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The Life of Jesus_ Powerful Moments That Changed Everything · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: If you walked onto the scene of a fatal accident today,
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  Speaker 1: could you imagine speaking one sentence and watching death give
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  Speaker 1: back the people it had just taken? Picture the road
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  Speaker 1: sealed with yellow tape, police lights flashing over twisted metal,
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  Speaker 1: paramedics standing over bodies they can no longer revive, and
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  Speaker 1: families receiving the phone call that changes everything. Sirens are
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  Speaker 1: still sounding. Ambulance doors are still open. Investigators are still
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  Speaker 1: moving carefully around the wreckage. But beneath all of that
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  Speaker 1: noise is the terrible silence of finality. Human ability has
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  Speaker 1: reached its limit. You can cry their names. You can
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  Speaker 1: beg them to wake up. You can command their hearts
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  Speaker 1: to beat. But your words carry no authority over death.
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  Speaker 1: Now imagine, into that chaos, one man walks forward. He
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  Speaker 1: does not bring more equipment. He does not ask for
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  Speaker 1: a second medical opinion. He simply steps toward the bodies,
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  Speaker 1: buried among shattered vehicles, and speaks a word. And suddenly
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  Speaker 1: the unimaginable begins to happen. Chests begin to rise. Lungs
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  Speaker 1: fill with air. Eyes open. Bodies move. The dead sit up.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine the shock on every face around that scene?
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  Speaker 1: the police frozen in place, the medics unable to explain
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  Speaker 1: what they're seeing, the news cameras turning in disbelief, the sirens,
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  Speaker 1: the yellow tape, the ambulances, all rendered powerless and unnecessary
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  Speaker 1: because one man spoke and death had to obey. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds impossible. It sounds too hard to believe. And yet
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  Speaker 1: that is exactly the kind of authority Jesus carried in
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  Speaker 1: his words. When he spoke, People were shaken to their core.
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  Speaker 1: Sick bodies changed, demons fled, storms fell silent. The dead returned.
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  Speaker 1: Even rulers and royal households heard about the power moving
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  Speaker 1: through his voice. And now stop for a moment and
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  Speaker 1: make this personal. When was the last time your words
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  Speaker 1: felt like they carried any weight at all? When was
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  Speaker 1: the last time you looked at a mountain in your life, fear, sickness, bondage, impossibility, grief,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual warfare, and believed that in the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: God could still move? Because this is where the story
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  Speaker 1: stops being distant. Jesus did not only speak powerful words himself,
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  Speaker 1: he later told his followers to believe, to ask in
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  Speaker 1: his name, to pray with faith. and to trust God
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  Speaker 1: for what looks impossible. He said that those who believed
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  Speaker 1: in him would do his works. He taught about faith
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  Speaker 1: that speaks to mountains. And in the book of Acts,
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  Speaker 1: ordinary men stood before broken bodies and impossible situations and said,
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk, and
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  Speaker 1: people rose. That is what we are going to do
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  Speaker 1: in this video. We are going to walk through the
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  Speaker 1: powerful transformative words Jesus spoke in Scripture, words that changed
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  Speaker 1: the trajectory of lives in an instant. We are going
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  Speaker 1: to slow down at every moment and ask, why did
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  Speaker 1: Jesus choose those exact words? What did they mean in
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  Speaker 1: that moment? What power was carried inside them? What did
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  Speaker 1: the people standing there understand or fail to understand about
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  Speaker 1: the one speaking? And as we go deeper into every story,
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  Speaker 1: I want you to examine your own heart. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to hear those same words with faith. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to begin seeing what Scripture really says about the
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  Speaker 1: power of Jesus. the authority of his name, and what
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  Speaker 1: it means for a believer to trust him in a
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  Speaker 1: way that moves mountains. Because if sickness heard him, demons
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  Speaker 1: recognized him, storms obeyed him, and death surrendered to him,
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  Speaker 1: then perhaps the question is no longer simply, how powerful
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  Speaker 1: were the words of Jesus? The question is, do you
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  Speaker 1: understand the authority of the name you pray in? And
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  Speaker 1: do you believe the one whose name it is? There
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  Speaker 1: is a place in Jerusalem where one sentence from Jesus
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  Speaker 1: becomes almost impossible to read casually once you understand what
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  Speaker 1: every word is carrying. John 5 takes us near the
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  Speaker 1: Sheep Gate to a pool called Bethesda, a site traditionally
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  Speaker 1: identified today beside St. Anne's Church in the old city
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  Speaker 1: of Jerusalem. In the first century, sick and disabled people
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  Speaker 1: gathered there, blind, lame, paralyzed, surrounded by people waiting for
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  Speaker 1: their condition to change. Among them was a man who
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  Speaker 1: had been disabled for 38 years. 38 years is long
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  Speaker 1: enough for suffering to stop feeling temporary, long enough for
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  Speaker 1: disappointment to become an identity. Long enough to stop imagining
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  Speaker 1: yourself as someone who walks. Jesus approaches him and eventually
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  Speaker 1: gives him three commands. Rise, take up your mat, and walk.
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  Speaker 1: Do not move past them. The first word is rise.
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  Speaker 1: The Greek is eger, from egero, to raise, awaken, cause
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  Speaker 1: to stand. It can describe someone simply getting up, but
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament also uses this same word family repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: when speaking of the dead being raised. When the angels
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  Speaker 1: announce that Jesus has risen, when the apostles proclaim that
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  Speaker 1: God raised Christ from the dead, this language appears again
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  Speaker 1: and again. So when Jesus looks at a body that
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  Speaker 1: has lain powerless for decades and says, Rise! He chooses
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  Speaker 1: a word Scripture will ultimately associate with his authority over
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  Speaker 1: death itself. The command sounds unreasonable because Jesus is commanding
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  Speaker 1: the man to do exactly what his condition has prevented
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  Speaker 1: him from doing. Rise. Jesus does not first ask whether
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  Speaker 1: strength has returned. He does not say, move your legs
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  Speaker 1: and see how they feel. His word confronts the definition
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  Speaker 1: the man has lived beneath for thirty-eight years. Paralysis has
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  Speaker 1: been saying, You cannot rise. Jesus speaks another word over
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  Speaker 1: the same body. Rise. That is the collision we will
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  Speaker 1: keep seeing throughout the Gospels. Circumstances speak, but then Christ speaks.
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  Speaker 1: And when Christ has truly spoken, The circumstance does not
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  Speaker 1: possess equal authority. Then comes the second command, take up
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  Speaker 1: your mat. The Greek verb is aero, lift it, raise it,
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  Speaker 1: carry it away. Think about the wisdom hidden inside that command.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus does not merely tell him to abandon the place
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  Speaker 1: where he suffered. He tells him to pick up the
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  Speaker 1: evidence of how he used to live. For thirty-eight years
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  Speaker 1: that mat carried him. Now Jesus says, in effect, you
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  Speaker 1: carry what used to carry you. The mat has not changed,
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  Speaker 1: the man has. What yesterday represented helplessness now becomes evidence
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  Speaker 1: that something greater than helplessness has entered the story. There
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  Speaker 1: are moments when God does not erase every reminder of
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  Speaker 1: what you survived. Sometimes he changes its meaning. The scar remains,
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  Speaker 1: but it no longer means you are still wounded. The
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  Speaker 1: testimony remembers the prison without saying you still belong there.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus says the third word, walk, peripate, from peripateo, literally,
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  Speaker 1: to walk around, to move about. But this word becomes
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  Speaker 1: even richer throughout the New Testament. Paul repeatedly uses peripateo
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  Speaker 1: to describe the whole manner of a believer's life. Walk
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  Speaker 1: by the Spirit. Walk in love. Walk as children of light.
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  Speaker 1: Walk worthy of your calling. So hear the progression. Rise,
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  Speaker 1: take up, walk. Jesus is not merely giving the man
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  Speaker 1: functioning legs. Rise out of what held you. Carry away
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  Speaker 1: what once carried you. now live differently, and John says
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  Speaker 1: the man was made well immediately. The word came first,
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  Speaker 1: the visible change followed. Thirty-eight years of history did not
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  Speaker 1: require thirty-eight years for the authority of Christ to overcome it.
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  Speaker 1: But this is where we must understand the power correctly.
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  Speaker 1: There was nothing magical about the sound of gear. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: standing at Bethesda could have shouted,' Rise!' The man was
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by suffering people who had probably heard encouragement before.
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  Speaker 1: What Bethesda had never heard was that word spoken by Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: That is the difference— the The authority is not ultimately in
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  Speaker 1: our ability to pronounce Christ's command. The authority rests in
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  Speaker 1: the one whose word carries heaven behind it. And later
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  Speaker 1: something remarkable happens. After Jesus rises from the dead and
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  Speaker 1: sends his followers in his name, Peter stands before another
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  Speaker 1: man who has never been able to walk. He does
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  Speaker 1: not say, By my power rise, and he says, In
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk. Do you
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  Speaker 1: see the connection beginning to form? Jesus says, walk. Later
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  Speaker 1: his servant says, In the name of Jesus Christ, walk.
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  Speaker 1: And the man walks. This is where the entire journey
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  Speaker 1: is taking us. What happened when Jesus spoke directly? And
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  Speaker 1: what does scripture mean when his followers later act in
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  Speaker 1: his name? But before we answer that, sit with the
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  Speaker 1: first treasure we have uncovered, rise. Maybe you have read
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  Speaker 1: that word many times, but now ask yourself what you
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  Speaker 1: are really hearing. Is it merely an ancient command to
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  Speaker 1: an ancient man, or are you beginning to see something
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  Speaker 1: about the one who spoke it? Jesus speaks to what
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  Speaker 1: human beings have accepted as permanent, and his word is
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  Speaker 1: carries an authority the condition does not possess, because the
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  Speaker 1: next words will take us even deeper. Jesus is about
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  Speaker 1: to meet a man whose question is not whether Christ
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  Speaker 1: can change his condition. His question is whether Christ wants to,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus will answer him with words that reveal not
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  Speaker 1: only his power but the heart behind that power. I
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  Speaker 1: am willing, be clean. Somewhere in Galilee, in a town
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  Speaker 1: the gospel writers do not name precisely enough for us
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  Speaker 1: to identify, on a modern map, a man approaches Jesus
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  Speaker 1: carrying a condition that has already spoken over nearly every
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  Speaker 1: part of his life. Luke says he was full of leprosy.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever exact skin disease the ancient term covered in his case,
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  Speaker 1: the point is unmistakable. This was not a small mark
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  Speaker 1: hidden beneath clothing. His condition was visible, serious, and socially devastating.
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  Speaker 1: Under the purity laws of Leviticus 13 and 14, a
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  Speaker 1: person diagnosed with such a condition could be declared unclean.
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  Speaker 1: That word affected where he could live, how others approached him,
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  Speaker 1: and whether he could participate normally in the worshipping community.
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  Speaker 1: So when this man comes toward Jesus, he is not
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  Speaker 1: merely bringing damaged skin. He is bringing years of being
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  Speaker 1: defined by a word, unclean. And that is why what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says to him is so much deeper than, You
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  Speaker 1: are healed. The man falls before him and says, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: if you are willing, you can make me clean. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to his sentence carefully, because his faith and his wound
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  Speaker 1: are both inside it. You can. He does not question
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  Speaker 1: the power. He has already crossed that bridge. Somehow this
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  Speaker 1: man has heard enough about Jesus to believe that the
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  Speaker 1: impossible is possible in his presence. He does not say,
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  Speaker 1: if you are able. He says, you can. His uncertainty
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  Speaker 1: comes afterward, if you are willing. That is a completely
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  Speaker 1: different question. Can you asks about power. Will you asks
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  Speaker 1: about character. And there are people listening right now who
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  Speaker 1: understand that distinction more deeply than they may want to admit.
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  Speaker 1: You believe God is powerful. You believe he opened the sea.
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  Speaker 1: You believe he raised the dead. You believe Jesus cast
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  Speaker 1: out demons and opened blind eyes. Your struggle is not
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  Speaker 1: whether he has power somewhere in the universe. Your struggle
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  Speaker 1: begins when his power comes near your own wound. Would
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  Speaker 1: he come near me? Would he touch this? Would he
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  Speaker 1: care about this part of my life? The Greek words
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answers with are astonishingly compact. Thalo. Catharis Theti. I
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  Speaker 1: am willing, be cleansed. Two movements first. Jesus reveals his will.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus commands the condition. Start with the first word, thelo.
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  Speaker 1: It comes from thelo, a verb of willing, desiring, intending.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus does not merely say, I am capable. The man
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  Speaker 1: already believes that. Jesus answers the question buried beneath the request,
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  Speaker 1: I will it, I desire this. That is why I
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  Speaker 1: am willing carries such emotional force. The man came uncertain
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  Speaker 1: about the heart behind the power. Jesus does not leave
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  Speaker 1: that question unanswered, and before we even reach be clean,
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  Speaker 1: Mark tells us Jesus stretches out his hand and touches him.
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  Speaker 1: That touch must not be treated as a decorative detail.
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  Speaker 1: In the world this man inhabited, touch had consequences. Leviticus
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  Speaker 1: trained Israel to take categories of clean and unclean seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Uncleanness was not always the same thing as personal sin. Childbirth,
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  Speaker 1: contact with a corpse, bodily discharges, and certain diseases could
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  Speaker 1: create ritual impurity and without meaning the person had committed
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  Speaker 1: some moral evil. That distinction matters. This man is not
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  Speaker 1: automatically being presented as sinful because he is sick, but
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  Speaker 1: impurity could exclude. It created boundaries, and this man had
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  Speaker 1: spent his life on the wrong side of one. Then
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  Speaker 1: Jesus reaches across it, under ordinary expectations— Contact with impurity
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  Speaker 1: threatens the clean person with impurity, but something different happens
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus touches what is unclean. The uncleanness does not
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  Speaker 1: overpower him. His cleanness overpowers it. The direction reverses. That
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  Speaker 1: is one of the great patterns of the gospel. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: does not become contaminated by the brokenness he enters. His
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  Speaker 1: holiness invades it. He touches the unclean, and the unclean
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  Speaker 1: becomes clean. He touches the dead, and instead of death
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  Speaker 1: spreading to him, life spreads to the dead. He enters
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  Speaker 1: a world under sin and death, and ultimately sin and
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  Speaker 1: death do not conquer him. Through his death and resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: he conquers them. So the touch is already preaching before
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  Speaker 1: the command is spoken. Then Jesus says, Catharisteti, be cleansed.
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  Speaker 1: The word comes from Catharizo, to cleanse. purify, make clean,
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  Speaker 1: and this is where the wording becomes extremely important. The
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  Speaker 1: man does not merely ask to feel better, he asks
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  Speaker 1: to be clean. Why? Because in his world, healing the
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  Speaker 1: disease and restoration to community were connected but not identical.
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  Speaker 1: Leviticus 14 describes a process that in which a priest
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  Speaker 1: examines someone whose condition has changed and can pronounce that
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  Speaker 1: person clean. The priest verifies. The priest performs the prescribed rites.
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  Speaker 1: The priest recognizes restoration according to the law. But notice
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus does. Jesus does not merely say, go see
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  Speaker 1: whether the priest thinks you are clean. He speaks cleansing directly.
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  Speaker 1: Be clean. Then afterward he tells the man to show
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  Speaker 1: himself to the priest and offer what Moses commanded. That
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  Speaker 1: order matters. The priest will confirm what Jesus has already accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: The law had procedures for recognizing cleansing. Jesus speaks with
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  Speaker 1: authority that produces it. This should make us stop. because
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  Speaker 1: throughout Israel's scriptures cleansing ultimately belongs to God. David cries
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  Speaker 1: in Psalm 51, Wash me, and I will be whiter
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  Speaker 1: than snow. Cleanse me from my sin. Through Ezekiel, God promises,
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  Speaker 1: I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will
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  Speaker 1: be clean. Isaiah looks toward a day when uncleanness will
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  Speaker 1: be washed away. And later, Hebrews will take the language
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  Speaker 1: even deeper, speaking about Christ cleansing the conscience and opening
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  Speaker 1: access to God through his own blood. Do you see
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  Speaker 1: what is happening? The short command in Galilee, be clean,
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  Speaker 1: is sitting inside a much larger biblical river. Leviticus gives
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  Speaker 1: the categories. The Psalms cry for cleansing. The prophets promise cleansing.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus stands in front of an unclean man and commands it,
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  Speaker 1: and the New Testament will eventually reveal that the deepest
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  Speaker 1: cleansing humanity needs is not skin deep at all. It
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  Speaker 1: is the cleansing of guilt, conscience, and sin through Christ.
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  Speaker 1: That does not mean this man's disease was caused by
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  Speaker 1: some specific sin. Scripture does not tell us that. It
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  Speaker 1: means the physical miracle becomes a visible sign of something
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  Speaker 1: even greater about Jesus. He has come into the territory
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  Speaker 1: of uncleanness, and uncleanness does not get the final word
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  Speaker 1: around him. Then Mark and Luke tell us what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately the condition leaves him. immediately think about the force
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  Speaker 1: of that word. Years of social distance meet one command.
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  Speaker 1: Years of being called unclean meet two words from Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Be clean. And the verdict changes, not because the man
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  Speaker 1: repeated the phrase, not because the man discovered the correct
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  Speaker 1: frequency of faith, not because the syllables themselves contain magical force.
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  Speaker 1: Because Jesus spoke, that distinction must remain at the center
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  Speaker 1: of this entire video. Anyone could pronounce catharis thetai. Only
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  Speaker 1: Christ could speak it with this authority and watch the
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  Speaker 1: condition obey. The power is not hidden in the vocabulary.
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  Speaker 1: The power is carried by the person. And that is
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  Speaker 1: precisely why the name of Jesus will matter so much later.
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  Speaker 1: When the apostles act in his name, they are not
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  Speaker 1: borrowing a magical sound. They are ministering under the authority
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  Speaker 1: of the one whose words sickness had already learned to obey.
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  Speaker 1: His name represents him, his authority, his lordship, his character,
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  Speaker 1: his mission, and his victory. That is why Acts never
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  Speaker 1: presents the apostles as independent miracle workers. Peter will later
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  Speaker 1: look at a crowd amazed by healing and say, in effect,
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  Speaker 1: why are you staring at us as though our own
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  Speaker 1: power or holiness did this? Then he points them back
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus. The authority remains Christ's, the glory remains Christ's,
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  Speaker 1: the name remains Christ's, and this is where these words
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  Speaker 1: should enter your life, carefully but powerfully. Do not hear,
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  Speaker 1: I am willing, be clean, as permission to claim that
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  Speaker 1: every disease must disappear whenever you repeat the sentence. Scripture
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  Speaker 1: does not give us that formula. Hear something deeper. Hear
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus reveals about himself. He is not frightened by
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  Speaker 1: what has made others withdraw. He is not contaminated by
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  Speaker 1: what he comes to redeem. He is not powerless before
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  Speaker 1: conditions human beings have learned to call permanent. And when
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  Speaker 1: he truly speaks a verdict, the old verdict cannot outrank him.
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  Speaker 1: That truth reaches far beyond one man's skin. There are
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  Speaker 1: people who have lived under words for years. Unclean, rejected, addicted, damaged, unwanted,
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  Speaker 1: too far gone. Some of those words came from other people.
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  Speaker 1: Some came from your own failures. Some came from shame.
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  Speaker 1: Some came from the enemy. Some came from circumstances that
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  Speaker 1: lasted so long you began mistaking them for identity. But
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  Speaker 1: here is where faith must become discerning. You do not
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  Speaker 1: defeat a false word by inventing a more positive word.
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  Speaker 1: You defeat a false word by discovering what Jesus has
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  Speaker 1: actually spoken. If Christ says the repentant sinner is forgiven,
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  Speaker 1: shame does not get equal authority. If Christ says, come
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  Speaker 1: to me, rejection does not get the final invitation. If
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  Speaker 1: Scripture says those in Christ are made new, your past
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  Speaker 1: does not possess the authority to rename you forever. If
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, Do not fear, fear may still speak loudly,
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  Speaker 1: but it is no longer speaking from the throne. This
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of faith we are moving toward, not
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  Speaker 1: faith in our words, faith in His Word. not confidence
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  Speaker 1: that whatever we say must happen, confidence that what he
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  Speaker 1: has truly said is worthy of trust. And then, as
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  Speaker 1: people who belong to him, we learn what it means
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  Speaker 1: to pray in his name, resist evil in his name,
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  Speaker 1: ask boldly in his name, and stand under an authority
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  Speaker 1: that is not ours by nature, but his by right.
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  Speaker 1: So listen again to the words, I am willing. Before
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  Speaker 1: the command there is the heart of Christ. Then, be clean.
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  Speaker 1: After the compassion there is authority. Do not separate them.
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  Speaker 1: Power without compassion becomes terrifying. Compassion without power can only sympathize.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus, infinite compassion and absolute authority meet in the
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  Speaker 1: same hand. The hand touches. The voice commands, the man
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  Speaker 1: is restored. If these words are beginning to open differently
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  Speaker 1: for you, tell me which one reaches deeper, I am willing,
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  Speaker 1: or be clean. Put the exact words in the comments,
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  Speaker 1: and tell us why. Because one speaks to the person
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  Speaker 1: who doubts Christ's heart, while the other speaks to the
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  Speaker 1: person who has lived too long beneath a verdict Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is able to overturn. And carry this wisdom with you.
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  Speaker 1: The man approached Jesus believing in his ability but uncertain
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  Speaker 1: of his willingness. He left knowing both. Now the words
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  Speaker 1: become even more unusual. Jesus is about to meet a
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  Speaker 1: man who whose ears cannot hear and whose speech has
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  Speaker 1: been impaired. This time he will not simply say, hear.
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  Speaker 1: He will look toward heaven, sigh deeply, and speak one
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  Speaker 1: Aramaic word that Mark preserves for us, exactly as it sounded, Ephatha,
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  Speaker 1: be opened. And when we go inside that word, we
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  Speaker 1: are going to discover that Jesus was not only opening ears,
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  Speaker 1: he was revealing what happens when the voice of God
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  Speaker 1: confronts something that has been closed. And now we come
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  Speaker 1: to a word so unusual that Mark refuses to let
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  Speaker 1: its original sound disappear. He preserves it exactly as it
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  Speaker 1: was remembered, Ephaphatha. Jesus is moving through the region of
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  Speaker 1: the Decapolis, a network of largely Gentile cities around the
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  Speaker 1: eastern and southeastern side of the Sea of Galilee. The
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  Speaker 1: exact spot cannot be identified with certainty today, but the
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  Speaker 1: geography places us in the world around the ancient lake,
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  Speaker 1: in territory that now falls across parts of northern Israel, Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: and Syria. A man is brought to Jesus who cannot
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  Speaker 1: hear properly and can barely speak. His condition has closed
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  Speaker 1: him off from the world twice over. Sound cannot fully enter,
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  Speaker 1: and speech cannot fully leave. Other people have to bring him.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus does something deeply personal. He takes the man
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  Speaker 1: away from the crowd, puts his fingers near his ears,
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  Speaker 1: touches his tongue, looks toward heaven, and Mark tells us
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus sighs deeply. The Greek word is stenazo, to groan,
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  Speaker 1: to sigh under weight. Before Jesus commands what is broken,
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  Speaker 1: he allows himself to feel the weight of the brokenness.
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  Speaker 1: This is not cold power. This is authority. carrying compassion.
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  Speaker 1: Romans 8 later says, creation itself groans under decay, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for liberation. Here, standing before one damaged piece of creation,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus groans too. Then he speaks, effatha, be opened. Do
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  Speaker 1: not rush past that command. Jesus does not merely say here.
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  Speaker 1: He addresses what has been closed and commands it to open.
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  Speaker 1: The Aramaic Ephphatha carries that force. Be opened, be released
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  Speaker 1: from closure, let what has been shut respond now. And
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  Speaker 1: Scripture had already prepared Israel to understand the weight of
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  Speaker 1: such a moment. Isaiah 35 looks toward the day when
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  Speaker 1: God comes to save and says, Then will the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of the blind be opened, and the ears of the
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  Speaker 1: deaf unstopped. Then will the lame leap like a deer,
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  Speaker 1: and the mute tongue shout for joy. Centuries later, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: stands in this region, speaks, Be opened. And Mark says immediately,
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  Speaker 1: The man's ears open, and the impediment of his tongue
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  Speaker 1: is released. Isaiah promised it. Jesus spoke it, the ears opened,
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  Speaker 1: the tongue was released, and the crowd says something almost creation-like.
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  Speaker 1: He has done everything well. He even makes the deaf
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  Speaker 1: hear and the mute speak. Genesis repeatedly looks at God's
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  Speaker 1: work and calls it good. Now people are watching Jesus
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  Speaker 1: restore damaged creation and saying, in effect— Look how well
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  Speaker 1: he does all things. That means be opened is not
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  Speaker 1: simply a healing phrase, it is a revelation. Throughout Scripture,
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  Speaker 1: hearing is more than biology. Israel's great confession begins, Hear,
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  Speaker 1: O Israel. The prophets constantly confront people who have ears
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  Speaker 1: but refuse to hear God. Jesus repeatedly says, Whoever has
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  Speaker 1: ears to hear, let them hear. Revelation echoes the same
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  Speaker 1: command to the churches. So, there is a tragedy deeper
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  Speaker 1: than physical deafness, the tragedy of having working ears while
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  Speaker 1: remaining closed to God. A person can hear sermons for
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  Speaker 1: thirty years and still not hear. A person can own
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  Speaker 1: multiple Bibles. and still resist every word that threatens pride, lust, bitterness, greed, fear,
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  Speaker 1: or self-rule. Suddenly, Ephatha becomes a prayer for the soul. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: open what disappointment has closed. Open what pride has sealed.
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  Speaker 1: Open what fear has locked. Open my ears to truth
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  Speaker 1: even when truth confronts me. Open my heart until your
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  Speaker 1: word is no longer just information, but light. and notice
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  Speaker 1: again where the power rests. The man did not heal
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  Speaker 1: himself by repeating the Aramaic word back to Jesus. Jesus spoke,
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  Speaker 1: and what was closed opened. That pattern is going to
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  Speaker 1: matter more and more as we move toward the power
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  Speaker 1: of his name. Then the atmosphere changes. We move from
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  Speaker 1: something closed in the body to something darker, occupying a
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  Speaker 1: human life. In Capernaum, on the northern shore of the
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  Speaker 1: Sea of Galilee. Jesus enters a synagogue and begins to teach.
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  Speaker 1: The people are already astonished because he teaches with an
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  Speaker 1: authority unlike their scribes. Suddenly, a man with an unclean
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  Speaker 1: spirit cries out, What do you want with us, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know
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  Speaker 1: who you are, the Holy One of God. Notice the irony.
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  Speaker 1: Human beings are still asking who Jesus is, but the
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  Speaker 1: Spirit recognizes him immediately. Religious leaders will debate his identity.
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  Speaker 1: Darkness does not need the debate. Jesus answers with two commands,
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  Speaker 1: Be quiet! Come out of him! The first Greek word
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  Speaker 1: is phimothetai, stronger than a polite be quiet. It carries
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  Speaker 1: the sense of be muzzled. Jesus does not enter into
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  Speaker 1: a conversation with the Spirit. He does not let darkness
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  Speaker 1: control the moment simply because it can speak true information
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  Speaker 1: about him. Even a demon can say something factually correct
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  Speaker 1: while speaking from a source Christ refuses to authorize. So
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, in effect, be muzzled. Then he commands, come out.
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  Speaker 1: The Greek exalt thee means leave, go out, depart. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the simplicity is almost frightening. There is no negotiation, no incantation,
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  Speaker 1: no anxious struggle between equal powers. Jesus commands, the Spirit obeys.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd immediately asks, what is this, a new teaching,
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  Speaker 1: and with authority. He even gives orders to impure spirits,
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  Speaker 1: and they obey him. The Greek word for authority is exousia.
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  Speaker 1: It is not merely strength, it carries the idea of
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  Speaker 1: rightful authority jurisdiction, the right to command. A person may
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  Speaker 1: be physically strong without having legal authority. A judge can
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  Speaker 1: speak quietly, yet an entire system stands behind the sentence.
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  Speaker 1: Authority is not measured by volume. It is measured by
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  Speaker 1: the right standing behind the words. Jesus does not need
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  Speaker 1: to shout louder than demons because he has jurisdiction they
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  Speaker 1: do not possess. This becomes even clearer when he later
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  Speaker 1: meets the tormented man among the tombs in the region
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  Speaker 1: of the Gerasenes. Human beings have tried chains. The chains fail.
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  Speaker 1: They try restraint. Restraint fails. The man lives among graves,
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  Speaker 1: cutting himself, isolated from ordinary human life. But when Jesus arrives,
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  Speaker 1: the spirits do not posture like equals. They plead. That
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  Speaker 1: should change the way we think about spiritual warfare. Darkness
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  Speaker 1: is real, but darkness is not sovereign. Satan is dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: but Satan is not God's equal opposite. Scripture never gives
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  Speaker 1: us two equal kingdoms fighting uncertainly for control. There is
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  Speaker 1: one Creator, and there are created rebels. Colossians says Christ
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  Speaker 1: disarmed rulers and authorities and triumphed over them through the cross.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews says he broke the power of the one who
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  Speaker 1: held the power of death. 1 John says the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God appeared to destroy the works of the devil.
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  Speaker 1: So when Jesus says,' Come out,' We are watching the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of God invade territory darkness had occupied, and now
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus begins to come into focus. Luke
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  Speaker 1: 10 tells us Jesus sends disciples out, and they return astonished, saying, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: even the demons submit to us in your name. Not
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  Speaker 1: because they have become little gods, not because they discovered
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  Speaker 1: powerful syllables. in your name. They know the authority is borrowed, delegated,
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  Speaker 1: carried under Christ. Jesus immediately protects them from becoming intoxicated
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  Speaker 1: with spiritual power by telling them not to make their
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  Speaker 1: deepest joy the fact that spirits submit, but that their
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  Speaker 1: names are written in heaven. That is wisdom every generation
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  Speaker 1: of believers needs. Spiritual authority without spiritual identity becomes dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: If you become more excited about demons obeying than about
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  Speaker 1: belonging to Christ, your eyes have already begun drifting from Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Acts 19 gives an even sharper warning. Some men watch
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary works happening through Paul and try to borrow the formula,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of the Jesus whom Paul preaches, I
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  Speaker 1: command you. The evil spirit answers, Jesus I know, and
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  Speaker 1: Paul I know about, but who are you? That story
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  Speaker 1: destroys the idea that the name of Jesus is a
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  Speaker 1: magical password. They spoke the name, but did not stand
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  Speaker 1: inside the relationship, surrender, and commission represented by the name.
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  Speaker 1: To act in someone's name means to represent that person's authority.
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  Speaker 1: So if we are going to talk about the power
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus' name, we have to begin here. His name
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  Speaker 1: is not something you use while rejecting his lordship. James
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  Speaker 1: gives the order clearly. Submit yourselves then to God. Resist
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  Speaker 1: the devil, and he will flee from you. Submission first.
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  Speaker 1: Resistance second. That is not weakness. That is alignment. For
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  Speaker 1: those wanting to go deeper into these connections, we have
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  Speaker 1: e-books available on our website to help guide your deep
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  Speaker 1: Bible studies. But now something fascinating happens. Jesus has just
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  Speaker 1: used the language of muzzling against an unclean spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: soon Mark gives a similar language when Jesus stands before
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  Speaker 1: a violent storm. The Sea of Galilee, known today as
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  Speaker 1: Lake Kinneret, sits low in a basin surrounded by rising terrain,
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  Speaker 1: and sudden violent winds can sweep down and make the
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  Speaker 1: water dangerous quickly. In Mark 4, Jesus and his disciples
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  Speaker 1: are crossing after a long day of teaching when a
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  Speaker 1: furious squall erupts. Waves crash into the boat. Water begins
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  Speaker 1: filling it. Several of these men are fishermen who know
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  Speaker 1: this lake, yet they believe they are going to die.
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus is asleep. They wake him with one of
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  Speaker 1: the most painful questions fear can produce.' Teacher, don't you
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  Speaker 1: care if we drown?' Notice what fear has done. The
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  Speaker 1: storm outside has become an accusation inside. The question is
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  Speaker 1: no longer merely,' Can Jesus save us?' It becomes,' Does
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  Speaker 1: Jesus care?' Many believers have prayed some version of that sentence. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: do you care that my marriage is collapsing? Do you
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  Speaker 1: care what the doctor said? Do you care that my
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  Speaker 1: child has walked away? Do you care that I have
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  Speaker 1: prayed for years? Jesus gets up and speaks to the
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  Speaker 1: wind and the sea. Peace. Be still. Mark's Greek is siopa, pipimoso.
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  Speaker 1: Be silent. Be muzzled. There is that language again. We
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  Speaker 1: should not claim from that alone that every storm is demonic.
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  Speaker 1: The text does not demand that conclusion, but Mark allows
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  Speaker 1: us to hear the same tone of authority. Whether Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is confronting spiritual rebellion or chaotic creation, his command is
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  Speaker 1: not uncertain. Be silent, be muzzled, and suddenly the wind stops,
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  Speaker 1: the sea becomes calm. Now go backward into Israel's scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 89 says of God, You rule over the surging sea.
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  Speaker 1: When its waves mount up, you still them. Psalm 107
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  Speaker 1: describes sailors caught in a storm, crying to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and says he stills the storm to a whisper. Psalm
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  Speaker 1: 65 praises the God who stills the roaring of the seas.
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  Speaker 1: So when Jesus stands in a boat and commands the
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  Speaker 1: water directly, the miracle is not merely telling us he
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  Speaker 1: has unusual ability. It is forcing the disciples toward a
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  Speaker 1: terrifying question. Who is this? Even the wind and the
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  Speaker 1: waves obey him. That is the question every word in
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  Speaker 1: this journey keeps pressing into us. If sickness obeys him,
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  Speaker 1: who is he? If demons obey him, who is he?
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  Speaker 1: If the sea obeys him, who is he? If death
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  Speaker 1: eventually obeys him, who is he? And now listen again
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  Speaker 1: to peace. Be still. The storm had been speaking loudly.
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  Speaker 1: The waves were telling the disciples, You are going to die.
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  Speaker 1: Fear had translated every crash of water into prophecy. Then
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  Speaker 1: Jesus speaks one sentence, and the louder voice is exposed
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  Speaker 1: as the lesser authority. Some of you need to understand
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  Speaker 1: this distinction deeply. Circumstances speak. Pain speaks. Medical reports speak.
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  Speaker 1: Bank accounts speak. Fear speaks. But none of those voices
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  Speaker 1: becomes God simply because it is loud. Faith does not
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  Speaker 1: deny what circumstances say. Faith asks which voice has final authority,
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  Speaker 1: and we also need wisdom here. Peace, be still, is
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  Speaker 1: not a formula we shout at every difficulty expecting immediate calm.
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  Speaker 1: Paul endured storms that were not instantly silenced. Acts 27
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  Speaker 1: records a shipwreck in which the vessel was lost while
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  Speaker 1: every life aboard was preserved. Sometimes Jesus calms the storm.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes he carries you through it. The miracle is not
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  Speaker 1: always that the sea changes. Sometimes the miracle is that
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  Speaker 1: the storm cannot cancel what God has spoken over your journey.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had already said, let us go over to the
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  Speaker 1: other side. The storm did not overturn his destination. If
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  Speaker 1: peace be still reaches you, Do not merely use it
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  Speaker 1: to shout at circumstances. First let those words confront the
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  Speaker 1: storm inside you. Then we come to another night on
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  Speaker 1: the lake, where one word from Jesus causes a human
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  Speaker 1: being to step onto water. The disciples see Jesus walking
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  Speaker 1: toward them and are terrified, thinking they are seeing a ghost.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus tells them, Take courage, it is I, do not
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  Speaker 1: be afraid. Peter answers, Lord, if it is you, tell
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  Speaker 1: me to come to you on the water. Jesus gives
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  Speaker 1: him one word, come. The Greek is elta, come, that
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  Speaker 1: is all. Peter steps out. Do not miss the order.
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  Speaker 1: Peter does not jump onto the water and then demand
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  Speaker 1: God bless his decision. He receives a word from Christ
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  Speaker 1: and then acts. That difference separates faith from presumption. Presumption says,
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  Speaker 1: I decided this, therefore God must support me. Faith says
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  Speaker 1: he called, therefore I can step. The water has not
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  Speaker 1: changed its nature. Peter has not become divine. Gravity has
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  Speaker 1: not become irrelevant. What has changed is that Christ has
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  Speaker 1: issued a command, and Peter is responding inside the authority
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  Speaker 1: of that command. This is why biblical faith cannot be
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  Speaker 1: reduced to confidence. People can be confidently wrong. Faith is
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  Speaker 1: not believing intensely in whatever you want. Faith is trusting
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  Speaker 1: the one who speaks truth. Abraham goes because God says go.
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  Speaker 1: Moses returns to Egypt because God says go. Israel walks
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  Speaker 1: toward the sea because God directs them. Peter steps onto
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  Speaker 1: the water because Jesus says come. Faith moves because God
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  Speaker 1: has spoken. That is essential when we eventually talk about mountains.
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  Speaker 1: Some people hear faith moves mountains and imagine faith as
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  Speaker 1: spiritual force generated inside the human mind. But Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: have faith in God. The object matters more than the
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  Speaker 1: emotional intensity. Peter can walk while his eyes remain fixed
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  Speaker 1: on Jesus. Then he notices the wind. Fear becomes louder
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  Speaker 1: than the word that called him. and he begins to sink.
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  Speaker 1: He cries, Lord, save me. Jesus immediately reaches out and
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  Speaker 1: catches him. There is mercy inside that detail. Peter's wavering
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  Speaker 1: faith does not make Jesus watch him drown to teach
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  Speaker 1: him a lesson. Jesus catches him and then teaches him.
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  Speaker 1: Weak faith can still cry to a strong Saviour. The
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  Speaker 1: father of the tormented boy later says, I believe, help
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  Speaker 1: my unbelief. That prayer is in Scripture because faith is
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  Speaker 1: not pretending doubt never enters your mind. Faith is knowing
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  Speaker 1: where to bring your doubt. And notice something else about come.
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  Speaker 1: It is one of the central words of Jesus. Come,
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  Speaker 1: follow me. Come to me, all you who are weary.
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  Speaker 1: Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.
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  Speaker 1: Before Jesus gives us authority to go anywhere, he calls
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  Speaker 1: us toward himself. We often reverse the order. We want authority.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, come. We want gifts. Jesus says, come. We
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  Speaker 1: want mountain-moving faith. Jesus says, come to me. The deepest
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  Speaker 1: power of Christian life does not begin with standing far
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  Speaker 1: from Jesus and shouting his name at problems. It begins
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  Speaker 1: with closeness to Christ. Then the journey turns toward death. Jairus,
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  Speaker 1: a synagogue ruler, has a daughter who is dying. He
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  Speaker 1: falls at Jesus' feet and begs him to come. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: begins walking with him, but the journey is interrupted by
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  Speaker 1: the woman who has suffered bleeding for twelve years. Jesus stops.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine Jairus in that moment. Every second feels expensive. Every
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  Speaker 1: moment Jesus gives someone else feels like time his daughter
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  Speaker 1: may not have. Then messengers arrive from his house and say,
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  Speaker 1: Your daughter is dead. Why bother the teacher anymore? Human
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  Speaker 1: reasoning has drawn its line. Sick? Call Jesus. Dying, hurry, dead,
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  Speaker 1: stop asking. And into that moment Jesus speaks. Do not fear,
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  Speaker 1: only believe. The Greek is miphobou, monon pistou. Do not fear,
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  Speaker 1: only believe. Fear is one voice. Faith is another posture.
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  Speaker 1: Jairus had already believed enough to come to Jesus. Now
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  Speaker 1: death itself is demanding that he abandon the faith he
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  Speaker 1: had on the road. This is one of the deepest
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  Speaker 1: tests of faith in Scripture. Can you keep trusting when
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances have become worse after you prayed? Jairus asked
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to come. Jesus came, and while Jesus was coming,
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  Speaker 1: the girl died. That is where many believers become confused. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I obeyed. Why did the situation get worse? Lord, I prayed.
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  Speaker 1: Why did the door close? Lord, I trusted you. Why
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  Speaker 1: did the report change? Jesus does not give Jairus an
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  Speaker 1: explanation on the road. He gives him a word. Do
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  Speaker 1: not fear, only believe. Sometimes explanation comes later. but faith
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  Speaker 1: must decide whom to trust now. They reach the house.
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  Speaker 1: Mourners are already weeping. Jesus says the child is not
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  Speaker 1: dead but asleep, and they laugh at him because they
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  Speaker 1: know what death looks like. But Jesus uses the language
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  Speaker 1: of sleep because in his presence death is not ultimate.
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  Speaker 1: Sleep is something you wake from. Then he takes the
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  Speaker 1: child by the hand and says, Talitha kum. Mark preserves
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  Speaker 1: the Aramaic again and translates it, Little girl, I say
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  Speaker 1: to you, arise. Listen to the tenderness. Jesus stands before
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  Speaker 1: death with absolute authority, but he does not become theatrical.
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  Speaker 1: Little girl, then I say to you, then arise. The
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  Speaker 1: voice is personal, direct, authoritative. And immediately she stands and
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  Speaker 1: begins walking. Death has heard the sentence. Life returns. Then
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  Speaker 1: Jesus tells them to give her something to eat. That
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  Speaker 1: small instruction protects us from turning her into a symbol
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  Speaker 1: and forgetting she is a child. The same Jesus who
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  Speaker 1: commands death cares that she is hungry afterward. Infinite authority
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  Speaker 1: and ordinary tenderness live perfectly together in him. Now, do
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  Speaker 1: not fear, only believe, becomes even deeper. Jesus was not
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  Speaker 1: asking Jairus to believe that his daughter could not possibly die.
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  Speaker 1: She did die. Faith was not denial of the event.
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  Speaker 1: Faith was trust in the person walking beside him. The
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  Speaker 1: question was never, can death happen? The question was, does
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  Speaker 1: death place Jesus outside his authority? It does not. If
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  Speaker 1: those words reach you, hear them carefully. Fear can be
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  Speaker 1: real without becoming Lord. Grief can be real without becoming final.
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  Speaker 1: Faith does not say, nothing bad can happen. Faith says,
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  Speaker 1: even here, Jesus has not become powerless. And then we
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  Speaker 1: reach Bethany. John 11 brings us to a village about
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  Speaker 1: two miles east of Jerusalem. traditionally identified with present-day Al-Azariya,
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  Speaker 1: whose Arabic name still preserves the memory of Lazarus. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: receives word that Lazarus is sick, and then he waits.
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  Speaker 1: That delay is one of the most difficult details in
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  Speaker 1: the story. Jesus loves Lazarus. Jesus loves Martha. Jesus loves Mary.
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  Speaker 1: John explicitly says so, and yet he delays. By the
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  Speaker 1: time Jesus arrives, Lazarus has been in the tomb four days.
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  Speaker 1: Martha meets him with a sentence containing both faith and pain. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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  Speaker 1: How many prayers sound like that? If you had answered sooner,
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  Speaker 1: if you had stopped this, if you had opened the door,
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  Speaker 1: if you had come when I begged you. Jesus tells her,
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  Speaker 1: your brother will rise again. Martha gives the correct theology.
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  Speaker 1: I know he will rise again in the resurrection at
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  Speaker 1: the last day. She believes in resurrection as an event.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus gives her something greater than an event. I
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  Speaker 1: am the resurrection and the life. The Greek is ego
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  Speaker 1: eimi he anastasis kai he zoe. I am, not merely,
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  Speaker 1: I can perform resurrection, not merely, I know when resurrection
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  Speaker 1: is coming. I am the resurrection. Martha wants to know
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  Speaker 1: when her brother will rise. Jesus directs her to who
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  Speaker 1: is standing in front of her. Sometimes we become so
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  Speaker 1: consumed with when God will act that we lose sight
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  Speaker 1: of who God is. Then Jesus comes to the tomb
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  Speaker 1: and sees Mary weeping. He sees the mourners. And John
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  Speaker 1: gives us the shortest verse many believers learned as children.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus wept. Do not mistake its brevity for shallowness. The
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  Speaker 1: one who knows resurrection is seconds away still weeps. Knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the ending does not make grief fake. Resurrection hope
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  Speaker 1: does not cancel tears. Jesus does not tell Mary, Stop
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  Speaker 1: crying because I know what I am about to do.
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  Speaker 1: He enters the sorrow. Christian hope is not emotional denial.
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  Speaker 1: We grieve, but not as those who have no hope.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jesus says, Take away the stone. Notice that he
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  Speaker 1: commands people to move what they can move before he
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  Speaker 1: does what only he can do. Martha protests because after
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  Speaker 1: four days there will be an odor. Death has had
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  Speaker 1: enough time to become undeniable. Jesus answers, Did I not
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  Speaker 1: tell you that if you believe you will see the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God? Then the stone is removed. Jesus prays
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  Speaker 1: to the Father, And finally he cries with a loud voice, Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: come out. The Greek is Lazar, duro exo. Lazarus, here, outside,
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  Speaker 1: come out. He calls him personally and commands location. You
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  Speaker 1: do not belong in there anymore. Outside. And the man
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  Speaker 1: who has been dead four days comes out, hands and
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  Speaker 1: feet still bound in grave cloths. Then Jesus speaks again.
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  Speaker 1: Unbind him and let him go. Notice the sequence. Take
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  Speaker 1: away the stone. Lazarus, come out, unbind him, let him go.
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  Speaker 1: Some things people can participate in. They can move the stone.
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  Speaker 1: They can remove grave clothes. They cannot give Lazarus life.
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  Speaker 1: That belongs to Christ. There is wisdom there for the church.
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  Speaker 1: We cannot resurrect a soul, but we can remove obstacles.
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  Speaker 1: We can disciple, forgive, welcome, teach, carry burdens, and help
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  Speaker 1: people remove what no longer belongs to their new life.
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  Speaker 1: But only Christ gives life. Now step back and look
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  Speaker 1: at the words we have collected. Jesus says, Rise, and
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  Speaker 1: helplessness yields. Be clean, and uncleanness yields. Be opened, and
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  Speaker 1: what was closed yields. Come out, and demons yield. Peace,
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  Speaker 1: be still, and the sea yields. Come, and a disciple
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  Speaker 1: steps where he cannot naturally stand. Do not fear, only believe,
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  Speaker 1: and faith is called to keep walking after death has
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  Speaker 1: apparently ended the story. Little girl, arise, and death yields. Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: come out, and the grave yields. Now we are finally
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  Speaker 1: ready to ask the question beneath every command. Why could
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  Speaker 1: he speak like this? John answers before Jesus performs a
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  Speaker 1: single miracle. In the beginning was the Word, and the
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  Speaker 1: Word was with God, and the Word was God. The
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  Speaker 1: Greek term is logos. John does not begin the story
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus in Bethlehem. He begins before creation. Genesis opens with,
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning God created. John deliberately takes us into
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  Speaker 1: that same horizon and says, In the beginning was the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Then he says, Through him all things were made. Without
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  Speaker 1: him nothing was made that has been made. Now go
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  Speaker 1: back through the miracles with that truth in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: Why can Jesus speak to water? Because the water exists
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  Speaker 1: through him. Why can he speak to a human body?
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  Speaker 1: Because human life exists through him. Why can he speak
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  Speaker 1: to ears, nerves, skin, storms, and graves? Because he is
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  Speaker 1: not an outsider trying to manipulate creation. John says, In
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  Speaker 1: him was life. Colossians says, All things were created through
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  Speaker 1: him and for him. Hebrews says, The Son sustains all
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  Speaker 1: things by his powerful word. Genesis says, And God said,
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  Speaker 1: and creation responds, then the Gospels place Jesus inside that creation,
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  Speaker 1: speaking with an authority that forces everyone to ask, Who
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  Speaker 1: is this? That is why the power was never in
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  Speaker 1: vocabulary alone. Anyone can say, Peace. Only Jesus says it
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  Speaker 1: and silences a sea. Anyone can say, Come out. Only
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  Speaker 1: Christ carries the authority darkness recognizes. Anyone can stand outside
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  Speaker 1: a tomb and call a dead man's name. Only the
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  Speaker 1: resurrection and the life can make the dead hear. The
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  Speaker 1: words are powerful because of the identity of the speaker,
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  Speaker 1: and this is where the entire journey turns toward us,
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus eventually says something that brings his followers into
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  Speaker 1: the conversation. In John 14 he says, Whoever believes in
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  Speaker 1: me will do the works I have been doing, and
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  Speaker 1: they will do even greater works than these, because I
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  Speaker 1: am going to the Father. Then he says, Whatever you
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  Speaker 1: ask in my name, this I will do, that the
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  Speaker 1: Father may be glorified in the Son. There it is,
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  Speaker 1: my name. The Greek word is onoma, name, but in
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  Speaker 1: biblical thought a name is far more than a label.
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  Speaker 1: A name can represent identity, character, reputation, authority, and presence.
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  Speaker 1: God reveals his name to Moses. Proverbs says, The name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord is a strong tower. The Psalms speak
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  Speaker 1: of trusting in God's name. To act in someone's name
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  Speaker 1: means to act as that person's representative. under that person's authority.
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  Speaker 1: So when Jesus says, ask in my name, he's not
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  Speaker 1: teaching us to add a religious password at the end
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  Speaker 1: of a prayer. In Jesus' name does not mean I
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  Speaker 1: said the correct closing phrase, therefore heaven must obey me.
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  Speaker 1: It means something much deeper. I come because I belong
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  Speaker 1: to Christ. I come beneath His authority. I ask in
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  Speaker 1: alignment with His character. I seek the Father's glory through
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  Speaker 1: the Son. I do not approach God claiming my own righteousness.
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  Speaker 1: I come through Him. John 15 makes that relationship even clearer.
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  Speaker 1: If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
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  Speaker 1: ask whatever you wish. Notice what comes before powerful asking.
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  Speaker 1: Remain in me. My words remain in you. Why? Because
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  Speaker 1: abiding changes desire. If his word lives in you, your
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  Speaker 1: prayers begin to be reshaped by his heart. Prayer in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus' name is therefore the opposite of using Jesus to
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  Speaker 1: empower self-will. It is not God entering your kingdom. It
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  Speaker 1: is you learning to live inside his. Now watch Acts 3.
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  Speaker 1: Peter and John are going toward the temple when they
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  Speaker 1: meet a man who has been unable to walk from birth.
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  Speaker 1: He is carried daily to beg. Peter looks at him
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  Speaker 1: and says, Silver and gold I do not have, but
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  Speaker 1: what I do have I give you. In the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk. Then Peter takes him
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  Speaker 1: by the hand. Strength enters his feet and ankles. The
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  Speaker 1: man stands, walks, leaps, praises God. Now remember the words
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  Speaker 1: we've heard from Jesus, rise, walk. Then his disciple says,
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk. The
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  Speaker 1: authority has not changed ownership. Peter makes that clear immediately
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  Speaker 1: when the crowd stares at him. He says, Why do
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  Speaker 1: you stare at us, as if by our own power
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  Speaker 1: or godliness we had made this man walk? That may
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  Speaker 1: be one of the most important verses in this whole teaching.
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  Speaker 1: Not our own power, not our own godliness. Peter refuses
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  Speaker 1: to steal the miracle. He points to Jesus. That is
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  Speaker 1: how you know the name is being understood correctly. The
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  Speaker 1: name does not magnify the person using it. The name
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  Speaker 1: magnifies Christ. Acts 4 makes it even clearer. Authorities ask
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  Speaker 1: Peter and John, By what power or what name did
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  Speaker 1: you do this? Peter answers, By the name of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, but whom God raised
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. Then he declares, Salvation is found in
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  Speaker 1: no one else. So the name heals, the name proclaims resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: the name announces salvation, the name confronts spiritual powers. And
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: Philippians 2 tells us God has highly exalted Jesus. and
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  Speaker 1: given him the name above every name, so that at
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus every knee should bow, and every
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  Speaker 1: tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. There is the
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  Speaker 1: centre Lord. The name has power because the person is Lord.
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  Speaker 1: So can you use the name of Jesus? If you
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  Speaker 1: belong to him, Scripture teaches you to pray in his name,
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  Speaker 1: minister under his authority, proclaim his gospel, resist the devil,
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  Speaker 1: ask boldly, pray for the sick, seek deliverance for the oppressed,
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  Speaker 1: and trust the Father. But never confuse delegated authority with
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  Speaker 1: independent sovereignty. You do not become Jesus by using Jesus' name.
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  Speaker 1: You represent Jesus. That distinction protects faith from pride, and
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  Speaker 1: it also protects suffering people from cruel theology. If you
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  Speaker 1: pray for someone and healing does not happen immediately, you
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  Speaker 1: do not conclude that Jesus has lost authority. You also
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  Speaker 1: do not automatically accuse the suffering person of insufficient faith.
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  Speaker 1: Paul saw extraordinary miracles and still carried a thorn God
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  Speaker 1: did not remove. Timothy had recurring physical troubles. Trophimus was
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  Speaker 1: left ill. Epaphroditus nearly died. Stephen was full of faith
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  Speaker 1: and still was stoned. James was killed, while Peter was
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  Speaker 1: miraculously released from prison. Scripture refuses to give us a
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  Speaker 1: mechanical formula. Faith is bold, but God remains God. And
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  Speaker 1: that brings us to the mountain. Mark 11 records Jesus saying,
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  Speaker 1: Have faith in God. Do not rush to the mountain
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  Speaker 1: before hearing the first command. Have faith in God, not
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  Speaker 1: faith in your words, not faith in emotional certainty, not
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  Speaker 1: faith in faith in God. Then Jesus says that whoever
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  Speaker 1: says to this mountain, Be taken up and thrown into
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  Speaker 1: the sea, and does not doubt in the heart but believes,
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  Speaker 1: it will happen. The mountain is the picture of impossibility,
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  Speaker 1: something too large for human hands, too established, too heavy,
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  Speaker 1: too permanent. Jesus says faith can address what human strength
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  Speaker 1: cannot move, but the reason is not because faith turns
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  Speaker 1: you into God. Faith connects you to God. That is
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  Speaker 1: why Jesus can use the image of mustard seed faith.
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  Speaker 1: He does not say, you need faith as large as
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: the mountain. He speaks of faith as small as a
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  Speaker 1: mustard seed. Why? Because the size of faith is not
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate issue. The object of faith is. A weak
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  Speaker 1: hand can hold a strong rope. A trembling believer can
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  Speaker 1: pray to an almighty God. That is why the Father
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  Speaker 1: can say, I believe now. Help my unbelief, and Jesus
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  Speaker 1: still responds. Biblical faith is not emotional perfection. It is
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  Speaker 1: dependence on the right person. Now bring all the words
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  Speaker 1: back into your own life carefully. When the mountain is shame,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: hear what Christ has spoken about forgiveness. When the mountain
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  Speaker 1: is fear, hear, do not fear, only believe. When the
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  Speaker 1: mountain is spiritual oppression, remember the authority behind, come out.
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  Speaker 1: When the mountain is inner chaos, remember the one who said, peace,
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  Speaker 1: be still. When disappointment has closed your heart, pray, be opened.
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  Speaker 1: When your past keeps telling you that you must remain
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  Speaker 1: where you fell, remember, rise. But do not turn these
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  Speaker 1: into charms. Their power is not that you repeat an
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  Speaker 1: ancient sentence. Their power is that each sentence points you
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  Speaker 1: back to Jesus, and perhaps this is the deepest transformation
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  Speaker 1: this video is meant to produce. You began by imagining
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  Speaker 1: someone walking into an accident scene and raising the dead
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  Speaker 1: with one command. But after walking through Scripture, perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: more important question is no longer, can my words become powerful?
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: The deeper question is, have my words come under the
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  Speaker 1: authority of his word? Because many people want mountain-moving speech
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  Speaker 1: without mountain-moving surrender. They want to say, come out, while
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  Speaker 1: refusing to let Jesus command their own hidden sin to leave.
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  Speaker 1: They want to say, Peace, be still, while feeding bitterness
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  Speaker 1: every day. They want to say, Rise, while ignoring Christ,
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  Speaker 1: when he tells you, them to forgive, repent, serve, pray, follow,
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  Speaker 1: and obey. They want authority in his name without submission
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  Speaker 1: to his name. Scripture gives us another way. Know him,
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  Speaker 1: Abide in him, let his words abide in you, submit
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  Speaker 1: to God, resist the devil, pray, believe, ask, obey, then
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  Speaker 1: stand beneath the name that is above every name, that
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  Speaker 1: is mountain-moving faith, not arrogance, but alignment, not control, but confidence,
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  Speaker 1: not pretending you are sovereign, but trusting the one who is.
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  Speaker 1: So now bring the mountain in your own life before God.
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  Speaker 1: Do not hide it behind religious language. Name it honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it is sickness, maybe fear, maybe addiction, maybe your marriage,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a child who has walked away. Maybe grief, maybe
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  Speaker 1: financial pressure, maybe a spiritual battle nobody else knows about.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the mountain is simply that disappointment has trained you
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  Speaker 1: not to expect God to move anymore. Bring it before Him,
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  Speaker 1: and then remember the voice we have followed through the Gospels. Rise,
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  Speaker 1: be clean, be opened, come out. Peace, be still, come,
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  Speaker 1: do not fear, only believe, little girl, arise, Lazarus, come out.
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  Speaker 1: That voice has not lost its authority. Jesus Christ is risen. Father,
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  Speaker 1: we come before you in the name of Jesus, not
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  Speaker 1: because we have discovered a formula, not because our words
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  Speaker 1: make us sovereign, and not because you exist to serve
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  Speaker 1: our desires. We come because your Son opened the way.
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  Speaker 1: We come beneath his lordship through his finished work, believing
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  Speaker 1: that his name is still above every name. Teach us
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  Speaker 1: to hear his words again. Where defeat has spoken louder
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: than truth, Teach us to rise in obedience. Where shame
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  Speaker 1: has called us unclean after repentance and forgiveness, teach us
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  Speaker 1: to receive grace. Where disappointment has sealed the heart, say again,
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  Speaker 1: be opened. Open our ears to Scripture. Open our eyes
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  Speaker 1: to truth. Open our hearts to correction. Open what fear
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  Speaker 1: has closed. where darkness has gained ground through sin, deception, bondage,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: or oppression, lead us first into submission and repentance, then
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: give us courage to resist in the authority of Jesus.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Where storms are raging, teach us to know the difference
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: between demanding control and trusting Christ. If you calm the storm,
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  Speaker 1: we will praise you. If you carry us through it,
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  Speaker 1: we will praise you. Where fear tells us the story
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  Speaker 1: is over, remind us of the words, do not fear,
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  Speaker 1: only believe. Where we stand before something human, strength cannot move.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: Teach us to have faith in you, not faith in
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  Speaker 1: our own words, but faith in your character, your power,
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  Speaker 1: your wisdom, and your promises. Lord Jesus, keep us from
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  Speaker 1: using your name casually. Keep us from saying, in Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 1: while resisting your lordship. Make us people who carry your
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  Speaker 1: name with holiness, humility, courage, compassion, and obedience. Let your
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  Speaker 1: words abide in us until our prayers begin to sound
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: like your heart. Let our desires be purified by your word.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Let our faith grow deeper than emotion. Let our confidence
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: become rooted in who you are. For the sick, we
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: ask for healing. For the oppressed, we ask for freedom.
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  Speaker 1: For the fearful, we ask for peace. For those trapped
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: in addiction, we ask for deliverance and endurance. For prodigals,
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  Speaker 1: we ask for mercy that brings them home. For broken marriages,
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  Speaker 1: we ask for repentance, wisdom, and restoration where restoration is possible.
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  Speaker 1: For those grieving, we ask for the comfort of the
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  Speaker 1: resurrection and the life. For those who have stopped believing
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: because disappointment has lasted too long, breathe hope into them again.
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  Speaker 1: And Father, give us the wisdom never to make an
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  Speaker 1: idol out of the miracle. If healing comes, let us
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  Speaker 1: glorify Jesus. If deliverance comes, let us glorify Jesus. If
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  Speaker 1: doors open, let us glorify Jesus. If mountains move, let
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  Speaker 1: us glorify Jesus. If we must walk through suffering while
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  Speaker 1: trusting you, let us still glorify Jesus. May every answered
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: prayer point beyond the answer to the one who gave it.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: Teach us to understand what it means to pray in
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: his name. Teach us to speak truth without pretending our
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  Speaker 1: words are divine. Teach us to resist darkness without becoming
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  Speaker 1: fascinated with darkness. Teach us to ask boldly without trying
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  Speaker 1: to command you. Teach us to believe for the impossible
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: while remaining surrendered to your will. Give us faith that
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  Speaker 1: is strong enough to ask for a mountain to move
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  Speaker 1: and humble enough to say, as Jesus did, not my will,
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  Speaker 1: but yours be done. And when fear whispers that the
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: mountain is too large, remind us that Jesus did not say,
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  Speaker 1: have faith in yourself. He said, have faith in God.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: When weakness whispers that our faith is too small, Remind
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  Speaker 1: us that He spoke of a mustard seed. When doubt enters,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: teach us to pray, I believe, help my unbelief. When
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: circumstances become louder than Scripture, train our hearts to return
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  Speaker 1: to what you have spoken. May the name of Jesus
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: become more than the ending of our prayers. May His
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: name become the authority under which we live. May His
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: character shape our character. May his words shape our words.
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  Speaker 1: May his mission shape our lives. May his lordship reach
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  Speaker 1: our private thoughts, our homes, our choices, our fears, our ambitions,
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  Speaker 1: and our future. And may we never forget what we
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