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Luke chapter 8 Let us pray. Dear Heavenly Father, here we
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are again. We're coming to learn from you.
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We're coming to be taught by you.
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Help us to hide your words in our heart so that we might not
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sin against you. Father, I pray for revelation
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today. God, I pray that you'll reveal
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more of your Son to us. God, I pray that we can become
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more like Christ today than we were yesterday.
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Help us, Father, to get out of our own way.
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Help us, Father, to know that you're near.
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Help us, Father, to know that we have stayed our mind upon you.
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God, lead us in peace. God, lead us in perfect peace.
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God take us from glory to glory. Father, help us to stiff arm all
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the things of this world, the cares and the anxieties of this
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world. God, and help us to lock eyes
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with you. Help us to put our hand to the
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plow and not look back. Father, we need, we are
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desperate for a touch from you. God, we want to hear from you
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today. Hide me and hide my words and
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hide my thoughts. Holy Spirit, you take center
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stage. Holy Spirit, you give us our
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marching orders. Holy Spirit, you give us the
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direction and teach us today. I decrease as you increase.
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Holy Spirit, we love you, Jesus Christ, we love you.
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Thank you, Father, for all the many blessings that you're
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pouring out upon us today. The breath and our lungs, the
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heartbeat in our chest, our cognition.
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Father, we thank you, God, that you have given us a life worth
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living, that you have given us purpose and dignity.
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God, take us to new heights. Lord, see us there with you in
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heavenly places. And God give us the mind of
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Christ and help us to know what it it is that we are to do
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today. Thank you, Father, for
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everything. We love you, King Jesus, and
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it's in your holy and precious, strong and powerful name that I
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pray. Amen.
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Let's start in verse one. And it came to pass afterward
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that he went throughout every city and village preaching and
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showing the glad tidings of the Kingdom of God.
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And the 12 were with him. So you can see here that
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ultimately Jesus is coming to proclaim the Kingdom of God.
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He's telling them that the Kingdom of God is at hand.
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And what glad tidings are these? And look how He goes round and
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about, and look how He is going, and showing them that they need
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to repent and to be baptized, and that there is no salvation
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apart from Him. You can see that the 12 were
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with Him, and they were watching every single thing, and
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recording it for us. For all time's sake.
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And heaven and earth shall pass away.
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But not one of these words. Friends.
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Verse 2 And certain women which which have been healed of evil
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spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom
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went seven devils. Imagine that.
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Can you imagine what kind of stir there must have been to see
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these women following Jesus around and especially this one
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who was of ill report. Look at how Jesus was never
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afraid of being tainted. Look at how he never condoned
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sin, but he was able to drive it out.
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And look at how he was completely relaxed and there was
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no sin in him. And look at how Jesus doesn't
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look upon the outward things, but he sees the inner motives
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and he knows what it is that we desperately need.
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And we need a touch from him today.
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And we need to be cured and cleansed.
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We need to be made whole in this Mary Magdalene.
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She was so incredibly thankful for him.
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And they left everything to come and follow this rogue St.
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Preacher. This band of unlearned men and
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look at how these women were there to minister to them,
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praise God, Hallelujah. Even this verse 3 and Joanna,
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the wife of Choosa, Herod, Stewart and Susanna and many
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others which ministered unto them of their substance.
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Even this Joanna look at how she's connected somehow through
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up to Herod and look at how she saw the ministry of Jesus
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Christ. She believed in the ministry of
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Jesus Christ so much as to help to minister to them for their
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needs. Praise God for these women for
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and when much people were gathered together and were come
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to him out of every city. He spoke by a parable.
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We know that Jesus, he loved to speaking parables.
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He would cast right along some things that were familiar with
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them and if you wanted to learn, if you wanted to lock in, if you
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wanted to engage, then you could see yourself in these parables.
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We know that He spoke them so that those who were
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disinterested would check out and they would never engage and
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what it is that He was saying. But those whom they were for
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they would actually engage and lock in, and they would actually
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start listening to all of His words and reasoning with
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themselves, and they would go into these parables and see the
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error of their ways. 5A Sower went out to sow his seed, and as
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he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and it was trodden
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down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6 And some fell
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upon a rock, and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away,
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because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns, and
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the thorns sprang up with it and choked it. 8 And other fell on
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good ground, sprang up, and bore fruit a hundredfold.
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And when he had said these things, he cried.
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He that has ears to hear, let him hear.
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Can you hear him today, friends? Can you hear him calling out?
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Can you hear the Lord crying out?
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He's saying, If you have ears to hear and if you have eyes to
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see, then you must see that we have to be the soil that
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produces much fruit, friends, we need to be the fertile soil.
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We need to break up the fallow ground so that the seed, which
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is the word of God, will come in and take up root and actually
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produce a crop and produce a harvest. 9 And his disciples
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asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
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10 And he said unto you, It is given to know the mysteries of
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the Kingdom of God, but to others in parables, that seeing
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they may, they might not see, and hearing they might not
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understand. So here we can see that He
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intentionally concealed these from those whom they were not.
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For you know, in a moment's notice at, at the breath of the
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Lord, every single human being on planet earth could become a
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believer, right this very 2nd. And you might ask yourself,
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well, if God can make every single person here, then why
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doesn't he? And it is because we have become
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hostile towards God. We've made, we have made a love
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decision for this world and we care nothing for the things of
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God other than just escaping damnation in hell.
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And we want to be able to live our lives, however we want to be
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able to live our lives. And we just want to know just
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enough about God to not have to go to hell.
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But we like our life down here and we're not willing to give it
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up. We're not willing to sell
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everything and take up our cross and follow him.
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And that is what it takes, friends.
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To truly be sold out and to be a disciple of Jesus Christ means
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that you hold everything loosely and that you can actually hear
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Him when He's calling out to you.
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And when He says come, you do not tuck tail and revert and go
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back into your nice little cushy, comfortable life.
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It is by being sold out to the King of Kings and the Lord of
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Lords, faithful and true, that we will find the abundant life.
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Friends. 11 Now the parable is this.
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The seed is the word of God. He's talking to them like little
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children. He's telling them the things
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that they should have been able to reason and to think about.
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But Jesus is so kind. He makes it as plain as the nose
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on your face. He makes it as plain as humanly
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possible. He talks to us in ways that we
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can understand. He tells us the most simple
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ways, friends, but we try to marginalized it and we say,
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well, that's not actually what he meant.
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And it is not about the interpretation of God's Word.
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It is about the obedience to God's Word which is flown out of
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a love for Him. If you love Jesus Christ, it
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will be easy to obey these words, and we will not call all
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of them into question and try to sit around and discuss and
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dispute all the meanings of the Word of God.
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Let's obey them. And if you want to know the
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unrevealed will of God, you must obey the revealed will of God.
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And He cannot make it any more plain.
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He cannot make it any more clear than the 66 books that are
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contained within the Bible, friends.
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From Genesis to Revelation, the inerrant, infallible word of
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God, nothing taken out and nothing added.
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It is simple, friends. It's a simple gospel.
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And Jesus 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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And you must be born again, Friends. 12 Those by the wayside
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are they that hear. Then comes the devil, and takes
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away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe
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and be saved. Think about that for a second.
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The Word of God goes out and it goes on to the hard ground, and
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the birds of the air come and snatch it, and that is the
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devil. How many times have you seen
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somebody receive the Word of God as if it was going to take root?
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But immediately all of the cares of this world, all the
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distractions of this world, all the cultural pulls of this world
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come in and drag that person away before they can even take
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root. And so you can see this
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happening all around you, the person who is trying to believe.
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But there's so many questions and they have been sold so many
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lies. And they'll tell you things like
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the Bible was written by man and that religion is the thing that
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has started the most wars in the world.
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They will tell you so many different reasons that the earth
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is billions of years old, and that this is just a bunch of
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fairy tales, And that is whenever the devil has snatched
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the word of God out of their hearts. 13 They on the rock are
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they which when they hear, they receive the word with joy, and
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these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of
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temptation they fall away. So these are the ones, friends,
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who they might go to a revival, they might go to camp, they
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might go to a church because they were invited.
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And they get there and through an emotional pull, they think
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that they should follow the Lord and they might even try to make
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a decision. But then as soon as temptation
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comes, as soon as persecution comes, as soon as hard times
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come, as soon as they pray about something and God doesn't behave
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in the way that they need him to, they fall away and they're
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offended by him, Friends. And there is no substance, there
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is no deep roots in these people.
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They were built on shallow ground and their faith was
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shallow, friends. And it is because of a fence
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that they fall away. It is because of all of the
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temptations that they fall away. And they could not see the worth
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in finishing strong. They could not see the worth in
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finishing well. They could not see the worth in
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running this race to the end. And they chose to go back to
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their menial lives. They chose to go back to their
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understanding of how this world works, which is all centered
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around power and greed and money.
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And the way that this world works is all about pleasure and
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pleasantries. And the way that this world
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works is that you can have your glory now with no suffering.
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And that is not the way of God, friends, and it is the blood of
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the martyr. That's the seed of the gospel.
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We should never forget that. 14 And that which fell among thorns
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are they which, when they have heard, they go forth, and are
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choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and
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bring no fruit to perfection. So we can see that these tares
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that come up and choke us out. This is what happens whenever
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people choose to be wealthy and to have so many pleasures in
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this life. And as they see all their bills
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piling up, as they see all of the costs of goods going up, and
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as they see all of the things that are available to them in
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this world, they turn their back on God.
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They care nothing for the church.
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They care nothing for the word of God.
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They're not doing the things that God has asked them to do
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and it their conscience is bothering them and they don't
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open the word of God anymore because they're not living a
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life that is pleasing to God. And they're getting choked out
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by the spirit of oppression. And it's such a squeezing.
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And they bear no fruit. Friends. 15 But that on the good
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ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having
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heard the word, keep it and bring forth fruit with patience.
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That is what we are called. 2 friends.
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And it sounds good when we read those things to put ourselves in
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that place. And I pray to God that you are
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in that place. I pray that you're the good
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ground. I pray that you're making an
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honest living. I pray that you have a good
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heart and you can see the world around you the way that God
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does, That you can see the people all around you the way
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that God does. I pray that when you hear the
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word, that you keep the word. I pray that when you hear the
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word, you bring forth good fruit which calls for patience.
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Friends, that is what we must do.
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We must be patient in the waiting.
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We must wait well, and we must know that Jesus can come at any
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time, friends, and we need to be ready.
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And we need to be like the five wise virgins who kept their
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lamps full. They kept their Wicks trimmed.
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Friends, we must live a life completely sold out to him, full
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of the Holy Spirit. 16 No man, when he has lit a candle, covers
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it with a vessel, or puts it under a bed, but sets it on a
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Candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
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So when we are the light friends, people will be drawn to
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us in this dark and wicked and perverse world.
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When you are completely sold out to Jesus Christ, they can't help
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but to see that there's something different about you
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and you should look for opportunities.
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When people ask you what is different, Why is it that every
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single time I talk to you that you are always in a good mood,
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you're never down? And it is because we are sold
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out to Him. We belong to Him, we love Him,
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and in light of eternity, nothing that is happening on
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this earth could ever compare. There is no comparison to what
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is to come, friends. And we need to know that we are
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headed into glory and that all the things that happened to us
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on this earth are nothing in comparison of what God has
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planned in in store for us, friends.
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And that is where we live. And that is this point of
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conjecture. That is all of the tension that
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we live in, friends. It is this cooperative tension
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that we live in that we know that we're bound to go to
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heavenly places, that we will be there with Him.
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He has gone to prepare a place for us, and we have eternal
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riches waiting for us, and we must be patient in the waiting.
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Friends, we cannot hide our lamp. 17 For nothing is secret
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that shall not be made manifest, neither anything hid that shall
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not be known and come abroad. You cannot hide anything from
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God, and you better believe, mark it down.
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You can bet your bottom dollar, you can bank on the fact that
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every single thing that you do will be brought to light.
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There is nothing hidden, friends to God, and it is His business
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to bring it into the light. And you can watch how God is
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good at that. You can see how He will always
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bring the things that you're trying to hide into the light
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because He knows that that is how we're going to be held
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accountable. And we're going to have to make
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a decision. And we're either going to make a
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decision to go into the world or make a decision to confess those
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things, to ask for forgiveness, to turn from those things to
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receive our healing, and to allow those things to become
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part of our testimony, and then to take His name to the ends of
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the earth. And he is good at what he does,
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and there's nothing hidden to him.
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Friends, go ahead and confess it to him, because he already
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knows. 18 Take heed, therefore, how you hear.
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For whosoever has to him shall be given, and whosoever has not
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from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have.
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So here we understand that once we have heard the Gospel, once
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we have heard that Jesus is the only way, there is such a
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responsibility on our side. And here's the other caveat that
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you must know, that those of us who think that we have read the
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Bible and that we know it all, He says if you do not continue
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in the faith, whatever you thought you had will be taken
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from you. But for those of us who are
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following after him, hard, following after him, completely
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sold out, following after Him wholeheartedly, whatever we
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have, He will continue to build upon that.
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And it will be layers and layers and layers and tapestry, and it
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will be swimming in the deep end and never touching the bottom.
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And God is so complex and it is a simple gospel and it is a
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simple truth, but it is unsearchable.
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The depths and the heights of the Word of God. 19 then came to
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him, his mother and his brothers, and could not come at
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him for the press. There were so many people, and
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perhaps they were coming to try and take Jesus back to his
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hometown. We already know that there were
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some who thought that he had lost his mind, and here his
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brothers and his mother are coming to retrieve him. 20 And
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it was told him by certain, which said, Your mother and your
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brothers stand outside, desiring to see you. 21 And he answered
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and said unto them, My mother and my brothers are those which
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hear the word of God and do it. So we can see these new
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relationships, that Jesus Christ is telling us that our
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relationships with our brothers and sisters in Christ supersede
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the natural relationships. Friends, we need to understand
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this eternal truth. 22 Now it came to pass on a certain day
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that when he went into a ship with his disciples, he said unto
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them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake.
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And they launched forth, so you can see the words of Christ, and
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he's telling them that they will make it to the other side. 23
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But as they sailed, he fell asleep, and there came down a
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storm of wind on the lake, and they were filled with water and
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were in jeopardy. Look at how Jesus is at peace in
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the boat. He's asleep in the boat, and the
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water is coming in the boat. And he knew that they would make
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it to the other side. He was resting in the promise of
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his Father. He knew that his time had not
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yet come, and Jesus was perfect in his peace. 24 And they came
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to him and awoke him, saying, Master, Master, we perished.
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Then he arose and he rebuked the wind and the raging of the
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water, And they ceased and and there was a calm.
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So here we can understand that it's not enough just to hear the
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words of God. We must obey the words of God.
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And here the disciples have been given a clear directive that
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they were going to the other side, and they would have done
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well to trust in the fact that they were going to the other
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side. Jesus was asleep.
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They need not awake him. Jesus knew that they would make
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it to the other side. And here the disciples had
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little faith. And it's one thing to learn
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about all of the principles of God, but it is quite the other
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to actually apply them. And that is where we are refined
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in the fire. Friends, we can profess all that
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we want, but we must show it in our actions.
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We must show it, friends. Indeed, we cannot just say that
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we believe in God, and we cannot just say that we believe that
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Jesus is the Son of God and his Lord of our lives.
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We must go out, We must show it in our fruits.
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Friends. 24 And they came to him and awoke him, saying, Master,
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Master, we perish. Then he arose, and he rebuked
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the wind and the raging of the water, and they ceased, and
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there was a calm. So we know from the book of Job
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that Satan can have power over the weather, and you can see
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here that Jesus stood up and rebuked it.
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Perhaps Satan was trying to drown our Lord and the church
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and it would never come to anything because heaven and
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earth shall pass away. But not one of these words.
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And we know that the gates of hell will not prevail against
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the church. Friends.
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And there was a calm. I pray that there's a calm in
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your life, friends, that comes from a day-to-day relationship
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with God the Father through his Son Jesus Christ. 25 And he said
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unto them, Where is your faith? And they, being afraid,
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wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this?
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For he commands even the winds in the water, and they obey him.
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So here they were still thinking of What kind of man is this?
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What manner of man is this? And they had not come to the
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revelation that He is God, that He is the Christ, the Anointed,
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the long-awaited Messiah. They had not yet come to that.
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They were still wondering what manner of man is this to them,
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that He was a rabbi. To them He was their teacher.
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And they did not realize that even though they had seen all of
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the miracles, and they had seen the healings and the driving out
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of impure spirits, they still were thinking He was some kind
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of miracle worker. What manner of man is this?
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26 And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which
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is over against Galilee. 27 And when he went forth to the land,
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there met him out of the city, a certain man, which had devils
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long time, and wore no clothes, neither abode in any house but
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in the tombs. So we know that there were two
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demoniacs here, and we know that this one was the most vocal.
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And we know that Jesus could have been swallowed up in the
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waves prior. Perhaps Satan was trying to
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drown him and his disciples so that they would not reach this
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demoniac, this legion. 28 And when he saw Jesus, he cried out
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and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What
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have I to do with you, Jesus, you son of God most High, I beg
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you, torment me not. So we see here that Jesus has
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the ability to torment these spirits and to send them into
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the judgment that God has awaiting for them.
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And there's coming a time when all of the impure, unclean
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spirits will be bound up in, thrown into the judgment that
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God has awaiting for them. And here we can see that through
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the name of Jesus Christ, we can command these unclean, evil
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spirits to go into the judgment that God has awaiting for them.
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We can see it here. And he recognizes Jesus.
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He knows him, 29 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to
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come out of the man, for oftentimes it had caught him,
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and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters, and he
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broke the bands and was driven out of the devil into the
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wilderness. So we can see that the devil was
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driving him into the wilderness. We can see that he was often
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bound, but he was so strong he could break all of the chains.
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30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is your name?
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And he said, legion, because many devils were entered into
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him. So we know that a Roman legion
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was up to 6000 soldiers. So perhaps this man was riddled
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with thousands of demons. 31 And they begged him that he would
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not command them to go out into the deep.
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So there's so many intricacies here and there's so many
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interesting points here when it comes to the demons, when it
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comes to the fallen angels, when it comes to all of the spiritual
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realm going on all around us, which is more real than the
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physical world that you and I live in, friends.
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And it's happening all around us.
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And Jesus was in tune with it, and Jesus knew what to do with
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it. And we have that same authority.
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We have the same ability to command these unclean spirits to
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go into the judgment that God has awaiting for them and to
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rebuke them from off of our families.
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Rebuke them from off of our bodies and from off of our lives
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and minds, friends, and off of our workplaces, friends and
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houses, friends. We need to rebuke them.
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And everywhere that your footsteps is holy ground and
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everywhere that you go, you should be a peacemaker, friends,
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and command any unclean, foul spirit to leave in the name of
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Jesus. And they were begging Him not to
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send them into the deep. 32 And there was a herd of many swine
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fitting feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he
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would suffer them to enter into them.
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And he suffered them. 33 And then went the devil's out of the
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man, and entered into the swine. And the herd ran violently down
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a steep place into the lake, and were choked.
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So these evil spirits would rather go into the pigs and be
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drowned than to have to go into the deep, into the judgment that
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God has awaiting for them. 34 When they that fed them saw what
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was done, they fled and went and told it in the city and in the
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country. 35 Then they went out to see what was done, and came
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to Jesus, and found the man out of whom the devils were
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departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed in his right
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mind, And they were afraid. Imagine that, friends, Why did
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they not bring all the sick? Why did they not bring all of
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the demon possessed people out there to be healed?
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Why were they afraid? 36 They also, which saw it, told
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them by what means he had. He that was possessed of the
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devils was healed. 37 Then the whole multitude of the country
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of the gatherings roundabout begged him to depart from them,
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for they were taken with great fear, and he went up into the
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ship and returned back again. Imagine that, friends.
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They should have begged him not to leave.
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They should have begged him to heal all of their sick, and to
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drive out all the unclean, impure spirits from those that
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were being tormented. But what did they do?
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They like their money more than they liked having Jesus with
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them, and a lot of times it's no different in our world.
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For right now and for today we would rather put up with all of
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the evil as long as we can have our nice little cushy life, then
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to beg Jesus to come and to cleanse everything and actually
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have to deal with all of our own sinful thoughts and behaviors.
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38 Now the man out of whom the devils were departed begged him
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that he might be with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, 39
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Return to your own house and show how great things God has
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done unto you. And he went his way and
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published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had
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done unto him. We know that this man went into
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Decapolis. We know that this man was
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telling everyone about what Jesus had done for him.
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We know that he was not yet ready to be a disciple of Jesus.
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And look at how when Jesus drives out the impure, unclean,
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demonic from your life, you are in your right mind and He gives
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you a sound mind. Friends 40 And it came to pass
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that when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him,
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for they were all waiting for him.
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Are you waiting on Jesus? I pray that you wait well,
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Friends, I pray that he does not find you in your sin.
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I pray that you have dealt with all of your sin.
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I pray that you have made yourself ready.
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The Spirit and the bride say, come, they were waiting for him.
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I pray that you wait well. 41 And behold, there came a man
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named Gyrus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue, and he fell
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down at Jesus feet, and begged him that he would come into his
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house. 42 For he had one only daughter about 12 years of age,
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and she lay dying, but as he went, the people thronged him.
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So here this leader of the synagogue Gyrus, we can see that
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he had a 12 year old daughter who's about to die. 43 and a
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woman having issue of blood for 12 years, which had spent all of
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her living upon physicians. Neither could be healed of any.
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Jesus is the great physician and there is healing on his wings
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and we know that Jesus, just the touch can heal us and make all
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of our sins as white as snow. Friends 44 came behind him and
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touched the border of his garment and immediately her
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issue of blood stanched. So we know that this woman
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reached out and grabbed the hem of his garment, grabbed these
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blue tassels. We know that she received
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complete healing and no position and no amount of money could
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have ever brought it. This was miraculous. 45 And
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Jesus said, Who touched me, when all denied Peter, and they that
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were with him said, Master, the multitude thronged you, impress
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you, and you say Who touched me. So there were many people
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bumping up against him, and he was trying to figure out who
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touched them. And the disciples once again got
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it wrong. They were looking at it from a
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very simple way and there was a lot more layers to what is
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happening here. They were looking at it from the
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natural way and Jesus was feeling it and Jesus was sensing
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it. And they had not yet received
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the Holy Spirit, so they were not yet in tune with what was
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happening all around them. 46 And Jesus said, Somebody has
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touched me, for I perceive that virtue has gone out of me.
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Jesus is limitless. Jesus is all powerful, and he
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feels this virtue go out of him. I believe that this was a moment
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to call her to her feet, to call her as a public witness to
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everyone all around, to show the power of God that was available.
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47 And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came
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trembling, and falling down before him.
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She declared unto him before all the people, for what 'cause she
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had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
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So this woman lived in a perpetual defilement where she
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could not go and worship. She could.
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She was not allowed in the temple.
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She was unclean, and this issue of blood defiled her.
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And so she goes and she tells Jesus of this healing that has
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taken place. And it is her faith, friends.
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And she knew that Jesus could do this, and her faith made her
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well. 48 And he said unto her, daughter, be of good comfort,
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your faith has made you whole. Go in peace.
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And he says the same to us, friends, if we will come and
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touch the hem of his garment, and if we will receive our
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healing, he will make us whole. Friends.
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And we don't have to live in the bondage.
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We don't have to live in the chains of oppression and anxiety
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and depression, friends. We can have a sound mind.
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We can have a clean heart. We can have have a clear
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conscience when we receive this healing, Friends. 49 While he
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yet spoke, there came one from the ruler of the synagogue's
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house saying to him, Your daughter is dead.
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Trouble, not the master. So they thought that he had to
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be present for her to be healed, and they thought that once she
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had died, that was it. And Jesus here is going to show
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them that he has all authority and all power, and there is
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nothing that he cannot do. Friends 50 But when Jesus heard
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it, he answered him, saying, Fear not, believe only, and she
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shall be made whole. What a.
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Passage of the Bible. Friends, he's telling you to do
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not fear, He's telling you to just believe. 51 And when he
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came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, except for
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Peter and James and John and the Father and the mother of the
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maiden. So here we know that this Peter,
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James and John, they got to go with him up to the Mount of
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Transfiguration. We see them later going into the
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Garden of Gethsemane with him. This was His elite unit that he
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would take. And these men were always
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looking at how Jesus was powerful and it was always
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connected. These little special missions
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were connected with powerful moments that they were going to
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need in their lives and in their ministry.
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And thank God we get invited into this little elite group
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that we get to actually see what they saw, which was hidden from
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the other 9 disciples at this time.
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And you can see that Jesus here wanted them to see a different
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facet of him and to see all his power on display here in this
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room there on the Mount of Transfiguration, and later in
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the garden as he prayed like drops of blood. 52 and all wept
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and bewailed her. But he said, weep not, She's not
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dead, but sleeps. You know, to God, no one's, if
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no one ever really dies, friends, everyone is still
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alive. And it's hard for us to wrap our
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minds around that. Every person who's ever been
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born is alive somewhere. They're going to spend eternity
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somewhere. And he's saying that she's just
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sleeping. She's not dead. 53 And they
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laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
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To us, death is the ultimate betrayal because God has placed
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eternity into the hearts of man, and we know deep down that we
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were made to live forever. So when someone dies, it is such
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a betrayal. But we must trust and we must
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believe that this is not it. There's so much more that's
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going on all around us all the time.
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And we need to be in tune with the spiritual.
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We need to be in tune with the reality that this is not it,
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that this is just one big test that is going to determine where
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you get to spend eternity. And there's only two options,
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friends. There's heaven and there's hell,
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and in heaven you are going to be with Christ forever.
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And in hell you will be eternally separated from God.
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You will be where the fire is never quenched, the worm never
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dies, there's weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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And we must get it right in this little menial 100 year time that
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we get. And the answer to the test is
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Jesus. We must place our faith in Jesus
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Christ, and we must live sold out to him.
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And all the words that are contained in this book, friends,
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and obey the word of God, and we will make it there with him.
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And don't be surprised if your laugh to scorn. 54 And he put
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them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying
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made arise Just a word, friends, and life comes back into the
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body, just a word. Jesus can do anything.
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God can do anything. 55 And her spirit came again, and she arose
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straightway, and he commanded to give her meat. 56 We'll end
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here. And her parents were astonished.
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But he charged them that they should tell no man what was
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done. It was not yet time for the
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world to know that the Messiah was in their midst.
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Look at how this young maiden just comes back to life with
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Jesus Christ. Everything that he touches comes
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back to life, and if anyone is in Christ, they're a new
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creation. The old has passed away and the
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new has come. Friends.
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And we can live a life that is abundant and we will not be
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hidden. People will see God in us.
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We will reflect the nature of God unto this wicked and dark
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perverse generation all around us.
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Friends, we can show them that God is real and He is
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trustworthy and true and that the Bible is the authority.
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And they'll see it on us. And they will look, and they
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will see that Jesus is working through us and that we are his
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hands and feet. What an amazing chapter this has
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been. I hope you've been blessed by
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it. I know I sure have many times
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over. I'm praying for you, I love you,
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so does God. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.