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Mark chapter 6, Let us pray. Heavenly Father, you're so good
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to us. Jesus, you're so good to us.
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Thank you Lord for another day. Thank you Lord, that we can come
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and worship you in spirit and truth.
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Thank you God for power from on high.
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Thank you God for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
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Thank you God for giving us life and life abundant.
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Thank you Jesus for the sacrifice on the cross.
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Thank you Jesus, for you going and preparing a place for us.
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And there where you are we will be.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus, you help us to finish
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this race well. Open up our hearts and open up
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our minds, open up all of our senses to receive your Holy
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scriptures, your Holy Word today.
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We love you, King Jesus, we love you so much.
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Come and wreck us today. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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Let's start in verse one. And he went out from there and
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came into his own country and his disciples followed him.
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Well, of course they followed him.
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What are we doing here in Mark chapter 6 where you're going to
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have to understand that Mark is being the scribe for Peter's
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adventures. And here Peter is telling Mark
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of all the things that he wants us to know about what Jesus did.
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This is a whole lot less about what Jesus said.
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This is miracle after miracle after miracle, and it's a fast
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track of Jesus's ministry, and we're getting to see all the
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highlights of Jesus's miraculous powers.
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Let's keep going. Verse 2.
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And when the Sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the
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synagogue. And many hearing him were
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astonished, saying, from where has this man these things?
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And what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such
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mighty works are wrought by his hands?
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So we need to understand here that Mark is conveying to us
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Jesus entering into the synagogue.
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Jesus is here and the people are in his hometown, and they're
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trying to figure out how in the world has Jesus gotten all of
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this authority and all of these teachings.
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He didn't. He did not go to seminary.
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He did not study underneath a rabbi.
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He did not ascribe all of his teachings to somebody else.
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It was from God and God alone. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ
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that He is the supreme authority.
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What He says holds the most weight in all of the world.
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There is no other religion. There is no other teachings.
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There is no other besides Jesus Christ.
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He is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes unto
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the Father except through Him. He is not one of many ways,
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friends. He is the way.
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And these people are having to wrestle with the fact that He
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was in their midst as a young boy.
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He was in the midst as a Carpenter.
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Let's keep going. Verse 3.
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Is not this the Carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of
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James? And Joseph and Jude Simon are
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not his sisters here with us, and they were offended at him.
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We cannot be offended by Jesus. We cannot be offended whenever
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hit, the healing doesn't come. We cannot be offended because
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this word that we hold in our hands is not the moralistic word
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that we were hoping it to be. We have to keep pressing forward
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through all of the hard teachings and all of the hard
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sayings that are in this book, friends, because He is the only
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way. There is not a Plan B.
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There is not a second option. It is Jesus, Jesus and Jesus
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alone that's going to carry us home, friends, and we need to
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realize that Jesus is nothing but love.
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Even in the things that we can misconstrue as as being hateful,
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or even in the things that we can misconstrue as being missed
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on us. We need to know that we know
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that we know that we know that Jesus is the only way, that this
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word that we hold in our hands is infallible and inerrant.
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There is no fault, there is no error, and we need to know that
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it is the true word of God. It is the supreme authority over
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our lives. It governs all of our thoughts.
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It governs our emotions, It governs our actions.
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This is the word of God, friends, and we cannot discount
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it and we cannot discredit it. We cannot disprove it.
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You can't do anything with it. It's here to stay.
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Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one of these words
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will pass away. And if there are things that you
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think are discrepancies or that they are contradictions, I want
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you to know, friends, that as time goes on, all of those
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things will come clear to you. They will be made clear to you.
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But if you're approaching the Word of God from that vantage
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point, you're already hostile. You've already found fault.
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You've already discounted it in your own mind, but it does
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nothing with the Word of God. And they were offended at him.
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For but Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor,
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but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his
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own house. So what a word for us today.
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Don't be surprised whenever you give your life over to the Lord
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and you go in to your own family, when you go in to your
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own brothers and sisters, when you go in to your workplace
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after giving your life to Him and you try to talk to people
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about Jesus and they shrug you off.
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People are tired of hearing about it.
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They want to see it, and that's what we need to know.
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People have heard about it and heard about it and heard about
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it and they need to see a life that's truly sold out and
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finishes well. We have so many leaders that are
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in moral compromise, moral failures, and it's sin and it's
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sin and it's sin at its core. And it's because they were
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compromising in the small things which led to these great moral
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failures and it led to them being discovered.
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And God said it would be that way.
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Five. And he could there do no mighty
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work, except that he laid hands on a few sick folk and healed
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them. What a passage here.
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What a verse here. All he could do is heal a couple
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sick folk. Well, praise God for those
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couple of sick folk that He healed.
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He healed me and I was a sick folk.
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And you know, we need to know that Jesus is limitless in his
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power. Jesus is limitless in His
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abilities to wrought miracles. He is not limited, but I will
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tell you that He is encouraged by our faith, friends, and we
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need to have faith. We need to increase our faith.
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We need to operate in that currency.
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We do not need to trust in our riches.
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We do not need to trust in our youth.
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We do not need to trust in our abilities.
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We need to increase our faith, Friends.
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Knock on the door and knock some more and keep knocking until
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God, God answers, until Jesus moves mightily.
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Increase your faith today. It is our faith that moves the
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heart of God, friends. It's not our works so that
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anyone should boast. 6 And he marveled because of their
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unbelief. And he went around about the
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villages teaching. So here again Mark is
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highlighting all the things that Jesus did.
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This is being told through Peter.
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Peter was a man of action. Look at how he told our Lord.
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He said, I, I will not allow you to go to death.
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And he told him to get behind me, Satan.
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And here you can see that Peter was highlighting all of the
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actions of Jesus Christ less about the teachings.
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And you can see it here that he was teaching during this time.
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And Jesus marvelled at the unbelief.
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He marvelled at Israel's unbelief, He marveled at the
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Jews unbelief. They had been visited upon many
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times, and they still had their unbelief.
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And then you go and look at the Syrophoenician woman, You go and
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look at the centurion. He marveled at their faith.
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Friends. So what is what is he marvel at
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in your life, friends? Is it your unbelief because you
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ought to know, or is it because of the faith that you possess?
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Friends? 7 And he called unto him the 12
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and began to send them forth two by two, and gave them power over
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unclean spirits. We know that Jesus here is
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giving them the apostles, his messengers here He's giving them
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full authority over the demonic realm, over all of sickness and
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disease friends. 8 and commanded them that they should take
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nothing for their journey, save a staff only.
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No script, no bread, no money in their purse.
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Verse 8 has been highlighted by people who are hostile towards
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the word of God and verse 8, a lot of people try to take this
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verse and make people think that this word is not infallible or
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inerrant. They try to call this little
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passage into the light to say, hey, you're, you have blind
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faith. Hey, you are following after a
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lie. Man wrote that.
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And I want you to know that far be it from us to ever think that
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the word of God has made an error or has any kind of
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scriptural fault in it. I want you to know, Friends,
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that this is proven to be true, that they were not supposed to
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go and buy anything. They were to be in a hurry and
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if they had a staff to take it with them, but they are told not
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to go and buy any extra anything.
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It's very simple, friends. Verse 9 But be shod with
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sandals, not put on 2 coats. So go, go, go, go, go is the
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mission France 10 And he said unto them, In what place so ever
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you enter into a house, there abide until you depart from that
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place. 11 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you,
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when you depart there, shake off the dust under your feet for a
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testimony against them. Truly, I say unto you, shall be
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more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgement
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than for that city. So he's showing us that there
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are degrees of punishment in hell, friends.
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And he's saying here that you can see that they are to shake
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the even the dust. They are to take nothing from
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that city but to shake the dust off of it.
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And this they were to go into the Jewish cities. 1st And this
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is what he is prescribing here. These people ought to know
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better. They ought to know that their
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Messiah was in their midst. And what did they do?
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They missed it. And there were miracles that
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were being wrought by the Lord and by His apostles.
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And it wasn't enough the teachings of Jesus Christ, it
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wasn't enough. They wanted their Playhouse.
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They wanted to keep business as usual.
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They love the greed, they love the power, and they love to
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manipulate people using God. And they were waiting on a
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Liberator. They were waiting on a political
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usurper who would come in and take over that land.
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And they had missed and murdered their Messiah.
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But they will come back to, to them, friends, just know that
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the Jews are still God's chosen people.
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And the entire, the entire point of the tribulation, friends, is
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to bring the Jews back into the fold of admitting that they
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murdered their Messiah and admitting that they need him and
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admitting that Jesus is Lord. 12 And they went out and they
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preached that men should repent. It's the same message of John
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the Baptist, the same message of Jesus Christ, the same message
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of the apostles. It's the same message that we
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need today and our day and our, our friends, is repent.
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Turn from your wicked ways and be healed.
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Friends, we need to have the renewing of our minds.
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We need the washing of our minds with the word of God.
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We need to know that we know that.
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We know that when we die, we're going to bust heaven wide open.
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Friends, repent and turn from all of your evil, wicked ways.
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Get rid of all the chains and the snares.
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Get rid of all of the things that are entangling you,
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friends, and walk in obedience. Walk in the freedom that Jesus
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Christ wrought for you on the cross. 13 and they cast out many
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devils and anointed with oil, many that were sick and healed
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them. Praise the Lord Jesus Christ,
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you can see the power flowing through these apostles and the
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same power is available to you today.
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This was not just for a very select group here.
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This is available to you and to me through the name of Jesus
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Christ. Through the blood of Jesus
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Christ we enter into the throne room boldly, and whatsoever you
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ask for in His name, and do not doubt it shall be given unto
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you, friends. And that is not some
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prescription that if things don't actually move and that if
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things are still in the same manner as before you prayed, we
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should not get discouraged, friends.
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We need to be obedient. We need to keep praying through
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those things, keep knocking at the door.
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Don't get discouraged when you pray and you pray and you pray
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and you don't see anything. Be like that widow who would not
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leave the unrighteous judge alone, but kept pressing him
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until finally he gave her a good judgement.
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Be like the neighbor who won't let the other neighbors sleep
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until he wakes up and gives them a loaf of bread.
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We need to be like that, friends.
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Don't give up. Don't be discouraged, don't get
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offended at Jesus. When you pray and you truly
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believe and you call on that name and you have the faith the
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size of a mustard seed, you have great faith.
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It's not about the size of your faith, friends.
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It's about who your faith has is placed in.
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And as long as our faith is placed in Jesus Christ, we will
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never be disappointed. Sometimes the Lord leaves people
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in those infirmities for more or glory because he knows that he
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can do it, but he knows that he needs to leave them in that
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friends so that he will get the most amount of glory in his ways
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or not our ways. And that's not some cop out
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theology. We can't just wrap our theology
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around things that make us feel comfortable.
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We need to get into the word of God.
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We need to understand the mind of Christ.
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We need to know that he can, but sometimes he doesn't, and we
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have to be OK with that and not be offended by it. 14 And King
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Herod heard of him, for his name was spread abroad, and he said
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that John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore
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mighty works do show forth themselves in him.
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So here's the guilty conscience of Herod, who was not a king.
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He wanted that title, but he was never given it.
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In all Herodias she would press him to get that title, but he
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was no king, he was a coward. 15 Others said that is, that it is
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Elijah, and others said that it is a prophet, or as one of the
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prophets. 16 But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is
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John whom I beheaded. He is risen from the dead.
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So here we're going to get the account of what happened.
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Mark's going to tell us that Herod is scared because he has
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believed John the Baptist to come back from the dead.
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He had beheaded him. Let's see what he has to say. 17
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For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John and
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bound him in prison for Herodias's sake, his brother
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Philip's wife, for he had married her.
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So here you can see that Herod had stolen his brother's wife
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and they were in a licentious relationship together that was
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not warranted by God Almighty. He's the one that instituted
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marriage and he did not honor this marriage.
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As far as God was concerned, Herodias was still married to
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Herod's brother. And so John the Baptist being
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the good godly man that he was, what did he do?
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He called him out. He did not care about his
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position as being the leader over the Jews.
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He called him out for his sin. And we need to be like that.
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We need to be no respecter of man, no matter what position
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that they're in, whether they're in the highest level or whether
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they're the richest person we know or whether they're the
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poorest person or they're just the janitor in the garbage
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collector. God is no respecter of man.
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What does he do? He looks at the heart of man.
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What does he do? He sees our motives.
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He sees our intense. He does not care about that suit
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and tie. Friends. 18 For John had said
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unto Herod, It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.
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19 Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him and would
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have killed him, but she could not, because they feared the
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masses. They feared all the people there
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in the land who would revolt, and they did not want to have a
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revolt on their hands for killing a godly man.
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But she was, she was thinking about these things of how she
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could have him put to death in a subtle way.
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It was premeditated, and it's disgusting. 20 For Herod feared
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John, knowing that he was a just man and holy, and observed him.
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And when he heard him, he did many things and heard him
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gladly. So Herod, he loved to listen to
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John, but it did not affect his heart.
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It did not affect him in a way to give.
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His life over to God Almighty. He did not repent, he was not
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baptized. He was still stuck in his sinful
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behavior. He chose Herodias over God,
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Friends, he he heard John the Baptist gladly, but it did not
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have any effect on him. 21 And when a convenient day was come,
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that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his Lords, high
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captains, and the chief of states of Galilee. 22 And when
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the daughter of said Herodias came in and danced, and pleased
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Herod, and them that sat with him, the king said unto the
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damsel, Ask of me whatsoever you will, and I will give it to you.
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Well, you can only imagine what this little verse even
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encapsulates, but it would do us well to know that this was
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disgusting and it was meant to provoke old Herod.
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And Herodias knew her husband's propensities and she knew that
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this would please him and that he would be given over to saying
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some very loose things. So Herodias, in her
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premeditation she knows that she has a daughter that can provoke
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her husband into giving this damsel up to half of his
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Kingdom. How despicable. 23 And he swore
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unto her, Whatsoever she shall ask of me, I will give it to you
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unto up to half of my Kingdom. 24 And she went forth and said
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unto her mother, What shall I ask?
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And she said The head of John the Baptist, this is
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premeditated murder, friends. Herodias was so incredibly upset
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against John the Baptist coming and trying to get her husband to
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see the error of his ways. And she was so stuck in her
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sinful life that she was even willing to murder, not just to
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rest a godly holy man, but to murder him.
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And it reveals the hearts of mankind.
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When we are stuck in our sinful patterns, we will do anything to
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clear our consciences. And there is nothing that could
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ever give us peace apart from God.
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We can try money, we can try position, we can try all of the
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extramarital affairs, we could try all the things that people
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get caught up in, but there is no peace outside of God
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Almighty. It is only by the blood of Jesus
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Christ that we can find peace with God.
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And Herod was close to that, but Herodias would not allow it.
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It's very similar to the Jezebel spirit that you saw back in the
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Old Testament. 25 And she came in straightway with haste unto
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the king, and asked, saying, I will that you give me by and by
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in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
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This little girl, she says Right now I want John the Baptist head
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on a platter, and you can see the mother putting her up to
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this. Perhaps the damsel thought that
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she would get something for herself, but because of the
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wickedness of the mother, here we are in this conjecture where
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John the Baptist will be beheaded for no fault of his
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own. Just speaking the truth.
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Don't be surprised whenever you are persecuted for doing the
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right thing, friends, but great is your reward in heaven.
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Praise God. 26 And the king was exceeding sorry, yet for his
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oath's sake, and for the sakes which sat with him, he would not
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reject her. So he had a fear of man.
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And that is such a word for us, not to fear man, but to fear
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God, and everything else bows. 27 Immediately the king sent an
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executioner and commanded his head to be brought, and he went
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and beheaded him in the prison. 28 And brought his head in a
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charger, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it
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to her mother. 29 And when his disciples heard of it, they came
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and took up his corpse and laid it in a tomb.
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So here you can see all of this culminating ministry of John the
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Baptist all coming to a close because he called out Herod and
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he was persecuted for telling the truth. 30 And the apostles
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gathered themselves together unto Jesus and told him all
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things, both what they had done and what they had taught.
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So right before this, in verse 29, this is a memoir where Peter
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through Mark reaches back to tell us the back story of what
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happened to John the Baptist. But then we skip ahead here.
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And the disciples who were sent out, they're coming back to
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Jesus, and they're telling Jesus of all the things that they had
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done. 31 And he said unto them, Come you yourselves apart into a
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desert place, and rest a while over.
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There were many coming and going, and they had no leisure
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so much as to eat. So the people were pressing in
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on him. The people were pressing in on
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the disciples. They had just come back from
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their mission of healing people and casting out demons, and they
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were telling Jesus of everything.
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And the people were still pressing in.
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And what did Jesus say? Jesus said come you yourselves
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apart. So he's telling them to rest and
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he's telling us to rest and we need to take at least one day a
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week and do absolutely nothing. Friends, we can take a lot of
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solace in living one day in a horizontal position.
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Just rest. Try to turn all of the things in
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your mind off and give yourself permission to sharpen the saw.
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And Jesus here is giving us permission.
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He's giving his disciples, his apostles.
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He's giving them the permission to come apart.
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If you don't come apart, you will come apart. 32 And they
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departed into a desert place by ship privately.
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So here one of his favorite tactics to leave the crowd was
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to hop into a boat and to get away. 33 And the people saw them
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departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot there out of all
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the cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.
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So these people were not willing to allow the disciples and our
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Lord to have a chance to rest. And don't be surprised if it's
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no different in your life and in your house and at your
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workplace. Whenever you try to rest, you
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get inundated and bombarded with emails.
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You get inundated and bombarded with requests.
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We need to make sure that we throw our cell phone as far as
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the East is from the West. Whenever we rest, friends, we
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need to get away and to unplug. And don't be at everybody's
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beckoning call. Give yourself permission to
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rest, friends. Get away, whatever that looks
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like. 34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and he was
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moved with compassion toward them, because they were a sheep,
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not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many
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things. So here you can see that Jesus
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is moved with compassion, and he invites us into the same thing.
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And there's such a point of tension here between come apart
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and then being moved with compassion, even on your day
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off, even on your rest day, even on your Sabbath.
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Being moved with compassion and choosing the better thing.
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Not being a Martha, but being a Mary, but knowing that the Marys
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in this world need the Marthas. Praise God.
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There's such a point of tension here, friends, and we need to
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wrestle through those things to choose which one the Lord is
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leading us in in that moment. And it is by being in tune with
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Him that we can know that we're making the right decision and
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that we're not burning out, friends, and we're not going to
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become calloused and bitter towards people, but having
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compassion on them. They can only come from the
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heart of God. 35 And when the day was now far spent, his
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disciples came unto him and said, This is a desert place,
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and now the time is far past. 36 Send them away, that they may go
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into the country roundabout and into the villages, and buy
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themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat. 37 He answered
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and said unto them, Give you them to eat, And they say unto
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him, Shall we go and buy 200 penny worth of bread, and give
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them to eat? 38 And he said unto them, How
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many loaves do you have? Go and see.
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And when they knew, they said, five and two fishes.
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So here what a what a wonderful passage here.
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We know it very well. I pray that you can see how
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Jesus has moved with compassion for the crowds.
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You can see that there was such a multitude that had met him
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that there, and he was teaching them all day.
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And the disciples were looking through the lens of a literal
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sense. And Jesus can do anything.
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And we need to know that. We need to believe that.
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We need to hold on to that. We need to know that little in
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the much, little in the hand of God is much.
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We need to know that all he asked for is the little bit that
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you have. All he asked for is all that you
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have to live on, and he can take it and multiply it and give it
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out liberally where there is plenty leftover.
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And it is such a principle of the Kingdom of God.
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And if we are only looking through the lens of how this
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world operates, we're going to miss it 10 times out of 10.
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Friends, give them something to eat.
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Don't worry about what you're going to live on. 39 And he
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commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green
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grass. 40 And they sat down in ranks by hundreds, and by 50s.
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41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes,
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he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves,
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and gave them to his disciples to set before them.
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And the two fishes divided he among them all.
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Look at how Jesus here, he can take a little lunch of not much
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substance and feed thousands upon thousands upon thousands
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upon thousands. And it's no different in our
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day, in our hour. These miracles weren't just for
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this time, friends, but it is our faith that hinders us in
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seeing these miraculous moments. It is when we're only counting
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the beans, whenever we're only sitting around trying to figure
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out how we're going to do something, that we missed the
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mark. It is by getting out there.
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It is by showing up. It is by not giving up.
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It is by looking at the resources that you already have
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that God is going to use it and He's going to bless it and
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you're going to see mighty miracles in your lifetime.
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Friends 42 And they did all eat and were filled.
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It wasn't just something to fill the void, this was them being
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completely full. They were filled 43 and they
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took up 12 baskets full of the fragments and of the fishes. 44
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and they that did eat of the loaves were about 5000 men.
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Praise the Lord God, Hallelujah, we love you.
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Lord Jesus, you can see that these 12 basketballs were
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gathered. There was no waste.
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God doesn't waste anything, friends, when He miraculously
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provides there. With that provision comes a
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responsibility on our side. We need to make sure that the
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little bit that He's entrusted us with, we're actually taking
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care of. We're actually using it to honor
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Him. We cannot just pray for more or
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for better when we're not even taking care of the little bit
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that He's entrusted us with. Friends. 45 inch straightway He
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constrained his disciples to get into the ship and to go to the
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other side before unto Bethsaida.
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While He sent away the people, He lovingly dispersed them.
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He told his disciples to get into the boat to go to the other
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side. Jesus hung back.
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He lovingly dispersed them to go back home, 46 and when he had
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sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray praise God.
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Hallelujah. He was spent, but he was still
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full of God Almighty. He went to convene with God
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Almighty. He went to converse with God
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Almighty. He went to be filled with the
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Holy Spirit, to be filled with God.
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Even though he is God and he is Holy Spirit.
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He is 3 and 1. And we see it in bodily form
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here. You cannot even look upon God
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Almighty without dying. He's brighter than all the
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billion Suns and we cannot even look upon him because he is
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Spirit and He dwells in light. And here we can look upon Jesus.
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Look upon Jesus, friends today and see God, see Holy Spirit in
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Jesus Christ. And here he's going up on the
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mountain to pray, to convene with Father, to convene with the
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Holy Ghost, and to be recharged and refueled for the journey.
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And we would do well to model that in our lives, friends.
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Get a way to go, and to find a solitude place to go, and find a
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place to pray alone to the Father. 47 And when evening had
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come, the ship was in the middle of the sea, and he alone on the
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land. 48 And he saw them toiling and rowing, for the wind was
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contrary unto them. And about the fourth watch of
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the night he came unto them walking upon the sea, and would
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have passed by them. We need to stop and we need to
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meditate upon what the Word of God is trying to teach us here.
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It looked as if Jesus would just pass them by.
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They all thought that this was a ghost and then Jesus speaks up
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and he tells them do not be afraid of his eye.
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We know that Peter here. He's going to ask to get out of
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the boat, but because Peter is or rating this to John Mark, he
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leaves it out. Perhaps it was a story that he
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wasn't too fond of because he sunk when he took his eyes off
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of Jesus. But it is a word for us that if
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we're not careful, the Lord will pass us by whenever we are in
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our self pity, wallowing in all of our woes and cares.
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It is a word for us to know that we must watch and we must be
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prepared and not be like the foolish virgins who fell asleep.
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We need to make sure that we are looking for our day of
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redemption, looking for our Saviour.
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He is the groom coming back for His bride, and we would do well
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to adorn and prepare ourselves, and wait well until He comes.
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Don't miss him. 49 But when they saw him walking on the sea, and
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supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out, 50 For they all
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saw him, and were troubled, and immediately he talked with them,
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and said unto them, Be of good cheer.
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It is I be not afraid. What a word from Jesus Christ
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telling us to be of good cheer, telling us not to be afraid.
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He beckons us out on the water. Friends, we got to get out of
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the boat. We can't be so incredibly
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worldly that we miss the spirituality happening all
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around us. We can be blinded by greed.
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We can be blinded by anger. We can be blinded by a sinful
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lifestyle. We can be blinded and be like
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those foolish virgins who sure look the part.
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But they had missed the mark. 51 And he went up unto them into
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the ship, and the wind ceased, and they were sore amazed in
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themselves beyond measure, and wondered. 52 For they considered
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not the miracle of the loaves, for their heart was hardened.
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The Bible cannot make it any more plain, Friends of why they
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had missed it. Their hearts were hardened.
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Is your heart hardened today, friends?
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Break up the fallow ground. Let the word of God come in and
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fall on fertile soil and produce fruit in your life.
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Do not just approach God from a academic.
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Approach We need to increase our faith friends.
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It is faith that pleases God. It is the currency that you and
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I operate out of. It's faith, friends, we would do
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very well to stiff arm all of our senses that try to lie to
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us, the emotions and all of the ways the world operates.
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And we need to get alone with the Father, lock eyes with
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Jesus, and we need to increase our faith and walk on the water.
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Friends. 53 And when they had passed over, they came into the
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land of Geneser and drew to the shore.
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This was a miracle in itself, that they were only in the
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middle of the water and then immediately on the other side.
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This is an entire chapter of miracles after miracles.
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And Mark wants us to see all the things that Jesus did.
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And he was speaking to the Gentiles.
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And the Gentiles were less preoccupied with all of the
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Jewish literature and they more wanted to see if this Jesus that
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they had heard about, if this Jesus that walked in their midst
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was worth following. And Mark wanted them to know,
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yes, He is your everything and He is for you.
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And He is not only for the Jews, but he's for the Gentiles.
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Praise God, Hallelujah, you and I are in the fold, friends. 54
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And when they were come out of the ship straightway, they knew
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him. 55 and ran through that whole region roundabout, and
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began to carry about embeds those that were sick where they
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heard he was. We'll end on 56.
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And wheresoever He entered into the villages or cities or
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country, they laid the sick in the streets and besought him
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that they might touch if it were but of the border of His
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garment. And as many as touched Him were
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made whole. Reach out today and grab the hem
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of His garment and be healed today.
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Friends, His healing power is available to you today.
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Reach out today and grab ahold of it.
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Empty yourself of yourself, empty yourself of all your
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preconceived ideas and notions of how Jesus is to behave and to
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be a moral teacher. And reach out and understand
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that He is God. He is the great I am.
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He is our everything, and He can do anything that He pleases.
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And I pray to God that you've caught that.
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I pray that as you read this, you see that it's just the hem
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of His garment that can make us whole.
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He can heal from a distance. He can heal with the touch.
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He can heal with mud and spit in your eyes.
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He can heal with just the touch of his garment.
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Jesus is limitless, and all the ways that he heals and what he
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does and this whole world and this whole life and this whole
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history and everything that was and everything that is and
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everything that is to come all point to Jesus Christ.
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He is Lord, we are the bride, and he is the groom.
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Make sure you're ready to meet him today.
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He comes like a thief in the night.
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Praise God, we love you. Lord Jesus, I hope you've been
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blessed by this chapter here, Mark.
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I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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of you. I love you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.