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Mark chapter 8 · Scripture Unscripted

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Mark chapter 8 let us pray, our Father, who is in heaven, holy
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is your name, your Kingdom come, and your will be done here on
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earth, just as it is there in heaven.
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Give us this day Our Daily Bread, and forgive us for our
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trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one,
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for yours is the power, the Kingdom, and the glory, forever
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and ever and ever. Amen.
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Let's start in verse one. In those days, the multitude
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being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his
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disciples unto him and said unto them, well, here we are again
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moving along here in Mark. We're going to get to see Jesus
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do another massive miracle for the multitudes.
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We're going to see that this is primarily for the Gentiles, as
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the other feeding of the 5000 was for primarily Jews.
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And you're going to see here there are a few differences and
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the amount of fish and the amount of loaves.
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It's the boy who offers the fish and loaves for the 5000.
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It's the disciples here who are offering the bread and then
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later offers the fish. Let's keep moving.
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Verse 2. I have compassion on the
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multitude because they have now been with me 3 days and have
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nothing to eat. Jesus Christ moved with
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compassion even for those who were not there for the right
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reasons. They were only there for the
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miracles. They were only there to be fed.
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And Jesus, because he is so compassionate with this Jesus is
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moved to feed and it's no different today.
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Jesus desires to provide for us. He provides for the birds of the
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air. He provides for the lilies of
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the field. Even the rain rains down on the
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unrighteous, friends, it rains on the righteous and the
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unrighteous. So you can see here that Jesus
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Christ is moved with compassion for the multitudes have been
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following them around verse 3 and I if I send them away
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fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way, for
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diverse of them came from far so Jesus knows everything.
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Jesus made us the way that he did.
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Jesus created us in the way that he did.
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He knows that we need substance. He knows that we need nutrients.
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He knows that we need to be fed. And look at the birds of the
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air. They do not reap, they do not
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sow, but your heavenly Father takes care of them.
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Look at the lilies of the field, they do not toil or spin, but
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look how He clothes them. And you can see that Jesus knows
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all of our needs. He is in tune with our needs
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here, and it's no different today.
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For His disciples answered Him. From where can a man satisfy
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these men with bread here in the wilderness?
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How quickly we forget. How quickly we lose track of
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what God can do. How quickly God can answer our
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prayers and move mountains. And then the moment that the
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miracle happens, we give credit to a doctor.
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The moment that a miracle happens, we give credit to
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ourselves. The moment that the miracle
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happens, we call it luck. The moment that a miracle
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happens, we call it coincidence. And we forget that God is the
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one who is in full control. God controls everything all
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around us, all the time. He's got the whole world in his
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hands, friends. And we would do well to remember
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all the times that God has come through for us.
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We would do well where when we are in a pinch, when we're
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backed into a corner, we would do well to recall and to recount
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and to remind ourselves of all the times that God has come
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through and miraculously saved us, miraculously saved our loved
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ones. We would do well, friends.
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And here look how quickly the disciples have forgotten of the
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feeding of the 5000. Let's keep moving. 5 And he
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asked them, how many loaves do you have?
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And they said, 7. God's provision always starts
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with what we have in our hands, friends.
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He can multiply it. Little is much in the Father's
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hands. And you can see here that the
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disciples are somewhat reluctant to hand over their seven loaves,
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and there's no mention of fish just yet. 6 And he commanded the
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people to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven
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loaves, and he gave thanks, and he broke, and he gave to his
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disciples to set before them, and they did set them before the
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people. So here Jesus is calling the
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disciples not only to give up their seven loaves, but also to
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be the distributors. After Jesus miraculously
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provided 7 and they had a few small fish and He blessed and
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commanded to set them also before them, it seems as if the
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disciples had to see Him multiply the bread 1st 8.
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So they did eat and were filled, and they took up the broken meat
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that was left 7 baskets. So here you can see that there
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is a difference between the feeding of the 5000, the feeding
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of the 4000. You can see it in how many
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baskets were taken up. You can see it in the type of
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the baskets that they were taking up all the leftovers.
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And we need to know that with God, not only does He feed us,
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but He feeds us to our full. It's not just a little bit, it's
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abundance. And we can feast and feed on his
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word. Jesus says, I have food that you
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know nothing about, and my food is to do the will of my Father.
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And I pray that you're feasting on the bread of life.
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I pray that you are drinking deep with the water of life, the
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living water. Friends, His name is Jesus and
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we need to be in this word drinking and eating every day
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and getting our fill. This is where we come to the
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well to drink up that living water and we will never be
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thirsty again. It is satisfying, it is
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fullness. Friends, seek ye first the
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Kingdom of God, and all these things will be added to you.
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Don't forget that His ways are not our ways.
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We need to trust and obey and watch how God shows up in
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miraculous ways. 9 And they that had eaten were about 4000 and he
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sent them away. He's so good at what he does.
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He makes sure that they have provisions for their journey,
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that they're well fed and satisfied and strengthened to go
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back into the diverse places. 10 straightway, there's one of
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Mark's coined terms, and straightway he entered into a
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ship with his disciples and came into the parts of Dao minuta.
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So here we can see that Mark is all about giving us all of the
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straightway times that Jesus moved about.
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And this is a fast track through the ministry of Jesus Christ.
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Mark wastes no time. It is straightway, and Jesus is
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our straightway. He is the narrow gate.
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He is the straightway friends, and only a few find it. 11 in
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the Pharisees came forth and began to question Him, seeking
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of Him aside from heaven, tempting Him.
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So here you can see this is the same method.
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This is the same spirit of the devil in the wilderness.
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When he's tempting Him, He is telling them to turn the stones
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into bread. He's tempting him.
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You can see the Pharisees are being hijacked by Satan.
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This is no different. And they're being used by the
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devil himself asking for a sign. The sign would never be enough
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for them. Friends.
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They were not looking for a sign.
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They were looking to murder their Messiah because he was
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coming in and opposing all of their ways of life that they had
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built up. And they were using God, and
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they were using the systems to get rich and to get fat and to
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manipulate the masses, and he was opposing all of their ways
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there in that land. And Jesus saw their hypocrisy
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and their duplicity. 12 And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and
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said, Why does this generation seek after a sign?
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Truly, I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this
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generation. Well, we know that the only sign
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that he was going to give them was the sign of Jonah, which is
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the death and the burial and the resurrection, and the three days
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in the belly. And we know that Jesus is our
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Messiah. We know that Jesus is the coming
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one. We know that Jesus is the
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Christ. And they had missed it at this
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time. They were looking for a
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revolutionary. They were looking for a
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Liberator. They were looking for the
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Messiah to come and to trample down on their enemies.
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And there was teachings in the land at this time that there was
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2 Messiahs, one that would suffer and the other one that
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would come victorious. And they had missed the mark.
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They had missed the whole thing. And if we're not careful, we
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would be the same. We would do the same.
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If we're not careful, we'll be like Peter and say I will never
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allow for prophecy to unfold. And if we will take this word at
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its word, if we will take it for truth and take it for the
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inerrant, infallible word of God, what you're going to find
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is that every single thing that's going on in the world
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today, friends, is all adding up.
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It's all perfectly aligning. And what happens is whenever you
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call any of this book into question, what happens is you
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get confused about what's happening in the world.
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You get upset about what's happening happening in the
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world. You get to a place when you're
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watching the nightly news, when you're tuning in to wherever you
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get your sources from. You get confused and turned
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around. And I see it every day.
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I see people who are not actually expectant upon the
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second return of Jesus Christ. They're not actually looking
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forward to it because they have their cake and they're trying to
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eat it too. They do not care about what this
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Bible says. They're more scared of having to
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go to hell. But they sure do like their
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little life down here. They like their gated community,
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they like their Country Club. They like having all of the
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riches here and they're not very much looking forward to what is
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next. And they're not putting their
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hand to the plow, They're not producing the fruit that God is
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after, and they just do not want to go to hell.
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They were scared into their salvation.
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They walked an aisle, they got dunked in some water, they
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prayed a little Jingle and there is no salvation for them.
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They are lost friends and if you are not producing fruit, you
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will be cut down. You will be thrown into the
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fire. We can mark the way that we know
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God by the fruit that we have and we need to get in to the
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Word of God and understand what it looks like to produce fruit
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friends. We need to know that we know
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that we know that we know that God is moving in our midst
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mightily and we should look forward, we should look up, we
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should cry out, we should see our redemption drawing near,
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friends. And if you do not have that, if
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you do not possess the hope of Jesus second return, if it does
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not excite you, friends, that should be cause for concern.
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There's so many people who are much like Peter who do not want
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these prophecies to come true. They do not look forward to what
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Jesus desires to do in the world today for our day and for our
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hour. They're so caught up in the here
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in the now. They're so caught up in their
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own lifestyles and they are trampling down on people to
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climb the corporate ladder so that they can have the cushy
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life, friends. And far be it from US to not do
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the Father's will. 13 And he left them, and entering into the
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ship again, departed to the other side. 14 Now the disciples
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had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship
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with them more than one loaf. 15 And he charged them, saying,
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Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the
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leaven of Herod. Here you're going to see the
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disciples, Miss the mark, here you're going to see the
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disciples. They're relegating everything to
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the physical friends, and they're not looking at it from
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the spiritual friends. And we would sure do well to
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make sure that we are in tune with God and with the spiritual
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realm. Yes, He knows all about the
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physical realm that we have to live, that we are bound by space
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and time. But God lives outside of time.
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God is not bound by the physical restraints that you and I are
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bound by. He subjects himself to them,
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friends, He puts these boundaries around his own self.
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But he is limitless and boundless friends.
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He is an all consuming fire. He is our everything.
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And with his very breath he spoke it all into existence.
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The only uncreated, the great I am.
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And so here you'll have to understand that the disciples
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are still trapped in the physical realm.
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They still have not graduated, elevated into the spiritual
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thinking and Jesus here He is warning them of false doctrine.
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He is warning them to not buy in to the little compromises that
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lead to all of the great failures in our lives.
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He's telling us and He's telling them to make sure that they have
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the discernment. And here what do they do?
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The same thing that we do. We air on always siding with
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what we can see, always siding on what is our own reality.
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And the way that we get out of that, friends, is to study this
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word, study God's word. Know that he can pull a fish up
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out of the water and pull coins out of his mouth.
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Know that he can make the axe head float on top of the water.
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Know that He can call fired down from heaven.
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Know that God Almighty is limitless and can do anything.
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Friends, He can dissolve the metal plate in your body.
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God can put back an amputee's arm.
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God can regrow A limb. God can do anything, friends,
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and we would do well to understand that He is limitless,
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friends. He is limitless in his power.
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He's limitless, friends. And if, and this is not a cop
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out theology, but if he leaves you in that condition, it's for
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more glory on his sake for him, friends.
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He knows what is going to bring Him the most amount of glory and
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we would do well to make sure that we are always believing
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that God wants to heal. He's desirous to heal.
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He wants to do the miracle and we should not be offended by Him
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when the miracle does not happen and when the miracle doesn't
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come and when the limb doesn't regrow itself.
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Friends, we would do well to know that God is still good and
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God has a perfect plan, all moving and harmony and unison.
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Friends, it's a great Symphony happening all around you and we
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need to get in tune and get in line with Him and know that it
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is the best life that we could ever have is when we're
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following hard after Jesus Christ, whenever we are pressing
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hard after him, when we're charging the hill.
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Friends, when we're not retreating, no.
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Retreats, no. Backing down, we are only
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advancing the Kingdom of God violently.
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We will take it. Friends 16 And they reasoned
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among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.
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There they are looking at the physical, looking at the
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natural. 17 And when Jesus knew it, he said unto them, Why
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reason you? Because you have no bread?
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Perceive you not yet. That's what he asked you, That's
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what he asked me. Do you not perceive yet of the
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spiritual realm all around? Neither understand Have you your
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heart yet hardened? Do not harden your hearts,
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friends. This is what happens when we
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choose money over God. This is what happens when we
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choose the idols of our traditions over God.
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This is what happens when we choose this world over God.
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We harden our hearts as in the days of rebellion, and we just
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want enough of God sprinkled in. We just want enough of Jesus
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sprinkled in. We just want enough of the
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church sprinkled in to make us feel good and to make sure that
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we don't have to go to hell. And you see it all around.
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People are not that excited about following after God
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Almighty. They're not in the daily
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discipline of getting into the Word of God and discovering the
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jewels and the gems for themselves, friends.
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And don't take my word for it, but take his. 18 Having eyes see
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you not, and having ears hear you not.
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And do you not remember how quickly we forget?
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How quickly we are to forget the miracles that God Almighty does
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for us through Jesus Christ? 19 When I broke the five loaves
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among 5000, how many baskets full of fragments did you take
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up? And they said unto him, 12 There
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is a response. Jesus demands a response here,
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friends, and he's asking you questions today, and he demands
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a response. Who do you say that he is?
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20 And when the seven among 4000, how many baskets full of
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fragments did you take up? And they said, 7.
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So here we can see that there is a very clear distinction between
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the two miraculous feedings of the thousands.
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Friends, We can see here that Jesus himself make sure to make
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the distinction. This is not one miracle
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misconstrued. This is very separate, one for
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the Jews and one for the Gentiles, and different amounts
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of fish and loaves and different ways of provision.
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And God is limitless in the way that He provides for us.
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Don't forget it. 21 And he said unto them, How is it that you do
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not understand? He says the same to us today,
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friends, how is it that you do not understand?
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He has given you the complete authority of His Word.
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He has given you Genesis all the way to Revelation, friends.
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And you can do the audio Bible. If you are not one that likes to
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read, get into the Bible, actually listen to it, actually
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meditate upon it. Don't just check the box,
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friends. How is it that you do not
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understand? So many of us are all turned
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around in our doctrine and theology because we're being
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taught by man, we're being taught by the tradition of men,
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and we need to know and to own and to live the Word of God for
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ourselves. Friends, it is the personal
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relationship with God Almighty through His Son Jesus Christ.
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And just remember that in the beginning was the Word, and the
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Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word became
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flesh friends. And we would do well to get in
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this good book and allow this good book to get into us.
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That way we will not be duped when the counterfeit comes
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across. How is it that you do not
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understand? Do you even read the Bible?
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22 And he came to Bethsaida, and they brought a blind man unto
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him and begged him to touch him. Here we're going to get to see
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this little town beside it. He's already, he has already
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announced judgment upon this town, and here as they're
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approaching it, after the judgment was pronounced upon it,
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here they're bringing a single guy out, and they want Jesus to
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heal him. 23 And he took the blind man by the hand and let
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him out of the town, And when he had spit on his eyes and he put
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his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw.
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So here you can see that Jesus takes him outside of the city
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because he had already pronounced judgment upon it.
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Here you can see Jesus healing him in a very peculiar way.
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You can see that he was very intentional with all of his
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miracles. It wasn't A1 size fits all.
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And it's no different for our day.
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It's no different for our our friends.
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God can heal in a myriad of ways.
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He's not limited friends. He can heal from a distance.
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He can heal with a touch. And we would do well to know
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that God is limitless in his healing ability.
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And we should always assume that God is desirous to heal.
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And we should not get offended when the healing doesn't come.
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But keep pressing in friends, do not give up, do not get
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discouraged. Do not form any, any kind of
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theology. That is a cop out theology
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because the healing didn't come. God can do anything. 24 And he
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looked up and saw, he looked up and said, I see men as trees
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walking. So we know that this blind man
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was not blind from birth. He had the ability to see Pryor
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because he knows what trees look like. 25 After that he put his
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hands again upon his eyes and made him look up, and he was
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restored and saw every man clearly.
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You know, Jesus could have instantaneously made him see
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clearly, but we are left to debate and wonder why it is that
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he chose this way to heal this man in a very peculiar fashion
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in a progress, a progressive healing.
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It's much like whenever the woman reached out and grabbed
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the hem of his garment and he felt the power leaving.
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We are so blessed by the full counsel of God's Word when we do
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not just have A1 size fits all theology.
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And yes, the one size that does fit all is Jesus.
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And that's the only thing that we need to know.
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That is the only name above all names, the only name that can
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heal. The only name that has any power
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is Jesus Christ. The anointed one, the
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long-awaited Messiah is the only name.
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Jesus of Nazareth. Call upon that name today and be
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healed and behold and be saved. And that is the theology that we
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need. That is what we need to know is
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what did Jesus do? What did Jesus say?
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And we all desperately need the healing power of having our sins
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blotted out and thrown as far as the East is from the West, so
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that we can stand before Almighty God one day, whole and
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cleansed and spotless because of the blood of the Lamb placed
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upon us. 26 And he sent him away to his house, saying, neither go
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into the town nor tell it to any in the town, because he had
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already pronounced the judgement upon beside a He had pulled that
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man outside of beside a. 27 And Jesus went out and his disciples
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into the towns of Caesarea Philippi.
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And by the way, he asked his disciples, saying unto them,
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Whom do men say that I am? This is the question of ages.
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Friends, the way that you answer this question is everything.
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If Jesus is just a moral teacher to you, if he's just another
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religious leader to you, then you have missed the entirety of
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who he is. We need to know that Jesus is
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God. We need to know that he was not
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just another prophet on the scene.
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He is the culmination of every single event that had ever
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happened. And he is the reason for every
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single thing that is happening. It all pointed to him, and it
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all points back to him, and he is coming again and his rewards
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are with him. Who do you say that he is 28?
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And they answered John the Baptist.
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Some say Elijah and others one of the prophets.
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This is the masses and this is their response to who Jesus is.
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He's just a really nice guy. And the disciples, at this time,
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they were going with popular opinion.
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They had not yet discovered who their rabbi was.
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They was still thinking along with all of the popular opinion
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of the hour. And he said unto them, But whom
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say you that I am? And Peter answered and said unto
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him, You are the Christ. Look at how Peter got it right.
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Praise God for Peter's outspokenness.
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Praise God that Peter is not like the popular opinion.
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He did not buy into it. He had his own conviction and we
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would do well to have our own convictions that are not based
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upon the popular opinion of man. We need to form our convictions
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by what the Holy Spirit teaches us, friends, the discernment of
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the Holy Spirit that we are unwilling to back down from.
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And the number one thing that you need to know is that Jesus
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is Lord. Jesus is the way, the truth and
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the life, and no one comes unto the Father except through Him.
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Jesus is the only way. He is not one of many ways.
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He is the only way. We must surrender and submit our
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lives to Him completely and fully.
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Nothing held back, nothing compartmentalized. 110% sold out
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to the King of Kings 30 and he charged them that they should
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tell no man of him. He did not want them to go and
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start publishing all these things to everybody because it
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was not yet his time and he would have been thronged with
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people coming to worship him for all the wrong reasons.
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They need to and we need to come to our own conclusion of who
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Christ is. And yes, we can have preachers
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and teachers to help us along the way to clarify some of the
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deep seated questions that we have, and that is completely
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understandable. But we must come to that
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conclusion on our own. We cannot have Grandma's faith.
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We cannot have the pastor's faith.
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We must fill our lamps ourselves.
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We must trim the Wicks and fill the oil, friends, and make sure
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that we are wise in our waiting for Him, and make sure we are
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adorned and waiting for Him. And the Spirit and the Bride cry
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out and say come. 31 And he began to teach them that the Son
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of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders
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and of the priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three
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days rise again. 31 He could not make it anymore plain friends.
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He begins here to open up and to explain to them in the most
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childish, simple, elementary ways.
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He outlines it 1 by 1 by 1 by 1. He just shows them exactly to
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the letter of what would happen. And let's see how the disciples
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respond here, friends. When he makes it as plain as
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humanly possible, and he does the same for you and he does the
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same for me, friends, when you open the good book, when you
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open up to the book of Matthew and Mark and Luke and John,
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Jesus makes it as plain as day, as plain as the nose on your
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face of what we should do to be saved, what we should do to live
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the Christian life. He makes it plain.
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And somehow, in some way, we get turned around in our doctrines
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and theologies because we're so in tune with the traditions of
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men, friends, that it actually trips us up.
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It ties our shoelaces together whenever we allow men to have a
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louder voice in our life then what the word of God has to say.
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32 And he spoke that saying openly.
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So here we can see Jesus. He has brought his disciples
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very intentionally to the Caesarea Philippi and this was a
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place of Pagan idolatry worship that the Romans had set up.
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And we can see that Jesus here was very intentional of how he
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had placed his disciples and how he had spoken with them openly
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in front of everyone on full display.
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And Peter took him and began to rebuke him.
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This word rebuke here is the same word that Jesus used to
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drive out the devils, to drive out the impure spirits, to drive
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out the demons. And here this is a strong word
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that Peter is using and he is trying to drive out anything
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that is in Jesus that is doesn't belong.
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And what is happening here is Peter is actually scared for his
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life. He knows that if Jesus is to be
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killed, then he will be killed too.
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And history tells us that Peter was hung upside down on a cross
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because he did not think that he was worthy to suffer in the same
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manner as his Lord. So, so Peter here, he is already
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catching that if Jesus is to go to the cross, then his disciples
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who were following him would also go there.
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And he is strongly trying to thwart the prophecy.
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And it's no different in our day and our hour, and it's no
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different for us today, friends. We look at all the promises that
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are contained in this book and we're not too excited about
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them. We want to live a very
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comfortable life now and then when we die, get ushered into
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the street of gold and to get ushered into all of the rewards
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that we've amassed and to see our loved ones.
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We don't get excited about Jesus and Jesus and Jesus coming with
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eyes of fire and hair like wool with A2 edged sword from his
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mouth. Friends, We do not get excited
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about what the Bible tells us is going to happen when it says
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that there's coming a day where no man can work.
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When it tells us that there's persecution that's coming, When
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it tells us of all of the things that must happen prior to
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Jesus's return, we don't get excited about that, friends.
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And it is understandably so. If you are not in tune with God
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Almighty, if you do not have the full counsel and you're only
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holding on to your emotions and the physical realities all
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around you, and you're limiting God and you're limiting what he
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can do and what he is desirous to do.
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And Peter, here he is acting as an agent of Satan. 33 But when
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he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked
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Peter, saying, Get you behind me, Satan, for you are savoring
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not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
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And he says the same thing to you, and he says the same thing
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to me, and he says the same thing to this generation, that
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we are an entire generation of rich young rulers, That we do
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not have the things of God in mind.
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We are only desirous of the here and the now and the pleasure and
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the pleasantries and the comfortable life.
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And we're so obsessed about money and we're so obsessed
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about self and vanity. And if we're not careful, we'll
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be hijacked by Satan, will be hijacked and used to lead many
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people astray into thinking that this whole life is all about
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self and all about gain and all about what we can get in the
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end. And we will not be sold out for
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the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and waste our life for
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him. Spill out your life for him.
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Give your life for him, give your life.
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Lay down your life for your friends.
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There's no greater love. And what happens is we choose
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our comforts and we choose the physical reality that we can
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only see. And we stiff arm all the
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promises contained in this book, and we're ignorant of the word
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of God, friends. And that is how we get LED
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astray. The counterfeit comes across and
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we buy it hook, line and sinker because we're not in tune with
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the true gospel. We're not in tune with His Holy
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Scriptures. And here Jesus cannot make it
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any more plain. 34 And when he had called the people unto him
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with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come
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after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and
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follow me. This is not some little clever
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Jingle, friends. This is not Jesus inviting us to
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put on a necklace that has a cross, or wear some earrings
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that have a cross, or get a tattoo that has a cross.
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No, this was certain death. Friends and his disciples would
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have been horrified by the idea of crucifixion, which is where
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we get our word Excruciating. And here you could see that
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Jesus is inviting them into martyrdom.
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There's no greater love and for a man to lay down his life for
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his friends. We know that that's what Jesus
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did and we know that that's what He calls us two, friends.
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And how many of us are scared for our lives?
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Fear is the greatest motivator of Satan and he gets you to try
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to hold on to your life. But Jesus is going to tell you
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what happens whenever we are fearful of death.
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We do not need to fear death, friends.
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We need to stare death in the face, friends, and know that no,
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no matter what happens to us, do not fear the one that can take
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your life away, but fear the one that could take your life and
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your soul away in hell, Friends. 35 For whosoever will save his
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life shall lose it. But whosoever shall lose his
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life for my sake and the Gospels, the same shall save it.
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Jesus cannot make it any more plain.
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Friends, Jesus tells us that if we try to hold on to our life,
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we're going to lose it. But if we lose our life for his
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name's sake and for the gospel, friends, the good news of Jesus
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Christ. And do not be surprised when you
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are persecuted. Do not be surprised whenever you
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have to suffer for doing the right thing.
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Just know that your reward in heaven is great.
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Do not shy away from spilling out your life. 36 For what shall
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it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own
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soul? We have so many people in this
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world that are more wealthy than the they have ever been, but
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what does it even matter? What does it even matter in the
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end? Friends, when you have to stand
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before Almighty God, you cannot buy your way into heaven.
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What does it even matter? We got to get off of this
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thought process. That money and Mammon is our
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God. We've got to get off the thought
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process. That money is our all.
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We've got to get off the thought process.
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That money solves all of our problems.
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We've got to get off of the thought process that this world
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is all that there is. We need to be in tune with the
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spiritual reality all around us that God is beckoning us into
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something much greater. That if we have faith that we
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can reach out, we can grab a hold of it, friends, and we can
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tear it down and RIP it down and bring it down here into our
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little 100 years. That He gives us our little life
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that we have. We can see glimpses of it,
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friends, but He will give it to us in our totality whenever we
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finish the race. Well, and much like Solomon,
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there are many of us who start great and we start with the
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right motives and we start out with pure intentions.
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And then the cares of this world, the tares come up and
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choke us because we have medical bills, we have house payments,
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we have college payments, we we have court payments.
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We have all of these things we've got to save for.
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And yes, we should be shrewd with our finances and we should
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be good stewards with our finances.
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And God wants us to be godly in our giving and be godly in our
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earning and make sure we get it all in a righteous way.
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But we need to know that ultimately God Almighty is our
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provider. God Almighty gives us our very
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next breath. God Almighty is the one who is
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completely in control of everything.
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And what does it even matter in the end if you gain the whole
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entire world, but you're cast into hell fire?
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37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
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When you were standing there before Almighty God, if you are
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not covered in the blood of Jesus Christ and you start going
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through all of the things that you did in this life, you start
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saying we prophesied in your name and we cast out demons in
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your name and we perform miracles in your name.
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And what is he going to say? Depart from me for I never knew
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you. What could you do?
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How much money could you have to try to bargain with God to make
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it into eternity? And we only get one shot at
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this, friends. We get one lifetime and that's
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it. And some of us might die
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tonight. Some of us might not get to see
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to tomorrow. This might be the last week of
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your life. This might be the last month of
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your life. This might be the last year of
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your life. And what does it even matter in
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the end if you have all the wealth in the entire world, but
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you do not have right standing with God Almighty.
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That only comes from a relationship with Him through
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His Son Jesus Christ. And we cannot let man stand in
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between US and God. Friends, we cannot let what
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happened to you when you were a kid, You cannot let what is
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happening to you now. You cannot let what the church
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has done to you and the church hurt and what your youth pastor,
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your pastor has done. You cannot let those things keep
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you from the love of God Almighty.
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And the only bridge that we're going to get there over is Jesus
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Christ. The blood of the Lamb, friends,
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is the only way you're going to enter in to the Kingdom of God.
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What does it even matter in the end, if you have everything, but
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you do not have him? 38 Whosoever, therefore, shall
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be ashamed of me and of my words, in this adulterous,
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sinful generation of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed
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when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
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His words, these are Jesus's words.
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Jesus is telling us that he's coming with all of the angels.
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He's telling us that we do not need to be ashamed of Him.
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We do not need to be ashamed of what this Bible says.
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Friends, stand on the Bible. Stand on the full counsel of
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God. Do not try to make excuses for
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God. Do not try to change these words
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around to fit your moralistic approach to God Almighty.
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We need to know that the Word of God is an offense.
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We should not be ashamed of it. Friends Romans chapter one verse
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16 for I am unashamed of the gospel and we would do well to
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be unashamed of Jesus Christ. Speak boldly in the marketplace,
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speak boldly in the workplace. Speak boldly on whatever
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platform God gives you for Jesus.
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No matter what comes your way, speak boldly and watch how your
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Lords are great friends. He says that He will be ashamed
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of you when he comes in the glory of the Father with the
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holy angels. He calls this a an adulterous
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and sinful generation. You do not want to deny Christ
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now because you will be denied eternity then.
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Friends, it's very simple. His words here for us that will
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endure for all times sake. Heaven and earth shall pass
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away, but not one of these words.
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You can't do nothing with Him, friends.
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He's here to stay. It's Jesus.
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Jesus and Jesus all over every page from Genesis to Revelation
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at all points to Him. He is the way, the truth, and
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the life, friends. He is the narrow gate, friends.
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He is the straight way, friends, and we would do well to get in
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tune with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and give your
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life to Him today. Surrender to Him today, friends.
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Do not wait till tomorrow. Today is the day of salvation,
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friends. Go to Him and wholeheartedly
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tell him every single sin that you have ever done.
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Confess them to Him, repent of them.
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Have a change of mind and let the word wash over you friends,
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and get in the boat and make sure that you're covered in the
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blood of Christ. It's the only way we're going to
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make it there. Friends, I hope you've been
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blessed by this chapter here. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for you. I love you, so does God.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.