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Matthew chapter 3 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 3. Let us pray, Lord, Lord God
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  Almighty, thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus for these words.
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  Thank you Jesus. Let them wash over us today,
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  Lord. Speak a better word over us.
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  Lord, let us hold fast to the truth.
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  God, let us be taught by you. Let us sit at your feet and be
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  disciples of you. God, let us know deeper depths
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  of your love, God, and the plan for the ages.
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  God, I pray that we'll tap in right now and we'll plug into
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  the power source. Father, Lord, we pray against
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  any distractions. Lord, we pray for zealous hearts
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  God, zealous minds. Father fuel us and fanna are
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  flames. Father, I pray that you will
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  empower us from on high. God, give us supernatural
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  strength to finish the battle. Give us supernatural strength to
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  run the race. God, let us mount up like
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  eagles. Father.
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  Let us run and not grow weary. Father, I pray, Lord, that
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  you'll have the last word on the day.
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  Today we know that your mercies are new Today.
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  We know, Father, that your plan for us is good.
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  So we just say yes. We say Amen to even the pruning,
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  Father, even the cutting off of the dead branches and the dead
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  weight. Father, let the seed go in to
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  fertile soil. Father, let it produce a crop.
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  Let it produce fruit. Father, let it produce a
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  harvest. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you'll help us to snatch those out of the fire.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll help us to see the
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  world all around us the way that you do.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus. Father, for healing from on
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  high. I pray in the name of Jesus for
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  restoration and reconciliation. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you, Lord, we'll be well pleased with the life that we
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  live. Lord, help us to stand on truth.
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  Help us to live the right way. God, help us to take the gospel
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  of peace out to the nation's father.
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  Let us run the race well, Father, and finish well.
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  Father, I pray that we'll be found sharing our testimony.
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  I pray that we will be found meditating on our salvation
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  story. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that we'll be able to rightly divide the word.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that will lift up our shield of
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  faith today. God, I pray that you will
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  increase our faith today. Lord, let us not be found with
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  vain repetition of just going through the motions.
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  God, help us to not be found with arguing things that have no
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  eternal value. Lord, I pray that we'll be
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  steadfast in our zealousness for you.
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  Lord, I pray that we'll be locked eyes with Jesus Christ.
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  I pray that we have our hands to the plow and we're not
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  distracted and despondent. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus against depression and anxiety, God and fear.
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  Lord, wake us up in the morning with mercies that are anew with
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  the angels singing all around us.
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  Father, let us wake up in the morning with a new lease on
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  life. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that we can confess and repent and return back to you.
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  God, every day. Lord, we come to you, humble
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  Lord, every day we come to you in humility, Father, every day
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  we come to you, Father. Not groveling as servants, God,
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  but we're bond servants yoked to the King of Kings and the Lord
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  of Lords, knowing that your plans are better than our own
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  manufacturing of our lives, of how we think that this should
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  go. God, we never have to worry
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  about being missing out on things that are going on around
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  us that you have for us, Lord, that you're going to lead us in
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  righteousness and you're going to lead us in heavenly places.
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  And Lord, I pray for heaven to come to earth today.
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  Jesus, let us live inside of that reality, Father, all around
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  us, Lord, is peace because we are the peacemakers and we are
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  more than conquerors. And God, we crush the head of
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  the enemy today, Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, we assail
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  him. Father, we move into the
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  darkness. God, we take back the
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  strongholds of the enemy that he thought was his Father in the
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  name of Jesus. Not by our own power, not by our
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  own might, not by our own cleverness, God, not by our own
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  IQ, God, not by our own financial status, God, but by
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  the power of the blood of the Lamb.
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  God, we proclaim peace over our households by the power of the
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  blood of the Lamb. We pray healing over our bodies
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  God, by the power of the blood of the Lamb.
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  Lord, we call the prodigals home by the power of the blood of the
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  Lamb. God, we call for righteousness
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  at the highest government levels.
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  God by the blood of the Lamb. The earth is the Lord's and
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  everything in it, and His Kingdom and His dominion shall
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  increase. The increase Lord will never
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  end. The increase of His government
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  will never end. The government will rest on his
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  shoulders. Why do the nation's rage and
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  plot in vain? I pray Jesus you'll put all the
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  enemies under your feet as a footstool.
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  Lord, come back. Teach us your ways today.
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  Help us to sit and to learn and to listen and be obedient.
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  Teach us how to be obedient. God, let us learn our obedience.
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  Sanctify us. God, cleanse the temple.
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  Father, drive out all of the things in the temple that do not
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  belong. Lord, come in and purify us.
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  Purge us. God, cleanse us, Lord, and
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  refine us, God, until you see your reflection within us, Lord,
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  we love you, Jesus. We love everything about you,
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  Jesus. Come, Lord, come, Maranatha,
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  come. The Spirit and the bride say
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  come, yes, Lord, come. We wait, we look up and we see
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  our redemption drawing near. Thank you Jesus for a life worth
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  living. We love you so much, Jesus, Holy
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  Spirit, come in and teach us. Hide me, hide my words.
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  I decrease as you increase. Let us hide your words in our
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  heart so that we might not sin against you.
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  Thank you Jesus. Thank you Holy Spirit, thank you
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  God, Yahweh, Yeshua, Espiritu Santo.
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  Yes, we love you. It's in Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious name. I pray men.
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  Let's start in verse one. In those days came John the
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  Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea.
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  Well, if you remember, if you were plugged into the power
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  source all the way back there in Malachi, you remember that John
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  the Baptist was proclaimed in Malachi and he was one of the
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  messengers coming to prepare the way.
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  It's prophesied many times throughout the Old Testament
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  that Jesus Christ would have a forerunner, and this would have
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  been someone who would announce his coming and to prepare the
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  hearts of men and women to receive the Lord.
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  And there were many Jews that did.
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  This would have been a national revival for them, for all the
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  people that lined up to get baptized by John the Baptist.
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  And it was a new idea here to be dunked in some water.
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  And by the way, this is an immersion.
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  This is not sprinkling. OK, If someone is in the
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  hospital bed and cannot come out, sure, you can take a bottle
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  of water and dip it on their forehead.
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  Sure, the thief on the cross did not come down to get baptized in
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  the water, and Jesus said today you will be with me in paradise.
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  So baptism is not salvation. Baptism is not even contingent
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  upon salvation, but it is the outward expression of what has
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  been done on the inside, their confession and the repentance,
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  and they are synonymous. And it is this rebirth and it
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  there is this refreshing that comes and you kick the devil in
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  the face whenever you go down into the water, and you're
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  baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy
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  Ghost. And so therefore, baptism should
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  be by immersion. But there are acceptance.
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  But by and large, it is not the sprinkling and the christening
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  that saves us. That is not salvation, friends,
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  This is just an outer sign of something that has happened
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  within us and it is a public event and it should be done in
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  public and not in private. And it is to show the world and
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  the community all around you that you are marked by His
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  goodness and grace and you belong to the way to and saying
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  repent you, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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  So this was John the Baptist ministry right here wrapped up
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  in one word. Repent.
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  And you might not understand that word, but it is a very
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  simple word. When we return back to God, it
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  is repentance. When we stiff arm the world and
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  the ways of the world and we stiff arm all of the
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  distractions of the world and we get rid of all of the things
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  that are entangling us and dragging us down and choking us
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  out. Whenever we acknowledge that
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  God's way is better than our own way, that is repentance.
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  It is the washing over of the mind.
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  It is mentioned in Romans 12/1 and two, it is being renewed by
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  His Word is repentance. Friends, it's having the change
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  of mind. The greatest battle that you
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  will ever encounter is within the six inches between your two
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  ears. It is in the mind, friends.
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  It is where all the battles are won and lost.
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  Take every thought captive, for God has given you a sound mind.
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  Don't worry about anything, but pray about everything.
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  Rejoice always and pray without ceasing.
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  This is how we win the war, friends, and we're going to
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  learn as we go through these next couple chapters.
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  We're going to learn how Jesus was able to counter the devil
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  with all of the devil's schemes just by reciting Scripture and
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  knowing Scripture and speaking Scripture out loud.
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  It's such a powerful tool. And so this repentance requires
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  us to return back to the Lord. Verse 3 for this is he that was
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  spoken of by the prophet Isaiah saying the voice of one crying
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  in the wilderness, prepare you the way of the Lord, make his
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  path straight. I don't know if you remember
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  back there in Isaiah how powerful it was.
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  It was called the 5th Gospel and it proclaimed Jesus Christ so
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  many times. And here is one of those
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  messianic verses that was talking about Jesus Christ
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  coming on the scenes and that he would have a forerunner and he,
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  he was indwelled by the spirit of Elijah.
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  And we're going to learn that as we go through verse 4.
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  And the same John had his clothing of camel's hair and a
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  leather belt around his waist, and his meat was locusts and
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  wild honey. So here we can see that Elijah
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  is referenced with his hairiness, perhaps an outer
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  garment of hair which was known for the profits, and also this
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  leather belt. And we can see that Elijah had
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  the same raiment, the same clothing.
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  And so how amazing is it that later on through these Gospels,
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  you're going to see Jesus say that Elijah has come Because the
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  disciples were asking, how come the prophecies and the
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  Scriptures tell us that Elijah will first come?
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  And he says, if you will accept it, Elijah has already come.
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  And that's what he's referencing here with John the Baptist.
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  And he's eating the locust and wild honey.
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  Imagine that. What a hippie, what a natural
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  person he is. He would be shopping at all
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  these health food stores of our day and our age. 5 and then went
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  out to him. Jerusalem, all Judea in the
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  region rounded about the Jordan. So here, imagine this mass
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  revival of people and they're saying, let's go out to see John
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  the Baptist and let's see what he's talking about.
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  And he's saying repent. He's saying the Kingdom of
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  heaven is at hand. He's saying be baptized for the
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  remission of sins. He's telling them how to be
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  saved. And he's calling out Jesus
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  Christ coming on the scene. And this was Jesus Christ,
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  cousin here. 6 And we're baptized of him and Jordan
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  confessing their sins. So here you can see that this is
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  synonymous. The confession of sins with
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  baptism is the repentance. 7 But when he saw many of the
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  Pharisees and the Sadducees that came to his baptism, he said
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  unto them, Oh, you generation of Vipers, who has warned you to
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  flee from the wrath to come? So he's calling this religious
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  set out. And this, as we mentioned in the
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  last chapter or so, this was a group of zealous men who were
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  trying to keep the traditions of of the Jewish heritage alive
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  post exile. They did not have the temple of
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  the Lord. And so they had these synagogues
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  where they would go in and they would have these discussions
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  about the law. And they had formed laws on top
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  of laws on top of laws to protect the original Mosaic
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  laws. And they actually upheld their
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  additions to be equal with the law of Moses.
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  And they required that these people all around the Jewish
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  nation would not offend any of their oral traditions.
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  And if they did, they treated it as if they were blaspheming
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  against God himself. And here John the Baptist is
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  calling them out for their heresy.
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  He's calling them out, and he's calling them a brood of Vipers.
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  And he's saying, who has warned you to flee from what is coming?
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  8 bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.
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  So what is he talking about in verse 8?
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  He's saying truly come in repentance.
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  Don't just come out for a show. Don't just come out and do
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  something because everybody else is doing it.
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  Don't just make it all about yourself, but truly come in
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  repentance. And that is our call today,
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  friends. Don't get baptized because
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  everybody else is getting baptized.
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  Don't get baptized because somebody talked you into it.
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  Don't get baptized because you're being manipulated.
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  Don't even get baptized because you're afraid of going to hell.
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  We should get baptized because we've already accepted Jesus
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  Christ as our Lord and Savior. It's already happened.
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  And then baptism is just the outward expression of that.
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  And people should see the fruit of your life, friends.
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  They should see you turning from sin.
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  They should see that your posts are in line with God's word and
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  they're not counter what the Word of God says.
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  And yes, there is sanctification for us.
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  And yes, God is long-suffering with us, but there should be a
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  drastic change in the fruit of your life when you come to the
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  Lord God Almighty. We need to put down all of the
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  things of the world and stiff arm all the things of the world.
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  Do not love the world or anything in the world.
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  We need to be in love with Jesus Christ and in love with His
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  Word. And it's ignorance of the word
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  of God which is the biggest problem.
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  So I'm so glad that you're on this faith journey with me
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  today, friend. 9 And think not to say within yourselves, we
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  have Abraham to our father. And I say unto you that God is
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  able to these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
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  They had this false sense of security that because of their
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  lineage to Abraham, they were going to get into the presence
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  of God one day. That there was no way for a Jew
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  to go to hell to shield. There was no way for them to be
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  completely separated from God. But we could see in the story
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  that is told of the rich man and Lazarus how the rich man was
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  crying out to father Abraham, saying, please have Lazarus just
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  dip his, dip his finger in the water and touch my tongue, for I
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  am in torment here. And so it proves to us that
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  these Jews cannot rely on their lineage to Abraham to make it
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  into the presence of God. And if we do not give him his
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  glory, the rocks will cry out. Friends. 10 And now also the axe
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  is laid unto the root of the trees.
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  Therefore every tree which brings not forth good fruit is
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  cut down and cast into the fire. If the branches are not
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  producing the fruit, they're cut off and cast into the fire.
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  It's a very simple explanation of what it looks like to be
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  connected to the vine. And just remember, friends, that
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  whenever we are connected to the Lord Jesus Christ, it will be a
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  natural response to produce just the fruits of peace, love,
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  generosity, self-control, kindness and gentleness.
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  Friends, joy, abounding patience.
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  We shouldn't be knee jerk. Reactions to every emotion that
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  comes our way. We need to make our emotions
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  subject to the Word of God and to the Holy Spirit that lives
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  within us. We should exude all the fruits
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  of the Spirit. That is a great marker of if you
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  are connected to the vine or not.
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  And yes, it is natural to have these thoughts that come in, but
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  we do not need to give in to the thoughts.
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  We need to make these thoughts subject unto the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. We need to put our knee on the
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  neck of them. We need to make sure we crush
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  all of the rebellion as soon as it enters into the mind.
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  Friends, that is the battle zone.
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  And he's talking about the axe being laid to the tree.
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  He's about to go to work. 11 I indeed baptize you with water
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  unto repentance, But he that comes after me is mightier than
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  I, whose shoes I'm not even worthy to tie.
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  He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
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  Praise God, Hallelujah, we love you.
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  Lord Jesus, baptize us with this Holy Ghost and fire.
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  Let us prophecy and dream dreams.
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  God, give us the power of the miraculous.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus for this baptism of fire and the
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  Holy Ghost upon every St. So many of us, friends, we
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  forget our heritage. So many of us.
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  We squander our inheritance. So many of us are lazy.
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  So many of us are completely calloused to the Word of God and
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  the power that is accessible to every single St.
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  So many of us sit idle and we believe the lies of the enemy.
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  So many of us make it all about pleasure, and so many of us make
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  it all about this world and the things of this world, and we
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  forget that Jesus Christ has called us to the greatest
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  adventure that we could ever live.
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  And we should live on fire and be full of the Holy Ghost
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  Friends 12 whose fan is in his hand.
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  And he will thoroughly purge his floor and gather his wheat into
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  the garner, but he will burn up the shaft with unquenchable
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  fire. This is the same thing he's
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  talking about with the axe being laid to the tree and every tree
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  that does not bring good fruit. This is the same principle.
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  It's it's talked about twice. And all of the people here
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  listening, they would have understood these principles of
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  the wheat and the chaff because they were a farming country and
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  they had to provide all the food for themselves.
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  And they would have known that this winnowing fork is throwing
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  the wheat up into the air and all the chaff is blown in the
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  wind and then the kernels and everything has fallen to the
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  floor. And they'd gather that up for
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  their food, but everything else that was not edible would be
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  burned up and it would be burned up quickly.
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  And John is calling this brood of Vipers, this religious sect
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  of people who think that their self righteousness is going to
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  get them into heaven. He's saying that you will be
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  eternally separated from God Almighty forever.
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  And ever because you do not trust Jesus Christ, you do not
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  trust the Lord God. You are only adding bylaws onto
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  laws and you're only trying to get in by all of the things that
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  were done by Father Abraham and you're not trying to do any of
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  the things. All you do is exact this
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  manipulation upon the masses for your own benefit.
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  And God sees right through it. And it's no different in our day
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  and our our friends. And we need a John the Baptist
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  to come. We need Jesus Christ to come.
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  We need a revival across this land.
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  We need to see how far we have fallen.
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  We need to see how we have mixed so much of the world into the
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  church. We need to see how much we get
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  it wrong. We need to see that the Bible is
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  the only true, accurate source for us to rely on.
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  And let every man be a liar, But His word will endure forever.
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  And His word was at the beginning and the Word was God.
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  And we need to be grounded and rooted in His Word.
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  Friends, thank God you were here today. 13 And then comes Jesus
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  from Galilee to Jordan unto John to be baptized of him.
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  So here comes Jesus. And he just mentioned he said
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  there's going to come one who's greater than I I'm not even
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  worthy to tie his shoes. And then he shows up on the
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  scene. If you can see it in the theater
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  of your mind, if you could play it out in your imagination and
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  you could just see John standing in the water and he's calling
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  out the Pharisees and the Sadducees and all the religious
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  folk of the day. And then he's mentioning 1
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  coming greater than he. And then Jesus shows up on the
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  scene. Praise God for this scene. 14
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  But John forbade him and said, I have need to be baptized of you,
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  and you come to me. He's saying, no, no, no, no, I I
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  can't baptize you, Jesus, you're the Son of God, You're the
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  Messiah. I'm just a lowly man.
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  Don't ask me to baptize you. What does Jesus have to say
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  about it? 15 And Jesus answered unto him,
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  and he said, Suffer it to be so. Now for this it becomes us to
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  fulfill all righteousness. And then he suffered him.
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  So we can see that John the Baptist here, he didn't want to
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  baptize Jesus, but Jesus said it needs to be done to fulfill the
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  righteousness. And Jesus was sinless all the
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  way through, all the way up to this point, Jesus had no need
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  for confession or repentance because he had done nothing
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  wrong. But for him to identify with
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  sinful man. He says, yes, John, baptize me.
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  Jesus understood everything that you're ever tempted with,
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  friend. He identifies with your
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  humanity. He was all God and he was all
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  man. What a thought. 16 And when
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  Jesus was baptized, he went up straightway out of the water,
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  and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit
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  of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him the
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  Trinity. Here we see God the Father, and
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  God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost all in one.
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  Here the Godhead, we can see it. We see Jesus coming out of the
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  water. We see this dove descending upon
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  him. We see the voice of God speaking
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  out, 17 and low, a voice from heaven saying, This is my
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  beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
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  This was a literal phenomenon of a voice speaking.
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  This was a literal dove descending upon him and lighting
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  upon him. Praise God.
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  Well in there. What an amazing chapter here and
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  what you're going to find as we go through these next four books
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  of the Bible. You're going to see these
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  stories and repetition. You're going to see so many
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  little additions added to them, and this is the hinge point for
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  the entire Word of God. From Genesis to Malachi points
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  to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and then from Acts to
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  Revelation point back to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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  This is it, guys. This is the main theme of the
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  whole thing, friends. This is the highlight.
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  This is the spotlight. This is the X on the map,
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  friends. This is the buried treasure,
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  friends, don't miss it. Don't miss how wonderful these
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  next four books of the Bible are.
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  They are incredible. And everything in the whole
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  world, even now, today, points back to this event.
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  Everything is hinged upon this event and we would do well to
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  only strive after Jesus and Jesus crucified.
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  That's what it's all about, friends.
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  It's the only way you're going to make it there.
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  It's the only way your neighbors going to make it there.
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  It's the only way your children are going to make it there.
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  It's the only way your coworkers are going to make it there.
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  It's the only way your Co workers are going to make it
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  there. It's the only way.
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  He is the way, the truth and the life.
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  It's all about Jesus Christ. It's always been about Jesus
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  Christ. It will always be about Jesus
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  Christ. How amazing is this book that we
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  hold in our hands. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter here in Matthew. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.