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Matthew chapter 21 · Scripture Unscripted

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Matthew chapter 21. Let us pray.
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Lord God, you are relentless. You stop at nothing or you chase
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us down. Yes, Father, we acknowledge your
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supremacy over all of our emotions.
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We acknowledge your supremacy over our very lives over the
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next breath that we draw over every heartbeat.
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You are Lord, you are God almighty and Lord, We submit to
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your authority today, Lord, out of reverence and a holy fear.
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God, we are in awe of you. Lord, you are worthy to be
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praised, and God, we are so in love with you, and we love
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because you love well. And you are a good and faithful
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ABBA. You are faithful to the ages.
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From everlasting to everlasting, You reign supreme.
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Holy Spirit, teach us your ways today.
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Guide us. Guide my thoughts and my words
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today as I open up your scriptures.
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Teach us today, show us the eternal paths, show us the way
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to the Father. And we just want more of you.
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King Jesus, we love you. Let me get out of the way.
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Hide me, hide my thoughts, hide my words.
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I decrease as you increase. Lord, I pray for marriages all
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around the world. Lord, strengthen them in this
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hour. Let us be ministers of
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reconciliation. Lord, I pray the prodigals come
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home. God, I pray that father's will
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father well, And I pray that you will continue to have your will
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and have your way in this land and throughout the globe.
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We love you. Lord, I pray that you'll
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strengthen the church in this hour.
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Lord, I pray that you increase our zeal for your house which
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has consumed us. We thank you for these holy
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scriptures. We thank you for the inerrant,
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infallible word. God, you are so mighty and so
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gracious and so loving and so kind.
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We love you, King Jesus, in Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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Let's start in verse one. And when they drew near unto
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Jerusalem and were come to Bethpage in the Mount of Olives,
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then sent Jesus 2 disciples. What's he talking about here in
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verse one? Well, he's coming in.
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He is on a he's been on a journey from Jericho.
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He's coming into the city here and he's telling the disciples
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to go and to fetch this donkey in her colt.
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And here you're you're going to notice that he is standing on
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the Mount of Olives. And when He comes back at His
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second advent, this is the way that He will enter into
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Jerusalem through the Eastgate. Friends too, saying unto them,
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Go into the village over against you, and straightway you shall
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find an ass tied in a colt with her.
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Loose them, and bring them unto Me.
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He has all dominion and power. He has already went in and
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prepared the hearts and minds of His servants, and He's already
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went in and prepared the hearts and minds of those who love Him.
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And it is easy for Him. He tells the disciples and they
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obey, and it is the love of Jesus that creates the obedience
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unto him, and we can trust him, because he is trustworthy and
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true. 3 And if any man say ought unto you, you shall say, the
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Lord has need of them, and straightway he will send them.
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That should be our obedience. Friends, is straightway we
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don't. We don't need to figure out all
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the details. All we need to do is obey
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because we love Him. For all this was done that it
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might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet saying so.
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This was prophesied that Jesus would come in and look at how
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the mother was right alongside of this cult of the foal.
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And Jesus was writing a foal that had never been ridden
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before and the mother was there to keep it at a pace.
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The mother was there to keep it from throwing off our Lord.
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And look at how confident the Lord was to ride on this young
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donkey. 5 Tell you, the daughter of Zion, behold, the king comes
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unto the meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of
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an ass. So here you can see King Jesus
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riding in just as it was prophesied. 6 And the disciples
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went and did as Jesus commanded them.
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Seven And he brought the ass and the colt, and put on them their
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clothes, and they set him on it. Can you imagine King Jesus, the
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Lord of Lords, the King of kings?
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He has dominion even over the beasts, not just over mankind,
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but the whole earth is the Lord's and everything in it.
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We would do well to know that He created all of it by the breath
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of His mouth. Of course He has dominion over
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an unbroken colt, and He rode in smoothly, but it was wisdom to
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bring the Mother along. A and a great, very great
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multitude spread their garments in the way.
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Others cut down branches from the trees and strawed them in
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the way. This is Palm Sunday.
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This is when they all went out to cry Hosanna in the highest,
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and they were welcoming A Liberator, but he did not come
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on his War Horse, and it was confusing to those who were
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intermingling. Two different prophecies, one of
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the first advent of the Suffering Servant and the second
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being the victorious conqueror that he will come back as.
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He's not coming back meek and mild.
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He's coming back as the roaring Lion of Judah.
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He's coming back as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and
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faithful and true. He's coming back with a double
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edged sword from his mouth, and he will annihilate all of his
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enemies. 9 And the multitudes that went before and followed
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cried, saying Hosanna to the son of David.
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Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.
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Hosanna in the highest the Lord saves.
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Here they are crying out praises in the highest, and they had
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come out to see their Liberator who is going to free them from
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the tyranny of the Romans. They were not coming out to meet
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their savior of the world who would save them from their sins,
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friends. 10 And when he was coming to Jerusalem, all the
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city was moved, saying, Who is this?
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Just imagine when Jesus was born, all of the city was
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disturbed because of the news of the Magi that the King of the
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Jews had been born. And here towards the end of his
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life they are all moved because the city is in an uproar over
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this Liberator coming in. And they had missed the whole
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point of it all, that he was coming to give him, to give
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himself as a ransom for many to be the Saviour of the world. 11
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in the multitude said, this is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth,
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of Galilee. So here you can see that Jesus
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was again being degraded and relegated down to just a citizen
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of Nazareth. And if you remember, it was
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said, does anything good come out of Nazareth, such a obscure
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small town? And they were all all turned
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around because Jesus was the carpenter's son and they knew
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his mother and his sisters were there with them and his
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brothers. And here he is causing this big
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scene in Jerusalem leading right up to the Passover, leading
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right up to the sacrificial giving of Himself.
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This is the Passion Week getting kicked off with a bang here. 12
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And Jesus went into the temple of God, and he cast out all them
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that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables
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of the money changers and the seats of them that sold doves.
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Look at how Jesus, this was the second time that he had entered
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into the temple and overthrew the money changers.
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He did it, if you read in the book of John, he did it at the
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beginning of his ministry and then here again at the end, he's
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doing it again. Look at how Jesus is indignant
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with those that have made his Father's house.
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That should be a place of prayer for the Gentiles to come into
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the outer court and to pray and to learn about the Lord.
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They had turned it into a marketplace.
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They had turned it and fuelled it into a place where people
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would come and sell all of the sacrifices that were to be
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given. And it was a lucrative business
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and it was not a place to come and learn about the Lord as it
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was intended. And Jesus saw it, and he made
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sure to cleanse the temple, and to purify the temple, and to
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consecrate the temple during this time. 13 And said unto
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them, It is written, My house shall be called the House of
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prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.
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So here Jesus is letting them know how God truly feels about
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what they have done in his temple. 14 And the blind in the
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lane came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
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This was him putting the stamp on the fact that he was the
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Messiah. It was proven to them from the
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miracles that he was doing. Even here at the last week of
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his life, He was still healing them.
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He was healing the blind. He was healing the lame. 15 And
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when the chief priests and the scribe saw the wonderful things
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that he did in the children crying in the temple, saying
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hosanna to the son of David, they were sore displeased.
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You know, he did not refuse worship.
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He did not refuse the title Son of David, which was the
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messianic title. He accepted it because he was
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all God and all man. And it is this beautiful picture
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of our Lord Jesus being praised by the children there in the
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temple. And we would do well to become
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like little children, to have the faith of little children.
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We should not harden our hearts, friends.
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We need to be softened in our approach and just believe like
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little children, that ABBA can do anything.
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He feeds us, He clothes us, and with that we should be content.
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16 And said unto him, Do you hear what they say?
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And Jesus said unto them, Yes, Have you never read Out of the
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mouth of babes and sucklings? You have perfected praise?
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So you can see here out of the mouth of the infants and babes,
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that Jesus is being perfected and praised by them.
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And you can see this beautiful scene and the religious leaders
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had become so incredibly incensed against Jesus Christ,
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they refused to even hearken and beckon their minds back to
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Scripture that they were supposed to be the protectors
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of. They were supposed to be the
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teachers of the Scriptures. And Jesus is calling them out.
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And it's as if you say, have you even ever read the Bible?
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There are many today who are steeped in tradition and they do
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not even read the Bible that they have.
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They like their devotions and they like to cherry pick the
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verses and they like to have their own theology that was
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taught to them by man, or it's a moralistic theology where we
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degrade God into a human thought process and they do not have the
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full counsel of God's word from Genesis to Revelation in mind.
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And it is as if we should ask, have you even ever read the
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Bible, friend? We need to be students of the
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Word of God. We need to know every single
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book, every single syllable. We need to fall in love with the
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Word of God. Do not let it collect dust on
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the shelf, open the Word of God, study the Word of God, fall in
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love with the Word of God. The Word became flesh.
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The Word was at the beginning, and the Word was God.
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And he left them and went out of the city into Bethany, and he
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lodged there. Imagine that Jerusalem, full of
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millions of people coming for the Passover week.
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And here you can see Jesus, who is God.
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He doesn't even stay in the city.
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He leaves out of the city to lodge in Bethany.
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This would have been at the home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus.
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And just as whenever he was just a little baby, there was no room
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for him at the end. Look at how here his last week
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this city would have been bursting, Jerusalem would have
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been bursting with pilgrims that have come from all over to
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celebrate. And here Jesus leaves out of
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that place to go lodge in Bethany. 18 Now in the morning
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as he returned into the city, he hungered.
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He was all man friends. He was all God, and he allowed
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himself. He had to identify with our
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humanity. Friends, he felt the hunger
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pains. 19 And when he saw fig tree in the way, he came to it,
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and he found nothing on it but leaves only.
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And he said unto it, Let no fruit grow on you henceforth
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forever. And presently the fig tree
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withered away. Look at this destructive miracle
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that was wrought by our Lord. Look at how he was looking for
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fruit. But it only had the outward
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appearance of a plant that was producing fruit.
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And it's much like us in our day.
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It's much like the nation Israel at this time.
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And they sure looked the part. But there was no fruit and the
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Lord knew it. And this was a symbol unto them
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and unto us, of someone who outwardly looks as if they
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should be producing fruit, but they do not.
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They do not produce the fruit. And he here causes it to wither
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and die. There's a lot of application
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here, friends. 21 Jesus answered and said unto them, Truly I say
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unto you, If you have faith and do not doubt, you shall not only
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do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if you shall say
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to this mountain, be you removed, and be you cast into
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the sea, it shall be done. He's telling us to increase our
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faith. He's telling us to not doubt, to
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put our eyes on God, to not trust our senses and emotions,
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to lift the shield of faith up over our thought processes, to
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believe and not be divided in our thoughts, to not think that
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we have to make things happen, but to believe that God is able
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and willing and we can do mighty miracles in His name.
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We are indwelled by the Holy Spirit, friends, and the Holy
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Spirit is our helper. And Jesus said unless I go, he
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will not come and you will do greater things.
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And he's telling us to increase our faith.
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He's telling us not to doubt. 22 and all things whatsoever you
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shall ask in prayer, believing you shall receive.
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Jesus gives us a promise here that anything that we ask of and
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we do not doubt and we have faith, the Lord will do.
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And sometimes you pray and you pray and you pray and things
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don't move. But there's many things that are
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happening behind the scenes that we do not see yet.
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But they are, though all of those prayers that we pray are
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seeds that go down and are producing fruit, and we should
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increase our prayer life, friends, and not doubt when we
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pray. 23 And when he was come into the temple, the chief
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priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was
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teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these
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things? And who gave you this authority?
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They are perplexed and puzzled at the Lord and how He doesn't
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have any of His wisdom ascribed to any of the religious leaders.
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It was completely of His own, because He is the word of God.
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All of the law and all of the prophets were pointing to this
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moment. They were all.
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Forth telling, they were all pointing to Jesus Christ and if
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they were in tune with Him, they would have known that He was
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fulfilling so much of the Old Testament right here.
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There had been 400 years of silence before Jesus arrived on
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the scene, and look at how they had missed the mark.
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They were steeped in their traditions and they had thought
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that all of their rules and regulations were going to save
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them. And because of their lineage to
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Abraham, they were going to be saved.
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And here Jesus is showing them the air of their ways.
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Friends, they want to know how he got all this authority, and
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they missed that He was God. 25 The baptism of John 24th And
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Jesus answered and said unto them, I also will ask you one
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thing, which if you tell me, I and likewise will tell you by
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what authority I do these things.
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So he answers their question with the question.
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And Jesus is so good at this, he's going to beat them at their
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own game. Game.
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They were trying to back him into a corner here, friends, and
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Jesus knew he could see through their deception.
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He wanted to know, 25 The baptism of John, where did it
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come from? From heaven or of men?
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And they reason with themselves, saying, If we shall say from
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heaven, he will say unto us, Why did you not believe him?
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26 But if we shall say of men, we fear the people, for all hold
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John as a prophet. So here, because they were so
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steeped in tradition and legalism, they were so steeped
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in the law, and they had missed out on the grace that Jesus was
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offering to them, they had went and had a counsel and they were
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looking at it from the angles of either way they answered it, it
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was going to be the wrong answer.
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So what do they say? 27 And they answered Jesus and
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said, we cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither
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do I tell you by what authority I do these things.
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It was easy. This is very common sense stuff
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here, friends. And this is what happens when
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people become blinded, when people are delusional.
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And this is what happens whenever we Make Love decisions
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for this world would become hostile towards God.
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And we will not put up with sound doctrine, we will not put
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up with common sense themes. This is what happens whenever we
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are so hostile towards the goodness of God.
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This is a picture of that, friends.
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This is what it looks like to become delusional and to be
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blinded. 28 But what do you think?
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A certain man had two sons, and he came to the 1st and said,
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son, go work today in my vineyard 29 And he answered and
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said, I will not. But afterward he repented and
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went, 30 And he came to the second said, and said likewise.
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And he answered and said, I go, Sir, but he did not go. 31 Which
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of the two did the will of his Father?
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And they say unto him, The 1st And Jesus said unto them, Truly
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I tell you, that the publicans and the harlots go into the
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Kingdom of God before you. 32 For John came unto you in the
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way of righteousness, and you believed him not, but the
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publicans and the harlots believed him, and you, when you
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had seen it, did not repent afterwards, that you might
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believe him. So here we know that John the
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Baptist was the forerunner for Jesus Christ, and his ministry
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was repentance. And here we can see Jesus going
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to all of the religious leaders and the scribes who were trying
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to trap him. And he beats them at his own
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game. And he tells them this parable
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of a father with two sons. And the first son is likened to
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the tax collectors and the prostitutes who at first say,
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no, I don't want to go. And then later they say they
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repent and they go out to help the Father.
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This is a picture of those who were once lost and blind and
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deaf, but they come to their senses and they give their lives
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to the Lord, and they come into the Kingdom, they come into the
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fold. And then the second Son, you
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notice his words, he says, Sir, I go.
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So he had this outward appearance of righteousness.
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These are the ferocious wolves in sheep clothing.
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These are the ones who look the part, friends, but inwardly,
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their inner hearts, they're not actually going to go out and
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help the Father. And they are not obeying, even
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though they sure do look the part.
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They have their long tassels and their phylacteries.
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They make their long winded prayers.
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And here you can see the duplicity and the hypocrisy of
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the religious leaders and scribes.
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And Jesus shows them that they need to repent and they need to
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believe on him, and they need him to be saved. 33 Here another
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parable. There was a certain householder
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which planted a vineyard and hedged it round about, and dug a
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winepress in it, and built a tower, and LED it out to
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husbandmen, and went into a far country.
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So here we can understand that this householder is God.
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We can understand that this vineyard is the world, and we
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can see that the husband man is US, the people.
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It's a very simple parable. 34 And when the time of the fruit
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drew near, he sent his servants to the husband men, that they
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might receive the fruits of it. So we can see here that God had
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sent all of the prophets to call them back to God.
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What did they do? The husbandmen took his servants
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and he beat one and killed another and stoned another.
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That's what happened to all the prophets.
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They were beaten and stoned and martyred because they were the
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true voice of God for that time and the people did not want to
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hear it. You can see all throughout the
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Old Testament, you can see in the prophets, the major and the
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minor prophets. You can see how many times they
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refused to listen to God. They only wanted to amass to
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themselves the false prophets that were telling them what they
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wanted to hear. They were letting them get a get
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away with all of their sin. And they had thought that
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because of their lineage to Abraham that they were safe.
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Because they had the temple of the Lord, they were safe.
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And Jesus here is showing them that they killed them, that He
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had sent them to them to rescue them, to turn their hearts and
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minds back to God. And instead of softening their
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hearts and listening to them and repenting, they stoned and
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killed and martyred all of the prophets that came. 36 And again
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he sent other servants more than the first, and they did unto
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them likewise. So he kept sending them over and
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over and over to get their attention. 37 But last of all,
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he sent unto them his son, saying, they will reverence my
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son. He's talking about himself.
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Jesus is referencing himself. He is the son in this story.
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Friends. 38 But when the husband men saw the sun, they said among
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themselves, This is the air. Come, let us kill him.
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Let us seize on his inheritance. So here this he's talking about
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the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the Sanhedrin and all the
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religious people of that day, and how they saw Jesus and what
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did they do? They were going to kill him in a
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very short amount of time. They were all going to be crying
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out, crucify him. He is worthy of death.
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They had so enjoyed all of the liberties and luxuries that the
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Old Testament brought them and that they had acted in an
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autonomous manner amongst even the Roman Empire and they
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enjoyed it so much. And they thought that Jesus was
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committing blasphemy to not rebuke the people from calling
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him the son of David and giving him the messianic titles.
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And they were so completely lost and delusional in their own
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self-made thoughts and ideas, and they refused to see Jesus as
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He truly was. And that is such a word for us
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today. We do not need to get roped in
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and trapped in so many of these different religious arenas that
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we get slowly LED away. What we need to do more than
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anything is to open the Word of God, to learn the Word of God
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for ourselves, to own the Word of God, to study it, to be a
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student of the Scriptures. The best way to tell whenever
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there's a counterfeit that comes across the table is by studying
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the real thing. And that is what we need to do.
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We need to get into the good book.
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We need to read it and let it read us and to own it and to
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learn it and not just to go and trust what man teaches.
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I cannot say it enough. We must know the word of God for
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ourselves. And I'm so thankful for everyone
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who has taken this faith journey with me.
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We need to be in the Word of God.
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You need to be asking God to help you to discern these
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things, friends that come across that you're reading that you
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might not understand, but ask the Holy Spirit to make it plain
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to you. 39 And they caught him and cast him out of the vineyard
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and slew him right here. He's prophesying his own death,
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Friends 40 And when the Lord therefore of the vineyard comes,
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what will he do unto those husband men?
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So here these religious leaders had been listening to this
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parable. Jesus had silenced them whenever
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they were trying to trap him with the asking him what
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authority he did those things by, they were trying to trap him
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and he beat him at their own game.
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And he opened the door to be able to have a moment to speak.
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And all of the religious leaders sat there listening to him And
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there would have been a multitude of people that would
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have been standing around listening to these stories.
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And he says, What should the Lord do unto the husbandmen,
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that he had let out the vineyard to?
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Let's see what they have to say in 41.
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They said, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and he
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will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall
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render him the fruits in their season.
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So you can see here that by their words they are condemned.
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They condemned themselves here by a very simple parable that
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Jesus explains to them. Their reaction is much like when
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David said, who is that man? He deserves death.
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Whenever Nathan the prophet came to tell him about the little
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sheep, that was the pet of the man, and the king had visitors
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and he had many sheep of his own, but instead he went and
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took the one little lamb from the man who even slept with him,
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and he killed that lamb. And David was so indignant.
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And then what did he say? He said you are that man.
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And here you can see Jesus the son of David.
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You can see that he uses the same type of storytelling.
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It's the same spirit all the way through this word, friends.
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It never contradicts itself. It is so beautiful tapestry all
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the way through the word of God and you're going to swim in the
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deep end and never touch the bottom.
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You cannot approach the word of God from an intellectual
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approach. Yes, he can be reasoned with.
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Yes, there is many students and yes, you can learn.
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You could spend 20,000 lifetimes learning this word and
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approaching it from a scholastic approach and never ever become
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bored and never ever unearth all the gems and jewels and truths
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in this word. Even in our day and age of
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supercomputers, friends, you could not create an algorithm
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that could figure out this book because it's alive and active
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and sharper than any 2 edged sword.
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And we do not read it. It reads us, friends.
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And when we get into this good book, you're going to see so
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much tapestry. You're going to see so many
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nuances that just complement each other, and this is one of
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them. How?
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Jesus traps them, and he how? Jesus shows them their
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hypocrisy. Friends 42 And Jesus said unto
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them, Did you never read the scriptures?
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The stone which the builders rejected?
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The same has become the head of the corner.
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This is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes.
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So here Jesus is asking them, Do you even read the Bible?
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If they were not so delusional, they would have understood that
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these things are marvellous. They would have understood that
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he was the Messiah and all of these things must happen. 43
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Therefore I say unto you, The Kingdom of God shall be taken
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from you and given to a nation, bringing forth the fruits of it.
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44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken, but
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on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. 43 And
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44 he's referencing that the church is about to be birthed.
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And if you remember, he told Peter, he said I'm going to
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build my church, my ekklesia, the called out ones, and the
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gates of hell will not prevail. And here he's announcing it to
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the Jews. He's showing them that God's
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about to do a new thing because He wanted them to be the light
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unto the world, but they rejected him and they murdered
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their Messiah. And now look at how the Gentiles
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have come in. And it's this beautiful plan
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from the beginning. And He's showing that if we will
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fall on Jesus, if we will fall in love with Jesus, He will undo
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us. He will break us.
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He will completely make us a new creation.
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But if you refuse Him and He falls on you, it will grind you
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to powder. You will be annihilated. 45 The
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chief priests and the Pharisees had heard these parables.
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They perceived that he spoke of them.
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So light bulb moment they finally see, Oh gracious, we
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condemned ourselves. 46 But when they sought to lay hands on him,
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they feared the multitude, because they took him for a
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profit. So they could find no grounds
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here for arrest. Jesus never self condemned
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himself. Jesus never erred on the law.
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He kept all the law. You can see how perfect he is.
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He is the spotless, unblemished lamb.
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And even in their legal requirements he never broke the
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law. They could not arrest him.
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They feared the crowds. They had the fear of man because
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they knew that what they were doing was wrong, but they were
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so in love with greed and power and money and position and the
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manipulation of the masses that they did not care and they were
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blinded. That is a word for us, friends.
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We cannot call God into the courtroom when He doesn't act in
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a moral way. We do not need a fair God.
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We need a just God, friends. And God is just in all of his
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ways, and He justifies us when we come unto the Son.
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Let's fall in love more with Jesus today than we were
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yesterday. Let's become more like Jesus
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today. And by studying the scriptures,
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we can learn how he acted. And we can model our lives after
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the beatitudes. We can model our lives after
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this walk of Jesus, not fearing man, not being afraid to lay
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down our lives for our friends. We need to be more like Jesus
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today than we. Was yesterday this
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sanctification? I hope you've been blessed by
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this chapter here in Matthew. I know I sure have.
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It's blessed me many times over. Let's get in the Word today.
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Let's study the Word today. Let's own the Word today.
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Let's fall in love with Him more today.
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I'm praying for every single one of you.
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I love you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you, play trailer of
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the song.