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Matthew chapter 11 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew Chapter 11. Let us pray.
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  Jesus Christ, You're so good. Lord, you're so amazing.
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  Thank you, Father, thank you for waking us up.
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  Lord, thank you so much for the words that we hold in our hands.
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  Thank you so much for giving us a sound mind.
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  Thank you, Father, for family. Thank you, God for marriage.
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  Thank you, God for this nation. Thank you, God for the globe.
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  Thank you, Lord, that you've given us purpose, Lord, that
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  you've given us our marching orders.
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  Thank you, God, that you love. And you love well, Lord, and you
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  love us to the end. We will be there with you.
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  So Lord, we thank you for the promise of eternity.
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  We thank you, Father, that you have been so good to us
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  throughout our entire lives. God, You've got us to this
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  point. Your mercies are new every day,
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  Lord. You have released us from
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  anxiety. You have released us from the
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  burdens of this world and the cares, God, and you've set us in
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  heavenly places, Lord, and we are there with you, Lord.
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  So I just pray right now that you will help us to be your
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  hands and feet to this wicked and perverse generation.
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  God, help us to go out into the highways and the hedges and the
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  byways, Father, and snatch those out of the fire.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will empower us from on
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  high. Help us, Father, to take the
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  whole word to the whole world. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that we will not be found sitting, that we will not be
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  found lazy. God, I pray that you will fuel
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  us for the journey, that you'll give us our marching orders,
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  that you'll help us to step in. Lord, to what you have for us
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  today. Help us to be found doing your
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  work. Help us to be found going out
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  and preaching the gospel to the nation's Lord, telling them
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  about the good news, Father, of what you have done for them and
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  what you have done for us. Lord, we put on the full armor
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  today. God, we put on those gospel
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  shoes of peace. Lord, help us to run the race
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  well. Help us to finish well.
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  God, I pray that we will keep your words as the mandate over
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  our lives. Help us to keep all of these
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  words and treasure them in our hearts, God, and hide them in
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  our hearts, Lord, knowing that Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is
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  the anointed one, Jesus of Nazareth, He is the branch
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  father. And so God, I just pray that you
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  will help us. Lord, help us, us to know what
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  to do and when to do it and how to do it, Father, because it's
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  all about you and it's always been about you.
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  We love you, Father, and we know that you love us.
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  God. We know, Lord, that you will
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  reign supreme over this entire globe.
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  We know that we're pressing hard towards that day.
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  And so, Lord, in the meantime and in between time, help us,
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  Father, help us to run the race well.
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  God, we do lift up our shield of faith today.
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  God, we put on the breastplate of righteousness.
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  Father, we put on the belt of truth.
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  Lord, we put on the helmet of salvation, Father, and we do war
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  with the sword of the Spirit, Father, which is the word of
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  God. Lord, we do war, Father, with
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  it. Help us to take back enemy
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  territory. Father, help us to move into the
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  darkness. Help us not to shrink back Lord,
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  but give us power from on high. Yes, Lord, we are waiting for
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  you. Lord, we are empowered by you.
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  Lord, we thank you for the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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  We thank you Lord for the down payment and the deposit for what
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  is to come. Lord, open our hearts and our
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  minds up to Your word today in Jesus Christ.
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  Holy precious name. I pray men.
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  Let's start in verse one. And it came to pass when Jesus
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  had made an end of commanding his 12 disciples, He departed
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  there to teach and to preach in their cities.
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  John has a very interesting ending to his gospel, and he
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  says if all the things that Jesus did were written about,
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  there would be not enough libraries in the world to
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  contain the books. So yes, we have a complete
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  picture of what Jesus wanted us to know in Matthew, Mark and
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  Luke and John and everything that preceded those four books
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  and everything that proceeds those four books are all about
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  those four books. And it's all about Jesus.
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  It's all about King Jesus, friends.
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  He's the chief cornerstone that we build everything upon.
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  And are you building your house on sinking sand, which is
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  Mammon? Are you building your house on
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  the sinking sand, which is this world and the cares of this
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  world and the pleasantries and pleasures of this world?
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  Or are you building your house on that solid rock that was not
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  cut out by human hands and it falls upon all the kingdoms, the
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  earth? Why do the nations rage in the
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  people's plot in vain? We can see it all shaping up,
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  can't we, friends? And so here in verse 1 of
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  Chapter 11, you get a sneak peek into some of the things that
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  perhaps we're not written about. You can see how Jesus sent out
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  the 12 and then he went and and was teaching and preaching in
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  the cities. Verse 2.
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  Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he
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  sent two of his disciples. We're going to flow into a very
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  interesting passage here. Imagine John the Baptist had
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  some disciples and his disciples had already asked why Jesus's
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  disciples weren't fasting. And here John is locked up in
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  prison and Jesus is God Incarnate, has all the power to
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  do anything and everything. And here John is locked up and
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  he's trying to figure out why am I still locked up?
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  The disciples are trying to figure out why are we fasting
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  and yours aren't. Verse 3 And he said unto him,
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  are you he that should come or do we look for another?
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  Wow, the forerunner of Jesus Christ sitting in prison and he
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  wants to know, are you the Messiah?
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  Are you the Christ or should we wait for another?
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  What an interesting turn of events here, this John the
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  Baptist. There was no greater prophet who
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  was honored. He actually got to see Jesus
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  Christ. He was the cousin of Jesus
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  Christ and he's sitting in prison wondering if he is the
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  Christ, even though he was the forerunner.
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  What an interesting turn of events here.
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  Do we look for another? There is no other name that we
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  shall be saved by, friends. It's Jesus Christ, Nazareth,
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  Jesus the long-awaited 1 the anointed.
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  For Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and show John again
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  those things which you do here and see.
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  So imagine Jesus he, He answers so politely, he answers so
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  delicately. He's not upset with the doubt of
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  John, but there's a little word here, he says again.
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  Go and show him again. Sometimes we need to be
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  reminded, friends. Sometimes we get off track.
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  It's easy to get off track. It's easy to start compromising.
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  It's easy to start choosing the little compromises along the
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  way. We're on the straight way,
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  friends, We're on the narrow way, and there's a lot of ways
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  that intersect that way, but they're all crooked.
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  And here in verse 5, the blind receive their sight and the lame
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  walk. The lepers are cleansed and the
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  deaf hear. The dead are raised and the poor
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  have the gospel preached to them.
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  So Jesus is showing John's disciples and he's saying, go
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  and tell John that the fulfillment of the prophecies
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  and Isaiah are actually coming to completion.
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  You can see that I am the Christ.
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  You can see it. And he tells his disciples.
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  He's saying, go, go and tell John again that I am the Christ.
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  6 and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me. 6
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  is a beautiful verse highlighted.
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  Underline it, circle it, write it down, put it on your vanity
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  refrigerator, put it on your dashboard, memorize it.
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  Blessed are they that are not offended by Jesus Christ.
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  His ways are not our ways, friends.
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  His thoughts are not our thoughts, friends.
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  They're much higher than ours are.
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  There are many things that we look of and we look on as
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  tragedies. But Jesus Christ has a plan and
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  all of it, friends, and He's working everything out for the
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  good of those who love Him and trust Him and who are called
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  according to His purposes. Blessed are those who are not
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  offended when He leaves the infirmity.
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  Blessed are those who are not offended whenever he doesn't
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  raise the dead. Blessed are those who are not
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  offended whenever the wayward children haven't come home yet.
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  Blessed are those who are not offended when Jesus's ways don't
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  add up, when he leaves you in the prison, he says, Blessed are
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  those who are not offended by him. 7 And as they departed,
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  Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What
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  did you go out into the wilderness to see?
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  A Reed shaken by the wind? Verse 7 He's saying that John
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  the Baptist was not the duplicious man who was blown by
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  every wind. He was very resolute in his
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  ministry. He was the forerunner of Jesus
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  Christ, and he did his job well. 8 But what did you go out to
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  see? A man clothed in soft raiment.
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  Behold, they that wears soft clothing are in King's houses.
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  John the Baptist was a Wildman. He ate locusts and honey.
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  He had the coat of hair and belt of leather.
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  He was not a soft man. He was a very wild man. 9 But
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  what did you go out to see? A prophet?
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  Yes, I say unto you, more than a prophet.
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  So here Jesus is complimenting John's ministry.
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  He's saying that he was more than a prophet. 10 For this is
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  he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger
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  before your face, which shall prepare the way before thee.
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  We saw that back in Malachi, didn't we, friends?
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  11 Truly, I say unto you, among them that are born of women,
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  there is not risen a greater than John the Baptist,
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  notwithstanding he that is least in the Kingdom of heaven is
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  greater than he. What a statement, friends, what
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  a statement from Jesus's lips. He's saying that John the
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  Baptist was the greatest prophet because he actually got to see
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  the fulfillment of all the prophecies in the bodily form of
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  Jesus Christ on the scene. That is why he's called the
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  greatest. But then he's saying that us in
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  the new covenant, us who have the welling of the Holy Spirit
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  after the cross of Christ, after the day of Pentecost, the day of
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  Pentecost, we friends, are greater because all of those
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  prophets long to see this day. And look at how much more
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  responsible we will be in the day of Judgment, friends, for
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  having the completion of the Word of God.
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  We will be held and a higher responsibility and a higher
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  degree of judgement. Friends, what did you go out to
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  see? Did you think that by going to
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  church that everything was going to just work out so beautifully?
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  You're going to get that raise and everything was going to work
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  out and all all your friends would come back around and
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  everything was just going to be beautiful.
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  But did you not know that following after Jesus Christ was
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  going to cost you something? Friends, what did you go out to
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  see? Soft clothing?
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  No, sometimes the Lord calls us to the hardest places.
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  Friends, what did you go out to see?
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  12:00 And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the
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  Kingdom of heaven, heaven suffers violence and the violent
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  take it by force. Praise God.
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  Hallelujah for verse 12. We can see what it looks like to
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  follow after Jesus. It sometimes will look as if you
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  are going into the hardest and darkest and most violent places
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  where people are hostile towards you and they ridicule you and
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  they say all kinds of nasty things about you.
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  You will be ridiculed. And he says count it all as joy,
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  for great is your reward. Here's what it looks like
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  whenever the person who calls himself a believer who is truly
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  sold out to Jesus Christ. Whenever we go into the
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  workplaces to try to talk to people about Jesus and we get
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  fired. Here's what it looks like
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  whenever we are talking about Jesus in the school room and we
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  have legal troubles. Here's what it looks like,
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  friends, whenever we're trying to truly follow after God
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  Almighty and it cost us our loved ones because they don't
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  want to hear it anymore. They don't care about God, They
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  don't care about Jesus. They just wanted the soft
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  clothing. They just wanted the
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  pleasantries and the pleasures of this world and they cared
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  nothing for what it really looks like to follow after him.
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  This is what it looks like, friends, and we must take back
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  the darkness by violence, and that is doing war with the
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  sword, which is the word of God. Lift up that shield of faith.
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  Put on those gospel shoes of peace.
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  Friends, don't worry about it. If none go with you, you still
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  follow Him. Make that decision and follow
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  hard after Jesus Christ regardless of if people along
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  the way ridicule you. The violent have to take it by
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  force. And you can see that heaven has
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  suffered violence. You know the original sin was
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  not in the garden. The original sin was when
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  Lucifer decided to be higher than God and all of the demons
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  were cast out. The fallen angels, 1/3 of them
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  were cast out of heaven and suffered violence, and that
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  violence is still happening all around us today.
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  And when you finally get to the veil took off your eyes and you
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  can finally see the spiritual realm all around you suffering
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  such violence. Look at whenever Elisha and his
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  helper looked up on the hills and there were Chariots and
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  there were angelic beings all around, and there was more of
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  them than their enemies. It's all around you, friends.
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  If you could just take off the blinders of this world and all
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  the things that this world tries to trap us with, and whenever we
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  can increase the currency of faith in your life, you get to
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  see the spiritual realm all around you.
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  I pray that you can see it, Friends. 13 for all the prophets
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  in the law prophesied until John 14, and if you will receive it,
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  this is Elijah which was to come. 15 He that has ears to
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  hear, let him hear, and he has eyes to see.
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  Let them see. Friends, I pray that as the Holy
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  Spirit indwells you, you don't hear this world the way that you
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  used to. I pray that as the Holy Spirit
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  indwells you, you don't see this world the way that you used to.
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  I pray that you can understand that the Spirit of Elijah had
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  come through John the Baptist. He even dressed like him.
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  He even suffered these bouts of depression like him.
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  This same spirit of Elijah was upon John the Baptist and we'll
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  actually get to see later in Revelation, you'll get to see
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  the two witnesses. One of them I believe is Elijah
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  and we saw on the Mount of Transfiguration that's coming
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  up. One of them is Elijah.
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  So Elijah hears being prophesied about coming through John the
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  Baptist in the Spirit, and Jesus himself says, If you will
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  receive it. 16 But how shall I like in this generation?
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  It is like unto children sitting in the markets and calling out
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  to their fellows, 17 saying, We have piped unto you, and you
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  have not danced, we have mourned unto you, and you have not
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  lamented. So here Jesus is going to
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  relegate this wicked and perverse generation unto the
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  children calling out in the marketplace.
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  Place and they're saying we played a happy song and you
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  didn't dance, we played a dirge and you did not mourn.
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  And he's going to tell us what it all means. 18 For John came
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  neither eating nor drinking. And they said, he has a devil.
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  19 The Son of man came eating and drinking.
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  And they say, Behold, a man gluttonous, a wine bibber, a
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  friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her
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  children. So here Jesus Christ is saying
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  that no matter how he comes, they would not receive him.
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  John the Baptist came, He did not eat or drink, and they said
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  he had a devil. Jesus Christ came eating and
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  drinking, and they said that he was a drunkard and a glutton.
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  So no matter how He came, whichever side of the coin, they
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  had already made a hostile love decision for the world and He
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  was threatening their religious system and they hated Him for
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  it. He was going to completely under
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  earth and overthrow all of the Pharisees and Sadducees in the
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  Sanhedrin and all of the synagogues in the way that they
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  wanted to do religion whenever they were manipulating the
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  masses and is no different today, friends.
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  And Jesus Christ will upend and do a new thing in the land.
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  Friends, Wisdom is justified of her children.
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  You know, when the true gospel of Jesus Christ is preached and
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  it falls upon fertile soil and it produces a crop in a it
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  produces a harvest, Friends, that is whenever Wisdom is
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  justified of her children, you know, it is the dirt floor.
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  It's the the gospel of Jesus Christ being preached
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  underground to places where persecution is real.
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  This is where wisdom is justified over children when the
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  true converts are willing to lay down their lives for Jesus
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  Christ. 20 Then began he to upbraid the cities where most of
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  his mighty works were done because they repented.
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  Not So you saw the very first verse of Chapter 11 where he
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  says that Jesus sent out the 12 and then he departed to go and
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  teach and preach in their cities.
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  And then you see in verse 20, it's all being talked about.
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  We don't have a lot of these stories here, so we just have to
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  understand that Jesus went to these places and He's perform
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  miracles here and He's going to say that the people did not care
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  anything for him. Let's see what He has to say
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  here. They did not repent of the
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  mighty works which were done where?
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  21 Woe unto you, Terezin, woe unto you beside a For if the
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  mighty works which were done, and you had been done in Tyre
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  and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth
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  the Nashes. 22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable
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  for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you. 23 And
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  you, Capernaum, which are exalted unto heaven, shall be
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  brought down to hell. For if the mighty works which
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  have been done, and you had been done in Sodom, it would have
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  remained unto this day. 24 But I say unto you, that it shall be
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  more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment
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  than for you. 25 And that time Jesus answered and said, And I
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  thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you
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  have hid these things from the wise and prudent, and you have
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  revealed them unto babes. What a beautiful verse, what a
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  beautiful promise. It is not the wise and the
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  prudent that receive the true understanding of God and
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  understanding of this word. It is those of us who have the
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  childlike faith who believe every single syllable that we
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  don't call it into question. We're not approaching God.
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  We're not approaching the Bible from an intellectual standpoint,
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  from a scholastic standpoint, from a historical standpoint.
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  We're approaching this as if it is alive and active and sharper
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  than any 2 edged sword. We're approaching the Word of
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  God as if it is the authority over our lives and it is able to
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  discern us. We approach the Word of God like
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  a babe. We don't need to know
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  everything, we just need to fix our eyes upon Him, and He will
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  reveal the eternal truths to you, friends. 26 Even so,
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  Father, for so it seemed good in your sight. 27 All things are
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  delivered unto me of my Father, and no man knows the Son, but
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  the Father, neither knows any man, the Father, except the Son,
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  and he to whom so ever the Son will reveal him.
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  There are a lot of people who know this word inside and out,
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  but because they've called so much of it into question and
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  they've made a love decision and they're hostile towards it.
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  There are even people who preach this gospel, but they don't know
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  Him. They're not known by him.
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  And whenever He reveals God to us, when he reveals the Kingdom
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  of God to us, it will completely up in your theology.
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  It will completely overthrow all of your preconceived
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  presuppositions. Friends, you will see Him.
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  The pure in heart will see God. You'll get the blinders taken
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  off of you, and you'll actually get to peek and peer into the
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  spiritual realm and see what's actually happening all around
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  you. He is pleased to reveal that to
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  those who have childlike faith. 28 Come unto me, all ye that
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  labor and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my
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  yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in
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  heart, and you shall find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke
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  is easy, and my burden is light. 2829 and 30 are iconic, famous
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  versus these are versus that. If you call yourself a believer
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  for any length of time you've memorized, you understand.
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  If you are going through this life and you eat up with cares
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  and anxieties and depression, perhaps you have not learned how
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  to put this yoke on and you're still kicking against the goat.
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  Perhaps if you're eat up with anxiety and depression, perhaps
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  you don't understand that Jesus Christ is able to lift that
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  heavy load off of you. You don't have to walk around
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  with it all biting your nails and trying to figure out how
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  it's all going to go. We just need to trust that He is
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  able and capable of bringing us into the fold and that we will
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  be there with Him forever more and He's going to call us up and
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  it's all going to end perfectly and we can rest in the promises
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  contained in this book. What an amazing chapter.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you and so does God.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.