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Mark chapter 1 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Mark chapter one, let us pray. Heavenly Father, we love you.
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  We love you so much. We love you, Father, for all the
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  many things that you've already done for us, for waking us up.
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  God, we thank you for the cross of Christ, but we thank you for
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  the church, or we thank you God that the gates of hell will
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  never prevail against the church.
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  Lord, we thank you for this Holy Scripture that we hold in our
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  hands. Lord, we thank you that we can
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  know you and come to be known by you.
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  God, we just ask that you help us to enter in to the throne
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  room of grace. God, enter in to the holiest of
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  holy places, God, to dine and to Sup with you Father.
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  We want more of you, Father. God, we have tasted and we have
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  seen and Lord, we want more, God.
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  We want to know you more, Lord. We want to be known by you more,
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  Father. We want a greater measure, God,
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  a greater measure of your love, a greater measure of your
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  understanding, a greater measure, Father.
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  We desire you more than anything, God.
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  We desire to be in you God, and you in US, Lord.
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  We want to be where you are. God Almighty, we thank you for
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  the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for the sacrifice.
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  We thank you for grace and grace abounding.
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  We thank you that you have given us a life worth living, that you
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  have given us our purpose. You have given us our worth,
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  that you have given us our dignity.
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  Thank you, God, for rescuing us out of the fire.
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  Thank you, God, for refining us in the fire.
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  Thank you, God, that you have rescued us out of the tumultuous
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  sea. God, thank you for calming the
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  waves. Thank you for calming, Lord, all
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  of the storms in our lives. Lord, thank you that you have
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  snatched us out of the water, Father, and you have put us on
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  dry land, God, and you have given us our purpose and given
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  us our families and given us our health and given us our
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  cognition. Lord, you've given us our very
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  next breath. And so, Lord, we worship you
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  today in spirit and truth. We worship you today, God,
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  because you are good and we love you and we love you so much.
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  We love everything about you. God, We are so thankful.
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  We enter into your gates with praise and Thanksgiving.
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  We come boldly to the throne room of grace.
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  We say yes, gird up our loins. Let us stand in your presence
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  today. God, we come to you as friends.
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  Lord, we come to you as those who want to do your work.
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  We are obedient out of the love that we have for you.
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  We have seen your face, Lord. We have seen your hair, Lord.
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  We have seen your eyes, Lord. We have caught a glimpse of you.
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  We have seen your glory, God, and we desire more.
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  So we're coming here today, Father, to learn about you.
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  Not just to learn about you, but to obey the scriptures.
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  God. Mark us with your grace.
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  Mark us with your glory. Mark us with your love.
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  Mark us God, as servants of you, the Most High God, As we see
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  you, we see you rightly. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Holy Spirit, teach us. I decrease as you increase.
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  Holy Spirit, you come in, You be the teacher, you be the guide.
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  Yes, hide me and hide my words, and let us hide your words in
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  our hearts so that we might not sin against you.
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  We love you, King Jesus. It's in your holy and precious
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  name that we pray. Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one, the beginning of the gospel of Jesus
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  Christ, the Son of God. Well, here we are, the gospel of
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  Mark. Who is this Mark character?
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  Well, a lot of scholars believe that this is Peter recounting
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  all of his adventures with Jesus to John Mark.
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  And he is mentioned in Luke, He is mentioned in Acts and you can
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  see that he was a son of one of the Marys who followed Jesus
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  around. Perhaps he was just a youth
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  whenever Jesus was alive before he ascended to the right hand of
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  the Father. And here old Ruff Peter, perhaps
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  a fisherman who wasn't very good with a pen.
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  At this time he is recounting all of his wild tales to old
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  John Mark, and John Mark is pinning them down.
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  Let's see what John Mark wants us to know about Jesus.
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  The good news of Jesus This is Jesus the Son of God too, as it
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  is written in the prophets. Behold, I send my messenger
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  before your face, which shall prepare the way before you.
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  So another thing you need to know is that John Mark is
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  writing to the Romans and he wants to frame Jesus as a
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  servant. This is the branch of the
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  servant. This is the suffering servant.
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  We're going to see a lot of what Jesus did, less of what he said,
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  and more of all the things that he did.
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  And John Mark wants the Romans here who they did not care about
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  all the background of the Jewish nation.
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  And John Mark wants them to know that Jesus fulfilled all of the
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  requirements that show that He is God.
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  And he wanted the Romans to understand that they were
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  worshipping all these false idols and all these false gods.
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  And they need to put their faith and their trust in the only one
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  true living God who came as a little baby and who lived a
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  perfect, sinless life, and who proved His sonship, proved his
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  deity by all of the many, many, many, many, many miracles, so
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  many that there would not be enough books to contain all the
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  things that Jesus did. That's what John tells us at the
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  end of his Gospel, doesn't it? So let's see what old John Mark
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  wants us to know about Jesus. Verse 3 the voice of one crying
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  in the wilderness. Prepare you the way of the Lord,
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  make his paths straight. So we know that John the Baptist
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  came as a forerunner. We know that he was in the
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  spirit of Elijah. We know that he had the leather
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  belt. We know that he was eating wild
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  honey and locusts. We know that he was a wild man,
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  and here Mark is wanting us to know that he came just as it was
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  prophesied and he was preparing the way for the Lord.
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  He was the bulldozer for Jesus Christ.
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  For John did baptize in the wilderness and preach the
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  baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.
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  So here Mark is letting the Romans who would read this know
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  that it is immersion that John the Baptist was known for.
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  He wants the Romans to know that they had to identify themselves
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  with the Jewish nation, that the Gentiles needed to identify
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  themselves. And this is what John the
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  Baptist was telling them is to repent and believe that Jesus
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  Christ is the Lord God and an outward expression of being
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  immersed in water. A public declaration of you
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  saying I follow the Lord Jesus Christ and it's no different for
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  us today, friends. We need to be immersed in water.
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  This idea of sprinkling this would only be for those who are
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  feeble and unable to be immersed.
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  But if we are able, we should be immersed in water, not just
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  sprinkled. And you might take that and
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  counter that with the thief on the cross who was never immersed
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  in water and still was welcomed into paradise.
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  So this is obedience, friends, and if we are able, we should be
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  baptized. That is what Jesus modeled for
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  us, friends. A perfect, sinless man was
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  identified with mankind in his baptism, and that is a model for
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  you and for me. And what happens when you are
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  baptized? You kick the devil in the face
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  and you silence all the accusations of saying that
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  you're not truly saved, saying that you don't really know him
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  and he doesn't truly know you. What happens whenever we
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  rededicate? What happens whenever we break
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  out of our religious stigma that we've been taught our whole
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  lives, and what happens whenever we are baptized is all of those
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  accusations are silenced and it is immediate.
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  Obedience is what God is after, friends.
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  And we obey because of how much love we have for him and the
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  love he has for us. 5 And there went out unto him all the land
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  of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and we're all baptized of him in
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  the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
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  That is repentance is it is a having a change of mind.
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  It is turning away from all of your sinful acts.
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  It is confessing that you are a Sinner in need of a Savior.
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  It is going and doing business with the Lord.
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  It is the emptying of yourself so that you can be filled with
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  the Holy Ghost. You can be filled with the
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  Spirit. And that is the proper way to do
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  it. And there is no perfect little
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  Jingle, little perfect little prayer.
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  There's no aisle that we need to walk or being dunked in some
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  water that saves us, friends. It is the emptying of yourself.
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  It is admitting that you need the Savior.
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  It's admitting that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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  It starts with us realizing that we can't save ourselves.
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  It starts with us realizing that our way is broken and that we've
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  tried everything and nothing is adding up and we desperately
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  need a Savior. That's where it all begins,
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  friends. 6 And John was clothed with camel's hair and with the
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  girdle of skin about his loins, and he did eat locust and wild
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  honey. What a wild man.
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  He had the outward dress, the garb of a prophet with the hairy
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  camel's hair, and he had the leather belt girded around his
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  waist. He's eating the wild honey and
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  locust. He broke the norm.
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  And you're going to find out later that they said he was
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  demon possessed. And then you see the Son of Man
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  coming. You see Jesus and he's drinking
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  wine and he is eating and they call him a glutton and a wine
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  Bibber. So either way, they were not
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  satisfied and they just wanted to do their own thing.
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  They were just wanting to make every excuse of why not to
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  believe in the ministry of John the Baptist or in the ministry
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  of Jesus the Christ. 7 And preach, saying these There come
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  one mightier than I after me, the latch of whose shoes I am
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  not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
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  So part of being a disciple was to serve your teacher, just as a
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  slave would serve their master. But one of the lines in the sand
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  is, they said everything except for unloosing their shoe.
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  And here John the Baptist is saying he's relegating to Jesus
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  Christ superiority over masters and teachers.
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  He's saying that he's not even worthy to untie it.
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  So even though in their tradition that they drew the
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  line at untying the shoe, they drew the line at taking off the
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  sandal, they would not do it for their master.
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  They would not do it for their teacher.
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  And so here he's saying I'm not even worthy to do that.
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  So he's showing here in this little speech, He's showing that
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  Jesus Christ is greater than every teacher, that Jesus Christ
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  is greater than every master. He is the Lord of Lords.
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  AI indeed have baptized you with water.
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  He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.
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  Have you been baptized with the Holy Ghost?
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  Friends, do you have the indwellment of the Holy Spirit
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  living inside of you? Do you have the discernment that
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  comes from housing the Holy Ghost?
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  Do you not know that you are the temple of the Lord?
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  Consecrate the temple. Do not grieve the Spirit.
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  Do not sear your conscience. We need to fan the flame,
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  friends. If you have been indwelled with
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  the Spirit, if you have tasted and you have seen that He is
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  good, and then you have turned back to your vomit, you need to
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  go back to your first love. Ask yourself what were you doing
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  when you were the most in love with Jesus Christ?
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  And go back and do those things. Friends, ask the Lord Jesus
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  Christ to come into your life. Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to
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  give you the Holy Spirit. Ask the Lord Jesus Christ to be
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  the boss of your life, to be the master of your life.
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  And start listening to the still small voice.
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  It will guide you. You need to confess of all the
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  sins that you have committed that have seared the conscience.
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  You need to confess those things to him, repent and turn back to
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  Him and allow Him to minister to you and start obeying that still
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  small voice that speaks to you. Start fanning the flame and
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  watch how the Holy Ghost becomes so prevalent in your life and
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  you move in the authority that God desires for you to have the
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  dominion opinion over all of the feelings and emotions and even
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  the material things in your life.
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  Friend, that is what it looks like to be baptized with the
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  Holy Ghost. 9 And it came to pass in those days that Jesus
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  came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized of John and the
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  Jordan. So here, this was Jesus coming,
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  and he's identifying with us. He's he's modeling what it looks
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  like for us. He's showing us how we need to
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  walk with him. And 10 And straightway coming up
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  out of the water, he saw the heavens open and the Spirit like
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  a dove descending upon him. So here we see the Trinity, God
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  the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost all communing
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  together in one moment. And they're celebrating this
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  launch of Jesus's ministry. 11 And there came a voice from
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  heaven saying, you are my beloved son, in whom I am well
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  pleased. This is the voice of God
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  speaking over his creation, speaking over Jesus Christ.
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  This is the dove coming down and resting upon him, the Holy
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  Ghost, all three and one together.
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  We can see at 12. And immediately the Spirit drove
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  him into the wilderness. This was what it looked like for
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  Jesus to come and to take back all the things that Adam had
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  squandered in paradise. Here.
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  We're going to see Jesus going out to this desert.
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  We can see that the Spirit drove him out there. 13 And he was
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  there in the wilderness 40 days, tempted of Satan, and was with
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  the wild beasts, and the angels ministered unto him.
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  He had dominion over the wild beasts there. 14 Now after that
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  John was put in prison. Jesus came into Galilee
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  preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God.
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  So you can also see in the wilderness that it wasn't just
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  the three times that he was tempted.
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  He was tempted for 40 days, friends.
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  Now he's coming back out of the wilderness.
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  He put his heel on the neck of the serpent, and he, the serpent
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  fled. The serpent ran, and then the
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  angels came and ministered to him. 15 and saying, The time is
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  fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand.
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  Repent you and believe the gospel.
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  So here Jesus is continuing the ministry of John the Baptist,
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  this ministry of repentance and the remission of sins, and he's
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  showing them that Jesus is on earth and that the Kingdom of
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  God is here. 16 Now as he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw
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  Simon and Andrew his brother, casting a net in the sea, for
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  they were fishers. 17 And Jesus said unto them, Come you after
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  me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.
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  What a beautiful verse. We can see this immediate
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  obedience of these brothers. We can see that Jesus is calling
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  them from their profession. And he did not go and find
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  priests. He did not go and find synagogue
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  leaders. He did not go and find the
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  religious people. What did he find?
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  These common folk, these unlearned men. 18 And
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  straightway they forsook their Nets and followed him.
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  That's what it looks like. Immediate obedience, friends. 19
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  And when he had gone a little further from there, he saw
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  James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were
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  in the ship mending their Nets. So these were workers.
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  These were not just idle people who like to sit around and talk
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  about all kinds of fables. These were men who actually put
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  their hand to the plow. These were men who were not
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  afraid of getting their hands dirty.
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  And look at how we have relegated all of the
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  spirituality to lazy men who will sit on their behinds.
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  And they think that that's what it looks like to follow after
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  the Lord. And we need to know that the
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  Lord calls us into the work. He calls us into taking hold of
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  the plow. He calls us into wild adventure,
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  friends. Not just sitting on our blessed
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  assurance and looking up to the sky and just hoping and wishing
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  that things will get a little bit worse so that we'll go on
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  home. No, the Lord calls you into the
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  fight, friends. He calls you to charge the hill,
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  friends. He calls you to be violent and
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  take the Kingdom of heaven by force, friends. 20 And
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  straightway he called them, and they left their father Zebedee
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  in the ship with the hired servants and went after him.
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  So these boys, they didn't just abandoned their father.
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  They knew that he had help. Look at how that his father must
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  have been very successful in his venture. 21 And they went into
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  Capernaum, and straightway on the Sabbath day he entered into
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  the synagogue and taught. So here Mark is less concerned,
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  less concerned with the material of his preaching, and he's more
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  concerned with what Jesus actually did. 22 And they were
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  astonished at his doctrine. What doctrine?
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  Well, we know that he says the time is fulfilled and the
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  Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent you and believe the
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  gospel. And they were astonished at his
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  doctrine, for he taught them as one that had authority and not
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  as the scribes. So all the scribes, all they
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  would do is they sit around and talk about what certain rabbi
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  here and rabbi there would say and certain rabbis what they
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  taught. And here Jesus had no use for
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  that. Jesus goes in and tells them
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  that the Kingdom of heaven is at hand and they need to repent and
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  be baptized. And Jesus here is showing that
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  he is God, He is the Son of God, He is the triune God.
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  He's showing them here that he has all authority. 23 And there
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  was in the synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried
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  out, 24 saying, Let us alone, what have we to do with you?
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  You, Jesus of Nazareth, are you come to destroy us?
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  I know you, who you are, the Holy One of God.
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  So imagine this, these demonic forces in the wilderness trying
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  to tempt Jesus, and he is able to subdue them.
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  He's able to put his heel on their head.
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  He's able to get them to flee. He's able to be completely
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  successful and victorious in the tempting in the wilderness, and
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  they have figured out who he is. He's the Son of God.
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  He's the holy one, and they're trying to foul and they're
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  trying to basically undo his ministry that he came to do, and
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  they're trying to expose him as God here in the synagogue.
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  What is Jesus say? 25 And Jesus rebuked him,
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  saying, Hold your peace and come out of him.
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  He told him to shut up. He told him to be quiet.
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  He told him to come out of him. He had all authority. 26 And
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  when the unclean spirit had torn him and cried with a loud voice,
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  he came out of him. He had no choice but to obey in
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  Jesus name. That is the power, friends, it
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  is in Jesus name. There is no power under heaven
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  that has any more authority than the name of Jesus Christ of
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  Nazareth, Jesus the Messiah, the long-awaited 1, the anointed
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  one, Jesus, Yeshua, I Usus. This is the name that we call
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  upon, friends. It is the only name, is the name
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  above all names, and this is the name that the demonic realm has
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  to obey. There is no power other than
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  Jesus Christ in the entire world.
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  It is Jesus and Jesus and Jesus alone, friends, that we call
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  upon to do the work of God. It is not all these
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  incantations. It's not all of this religious
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  ceremony. It is not all of this magic
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  occult arts. It is not all of the things that
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  people are calling upon that is actually gateways into the
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  demonic. There are people who try to
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  pretend as if they are exorcists, but really it's just
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  a big show. That's all it is.
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  It is easy, friends. It's the name of Jesus Christ
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  that drives out the demons and Jesus here, he's straightway.
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  There's no big long form here. It is just come out of him in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. 26 And when the unclean spirit had torn
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  him, he cried with a loud voice, and came out of him.
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  What a scene. 27 And they were all amazed in so much that they
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  questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this?
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  What new doctrine is this? For What authority commands He,
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  even the unclean spirits? And they do obey him.
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  They were used to seeing all of these teachers come in and
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  perform this big long ceremony with the driving out of the
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  demons and Jesus here, He just relegates it to a very simple
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  command. And that is a word for us today.
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  We do not need to get caught up in the hype of all of this
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  exorcism. We do not need to get caught up
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  in all the hype of it of trying to get the demon to tell us the
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  name so that we can have a handle to try to pull it out.
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  It is just the name of Jesus. The darkness runs, the darkness
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  flees. In that name is the name above
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  all names call upon that name. Friends 28 and immediately his
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  fame spread abroad throughout all the region roundabout
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  Galilee. So here you can see that this is
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  something that the people were not used to.
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  And as soon as he did this work in the synagogue, all of his
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  fame spread throughout the land. 29 And forthwith when they were
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  come out of the synagogue, they entered into the House of Simon
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  and Andrew with James and John. We know that this was Peter's
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  house, but Simon's wife, Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a
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  fever, and Anon they tell him of her.
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  So this was a fever that was very, very bad.
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  And here comes Jesus into the house.
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  Here she lays with this fever, and I don't know if you've ever
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  had a bad fever, but it's not something that you are able to
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  just get over in a moment. It takes recovery.
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  It takes time for you to rest and even after the fever leaves
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  your week. But let's see the power of Jesus
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  Christ as He comes into this house. 31 And he came, and he
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  took her by the hand, and he lifted her up, and immediately
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  the fever left her, and she ministered unto them.
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  Look at how her thankfulness for Jesus healing her, she
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  immediately got up and started ministering to them. 32 And at
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  evening when the sun did set, they brought unto him all that
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  were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.
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  So here we're seeing that the Sabbath was done because it was
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  evening and the people were free to come and bring all of their
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  sick 33 and all the city was gathered together at the door.
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  This is the fame of Jesus after he healed the man in the
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  synagogue. And here Mark wants the Romans
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  to see that Jesus was a worker, that Jesus wasn't just one who
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  was so incredibly dialed in on the Jews that he actually cared
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  for the whole world. This is what Mark wants the
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  Romans, his audience to know here, friends, and he's showing
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  that the whole city gathered at the door. 34 And he healed many
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  that were sick of all kinds of diseases, and cast out many
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  devils, and suffered. Not the devil's to speak,
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  because they knew him. Of course they knew him.
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  He had all authority over them. 35 And in the morning, rising up
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  a great while before the day, he went out and departed into a
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  solitary place, and there prayed.
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  This is a model for us friends. We need to follow this model of
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  Jesus Christ. Whenever you see Jesus getting
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  up early in the morning before there was even light and he goes
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  out to meet with the Father, we should not even speak to anyone
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  before we speak to the Father. We should not even look at
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  anyone until we look at the Father.
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  Friends 36 and Simon and they that were with him followed
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  after him. So you can see here that the
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  disciples, they were not yet used to Jesus, They were not yet
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  used to how he would go and do business with the Father. 1st
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  And when they found him, 37 says, And when they found him,
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  they said unto him, All men seek for you.
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  So they're saying, look how famous you've become.
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  Isn't this what you want, Jesus? 38 And he said unto them, Let us
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  go into the next towns, that I may preach there also.
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  Therefore came I forth. So he's saying that my ministry
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  is not a miraculous healing ministry.
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  My ministry is to preach. That is what he came to do.
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  Preach the repentance. Preach that the Kingdom is at
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  hand. Preach at the time is fulfilled.
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  Preach for people to repent and believe in the good news. 39 And
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  he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast
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  out devils. 40 And there came a leper to him, begging him, and
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  kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If you will, you can
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  make me clean. 41 And Jesus moved with compassion, put forth
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  his hand, and touched him, and said unto him, I will be you
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  clean. So here Jesus touched the leper.
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  He was not afraid of the leper, and immediately the leper was
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  cleansed. As soon as Jesus touched him, he
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  was cleansed. And this leper had been a leper
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  for a long time, friends. And we know that this leper was
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  in the advanced stages of his leprosy, and he would have been
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  rotten. And this was a picture of the
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  sin. And it was believed that these
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  lepers had leprosy because of their sin, and the people had no
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  regard for them. They were The Walking Dead and
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  they cared nothing. And there was no compassion for
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  leprosy in that place. And there was no real healing
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  for the leprosy in the land. And here Jesus defies all of
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  their traditions. He defies them and shows
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  compassion upon them. He heals the man.
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  He's going to tell him to go and show himself.
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  And there would have been this ceremony that the priest we're
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  not even used to having to perform because there was no one
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  who was getting healed of leprosy.
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  It was only an act of God that could heal somebody of leprosy.
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  And Jesus shows them that he is God. 42 And as soon as he had
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  spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was
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  cleansed. 43 And he straightway charged him, and forthwith sent
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  him away. 44 And said unto him, See you say nothing to any man,
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  but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer for
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  your cleansing those things which Moses commanded for a
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  testimony unto them. That's what it was all about.
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  Jesus was showing not only the leper, not only the crowds, not
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  only His disciples, but He was showing even the priest that He
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  was God, that He was the Son of God.
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  Here He is showing as a testimony unto them. 45 will end
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  here. But He went out and began to
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  publish it much and to blaze abroad the matter in so much
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  that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was
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  without in desert places and they came to Him from every
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  quarter. So here we can see it right here
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  at the end of chapter 1. Bam bam, bam bam bam.
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  Mark is just flying through the shortest Gospel.
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  Friends, Mark is flying through all of these highlights.
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  He's highlighting the ministry of Jesus Christ.
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  We're getting to see it in rapid succession, friends.
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  In one chapter, you're getting to see so many different events.
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  And here you can see that because this leper and because
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  this healing of the demon Pontiac, you can see that
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  Jesus's fame has spread so much that he could no longer enter
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  into the cities without being completely overrun with people
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  desirous to be healed. And people just wanted to come
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  and to be fed, and they just wanted to come see the miracle
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  worker. But they had not put two and two
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  together, that he was God Incarnate, walking among them
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  Emmanuel. And here Jesus says foxes have
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  holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to
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  lay his head. He's out in the desert.
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  Friends, this suffering servant. We could see this life of Jesus,
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  and it should move us with compassion.
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  We should fall in love with this man.
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  Look at how He loved and He loved well and He wanted nothing
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  more than for us to understand that we need to live in light of
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  eternity. And not to be so earthly minded,
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  but just to know that your little hundred 120 years, you're
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  70 years, 75 years, you're 60 years, you're 80 years.
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  However long the Lord gives us, some people get snuffed out at a
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  young tender age. And we do not know if we're
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  promised tomorrow, but if you have today, and if you woke up
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  this morning, give your life over to Him today.
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  Do not wait. Do not wait for another day.
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  Surrender unto His Lordship. Even if you've given your life
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  to Him in the past, give your life to Him today, friends, and
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  give your life to Him tomorrow. And give your whole life to Him
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  every day, every single day. And that is not to say that we
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  lose our salvation, but we need to make sure that we check
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  ourselves before we wreck ourselves.
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  We do not need to just float along through life thinking that
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  we're eternally secure and then to get there and Jesus says,
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  depart from me, for I never knew you and the door is shut.
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  And there is no more salvation beyond that.
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  Give your life to Him today, friends.
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  Surrender to Him today. Friends.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this first chapter here in Mark.
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  We're going to fly through the ministry of Jesus Christ over
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  the next couple weeks. You're going to get to see all
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  the things that Jesus did highlighted.
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  We're going to see this perfect man, all God and all man walk
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  the earth and to flip the whole world upside down.
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  We're still talking about them today.
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  They're still trying to get rid of them today.
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  You get on any mainstream news channel and you're going to see
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  all of the blaspheming of the Spirit, the blaspheming of God.
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  You're going to see the blaspheming of Jesus.
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  But why they can't get rid of them, Friends, you can't do
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  anything with this man. He's here and it all points to
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  him, everything points to him, and they're just hostile and
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  they try their hardest to believe that there's nothing
• 38:43
  more beyond it this and that All of their little games that they
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  play is just for fun. And the reality is they're being
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  used by the devil. Let's get in this good book.
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  Let's learn this good book. Let's own this good book.
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  Let's teach this good book. Friends, I'm praying for every
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  single one of you. I love you, so does God.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.