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Matthew chapter 12 · Scripture Unscripted

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Matthew chapter 12. Let us pray.
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Lord. God, we thank you.
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Lord, we enter into your gates today with praise and
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Thanksgiving. Lord, you are God, you are on
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high, you are the most high. God, the God of the Angel
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armies. Lord, we just come to you today,
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Father, like little children. Expectant of miracles, Lord,
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Expectant that you're going to provide for us, expectant God
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that you are covering us, Lord, and you are protecting us, God,
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and you know all of our needs, Lord, We bring our needs to you
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today, Lord. You know everything, Father.
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You know our financial woes, Lord.
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You know our health problems, Lord.
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You know the relational issues, Lord.
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You know all of the things that plague our minds, God, and try
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to drag us away. Father, I pray in the name of
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Jesus that we can find rest today.
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Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus.
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You silenced the accusations of the enemy.
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Father, I pray in the name of Jesus the scales fall off.
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I pray in the name of Jesus, God, that you will be well
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pleased to come in and to fill us today.
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Fill us overflowing. Give us the mind of Christ,
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Lord. Give us power from on high.
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Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus, Lord, the the peace of
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you, God Almighty will come and take up residence in our heart
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and mind. Lord, give us great contentment
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in this land. I pray, Father, that everywhere
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that we go today will be holy ground.
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I pray for divine appointments today.
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We put somebody in our path today that desperately needs to
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hear our salvation story, needs to hear the good news of Jesus
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Christ and what he did for them on the cross.
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God, I pray that we will be found obedient children.
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I pray in the name of Jesus that you will help us, God, to see
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this world the way that you do, to hear things the way that you
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do. God, I pray for no idle word.
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God, I pray that every word will be used for the building up of
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your brothers and sisters. God, of our brothers and
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sisters. God, I pray in the name of
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Jesus, that where you are, we will be also.
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I pray in the name of Jesus, for the New Jerusalem to come.
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God, I pray that all the promises contained in this book,
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Lord, will come to fruition. Help us not to grow weary.
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Help us not to grow despondent. Help us not to grow distant from
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you, Lord. I pray that we will keep our
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eyes on the prize which is Jesus Christ, that we will lock eyes
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with you Father, and that we will be found steadying the
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course. That we will be found slowly and
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methodically walking it out with you, God.
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I pray that we do not grow discouraged in this hour.
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I pray against the rain and the wind tearing underneath the
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house and causing it to crash. I pray that no one will be
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offended because you do not behave in the way that they want
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you to. I pray that no one will grow
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distant from you because you do not behave in the way that they
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need you to. God, I pray for faith to rise up
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in this hour. We put on the full armor, God,
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we put on our helmet of salvation.
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We take up the shield of faith. Lord, we do battle with the
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sword, the Spirit, which is your word that we hold in our hands.
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God, we put on the gospel shoes of peace.
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Help us to run the race well. God, I pray for the belt of
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truth. God, help us to be honest and
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truthful with each other. Help us to be honest and
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truthful with you. Help us to be honest and
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truthful with ourselves. God, help us to see ourselves
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the way that you do, God, and help us to see others as better
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than ourselves. God and I pray for the breast,
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the breastplate of righteous, in the name of Jesus.
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God, I pray that you will help us to extinguish the fiery darts
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that are coming our way from left and right and front and
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back and from all directions. God, I pray against the enemy in
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the name of Jesus. Bind the enemy from off of our
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families, bind the enemy from off of our children, bind the
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enemy from off of our lives. God, I pray, Lord, for a
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supernatural protection. God, for you are good and you
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are great and you are amazing. You are awesome.
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You are worthy to be praised. Yes, Jesus, we see you high and
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lifted up. We look upon you, Jesus, and are
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saved. Jesus, the King of kings, give
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us your words today. Holy Spirit, teach us, Holy
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Spirit, guide us. Holy Spirit, correct US.
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Holy Spirit, discipline US. Holy Spirit, you increase as I
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decrease, and it's in the name of Jesus Christ I pray, Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one. At that time, Jesus went on the
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Sabbath day through the corn, and his disciples were hungered
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and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.
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What's he talking about here in verse one?
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Well, what you're going to have to understand here is that Jesus
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never used his divine powers to turn rocks into bread.
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He allowed himself to identify with our humanity.
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He felt everything that you will ever feel and he felt hungry and
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he allowed even his disciples there to feel that hunger.
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There is a cost associated with following after Jesus, he said.
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Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has
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nowhere to lay his head. He told the scribe back there a
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couple chapters ago that it wasn't going to look the way
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that he thought it was going to. And I don't know if you have
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felt this hunger, but there's a hunger that only God can
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satisfy. And it's the same hunger and
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thirst that Jesus referenced at the well with the Samaritan
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woman when the disciples came back from town and they said
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eat. And he said, I have food that
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you know nothing about. It is this living water that he
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told the Samaritan woman about. And this is the only substance
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that will ever satisfy us. You know, it's not what you put
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in to the body that defiles you. It's what comes out of the body
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that defiles. And so here you can see Jesus
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showing the Pharisees, showing the religious folk of that day.
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You can see him tearing down all of their presuppositions.
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You can see Jesus tearing down all of their laws on top of laws
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on top of laws. And he's showing them that he
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has come to give us grace and grace abounding.
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And it's starting right here. It is starting at this moment
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whenever these religious folks see his disciples eating.
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And if you remember, even John the Baptist disciples wondered
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why they weren't fasting. And when we're following after
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Jesus Christ, when we are attached to the power source,
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there is so much freedom, Friends.
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There's so much grace, friends, and grace abounds.
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And when we truly are connected to God Almighty, you don't have
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to worry about where your next meal is going to come from.
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You don't have to worry about offending God because you truly
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are connected to Him and He loves you and you love Him and
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you have grace and it covers a multitude of sins.
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And Jesus is going to expound upon that with all the religious
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people. And we need to be very guarded
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of becoming dogmatic and legalistic in our approach to
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worshiping after God. God might tell you to do
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something that goes against all the things that you've ever been
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taught. And you need to be OK with
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knowing that you have actually heard from the voice of God and
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that you have actually obeyed the things that He's telling you
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to do, even if they're counter intuitive to all the things that
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you've ever been taught. And that is what it looks like
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to follow after Jesus Christ. And don't be surprised if the
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entire world ridicules you if the entire world turns their
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back on you. There is such a cost that is
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associated with following after God Almighty.
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We're following after the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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Yeshua verse 2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto
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him, Behold, your disciples, do that which is not lawful to do
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upon the Sabbath day. Go back and read in Genesis how
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God instituted the Sabbath as a complete rest after he created
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everything. He entered into that rest on the
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7th day. You and I, Christian, you and I,
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we celebrate the Lord on the first day of the week and we
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need to understand what Jesus is about to teach us that God gave
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us the Sabbath for our own good. God wanted us to enter into that
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rest, friends, and we can see that the law was fulfilled by
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Jesus Christ, and we're not under that law.
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And we can work if we so choose to do, and we can choose a
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different day of the week to rest on.
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But we all need to understand the value of that rest.
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We all need to know that God knew what He was doing even
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whenever he told the Jews not to eat the pigs.
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But you and I, we eat pork, don't we?
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We eat ham and we love it, right?
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We eat it on our holidays. We don't see anything wrong with
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it. We need to know that we're not
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under that, that Jesus fulfilled all of that and it was for
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humane purposes. Not eating of the swine's flesh
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was because it was disease ridden.
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Not working on the 7th day was so that you and I can sharpen
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the saw. It's like go going out on the
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ice rink and after a while you've been skating and there's
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so much slush on the rink and you have to get kicked off the
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rink so the big machine, the Zamboni, could come out and
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Polish that ice rink to allow you to come back on.
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Its smoothing out all of the ruts that you created in your
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mind as you've been thinking for six days.
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And as we think that we can be more productive by continuing on
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on that 7th day, what you will learn is if you will take a day
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to do absolutely nothing, to just get horizontal and to just
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rest and relax and meditate upon the Lord for a 24 hour block.
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What you will find is that when you put your hand to the plow,
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friends, there's so much more productivity and God will guide
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you if you will allow Him. And we do not need to be
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legalistic in our approach to the Sabbath.
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Friends Three. But he said unto them, have you
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not read what David did when he was hungry?
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And they that were with him, what did he do?
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Four, He entered into the House of God, and he did eat the
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showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them
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which were with him, but only for the priests. 3 and 4, Jesus
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here is ripping down all of their legalistic approach to the
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law. And these men were guarded
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because they had lost their first temple and they were
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afraid of losing it again. They were afraid of the anger of
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God coming down. And if you go back and study the
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major prophets and the minor prophets, if you go back and
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study those books, you are going to find that God gave them
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chance after chance after chance after chance after chance to
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turn it all around. But they continued to go down
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their idol worship, which led them into captivity for 70
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years. And here Zerubbabel has built
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this temple, here the Herod has augmented it, here we have this
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Pharisee sect and the Sadducees sect that has been birthed out
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of not having the temple there and the captivity.
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And you can see the synagogues that were developed during that
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time where they would sit around and talk about scriptures.
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But what happened over time and what Jesus was desirous to break
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down in this moment, that it had become so incredibly dogmatic
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and legalistic that they had placed laws on top of the
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original law, friends, to keep people from breaking the
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original law. And so therefore Jesus came to
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turn it all around and to show them the error of their ways.
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And they had made a love decision and they actually
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enjoyed the manipulation of the masses, which was the evil part
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of what they were doing. And it's no different in our
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day. It's no different in our hour.
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It's been said that if you want to become wealthy, to start a
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religion and you can see how people are desperate for
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spirituality, you can see how people are spiritual beings.
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And we don't stay atheistic long.
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We move into some kind of spiritual realm and usually it
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is to our detriment. Friends and Jesus right here, He
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is desirous to show us that He is the only way.
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He is the truth and He is the life, and no one comes unto the
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Father except through Him. And the Pharisees refused to see
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it because they were so steeped and all of their superstitions,
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they were so steeped in all of their dogmatic approach to the
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law. And they loved to be seen and
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they loved to be heard and they loved the power that they could
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exact over the masses. And Jesus would have no part of
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it. He turned the entire world
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upside down with 12 men. Praise the Lord 5 Or have you
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not read in the law how that on the Sabbath days the priests in
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the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless?
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So here verse 5 is what he's referencing.
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Here are the priests that have to perform all of the double
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duties on the Sabbath. Here the priest would take all
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the offerings and they were doubled over with them on that
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day. And in a legal sense they were
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guilty of violating the Sabbath because they had to work.
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There were so many things that were required of the priest.
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And here Jesus is pointing out the Pharisees hypocrisy.
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You know, it's like those who go to church on Sunday and then
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afterwards they go out to eat and they expect to be fed, and
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they don't see anything wrong with the people who are having
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to work to feed them. And they think of them as just
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heathens, but they're sure they're supporting them.
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And it's no different. The hypocrisy of our day and our
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hour. Human nature doesn't change.
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Friends, we need Jesus. 6 But I say unto you, that in this place
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is 1 greater than the temple. He's talking about himself.
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Jesus Christ is greater than a material building.
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Even the Shekinah glory, even the ark of the covenant, even
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all of the gold and the sea and the cherubim that were there,
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Jesus, Jesus is greater than all of that.
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Jesus is God. 7 But if you had known what this means, and then
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he quotes again second time, this must be pretty important.
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Friends, this Hosea chapter 6 verse six, he says, but if you
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had known what this means, I will have mercy and not
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sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless.
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Jesus sees the true motives of a person.
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Friends, Jesus sees how people dress up and they sure look the
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part, but deep down they're greedy.
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People are so incredibly incensed against Christ, and
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they try to dress themselves up, and God sees their inner
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thoughts and their inner motives.
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We should not condemn the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man
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is Lord even of the Sabbath day. There he reveals his divinity.
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He reveals that He is God Incarnate.
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Verse 8. We move on to verse 9.
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And when he was departed from there, he went into their
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synagogue. What boldness does Jesus have?
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This is the boldness that you and I need to have, that we can
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face persecution face to face, that we can stare it right in
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the face and we can not shrink back and not be cowards when
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people say all kinds of evil against us, when people are
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incensed against us because of what we stand for and who we
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believe in Jesus. 10 And behold, there was a man which had his
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hand withered, and they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to
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heal on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.
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So they were trying to set him up.
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They were trying to get him to do something.
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They knew that Jesus would have compassion upon this man. 11 And
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he said it to them. What man shall there be among
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you that shall have one sheep? And if it falls into a pit on
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the Sabbath day, will he not lay hold of it and lift it out?
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So here Jesus is showing them that if they could have the
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kindness towards a beast, how much more kindness should we
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have towards someone who is made in the image of God, a human?
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How much more compassion should we have on our brothers and
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sisters, on those that have fallen into the pit, even if it
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is on the Sabbath? 12 How much, then, is a man
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better than sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do
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well on the Sabbath day. So he's showing them that it is
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OK to work on the Sabbath day if it is for him, if it's for
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Jesus, if we're doing the Lord's work, it is totally and
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completely under the blood of Jesus Christ. 13 And then he
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said to the man, Stretch forth thine hand, and he stretched it
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forth, and it was restored whole, like as the other.
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What an amazing moment. Can you even imagine having a
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paralyzed hand, having his shriveled hand?
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And Jesus says, stretch it forth and it is whole.
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What a miracle. 14 The Pharisees went out, and they held a
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counsel against him, how they might destroy him.
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Look at the hypocrites. Look at how all Jesus did was
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good, and he healed this man. And here they are actually
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holding a council on the Sabbath, breaking the law of the
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Sabbath to try to figure out how to kill this man, because he
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threatened all of their power. He threatened their finances.
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And man will go to great length to silence someone who is in
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opposition of his wealth and power.
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Don't forget it. 15 But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew
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himself from there, and great multitudes followed him, and he
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healed them all. So here we're going to see how
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Jesus Christ knew the timeline of God because He is God and he
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knew that he was to await the Passover that year.
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He knew that he would have to do many things before they could
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kill him, and he could OfferUp his body as the perfect
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sacrifice, the unblemished land. And you can see how Jesus knew
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everything. He is God and He was awaiting
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the perfect time to OfferUp himself.
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No one took his life, but He offered it up.
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He healed them all. He didn't turn them away.
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Jesus had great compassion upon this crowd that had great faith
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in Him. 16 And he charged them that they should not make him
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known. So he was trying his best not to
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become famous just for being a miracle worker.
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He had great compassion on them, but that was not the reason that
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he had come. The miracles pointed to his
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divinity, but the true miracle would happen on the cross,
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whenever Jesus snatched the keys to death and hell, whenever he
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wrought for us our salvation, and whenever he ascended to the
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right hand. When he was resurrected and as
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he ascended to the right hand, we can see that that was the
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greatest miracle and that he disarmed the enemy. 17 that it
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might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet
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saying, 18 Behold my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved,
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and whom my soul is well pleased, I will put my spirit
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upon him, and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles.
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What an amazing verse. This is referenced all the way
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back there in Isaiah. You can see how Isaiah was the
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5th Gospel. You can see how Jesus is
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referenced here and it Matthew understands it as he's pinning
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this down, he sees the reference that Jesus is God's servant.
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You go back to Genesis and he says let us make man in our
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image. You can see God and and Christ
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and Holy Spirit all together at the beginning.
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And you can see here in verse 18 how God is well pleased with
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Jesus coming as a little baby to be born and to live a perfect
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sinless life, to be offered up for you and for me.
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And he is well pleased with him and he put his Spirit upon him
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and he is going to show judgment.
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Look at the reference to the Gentiles here.
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You know this is prior to the cross, and so the entire plan
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unfolding for you and for me and for the Gentiles and what it was
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all going to look like and how we were going to be called
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Christians, it was all pointed to right here.
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You can see it in verse 18. Whenever he references us, the
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Gentiles praise God. 19 He shall not strive nor cry, neither
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shall any man hear his voice in the street.
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So Jesus, as he went about, he did not use bravado, He did not
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use any kind of mighty show. He was very subtle in his
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approach. Look at how he just told them a
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couple lines ahead. He just told them not to tell
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anybody. He's trying his best to keep it
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all under wraps until the perfect timing.
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And you can see that reference here in 1920.
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A bruised Reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he
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not quench until he sends forth judgment unto victory.
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Verse 20 is a reference to those that are kicked down to the
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marginalized. The verse 20 is whenever you
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feel as if you're about to fall off the edge, you feel as if
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you're on the verge of a breakdown.
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And he says that Jesus comes in and he does not break that
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bruised Reed. He stabilizes it and he heals it
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and He does not quench the smoking flax.
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He fuels it. He puts the Holy Spirit there
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and he touches it and heals it and causes it to burst into
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flames and to burn bright and to be strengthened is what is
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mentioned in verse 2021. And in his name shall the
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Gentiles trust. So here it is friends 18/19/2021
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He is referencing your salvation.
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Gentile praise God, Hallelujah. It was his plan from the
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beginning. You can see that the rejection
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by the Jews caused us to run ahead and it'll be the jealousy
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of the Jews that caused them to come into the fold.
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They will finally see Jesus Christ as their long-awaited
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Messiah. It all points to Him.
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It all points back to Him. It's all about Him.
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Friends. 22 Then was brought unto him, one possessed with the
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devil, blind and dumb, and he healed him in so much that the
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blind and dumb both spoke and saw.
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So. 22 We saw that whenever there would be these false
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exorcisms of the religious folk of that day, the Pharisees and
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the Sadducees and the Sanhedrin and all of the Jews that were
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there, what would happen is if someone had a demon, they would
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try to get the demon to call out his name, and then they would
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use that as a handle to exorcise that demon out of that person.
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And it was all a big show. And here Jesus restores his
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speech because he does not need to know the name.
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Jesus can see everything. Jesus doesn't need to go by the
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prescribed ideas of how to exorcise demons.
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He has all authority over all the material, all of the
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spiritual, over the physical. He has all authority over every
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planet and star and fish and every single thing that teams in
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the waters or flies above our heads.
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He is Lord over it all. 23 And all the people were amazed and
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said, is not this the son of David?
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So here's the messianic title and what a beautiful title it
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is. We can see that Jesus is
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royalty. 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said,
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this fellow does not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub, the
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Prince of the devils. So here they are.
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They're blaspheming the work of the Holy Spirit here.
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They're trying to relegate Jesus Christ Divinity.
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They're trying to relegate his embodiment of Yahweh, and
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they're trying to say that it is by Satan that he does all of his
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miracles. How pathetic.
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This is such envy. You can see envy in its highest
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form here. They hate him because he's so
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good and they are not 25. And Jesus knew their thoughts,
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and he said unto them, Every Kingdom divided against itself
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is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided
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against itself shall not stand. This is common sense here,
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friends. The common sense here is that
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Satan doesn't try to go and beat up on the demons.
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Demons don't war with other demons.
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That is what we do, friends. We beat up on each other even
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though we all belong to the Lord as as believers and as
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Christians. And it is US who try to break
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each other apart, and far be it from us to do so.
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Look at how Satan is so calculated that he does not
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divide against himself. It's common sense stuff that
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Jesus is talking about here, but they would not accept it. 26 And
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if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself, how
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shall then his Kingdom stand? And this shows us that all of
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this spirituality is real and there is a real enemy, and he
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plays for keeps, and he is here to steal, kill and destroy.
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And don't forget it, and don't discount it and don't discredit
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it. And don't just think that it's
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some kind of Hollywood stuff that's just on a movie and it's
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all just a bunch of fanaticism or it's all just OK and it's
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entertainment. It's not friends.
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It's true and it's real and it's around you, and it'll grip you
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and it'll choke you out if you allow it to have any kind of
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foothold in your life, you need to get rid of it in the name of
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Jesus. 27 And if I be beils above, cast out devils, And by
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whom do your children cast them out?
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Therefore they shall be your judges.
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So here he just breaks them down.
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He just shows them how completely ignorant they are and
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how they're incensed against him for no reason. 28 But if I cast
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out devils by the Spirit of God, then the Kingdom of God has come
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unto you. So he's saying the same thing
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that's going to get talked about later on, where it's like, if,
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if this is the Son of God, what are we going to do about it?
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But if it is just a man, and if he's just a religious leader, if
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he's just some kind of heretic, it'll all go by the wayside.
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And Jesus is showing the Pharisees here.
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He's showing the religious of that time.
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He's showing them that he is the Son of God, and what are they
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going to do about it? He's showing that the Kingdom of
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God has come near to them, which was proclaimed by John the
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Baptist and then backed up by Jesus himself. 29 Or else how
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can one enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods,
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except he first bind the strongman, and then he will
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spoil his house? Jesus Christ snatching people.
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Jesus Christ binding Satan in the demonics.
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Jesus Christ calling us to himself.
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You cannot even come unto God unless the Spirit draws you
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here. Jesus is binding and silencing
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the accusations of the enemy. He has no power over you.
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Christian, grab hold of the hem of Jesus garment.
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Listen to the Lord's voice. Get rid of all of the things
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that are dragging you away. Have the strength in the name of
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Jesus to throw them out. Do not give them place in your
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life. Do not listen to those evil
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voices. Do not listen and set your eyes
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upon evil things. Even if they if you think that
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they are neutral, they are not. Jesus is going to talk about
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that. 30 He that is not with me is against me, and he that
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gathers not with me scattered abroad.
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So here Jesus is showing. There is no neutrality, there's
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no spiritual Switzerland. Friends, we have to choose.
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Choose whom you will serve this day.
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But As for me, in my house we will serve the Lord.
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And there were so many that were wanting to go back to Egypt,
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there were so many that wanted to go back into slavery.
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They quickly started worshiping the golden calf and it revealed
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their true motives that they were hostile towards God.
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And Jesus is showing the Pharisees, he's showing the
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religious of that day, the error of their ways, and they need to
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trust and they need to choose him.
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And how hard would it have been to see this carpenter's son who
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did not go and become a priest, and he was circumventing their
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entire organization? And how frustrating would it
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have been for them? And only a few got it and
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understood. Praise God for those men and
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women. Praise God for this complete
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work that we hold in our hands. 31 Therefore I say unto you, All
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manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but
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the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto
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men. And you might be afraid, and you
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might try to figure out, did you ever commit this sin?
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And are you going to be damned for all of eternity?
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And I want you to know, friends, if there's breath in your lungs,
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then you have not blasphemed the Holy Spirit.
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Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is whenever we reject the finished
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work of the cross. There is no more salvation for
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anyone who rejects the finished work of the cross.
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Jesus Christ is the only way and we can blasphemy the Holy Spirit
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by dying in our trespasses and sin without ever giving in to to
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the prompting of the Holy Spirit when he's drawing you unto God.
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When we think that we're not worthy of it, when we think that
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we've done too much, when we believe all the lies of the
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enemy. When the enemy sows in so many
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lies and tries to get us to believe that God's mad at us
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that he's turned his back on us and we die in that we will be
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eternally separated from God forever and that is this
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blaspheming of the Holy Spirit. And you can see how the
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Pharisees had made a love decision for greed, and they had
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made a love decision for power. And they cared nothing for
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Jesus. They cared nothing for God.
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They cared nothing. They just like to have all of
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the power and to exact it over the masses.
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And it's no different today, friends 32 Whosoever speaks a
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word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him.
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And who? Whosoever speaks against the
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Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this
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world, neither in the world to come.
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So here is where we start wrapping the chains all around
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us of condemnation and we believe the lies of the enemy
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and he entangles us in this world and we live in hell here.
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And then if we were to die in that without ever receiving the
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forgiveness from Jesus Christ for all of our sins that we have
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ever committed, are committing, and will ever commit, if we are
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not covered in the blood of Jesus Christ, we will be
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eternally separated for all of eternity.
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And that is what he is referencing here, Friends. 33
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Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the
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tree corrupt, for his fruit corrupts, for the tree is known
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by its fruit. So there again he's showing
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there is no neutrality. Even the tree that bears no
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fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.
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Not just the tree that produces bad fruit, Friends, it is also
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the tree that produces no fruit that gets cut down and cast into
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the fire. 34 O generation of Vipers, how can you, being evil,
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speak good things? For out of the abundance of the
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heart the mouth speaks. So we can see that what we store
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up in our heart comes vomiting out, whether good or bad,
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whenever you look the part. And you sure talk to talk, but
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deep down you are being facetious.
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You are not being true. Whenever you are steeped in
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idolatry will eventually come out friends.
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And that is how God designed us friends, that whatever we are
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storing up in our hearts will come out eventually. 35A good
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man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good
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things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth
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evil things, So you will know them if you'll just pay
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attention. This is why God tells us to be
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quick to listen and slow to speak because we need to sit and
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listen a whole lot more than we need to talk, Friends, and we
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need to sit whenever someone is speaking.
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You are, you should be able to have these intelligence
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indicators whenever the radar is on the antennas up.
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You should be able to know when people do not have the Lord's
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presence in their lives. They do not have the peace of
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God ruling and raining on their hearts and minds.
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You'll be able to know it. 36 But I say unto you, that every
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idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof
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in the day of judgment. So really quickly there are two
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judgments. There's the judgment of us, the
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believers, and there is the judgment of the unrighteous
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sinners. And the Great White Throne will
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be where Jesus, where God Almighty makes everyone bow down
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and worship Jesus. Every tongue will confess, every
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knee will bow. And so therefore, at the Great
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White Throne of Judgment, when the books are open, they will
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give an account for everything that they've ever done.
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And they'll try to say that they've done all of these things
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and given away all of this money.
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And he'll say, depart from me for I never knew you because
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they're not covered in the blood.
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But for those of us who are believers, those of us who have
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been covered in the blood of Jesus Christ, when we stand for
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our judgment, it'll be for the rewards.
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And most of what we do is wood, hay, and stubble, friends.
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But we will give an account and he's, he shows us here that we
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will give an account for every idle word.
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We need to make sure that we are not just saying anything and
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everything all the time. We need to make sure that we are
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very intentional with our words. Friends, let no unwholesome talk
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come from your mouth, but that which is useful for the
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edification of the Saints. Friends, every idle work, every
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idle word that men shall speak, they will give an account in the
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day of Judgment. 37 For by your words you shall be justified,
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and by your words you shall be condemned.
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So there, this just if I'd had never done it.
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This is whenever we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ,
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He said, All who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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So therefore that is whenever your words justify you by
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calling on that name of Jesus Christ.
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But for those who blasphemy the Holy Spirit, they will be
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condemned by their own words, friends, because they refuse to
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call upon that name. 38 Then certain of the scribes and the
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Pharisees answered, and they said, Master, we would see a
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sign from you. So they're trying to get him to
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give them a sign. And look at all the miracles
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he's already done. How wicked and perverse are
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they? 39 But he answered and said unto
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them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks a sign, and
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there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet
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Jonah. 44 As Jonah was 3 days and three nights in the whale's
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belly, so shall the Son of Man be 3 days and three nights in
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the heart of the earth. He is prophesying his death,
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burial, and resurrection. Praise God. 41 And the men of
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Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall
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condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of
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Jonas. And behold, a greater Jonas is
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here. He's saying that he is the
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greatest prophet. 42 The queen of the South shall rise up in
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the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn
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it, for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to
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hear the wisdom of Solomon. Behold, a greater than Solomon
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is, he is here. So he is the greatest king.
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He's the royalty, He is their prophet, priest and king all
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wrapped up here. And look at how the Ninevites
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and look at how the Queen of Sheba, they were Gentiles in its
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reference here. You and me, friends. 43 When the
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unclean spirit has gone out of a man, he walks through dry places
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seeking rest, and he finds none. He's going to give us a little
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lesson in how the demonic realm works. 44 Then he says, I'll
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return into my house from where I came out.
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And when he has come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished.
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So you can see there is no neutrality.
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We need to have the surrounding encompassing glory of God all
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around us. The kind of glory covering us,
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friends. The wings of God covering us,
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friends. This is how we're protected is
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when we're dwelled by the Holy Spirit. 45 And then he goes and
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takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than
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himself. They enter in, and they dwell
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there in the last state of that man is worse than the first.
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Even so shall it be unto this wicked generation.
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He's calling the Jews out. He's showing them that they have
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rejected their only hope. Jesus is our only hope, friends,
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to make it into heaven, to make it there with God Almighty.
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Jesus is the only way. And he's showing them that they
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have made their love decision, that they are hostile towards
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the only way in the straight way.
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Friends Jesus 46 And while he yet talked to his people,
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behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, desiring
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to speak to him. They're trying to come get him
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back. He's been rejected by the Jews,
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and his family is there, and they're wanting to save him from
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embarrassment. What does Jesus say?
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47 And then once said unto him, Behold, your mother and your
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brothers, they stand outside, they want to speak to you. 48
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But he answered and said to him, Who is my mother and who are my
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brothers? Wow, what an insult to Mary,
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Mother Mary, she is not divinity.
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We do not need to go through her.
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She does not have perpetual virginity.
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Friends. She was just a human like you
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and me, but she was blessed because God chose her a house,
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His Son, His only begotten Son. And Jesus here is showing us
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that she needs to come into the faith.
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She treasured all these things up in her heart.
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But His brothers and His mother right here, they had not made a
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love decision yet as to who the Christ was for 49 And he
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stretched forth his hand towards his disciples.
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He said, behold my mother, my brothers, that's you and that's
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me. Friends, praise God that we can
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be part of his family and he's showing us the new family here.
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We'll end on 50. Whosoever shall do the will of
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my father, which is in heaven, the same as my brother, sister,
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mother, praise God. He's showing us here how he
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views us as believers. We're part of his family, and
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where he went, we will go to be also.
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He went to prepare a place for us.
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Praise God. Hallelujah.
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We just want to be where He is. We don't care about all the
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street of gold. We don't care about any of that.
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We just want Christ. He is enough.
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Christ is enough. Praise the Lord for this
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chapter. I hope you've been blessed by
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it. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for every single one of you.
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I love you. So does God.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.