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740. Bible Study: Isaiah 53 (Proof and Witnesses that this is Jesus and enables us to enter God's future Kingdom on Earth!) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 53 from the book of Isaiah, you might see shirts
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  with this number 53 on it. So this chapter is going to have
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  a lot of extra scripture to read from, but it's clearly about
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  Jesus the Messiah. And I will be reading all those
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  references to other scripture. Scripture, interpret scripture.
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  So we can see that Isaiah 53 is about Jesus the Messiah, the one
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  who takes away all the sins and makes it possible for us to be
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  in God's Kingdom. So this is a very important
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  chapter from the book of Isaiah. Let's start with a prayer.
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  Dear God, please open the eyes of anyone who is struggling to
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  see this and please let the Holy Spirit open their eyes and see
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  that this is talking about Jesus, your son.
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  We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. So chapter 53, who has believed?
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  Now this is Isaiah the prophet talking.
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  Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord
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  been revealed? The study Bible says who has
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  believed our message John in John chapter 12 verse 38 and
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  Paul in Romans chapter 10 verse 616 quoted this verse to show
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  that many Jews did not believe the good news about the Messiah.
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  So we will we will read this. I mean, now Isaiah, he's talking
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  about the future because he, he is in the seven hundreds BC and
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  he's saying this this part of it.
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  So in John chapter 12, verse 38, this was to fulfill the word of
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  Isaiah, the prophet Lord, who has believed our message and to
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  whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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  That's this is belief and unbelief on the among the Jews.
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  I will go ahead and read this part of John chapter 12 starting
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  with verse 37, said even after Jesus had performed so many
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  signs in their presence, they still would not believe him.
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  This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet Lord, who has
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  believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been
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  revealed? So in other scripture, Jesus
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  said that I came, he was saying this, I came to fulfill what the
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  prophets spoke of. So throughout the New Testament,
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  the books of the Gospels, we see where the old prophets, the old
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  prophet are, the prophets from ancient times where their
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  prophecies were being fulfilled as Jesus was doing these things.
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  So blueletterbible.org is a great resource because it gives
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  you those references when you're reading Scripture.
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  So I highly recommend that if you want to study Scripture
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  deeply. So I'm going to continue in John
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  chapter 4 for this reason. They could not believe because
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  as I Isaiah says elsewhere, he has blinded their eyes and
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  hardened their hearts. So they can neither see with
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  their eyes nor understand with their hearts nor turn.
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  And I would heal them. And that's from Isaiah chapter
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  6, verse 10. Isaiah said this because he saw
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  Jesus's glory and spoke about him.
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  So John, who wrote this Gospel that we're reading from right
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  now, he, he knew what Isaiah said and he knew that Isaiah saw
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  Jesus's glory and spoke about him.
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  It was very clear back then when and John was interacting with
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  Jesus, he lived with Jesus and went places with Jesus and was
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  actually the one disciple of Jesus's that he, he claimed
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  himself, he said the one whom Jesus loved.
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  So he felt extremely close to Jesus during the time that he
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  spent with him. So John continues to say.
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  Yet at the same time, many, even among the leaders believed in
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  him. So there is, you know, there
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  were some Jewish people. Obviously the first Christians
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  were Jewish people. And I think that's hard for some
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  people that are new to the Bible to really understand that.
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  But the very first Christians were the Jewish people, but
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  because of the Pharisees, they would not openly acknowledge
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  their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue.
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  So these, the Pharisees are these leaders of the Jewish
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  people, the religious leaders, and they were ones who would go
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  through the actions. But let's see, they would have
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  the head knowledge, but they didn't acted out in faith, but
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  they did do religious acts so that they looked holy.
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  So they were like and they caused problems with with the
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  Christians, the people who were believers, the people who saw
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  Jesus doing these miracles and believed what he said.
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  They were fearful, but they would be put out of synagogue
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  for they loved human praise more than praise from God.
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  So that's something we all need to make sure in our lives.
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  This applies to all of us. We don't want to love human
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  praise more than praise from God.
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  And sometimes it might take us to a place in time where we have
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  to stand up for something and it's related to God.
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  And we're going to be at that kind of crossroads where it's
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  like if I say something, these people that I'm with are going
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  to probably reject me or react negatively to what I say.
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  But it's the truth about God. And we have to make sure that
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  we're not going to be loving human praise more than praise
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  from God. John continues to say.
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  Then Jesus cried out. Whoever believes in me does not
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  believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.
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  So he's, he's tying himself to God and, and he continues to say
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  the one who looks at me is seeing the one who sent me.
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  So Jesus is in the image of the Father.
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  I have come into the world as a light so that no one who
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  believes in me should stay in darkness.
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  So when Jesus effects a person, and as person realizes who Jesus
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  is, anyone who believes in him doesn't stay in darkness.
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  We are all in darkness before we truly have a relationship with
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  Jesus, before Jesus begins to change our life, before we
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  understand about Him, we are in darkness and it's through.
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  For me personally, it was through reading the Bible that
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  things changed. I could be present in a church
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  and hear all these things, but nothing affected me.
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  For some reason it wasn't until I read the the Bible, and it
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  does say that the Bible is the inspired word of God and it's
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  alive. It's a living book where it it
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  does, it brings about conviction when you read it.
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  And I guess it's a point when people don't read the Bible, but
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  when you do it, it really it, it changes you.
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  I, I don't know, I guess there are some people who have said
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  that they read the Bible, but it didn't change them.
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  But I don't know if they were truly seeking or they were just
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  like scanning through the pages real fast to see, you know, to
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  see what this it was all about. Because it could be really
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  confusing when you first read it.
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  But as you get deeper into it and start realizing there are
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  all kinds of, you know, almost like treasures that you find
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  that you start you're, it's probably the Holy Spirit
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  connecting different scriptures together anyway.
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  So this is a quote from Jesus. If anyone hears my words, but
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  does not keep them, I do not judge that person, for I did not
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  come to judge the world, but to save the world.
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  So at least the first coming of Jesus was not here for
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  judgement. The second coming is or both
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  salvation and judgment, but it's this is something that's really
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  important. If anyone hears my words but
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  does not keep them. So Jesus is giving people,
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  mankind, words about what to do. And he said, but he says he's
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  not going to judge. When he was there that first
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  time, he was not coming to judge, He was coming to save the
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  world. But that was kind of a secret.
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  Nobody knew really what he was doing and he had to do it that
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  way or he wouldn't have been crucified.
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  And if he wasn't crucified, as we will get to later, we
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  wouldn't be able to live in God's Kingdom.
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  So he had to somewhat keep it a secret and make sure that it
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  happened. Otherwise the curse would still
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  exist and we would be eternally separated from God.
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  That's why there's so much emphasis on Jesus, because
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  without what Jesus did, we could not be in God's Kingdom.
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  And this will hopefully be cleared up a little bit later
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  when we read more scripture. So then Jesus says there is a
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  judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words.
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  The very words I have spoken will condemn them at the last
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  day. So at the last day when Jesus,
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  it is going to be Jesus that returns.
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  And when he returns there, there will be condemnation for those
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  who do not believe in Jesus. So right now there are other
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  religions where they don't believe Jesus is a savior.
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  So this is like a very serious warning for all those people who
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  don't believe that Jesus is the savior.
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  The words that are spoken in the Bible are going to condemn them.
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  The words are powerful though. The all of our future is
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  foretold in the Bible. That's why it's so important.
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  I don't know why anyone doesn't want to know.
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  I mean, everybody goes to these, not everybody, but people always
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  want to know about their future. And the Bible tells us about our
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  ultimate future. And that's the most important
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  thing when you think about it, eternity, when we're here on
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  Earth. It's only a matter of, you know,
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  80, I mean, 67, who knows? I mean, it could be young too.
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  I mean, we're only here for a short while up to maybe like
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  currently, I think age limits about not limits, but where
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  people oldest people probably be about 120.
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  So in comparison to eternity, 120 isn't a lot of time,
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  especially when you look back at the book of Genesis and people
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  originally were living 900 years, 800 years, 600 years.
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  And it seems like that's going to be reinstated after Jesus
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  returns because it it does say that, you know, someone who only
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  lives till 100 will be considered like young at that
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  point. So that's going to be very
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  interesting because things are going to change when Jesus
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  returns from that aspect. Now I'm going to continue with
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  what Jesus said, for I do not speak on my own, but the Father
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  who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.
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  I know that His command leads to eternal life.
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  So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.
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  So see how Jesus is completely obedient to the Father's will.
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  He is in unison with the Father, and whatever He is speaking is
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  coming from the Father. So He is He is one with the
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  Father. Let's continue on and let's see
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  the next thing it says. He grew up before him like a
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  tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground.
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  He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in
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  his appearance that we should desire him.
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  And let's see, and I'll read a couple parts of Scripture in
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  John. John chapter one, verse 46 came
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  to mind when I was reading that. And because it says Nazareth,
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  can anything good come from there, Nathaniel?
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  Nathaniel asked. Come and see, said Philip.
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  Now this is this is about Jesus when he was calling different
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  people. And so I will just read this
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  section 43 through 51. The next day Jesus decided to
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  leave for Galilee finding Philip, he said to him, follow
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  me. Philip, like Andrew and Peter
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  was from the town of Bethsaida. Philip found Nathaniel and told
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  him We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and
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  about whom the prophets also wrote Jesus of Nazareth, the son
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  of Joseph, Nazareth. Can anything good come from
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  there? Nathaniel asked.
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  Come and see, said Philip. When Jesus saw Nathaniel
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  approaching, he said of him, He truly is an Israelite in whom
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  there is no deceit. How do you know me?
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  Nathaniel asked. Jesus answered, I saw you while
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  you were sitting under the fig tree before Philip called you.
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  Then Nathaniel declared, Rabbi, you are the Son of God.
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  You are the king of Israel. Jesus said, You believe because
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  I told you I saw you under the fig tree.
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  You will see greater things than that.
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  He then added, very truly, I tell you, you will see heaven
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  open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the
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  Son of Man. So but he came from an area of a
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  town that Nathaniel was saying what's good from there?
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  And this is where Jesus came from.
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  He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering and
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  familiar with pain. Think about the cross and Jesus
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  being flogged before he died on the cross.
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  Like one from people hid their faces, like one from whom people
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  hid their faces. He was despised and we held him
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  in low esteem. So let's see, it says, I think I
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  read, Oh yeah, I didn't read about Romans 10 verse 16, but
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  not this is what Paul wrote. But not all the Israelites
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  accepted the good news for Isaiah says Lord, who has
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  believed our message. Consequently, faith comes from
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  hearing the message and the message is heard through the
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  word about Christ. So that's the gospel.
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  But I ask, did they not hear? Of course they did.
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  Their voice was gone out into all the earth, their words to
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  the ends of the world. Again I ask, did Israel not
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  understand? First Moses says, I will make
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  you envious by those who are not a nation.
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  I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding
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  and Isaiah boldly says I was found by those who did not seek
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  me. I revealed myself to those who
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  did not ask for me. That's in Isaiah 65 verse one.
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  And concerning Israel, he says all day long I have held out my
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  hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.
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  And that's in Isaiah 65 verse 2. Now Paul who said this, he
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  originally would persecute Christians, like not only just
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  persecute them, but kill them until he had a vision of Jesus.
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  And Jesus said to him in that vision, Saul, Saul, why are you
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  persecuting me? And he, Paul or Saul, who at the
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  time. So whenever somebody changes and
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  begets and has a new life, they have a new name that God gives
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  them. And that's what happened with
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  many people in the Bible. I don't think Moses had a new
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  name though, but Abraham did. First it was Abram, then it
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  became Abraham, first it was Sarai, and then it became Sarah.
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  And then Paul was originally Saul and after his change and
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  then. So Saul at the time when he saw
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  the vision, he became blinded because of all the light that
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  came from the vision. But Jesus told him where to go
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  and how to regain his sight. And he was obedient to Jesus and
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  did that and it was regained his sight and then proceeded to
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  write a lot of the books, all these different letters, like to
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  the the Corinthians, the Philippians, the Galatians, the
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  Ephesians, those are all letters that Paul wrote.
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  So God used somebody who was killing people who believed in
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  Jesus to actually write a lot of the book.
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  And he was, he was, I guess he was a Pharisee is what he really
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  originally was. And he knew all the laws he was
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  very zealous for, for his Jewish belief.
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  So anyway, it's just interesting how God uses people and what he
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  does with people. So it doesn't really matter
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  where you come from, because God can.
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  When we become born again, God changes people.
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  So let's see what else it said. Who was Isaiah describing in
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  verse 2? While this could refer to the
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  nation or faithful remnant of Israel, it becomes clear that
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  Isaiah was describing an individual, the Messiah, who
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  would bear the sins of the world.
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  The surprise is that the individual would be so humble
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  and unassuming. So that was one of the problems
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  is that the people of Israel at the time were expecting a king
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  like they had known kings because it was, you know, they
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  knew the Messiah was going to be a king, but they didn't picture
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  him the way he came. And that's something else that
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  we have to really think about in regards to prophecy.
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  We might get certain images or thoughts in our minds about
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  prophecy and think one way, but we need to keep an open mind
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  because if we think it's going to happen a specific way and
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  it's something that can be interpreted, interpreted, not
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  just something that is very clearly stated how it's going to
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  happen. But if it's something that's
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  open to interpretation, we have to keep that kind of loose
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  because we don't want to miss something significant like the
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  people of Israel did. Like the people who were alive
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  at the time that Jesus came and was doing these miracles.
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  And they they missed it because they did not think somebody
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  coming as a servant was going to be this king that had been
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  foretold, but yet he was fulfilling all these prophecies.
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  So maybe if they were in the the word more and let their minds be
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  opened and truly seeking God, you know, maybe they were just
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  in the word so that they could show everybody else like how
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  good they were. And that, you know, there's a
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  lot of people that are like that in religious areas and churches
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  and stuff like that where they just want everybody to think
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  they're holy and they're righteous and they're good and
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  all these kinds of things. But truly inside are they only
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  God knows that. But it shows that if we just go
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  through the motions and we check the boxes like I do this, I do
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  that, like I go to church, I give money, you know, I'm good.
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  Well, it's not quite all that. And that's what is really
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  important to understand. So going back to Isaiah 53,
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  surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we
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  considered him punished by God. So this is on the cross.
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  And what when I thought about, yet we considered him punished
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  by God, I think I thought about save yourself.
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  So Matthew, Mark and Luke all wrote about this happened when
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  he was on the cross dying and people were surrounding him and
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  saying this. So Matthew chapter 27 verse 40
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  says and saying, you who are going to destroy the temple and
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  in three days save yourself, come down from that cross if you
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  are the Son of God. So they were mocking him while
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  he's dying in agony after being flogged.
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  And they're saying, go ahead and save yourself like they it
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  didn't he didn't come like they expected.
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  And here they are taunting the Son of God on the cross.
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  And then in Mark chapter 15, verse 30, come down from the
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  cross and save yourself. And then Luke 20, chapter 23,
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  verse 37 and said, if you are the king of the Jews, save
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  yourself. And then in Luke 23, verse 39,
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  one of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him.
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  Aren't you the Messiah? Save yourself and us like he was
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  being, you know, hurling an insult at Jesus.
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  And if you know scripture, you know that Jesus was on the cross
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  with two different criminals on either side.
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  Well, apparently the one was hurling insults at him, but the
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  other was realized who he really was and said, Remember Me?
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  And Jesus went further than that and said, surely this day you
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  will be in paradise with me. So this is like how gracious and
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  merciful was Jesus that even when he was dying on the cross,
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  he took another man who was a criminal hanging next to him who
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  was probably justifiably on that cross for something he did.
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  And he forgave him and told him he was going to be in God's
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  Kingdom that very day. So in in paradise with Jesus.
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  So it's just amazing like that he would even have that in his
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  heart while he is suffering and barely breathing and, you know,
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  having gouges on his body, yet he's turning to another man
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  who's on the cross next to him and saying, I'm going to take
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  you with me. Isn't that amazing?
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  Isn't that showing love, the love of God, the love of the Son
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  of God, that he's going to do this while he's suffering for
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  all these people and at the same time he's got another guy in his
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  ear hurling insults at him. So this is just showing the
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  character of God, character of Jesus.
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  Let's see. Then there's it says, surely he
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  took up our pain and suffering before and bore our suffering.
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  When Matthew saw Jesus healing people, he thought of this text.
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  Peter extended the image saying that when Christ died, He bore
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  our sins in his body on the cross.
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  So here's a little bit more. So in Matthew chapter 8, verse
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  17, this was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet
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  Isaiah. He took up our infirmities and
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  bore our diseases. So I'm going to read the verse
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  before that. When evening came, many who were
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  demon possessed were brought to him and he drove out the spirits
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  with a word and healed all the sick.
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  So Jesus is throwing out demons and with the word all He is is
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  really speaking. When they say throw him out, I
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  mean He's speaking to them and telling them to leave people and
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  it's happening and He's healing people who are sick.
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  In Mark chapter 1, it says that evening after this is another
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  one of the gospels. That evening after sunset, the
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  people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon possessed.
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  The whole town gathered at the door and Jesus healed many who
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  had various diseases. He also drove out many demons,
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  but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he
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  was. It's kind of interesting Jesus
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  was somewhat hiding his identity because I guess if, if people
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  knew he was the Son of God or if and this just shows how Jesus
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  had authority over them at that point because Jesus, he has
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  authority over the demons. So he's, you know, he's superior
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  obviously to them. He's telling them get out of
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  that person right now and he's not allowing them to speak
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  because they could say he's the son of God.
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  And then if a demon is saying that too, if everybody's saying
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  that, do you think he would actually die on the cross?
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  So he again, was keeping it kind of quiet, who he was.
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  He was showing the glory of God. So I guess that some would
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  believe, but at the same time He was keeping it a secret from
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  many so that he could die on the cross to ultimately save more
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  people by His death on the cross.
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  So then in Luke it says at sunset people brought people to
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  Jesus who had all kinds of various kinds of sickness, and
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  laying hands on each one of them, He healed them.
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  Moreover, demons came out of many people shouting, Oh, now
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  here, this is it shouting, you are the Son of God.
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  But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak because
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  they knew he was the Messiah. So it's interesting.
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  He they were shouting about who they knew.
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  So some people did hear that out of the mouth of demons.
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  Interesting. OK, so then let's see.
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  But he was. I'll just read through.
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  But he was pierced for our transgressions.
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  He was crushed for our iniquities.
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  The punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by His
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  wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone
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  astray. Each of us has turned to our own
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  way, and the Lord has laid on Him the inequity of us all.
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  So how are we healed? By wounds given to someone else?
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  Actually, I need I skipped over something that I needed to read.
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  How could a substitute suffer the punishment for our sins?
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  Before the coming of the perfect sacrifice, the Messiah, the
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  Israelites were instructed by God to sacrifice innocent
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  animals, using the animal's blood to atone for the sinner's
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  sins. The writer of Hebrews declared
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  it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away
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  the sins. That's in Hebrews 10 verse 4.
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  These animal sacrifices foreshadowed Christ who was
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  sacrificed once to take away the sins of many, and that's found
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  in Hebrews verse Chapter 9, verse 28.
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  So in Peter referencing Isaiah 53 verses 7 through 9, I'm going
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  to read first Peter chapter 2, verses 18 through 25.
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  Slaves in reverent fear of God. Submit yourself to your masters,
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  not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to
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  those who are harsh. For it is commendable if someone
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  bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because they
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  are conscious of God. But how is it to your credit if
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  you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it?
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  But if you suffer by doing good and you endure it, this is
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  commendable before God. To this you were called because
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  Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should
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  follow. In His steps.
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  He committed no sin and no deceit.
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  Deceit was found in His mouth. That's from Isaiah 53 verse 9.
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  When they hurled their insults at Him, He did not retaliate.
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  When He suffered, He made no threats.
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  Instead, He entrusted himself to Him who judges justly the
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  Father. He bore our sins on in His body
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  on the cross, so that we may we might die to sins and live for
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  righteousness. By His wounds you have been
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  healed, for you were like sheep going astray, but now you have
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  returned to the Shepherd and the overseer of your souls.
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  I think this is important that verse 24 He bore our sins in His
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  body on the cross so that we might.
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  This means not everybody will do this.
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  We might die to our sins. That means get rid of our sins,
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  clean up our sins, get it out and live for righteousness.
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  So this is what happens when somebody is born again.
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  They die to their sins. They start not sinning like they
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  were before. Jesus's death on the cross
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  doesn't like just cover up our sins and and let us keep on
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  sinning. It doesn't do that it there's a
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  change in a person. If we truly are born again, we
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  die to our sins. Jesus said like no one can
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  follow me unless you take up your own cross.
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  So there's a lot of people out there that think if they just
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  state with their head knowledge that they believe in Jesus that
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  they are saved. But Jesus said you must be born
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  again if you're going to enter the Kingdom of God.
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  And so if we are born again, that means we have to, you know,
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  die and be born again, born with the Spirit.
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  The Spirit is what changes us. It is by God.
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  We can't do it on our own. It's the Holy Spirit that
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  changes us. But it says we die to sins and
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  live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been
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  healed. So Jesus's wounds heal us.
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  It's only through Jesus that we have like so that we might die
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  to sins. But there is where we have to
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  make a choice. Are we going to die to our sins?
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  Are we willing to live righteously?
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  And if so, God will give us help in doing that.
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  He says that when temptation comes across, He will always
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  give us a way out. So that we ultimately are
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  choosing what we do. We are either going to choose
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  the sin or we're going to reject it.
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  But God is gracious that He will give us a way out.
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  So anybody who says, well, I just can't control it, I just
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  keep doing it. No, you can control it.
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  You are just choosing to keep it.
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  You don't want to give it up. You are, you are not choosing
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  that. And if it, and it's not saying
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  that this is like an easy thing for anybody to do, but that's
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  why Jesus gives us the Holy Spirit to help us, to strengthen
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  us, to give us courage. But if we just say, oh, I'm
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  weak, I can't do anything, we're denying the power of Christ.
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  And I see a lot of people doing that today.
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  And I didn't even understand this for a long time in my life.
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  But finally when I did, it really made a difference.
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  And that's when my life started changing and things started
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  happening that more spiritual things was when I actually told
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  God that I didn't want to be a hypocrite anymore.
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  I didn't want to keep on hanging on to stuff that I was hanging
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  on to and be, you know, do what he says, basically be obedient
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  to him. And Jesus says, if you love me,
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  you will obey my commands. So it takes somebody loving God
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  back to want to do this because naturally we don't want to do
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  this. We want to hang on to our sins.
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  We don't necessarily like everything that's said in here.
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  And that's God set commands in the Bible because it causes us
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  to not do things we might want to do.
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  And and so it that's a choice, we either give that up or we
• 35:52
  rebel against God. And if you think about what
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  Jesus did on the cross for us is it's like what a slap in the
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  face that would be to Jesus if we just keep on doing the sin
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  that he died for. I mean, just think about what
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  that really says to Jesus next. In Isaiah 53, it says he was
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  oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth.
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  He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as sheep before
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  its shearers is silent, so He did not open his mouth.
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  By oppression and judgement He was taken away.
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  Yet who of his generation protested?
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  Nobody protested when Jesus was supposed to be, you know, he was
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  given a choice. You know, I think it was Pilate
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  that said, you know, who should I free?
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  And the people chanted Barabbas and they wanted him to crucify
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  Jesus. So nobody stood up for Jesus.
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  They all wanted. Yet Jesus had done nothing.
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  He hadn't committed a sin. The only thing he did that they
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  were condemning him for was that he claimed to be the Son of God
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  and or people were saying that he was claiming that.
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  I don't know if he ever really stated that he he was very
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  indirect when he would say that, when he would, when he would
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  question and he would just be silent.
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  And I guess that's because he needed to be killed on the
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  cross. I remember one time where I
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  don't know if it's in a movie or not, but where it was like
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  Pilate was saying, well, aren't you just going to say something
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  for yourself? Speak up.
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  You know, this is don't you realize that I have the power to
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  let you go or and then but I think Jesus says something back
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  to him like you would only have the power just because God gave
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  it to you basically. So, but it's here's the thing.
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  I, I searched about being silent and in the New Testament,
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  Matthew, Mark and Luke all document this.
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  So I will read what they say in Matthew 26 verse 63.
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  But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, I
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  charge you underoath by the living God.
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  Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.
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  I'm going to read what comes after that because I think
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  that's going to be interesting. You have said so, Jesus replied.
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  But I say to all of you, from now on you will see the Son of
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  Man sitting at the right hand of the mighty One and coming on the
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  clouds of heaven. Isn't that interesting?
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  Like Jesus gives gives out prophecy when he's he's like he
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  knew he was going to die. That's why he said this, I
• 38:54
  imagine because he says from now on he said you have said so.
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  So he's not admitting or denying it.
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  He's just saying, well you said it and then the high priest tore
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  his clothes and said he has spoken blasphemy.
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  Why do we need any more witnesses?
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  Look, now you have heard the blasphemy.
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  What do you think? He is worthy of death, they
• 39:16
  answered. Then they spit in his face and
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  struck him with their fist. Others slapped him and said
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  Prophecy to us. Messiah who hit you?
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  So there's one commentary that said Jesus may have been
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  blindfolded at that point where they were like, you know, who is
• 39:37
  it that hit you? Then in Mark chapter 3 verse 4
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  it says then Jesus asked them, which is oh wait, that's not the
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  one. Mark chapter 14 verse 61.
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  But Jesus remained silent and gave no answer.
• 39:56
  Again the high priest asked him, are you the Messiah, the Son of
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  the Blessed One? Now here's what Mark 14 verse 62
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  says. I am, said Jesus, and you will
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  see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the mighty One
• 40:16
  and coming on the clouds of heaven.
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  So it's interesting that Matthew says you have said so, but Mark
• 40:25
  says that he says I am. And this is interesting about
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  the Gospels because each person writes what they have recalled.
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  And if you've ever listened to people, everybody has their own
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  perspective of what was said. Now, Matthew was one of the
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  disciples and I think Mark was, let's see, Mark was a friend of
• 40:53
  Peter's who heard everything like second hand.
• 40:57
  And then Luke was, he was a doctor at the time, and he
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  interviewed a bunch of people in order to put together the gospel
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  that he wrote. So each one of these gospel
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  writers had some level this is like he, you know, Mark had
• 41:14
  heard it second hand, but Matthew had heard it first hand.
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  So I guess I would lean on what Matthew said that Jesus said,
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  you know, you have said so. And then Luke says this is and
• 41:34
  now, Nope, that's not the one I was looking for.
• 41:39
  I was looking up the word silent and and find out where it was.
• 41:46
  I don't know if Luke has one, but then in Acts chapter 38
• 41:53
  verse 32, this is the passage of scripture the eunuch was
• 41:57
  reading. There was a eunuch who is coming
• 42:00
  from one town to another and he was reading the scripture and
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  then he decided he was going to get baptized when he read it.
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  But here's the scripture that the eunuch was reading.
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  He was led like a sheep to the slaughter and as a lamb before
• 42:16
  it's sheer is silent. So he did not open his mouth.
• 42:20
  So this eunuch reads this and he's in his.
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  I'll continue reading. In his humiliation, he was
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  deprived of justice. Who can speak of his
• 42:33
  descendants? For his life was taken from the
• 42:36
  earth. The eunuch asked Philip, tell me
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  please, who is the prophet talking about?
• 42:43
  Himself or someone else? Then Philip began with that very
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  passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.
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  So even at back at the in the book of Acts before 90 AD,
• 42:59
  whenever the book of Acts was written, they all knew this
• 43:04
  scripture was about Jesus and they were telling people this is
• 43:07
  about Jesus. So you know, for almost 2000
• 43:12
  years people have known that Isaiah 53 is about Jesus.
• 43:20
  As they travelled along the road, they came to some water
• 43:23
  and the eunuch said, look here is water.
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  What can stand in the way of my being baptized?
• 43:30
  And he gave orders to stop the chariot.
• 43:32
  Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and
• 43:36
  Philip baptized him. When they came out of the water,
• 43:39
  the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away and the eunuch
• 43:45
  did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.
• 43:50
  Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and was and travelled
• 43:55
  about preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached
• 44:00
  Caesarea. There's just like a lot of
• 44:03
  fascinating things that the power of God, you know, if the
• 44:07
  power of God, did he get transported?
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  I mean, like or what happened? Or was the eunuch just so
• 44:14
  excited that he didn't see where he went, but then all of a
• 44:20
  sudden he showed up in another place?
• 44:21
  Who knows what God can do, but God really can do some amazing
• 44:26
  things. I mean, just think about Jesus,
• 44:28
  the power of the Holy Spirit. Well, Jesus's authority, telling
• 44:32
  the demons to leave people but healing, getting rid of
• 44:36
  sicknesses in people just by laying his hands on them and
• 44:40
  telling them, you know, it was all for the glory of God that
• 44:44
  people were healed so that people would trust in God, would
• 44:49
  know that what Jesus was saying was true.
• 44:52
  So let's see how are we like sheep?
• 44:59
  We go astray. The Bible depicts sheep as
• 45:02
  helpless and ignorant. They do not keep themselves safe
• 45:06
  but wander into dangerous situations.
• 45:09
  So that's why we are He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
• 45:16
  John the Baptist hailed Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away
• 45:21
  the sin of the world in John chapter 129, alluding to the
• 45:28
  Passover land in Exodus 12 and to this text.
• 45:31
  Later, Philip was approached by an Ethiopian official who was
• 45:35
  reading this text from Isaiah. The official wasn't sure whom
• 45:39
  the passage was describing, but Philip explained that it was
• 45:42
  about Jesus and we just read about that.
• 45:46
  So let's see, let's read. I don't know if I I might have
• 45:55
  these things a little bit out of order, but they're all on the
• 45:59
  same topic. So here is the the part about
• 46:05
  John testifying about Jesus. This is John the Baptist
• 46:11
  testifying now. He's like a cousin of Jesus
• 46:13
  because his, I think Elizabeth was a cousin to Mary.
• 46:19
  And when Mary told Elizabeth that she was pregnant also then
• 46:26
  it said that John the Baptist who is inside of Elizabeth
• 46:31
  leaped with joy. So there was the spirit that was
• 46:34
  on him. John the Baptist had a purpose.
• 46:38
  And so here's what here's what it says.
• 46:41
  And John, this is a different John that wrote about John the
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  Baptist. The next day, John saw Jesus
• 46:49
  coming toward him and said, look, the Lamb of God who takes
• 46:54
  away the sin of the world. Well, wouldn't that kind of like
• 46:57
  a be a weird thing to hear the Lamb of God?
• 47:00
  But when you are Jewish or an Israelite, you would know about
• 47:06
  the Passover lamb who takes away the sin of the world.
• 47:10
  So John is declaring who Jesus is and he continues, it
• 47:16
  continues to say in the gospel, this is the one I meant when I
• 47:20
  said a man who comes after me has surpassed me because he was
• 47:26
  before me. So Jesus is eternal.
• 47:30
  John knows that he came after him because Mary went to
• 47:34
  Elizabeth and told Elizabeth that she was also pregnant and
• 47:39
  Elizabeth was already pregnant. The gospel then of John says I
• 47:44
  myself did not know him, but the reason I came baptizing with
• 47:49
  water was that he might be revealed to Israel.
• 47:55
  So he's baptizing with water. He's preparing people so that
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  Jesus can be revealed. Then John gave this testimony.
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  I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on
• 48:13
  him. Remember that he said that?
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  Well, that's a different subject.
• 48:18
  But anyway, this was also when God spoke to at the same time.
• 48:23
  So you had the Holy Spirit, Jesus, and the Father all
• 48:28
  present at the same time, and I myself did not know him.
• 48:33
  But the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, the
• 48:37
  man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one
• 48:43
  who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.
• 48:48
  I have seen and I testify that this is God's chosen 1.
• 48:54
  So this is one of the disciples of Jesus who's talking about
• 48:58
  John the Baptist and saying that John the Baptist said he is
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  God's chosen one. Isaiah 42 one talks about the
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  Son of God. So in in Matthew, Matthew gives
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  his account. Then Jesus came from Galilee to
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  Jordan to be baptized by John. But John tried to deter him,
• 49:21
  saying, I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me.
• 49:28
  Jesus replied, Let it be so. Now it is proper for us to do
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  this, to fulfil all righteousness.
• 49:36
  Then John consented. As soon as Jesus was baptized,
• 49:41
  he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was
• 49:45
  opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and a
• 49:50
  lighting on him. And a voice from heaven said,
• 49:54
  This is my son whom I love, and with him I am well pleased.
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  So God himself is telling everyone, Jesus is this is God's
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  Son. At that time Jesus came.
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  And this is for what Mark says in the gospel.
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  At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was
• 50:19
  baptized by John in the Jordan. Just as Jesus was coming up out
• 50:24
  of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit
• 50:28
  descending on him like a dove, and a voice came from heaven.
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  You are my son whom I love with you.
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  I am well pleased. So there's the second
• 50:41
  documentation, There's a third documentation by Luke.
• 50:46
  When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized
• 50:50
  too. And as he was praying, heaven
• 50:53
  was opened. And I let's see.
• 50:57
  And the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove,
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  and a voice came from heaven. You are my son, whom I love with
• 51:07
  you. I am well pleased so lots of
• 51:12
  testimonies about Jesus and God. Always had multiple witnesses to
• 51:18
  prove something was true. So then it gets into John
• 51:24
  talking about the Passover lamb. And if you were Jewish, you
• 51:29
  would know about the Passover lamb.
• 51:30
  But like for me, when I first started reading the Bible, I
• 51:33
  didn't understand this. I, I didn't know, Maybe I heard
• 51:36
  it, but I didn't understand this before.
• 51:39
  So I'm going to read Exodus chapter 12 and just go through
• 51:43
  it because it's it's somewhat important to understand the
• 51:48
  Passover. So the Lord said this is going
• 51:51
  way back in time. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron
• 51:55
  in in Egypt. So the Israelites are slaves in
• 51:59
  Egypt and God's trying to rescue them via Moses and Aaron.
• 52:05
  This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of
• 52:09
  your year. So this is how the the calendar
• 52:13
  kind of started that in the springtime.
• 52:16
  This is supposed to be the first month for the Israelites.
• 52:18
  There's two different calendars. I think 1's a secular calendar
• 52:22
  and one's a religious calendar. And so they're off by about six
• 52:26
  months, which is really interesting and makes it
• 52:29
  confusing when you're trying to interpret scriptures and dates
• 52:33
  and times and stuff like that. But going back to Exodus, tell
• 52:37
  the whole community of Israel that on the 10th day of this
• 52:40
  month, each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for
• 52:44
  each household. If any household is too small
• 52:47
  for a whole lamb, they must share with their nearest
• 52:49
  neighbor. Haven't taken into account the
• 52:51
  number of people that are there. You are to determine the amount
• 52:54
  of the lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
• 52:57
  The animals you choose must be year old males without defect.
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  That's important. Without defect.
• 53:04
  So that's why Jesus is compared to the Lamb of God.
• 53:07
  He is without sin, without defect.
• 53:11
  OK, continuing. And you may take them from sheep
• 53:14
  or the goats, take care of them until the 14th day of the month,
• 53:19
  when all the members of the community of Israel must
• 53:22
  slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of
• 53:26
  the blood and put it on the sides and the tops of the door
• 53:29
  frames of the houses where they eat the lambs.
• 53:33
  So they're putting blood on the doorways.
• 53:36
  It's like this is also symbolic, like Jesus is the way, like
• 53:42
  that's you go through the door of Jesus like that is, and it's
• 53:47
  the Passover. Like you'll hear more about it
• 53:51
  that same night. They are to eat the meat roasted
• 53:54
  over the fire, along with bitter herbs and bread made without
• 53:57
  yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or
• 53:59
  boiled in water, but roasted over fire.
• 54:02
  Fire with the head, legs, and internal organs.
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  Do not leave any of it till morning.
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  If some of it is left to morning, you must burn it.
• 54:09
  This is how you were to eat it, with your cloak tucked in your
• 54:12
  belt, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand.
• 54:15
  Eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.
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  On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down
• 54:24
  every first born of both people and animals, and I will bring
• 54:29
  judgement on all the gods of Egypt.
• 54:32
  I am the Lord. So this was a protection, like
• 54:37
  the blood of the Lamb was protection from their first
• 54:40
  borns being taken, died, you know, dead being killed.
• 54:46
  And just like Jesus's blood keeps us from being killed
• 54:51
  eternally separated from God. The blood will be a sign for you
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  on the houses where you live. And when I see the blood, I will
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  Passover you. No destructive plague will touch
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  you when I strike Egypt. So the way these people were
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  apparently killed was by a plague.
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  And look at like God can protect us from plagues.
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  The blood of Jesus protects us in that way.
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  This is the day you are to commemorate for the generations
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  to come. You shall celebrate it as a
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  festival to the Lord, a lasting ordinance.
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  So God wanted people to remember this.
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  Why? Because this was going to.
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  They'd keep doing it over and over, and eventually, someday
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  they will realize this is about Jesus for seven days.
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  I think there's significance when you think about Daniel's
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  final week. For seven days you were to eat
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  bread made without yeast. On the first day, remove the
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  yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast
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  in it from the first day through the 7th must be cut off from
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  Israel. On the first day, hold the
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  sacred assembly and another one on the 17th day.
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  Do no work on these days except to prepare food for everyone to
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  eat. That is all you may they do.
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  Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was
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  on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt.
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  Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for generations to
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  come. And then it continues.
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  Furthermore, so I won't read, I'll I'll jump to verse 29.
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  At midnight, the Lord struck down all the first born in
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  Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh who sat on the throne to
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  the first born of the prisoner who is in the dungeon, and the
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  first born of all the livestock as well.
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  Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up
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  during the night and there was loud wailing in Egypt for there
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  was not a house without someone dead during the night.
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  Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said up leave my people, you
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  and the Israelites go worship the Lord as you requested.
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  So this is how they were able to leave Egypt and come out of
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  slavery because of the death that occurred on all the first
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  born. So it's just like that's how we
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  will be able to leave the mortal life and become immortal by the
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  blood of the Lamb, the blood of Jesus that enables us to do
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  that. And we receive the Holy Spirit
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  that we can be raised from dead or in and alive.
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  I mean, some people when Jesus returns, they will still be
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  living and they will not even experience death.
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  The Scripture tells us that too. So I think I read enough about
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  just the Passover. There's more to it, but I didn't
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  read all of it. But I think people should
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  understand that part of it. And then let's see, we we've
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  read about Philip in the book of Acts and what he did.
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  And then I will continue to read what the study Bible says.
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  Well, I'll go back, I'll finish up chapter 53 from Isaiah, then
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  read the study Bible questions and answers and then anything
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  additional. So for he was cut off from the
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  land of the living for the transgressions of my people.
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  He was punished. That's about Jesus.
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  He was assigned a grave with the wicked and with the rich in his
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  death, though he had not. He had done no violence, nor was
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  any deceit in his mouth, yet it was the Lord's will to crush him
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  and cause him to suffer. And though the Lord makes his
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  life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and
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  prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his
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  hand. After he suffered, he will see
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  the light of life and be satisfied by his knowledge.
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  My righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear
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  their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a
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  portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the
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  strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was
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  numbered with transgressors. For he bore the sin of many and
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  made intercession for the transgressors.
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  That's the end of chapter 53. Now the study Bible says he was
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  led like a lamb to the slaughter.
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  John the Baptist hailed Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away
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  the sin of the world, alluding to the Passover lamb.
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  I've read that already. OK, so we read that he had done
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  no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.
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  When Peter later wrote to suffering Christians, he used
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  this verse from Isaiah as an image of righteous suffering.
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  And silent endurance and that is found in, let's see, first
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  Peter. I actually, I didn't have this
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  scripture called up, but I will. I'm going to go to that right
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  now. So it's first Peter, chapter 2
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  verse 22. It said He had committed no sin
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  and no deceit was found in His mouth.
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  When they hurled their insults at Him, He did not retaliate.
• 1:00:47
  When He suffered, He made no threats.
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  Instead, He entrusted himself to Him who judges justly.
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  He Himself bore our sins in His body, so that we might die to
• 1:00:56
  sins and live for righteousness. By His wounds you have been
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  healed, for you were like sheep going astray, but now you have
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  returned to the shepherd and the overseer of the souls.
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  I believe I did read that one already.
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  What type of offering was this? A guilt offering is the
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  sacrificial system of the Israelites.
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  A guilt or an offering in which the offender sacrificed a ram
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  was made when restitution was required.
• 1:01:26
  According to Leviticus chapter 5 verses 14 through chapter 6
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  verse seven, it was God's intent that the servant become an
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  atoning sacrifice for sin. And here's where we will read
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  like I'm going to read Hebrews 10 it because verse 4 says it is
• 1:01:47
  impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away
• 1:01:52
  sins. So I think to read chapter 10 is
• 1:01:58
  pretty important, so I'm going to a portion of it at least.
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  So beginning at chapter 10, verse one, the law is only a
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  shadow of the good things that are coming, not the reality
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  themselves. For this reason, it can never,
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  by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make
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  perfect those who draw near to worship.
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  So the high priest, all these sacrifices, none of these things
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  make somebody perfect, even though they are worshipping in
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  verse 2. Otherwise would they not have
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  stopped being offered? So if it ever made somebody
• 1:02:38
  perfect, they would have all stopped, right?
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  For the worshippers would have been cleansed once for all, and
• 1:02:46
  would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
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  I think that's interesting. So maybe when we know we are
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  forgiven for our sins, we no longer feel the guilt of it.
• 1:02:58
  But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.
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  It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away
• 1:03:06
  the sins. Therefore, when Christ came into
• 1:03:08
  the world, he said sacrifice, an offering you did not desire, but
• 1:03:13
  a body you prepared for me with burnt offerings and sin
• 1:03:17
  offerings. You were not pleased.
• 1:03:20
  Then I said, here I am. It is written about me in the
• 1:03:24
  scroll. I have come to do your will, my
• 1:03:28
  God. That is from Psalm 40, verse 6
• 1:03:31
  through 8. First he said, sacrifices and
• 1:03:35
  offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not
• 1:03:39
  desire, nor were you pleased with them, though they were
• 1:03:42
  offered in accordance with the law.
• 1:03:44
  Then he said, Here I am, I have come to do your will.
• 1:03:48
  He sets aside the first to establish the second, and by
• 1:03:54
  that will we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the
• 1:03:59
  body of Jesus Christ. Once for all, day after day,
• 1:04:06
  every priest stands and performs his religious duties.
• 1:04:09
  Again and again he offers the same sacrifices which can never
• 1:04:14
  take away sins. But when the priest had offered
• 1:04:18
  for all time 1 sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right
• 1:04:24
  hand of God. That's Jesus.
• 1:04:26
  And since that time, he waits for his enemies to be made his
• 1:04:32
  footstool. For one by one sacrifice he is
• 1:04:37
  made perfect forever, those who are being made holy.
• 1:04:43
  So pay attention to that one sacrifice he is made perfect
• 1:04:47
  forever. Not those who are perfect now,
• 1:04:50
  but those who are being made holy.
• 1:04:54
  So that's something, you know, that if when we are born again,
• 1:04:56
  it's the Holy Spirit that begins to change.
• 1:04:59
  The desires in our heart makes us holy.
• 1:05:03
  It's a process. And we won't be perfected until
• 1:05:06
  Jesus returns, and then we receive immortal bodies.
• 1:05:10
  The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this.
• 1:05:15
  First he says, this is the covenant I will make with them.
• 1:05:19
  After that time, says the Lord, I will put my laws in their
• 1:05:23
  hearts, and I will write them on their minds.
• 1:05:26
  Then he adds, their sins and lawless acts I will remember no
• 1:05:30
  more. And where these have been
• 1:05:32
  forgiven, sacrifice for sin is no longer necessary.
• 1:05:39
  So that is talking about Jesus and how.
• 1:05:44
  And then in Hebrews Chapter 9, it's also interesting because
• 1:05:54
  it's talking about the blood of Christ when we're talking about
• 1:05:57
  the Passover lamb. So it's this might help
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  hopefully, but to explain this, but when Christ came as high
• 1:06:07
  priest, so remember he as a priest made a sacrifice and then
• 1:06:11
  he sits down at the the right hand of the Father.
• 1:06:13
  That's what Jesus he came as high priest of the good things
• 1:06:16
  that are now already here. He went through the greater and
• 1:06:19
  more perfect Tabernacle that is not made with human hands, that
• 1:06:24
  is to say, not a part of this creation.
• 1:06:26
  So he the veil was torn when Jesus died on the cross, and
• 1:06:31
  Jesus entered back into the Kingdom of God when he
• 1:06:35
  resurrected. So he did not enter by means of
• 1:06:39
  blood and goats and calves, but he entered the most holy place,
• 1:06:44
  God's, God's current place in heaven once for all by his own
• 1:06:50
  blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.
• 1:06:55
  The blood of bulls of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer
• 1:07:00
  sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean, sanctify
• 1:07:05
  them so that they are outwardly clean.
• 1:07:10
  How much more than will the blood of Christ, who through the
• 1:07:14
  eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our
• 1:07:19
  consciences from acts that lead to death so that we may serve
• 1:07:25
  the living God? So think about this.
• 1:07:27
  The blood of Christ, through the eternal Spirit, Jesus offered
• 1:07:35
  himself as a sacrifice. He was unblemished.
• 1:07:37
  He was without sin to God. And he cleanses our conscience
• 1:07:44
  from acts or sins that lead to death.
• 1:07:48
  That's what acts that lead to death are sins so that we may
• 1:07:52
  serve the living God. He removes that from our minds
• 1:07:56
  so that we may serve. He no longer sees us as that,
• 1:08:00
  but now we are servants of God. This is, you know, again, where
• 1:08:04
  you take up your cross. You then serve God as gratitude.
• 1:08:10
  For this reason, Christ is the mediator of the new covenant,
• 1:08:14
  where He's the sacrifice and not the animal, that those who are
• 1:08:17
  called may receive the promised eternal inheritance now that he
• 1:08:23
  has died as a ransom. So He's the payment to set them
• 1:08:28
  free from sins they committed under the first covenant.
• 1:08:32
  So the 10 commandments shows us all the sins we committed, and
• 1:08:37
  Jesus died as a ransom, as the payment, so that we are set free
• 1:08:44
  from the sins committed under that.
• 1:08:49
  In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of
• 1:08:53
  the one who made it, because a will is in force only when
• 1:08:58
  somebody has died. It never takes effect while the
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  one who has made it is living. This is why even the first
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  covenant was not into effect without blood.
• 1:09:12
  When Moses had proclaimed every command of the law to all the
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  people, he took the blood of calves together with water,
• 1:09:18
  scarlet wool, and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll
• 1:09:22
  and all the people. He said This is the blood of the
• 1:09:25
  covenant which God has commanded you to keep the 10 commandments.
• 1:09:31
  In the same way He sprinkled the blood both the Tabernacle and
• 1:09:34
  everything used in its ceremonies.
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  In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed
• 1:09:41
  with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no
• 1:09:45
  forgiveness. It was necessary then for copies
• 1:09:50
  of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices,
• 1:09:54
  but the heavenly things themselves with better
• 1:09:57
  sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a
• 1:10:01
  sanctuary made with human hands. That was only a copy of the true
• 1:10:05
  1. He entered heaven itself now to
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  appear for us in God's presence. Nor did he enter heaven to offer
• 1:10:16
  himself again and again the way the High Priest enters the holy
• 1:10:21
  place every year, with blood that is not his own.
• 1:10:24
  Otherwise Christ would have to had had suffered many times
• 1:10:28
  since the creation of the world. But He has appeared once for all
• 1:10:34
  at the culmination of the ages to do away with sin by the
• 1:10:38
  sacrifice of Himself. Just as people are destined to
• 1:10:43
  die once and after that to face judgement.
• 1:10:46
  That's something else to know that you know, we are in a race
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  against time. When we die, we face judgement.
• 1:10:54
  There is no purgatory. Just as people are destined to
• 1:10:57
  die once and after that to face judgement, so Christ was
• 1:11:02
  sacrificed once to take away the sins of many and he will appear
• 1:11:07
  a second time. So this is talking about Jesus
• 1:11:11
  coming again not to bear sin but to bring salvation to those who
• 1:11:19
  are waiting for Him. So when he comes again it is to
• 1:11:25
  bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
• 1:11:29
  That kind of supports the pre wrath opinion about what happens
• 1:11:36
  when Jesus returns. He, those who are prepared and
• 1:11:40
  are waiting for him, those who have been born again, Jesus is
• 1:11:45
  going to gather and take with him so that they do not
• 1:11:49
  experience wrath. That's something.
• 1:11:55
  And then in first John chapter 2 and also chapter 4, there's a
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  couple of verses. He is the atoning sacrifice for
• 1:12:04
  our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the
• 1:12:09
  whole world. And then in 1 John chapter 4,
• 1:12:14
  this is love. Not that we love God, but that
• 1:12:18
  He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our
• 1:12:24
  sins. Hopefully the sacrifice for sins
• 1:12:29
  is sinking in. In Romans chapter 3 verse 25,
• 1:12:33
  God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement through
• 1:12:39
  the shedding of His blood to be received by faith.
• 1:12:43
  He did this to demonstrate His righteousness because in His
• 1:12:47
  forbearance He had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.
• 1:12:54
  There will be eventual an eventual time where those sins
• 1:12:57
  will be punished. But God is patient and merciful
• 1:13:02
  and he's, he's wanting the opportunity for everyone to be
• 1:13:07
  able to turn to him before that day that Christ returns.
• 1:13:15
  So for this reason, he had to be made like them.
• 1:13:20
  This is Jesus being made like them, fully human in every way,
• 1:13:25
  in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high
• 1:13:29
  priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for
• 1:13:35
  the sins of the people. It's a life for a life, right?
• 1:13:42
  Let's see. I think that's and then let's
• 1:13:45
  see in Romans, in Romans chapter 8.
• 1:13:49
  Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are
• 1:13:55
  in Christ Jesus. It's important to know what in
• 1:13:59
  Christ Jesus means because through Christ Jesus, the law of
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  the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin
• 1:14:12
  and death. So there is a law that says if
• 1:14:16
  we sin, we have death, but the Spirit gives us life and sets us
• 1:14:22
  free. We need to receive the Spirit.
• 1:14:24
  Just like Jesus said, you must be born again, you must receive
• 1:14:27
  the Spirit first. There's repentance.
• 1:14:29
  John gave baptism for the repentance of sin.
• 1:14:35
  Jesus gave a baptism of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:14:39
  So this also solidifies how Jesus is the way, the truth and
• 1:14:43
  the life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him.
• 1:14:47
  We have to go through Jesus or we don't receive the Holy Spirit
• 1:14:53
  for what the Law was powerless to do.
• 1:14:56
  And because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending
• 1:15:00
  His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin
• 1:15:04
  offering, and so he condemned sin in the flesh.
• 1:15:10
  God is being legalistic by having Jesus die on the cross in
• 1:15:16
  order that the righteous requirement of the law might be
• 1:15:20
  fully met in US. God doesn't bend the rules of
• 1:15:24
  the law. He follows the law who do not
• 1:15:26
  live according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
• 1:15:30
  OK, this is really important in order that the righteous
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  requirement of the law might be fully met in US.
• 1:15:36
  So there's a righteous requirement in the law to be
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  fully met in US who do not live according to the flesh, but
• 1:15:46
  according to the Spirit. So if we're living to the flesh,
• 1:15:51
  it it says who? Those who do not live according
• 1:15:54
  to the vesh, but according to the Spirit.
• 1:15:56
  Again, like Jesus said, we have to be born of the Spirit If we
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  are living like according to the Spirit, there is going to be a
• 1:16:04
  difference from living according to the flesh.
• 1:16:07
  If you have any confusion about that, what that is, go to
• 1:16:10
  Galatians chapter 5 and read. There's a paragraph about those
• 1:16:14
  who live according to the world or to the flesh.
• 1:16:17
  There's a paragraph about those who live by the Spirit and talks
• 1:16:21
  about there's no condemnation for those who live by the
• 1:16:23
  Spirit. So that's something really
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  important for every person because a lot of people call
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  themselves Christians, but it's something for us to look at for
• 1:16:34
  ourselves. Are we living according to the
• 1:16:36
  flesh? Are we living according to the
• 1:16:37
  Spirit? God will give us the power.
• 1:16:40
  God will give us the Holy Spirit when we sincerely want it, But
• 1:16:43
  we have to desire that. Those who live according to the
• 1:16:48
  flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires, but
• 1:16:54
  those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds
• 1:16:57
  set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh
• 1:17:02
  is death. So anybody who just says with
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  their mouth that they're a Christian but lives according to
• 1:17:10
  the flesh, right here in Romans, it says the mind governed by the
• 1:17:15
  flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life
• 1:17:22
  and peace. The mind governed by the flesh
• 1:17:27
  is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law,
• 1:17:32
  nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of
• 1:17:37
  the flesh cannot please God. You who have however, are not in
• 1:17:45
  the realm of flesh, but are in the realm of the Spirit, if
• 1:17:50
  indeed the Spirit of God lives in you.
• 1:17:54
  And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not
• 1:17:59
  belong to Christ. Remember that Jesus and the 10
• 1:18:03
  virgins like he says, depart from me.
• 1:18:05
  I never knew you, but these people thought they had
• 1:18:08
  prepared, but they didn't have oil.
• 1:18:11
  Oil is anointing like anointing of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:18:15
  Jesus is giving warning. If we don't have the anointing
• 1:18:19
  of the Holy Spirit, it will be turned away when Jesus comes to
• 1:18:23
  rescue his people. But if Christ is in you, then
• 1:18:28
  even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the
• 1:18:32
  Spirit gives life because of righteousness.
• 1:18:36
  And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is
• 1:18:40
  living in you. I thought this was important
• 1:18:43
  when I first read it. The Holy Spirit is how Jesus
• 1:18:46
  raised from the dead and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus
• 1:18:52
  from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the
• 1:18:57
  dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his
• 1:19:04
  Spirit who lives in you. Remember Jesus said you must be
• 1:19:09
  born again. We have to have the Holy Spirit.
• 1:19:13
  Hopefully this is emphasizing you this to people.
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  Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation.
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  But it is not to the flesh to live according, but it is not to
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  the flesh to live according to it.
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  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die.
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  For if you live according to the flesh, you will die.
• 1:19:39
  But if by the Spirit you again, remember this by the Spirit, but
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  if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body,
• 1:19:51
  you will live. So it's, it's us relying on God,
• 1:19:56
  it's us being like stating that out loud.
• 1:20:00
  Like God, I want your will to be done in my life and letting God
• 1:20:06
  send his Holy Spirit. Then we will live, then we will
• 1:20:09
  have eternal life, then we won't be turned away from Jesus.
• 1:20:12
  This is how we can know before we die where we are going to be,
• 1:20:16
  because it is a choice that we make.
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  And when we might want sin, all we have to do is pray to God
• 1:20:24
  when the temptation is strong, that God help us in that moment.
• 1:20:29
  Dear Jesus, help me, you know in that moment.
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  And it says that God always gives us a way out and the Holy
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  Spirit strengthens us and gives us courage.
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  So we overcome sin by the power of Jesus.
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  We don't stay in our sin. Going back to what Paul said in
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  Romans chapter 8, for those who are led by the Spirit of God are
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  called the children of God. So we are the children of God.
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  Now listen to this. The Spirit you received does not
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  make you slaves so that you live in fear again.
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  Rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to
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  sonship. And by him we cry, ABBA Father.
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  So God is our Father. The Spirit himself testifies
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  with our spirit that we are God's children.
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  Now. If we are children, then we are
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  heirs, prayers of God and Co heirs with Christ if if indeed
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  we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in
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  his glory. So pick up your own cross.
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  That's what it says. If you're going to follow Jesus,
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  you have to pick up your own cross.
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  I don't know if I should. There's a whole bunch more that
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  talks about us being conquerors in chapter 8, Romans chapter 8.
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  You might want to read it if you're not really familiar with
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  it and just ponder and meditate on it and pray to God about it
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  because it's so important for us to receive the Holy Spirit.
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  Let's see in Second Corinthians chapter 5, verse one.
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  For we know that if the earthly tent we lived in we live in is
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  destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in
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  heaven, not built by human hands.
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  Meanwhile, we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our
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  heavenly dwelling. Because we are clothed, we will
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  not be found naked. For while we were in this tent
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  we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be
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  unclothed, but to be clothed instead with our heavenly
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  dwelling, so that what is mortal may swallow up, may be swallowed
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  up by life. Now the one who has fashioned us
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  for the very purpose is God, who has given us the Spirit as a
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  deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.
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  Therefore, we are always confident and know that as long
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  as we as long as we are at home in the body, we are.
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  As long as we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord,
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  for we live by faith, not by sight.
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  We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the
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  body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please
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  Him whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
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  For we must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so
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  that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done
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  while in the body, whether good or bad.
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  I think this is important, the ministry of reconciliation,
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  because this is really important.
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  And since then we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to
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  persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and
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  I hope it is also plain to your conscience.
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  We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are
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  giving you an opportunity to take pride in us so that you can
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  answer those who take pride in what they have seen rather than
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  in what is in their heart. If we are out of our mind, as
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  some say it is for God, if we are in our right mind, it's for
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  you. For Christ's love compels us,
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  because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore
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  all died, and he died for all, that those who live should no
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  longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and
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  was raised up again. So he died for all, and those
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  who live no longer live for themselves.
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  We're no longer being selfish, but we live for him who died for
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  us and was raised up. So from now on regard no one
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  from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ
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  in this way, we do so no longer. So before we actually our eyes
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  are opened, we see Christ from a worldly perspective, but then
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  when we really get to know what this is all about, we see Him
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  differently. Therefore, if anyone is in
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  Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, and the
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  new is here again. We are changed, we are born
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  again, we become, we live by the Spirit.
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  We don't live according to the flesh anymore.
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  All this is all this is from God who reconciled us to himself
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  through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, that
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  God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting
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  people's sins against them. And he has committed to us the
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  message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's
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  ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.
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  We implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.
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  God made him who had no sin for us, so that in him we might
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  become the righteousness of God. This implies a change.
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  I mean, I'm commenting this implies a change in him.
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  We might become the righteousness of God Jesus to
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  bore our sin. He bore the wrath of God, the
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  punishment that we would have received and would have been
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  eternally separated from God if Jesus had not died on the cross.
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  So that if we are in Him, then we become the righteousness of
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  God. God says be holy because I am
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  holy. A lot of people forget that
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  today. And then in first John chapter 2
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  it says He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins and not
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  only for ours but also the sins of the whole world.
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  So this applies to every single living human being that God
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  created. And in first John chapter 4
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  verse 10, he says this is love, not that we loved God, but that
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  he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our
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  sins. And then let's see this is a
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  little bit more about Jesus in your relationships with one
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  another have the same mindset as Christ Jesus, who being in very
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  nature God. So Jesus was very Nate by his
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  nature God because he's the son of God did not consider equality
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  with God something to be used to his own advantage.
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  So he rather he made himself nothing by taking the very
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  nature of a servant being made in human likeness.
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  So he was fully God, fully man, and being found in appearance as
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  a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death, even
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  death on a cross. Therefore God exalted him to the
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  highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
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  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on
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  earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledged that
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  Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
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  Lord is Jesus Lord over our lives?
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  Does he tell us what to do and do we obey him?
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  That's what it means. Is he Lord over your life?
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  Are you doing what Jesus said? If you are, then he is Lord over
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  your life. If you're not, you're rebelling.
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  And it said in the prior chapters that I was reading that
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  just says death all over it. So, and here this is probably
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  like a closing part, but I'm going to read a few more
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  questions and answers from the study Bible too.
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  But Christ crucified is God's power and wisdom.
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  For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are
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  perishing. Think about all the people that
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  mock and the people who deny that Jesus is the Son of God.
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  It's saying right here, the message of the cross is
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  foolishness to those who are perishing.
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  So if you're mocking it, that means you are perishing.
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  But to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
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  For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
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  the intelligent of the intelligent.
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  I will frustrate. So this, if you're trying to get
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  logic to make sense of this, it's going to frustrate you.
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  You have to come at through faith, and it says by faith we
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  are saved. Where is the wise person?
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  Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this
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  age? Has not God made foolish the
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  wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God
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  the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased
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  through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who
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  believe. Jews demand signs and Greeks
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  look for wisdom, but we believe Christ crucified.
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  A stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.
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  But to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks,
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  Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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  For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the
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  weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
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  Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were
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  called. Not many of you were wise by
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  human standards. Not many were influential, not
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  many were of noble birth, But God chose the foolish things of
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  the world to shame the wise. God chose the weak things of the
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  world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of
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  the world, of this world, and the despised things and the
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  things that are not to nullify the things that are, so that no
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  one may boast before him. It is because of Him that you
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  are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God,
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  that is our righteousness, holiness and redemption.
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  Therefore, as it is written, let the one who boast, boast in the
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  Lord. So even you know when Jesus
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  came, he you know what is good that came from Nazareth was one
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  of the first followers comments about where Jesus came from.
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  Jesus even took a lowly position.
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  He's the Son of God. He has authority over all the
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  entire earth, but he allowed people to mock him, to spit in
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  his face, to crucify him. Talk about humbleness that Jesus
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  did and he did everything according to the Father's will.
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  He only spoke with the Father, you know, according to what the
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  Father said, He only speaks what he hears from the Father.
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  So Jesus did like an amazing thing for us and we really need
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  to understand what He did. There's a few more questions
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  than the answers that I will read.
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  What type of offering was this? Well, I think I read that how
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  would God reward his suffering servant?
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  Though the servant Messiah would die in disgrace, great honor
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  awaited him. By raising him from the dead,
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  God would prolong his days and enable him to see the light of
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  life. God would reward his servant as
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  if he were conquering. Were a conquering king sharing
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  in the spoils of a great victory?
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  And then why did God 'cause his servant to suffer?
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  Isaiah is emphasizing the Lord's will, God's purpose.
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  Something great was going to happen.
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  Cyrus would make it happen, and the servant would make it
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  happen. But it would happen because God
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  willed it though Isaiah. Isaiah chapters 40 through 66
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  was clearly written for the sake of the Jews in Babylon.
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  Captivity. The entire world is part of this
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  drama too. In one sense or another, all
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  humanity is in captivity. Captivity Ascent.
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  It is God's purpose to set us free.
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  The whole Bible is a phenomenal love story.
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  God created people. People turned away.
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  God wooed people back. Israel is a microcosm of
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  humanity. God played the love scene again
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  and again through Moses, David, Elijah, Hosea, Isaiah, and
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  others. But too often his love went
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  unrequited. The sin of rejecting divine love
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  required sacrifice, and God decided to make the sacrifice
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  himself. He sent his innocent servant to
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  bear the weight of the world's sin.
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  This cleared the way for a new relationship between God and the
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  people he loved so much. It might seem gruesome on the
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  face of it, even unjust and bloodthirsty, but it was God's
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  purpose and it was necessary as a payment for sin.
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  The suffering of God's servant was the key to God's plan.
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  God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting
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  people's sins against them. It's so important for us to know
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  why Jesus's death on the cross is so significant to all of us.
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  Hopefully it's clear to everyone now.
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  And if it's not clear to anybody that you know, but this made it
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  clear to you, please forward this to somebody else who is
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  struggling with this because we all need to know about this
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  because we all need to report and turn to God and ask for the
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  Holy Spirit. Ask Jesus for the Holy Spirit to
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  start changing her life and getting us ready to meet Him.