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Mark chapter 2. Let us pray.
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Father, you're a good father. You father us well.
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You are high and lifted up. You're exalted.
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You are eternal. You are omnipotent.
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You're all powerful. You're omniscient, You know
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everything. You're omnipresent.
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You're everywhere. God.
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We bow down and reverence God. We know that you are mighty to
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save. We know that you are our
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everything. We know that you are a Father
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who loves well and who heals, who saves to the utmost.
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Yes, Lord, we know that you love us and that you are for us and
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not against us. Lord, we know that you're
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fighting our battles. We know that you are empowering
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us from on high. We know, God, that we are going
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to be there with you, Lord, and I pray in the name of Jesus for
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strength for the battle, strength for today.
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Let tomorrow worry about itself, God Almighty, but we pray for
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strength for today. Lord, let us get through today.
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Whatever today holds. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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that you'll continue to fuel us and fill us.
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God, let the Holy Spirit well up within us.
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Holy Spirit, teach us. Holy Spirit, guide us.
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Holy Spirit, fill us. Holy Spirit, come, Lord, come.
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We cry out. Come.
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The Spirit and the bride says come.
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Yes, we're crying out. We're asking for the Lord's
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return. We're asking God that where you
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are we would desire to be. Yes.
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We just want more of you. We want to see you rightly.
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We want to taste and see that you're good.
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We want to be there with you. We want to lay our head on your
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chest. Yes, we want to be the disciples
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that you love. God, we want to do your will.
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We want to obey your word, God, We just want to be found with
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the hands of the plow. We do not want to be found
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looking back. We only want to be found
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pressing forward. So God, we press forward onto
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the new Jerusalem. We press forward into eternity.
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We press forward for what you have for us to for today.
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And so, God Almighty, I press the, I decrease as you increase.
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Let your words reign true forever.
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Let them resound off the rafters.
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Let them resound off the baseboards and the floorboard.
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God, let them go through all of eternity.
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Father, I pray for generations upon generations upon
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generations to be blessed from our obedience.
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God, we thank you for the cross of Christ.
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We thank you, God, that you've given us life and life abundant.
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We thank you God, that you have rebuked the devourer from off of
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our families. God, form a hedge of protection
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around us. Lord, in the name of Jesus, I
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pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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And again he entered into Capernaum after some days and it
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was noised that he was in the house.
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He couldn't help but to cause a commotion Jesus Christ.
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Everywhere he went he gathered the masses and what were they
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wanting to see? They wanting to see this miracle
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worker. They were wanting to see their
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Liberator. They were wanting to see Jesus
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as the man who could heal. He was the great physician.
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He didn't even give them a bill. He paid the price.
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It was the ultimate price. He paid it on the cross.
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Thank you Jesus. It was noise that he was in the
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house 2 and straightway many were gathered together in so
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much that there was no room to receive them.
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No, not so much as about the door.
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And he preached the word unto them.
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Here is a coin phrase in Mark that you're going to see over
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and over and over. And you have to remember who
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Mark was writing this to. By the way, Mark is a disciple
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of Peter. Peter calls him his son.
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We know that he was a convert of Peters.
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And so here you're going to see this coined phrase that Mark
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uses over 40 times in his Gospel.
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Straightway it means, and immediately it means that this
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servant didn't drag his feet. And that's what Mark wanted his
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readers to know, that Jesus was about his Father's business.
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He did not come to be served, but to serve.
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And that is the coined phrase of the whole Gospel of Mark.
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Let's keep going. So straightway there was no
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room. They came to the door and there
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was no room. It was they were pressed in.
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Jesus is inside the house and he is preaching.
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And here comes a paraplegic, A quadriplegic.
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Here comes their friends, and they're bringing him to be
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healed. Three.
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And they came unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was
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born of four. So this is a an indicator of a
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quadriplegic. 4 And when they could not come near unto him for
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the press, they uncovered the roof where he was.
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And when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein
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the sick of the palsy lay. So the faith of these friends is
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what is going to heal their friend.
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These four friends, they were desperate.
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They even broke the roof of the house to lower this man down
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right in front of Jesus. 5 When Jesus saw their faith, he said
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unto the sick of the palsy, Son, your sins be forgiven you.
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He did not say rise and walk first, did He?
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He forgave his sins because what He was going to do here is prove
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a point to all of the heretical Pharisees, all the religious
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teachers who were there trying to trap him.
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He was going to prove a point. There was a common theme in
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their way of thinking that no one could be healed of a
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physical infirmity until their sins were forgiven first.
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So here Jesus is going to beat them at their own game.
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So the very first thing that he does is he says your sins are
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forgiven. And these are not necessarily
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the sins that got him into the condition that he was in.
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But we all need to be forgiven of our sins.
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We all, every single person, let every man be alive.
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We all need to be forgiven. And it would do us well to keep
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that in mind. We cannot behave our way into
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heaven. We cannot give enough money to
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make it into heaven. We cannot attend enough church
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camps to make it into heaven. We cannot attend enough of the
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seminars to make it into heaven. We cannot read the Bible enough
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to make it into heaven. We cannot pray enough to make it
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into heaven. We desperately need the blood of
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Christ covering us from the bottom of our feet to the top of
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our head. Friends, that's how we enter in.
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And Jesus here is telling the man that his sins are forgiven.
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And this is pre cross of Christ. So Jesus is foreshadowing here
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the work that he's about to do. And the religious leaders,
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they're so turned around, they're so indignant towards
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Jesus that they don't even know what to do with this man. 6 But
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there were certain of the scribes sitting there and
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reasoning in their hearts. So here they should have been
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reasoning in their hearts that this was the Messiah, that this
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was the son of David, that this was the long-awaited savior of
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the world who is to take away the sins of the world.
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And here the people were waiting.
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They were all turned around. They were waiting on a political
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leader. They were waiting on the our
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second advent, Jesus Christ, who's going to come with A2
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edged sword out of his mouth. And they had missed the whole
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point of the suffering servant. 7 Why does this man thus speak
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blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God
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only? If they would have been paying
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attention, He's already healed the leper.
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They would have been paying attention.
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He's already cast out demons. If they would have been paying
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attention, they would have known that this was God who took on
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flesh. 8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his Spirit
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that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them,
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Why reason you these things in your hearts?
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So this is discernment, friends. Jesus Christ is discerning their
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wicked thoughts. 9 which is easier to say to the sick of the
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palsy. Your sins be forgiven you or to
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say arise and take up your bed and walk.
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So here he's getting them into a corner, He's backing them into a
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corner. He's going to beat them at their
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own game. And they are sitting there
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reasoning within themselves that anybody could just say your sins
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are forgiven, but there's no proof of it.
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So Jesus here, he's going to prove that he is the Messiah, 10
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But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to
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forgive sins, He said to the sick of the palsy. 11 I say unto
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you, arise and take up your bed, and go your way into your own
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house. What a sight to see.
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What a miracle to rot in the land.
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Friends, look at how Jesus in front of everybody.
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Look at how Jesus has complete authority over the body and over
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the physical nature. And don't forget, friends, that
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he is still doing miracles. Don't forget, friends that we
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can still receive the healing. Friends, don't forget it.
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However, there are times where the Lord leaves us in that
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condition and that is not a cop out of what the Lord can do.
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The Lord just knows what's best and it's best for us to trust in
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His ways. His ways are not our ways and we
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need no matter what happens, we need to trust that He knows what
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He's doing and our prayers are not missed on Him.
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We need to increase the faith. We need to increase our faith
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knowing that what is to come is way better than any of the
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rewards that we could receive here on this earth.
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We need to know that what is next God has put together that
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is going to far supersede any of the experiences that we have
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here. And we could pray and pray and
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pray and increase our faith to the utmost and pray even more
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and have more than the faith of a mustard seed.
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But it's not the size of your faith.
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It's who your faith is placed in.
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And we need to be looking more for His presence than we do, for
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the presence that He can give us, for the gifts that He can
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give us, for the healings that He can give us.
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He came to save us from eternal damnation.
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And that is the greatest gift that we could ever receive, more
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than any of the healings, friends.
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And sometimes, yes, God does heal, and He can heal, and He is
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willing to heal, and all we need to do is get out of our own way
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and allow Him to have full access to every single part of
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us. Nothing compartmentalized,
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nothing held back, nothing hidden.
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Give it all over to Him, friends, and watch how he heals
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you. He heals you of all of your past
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trauma, your childhood trauma. He heals you from all of the
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hatred. He heals you from the racism.
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He heals you from all of the things that you beat yourself up
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on yourself degradation, and he heals you from all of the things
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that are plaguing you in your own mind in the prison cells
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that we all walk around with each and every day is the
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greatest healing to is to know that we're going to stand before
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Almighty God and he's only going to see us as perfect and
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spotless and sinless because of the blood of Jesus Christ.
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That is why he came. 12 And immediately he arose and took up
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his bed and went forth before them all in so much that they
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were all amazed and glorified God, saying, we never saw it on
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this fashion. Of course they never saw it on
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this fashion. Jesus Christ is unlike anybody
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else who's ever arrived on the scene.
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Jesus Christ has all authority and all power, and everything
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was created by him and for him and to him.
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And here you see the glory of God shrouded in human flesh and
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bone. He is God and he had all
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authority, and he came to show them their desperate need for
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Him. We never saw it on this fashion.
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13 And he went forth again by the seaside, and all the
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multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.
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Look at how gracious he is. Look at how he amasses all of
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this big crowd, and he's so long-suffering and patient with
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them. He knows their true motives.
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He can discern their hearts and minds and thoughts, friends, And
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look at how he, he is teaching them. 14 And as he passed by, he
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saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting at the receipt of
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custom, and said unto him, Follow me.
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And he arose and followed him. So this was the calling of
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Matthew at the tax collector's booth.
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And look at how Jesus, as he's walking by, he's calling one of
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the lowest of the lowest of the lowest positions in all of the
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Jewish minds there of how this man was a traitor, this man was
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a thief. And look at how Jesus had
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compassion upon him. And when Matthew left his tax
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collector booth, there was no return.
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That was a heavily sought after position because you can become
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wealthy by doing it, by exacting the taxes for Rome off of your
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the backs of your own people and charging them over the amount
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that they actually owed and then pocketing the profit, pocketing
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the difference in here. When Jesus called Matthew, this
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was a huge deal. The fisherman could just go back
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to fishing. But Matthew, when he made this
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decision, there was no turning back.
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And we need to have that kind of commitment to the Lord is
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whenever we start following after the Lord, which is what it
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is. He's leading the charge and we
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follow him. Praise the Lord God Almighty, we
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have a Good Shepherd. But when we make that decision,
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there's no turning back. Do not be like Lot's wife.
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There is no turning back. We can't turn back when things
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don't go our way. When Jesus says eat my flesh and
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drink my blood and everyone leaves and he looks at you and
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he says, are you going to go to? We need to be able to say you
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have the words of eternal life. Where else would we go when life
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doesn't go the way that you thought it was going to go?
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When Jesus doesn't behave in the way that you thought he should
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behave, When Jesus isn't the moralistic teacher that you
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hoped him to be? We cannot turn our backs on him.
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He is the only one who's going to be able to lead us home, and
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his ways are not our ways, friends. 15 And it came to pass
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that as Jesus sat at me in his house, many publicans and
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sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples, for
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there were many, and they followed him.
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Think about it for a second. These are the tax collectors.
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These are the lowest of the lows in the Jewish society.
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And here they are sitting at dinner in Matthew's house with
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Jesus Christ. He was the friend of sinners.
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He said that the tax collectors and the prostitutes were coming
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into the Kingdom faster than the scribes and the Pharisees.
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We can see people who are like that son who says I don't want
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to go help father and then later as they say yes, I will go and
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help him as opposed to those who say yes Sir, I will go, but then
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they don't go. You can see it all playing out
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and it's happening in our day, in our society.
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There are many who went to seminary.
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There are many who've attended church their whole life.
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There are many who sure looked the part.
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But they're wolves. They're ravenous wolves and
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sheep's clothing. And there are many today who are
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strung out on drugs. There are many today who are in
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promiscuous situations and they will come in to the Kingdom of
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God because they're going to see their need for Him and their way
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of life is not working and they desperately need a savior.
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They desperately need something to change because nothing is
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fitting. There's a giant hole in their
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heart and they know that the only one that can fill it is the
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Lord God Almighty. And we do not stay atheistic
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friends. We do not stay unspiritual for
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very long. We will fill that void with
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something and far be it from us, and God forbid that we fall into
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the occult and into the satanic realm and we fall and open our
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portal up, open up ourselves and the gateway of allowing the
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demonic oppression and possession and influence into
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our lives. We need Jesus, we need the name
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of Jesus covering us daily. 16 And when the scribes and the
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Pharisee saw him eat with the publicans and sinners, they said
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unto his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with
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publicans and sinners? So here it is friends, We can
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see Jesus, the friend of sinners.
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We can see Jesus, he had the harshest things to say towards
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the religious people. Go and read it.
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We are reading it now. Listen up friends, you can see
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that Jesus was very rough and tumble with the religious
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people, but look at how with the sinners, He was never afraid of
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being tainted by them. He never condoned their
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behavior. He told them to go and sin no
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more unless something worse happened to them, but he was not
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afraid of being defiled by them. And what a word for us today.
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We do not cosign on people's garbage.
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We do not cosign on their addictions.
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We do not cosign on their sin friends, but we meet them where
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they're at. We share the love of Christ
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where they're at, and it's the love of Christ that produces the
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obedience. It's the love of Christ that
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produces the decision. It's not the hatred, friends.
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It's not being hateful, friends. It's not condemning people to
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hell before they ever even die. It is US showing the love of
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Christ. It is grace with teeth, and it
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is the truth with tears. That is how we approach every
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situation, even all the situations of our day and our
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hour. We do not need to find ourselves
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on the wrong side of the aisle, friends.
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We need to find the balance of seeking justice and loving mercy
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and walking humbly with our God. 17 And when Jesus heard it, he
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said unto them, They that are whole have no need of the
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physician, but they that are sick, I came not to call the
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righteous, but sinners to repentance.
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He says, if you cannot see your need for repentance, there is no
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help for you. And what did he say?
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He said a man left his 99 sheep to go find the one lost sheep.
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And I'll tell you, there is more rejoicing in heaven over 1
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Sinner who sees his need for repentance than for the 99 who
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do not. That is what is encapsulated
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right here in this verse, friends, that it is the sick who
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need a doctor that is the sick who need the Great Physician.
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And if you think that I'm fine and I'm great and I don't have a
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need for Jesus and I'm going to save myself, then you are bound
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and destined to bust hell wide open, because there is no
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salvation apart from Jesus Christ. 18 In the disciples of
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John and of the Pharisees used to fast, and they came and say
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unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees
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fast, but your disciples fast? Not So here in this culture, in
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this day, in this age. Jesus would know that whenever
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the wedding feast was going on, a lot of the laws that were
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prescribed of the bylaws that were attached on to the original
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commandments that they were allowed to be broken during the
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joyous festivities of a of a wedding.
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And what duplicity and hypocrisy.
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And Jesus again is going to beat them at their own game.
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Jesus again is going to show them their duplicity.
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He's going to show them that he is the bridegroom and that his
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disciples are allowed to break all of their man made bylaws
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that were attached that they demanded people to practice and
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to obey. And Jesus was willingly and
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Jesus was going in and stirring the waters.
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He was going in and breaking all of their man made traditions on
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purpose. It was intentional.
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Let's see what he has to say. 19 And Jesus said unto them, Can
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the children of the bride chamber fast while the
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bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the
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bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
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So here he's telling all of the religious people who were caught
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up in religion, he was showing them that there's grace with us
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friends. We have freedom, friends.
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We have liberty, friends. But it is not to be abused.
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And if you truly know Jesus, you will not abuse that grace. 20
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But the days will come when the bridegroom shall be taken away
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from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
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Here he is foreshadowing and prophesying his death, burial,
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resurrection, and ascension unto the Father.
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He says And then we us now are his disciples will fast.
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It is good for us to fast. Some things only go out by
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prayer and fasting. If you've been praying and
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praying and praying, you've been falling on your face and
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worshiping the Lord. Incorporate fasting into your
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life and watch how things start moving.
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Watch how even the things within your own self start to move. 21
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No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment else the
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new piece that filled it up takes away the of the old and
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the RIP is made worse. Think about it for a second
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friends. You have an old pair of jeans
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that's been washed 100,000 times and it and they fit perfectly
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and there's a hole in them and you go and you buy a new patch
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to sew on it. This new patch is has not been
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washed. This new patch has not shrunk to
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where it's going to be. And you sew it.
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You cut it perfectly for the whole of those old jeans and you
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sew that patch on there. Then you start washing those
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jeans. Naturally, that new patch is
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going to shrink and look at the circumference of the old hole
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now as it, as the new patch tears away, the hole is even
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bigger than it was before you put the new patch on it.
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And Jesus is going to expound upon this.
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He's going to let us know that He's doing a new thing, that
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their old way of doing things is broken.
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And no, He did not come to abolish it.
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He came to fulfill it. And that is what He is
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referencing in this moment. He's showing them that they need
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to get out of their own way, that God doesn't behave in the
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way that we want him to. We cannot put God in a box.
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We cannot box him in and tell God how to behave.
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We cannot tell God what he can and can't do.
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God is in heaven and does whatever he pleases, friends,
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and we would do well to understand that God is not
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limited, friends. He does not limit himself to
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anything. He is, I am, We are the created
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ones, and he is the only uncreated.
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And here Jesus is showing them that whenever they try to box
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God in, it'll never work. 22 And no man puts new wine into old
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bottles, else the new wine does burst the bottles, and the wine
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is spilled, and the bottles will be marred, and the new wine must
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be put into new bottles. So here Jesus is showing them in
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the most easiest fashion, in the in the most simplest terms,
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Jesus is showing them that if you put unfermented wine into an
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old bottle, this brittle, as the fermentation process starts to
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happen, it's going to burst open because that old wineskin has
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already expanded to the point and the new wine is going to
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burst it. It is a simple process and it
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would have been better understood by them, but we need
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to know that Jesus desires new wine in our lives.
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We cannot just hold fast to all of the traditionalism, friends
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and the legalism, friends. We need to know that Jesus calls
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us into an adventure. And sometimes what he's asking
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you to do, it goes against and defies all the things that
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you've ever been taught. Friends, all these man made
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little bylaws, all of these man made traditions that we have
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placed and said God does this and God does that sometimes.
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We need to break free from all of the legalism and to break
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free from the religion and break free from the traditionalism.
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And we need to know that God can do anything and that we need to
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sit in His presence. We need to receive from Him and
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we need to know that He's leading us in places where he is
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already gone. He's already gone to prepare and
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we need to go in those places and be faithful to speak a word.
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And we need to know that He is moving mightily in our midst and
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He's calling many people to Himself and He uses us for those
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things. And we need to stiff arm all the
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naysayers who tell us that God doesn't behave that way.
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God doesn't do that. We need to know that we are
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moving in accord with Jesus Christ.
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We're moving in accord with what the Lord has done and what He is
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doing in our lives. We need to not worry about the
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fear of man, Friends. 23 And it came to pass that he went
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through the cornfields on the Sabbath day, and his disciples
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began, as they went to pluck the ears of corn.
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So here you can see that they are not behaving in the way that
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all of the religious people expected them to behave.
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And that is a word for us today when we're walking with Jesus
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Christ. There's freedom, friends, we're
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free who the sun sets free is free indeed friends, we do not
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have to worry about offending man.
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The word of God is an offence. 24 And the Pharisees said unto
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him, Behold, why do they on the Sabbath day that which is not
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lawful? Jesus was not worried about all
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of their man made laws and we will always obey the law until
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the law goes against the word of God and then we will be, we will
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become lawbreakers. 25 And he said unto them, Have you never
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read what David did when he had need and wasn't hungry?
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And he and they that were with him.
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Jesus is saying, have you never read the Bible?
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Jesus is saying go and read the story of when Jesus went in and
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was eating the priests bread. That was not lawful for him to
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do, but God allowed it. There is a great amount of
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freedom when you're following lockstep with God Almighty, and
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this is a word for us today. We need to break free out of all
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of the ritualistic approach, all the ceremonious approach to God
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Almighty, and we need to know that God is the I Am and we
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cannot box him in. 26 How he went into the House of God in
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the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the
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showbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priest, and
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gave also to them that were with him.
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He should have been killed, he should have been stoned to
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death. He should have been run through
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and look at how God protected him because he had captured the
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heart of God. He was a man after God's own
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heart. And that is a word for you
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today, friend. Are you a man after God's own
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heart? Are you following hard after
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God, and stiff arming this world, and stiff arming all of
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the cares of this world, and stiff arming the fear of man?
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27 And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and
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not man for the Sabbath. What a word for us today.
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We are not held to having to observe the Sabbath.
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The Sabbath is a wonderful time for us to sharpen the saw.
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But if you have an ox that has fallen into the hole, pull the
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ox out. Friends, don't be so legalistic.
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28 Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
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We will do well to remember that Jesus is Lord over all and
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everything seen and unseen, everything discovered and
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undiscovered, the past, present and future, all belong to Him.
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And as long as we're yoked up with Him, don't be surprised.
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Of all the places that He takes, you got to get out-of-the-box,
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friends. We've got to follow after Him.
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Lock eyes with Him today, friends.
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What a wonderful journey it is to follow after the Lord Jesus
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Christ and to know that we're not going to miss out on
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anything. As long as you wake up in the
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morning and as long as you acknowledge Him.
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He's directing your steps, friends.
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Acknowledge Him today. Give Him your whole life today.
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Don't hold anything back today. Let them work mightily in your
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life today. Listen to the still small voice
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today. Empty yourself of yourself
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today. Friends.
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Give your life completely and totally and utterly over to him.
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Get rid of all of your wants and desires and the way that you
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think that this life should go and get rid of your trying to
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save your skin. Get rid of all of your fears of
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death. Get rid of all of it and
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surrender unto him completely, wholeheartedly.
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Nothing held back, nothing compartmentalized.
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Go through all the Hallows of your mind.
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Go through every emotion and surrender it all to him.
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Confess it all to him. Ask for forgiveness.
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Have that change of mind and let these words wash over your mind.
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If any man is in Christ, he's a new creation.
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Praise God. Hallelujah.
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I beg you, therefore, brothers, to offer your bodies as a living
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sacrifice, which is your reasonable service unto God.
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And be not conform to this world, but be transformed by the
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renewing of your mind. Let these words wash over your
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mind. Friends, the greatest battle
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that you're going to face today is within the six inches between
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your two ears. Take every thought captive and
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make it obedient unto these words that we are reading today.
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Friends, know that you know that you know that you know that God
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is and that He can and he is willing be blessed today.
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I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here.
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I know I sure have. Praying for every single one of
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you. I love you, so does God.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.