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Luke chapter 16 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Luke chapter 16. Let us pray.
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  Oh Heavenly Father, here we are again.
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  We come to serve you and to love you, Lord.
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  We come to love on you and be loved by you.
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  Thank you Jesus for another day. Thank you Jesus for waking us up
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  and putting us on our feet. Thank you Jesus for life and
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  life abundantly. Thank you Jesus for the promise
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  of eternity. Thank you God, I pray that
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  you'll wreck us with your love today.
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  God, I pray that you will be glorified in the highest Holy
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  Spirit. Teach us.
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  I decrease as you increase. It's all about you, King Jesus,
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  and we love you, and it's in your holy and precious name that
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  I pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. And he said also unto his
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  disciples, there was a certain rich man which had a steward,
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  and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his
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  goods. So here it is, Jesus turning to
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  his disciples, and he wants to teach them a very valuable
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  lesson, friends, and he wants to teach us the same lesson today
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  too. And he called him and said unto
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  him, How is it that I hear this of you?
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  Give an account of your stewardship, for you may be no
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  longer steward. So this was the manager, and he
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  was in charge of his master's wealth, and he had squandered
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  it, and it had came to the master's ears and he called him
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  into account. And we will all give an account
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  for the life that we have lived and for the things that we have
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  done. And there will be a judgment for
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  the righteous. And then there will be the Great
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  White Throne, where every single person will have to give an
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  account for the life that they have lived.
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  And all that we need to know is that we served Christ and that
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  we are covered in his blood and that we plead the blood of Jesus
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  Christ. And if you will come into the
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  fold, the Father will say, well done, good and faithful
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  servants. And we need to make sure that we
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  are stewarding this little lifetime that he's given us.
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  And we are completely sold out to the King of kings and the
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  Lord of Lords. And we're not making this life
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  all about sin and self and pleasure, friends.
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  It's all about King Jesus. And he might call you into the
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  unreached people groups. He might call you into the
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  business world, but either way, you need to be his and his alone
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  and you need to be found stewarding the blessings that
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  he's given you. And your life is a blessing.
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  It's not just about the material, it's not just about
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  wealth, it's not just about money, friends.
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  It's the talents that he's given you.
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  It is the time that you have left is also what we need to be
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  stewarding well, and we will have to give an account for
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  three. And then the steward said within
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  himself, what shall I do? For my Lord takes away from me
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  the stewardship. I cannot dig and to beg.
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  I'm ashamed. You know, this poor manager, he
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  didn't want to have to do manual labor and he didn't want to have
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  to beg. So here he's going to be very
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  shrewd before I am resolved what to do that when I am put out of
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  the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
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  So here this is Jesus telling us how we should behave and he's
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  not condoning the mismanagement of the appropriation of funds.
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  He's not condoning it, friends. He's telling us that we need to
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  be very shrewd with how we navigate through this world and
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  through this life, and we need to make sure that we're
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  connected to the Vine. And he's going to show us that
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  when we are in tune with him, sometimes he will call us to do
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  things that other people might not understand. 5 So he called
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  every one of his Lords debtors unto him, and said unto the
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  first, How much do you owe, my Lord?
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  6 And he said, 100 measures of oil.
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  And he said unto him, Take your bill, Sit down quickly and write
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  50 seven. Then he said to another, How
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  much do you owe? And he said, 100 measures of
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  wheat. And he said unto him, Take your
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  bill and write 4 score. And the Lord commended the
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  unjust steward because he had done wisely.
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  For the children of this world are in their generation wiser
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  than the children of light. And this calls for wisdom.
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  Friends, the Lord calls us to be shrewd managers of all of the
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  resources that He has entrusted to us for this very day.
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  And you remember the widow's mite.
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  You remember that she had given up everything to live on.
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  And God calls us into a plan that we must rely on Him and Him
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  alone. He calls us on a wild adventure
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  of trust. And that is the key to this
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  verse, is that we must trust Him more than we trust our own
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  abilities. We must trust Him more than what
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  the world tells us. We have to get to a place with
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  the Lord Jesus Christ that He is enough and that everything that
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  we have is seen through the lens of a gift from the Father, even
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  our very next breath, even our very heartbeat in our chest.
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  And if you have the one, if you just have a dollar, if you have
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  $1.00 in your bank account, the Lord desires for you to use that
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  for Him. Not for sin and not for self
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  friends, but to honor Him with every single resource that you
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  have. And if you are faithful with a
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  little, you'll be faithful with much.
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  And we have to be wise and shrewd friends.
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  He says that he's sending us out like sheep among wolves.
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  Be as gentle as doves, and to be as wise as serpents. 9 And I say
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  unto you, Make to yourselves, friends of the mammon of
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  unrighteousness, that when you fail, you may, they may receive
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  you into everlasting habitations.
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  So there are many that are going to enter into heaven as if they
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  escaped out of a fire. And just remember that all the
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  things that we do down here are going to matter for eternity.
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  Once you give your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  He is taking into account for the rewards that you will
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  receive. And there are many in this
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  lifetime who are suffering but will be rewarded greatly in
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  eternity. And praise God, Hallelujah that
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  the first shall be last and the last shall be first.
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  And it's an upside down, inside out kind of Kingdom.
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  And I pray to the Lord that as we are kicking our can down the
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  road, that they will invite us into their heavenly abode, into
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  their mansions, that the Lord said He was going to prepare a
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  place for us. And in our Father's house there
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  are many mansions. And I pray that we are invited
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  into those places at this time. Tan And he that is faithful in
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  that which is least is faithful also in much.
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  And he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in the
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  much. So we can see here that God's
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  not going to continue to lavish upon us the blessings if we're
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  not even stewarding the little bit that he's given us already.
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  We need to steward the Be faithful with little friends.
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  Be faithful with your mammon, be faithful with it and watch how
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  he increases it. Watch how he increases the
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  dominion that you have over this earth. 11 If, therefore, you
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  have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will
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  commit to your trust the true riches.
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  So the most delicate thing that we will ever handle in this
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  lifetime is another person's destination whenever we are
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  presenting the gospel to them, friends.
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  But if our witness is skewed because we are not living the
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  right way and we are not stewarding the resources that
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  God has given us, well then no one's going to listen to us.
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  Our witness is completely demolished and that is a tactic
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  of the enemy. He cannot snatch you out of the
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  Lord's hand, but he sure can get you to make a mess out of your
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  witness. And we need to make sure that we
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  are living the right way so that we have a voice over this wicked
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  and perverse generation, and we can lead many into the righteous
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  path, the straight gate. 12 And if you have not been faithful in
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  that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is
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  your own. So he's saying that we must be
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  faithful even if it's not our own.
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  And God's not going to give us dominion over much if we can't
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  even steward other people's wealth correctly. 13 No servant
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  can serve 2 masters, for either he will hate the one and love
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  the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the
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  other. You cannot serve God and Mammon.
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  There is no possible way that you can have one foot on the
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  boat and 1 foot in the water. You're either going to be
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  completely sold out to God or you're going to be completely
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  sold out to money. You cannot serve one or the
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  other. If you love God, you're going to
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  hate money, friends, you're going to hate it because it
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  divides people. And we need to know that if we
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  find ourselves in a situation where we have much, it is so
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  that we can be a blessing to others.
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  It's very simple. 14 And the Pharisees also, who were
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  covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.
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  So it was a thought process in the land of this day that if you
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  were wealthy, it was because God was pleased with you.
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  And so these Pharisees, they thought that wealth was proof
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  that God was all in their lives. And here Jesus flips the script,
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  and he's good at turning the tables over and driving out the
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  money changers. 15 And he said unto them, You are they which
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  justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts.
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  For that which is highly esteemed among men is abominate
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  abomination in the sight of God. So we can see here that God
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  doesn't look at it the way that we do.
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  We think that because somebody is thriving in this life, it
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  shows that God's in it. But God sees that they are
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  ravenous wolves. They're just suit and ties and
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  they care nothing for the little flock.
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  And God sees it, and it's an abomination. 16 The law and the
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  prophets were until John. Since that time the Kingdom of
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  God is preached, and every man presses into it.
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  We know that we must take the Kingdom of God by violence and
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  press into it. Friends, we cannot just sit on
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  the sidelines. We cannot just sit on our
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  blessed assurance. We must.
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  We must get into the game, friends.
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  We must keep pressing towards the heavenly goal.
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  If you woke up this morning, God's not done with you.
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  If you have breath in your lungs, God's not done with you.
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  Let's get in the game. Let's take the Kingdom by force.
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  Friends, we can see here that everything changed after John
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  the Baptist. That the least in the Kingdom of
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  God is more than John and all the prophets before.
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  Because we house the Holy Spirit, we actually have God
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  Almighty living inside of us. And then he says in 17, It is
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  easier for heaven and earth to pass than one title of the law
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  to fail. Heaven and earth shall pass
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  away, but not one of these words, not one jot, not one
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  title. They stand the test of time.
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  They are never going to go away. You cannot dispute and discredit
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  the word of God. It is here to stay.
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  It is infallible and inerrant 18.
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  Whoever puts away his wife and marries another commits
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  adultery, and whosoever marries her, that is put away from her
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  husband commits adultery. And Jesus here is showing us
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  that unless there is infidelity, unless your spouse cheats on
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  you, then God does not consider you unmarried, even though you
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  might get an unrighteous judge to give you that certificate. 19
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  There was a certain man who was clothed in purple and fine linen
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  and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar
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  named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores. 21 He
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  desired to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich
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  man's table. Moreover, the dogs came and
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  licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass that the beggar died and
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  was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.
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  And the rich man also died and was buried. 23 And in hell he
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  lifted up, his eyes, being in torment, and he saw Abraham afar
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  off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried, and said,
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  Father Abraham, have mercy on me, send Lazarus, that he may
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  dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I
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  am in torment in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember
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  that you and your lifetime received you good things, and
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  likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted and you
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  are tormented. So we can see here that prior to
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  the cross of Christ, this Abraham's bosom, this was a
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  place where the patriarchs and all the righteous were there in
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  Abraham's bosom. We can also see that there is a
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  place where all the unrighteous went.
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  And during this time, prior to the cross of Christ, there was a
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  great chasm between them. And then we know that Jesus,
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  when he died on Silent Saturday, he went down to hell and he
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  preached to the spirits there. And we know that he led a great
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  procession out, and he closed that part of Abraham's bosom.
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  And now whenever the righteous died, just like the thief on the
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  cross, they are with him in paradise, as Paul tells us that
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  he was caught up to the 3rd heaven and experienced things
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  that no man was allowed to talk talk about this paradise.
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  And we know that when we are absent from the body, we are
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  present with the Lord, praise God, Hallelujah.
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  But those who never put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  this is where they go. They go to the place of torment,
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  friends, where there is fire and they are thirsty, and you can
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  see that there is torment there. And we can see that there are
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  many here on this earth that are living sumptuously, and they're
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  having their grand time now. But they will be ascribed to
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  hell. They will be ascribed to
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  torment, friends. But we know that when we die, we
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  are with him in paradise. One second after you die,
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  friends, you will regret not putting your faith in the Lord
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  Jesus Christ. And for those of us who have,
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  the second that we die, we will be in His presence, and we will
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  experience joy and joy and joy abounding, and it will be
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  paradise. 26 And besides all this, between US and you,
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  there's a great gulf fixed, so that they which would pass from
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  you from here to you cannot, neither can they pass to us that
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  would come from there. So we can see there is no
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  purgatory, friends. There's no spiritual
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  progression, friends. There's no reincarnation
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  friends. There is only two choices.
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  There's heaven and there's hell. There's not 1/3 option friends.
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  And the thing that marks the clear definitive decision of
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  where you go is, are you just dunked in water?
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  Are you washed in the blood? Are you just going through the
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  religious, dogmatic approach of ceremony, or are you actually
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  connected to the vine and bearing much fruit?
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  He knows who belongs to him. We cannot stand there and say,
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  Lord, Lord. 27 Then he said, I pray you therefore, father, that
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  you would send him to my father's house. 28 For I have 5
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  brothers, that they may testify unto them, unless they also come
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  into this place of torment. 29 Abraham said unto him, They have
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  Moses the prophets, let them hear them. 30 And he said, No,
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  father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they
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  would repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they would not hear
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  Moses and the prophets, neither will they be.
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  Persuaded though, 1 rose from the dead, and Jesus rose from
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  the dead, friends. And we are here 2000 years
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  removed from that and people are still denying God and denying
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  Christ and they are still sending themselves to hell.
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  And that is what Jesus is referencing here.
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  And he's showing this rich man that just because he was a child
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  of Abraham did not mean that he didn't have to go to hell.
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  And just because we're good people doesn't mean that we
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  don't go to hell. We send ourselves there.
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  And it's only by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  He is the way, the truth, and the life.
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  And no one comes unto the Father except through him.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here.
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  What a a deep dive we could do on this.
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  We could spend a lifetime uncovering all the truths of
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  what Jesus revealed to us of the afterlife, but suffice to say,
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  He is enough. I'm praying for you, love you,
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  and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.