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When Jesus Comes Over | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Gospel of Mark Bible Study Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  Welcome to all our visitors here.
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  This is your first time we bless you in the name of the Lord
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  Jesus. If this is home for you, welcome
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  home. If you are home here then you
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  know that we're in the gospel of Mark as a series.
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  But before we turn to Mark, I asked you to turn your attention
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  to the prophet Zechariah. I want to make a brief comment
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  about the atrocious event that took place in Highland Park the
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  massacre at the parade, where several lives were lost because
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  of a man who Clearly was influenced by a devil.
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  Had no fear of God, it just turned to Zechariah.
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  I'm not going to take too much time here because I can spend
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  this time explaining biblically. Why these things happen?
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  And why we're seeing what we're seeing.
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  But I want to give a message of Hope.
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  Zechariah Chapter 8. In verse 3.
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  This is a prophecy of the millennial reign of Jesus
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  Christ. That means that we believe Jesus
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  Christ will return. And when he does return
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  physically, he will establish an Earthly Kingdom for 1,000 years.
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  And in that we see so many prophecies in the Bible that
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  give us a little window into what that world will look like.
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  And here is a snippet of what the millennial reign will look
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  like under the perfect dictatorship.
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  Yes, dictatorship. Of Jesus Christ.
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  Dictatorship. Intimidates.
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  Us and the reason is because we've had evil dictators, but
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  he's a righteous dictator and is Zechariah 8, verse 3, I want you
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  to see something. Thus, says the Lord, I have
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  return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and
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  Jerusalem shall be called the faithful City.
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  And the mountain of the Lord of hosts the Holy Mountain.
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  Now, look at verse for thus, says the Lord of hosts all the
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  men and old women shall see. Again, sit in the streets of
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  Jerusalem, each with staff in hand, because of great age.
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  And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls
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  playing in its streets. Not wonderful.
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  We saw elderly people shot. In their backs, we saw children
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  scrambling. If you've seen any footage on,
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  the news children with their little bicycles and the little
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  lawn chairs running, not knowing what's happening.
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  And this prophecy tells us that when Jesus comes and he rules
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  and Reigns, there will be safety in our streets again.
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  There will be no fear of looking and wondering if something will
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  happen or if something will do, somebody will do something.
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  They will be total Serenity trust Comfort because the world
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  will know, Christ is King over our Earth.
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  And so I want you to understand that this is what we're headed
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  to this is what we will know one day but I want to, I want to use
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  this text to say If any politician is listening that if
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  you want this reality in America, again make Jesus
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  Christ, King of this nation submit to his word that you may
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  know, peace, like a river that you may know, righteousness that
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  will rule this land only until you submit to the lordship of
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  Jesus Christ. Or what we have seen over the
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  past weeks, and months, and years will only grow and
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  increase because you push God out.
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  You invite the devil in, it's plain and simple.
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  But I praise the Lord that when he comes even children will be
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  able to play in the streets again and that amazing thing
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  Jesus when he rose he wants kids to play, that's why I love.
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  Single children, run around in church sometimes.
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  Yeah, sometimes it makes us nervous.
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  We don't want to hurt themselves or do anything crazy.
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  But Christ himself loves the little children when they feel
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  free to play in his presence, turn with me to the gospel of
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  Mark. In chapter one, please.
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  Mark chapter 1. We're beginning here together in
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  our Bibles and verse 29, verse 29.
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  Here's what the word of God says.
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  And immediately he being the Lord left the synagogue and
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  entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John.
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  Now, Simon's mother-in-law, I lay ill with a fever And
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  immediately they told him about her and he came and took her by
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  the hand, and lift her up, and the fever left her, and she
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  began to serve them that evening at sundown, they brought to him
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  all who were sick or oppressed by demons and the whole city was
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  gathered together at the door. And he healed many who were sick
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  with various diseases and cast out many demons.
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  And he would not permit the demons to speak because they
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  knew him. Pray with me, please.
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  This is your word. We Revere it, we cherish it.
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  And we asked by your grace that you would help us understand it.
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  And that Lord, everything that the Holy Spirit intended to say
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  through these verses would be communicated clearly in this
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  place. Lord, we have heard of the
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  authority of your son Jesus Christ, while he was on the
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  earth. We've heard of his anointing.
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  We've heard of his power. We heard that when he speaks, he
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  did not speak like the scribes who are void of conviction and
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  unction. But Lord, in this place
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  together, we urge and we plead with you Lord, please let us
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  know something of your Authority.
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  Let us know something of that anointing.
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  The anointing of the holy spirit that brings about a great force
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  behind Ministry. A great power that reaches
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  beyond the mind but touches the soul, we ask Lord as we submit
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  to you with great eagerness that we would know something of your
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  presence in our midst and we give you maximum praise and
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  honor through our submission to what we hear today and the
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  precious name of the resurrected Christ.
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  We pray Amen, and amen. At the end of the Gospel of
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  John, John leaves us with an interesting phrase, an
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  interesting statement after giving us the account of his
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  perspective of the life and Ministry of the Lord.
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  Jesus Christ, I'm paraphrasing. But he says something on the
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  long life of Jesus did many, many things, and if all the
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  things that were written about him, were to be recorded in
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  books. There would not be enough books,
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  not enough space to tell us every single thing that the Lord
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  himself had done when he was in his three-year.
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  And that statement is is incredible, but it's realistic
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  because when you and I come to this text that we just read
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  today, we have to understand that what we learned last week
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  if you were here last week and what we are about to hear today,
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  happened all in one day in real time.
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  And so you can almost say that in the morning of this sabbath
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  day, Jesus was casting out a double and for lunch, he was
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  Healing The Sick and it's as though, Mark gives us just a
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  glimpse on a particular day of what an average.
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  Average day look like for the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  When he walked through those streets in Jerusalem and Beyond
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  and that is exactly what is happening here in marks account.
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  What Mark is doing by the spirit is that he is Shifting.
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  Our Focus away from Jesus Christ.
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  Possessing authority over demons and unclean spirits and is now
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  showing us that this same. Jesus Christ has authority, over
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  sickness and disease. That there is nothing in the
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  body, no matter what the doctor report is, no matter what,
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  people have said, no matter who signed off on who Jesus Christ.
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  When he speaks even disease, not just demons have to bow to his
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  rebuke. And so that's what's happening.
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  As we come into these verses, here we are seeing the Lord
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  showing us that there is nothing that can resist his power and
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  his authority. But a passage like this that we
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  just read has more to offer us than just a topical study.
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  Of how God operates in the realm of sickness and ailment and
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  infirmity. We can take these Texans speak
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  about how do we understand God's will for suffering and for
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  healing and does he heal? All why doesn't he heal all?
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  That's true. We can touch on that, but
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  there's something here in Mark throughout the gospels.
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  That is that is important as well beyond that.
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  If you look at Mark, which is a great emphasis on Miracles as
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  you heard so many times before, with every Miracle there is a
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  message and the message is beyond, just the fact that it's
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  a declaration of the deity of Jesus Christ, that's important.
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  But the circumstances around the events of his healing and the
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  different diseases that he's dealt with the situations before
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  and after teach us something else.
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  There are there are other nuggets.
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  There are other Jewels there that would require Meditation.
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  It's okay. Lord.
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  What else are you saying? Beyond the fact that you have
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  the power to heal and that is what you.
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  And I will explore in a very short way, though we can expand
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  greatly on them of what these things here that the house and
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  Simon's mother-in-law and the response and the reaction.
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  What is that have to say for us as Believers today?
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  Beyond the fact that Christ is Sovereign over sickness and we
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  will endeavor to do that by understanding three simple
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  points. We're going to organize our
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  thoughts here and three simple ways.
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  The first One is, we are going to consider the residence of the
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  healing. The residents of the healing,
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  where did this healing take place?
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  Why is that important? What does that say to us?
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  Secondly, we will explore the request for the healing.
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  How was it? How was it asked for what's
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  there for us to understand in terms of how Christ liens and
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  listens to the way we request something from him.
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  And lastly you and I will also see you get the, you get the
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  point here. The third arm, sure, the
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  response to the healing, the reaction to the healing.
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  The residents of the healing, we read here in verse 29, that
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  immediately he being Jesus left, the synagogue and enter the
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  house of Simon. And Andrew remember Jesus called
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  a pair of brothers to follow him.
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  They did, they surrendered everything.
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  Then we're told by Mark, that Jesus goes into Capernaum, and
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  he stands in a synagogue and he speaks with authority and a
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  demon manifest in the middle of his preaching.
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  And with one simple word, this, this man possessed with a devil
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  Falls and is rescued and his say Eat from that oppression and you
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  see that Simon and his brother James and his brother.
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  They see this. They witness they were in
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  attendance of that particular service and this this obviously
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  moved their heart to see this is unlike anybody else that we have
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  met and so after church so to speak that day, they invite
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  Jesus. They invite Jesus to come over
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  to be in their home, namely Peter and Andrew.
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  And we see here that Jesus is a type of servant through that.
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  I love this. You look at it through Jesus
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  perspective and you see the kind of Minister that he was.
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  You see when Jesus preached in that synagogue, it was a very
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  public thing. It was a spectacle and I had
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  such an effect that when you look at verse 28 very quickly,
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  what you will see is that his Fame spread everywhere
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  throughout all the surrounding region of Galilee.
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  He did something very, very known and it became even more
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  known. But I love the Lord Jesus in
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  this because when he was asked to come to a home, he gladly
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  went to that home When he was about to be asked to serve
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  within a Galilean house, he was willing to serve within that
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  Galilean home. In other words, the
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  demonstration of Jesus compassion was not limited or
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  strictly reserved for large platforms.
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  His Spirit empowered Ministry was ready to be exercised
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  wherever the opportunity presented itself.
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  And so if Christ was on the hilltops where you saw a sea of
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  people and he could have just with one word so multiplication
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  of food, he would do it out of compassion, but when a family
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  would invite him over to his house and the only audience can
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  be counted on one hand, he was still with the same compassion
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  and eagerness willing to bless that family and blessed that
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  household. What we see here is just another
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  example of the the awesome humility of Jesus.
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  This is not a man who is moved by honorariums how much you can
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  give him, what kind of what kind of press he would get, who knew
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  what he was doing. He served with the same Vigor,
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  the same Zeal, whether people saw him or they didn't see him.
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  And we see that his compassion for people was the same
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  privately as it was publicly. And this is our example, Jesus
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  is your example, if you long to serve the Lord know that this is
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  your, your example to look too. Shouldn't we be just As
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  passionate about serving and honoring the father.
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  In private. If nobody's willing to even
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  witness our sacrifice, are we still willing to sacrifice?
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  Are we content and honoring God, regardless of whether crowds
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  hear about it or not, this is the perfect servant capital P
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  Capital as perfect. Servant who not only gave
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  himself when he was invited to synagogues or he was invited to
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  the homes of a Pharisees or a regularly held worship service.
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  This was a man ready to demonstrate the character and
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  the nature of God and all places and all times and may, we be by
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  his grace like But I like to see this verse from the perspective
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  of Peter and his brother Andrew. Yes, Jesus was a humble servant,
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  but look at these two brothers here.
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  After the meaning of the synagogue, we see that they,
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  they didn't, they didn't want Jesus to be encountered just at
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  the synagogue. They want to take Jesus home.
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  They wanted to know more, they want to no greater blessing and
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  so they called Jesus over to their home.
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  And that's an incredible thing to see because unfortunately
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  what you have as many people who attend their local church, maybe
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  even regularly to worship Christ or at least in the name of
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  worshiping Christ and hope. That's not you today.
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  And they're content with that only to dismiss Christ and leave
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  him at the church that they were just on.
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  That nominal kind of faith. There's an only robbed God of
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  Glory. It will definitely rob you and
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  strip. You a blessing.
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  I mean, look at these eager disciples and learn from them.
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  The testimonies that await The life that awaits, that could be
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  known when we intentionally and mindfully, practice.
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  Our faith beyond the walls that you.
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  And I are in right now. When we say Lord, I'm not just
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  coming here to visit you for a couple of hours.
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  Would you come home with me? Would you come home with me?
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  I'm about to shock you with a statement, but brace yourselves.
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  We don't come here to worship God.
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  Take a breath. We come here to worship god with
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  God's people. You and I worship God, we should
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  at least throughout the week. We should love him.
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  Adore him pursue him. Be mindful of him.
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  And when we come here once a week, we do it with other people
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  who also have been doing that throughout the week.
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  That's what it should be. And these men here, they want
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  Christ to come, they don't want to just thank you Lord, for the
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  service that was powerful and then just walk out.
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  Not thinking about I'm not engaging him.
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  Seeking him, not obeying him not being mindful of him, not
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  practicing his presence only to come to the synagogue and
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  hopefully, Jesus will be there again.
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  That is not the Christian Life. That is a defeated life.
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  That is a less than ideal. That is not the standard for
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  you. And I and you see this principle
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  throughout the scripture that whenever cries whenever God is
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  intentionally invited and to any setting there is always blessing
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  consider John Chapter 2, a family wisely invited Jesus to
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  their wedding, that's a wonderful thing.
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  We almost have these events and things in our minds where we
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  say, okay, this is sacred, this is not, this is religious and
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  this is not, that is foreign to standard.
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  Christianity Christ goes, wherever you go.
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  If he lives in you then he goes where you go.
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  And so don't be ashamed, right? Don't be ashamed of his name
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  wherever you are. Whether it's celebratory or its
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  somber Christ is with us and Christ longs to be with us.
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  Let me give you an example of this in the Old Testament.
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  Cement at one point in Israel's history, the symbol of God's
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  presence which was known as the Ark of the Covenant was missing.
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  The Philistines took it and they brought it to their land, bad
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  idea, God began to curse them, so they send it back to the
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  nation and there is no sacred place where the ark should be.
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  And so it was kind of hopping around in different places and
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  at one point it laid in the home of a man named, I've been a dad.
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  And it stayed that have been in that house for 20 years,
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  finally, David becomes king and one of the first assignments
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  that comes to David's mind because he longed for God's
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  presence, he said we need to go back and we need to get that Arc
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  and we need to bring it back to the city of worship where he
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  belongs. And so they make this whole
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  campaign where they go and they fetch for this Arc and is a
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  whole sermon on that by itself because they did it in the wrong
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  way. Eventually, because they didn't
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  do it. According to the protocol of
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  God's word. God, judges them.
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  David is afraid and angry at the same time and he goes, I can't
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  handle it. This is how holy God is.
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  I got to retract your and rethink this whole thing.
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  So he sends the ark to the man named obed-edom.
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  And here's what God's word says, the moment.
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  The Arcane to this man's house. And second, Samuel 611 and the
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  Ark of the Lord remain in the house of obededom, the gittite
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  three months and the Lord blessed obededom, and all his
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  household. The blessing of God's presence
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  being in that man's home was so obvious that Outsiders
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  recognized it, they were able to see it.
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  So much so that word gets to King David and verse 12 and he
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  says, let's get it. I want that, I want the
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  blessings that obededom is experiencing from my life and
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  for the nation's life. And so he goes and he does it
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  according to God's word this time, but I find so amazing.
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  Is that when the ark was an abinadab, his house.
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  There is no mention that that there was blessing there for 20
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  years, you don't get one verse one hint that have been in two
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  halves household was being over overwhelmed with God's blessing.
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  It's silent. In fact, one of his sons died
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  for irreverently touching the ark when he shouldn't have, but
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  for three months, obededom experiences, a shower of grace.
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  And the only explanation that comes to mind is that Shirley
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  obed-edom practiced and walked and lived with an awareness of
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  the presence of God in his home. Unlike a better dad, abinadab in
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  his sons had an irreverence and I think part of the irreverence
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  is part of the irreverence that you see, a lot of people who
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  grow up in the church, They become so comfortable with the
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  presence of God, with the name of Jesus, with his word that
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  they are. Able to handle it.
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  In a way that actually violates the word of God for 20 years,
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  they grew up with the presence of God and what happens, you
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  have kids and God forbid, that it would be true here who grow
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  up and because I'm sure it came from their father who did not
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  know how to reverently act around the presence of God.
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  It translated to the children. Perhaps we're now they were
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  judge instead of blessed, but obededom, I'm sure he had this
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  Ark and God saw his heart pross. Sure, a man who intentionally
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  lived with the knowledge that God is in my home.
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  God is with us at dinner, God is with us at Family Vacation.
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  God is with us. When guests come over the Lord
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  saw, his heart, Pasha and blessed him.
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  And bless them and bless them and bless them.
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  In the Old Testament, the emphasis of blessing is
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  physical. The number of children, you have
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  the wealth that you have the crops that you have in the New
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  Testament. It's spiritual And you and I
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  have an opportunity to. So live with an awareness of
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  Christ in our day-to-day living, that people can actually see
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  there's a piece in your home. There's a joy in your life.
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  There is a Harmony amongst yourselves and maybe that are
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  answered because Christ lives. Here, he doesn't live in some
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  guest room. He has the deed of this home.
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  He is the one who is the king of this house.
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  And so, you see example, after example, of the times, when
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  people make an intentional effort to say, Lord you are
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  here, we will obey you. We will walk in the fear of your
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  presence and reverence to your name that God cannot help but
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  overwhelm them with his Blessing.
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  And so we see that here, so, here's my question to you before
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  you move on, And love. I asked this in my desire for
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  you to know great joy in life in your walk with Christ, this
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  Christ abide with you, Or do you just visit him once a week?
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  Come on, be honest. Please be honest, this Christ
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  live with you. Or do you just visit him and
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  maybe once a year? You skip a year or two?
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  You go on vacation with Jesus at a conference.
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  Does he live with you? You alone can answer that and if
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  you're not sure, I beckon you to ask him to come home with you
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  today and that you would live with him day after day that you
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  wake up with him, that you go to sleep with him and your mind in
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  Christ will bless you. I'm sure the residents of the
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  healing consider. Now, the request for the
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  healing. We see here in verse 30 now.
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  Simon's mother-in-law I lay ill with a fever and immediately
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  they told him about her, Mark loves that word immediately.
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  Lee and we see here that Peter and Andrew with his, their
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  friends come over, they're aware of the condition of Peter's
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  mother-in-law. And after they come from the
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  service in the synagogue, these men had a strong faith.
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  Obviously, what they just perceive to bring Christ to a
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  situation that was also beyond their control.
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  Therefore, Peter and the rest here, immediately came to the
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  house and they immediately told the rabbi about a loved one's
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  need for relief. And if we were encouraged by the
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  fact that Peter and Andrew brought Jesus to their home, be
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  further encouraged by the manner of their supplication.
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  They told them about their precious, loved one, when, if
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  immediately not later, not next week, immediately, there was no
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  hesitation on their part. There were not reluctant there
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  reflex by being in the presence of a great need was to bring it
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  before a great God. And we see here that for many
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  professing Believers, the relationship between a need a
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  real need and that causing of faith-filled.
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  Cry is either an afterthought or non-existent all together.
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  Why is it that there's so many delays and on our laying of our
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  requests down before the feet of the master?
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  Why is it that we don't think about him as our Shepherd, as
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  the first person to call tuned to ask for to intervene with his
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  wisdom and his power. Why is it that we sense
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  confusion? Or we feel lost or we feel
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  hopeless or in danger that we do not, we do not immediately turn
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  to the Lord and our hearts, Underneath our breath, maybe
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  even desperately coming before him on your knees, as you close
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  your bedroom door and say, Lord, you need to come and you need to
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  help. I'll give you two reasons.
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  I believe. Number one, many believers, do
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  not comprehend the capability of Christ.
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  They don't comprehend the capability of Christ.
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  Could it be that the faith of these men was fueled by the fact
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  that they just saw him speak to a man filled with the devil and
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  that devil immediately had to leave?
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  And they said this, this is something, this is something?
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  Do you think he can heal, mom? Do you think he can call that
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  fever to come out the same way? He called that demon to come out
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  and they had this image so fresh in their minds that they brought
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  the Lord, and they informed them of a personal challenge that
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  they could not control. And I believe the reason, So
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  many Christians do not pray much, it's because they have a
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  small view of God. A little view of God.
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  He's the source of everything that we have and he is able to
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  provide everything that we need everything.
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  There's not one Avenue want, not one area in life that Christ is
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  I don't know if I can help you. There every aspect he has a
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  remedy for every situation, he has a solution for.
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  So let me ask you. This are any of you suffering
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  today this afternoon from a broken heart, a broken heart.
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  I'm not talking about a broken arm.
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  I'm talking about a crushed Spirit.
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  I'm talking Emotional distress. I'm talking about something that
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  is so profound that you wish you would had a broken arm instead
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  that can be true. Here's what I say to you.
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  According to Psalms 147 verse 3, he heals the Brokenhearted.
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  And he binds up their wounds. He doesn't just heal bodies.
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  He heals hearts. He doesn't just put skin
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  together. He doesn't just put fresh power
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  and legs that couldn't walk for years together.
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  He's able to breathe life into your soul where you can know a
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  joy again and you can know something of a satisfaction
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  beyond the fact that you are being distressed by something
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  that is lacking. Do any of you need wisdom as you
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  endure trial. Well, James 1:5 says if any of
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  you lacks wisdom let him ask of God, ask God.
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  Who gives generously to all without reproach and will be
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  given him. this fear harassed you this anxiety attack you
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  constantly And that precious verse in Philippians 4, 6 & 7
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  verse 7 says, and the peace of God, which surpasses all
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  understanding will guard your hearts.
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  That's your emotional state, your hearts and your minds.
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  That's your thought process. He will guard both of those
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  things in Christ. Jesus.
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  What's the diagnosis? He has the Cure.
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  What's the problem? He has a prescription.
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  So why is it that we hesitate? I believe it's.
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  It's because we don't know the capability of Christ.
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  We don't know how much he is able to zoom in on a particular,
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  in a particular situation and deal with it accordingly with
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  surgical precision. People do not comprehend the
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  capability of Christ. And secondly, they don't realize
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  the compassion of Christ. They don't realize the
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  compassion of Christ. I can't help but think that
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  these disciples not only learn something of the power of Jesus.
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  I believe they tasted something of his tenderness.
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  I believe they walk with him, though.
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  It was brief up to this point, but they caught on very quickly
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  that this Jesus does not serve people under compulsion, he
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  chooses with compassion. I when you look at him in the
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  eyes and when you see the way he handles people, you cannot help
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  but think that he genuinely loves those that he serves.
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  And so, they did not hesitate to bring this person.
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  Their mother-in-law who was Ill who is sick, because they knew
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  that this was not cause Christ to sigh, but like a great
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  physician, he would be moved in the innermost parts of who he
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  was to provide some kind of healing.
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  Is it good? Doctor have a patient come in
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  ago. Another 10K, come here, do this?
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  No, they love what they do, and yes, they have bad days but
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  Christ does not have bad days. He is perfectly loving and we
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  see here that they believe that to some degree and Jesus is
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  willing to move quickly upon our needs though.
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  He does know as a great physician would went to allow
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  for painful resistance to remain knowing that it will produce a
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  greater strength and maturity as a result.
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  That's why Jesus doesn't answer every single prayer, every
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  single time because sometimes the best thing is, for that,
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  burden to stay there. Guess what?
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  Because he put it there. I bring this point I because you
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  have many people who have this thought this false impression
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  that God is just too big to care about the little things.
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  You know what I love about this, there's a debate about what the
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  fever was. How intense was?
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  It was, it was it a deadly fever with it, just a mild fever.
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  I was enough for this person, not to be able to move, but when
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  we hear fever in comparison to the dead being raised and in
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  comparison to the blind seeing in the deaf hearing for the
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  first time, I mean, if we had a scale of sickness, this isn't
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  seem that big of a deal but it is to the Lord He cares.
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  He cares about the little things.
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  He cares about the things that hinder us, even at a small
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  percentage and the Lord shows up here and he wants to prove that
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  he actually does have this deep longing for us to be whole for
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  us to know something of his touch.
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  And so this idea that God is too distant, and he only cares about
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  like, big things in our lives is false.
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  It's absolutely false. And what's amazing?
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  I was having this conversation with a couple of Brothers last
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  night is when you look at mark from the cover of it and the
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  start to the finish, what you will see is Jesus ministering
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  often with his hands with his hands over and over.
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  You see several times the Lord using his hands too.
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  Watch those who are in need of that touch.
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  Let me ask you a question, you have to answer it audibly and I
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  hope we can all agree with this. Cannot the Lord Heal any disease
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  or casts out. Any Devil by just his word.
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  We've seen a more than one occasion where he's just sends
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  his word. He doesn't need to even be in
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  the same space as the person who is suffering for them to be
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  relieved and rescued. And yet what you see in the
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  Bible is that Jesus intentionally comes close to
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  people and he holds them by the hand or he lays his hand
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  wondering Why would the Holy Spirit?
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  Show us that? Let me prove it to you first.
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  You have your Bibles right? Good Mark chapter 1 we read it.
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  Verse 31, and he came and took her by the hand.
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  Scroll down to verse 41, here's a man with leprosy Moved with
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  pity, he stretched out his hand and touched them.
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  A leper and said to him, I will be clean.
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  Go to Mark, chapter 5 verse 41, Mark 5:41.
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  Taking her, by what the hand, he sets her Talent Akuma, which
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  means little girl, I say to you arise, Mark, 8, chapter 23, and
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  there are other places, but I'm just coming to just a few of
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  them Mark 8:23. And he took the blind man by
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  what by the hand and led him out of the village.
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  And when he had spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him, he
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  asked, do you see anything by the hand, by The Hand, by the
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  hand? Why, why does it matter for one
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  simple reason? His touch would communicate that
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  he is not only able to heal, but he was deeply willing to be
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  involved. The hand of God willing to be
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  near a variety of fragmented lives.
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  Shows us that he is willing to be near not in a compromising
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  way. But in a way in which He is
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  wanting to make us whole regardless of how broken we are.
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  So why hesitate to come broken before the Lord when he is eager
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  to embrace you in that state of Brokenness?
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  Why hesitate to come with your concern?
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  When he launched to put the pieces together, this is Christ.
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  We should not hesitate. We should not be reluctant for
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  one simple reason. Through this action alone, we
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  see that he is showing us that he's ready to be near hand in
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  hand. If you will, here's what
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  Spurgeon said, quote, make a practice Spurgeon said, make a
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  practice of telling the Lord all about your family concerns,
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  bring sicknesses and other troubles to your best friend.
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  Do it at family prayer but do it also at your bedside alone.
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  If Jesus has come to stay with you .1, bring them home.
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  If Jesus has come to stay with you, he will not hold himself
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  aloof. From your anxieties.
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  He comes with his great sympathetic, heart to be
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  afflicted in your afflictions and quote.
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  Mark, here wants us to see the faith of these men by saying
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  immediately, Lord, hears our mom would you do something with her?
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  Please. We saw what you did in that
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  synagogue. You can surely do something
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  here, but I love what Matthew does.
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  He tells the same story, but he puts a different emphasis and I
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  want you to see it because it will encourage you to do
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  something that we call people. The practice, read your Bible
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  slowly. Matthew chapter 8, verse 14.
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  Look at this in your Bibles and it's so comforting.
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  When you realize the detail that he adds to the scene, Matthew
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  8:14, the same story. Same Miracles, same Jesus,
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  different emphasis. And when Jesus entered Peter's
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  house, he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever.
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  Matthew doesn't mention the faith of these men, Matthew
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  doesn't mention their prayer. He doesn't mention their
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  request, the focus turns to Jesus that when he enters into
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  that same house, he himself sees the Mother-in-law who is sick,
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  and then acts accordingly Mark. He was told he was asked and
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  then he moved upon their faith. Matthew, he saw it and he did
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  something about it. Teaching us what?
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  That in Matthew, we learn Christ is already aware of the
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  situation that you need to be answered.
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  He already recognized that he already sees it, he's already
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  there with the problem in mind completely mindful of you as you
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  deal with it. And that comforts me because as
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  I come before the Lord and pray, I'm not asking about something
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  that he is not aware of. He's already there, he already
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  perceives it. He's already calculated, he's
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  actually there. He sees it.
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  Well, then if he sees it, why doesn't he just do something
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  about it? Well, Mark tells us because he
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  moves by faith, your faith, and he awaits for you to call upon
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  him. He waits for you to seek him, to
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  honor him with that request. So that he can move and bring
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  glory to him. Through that prayer, being
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  answered. But I love to know that the Lord
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  sees it because even though I pray about something because I'm
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  not going to use a text like this and say, everything you
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  pray for, Jesus will immediately answer, but I can be comforted
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  when I come to Matthew to see that even though he doesn't
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  answer it immediately, at least he's aware of it, and if he
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  doesn't answer it, then it means that he knows that it's best to
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  delay. It.
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  And I rejoice in the Lord because of that, we see the
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  request of the healing last. So, we come to the response
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  after the healing. Let's go back.
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  Mark together as we close on a moment.
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  In Mark, chapter 1 verse 31. And he came and took her by the
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  hand and lifted her up and the fever left her and she began to
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  serve them. You see the reaction of the
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  woman? Humble domestic service was the
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  response of the woman. After she received fresh
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  strength, she got up and she saw Christ, and she realized the
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  healing came from his hand. And she said, I want to serve my
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  healer. And so she begins to do so and I
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  believe that the reaction should be no less for those who have
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  experienced way more than healing from a fever.
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  She was raised from her sick bed.
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  You know what you were raised from the dead spiritual death
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  and you were raised into New Life.
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  How much more should we be willing to immediately?
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  Say Lord, you've touched my heart.
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  Now, I want to serve you from the same heart.
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  You are worthy of my life being surrendered, for your service,
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  whatever it is. And in the case of this woman,
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  like a good middle eastern Mom. I'm sure the service had to do
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  something with food. What else do you do in the home?
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  Hosting people here. She begins to host, she begins
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  to show honor and glory to the one that touched her.
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  And I find it very difficult for people who claim that Jesus
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  transform their hearts while showing no evidence of service
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  to him. How?
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  That would be like this woman being healed.
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  You getting up and leaving the house immediately to go about
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  your own affairs. It seems also almost insulting
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  there's an it. When you hear it that way.
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  And yet you have so many people who claim.
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  Yeah. Jesus he's my, he's my Lord and
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  He transformed my life. I when And they just there's no
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  evidence of service. There's no evidence of
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  gratitude, there's no evidence of Lord.
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  Here's my life, here's an aspect of my life that when I dedicate
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  to you in a particular Ministry but here's my whole life.
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  For what you have done. But what I find amazing here is
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  that Peters mother-in-law did not only direct her service to
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  Christ. She ministered to his followers
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  as well. What does it say?
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  She began to serve them. Not just the Lord them his
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  followers, his disciples she spread out a banquet and how
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  you? And I love and serve the body of
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  Christ is a major indication of what Christ has done in you.
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  And who Christ is to you? She served them.
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  And for those who are discouraged because they think
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  that they cannot serve Christ unless it's in a particular way,
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  realize that this woman serve Jesus in her home.
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  The very same place where she slept every night, the same
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  place, where she cleaned the same place where she had many
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  responsibilities is a very same place where Jesus Christ was
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  served. And glorified.
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  And I think that is an encouragement to many people who
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  feel limited, because they have a desire, great desire to do
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  great things, but they feel like their life is at home, mom's pay
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  attention future, mom's pay attention.
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  Jesus can be served at home. He can be blessed at home.
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  He can be pleased at home. And I want you to see that these
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  disciples also were blessed at the home of these men.
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  And Peter's family was Pious, indeed, Peter invited Christ to
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  the house and his mother-in-law hosted Christ in that same house
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  and what became of this home as seem to be just an average home
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  in the streets of Capernaum. Look at verse 33 and the whole
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  city was gathered together at the door.
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  Imagine that one day, you've a handful of people and it within
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  a few hours you have the city at your door, lined up to meet with
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  the Jesus. That is at that house.
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  I'm not saying that will happen every single time but there is
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  no knowing listen. What can happen to a person who
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  says Lord even my home is yours, Even where I live.
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  Is yours, my resources are yours, whatever it is that you,
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  you asking me belongs to you, there will be no telling what
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  Christ will do. As a result of that.
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  For some it will look like hosting disciples from time to
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  time with good Middle Eastern food.
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  For others. It may be using that home and
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  blessing. Ministers who are out there
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  serving on the streets serving in the synagogue's, I am a
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  recipient of many people who have said, I'm sending something
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  to your house. It's at the front door, I hope
• 40:49
  you enjoy it and you know who you are.
• 40:52
  I say thank you from this Pulpit because that has helped me study
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  more that has helped me Council more and your services unto
• 40:58
  Christ for others. It may look like you being at
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  the synagogue regularly and teach It may be like the
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  disciples going out into the streets, going out into the
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  city's, to preach, whatever it is, that it looks like Christ is
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  worthy to be served wherever his Providence places us.
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  And in this case, this Highbridge Galilean home with no
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  Revival in their living room, And that excites me and not
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  shows me that you have no idea what awaits when you take this
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  thing beyond the meeting. Please do that.
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  I'll end with a story when I was in college, I moved into an
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  apartment after I first got saved.
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  A my roommate was a Christian first Christian roommate, he's
• 41:44
  from The Young Adult Ministry that we were part of that was
• 41:46
  not too far from our church. And so we began to move in and
• 41:50
  we began to ask what we needed to purchase and all that.
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  And finally, it came down to the living room.
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  Some of, you know, this story, some of you don't I hope it
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  encourages you. And so we were there in the
• 41:59
  living room and he looked at me. He says, well I think we need to
• 42:02
  get a TV. What do you think?
• 42:03
  And I looked at him, I said, I don't know.
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  Why don't we not? Let's do something.
• 42:12
  This is what we stood there. In the empty living room.
• 42:14
  We looked at each Isis. Why don't we why don't we pray
• 42:18
  and dedicate this living room to the Lord?
• 42:22
  And he did not even hesitate. He says listen to it.
• 42:25
  So he grabs my hand this and we put our foreheads against one
• 42:29
  another. This is the first time for me,
• 42:32
  but I went with it. And there was an earnestness in
• 42:39
  that prayer. Lord.
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  This living room is yours. Not very big, not much.
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  We're going to leave it empty for you, do as you please.
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  Within a few weeks. We had a regular meeting in our
• 42:55
  apartment. We weren't too far from the
• 42:56
  college. We weren't too far from the
• 42:59
  downtown area of Toronto. And five people came and we
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  worshipped in that living room. We read our Bibles.
• 43:06
  We would go into the college campus and witness a few weeks.
• 43:09
  Came 15 people few weeks came 20 people it became a meeting of 50
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  people on a regular basis. And Not only was there.
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  No room for a TV. We didn't even use the TV.
• 43:20
  We had one, we had to get rid of our couches.
• 43:24
  And our living room was filled with foldable black chairs.
• 43:29
  That's all look like. So if you walked into the
• 43:31
  apartment you would just see black chairs stacked up in the
• 43:34
  living room with nothing else because we reserve that space
• 43:38
  for those meetings we would pray on Friday night, go out on
• 43:41
  Saturday. And that prayer that we prayed
• 43:45
  didn't come to mind, but when we were leaving that apartment, we
• 43:50
  didn't have much to move out. It dawned on me, he heard that
• 43:55
  prayer. He heard that prayer and he
• 43:58
  filled it with people. And it was an easy all the time,
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  it wasn't because we would have people sleep over a lot to go to
• 44:07
  church on Sunday morning. We didn't have space.
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  We have to serve people, we have people would come late, people
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  would all these different things.
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  People would stay late to be prayed for and all these things,
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  and it's just like this. I mean, you see these people
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  coming to the front door as a much of that.
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  That's a blessing, there's natural burdens that come with
• 44:24
  that. So worth it.
• 44:28
  So worth it. Am I saying if you leave here
• 44:31
  tonight and you go to your living room, put your head on
• 44:32
  somebody else's head and you pray They have to get rid of
• 44:36
  your furniture. And your, I'm not saying that
• 44:39
  I'm just giving you one real example. but if you really
• 44:43
  sanctify, it unto the Lord, He might blow your mind.
• 44:49
  And he is faithful. Bring Jesus home.
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  And watch what he'll do with it. Let's pray.
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  We thank you for this this study.
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  In a few verses. That has shown your Supremacy
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  over sickness. You can still heal today.
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  But thank you for the lessons underneath.
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  Lori ask. That with the difficulties of
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  different scenarios even from this church where you have one
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  spouse, who's a believer? And the other is not.
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  Or you have one sibling who's a Believer.
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  And the others are not. Whatever the situation may be
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  Lord. We just ask that on the
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  individual basis, you would be more real in our day-to-day
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  lives. And that whether or not a spouse
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  wants Christ in that home or the children want Christ in that
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  home. Your word tells us in First
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  Corinthians 7, that when a believing spouse remains in the
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  house of an unbelieving spouse, they are sanctified.
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  And those children are made holy because of the presence of that
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  believer in that house. We asked for that Christ would
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  be more real even in the homes where there is not a unanimous
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  decision for Christ to be in that home.
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  And Lord, we just ask that you would have your way Beyond these
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  meetings, but that Lord, they would be testimonies in our
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  living rooms. In our kitchens and our
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  conversations over dinner. And Lord, we just pray that you
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  would be magnified. And that you would be glorified.
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  Where we sleep, and where we eat, and where we have memories
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  and where we celebrate Christmas and Easter Lord be there.
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  Today, we make a conscious decision that as we leave this
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  place, you will come with us. You'll be worshipped and praise.
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  And lugged where we do life, you are the author of life.
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  We give you praise in Jesus name.
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  Amen. Can we stand and Worship the
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  Lord together?