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499 | Throwback - The Uniqueness of Jesus · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  The root word of Christianity is Christ. Jesus Christ is the basis for Christianity.
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  What separates our beliefs from those of the other religions?
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  It is how we settle the question of what we are going to do with this man we
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  call the Christ. When you peel away all of the doctrines and theology,
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  what you have left of Christianity is the works of Christ.
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  His sinless life and finished work on Calvary paid the price for our salvation.
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  All we have to do is believe in him and receive his forgiveness for our sins.
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  What makes him different than the gods of all the other religions?
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  It's Christ's victory over sin, death, and the grave.
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  They all lie lifeless and dead
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  but our god jesus is alive
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  and well join us in this broadcast of
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  woman at the well ministries as kim discusses the
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  uniqueness of jesus hello and
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  thank you for joining us in this broadcast of woman at the well ministries and
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  what an absolute pleasure it is to spend the next few moments with you just
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  talking about god and and talking about his son jesus Christ and how very unique
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  that Jesus is and how grateful that we need to be that he is so unique because he.
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  Is the only payment acceptable for our sins.
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  In Luke 2 and verse 11, he says, For unto you is born this day in the city of
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  David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
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  What does it mean that Jesus has come to earth and that he is our Savior?
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  What makes that so marvelous?
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  Obviously, the fact that he's our Savior separates him from all the other little
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  G-O-D's, S's in the world.
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  Because none of them can do what he did, and that was pay our penalty for sin.
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  John said, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Shall we pray?
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  Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we just thank you for
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  this another day that you've given us.
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  We thank you for your love and your mercy and your kindness,
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  and we thank you for this opportunity to spend time in your word and to just
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  concentrate on who you are, Lord.
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  And we just ask that you would open up our hearts and our minds,
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  And we pray that you would just give us the words that would bring comfort to
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  those who need it, Lord, that would bring healing to those who need it,
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  Lord, and that most of all, that something would be said or done that would
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  draw someone closer to you.
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  Heavenly Father, we thank you for this and all things that you do for us and
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  all these things we ask in Jesus' name and amen.
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  We're going to talk about the things that make Jesus unique.
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  We're thinking about him. It's that time of year when we're excited about Jesus
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  and we think about him during this time. And it's important for us to keep in mind who he is.
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  And we talk about him being born in a stable. We talk about him coming to earth.
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  We talk about the wise men following him. We talk about the shepherds talking about him being here.
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  We sing about the angels heralding his birth. But do you know what makes him so unique?
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  Among all the other religions that talk about the person they worship.
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  It's very important that you keep in mind that what really makes him unique
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  is that he is Jesus, God's only begotten son.
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  What makes him truly unique is that he could pay the payment for our sins.
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  What makes it phenomenal is that he loves us.
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  And the thing that really separates him from all the other objects of religion,
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  is that when he died the grave couldn't
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  hold him and on that third and glorious day christ rose from the dead and he
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  is alive and reigns forevermore all the others such as confucius or Buddha or
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  Muhammad or any of the ones you can think of, Allah,
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  any of the new isms and shisms and all the new religions and ideas that are
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  out there, they don't have a God that is alive and real.
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  They've been duped by Satan, but we serve a living, risen Savior.
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  And I know so often And we talk to people and they say, well,
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  Christians are just so narrow minded and Christians are intolerant.
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  You know, Christians are not
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  intolerant if they are in the will of God because we reach out in love.
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  But we accept no false substitute, for we truly have the real thing.
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  And we're narrow-minded because he said, Straight is the way and narrow is the
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  gate that leadeth to heaven.
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  And wide is the gate and crooked is the road that leads to destruction.
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  And just because you think it's so, doesn't make it so.
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  Just because I say it, doesn't make it so.
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  But what says the word of God makes it so?
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  In 2 Timothy 3, beginning in verse 16, he says, All scripture is given by inspiration
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  of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
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  for instruction in righteousness,
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  that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works,
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  that the man of God may be perfect,
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  thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
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  You see, God wrote his instructions in his blessed book, the Bible.
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  And it says that the word became flesh and dwelt among us and Jesus Christ came.
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  As a babe in a manger and what
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  he did was he is the word manifested and so as you sit down and read the word
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  of God you have the opportunity to fully know Jesus which means you have the
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  opportunity to fully know God you have the opportunity to spend time with the
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  God of the universe through sitting in his word and praying.
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  And you know what? He says, ask, and it shall be given unto you.
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  Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
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  Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
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  That's the God I serve, who said, come boldly to my throne, who welcomes me to speak to him.
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  Who invites me to talk to him and then answers my prayers, who guides me,
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  who leads me, who cares about me. That's the difference.
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  As we begin to look, we're going to talk about some things here.
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  Jesus Christ was prophesied in the Old Testament some 37 times,
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  and they were fulfilled in the New Testament.
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  In Isaiah 9, verse 7, we see that he is prophesied as being heir to the throne of David.
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  And if you would please look at Luke chapter 1
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  verses 32 and 33 he says
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  and behold thou shall conceive in thy womb and bring forth a.
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  Son and shall call his name Jesus he shall
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  be great and shall be called the son of the highest and the
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  Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David
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  in Isaiah they prophesied in
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  Luke it was fulfilled today's lesson
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  may not be one that evokes great emotion it
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  may not be one that makes your ears feel
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  good and tickles your heart
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  but it's one that should stimulate you and
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  increase your faith and encourage you because today
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  we're really looking through the scriptures and unfolding
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  the truths about what separates the god
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  we serve from all the others and friends
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  when you are in the presence of unbelievers
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  you need to be able to be as paul was
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  and say i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ you need
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  to be confident in his very words you need
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  to say as he did i am persuaded that he which has begun
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  a good work in me shall complete it to the end
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  and you can't do those things if you don't understand who he is you can't fully
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  trust him if you don't know something about him and we begin with the fact that
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  in luke 2 11 he was the savior of the world and we're going to move to the fact that.
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  That God loved us so much that he gave his only begotten son.
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  It's important that you realize who he is.
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  In Micah chapter 5 and verse 2, it was prophesied that he would be born in Bethlehem.
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  In Luke chapter 2 verses 4 through 7, it's fulfilled that he was born in Bethlehem.
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  So many years passing between the prophetic message
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  words and the fulfillment the
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  fruition of the christ if they
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  don't contradict and they complete his work i believe that one of the things
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  that is incredibly important that you understand as a believer is what was prophesied
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  in isaiah chapter 7 and verse 14 so we're going to walk back to there.
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  Isaiah 7, verse 14.
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  In Isaiah 7, in verse 14, it says, Therefore the Lord himself shall give you
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  a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel.
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  In today's day and time, everybody is
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  trying to bring down the deity of christ
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  they write amazing bestsellers
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  of fiction who needs
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  fiction when you have the word of god and
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  it's the bestseller of all times i absolutely challenge
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  you to find any book written anywhere that is
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  any more dramatic that will
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  run you through the number of emotions that the bible will do that is even half
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  as filled with wisdom and goodness if you take the word of god and you apply
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  it to your life as god has intended you to do so it'll change your life every single time you read it.
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  And my friends, you can read the same passage over and over and watch it just
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  transform your life, even in various areas of your life.
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  The Word of God is dynamic.
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  And it's always working good in your heart and life.
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  And it changes not on the page, but in your understanding of it,
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  according to the place you sit right now as you read each of these scriptures.
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  And as you're going through different phases of
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  your life and walking at different proximity to
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  god you'll see that the word of god touches
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  different areas of your life and it will change you
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  over and over and over again as the word of god is alive and we're a work in
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  progress and these words are the chiseling tools the potter's clay all the things
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  that enable us to be what he called us to be.
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  And the word of God just helps us become that.
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  You don't need fiction.
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  You don't need the garbage on the cinema that distorts what the Bible says is true.
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  You don't need books that talk about Christ being human.
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  You ever watch that? There's these big things that are going on right now.
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  And we see all these people caught up in crazy
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  mystical movies for kids and they're
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  arguing well it's not bad it's not evil but
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  what's the good in it if you want to argue me
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  that this wizardry stuff isn't bad i want you to show me where it's good you
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  see anything that is left to chance anything that is out there that isn't depending
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  on god as being in control in the center of it all.
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  Well, my friend, that's wrong.
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  As God said, anything not done in faith is sin.
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  And faith means I believe that everything is in control of God.
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  And when you have to back such stuff up, then you have to know that it isn't
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  right. And I know that some of you are thinking I'm meddling.
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  But let's think about this. How about the garbage you're reading that has done
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  exactly what satan wants to do it's attacking the character of christ.
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  It's trying to make christ more man-like yes he's 100 man but he's also 100
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  god and it said that he was here and tempted like as we are yet without sin
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  friends he didn't give in to temptations.
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  And it all starts by understanding that he is 100% man while being 100% God.
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  And it all starts back to that virgin birth where he prophesies it in Isaiah
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  7 and fulfills it in Luke chapter 1.
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  In Luke 1, 26, he says, And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from
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  God into a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin, a spouse to a man whose
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  name was Joseph of the house of David, And the virgin's name was Mary.
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  And the angel came in unto her and said, Hail thou that are highly favored.
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  The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women.
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  For the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God.
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  And behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a son,
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  and shalt call his name Jesus.
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  And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever.
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  Mary was a virgin and that's
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  the only way that the bloodline of god could
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  have been passed to jesus christ and if his blood had been anything except holy
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  and righteous then you and i would have no hope for we'd have no payment left
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  for our sins so what makes jesus unique.
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  He's alive, and he's fully man and fully God, born of a virgin.
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  He is declared the son of the Most High God.
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  Let's look at Psalms chapter 2 and verse 7.
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  Psalms chapter 2 and verse 7.
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  In Psalms chapter 2 and verse 7, he says, I will declare the decree the Lord
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  has said unto me, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.
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  Turn over to Matthew chapter 3 and verse 17.
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  Many years passing between. Matthew 3 and verse 17.
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  And lo, a voice from heaven saying, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
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  In John chapter 3 in verse 16, he says it's his only begotten son.
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  What makes Jesus unique?
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  He's alive and he's well. He's the only payment for sin that is acceptable.
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  And when he was on the cross, he cried, it is finished.
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  And he gave up the ghost and he died. And on that third day, he rose again.
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  He was born of a virgin And he's the only one, the only one declared the son of God.
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  What furthermore makes him so unique?
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  Because it was prophesied by Isaiah that he would heal the brokenhearted.
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  Turn to Isaiah, please.
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  Chapter 61. We're just running all through the scriptures today. Isaiah 61. One.
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  And verses 1 and 2. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord
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  hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.
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  He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives,
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  and the opening of the prison to them that are bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
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  and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourn.
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  Turn for me, please, to Luke 4, verses 18 and 19.
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  He came to heal the brokenhearted.
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  In 1 Peter 5, 7, he says, Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.
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  Luke 4, verses 18 and 19.
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  He then says, I need to get there.
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  Sorry. He says, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me
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  to preach the gospel to the poor.
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  He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives,
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  and recovering of sight to the blind to set
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  at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year
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  of the lord and that's jesus himself no
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  other god no other object of religion has been declared the son of god is still
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  alive and well was born of a virgin was prophesied all through one part and
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  then fulfilled in the other the old testament speaks of jesus.
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  At least 37 prophecies and
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  the new testament unfolds each of
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  those not one of them lost not one
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  of them distorted but all of them just
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  as it was prophesied friends that's
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  the deity of christ you see
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  it was prophesied that he'd
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  be rejected by his own people it was
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  prophesied he'd be betrayed by a friend and
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  judas sold him for 30 pieces of silver and
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  that was prophesied all these things were said but i want you to see what he
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  says in isaiah chapter 53 and verse 5 it was prophesied that he'd be a vicarious
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  sacrifice isaiah chapter 53 and verse 5.
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  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities.
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  The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
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  And it was fulfilled in Romans 5, verses 6 and 8.
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  For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
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  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners,
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  christ died for us
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  it was prophesied in psalms 109
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  and verse 4 that he would pray for
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  his enemies and if you would please
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  i ask you to turn to luke chapter 23 and
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  verse 34 in luke chapter 23
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  and verse 34 it says
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  then said jesus father forgive them for
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  they know not what they do he
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  said this when he was on the cross of calvary and i want you to really realize
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  that when he was hanging on the cross between two thieves both of them deserving
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  to be there in a time when anyone would have given him absolute carte blanche
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  right to be totally centered upon himself.
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  He was still going about doing good, as spoken about in the book of Acts.
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  Because at that time, hanging on that cross between two thieves,
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  when the one thief realized that he
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  deserved to be there and he understood that he
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  had come to the end of his rope and there was nothing else he could
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  do he reached out to the only help he knew and the only help there was and he
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  said remember me and jesus in the midst of all of his pain in the midst of all
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  that was happening still had time.
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  Have compassion and to save. No matter where you are, no matter what you've
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  done, this Jesus that I'm talking about, that is my Savior that came to seek
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  and to save those which were lost,
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  and whom John said, behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the
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  world, who is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother, and who said he
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  would never leave me nor forsake me.
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  This Jesus is different than all the others that you'll ever see.
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  And He's calling for you.
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  Won't you accept Him today and know the uniqueness of a peace that passes understanding
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  and a joy unspeakable and full of glory?
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