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Matthew chapter 23 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 23. Let us pray.
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  Jesus, our Lord, the God of the universe, Thank you, Father, for
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  all the many blessings. Thank you for your salvation,
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  Lord. Thank you for the indwelling of
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  the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord, that you have
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  sent the helper. Thank you God, that we will do
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  greater things. Thank you, Father, for all the
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  promises contained in these books.
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  Father, the 66 books, the fulfillment of your word.
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  God, I thank you so much that we have the authority.
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  Father, that you have given us the authority and the dominion.
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  Father, I pray against every foul and unclean spirit.
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  God, in the name of Jesus, driving them out.
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  Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray God for clarity and peace.
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  Lord, I pray that the Holy Spirit will be our teacher and
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  our God today. Lord, heal our bodies and heal
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  our minds and heal our marriages and heal our children.
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  Father, and heal the workplace. Father, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus that you will heal this nation.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you, Lord, will reign
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  supreme on the globe. Father, over every land for the
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  entire earth is yours. Lord, and we come up under the
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  yoke of Jesus. We come up under the supreme
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  authority of Yeshua. Lord, we thank you so much for
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  all the many blessings. We thank you so much for the
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  breath and our lungs. We thank you so much for the
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  capillaries. God.
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  We thank you so much for our very next heartbeat.
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  Lord. We thank you so much for
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  cognition, God, and the ability to reason and to think and to
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  ponder, Lord, and to imagine. Father, I pray God Almighty that
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  you can help us to set our minds upon you, set our hearts upon
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  you, to worship you with all of our strength.
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  Father, we love you. Lord, we love everything about
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  you. Thank you God, that you've given
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  us your word to study. And Lord, I just pray as I
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  decrease you increase, Lord, you teach us your ways.
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  In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one then spoke Jesus to the multitude and
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  to his disciples. Well, what did he say?
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  Let's move on to verse 2, saying the scribes and the Pharisees
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  sit in Moses's seat. The scribes and the Pharisees
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  sit in Moses's seat. These were the legal pushers.
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  These were the ones who had the law.
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  These were the ones who were trying to uphold the Pentateuch.
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  They were trying to uphold the Old Testament, and they were
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  exacting all of their religious dogmatic theology upon the
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  masses, and they were making them twice the children of hell.
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  Let's keep going 3 all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe
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  that observe and do but do not you after their works for they
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  say and they do not. They are hypocrites and it's no
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  different in our day and our our friends.
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  We got a lot of people out there that are trying to tell you how
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  to live your lives. But when you pull back the
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  layers and the scandal gets uncovered, you realize that they
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  were ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing.
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  We need to be in tune with the word of God.
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  We need to know the word of God ourselves friends, and that way
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  that is the very best way that you can safeguard your heart and
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  mind and not get church hurt, not get butt hurt, not get your
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  feelings hurt, friends. Because your pastor did
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  something to you, because your pastor was running around on his
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  wife, because there was scandal in the church is you had your
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  eyes on the wrong person, friend.
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  Whenever we fall away because we are offended by what somebody
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  did in the church, if we have our eyes upon Christ, we will
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  not be offended so easily, friends.
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  And by the way, the Word of God is an offense and we need to
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  make sure that we are tuned into the power source.
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  We got to make sure that we are reading this word for ourselves,
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  we understand it for ourselves, and that we are able to teach
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  it. Friends, this is not some corner
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  that somebody finds and then we just fall in line with them.
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  We need to be like the Bereans. We need to make sure we're
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  searching the scripture for ourselves to make sure that what
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  we are being taught is valid. And here Jesus is warning them
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  of all of the hypocrisy within the religious system here.
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  Let's keep going, for they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be
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  born, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves
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  will not move them with one of their fingers.
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  The hypocrisy of the Pharisees. You can see it here.
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  They're not willing to practice what they preach, 5 But all
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  their works they do for to be seen of men.
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  They make broad factories and enlarge the border of their
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  garments. Here they were breaking the law
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  by doing the things that were prescribed not to do.
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  And imagine that what hypocrisy that you can see, and that is
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  the theme of this chapter is you're going to see that Jesus
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  is absolutely annihilating all of the religious systems that
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  were propped up for their own prideful enjoyment.
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  And they were actually able to use the religious system to get
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  their greedy gain. And it's no different in our day
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  and our our friends and Jesus here is actually allowing the
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  publicans and the harlots in faster than all of these
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  religious people. And it's no different in our day
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  and our hour. Same Jesus, Jesus Christ, the
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  same yesterday, today and forever, whatever.
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  Amen. Let's keep going. 6 and love the
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  uppermost rooms at feasts and the chief seats and the
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  synagogues. It was all a show, friends. 7
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  And greetings in the markets and to be called of men.
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  Rabbi Rabbi A but be not you called Rabbi for one is your
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  master. Even Christ and all are your
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  brothers. He's saying that with us as
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  believers, with us as Christians with us that have placed our
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  faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We should not be looking for all
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  of these positions so that we can have manipulation over the
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  masses. He's saying that we are equal Co
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  heirs of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are Co heirs and we should be
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  teaching and we should be showing and revealing things to
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  our brothers that we have learned from the Lord.
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  But it should not be for our own advantage.
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  Friends, we glorify God in heaven. 9 and call no man your
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  father upon the earth, for one is your Father which is in
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  heaven. He is talking against the
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  Catholic Church. Of all the people who want to be
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  called Father, he's saying don't call them Father.
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  For us who have an earthly dad and we say Father, it is OK, But
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  he is saying do not call anybody who's in a position higher than
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  you, Father. And what a word against the
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  Catholic Church. 10 Neither be you called masters, for one is
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  your master, even Christ. He is the Lord God supreme, and
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  we are just the created, and he is the uncreated.
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  Praise God the great I am. 11 But he that is greatest among
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  you shall be your servant. How many times you see it?
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  Over and over and over. God is so good.
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  Jesus is so good at telling us the same thing over and over and
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  over. The least shall be the greatest
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  and the greatest shall be the least.
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  If we want to be noticed by God, not men.
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  If we want God to take notice of us and to help us along the way,
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  we must take the Low Rd. friends.
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  We must not look for the spotlight.
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  And God will exalt you in due time, friends. 12 And whosoever
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  shall exalt himself shall be a base, and he that shall humble
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  himself shall be exalted. Look at verse 12.
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  It is a very simple concept here, friends.
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  What you need to know more than anything is that God is
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  watching. And God sees everything done in
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  secret. And God will openly reward you
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  for the things that you're not self seeking over, the things
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  that you don't demand for people to see you do.
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  God sees it and he will bring it to light, friends, good or bad.
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  13 But woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, the hypocrites, for
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  you shut up the Kingdom of heaven against men, for you
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  neither go in yourselves, neither suffer you them that are
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  entering to go in. So here what he's saying in the
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  in a nutshell is it's bad enough that you're not going to get to
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  go to heaven, but you are actually keeping people from
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  going to heaven. There are a lot of false
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  teachers out there there friends, there are a lot of
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  apostate churches on the scene right now, and we would do well
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  to safeguard ourselves against them by getting into this word
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  and learning this word for ourselves. 14 Woe unto you
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  scribes, you Pharisees, you hypocrites, for you devour
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  widows houses, and for pretense make long prayer.
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  Therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.
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  So there are levels to the amount of damnation.
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  Greater damnation is pronounced here by Jesus.
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  This is not some new thinking. This is just biblical thinking,
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  friends, and you can do with it whatever you would like.
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  But I want you to know that Jesus Christ Himself here is
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  saying that there are greater damnations and torment, friends,
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  for those who teach others to do wrong, for those who offend the
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  little ones, friends. 15 Woe unto you scribes, you Pharisees,
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  you hypocrites, for you compass sea and land to make one
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  proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the
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  child of hell than yourselves. He's talking about people that
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  go from land and sea to find a convert.
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  And when they convert them, what do they do?
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  They make them twice the Son of hell, because the one who comes
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  after the evil teacher is twice as evil.
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  They have to one up their master. 16 Woe unto you, you
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  blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the
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  temple, it is nothing but whosoever shall swear by the
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  gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
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  So here the hypocrisy is just compounded.
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  They are trying to say that the temple is nothing but the gold
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  that is, is everything. And what is He says 17 you full
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  and blind for what? What is greater, the gold or the
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  temple that sanctifies the gold? He's showing them their idiotic
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  hypocrisy, that he's showing them how completely foolish they
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  have become. And what it is is they are
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  trying to skirt around the laws they're trying to skirt around.
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  They don't want to actually give what is given to God.
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  They're keeping it for themselves.
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  And God sees it and Jesus saw it and he's calling them out here,
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  friends. And it's all about for the for
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  the hypocrites, for the Pharisees and the scribes.
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  It's all about financial gain and it's all about power, and
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  they don't want to give it up. 18 And whosoever shall swear by
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  the altar, it is nothing. But whosoever swears by the gift
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  that is upon it, he is guilty. And again he's showing them how
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  duplicious they have been. He says in 19 You fools and
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  blind for what is greater, the gift or the altar that
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  sanctifies the gift. He's showing them that the
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  temple and the altar should be exalted over the gifts and the
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  gold. He's showing them that they have
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  tried to find some kind of loophole to keep the gift, gifts
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  and the gold. And God sees it and he will have
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  no part in it, friends. And it's no different.
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  And our day and our hour whenever churches are created.
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  And then what happens is they go on.
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  They become so incredibly wealthy because people are
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  giving to God. They're not giving to the
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  church. You give to God, friends, but
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  what they do with it is on them. And God sees it, and he will
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  deal with it in due time, Friends. 20 Whoso therefore
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  shall swear by the altar, swears by it, and by all the things on
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  it. 21 And whoso shall swear by the temple swears by it, and by
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  him that dwells in it, God Almighty the Lord. 22 And he
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  that shall swear by heaven swears by the throne of God, and
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  by him that sits on it. Holy reverence for the Lord God
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  Almighty, fall down and worship him. 23 Woe unto you scribes,
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  you Pharisees, you hypocrites, for you pay tithe of mint and
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  anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of
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  the law, judgment, mercy and faith.
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  These are you have to done and not to leave out the others.
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  What's he talking about? He's saying of course we need to
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  be tithing, of course we need to be offering.
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  That is just the beginning. Our sacrificial giving is just
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  the beginning, he's saying. But what he wants is mercy.
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  What does he want? He wants faith.
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  What does he want? He wants us to love justice.
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  He wants us to be the ones who are the light in society.
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  He wants us to be the ones who represent Him well.
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  And not just to check a box. Friends, that is religion, and
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  God wants more than that. He wants us to be sold out, lay
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  down, lovers. He wants us to be the ones who
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  actually have the heart of Jesus and sees this world through the
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  lens of the Holy Spirit welling up within us, filling us,
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  overflowing into our communities.
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  Friends 24 you blind guides which strain a gnat and swallow
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  a camel. Imagine that, friends.
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  They're so worried they're majoring on the miners and they
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  minor on the majors. They're so hyper fixated upon
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  not breaking one of the laws that they're not actually in
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  tune with the heart of God. Friends 25 Woe unto you scribes,
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  you Pharisees, you hypocrites, for you make clean the outside
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  of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of
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  extortion and excess. There it is, He shows them what
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  they are guilty of, extortion and excess.
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  We would do well, friends, to ask God for just enough.
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  Don't give me too little that I might steal, but don't give me
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  too much that I might forget about you, God.
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  This extortion and excess is what they are guilty of.
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  Friends, trust the Lord for today, don't worry about
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  tomorrow. Increase your faith, increase
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  the mercy, increase the judgment, increase, and make
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  sure we're cleaning the inside and not worried about what we
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  look like. Friends, if we take care of our
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  character, our reputation will take care of itself. 26 You
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  blind Pharisee cleanse first that which is within the cup and
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  the platter that the outside of them may be clean also.
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  It's a very simple concept. When you dip the dish into the
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  water and you're cleaning the outside, the OR you're cleaning
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  the inside, the outside will naturally become clean. 27 Woe
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  unto you scribes, you Pharisees, you hypocrites, for you are like
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  unto whitewashed sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful
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  outward, but are within full of dead men's bones and of all the
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  uncleanness. He's talking about whitewashed
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  tombs. He's talking about them who are
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  trying to get the outside to look beautiful.
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  And because of what the festivals that were going on in
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  Jerusalem, they would go and they would whitewash the tombs,
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  get them all cleaned up. But inside it's stinketh
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  friends. There are dead bones.
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  And he's saying what hypocrisy? You're just worried about the
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  outside, but you don't even think about the inside. 28 Even
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  so, you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within
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  you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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  There it is again. What's he talking about?
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  Extortion? What's he talking about excess?
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  What's he talking about hypocrisy?
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  What's he talking about? Iniquity, sinful friends. 29 Woe
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  unto you scribes, you Pharisees, you hypocrites, because you
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  build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of
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  the righteous. 30 And say, if we had been in the days of our
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  fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood
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  of the prophets. So here, what are they doing?
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  They're about to kill the Son of God.
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  They're about to kill God Incarnate, they're about to kill
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  their creator, they're about to murder their Messiah, and
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  they're saying, Oh well, if we were alive in the days of the
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  prophets, we would not have done those things.
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  And what's Jesus say about it all?
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  31 Therefore you be witnesses unto yourselves that you are the
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  children of them which killed the prophets.
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  Make it plain, Jesus. 32 fill you up, then the measure of your
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  Father's it's all about to accumulate to them, actually
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  killing the son that came to the vineyard. 33 You serpents, you
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  generation of Vipers, how can you escape the damnation of
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  hell? He's calling them children of
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  the devil. They're being used by the devil
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  and it's because of greed, extortion, it's because of
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  excess. They were thieves, they were
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  liars, they were blinded and they were delusional.
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  It's no different in our day and our hour, friends, it's no
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  different. You know lost people are going
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  to do what lost people do, but those that have tasted in the
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  goodness of God, those that have experienced the move of the Holy
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  Spirit, and then they turn their back for greedy gain, there is
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  no more salvation for them. Friends, They blasphemy the Holy
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  Spirit, and they send themselves to hell. 34 Therefore behold, I
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  send unto you prophets, wise men, scribes, and some of them
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  you shall kill and crucify, and some of them you shall scourge
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  in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city.
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  He's talking about the church. He's talking about those that
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  are coming in to try to bring them back into salvation.
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  God does not give up on the Jews.
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  Friends don't believe the lie that he's done with them. 35
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  That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the
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  earth, and from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of
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  Zechariah son of Bariacus, whom you slew between the temple and
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  the altar, God sees it all. 36 Truly I say unto you, all these
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  things shall come upon this generation he's talking about.
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  87 He's talking about the Romans coming in and tearing down the
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  second temple. He's tearing down the augmented
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  temple that Herod went and added on to he.
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  They're tearing it down. And 807037 O Jerusalem,
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  Jerusalem, you that killed the prophets, and stone them which
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  are sent unto you. How often would I have gathered
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  your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under
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  her wings? But you would not.
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  What love Jesus has for us, What love Jesus has for his people,
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  His chosen people, the Jews, friends, What love he has for
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  them. He doesn't give up.
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  He's so relentless in his pursuit of us.
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  He chases us down. Praise God, we harden our
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  hearts, we stiff arm him. We choose to go to hell.
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  There's so many people who have been given chance after chance
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  after chance after chance. And by the way, if you woke up
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  today, you have another chance. Surrender to the King of Kings
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  and the Lord of Lords. Surrender to him, friends.
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  Give your entire self over to him.
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  Submit to his will. Submit to his ways.
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  Get in this good book, learn all about them.
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  Surrender and be obedient. Love causes us to obey friends.
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  38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 39 For I say
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  unto you, you shall not see me henceforth, until you shall say,
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  Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.
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  You can see the Jews coming back.
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  You can see the Jews placing their faith in the Lord Jesus
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  Christ as their Messiah. You can see he's referencing the
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  dispersion of the Jews all over the world after 8070.
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  You were seeing him actually bring them back into that land
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  in 1948. You can see all of the prophets
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  off the seas right here in this one little chapter.
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  How amazing is this book that we hold in our hands.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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  Here we are traveling down some much traveled roads here.
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  There's ruts all in this road. Friends, we got to gain some
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  traction here. We're about to hit one of the
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  most messianic chapters and all of the Bible.
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  It's going to be a fun one. Make sure you bring your running
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  shoes. We can run this race well.
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  I love every single one of you. Praying for you.
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  Hope you've been blessed by this.
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  See you back here tomorrow. God bless you.