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Luke chapter 7 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Luke Chapter 7. Let us pray.
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  We thank you Lord, for this beautiful day.
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  We thank you Lord, for waking us up.
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  Thank you God, that you are so grand and so mighty and so
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  powerful. Lord, we come and worship you in
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  spirit and truth. God, we say come, come soon.
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  Yes, or we wait upon you. Lord, help us to wait.
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  Well, we see that you are dawning on the horizon.
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  We see, Father, the birth pains. We see, God, that this world is
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  heading in the exact direction that you said it would, Lord.
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  And so as we wait, Father, help us to wait well.
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  Help us to be the wise virgins who keep our lamps full.
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  Help us to trim our Wicks, Father.
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  Help us to see that you are coming.
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  Help us to expectantly wait upon you, God.
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  We do wait. And we are asking, God, that
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  today you'll fuel us for the journey, that You'll give us our
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  marching orders. You'll help us to see the world
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  all around us the way that you do.
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  Give us a heart for this generation.
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  Give us a heart, Father, for our families.
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  Give us a heart, Lord, to take the whole word to the whole
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  world. Father, I pray that the gospel
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  will be preached on every continent.
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  I pray for a massive revival. Lord, let it break out.
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  Lord, let us confess our our sins to you.
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  Let us turn from those wicked ways.
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  Help us to receive our healing God and we acknowledge that
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  Jesus is Lord. We acknowledge that Jesus was
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  raised from the dead and ascended to the right hand of
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  you Father. So Lord, it's all about King
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  Jesus. It's always been about King
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  Jesus and the spirit and the bride say, come, yes, Maranatha,
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  come soon. You have come, You are coming,
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  You will come. We love you.
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  Lord Jesus, open our eyes up to your wonderful words today.
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  In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray.
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the
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  people, he entered into Capernaum.
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  So here we're going to see the centurions servant healed.
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  Verse 2. And a certain centurion servant,
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  who was dear unto him was sick and ready to die.
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  Verse 3 And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the
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  elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal
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  his servant. For and when they came to Jesus,
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  they besought him instantly, saying that he was worthy for
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  whom he should do this. Five, For he loved our nation
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  and he has built us a synagogue. So very interesting points here.
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  This centurion would have been a man who was over at least 100
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  soldiers. We could see that he was a
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  gentile and he had a servant here.
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  But this servant is sick and they're coming and trying to
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  give some kind of pedigree of what the centurion has done or
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  what the servant has done here and telling them, look, he has
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  built us a synagogue. He loves our nation.
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  So very interesting points here. We cannot come to Jesus with our
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  pedigree. All of our righteousness is
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  filthy rags unto him. But look how it moves the heart
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  of Jesus. Look how he doesn't rebuke them
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  for trying to give some kind of pedigree, some kind of resume of
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  all the righteous things that he has done.
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  He sees the faith, friends, and that is the same for us today.
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  He looks at your heart, He looks at your motives, He sees that
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  you are in desperate need of a touch, in desperate need to be
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  healed. Today.
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  Reach out and grab the hem of his garment and be healed. 6 And
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  Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from
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  the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him,
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  Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy that you
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  should enter under my roof. 7 Wherefore neither thought I
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  myself worthy to come unto you. But say a word, and my servant
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  will be healed. So he knows the power of Christ.
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  He knows that He is the anointed.
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  He knows that He is the Son of God.
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  He knows that all power is available to him, and he did not
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  think it was worthy for him to come under his roof. 8 For I
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  also am a man set under authority, having under me
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  soldiers. And I say unto one, Go, and he
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  goes, and another come, and he comes, And to my servant, Do
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  this, and he does it. 9 When Jesus heard these things, he
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  marveled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people
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  that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great
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  faith. No, not in Israel.
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  So we know that this centurion's faith is enough for his servant
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  to be healed. And all he had to do is speak a
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  word. He did not even have to go into
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  the house to heal this man. Jesus's power and Jesus's
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  healing power is available to you today.
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  Friends, this is not just some biblical story way back when.
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  This is for today. This is for now.
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  This is for our our friends. We can receive the healing from
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  on high. Pray for the healing from on
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  high. We should always assume that
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  Jesus desires to heal, but whenever he doesn't, don't try
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  to change your theology. Don't try to switch up how you
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  view God because the healing didn't come.
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  Blessed are those who are not offended by Him. 10 And they
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  that were sent returning to the house, found the servant whole
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  that had been sick. Of course he was whole.
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  Jesus said it, and that settles it, and that's all we need to
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  know. 11 And it came to pass. The day after that he went into
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  a city called Name, and many of his disciples went with him, and
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  much people. 12 Now when he came near to the gate of the city,
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  behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his
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  mother, and she was a widow, and much people of the city was with
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  her. This spelled certain destruction
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  for this lady. She was not only a widow, but
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  she had lost her only son. This was her way of actually
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  escaping poverty, and so the Lord had compassion upon her. 13
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  And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said
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  unto her, Do not weep. 14 And he came, and he touched the buyer,
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  and there those that bore him stood still, And he said, Young
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  man, I say unto you, Arise. 15 And he that was dead set up and
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  began to speak, and he delivered him to his mother.
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  Think about that for a second. Jesus just says a word.
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  And the man sits up and he's made whole and he's well and
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  he's alive. Jesus brought him back from the
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  dead friends. What an amazing story.
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  And he was given to his mother, and he started to speak.
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  You can see it. It's a beautiful picture. 16 And
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  there came fear on all, and they glorified God, saying that a
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  great prophet is risen up among us, and that God has visited his
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  people. 17 And this rumor of him went forth throughout all Judea
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  and throughout all the region round and about. 18 And the
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  disciples of John showed him of all these things.
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  So here you can see that it's stirring in the city and is
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  stirring in the cities abroad, that a great prophet has come on
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  the scene and that God has visited them.
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  But it's much more than a prophet, friends.
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  They were visited by the Son of God.
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  They had God in their midst, friends in human form, and the
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  words of Christ mirror and mimic the heart of God.
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  And we need to know that all of His words, every single one of
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  them, hold paramount value for your life and for this time and
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  for such a time as this, and for all of creation and for every
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  land and every people group and every language.
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  The words of Christ are paramount.
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  Everything hangs in the balance on the words of Christ.
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  The words of Christ are the words of God Almighty.
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  And we can see here that what He is saying is not just a great
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  prophet, and it is not just that God has visited the city, but
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  God is with them. Emmanuel 19 And John calling
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  unto him, two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Are
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  you he that should come? Or look we for another look at
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  John. He, John is in prison and John
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  must have been in this moment very discouraged because Jesus
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  Christ has all authority. Jesus Christ has all power and
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  John is still locked up in the prison.
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  And John sent his disciples to ask Jesus if he was the one.
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  Now you have to understand, John was the forerunner his whole
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  life. He was a Nazarite his whole
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  life. The purpose of his whole life,
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  from Gabriel visiting Zechariah in the temple, his whole life
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  was to tell people of the Messiah arriving on the scene.
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  But look at how in this moment he was discouraged.
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  Why? Because Jesus was not behaving
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  in the way that he needed him to.
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  And we would do well, friends, to remember this moment in the
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  context of the Bible is that sometimes Jesus does not behave
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  in the way that we want him to or need him to.
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  And we lose heart and we turn back and we tuck tail and we go
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  back to what we were doing prior.
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  We go back to our professions prior.
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  We go back to our vomit friends. And here John is very
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  discouraged because Jesus has the ability to break him out, to
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  lower him in the basket. Jesus has the ability to rock
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  the chains off of him and the stalks off of him and rock the
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  prison doors open and let him walk out as a free man.
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  It's easy for Jesus and he's coming back with A2 edged sword
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  out of his mouth. It's easy.
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  Just the breath of his mouth knocks all of the soldiers
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  backwards. It's easy for him, friends.
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  Everything is easy for him, friends.
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  But there is this big gigantic plan, and his ways are not our
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  ways, and His thoughts are not our thoughts, and He does not
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  operate on the human level like you and I do.
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  He is not just a moralistic God that you approach and a genie in
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  the bottle that you rub the right way and he does whatever
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  it is. It doesn't work that way,
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  friends. There is an infinite plan that's
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  going on all around you. And sometimes he leaves you in
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  that sickness. He leaves you in that divorce,
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  He leaves you in in that court case, He leaves you in the
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  failing health, He leaves you in the job loss.
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  He leaves you with the wayward child.
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  There is a grand plan going on all around us and we would do
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  well to tap into the power source and know that we have
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  prayed the paint off the wall for something to happen.
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  But when it does not happen, do not be offended by him. 20 When
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  the men were come unto him, they said, John the Baptist has sent
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  us unto you, saying, Are you he that should come, or should we
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  look for another? Here it is again, Are you he
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  that should come, or look we for another?
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  Are you he that should come, or should we look for another?
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  There is no salvation apart from Jesus Christ.
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  There is no peace apart from Jesus Christ.
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  Friends, He is the Way, the Truth and the life, and no one
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  comes unto the Father except through Him.
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  He is not one of many ways. Friends, He is the Way.
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  We should not look for another way.
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  We should not look for more peace apart from God, other than
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  Jesus Christ. He is our all sufficient
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  sacrifice. He is the atonement for our
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  sins. Friends, we should not look for
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  another. 21 And in that same hour he cured many of their
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  infirmities, plagues, evil spirits, and unto them that were
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  blind he gave sight. And Jesus answered and said unto
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  them, Go your way. Tell John what things you have
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  seen and heard, how the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers
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  are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor
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  the gospel is preached. So we know that all the way back
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  in the Old Testament it was proclaimed through the prophets
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  that this is what the Messiah would do, is preach to the poor.
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  23 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
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  That's the key verse here, friends, you need to memorize
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  that. Blessed is he that is not
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  offended by Jesus Christ. 24 And when the messengers of John were
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  departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John.
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  What did you go out into the wilderness to see?
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  A Reed shaken by the wind? We know that we do not need to
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  be shaken by every single wave and wind that blows through.
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  We need to be set on the solid rock.
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  We need to be set on the firm foundation.
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  We need to have our life built upon Jesus Christ and the gospel
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  of Jesus Christ, and when all of the things that are going on in
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  the world come about, they will not shake us like a Reed in the
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  wind. 25 And what went you out to see a man clothed and soft
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  clothing? Behold, they which are
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  gorgeously apparelled and live delicately, are in King's
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  courts. That's not our life here on this
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  earth. We are bound for that.
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  We are going towards that great city, friends, but do not be
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  surprised in this life if you have hardship. 26 But what did
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  you go out to see? A prophet?
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  Yes, I say unto you, much more than a prophet, This is he of
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  whom it is written. Behold, I send my messenger
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  before your face, which shall prepare the way before you. 28
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  For I say unto you, among those that are born of women, there is
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  not a greater prophet than John the Baptist, but he that is
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  least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.
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  Did you hear that? Did you you catch that?
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  Did you latch on to that? All of the prophets of old long
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  to see this day because you and I house the Holy Spirit.
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  You and I are indwelled by the Holy Spirit.
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  Friends, don't miss it. You have discernment.
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  You have God Almighty living inside of you and there is more
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  power in one Christian than all the armies and all of the world.
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  Friends, don't miss it. Here you can see Jesus saying
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  he's going to send us a helper and we will do greater things
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  than what he did. Friends, don't miss it. 29 And
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  all the people that hurt him and the publicans justified God
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  being baptized with the baptism of John.
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  Praise God, and we know that Jesus came to baptize us with
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  fire. 30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel
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  of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
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  So here we go. We can see that by your words
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  you are justified, and by your words you are condemned.
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  And here these lawyers and publicans, these Pharisees, when
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  they rejected God, this is their chains that they're wrapping
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  around themselves. You can see that they were
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  hostile. 31 And the Lord said, How shall I liken the men of
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  this generation? And to what are they like?
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  32 They're like children sitting in the marketplace, and they're
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  calling 1 to another and saying, We've piped unto you, and you
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  have not danced, we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.
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  They're saying it doesn't matter how he comes, they're going to
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  reject him. Whether he came mournfully or
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  whether he came rejoicing, whether he came fasting or
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  whether he came eating, whether he came drinking or whether he
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  came as a Nazarite. Either way they rejected him,
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  and it was to their own demise. 33 For John the Baptist came,
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  neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, he
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  has a devil. 34 The Son of Man has come eating and drinking,
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  and you say, Behold, A gluttonous man and a wine
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  bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners praise God,
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  Hallelujah. He's a friend of publicans and
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  sinners praise God, Hallelujah. That's the only way we're going
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  to make it there. He loves you, friend, but he
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  loves you enough not to leave you in that sin. 35 But wisdom
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  is justified of all her children, so we know that we
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  will naturally make disciples as we move through this life, and
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  as we are connected to him, the discipleship cycle will continue
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  on friends. 36 And one of the Pharisees desired him, that he
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  would eat with him, and he went into the Pharisees house and sat
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  down to meet. 37 And behold, a woman in the city, which was a
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  Sinner, when she he knew that Jesus sat at me in the Pharisees
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  house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 and stood at his
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  feet behind him, weeping, and began to wash his feet with
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  tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and
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  kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
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  So we know that this was not Mary of Bethany.
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  We know that that was for his. Burial that was for the
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  anointing of him right before he went to the cross.
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  Here is a separate account. This is a very sinful woman in
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  the House of a Pharisee and we know that the story right before
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  the cross of Christ is Mary of Bethany and she was in the
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  lepers house and we know that that was getting Jesus ready.
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  But this is a separate account and look at how how they're very
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  similar in their alabaster jar. And so this is where we need to
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  make sure that we understand that this is not the same story.
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  39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spoke
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  within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would
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  have known who and what manner of woman this is that touched
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  him, for she's a Sinner. Praise God, Look how close Jesus
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  lets her get to him. And he does not rebuke her.
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  But who does he rebuke? He rebukes this Pharisee.
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  Why? 40 And Jesus answered and said
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  unto him, Simon, I have something to say to you.
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  And he said, Masters say on. 41 There was a certain creditor
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  which had two debtors, the one owed 500 pence and the other 50
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  And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them
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  both. Tell me, therefore, which of
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  them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I
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  suppose he to whom that has been forgiven the most.
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  And he said unto him, you have judged rightly.
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  Just remember friends, we have been forgiven the most.
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  All of our righteousness is filthy rags.
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  You cannot behave your way into heaven.
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  You need to understand the debt that you have owed.
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  You need to understand the depravity that you came from.
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  None of us deserve heaven, we all deserve hell, and if it was
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  not for the blood of Jesus Christ being spilled on Calvary,
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  all of us would have to go there.
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  We've all been forgiven the most, and if you think that your
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  righteousness is enough to get you there, you're sadly
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  mistaken. 44 And he turned to the woman and said, See you this
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  woman. I entered into your house, and
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  you gave me no water for my feet, but she has washed my feet
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  with her tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head. 45
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  You gave me no kiss, but this woman, since the time I came in,
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  has not ceased to kiss my feet. 46 My head with oil you did not
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  anoint, But this woman has anointed my feet with ointment.
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  47 Why, I say unto you, her sins, which are many, are
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  forgiven, For she has loved much.
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  But to whom little is forgiven, the same loves little.
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  Those that have been forgiven of much love much, and those that
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  have been forgiven of little, love little.
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  It's a very simple equation, friends.
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  For some of us who understand the depths of our depravity, we
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  cannot help but to love God and love Christ to the utmost.
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  Every minute of every day of every second, sold out to the
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  King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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  But there are many who do not feel that their sins were that
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  much. There are many who think that
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  they are pretty good people in comparison to all those around,
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  and they do not see that they are naked, they do not see that
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  they are blind. They do not see that their
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  righteousness is nothing in comparison to the glory of God
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  Almighty. And we would do well, friends,
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  to understand that all of us deserve hell. 48 And he said
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  unto her, Your sins are forgiven. 49 And they that sat
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  at me with him began to say with them themselves, Who is this
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  that forgives sins also? They miss the whole point.
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  This is God Almighty and He is able to forgive our sins and it
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  is only through Jesus that we will enter in friends.
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  He is the narrow way. He is the straight gate and his
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  sheep hear his voice and they come in.
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  We'll end on 50. And he said to the woman, your
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  faith has saved you, go in peace.
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  Your faith has saved you go in peace.
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  What beautiful words coming from our Savior.
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  Increase your faith today, friends.
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  Faith is the currency that we operate out of.
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  It is not the lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh.
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  It is not the pride of life. We need to stiff arm the way
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  that this world works. We need to stiff arm all the
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  things that keep coming at us relentlessly and we need to
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  increase our faith today, friends, increase the way that
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  you see the Lord and your dependency upon Him.
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  That is how we are going to make it there.
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  There are many who think that they're going to be there and
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  they're going to say Lord, Lord, and He's going to say depart
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  from me. We need to make sure, and we
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  need to know that we know that we know that we know that we
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  know that we know that Jesus is Lord, that Jesus is our
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  everything. And we do not depend on self.
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  We do not depend on money. We do not depend on our own
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  abilities. We do not depend on this world.
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  We are sold out to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and
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  he will lead us home and our faith will save us, our faith in
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  Jesus Christ. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  chapter. I know I sure have many times
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  over. Praying for every single one of
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  you. Love you and so does God.
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  Give them your all today. Be sold out to the King of
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  Kings. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.