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Luke chapter 10 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Luke chapter 10, let us pray, Oh Heavenly Father, we thank you,
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  Lord for another day to come and to sit at your feet, Father, and
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  to learn. Thank you God, that you are such
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  a good father and you father as well.
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  Lord, we pray for the hurting, we pray for the broken.
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  Father, we pray for those that have lost loved ones, God, and
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  we just pray for a supernatural peace around them.
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  Lord, we just pray that you'll help them to understand how good
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  you are. And Father, that to be absent
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  from the body is to be present with you.
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  So God, we just lift up all the hurting families.
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  Lord, we lift up all the hurting loved ones Father, who have lost
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  people that are close to him. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, that you will supernaturally give us a zeal
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  for your house. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you will help us to see our worth.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus God, that you will make us more than
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  conquerors through the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  Lord, I pray that we can become peacemakers for our little
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  circles of influence that you have given us.
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  God, I pray that we will have dominion over this land.
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  God, I pray that we will have authority over all of the
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  unclean, wicked, and darkness that tries to impose itself upon
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  us. God, I pray right now that
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  you'll drive out anything that is not of you.
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  And Lord, we exalt your holy name over all of our situations
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  and emotions, God, over our households and families.
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  God, it's your name. It's the name of Jesus.
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  He is our banner, yes, the Jehovah Nisi over our lives,
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  over our houses, God, over our very breath and our lungs.
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  God, you are our everything. You're the all sufficient
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  sacrifice, the atonement for sins.
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  Thank you that we can be at one with You and we can be
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  justified. God and I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you'll help us and give us our dignity.
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  God, help us to see what it is that you want us to do today.
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  I thank you God, for the complete authority of Your word.
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  Father, I thank you that You have given us everything that we
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  need, every single tool in our tool belt.
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  Father, help us to put on the full armor today.
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  God, help us to live in truth. Help us to live in
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  righteousness. God, help us to know our worth
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  through the salvation story that you have given us.
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  God, I pray that we can put on those shoes of peace which comes
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  from the good news. God, I pray that we can lift up
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  our faith today and do war with the word, Father, and subdue all
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  of the darkness. Subdue all of the demonic
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  attacks that are coming our way. God, help us not to give in to
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  the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh.
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  God, help us not to give in to the pride of life.
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  But Father, I pray that you will supernaturally fill us, God, and
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  help us to run this race well and to finish this race well.
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  Hide me and hide my thoughts, Father.
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  Hide all of my words God, and let your words reign supreme
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  over our hearts and minds. Yes, I decrease as you increase.
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  It is all about you, King Jesus. And so give me your words today
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  to speak to this wicked and dark and perverse generation.
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  Yes, King Jesus, it's you and it's you alone that we are here
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  for. So Lord, I just pray that you
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  will get all the glory today and it's in Jesus Christ holy and
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  precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. After these things, the Lord
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  appointed other 70 also and sent them two and two before his face
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  into every city and place where He himself would come.
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  So here what you need to understand is this is not the
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  apostles being sent out. We've seen them already being
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  sent out. Here is 70 or 72.
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  Here is 70 disciples that are unnamed.
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  And their job is to go into all the places that Jesus was going
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  to go and to prepare a place and to make sure that every single
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  city knew who he was and what he was about.
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  And he has given them authority here and he gives you the same
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  authority. And it is debatable and people
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  will say this is for a different time and that it's not for us
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  today. But I would say that every blood
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  bought born again believer who's going to bust heaven wide open
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  has all authority and power in the name of Jesus Christ to heal
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  and to drive out the darkness. Friends, we have that authority.
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  We have that power available to us.
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  And when you pray and when you lay hands, then you can know
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  that God is answering your prayers one way or the other
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  too. Therefore, said he unto them,
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  the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few.
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  Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He would send
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  forth laborers into his harvest, so you can see it all around.
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  Friends, look around how the harvest is plenty, but the
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  workers are few. We need to know that we need
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  workers sent out, not just watchers, not just those that
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  are going to spectate, but we need people that are going to
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  put their hand to the plow and not look back.
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  And that is what he is telling these 70 disciples to pray for.
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  Pray that God will continue to send more laborers into the
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  harvest. And what does that look like?
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  What is the application today, friends?
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  It's disciples that make more disciples.
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  It's a very simple process and it is God's divine process.
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  This is discipline, which is the root word of a disciple, is
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  discipline. And what are we to be
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  disciplined in? We are to be disciplined in
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  getting into this word every single day and munching and
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  biting and digesting all of the words, friends, and making sure
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  that we have the full authority in the counsel of God's Word
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  written on our hearts and minds. We need to make sure that we
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  hide this word in our hearts so that we might not sin against
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  God. We need to make sure that we own
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  this word of God and that we are steeped in this word of God, the
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  discipline that comes from a daily walk with God Almighty and
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  trusting Him. And it's not enough just to read
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  it, but we must apply it. And God brings all these storms
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  into our lives. Why?
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  Well, if you were following along through the other chapters
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  before, you'll know that when these storms come along, it
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  gives us an opportunity to put our faith into practice.
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  And you need to have that practice, which is the
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  discipline that we all desperately have to have in our
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  lives. We cannot just float through
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  this life thinking that everything's all about
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  ourselves. We cannot just float through
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  this life thinking that as long as everything goes well, we'll
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  believe in God. It doesn't work that way,
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  friends. God will bring about and allow
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  storms in your life to test you and to purify you and to cleanse
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  you and to get all of the dross and impurities out of you that
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  do not belong. All of this incorrect theology
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  that we have that God is some genie in the bottle and as long
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  as we rub him the right way, he's going to perform for us the
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  miracles like Herod was trying to get Jesus to do.
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  It doesn't work that way. God is, I am.
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  We cannot put him in a box. We cannot tell God how to
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  behave. We cannot approach God from a
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  moralistic approach and tell God that he has to behave in a way
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  that makes us happy. It doesn't work that way.
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  We can have joy in the midst of the storm.
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  That comes from a right relationship with God through
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  his Son Jesus Christ. And that is the discipline that
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  we must have in our lives in this discipleship that is
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  reproducing friends. And we need to be looking for
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  those that God is leading us into relationships with to start
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  that discipleship cycle with them, of teaching them the
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  foundation and the fundamentals of our faith, friends.
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  And then from that grows these disciples that make disciples
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  that make disciples. Three, go your way.
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  Behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
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  Just know that it is a dangerous task, but God leads us.
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  And if God is for us, who can be against us?
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  And do not fear the one that can take your life away, but fear
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  the one that can take your life and your soul away and cast it
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  into hell. Fear God and everything else
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  bows. Every demonic and unclean foul
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  spirit bows. They tremble at the name of
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  Jesus. Bring that name upon your lips
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  today and be saved. For carry neither purse nor
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  script nor shoes, and salute no man by the way.
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  So here he's saying, don't have anything that is weighing you
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  down. Go freely because the worker is
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  worth his wages and God will take care of you as you go.
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  Don't be hindered by all of the materialistic things.
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  Just go freely and know that God is going to provide your very
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  next meal, your very next breath. 5 And into whatsoever
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  house you enter first say peace be to this house.
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  This will be Shalom unto this house.
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  And they were to greet the house, and make sure that that
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  peace returned back to them. 6 And if the Son of peace be
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  there, your peace shall rest upon it, if not, it shall turn
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  to you again. So they through discernment will
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  know if the house that they are entering into has the peace of
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  God resting upon it. And there is a lot of tapestry
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  in these couple few little verses here.
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  And you need to understand that this whole big gigantic world
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  that you and I live in, there is no neutrality.
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  And what we view as something that is neutral is hidden in the
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  darkness. And as you enter into that house
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  on the outside, it might look all well and put together, but
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  it is the abode of the demonic. And there are secret things that
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  are going on inside of that house or that business or on on
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  that person in that person that outwardly they sure look the
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  part, but they are ravenous wolves inwardly.
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  And God gives us the discernment to understand, to run and to
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  flee and to resist all of the things that do not come from Him
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  or are not of Him. And we need to understand this
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  discernment where there is peace upon places that we go.
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  These places of peace, as you enter in this discernment will
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  reveal to you what kind of place this is, because outwardly it
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  might look decent, but you will know as you step foot in that
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  place, you will know that something is awry, something is
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  off, and you must leave. You must get away from that
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  because you are in jeopardy of being influenced by the doctrine
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  of demons. And you will see that manifest
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  as you go through your life. And you will be in need of a
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  cleansing and a consecration. And you will sometimes, if you
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  do not have your radar on and your antenna up, you will find
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  yourself in a place of depression or anxiety or fits of
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  rage and anger for no reason. And you will need to go back to
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  the drawing board. And you will need to understand
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  that there was and there is something that is influencing
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  you, something that is oppressing you.
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  And that, of course, is the darkness.
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  And this is a very deep subject, but it calls for understanding,
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  Friends, you need to know that it's not just the simplicity
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  that you and I think that we can just go through this life and
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  everything's going to work out well, and that God wins in the
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  end. Well, Amen.
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  But we are called to a battlefield.
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  We're not called to the playground, friends.
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  And so therefore put on that full armor of God today and do
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  war with the darkness, friends. And don't go out looking for a
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  fight. Don't be some kind of superhero.
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  Just know that naturally as you go through this life, you're
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  going to encounter some things that you must do.
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  War with 7. And in the same house remain
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  eating, drinking, such things as they give for the laborer is
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  worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
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  So as we go into the harvest, we need to understand it.
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  God is leading us. We need to have that discernment
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  to know if the house that we have come to is the one that He
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  desires to bless. And if it is, then we should
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  stay in that house and don't be a busy body.
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  A and into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive, you eat
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  such things that are set before you.
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  So this is hospitality, friends, and we should not refuse
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  hospitality, friends. And he told Peter to eat
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  whatever, even the unclean. And Jesus came eating and
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  drinking, and they called him a wine Beaver and a glutton.
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  And you can see here that he's saying do not refuse
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  hospitality, just bless it. But the one caveat is that we
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  should never eat anything that has been sacrificed to idols. 9
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  Heal the sick that are there, and say unto them, the Kingdom
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  of God has come near unto you. Praise the Lord Hallelujah.
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  It's been 2000 years and we're closer today than we were
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  yesterday in the Kingdom of God is at hand.
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  The Kingdom of God has come near to you and we can see it in the
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  church, we can see it in worship.
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  We can see it, friends, in the reading of the Scripture and
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  allowing the Scripture to change us.
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  And if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation.
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  And you need to understand that the Kingdom of heaven is that
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  near. We have the Holy Spirit living
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  in us. We are the temple of God,
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  Friends. The Kingdom of heaven is near to
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  you, Tim, but into whatsoever city you enter, if they do not
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  receive you, go your way out into the streets of the same,
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  and say, 11 Even the very dust of your city which cleaves on
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  us, we do wipe off against you, notwithstanding.
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  Be you sure of this, that the Kingdom of God has come near
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  unto you. So here you could see whether
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  they receive them or whether they refuse to receive them.
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  The Kingdom of God came near, and you can see that God makes
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  it rain on the just and the unjust.
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  Friends, you can see the goodness of God all around you
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  in all of creation. You can see it.
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  Friends, this is as close to heaven as lost people will ever
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  get. Look at the beauty all around
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  you, friends. Look at how God has made
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  everything beautiful in its time and evil people get to partake
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  in all of the goodness that is here in this world.
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  But for those of us who are going to bust heaven wide open,
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  this is as close to hell as we will ever get as we look into
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  all of the evil that is happening all around us.
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  Just take heart, friends, for your redemption draws near. 12
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  But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable in that day
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  for Sodom than for that city. So Sodom did not have the Son of
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  God coming and visiting them. And he's saying that when Sodom
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  gets judged, it will be more tolerable for them then for
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  those of us who have the full counsel of God's Word.
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  And we turn and we run away from it for the people that have been
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  brought up in the way, and then they turn from it and they
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  renounce their faith, there is no more salvation for them.
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  And it will be more tolerable for the unreached people groups
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  who have never heard. Of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  Then it will be for those who have been explained all of the
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  goodness and the truth, and they have refused it. 13 Woe unto
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  you, Cherazen, Woe unto you, Besida.
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  For if the mighty works had been done entire, and Sidon which
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  have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented
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  sitting in sackcloth and ashes. So we can see that in the city
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  of Nineveh, where Jonah goes through and tells them that it's
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  about to be destroyed, and they sit in the sackcloth and ashes
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  from the king to the cattle. The greatest revival that this
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  world has ever known, friends. And here Jesus is telling these
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  towns that had seen the miracles and refused to believe, woe unto
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  them. And it's no different for our
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  day and for our hour. How many people are turning
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  their backs on God and they're not only just trying to go into
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  neutrality, what they're doing is they are hostile towards God
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  and they're moving into the Satanism.
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  Think about it, friends, Woe unto them.
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  They have tasted and seen the goodness, but they do not want
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  the accountability of God. And it actually leads them
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  astray and away, and it leads them into death and hell.
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  And it is a sad thing, friends, when we choose to go to hell. 14
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  But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the
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  judgement than for you, this great white throne of judgement.
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  Every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus
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  is Lord, and it's better to do it now on this side of heaven
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  than it will be during this time. 15 And you, Capernaum,
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  which are exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell.
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  He makes it as plain as the nose on your face.
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  Friends, you can see there is a grave responsibility on our
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  part. When you have breath in your
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  lungs, you're given day after day after day after day after
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  day after day of chances. You're actually given second by
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  second by second by second by second, by heartbeat, by
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  heartbeat, by breath, by breath by breath chances to acknowledge
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  God Almighty and have a relationship with Him who dwells
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  in unapproachable light. Through His Son Jesus Christ,
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  who came and who lived a perfect life, and who died a criminal's
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  death, and was resurrected the third day, and appeared to many,
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  and ascended to the right hand of God, We have a grave
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  responsibility to acknowledge Jesus Christ as our Lord and as
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  our Savior. 16 He that hears you hears me, and he that despises
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  you despises me, and he that despises me despises him that
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  sent me. What is Jesus talking about here
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  in verse 16? This is not a Riddle wrapped up
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  in an enigma. This is simple stuff, friends,
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  and we must lock in and we must truly think about and meditate
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  upon what Jesus Christ is saying.
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  And he's saying that if we reject the messengers that He
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  sends, then we're rejecting Him. And if we reject Him, we're
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  rejecting God. And there is no salvation apart
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  from that. And there is a very substantial
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  wrong whenever we refuse to believe the messengers that God
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  sends. And you can see it all
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  throughout Scripture. And God has boots on the ground
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  today for this day and for this hour that is taking the gospel
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  of Jesus Christ out into the harvest.
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  And we must hear them, friends, and we must be like the Bereans
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  as they are teaching the things of God.
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  We must be like the Bereans and go and search the Scriptures to
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  make sure that what they are preaching and teaching adds up
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  and lines up with the Word of God.
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  But how will you know if you're not in it, friends?
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  17 And the 70 returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the
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  devils are subject unto us through your name.
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  It is that name, the name that is the name above all names,
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  Jesus Christ. All the demonic, all the foul
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  and unclean spirits are subject unto that name.
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  Bring that name upon your lips and watch the healing flow.
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  Bring that name upon your lips and watch the darkness drive
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  out. Friends, it is the name of Jesus
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  Christ. Can you say today that Jesus is
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  Lord? I pray that you can. 18 And he
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  said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
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  19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and
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  scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing
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  shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice
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  not that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice
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  because your names are written in heaven.
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  So he's telling these disciples and he's telling you, and he's
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  telling me. He's saying, don't rejoice that
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  you can drive out demons in my name.
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  Rather rejoice that your names are written in the Lamb's Book
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  of life. Friends, we need to know that
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  there are going to be many that you encounter today that are on
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  the wide path to destruction. And we our hearts break and we
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  wish and we pray and we beg that they give their lives to the
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  Lord. But the sad reality is they
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  won't. And that is a hard thought.
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  That is a hard saying that the road to destruction is paved
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  with, well, intentions. But they have chosen the wrong
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  way. They have chosen to send
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  themselves into hell and destruction.
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  And those of us who have found eternal life, He's saying,
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  marvel at that, Marvel that you're actually going to get
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  there. Marvel that your name is there.
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  And we can be so preoccupied with everyone else that we don't
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  stop and pause and give God the most praise that we could ever
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  give him, that he saved our lives.
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  And praise God, Hallelujah, that he has saved your life.
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  And that is what Jesus is telling these disciples.
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  Marvel that your name is actually recorded there. 21 In
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  that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit, and said, I thank you, O
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  Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hid these
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  things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them
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  unto babes. Even so, Father, for so it
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  seemed good in your sight. 22 All things are delivered to me
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  of my Father, and no man knows who the Son is but the Father,
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  and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the Son will
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  reveal him. You cannot even come unto the
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  Father unless the Spirit draws you to himself.
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  And you can see here that Jesus is pleased to reveal the Father
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  to us. The heart of the Father is
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  spoken of through the words of Jesus.
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  We can know God's thoughts through what Jesus has taught
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  us, friends, and through what this Holy Scripture teaches us,
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  friends. We can know the mind of Christ
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  through the teachings that are in the Word of God.
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  And you can see it here that it is the unlearned that get the
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  doctrine. It is those who empty themselves
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  of themselves and have nothing to offer other than an empty
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  vessel, that those are the ones that get filled and full.
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  And those are the ones who He is pleased to reveal all of the
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  theology that we need, the full counsel that we need.
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  And it is the learned and the prudent that he hides these
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  things from, because they think that they know it all, and they
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  don't have anything else to learn.
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  And they think that they've got it all wrapped up, and the very
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  things that they think they have will be taken away from them. 23
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  And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately,
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  Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see. 24 For
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  I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see
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  those things which you see and have not seen them, and to hear
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  those things which you hear and have not heard them.
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  So there are many that have gone before us that desire to see
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  this day where the Holy Spirit would dwell inside of us, God
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  Almighty dwelling inside of man and giving us the discernment,
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  friends giving us the power, friends, giving us the
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  authority, friends. And what Adam lost in the
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  garden, Jesus regained in the desert.
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  And you can see it here, friends, that there have been
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  many who wish to see this day. But you and I see it.
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  And what are we doing with it? What are we doing with the
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  indwelling of the Holy Spirit that lives inside of us?
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  Are we just taking our light and hiding it under a bushel?
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  Let it shine, friends. 25 And behold, a certain lawyer stood
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  up and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to
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  inherit eternal life? 26 And he said unto him, What is
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  written in the law? How do you read it?
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  27 And he answered and said, You shall love the Lord thy God with
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  all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength,
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  with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself, which we
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  know that this is something that Jesus taught.
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  And he told the man who asked him that he was close to the
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  Kingdom of God, because he had understood that we are to love
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  God and love our neighbor, and everything in the law and the
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  prophets are all wrapped up in those two.
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  And he said, well said. And he told him that he was
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  close to the Kingdom. Let's see how this lawyer
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  responds. 28 And he said unto him, You have answered, right
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  This do, and you shall live. 29 But he, willing to justify
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  himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
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  So here he's trying to trap Jesus, but Jesus is going to
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  beat him at his own game. This lawyer who's trying to use
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  the law that had all of the bumper laws attached to the
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  original law to try to get people to not break the original
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  law. And here they had added so many
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  different laws on to it. And he's trying to trap Jesus,
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  and Jesus sees right through it. 30 And Jesus answered and said,
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  a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell
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  among thieves, which stripped him of his clothing and wounded
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  him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 And by chance
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  there came down a certain priest that way, and when he saw him,
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  he passed by on the other side. 32 And likewise a Levite, when
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  he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on
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  the other side. 33 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, he
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  came where he was, and when he saw him he had compassion on
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  him. 34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in
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  oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an
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  end, and took care of him. 35 And on the Morrow when he
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  departed, he took out 2 pence, and gave them to the host, and
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  said unto him, Take care of him. And whatsoever you spend this
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  more, when I come again I will repay you. 36 Which now of these
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  three do you think was neighbor unto him that fell among the
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  thieves? This is simple stuff here,
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  friends. Jesus is talking to this lawyer
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  as if he's just a little child, and he's asking him a very
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  simple question. And he's showing that this Jew
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  had two other Jews that were supposed to be following after
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  God, and they looked upon this man and they crossed the other
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  side. And how many times do we do
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  that? Friends, do not forget that
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  some, by showing hospitality, have entertained angels.
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  There are many things that the Lord is doing all around you,
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  and He's revealing your heart and your motives.
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  And there are many trials and tests that God has brought your
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  way to reveal your inner motives and to show us what we will do.
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  And you need to understand that God is inviting you in to the
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  greatest adventure that you will ever go on.
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  If you will trust Him and get out of your own emotions and
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  feelings and your own thoughts and trying to save your own
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  skin, and if you will step out in faith, you're going to find
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  that God will meet you right there out on the water.
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  Get out of the boat, friends. And here these Jews had turned
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  their back on their own fellow countryman who had been beaten
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  and left half dead. And here this half breed
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  Samaritan who was only half Jew and was an enemy of them, and
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  they were an enemy of him, and he had compassion upon him.
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  What a word for you, what a word for me.
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  Friends, we must get out of all of our prejudiceness.
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  We must get out of all of our fears.
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  We must get out of our comfort zone and we must step into the
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  realm of faith, friends, and meet God there in that space.
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  That sacred space of moving in faith and not trusting our
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  emotions, not trusting our own thought processes, but walking
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  in the Spirit. What a beautiful place to be in.
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  This Samaritan was moved with compassion and God help us, we
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  need that compassion for our fellow man, those that are image
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  bearers of God, those that have been made in the image of God.
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  Friends, we need this compassion that human life is sacred to God
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  and you never know who belongs to him, only God knows.
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  And what we do is we cast seed into all places, all soil.
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  That's what we are called to do. We're not not called to hold
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  back from any people group, no matter the shade of their skin,
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  no matter the language barrier. We are to cast seed amongst all
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  brethren all around this globe. 37 And he and he said, he that
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  showed mercy on him, then said, Jesus unto him, go and do you
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  likewise. So he's showing him who his
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  neighbor is. We know who our neighbor is.
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  Anybody who is made in the image of God is your neighbor.
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  Friends, don't hold back on them.
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  Don't be prejudice, don't be racist.
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  Make sure that every single person that you meet today, no
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  matter what country they are from or whatever kind of label
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  that we have labeled them, we need to make sure sure that we
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  understand that we all came from the same 2 parents, friends.
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  The entire world was populated from Adam and Eve.
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  No matter the language barrier, no matter the cultural barrier,
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  we need to know who our neighbor is. 38 Now it came to pass as
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  they went, that he entered into a certain village and a certain
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  woman named Martha received him into her house.
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  So we can see this was Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus.
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  We can see that this is. The first time that she's
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  showing up on the scene and she's inviting him into her
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  house, she had a sister named Mary 39 and she had a sister
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  called Mary, which also sat at Jesus's feet and heard His word.
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  So here Martha is, a busy body, and she's getting everything
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  ready. Here Mary is, and she is sitting
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  at the Lord's feet, and she could be labeled as being lazy.
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  Let's see what the Lord says about her. 40 But Martha was
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  cumbered about much serving, and came to him and said, Lord, do
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  you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone?
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  Bid her therefore, that she helped me.
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  So here Martha is getting everything ready, and here Mary
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  is just sitting around doing nothing.
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  And of course you would think that Jesus's response would be,
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  Hey Mary, your sister needs your help, you should go and help
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  her. We can get back to this
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  conversation later. But what does he say, Friends?
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  41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, you
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  are careful and troubled about many things. 42 But one thing is
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  needful, and Mary has chosen that good part which shall not
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  be taken away from her. Lock in.
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  Pay attention. This is paramount.
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  God bless the Marthas of this world.
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  God bless those that are servers, that are cumbered by
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  much, and who are people of hospitality, who invite us into
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  their homes and who get everything ready.
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  God bless them, friends. But Jesus tells us very clearly
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  we must be more like Mary than we are like Martha.
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  We must choose the better, and it will not be taken from us.
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  So many of us are so preoccupied with this life and we're so
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  preoccupied with the things of this world.
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  And we try to measure how much we care and how much we do.
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  And we have a report card that's constantly going through our
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  minds, and we're giving ourselves the marks that we
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  think we desire and certain subjects.
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  And Jesus just asked us to sit at His feet and to be filled by
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  Him so that we can go out and pour into others.
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  We cannot measure how much we love God by how much we do for
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  Him. It doesn't work that way.
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  And thank God for the doers. Thank God for those who don't
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  just sit on their blessed assurance.
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  Thank God for those who don't just sit and it's all
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  intellectual. We need laborers.
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  We need those that are going out into the harvest, but we do not
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  need those that are going out into the harvest just so they
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  can check a box, just so they can tell others what they have
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  done, just so they can get human recognition.
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  We need to be after the heart of God and God sees our very inner
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  motives. He knows what we're there for
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  and we. It is impossible to pour out of
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  an empty cup, friends. And you see it all around with
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  people that are in service. We see it all around with the
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  volunteers that are burned out because they were not poured
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  into. And it was all about the
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  ceremony. It was all about the tradition.
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  It was all about just this dogmatic approach to God.
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  And we think that we can measure how much we love God by how much
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  we do for God. And it doesn't work that way.
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  We need to be poured out of the overflow that comes from sitting
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  at His feet. Friends, you will naturally do
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  the things that God desires of you when you are full of the
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  Spirit. I pray that you're full of the
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  Spirit today. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this chapter. I know I sure have many times
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  over. I'm praying for you.
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  I love you, and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.