is what is referenced in this moment.
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  And the people want to know Jesus's thoughts.
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  And what does Jesus say? Three, I tell you no, but except
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  you repent, you shall all likewise perish.
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  So here he's saying that we are not to try to judge these
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  things, but we need to make sure we're right with God.
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  We need to make sure that if we were to breathe our last, that
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  we would be ushered into His presence.
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  And we do not know how much time we have on this earth.
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  We need to make sure that we live every single day as if it's
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  our last day. And that is the key here,
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  friends. He's going to go on to tell them
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  a story. Now for or those 18 upon whom
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  the tower of Siloam fell, and it killed them.
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  Do you think that they were sinners above all men that
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  dwelled in Jerusalem? I tell you no, but except you
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  repent, you shall all likewise perish.
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  You know, the Lord's ways are not our ways.
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  His thoughts are much higher than our thoughts.
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  And we would do well when natural disasters hit to allow
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  God to have the final say and for us not to try to judge what
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  is happening, but to be remorseful for all those that
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  lost their lives, that did not have the indwelling of the Holy
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  Spirit, that were not sealed with the blood of Jesus Christ
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  for all time's sake, for all of eternity, for a billion years
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  over. And it should grieve us when
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  anyone takes their last breath and failed to put their trust
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  and their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. 6 And he spoke
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  also this parable. A certain man had a fig tree
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  planted in his vineyard, and he came in, sought fruit from it,
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  and found none. And then he said unto the
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  dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking
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  fruit on the fig tree, and I find none.
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  Cut it down. Why cumbereth it to the ground?
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  8 Any answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year
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  also, until I shall dig about it and dung it. 9 And if it bear
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  fruit, well, and if not, then after that you shall cut it
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  down. So the Lord comes looking for
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  fruit, friends, and he desires for us to be fruitful and live
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  fruitful lives. And it is a natural overflow of
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  a life that is sold out to the Lord Jesus Christ to produce the
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  fruit that he is after. And you can see here some very
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  deep biblical principles of how the Lord looks at us.
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  He desires for us to bear fruit, and he comes and he's looking
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  for that fruit. And if we are not fruitful, we
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  are cut down and cast into the fire.
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  Friends. 10 And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the
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  Sabbath. 11 And behold, there was a woman which had a spirit
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  of infirmity 18 years, and was bowed together, and could no way
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  lift up herself. 12 And when Jesus saw her, he called her to
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  him, and he said unto her, Woman, you are loosed from your
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  infirmity. 13 And he laid his hands on her, and immediately
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  she was made straight and glorified God.
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  Fourteen in the ruler of the synagogue answered with
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  indignation because that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day,
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  and said unto the people, There are 6 days in which men ought to
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  work in them, therefore come and be healed and not on the Sabbath
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  day. This is ridiculous.
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  This synagogue ruler did not have the power to heal and if he
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  had, this woman had not been bound up for 18 years.
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  And here he's saying come and be healed on the other six days.
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  But there was no healing available to her.
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  And Jesus goes all over their man made superstitious religious
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  ceremonial traditions. And he says you are healed.
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  And He says the same thing to you and to me today.
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  He stretches out his hands. He touches you today, friends,
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  and receive your healing today. Do not worry about what other
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  people are going to say or what other people are going to think.
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  Reach out and grab the hem of His garment.
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  Do not let go until He blesses you, until He heals you. 15 The
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  Lord answered him, and said, You hypocrite, does not each one of
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  you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and
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  lead him away to watering? 16 And ought not this woman,
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  being the daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound low these
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  18 years, be loosed from this bomb on the Sabbath day?
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  So we could see that Satan had this woman bound up.
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  We could see that Jesus could see to the root, to the real
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  problem. He could see through it all.
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  He knew that this wasn't just a natural affliction.
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  He knew that Satan had bound her up.
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  He knew that she come carrying in that bondage.
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  He knew that Satan had no place in his presence and it was a
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  natural overflow for him to heal this woman.
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  And we should always assume that God wants to heal.
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  Friends 17 And when he had said these things, all his
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  adversaries were ashamed, and all the people rejoiced for all
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  the glorious things that were done by him.
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  That's what happens when you oppose the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  It only leads to your shame. It only leads to your demise.
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  It only leads to separation from Him.
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  We need to bow low. We need to give him all of
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  ourselves, nothing hidden, nothing held back, and receive
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  our healing. 18 Then he said, Unto what is the Kingdom of God
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  like, and where unto shall I resemble it?
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  19 It's like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and cast
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  to his garden, and it grew and waxed a great tree, and the
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  fowls of the air lodged in his branches of it.
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  So we can see here that Jesus is telling us that this little
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  mustard seed grows up into a big tree.
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  And they would have known that he was talking about the church.
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  They would have known that he was talking about the devil
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  coming and lodging in the church's branches.
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  And you can see that happening today.
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  You can see how all of these false sects have risen up out of
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  the pure tree of Jesus Christ. You can see that there is a lot
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  of false teachings. There is a lot of false
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  doctrine. You can see that there's so many
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  people who have started these different ideas about
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  Christianity, and they attach just enough of the truth to lead
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  many people astray. And those people are in bondage
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  today. They're in bondage to all of the
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  heretical teachings of that sect, and this is what Jesus is
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  referencing at this time. 20 And again he said, wherein to shall
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  I liken the Kingdom of God? 21 It is like leaven, which a
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  woman took and hid in three measures of meal until the whole
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  was leaven. We know that the birds were
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  likened unto Satan coming and grabbing the seed off of the
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  ground. We know that the Levin was the
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  hypocrisy. We know that he is in this
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  moment. He is telling us to be careful
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  of all the hypocrisy and duplicity that is being
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  purported through the church. We need to make sure that we are
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  getting into this book and we're allowing this book to govern our
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  lives. We're allowing the Bible to be
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  the supreme authority over our lives, friends, for every moment
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  of every second of every day. We cannot just rely on a church
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  building on pews and stained glass windows.
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  We cannot rely on a suit and a tie.
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  We cannot rely on the false doctrine and false teachings
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  that are going on and that are abounding right here and right
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  now in our day, in our hour. We must be grounded and rooted
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  in the true Word of God. 22 And he went through the cities and
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  villages teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem.
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  We know that He set his face like a Flint towards Jerusalem.
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  He knew that his time was coming to be sacrificed.
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  He knew that he was the ultimate Passover lamb.
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  He knew the timeline that was given to him. 23 Then said one
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  of Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved?
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  And he said unto them, 24 Strive to enter in at the Strait gate
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  for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not
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  be able. This straight gate.
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  Jesus Christ is this straight gate and we need to make sure
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  that we are attached and 100% obedient unto the Lord.
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  We need to make sure that this straight gate is the only way,
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  friends, it's the only way in. Jesus said, I am the way, the
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  truth, and the life, and no one comes unto the Father except
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  through me. There are many who nod at Jesus.
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  There are many who tip Jesus. There are many who try to
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  sprinkle Jesus into their life and they think that it's enough.
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  But his way is the straight gate, friends, and only a few
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  find it. 25 When once the master of the house has risen up and
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  has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock
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  at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
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  And he shall answer, and say unto you, I know you, not who
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  you are. So here is a very hard passage,
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  friends. This is what's going to happen
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  one day when the door gets shut and there is no more salvation
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  after you take your last breath, friends.
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  And this is one of the hardest passages in all of the Bible,
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  because you can see that there will be many who are trying to
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  get in, but they cannot get in because they did not take the
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  opportunity while they were still living. 20 Then shall you
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  begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in your presence, and you
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  have taught in our streets? 27 But he shall say, I tell you,
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  I know you, not who you are. Depart from me, all you workers
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  of iniquity. Jesus sees right through it.
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  These people didn't want to give their lives to Him whenever He
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  was in their midst. They did not want to give their
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  lives to Him when they were in the world at this time, during
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  the time of grace, when He was showering grace upon them and
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  they had breath in their lungs. They did not want to live for
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  Him. They wanted to live for sin and
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  self and for pleasure and pleasantries.
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  And here He sees what all that is.
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  There's no neutrality. And He calls them workers of
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  iniquity. Friends. 28 There shall be
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  weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you shall see Abraham,
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  Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God,
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  and you yourselves thrust out. There is a chasm.
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  You cannot go to where they are AT.
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  And there is torment, and you are looking at it, and you
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  cannot go to it. What a idea here that Jesus
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  himself, the words in the out of the mouth of Jesus Christ
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  himself. He tells us what it will be
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  like. And we would do well to make
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  sure that we believe every single one of these words.
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  And this isn't just hyperbole. This is not just pragmatic.
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  This is not just a good teaching.
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  This isn't allegorical, friends. This is reality and you would do
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  well to make sure that you are locked in paying attention to
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  what it will be like whenever you take your last breath.
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  It will be too late for you if you have not lived for him and
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  been completely sold out to Him and have given your whole life
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  nothing head and nothing held back to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  He's worthy of all of your attention and adoration and
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  affection. He's worthy of all the years
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  that you have left on this earth.
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  He's worthy of it. Friends, there was only one
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  found worthy to open the scroll. 29 And they shall come from the
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  east, and from the West, and from the north, and from the
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  South, and shall sit down in the Kingdom of God. 30 And behold,
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  there are, there are last which shall be first, and there are
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  first which shall be last. These are the biblical
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  principles of eternity. It's plain.
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  It's as plain as the nose on your face.
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  It is crystal clear. He tells us exactly to the
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  letter what it will be like. The first shall be last, and the
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  last shall be first. And we can see that He prepares
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  A banquet for us in the presence of our enemies.
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  We can see, friends, how good is our God, how loving is our God.
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  He loves us, and He loves us well. 31 The same day there came
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  certain of the Pharisees saying unto him, Get you out and depart
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  from here, for Herod will kill you.
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  So here these Pharisees are trying to push him out.
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  They are not actually trying to help him.
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  They're trying to get him to go into the jurisdiction where they
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  can do what they want with him. Here He's in here's jurisdiction
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  and they're trying to get him to believe that Herod is going to
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  kill him. And we know that Herod was
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  afraid because he thought of Jesus as John the Baptist rising
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  from the dead. And he had a sin conscience
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  because he killed John the Baptist.
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  And here we know that Herodias was the master manipulator of
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  Herod's life. Let's see what Jesus has to say.
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  32 And he said unto them, Go you and tell that fox.
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  Behold, I cast out devils, I do cures today and tomorrow and the
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  third day I shall be perfected. So here he references his
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  resurrection. Here he says, Go and tell that
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  vixen, and he is directing it towards Herodias here. 23
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  Nevertheless I must walk today and tomorrow and the day
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  following. For it cannot be that a prophet
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  perishes out of Jerusalem. He already knew what he was
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  going to have to do, friends. Nothing took him by surprise. 34
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  Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem which kills the prophets and stones
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  them that are sent to you. How often I would have gathered
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  your children together, as a hen does gather her brood under her
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  wings, and you would not. We'll end on. 35 Behold, your
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  house is left unto you desolate. For truly I say unto you, you
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  shall not see me until the time when you shall say, blessed is
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  he that comes in the name of the Lord.
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  Are we there yet, friends? Are we saying, blessed is he
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  that comes in the name of the Lord?
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  Here he's prophesying AD 70, whenever their temple would be
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  destroyed and sacked by the Romans.
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  Here you can see that Jesus's heart was to gather them at this
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  time, but he knew they would reject him.
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  He knew they would kill him. Nothing took him by surprise.
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  How amazing is our Lord Jesus Christ?
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.