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Matthew chapter 8 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 8. Let us pray.
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  Heavenly Father, we thank you for another time to come and
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  learn about you, Lord, just to sit at your feet, Lord, to dine
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  and Sup with you. Thank you God, for healing us.
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  Thank you God, for giving us purpose.
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  Thank you God, for all the many blessings, Lord, that we've
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  already experienced today, for the breath in our lungs, for the
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  ability to think and to reason, God, and to to feel, Lord, and
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  to sense that you are in the room.
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  And Lord Holy Spirit, I pray you'll fill us today, fill us
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  overflowing. God, help us to understand these
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  words. Give us discernment from on
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  high. I pray for healing from on high.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you'll rebuke the devourer
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  from off of our families and off of our lives and off of our
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  houses, off of our cars, God, off of our workplaces.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus for peace, God, peace and our
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  bodies, peace over our minds, God, I pray peace over our
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  hearts, Lord, I pray peace over this nation.
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  Father, I pray that you, Lord, will come and have your will and
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  have your way. And it is all about King Jesus
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  and it'll always be about King Jesus.
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  The Spirit and the Bride say, come, we are crying out, Father
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  ABBA, we're crying out. Come, Lord, come.
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  Yes, Lord Jesus, we await your second coming.
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  We await you to make everything right.
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  And we are trusting. We are believing that this is
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  not the end. We are trusting and we are
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  believing that you and your words are true.
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  We have faith, God, faith to move mountains, faith the size
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  of a mustard seed. And our faith is in Jesus
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  Christ. Our faith is in the only one who
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  can make every wrong thing right.
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  So we exalt that name over our circumstances.
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  We exalt that name over our emotions.
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  We exalt that name over our circumstances.
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  We exalt that name over everything that poses itself as
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  reality. God, we tap into the power
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  source. Lord, we increase our faith.
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  Today, in the name of Jesus, I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one. When he was come down from the
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  mountain, great multitudes followed him.
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  So if you've been following along for the last few chapters,
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  you'll know that this was after the Sermon on the Mount and that
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  is the mount that is referenced here in chapter 8.
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  Go back and listen to those chapters.
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  Go back and read those chapters. Go back and study and meditate
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  on those chapters. There's a great deal of of what
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  is expected of you believer. It is contained in those three
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  chapters. And here Jesus is going to put
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  the stamp on his divinity. He's going to put the stamp on
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  his righteous royalty. He's going to put the stamp that
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  he is God Incarnate. And here you're going to see in
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  the next couple chapters how Jesus Christ is showing the
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  world that he is the Son of God. He is the Son of Man. 2 And
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  behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if
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  you're willing, you can make me clean.
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  Notice here that this leper was breaking all the laws.
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  He was supposed to stay 25 feet away, 150 feet away, depending
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  on how the wind blew. He was supposed to stay far away
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  from society as possible. And he's supposed to cry out
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  unclean, unclean. And look how he approaches King
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  Jesus. Look how he bows down and he
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  worships him and he knows who he's dealing with.
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  He knows that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he can make
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  him clean. And that is a picture for you
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  and I. We were once this leper.
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  We were once unclean, full of sin.
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  We were once separated from the goodness of God.
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  And it is through this humble worship that we come to know who
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  it is that we're worshiping the King of kings and the Lord of
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  Lords, The only one that can make us clean, the only one that
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  can wash away our sins and make us white as snow.
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  Three. And Jesus put forth his hand,
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  and he touched him, saying, I will be clean.
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  And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
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  Imagine that Jesus defiled himself here.
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  Jesus touched a leper. This went against every Jewish
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  ritual law that was given through Moses.
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  This went against every bit of it.
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  But Jesus Christ was not scared to touch him, and he put on him
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  the cleanliness that comes from Jesus Christ, and He did that
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  for you, and He did that for me, Friends, He's not afraid of your
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  sin. He's not afraid of your
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  defilement. He's not afraid of your dirt.
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  He's not afraid of your addictions.
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  He's not afraid of your past. He's not afraid of you.
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  He is willing. And he stretches forth his hand,
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  and he touches you, friend, and he cures you, and he heals you.
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  And he takes away that reprobate mind.
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  He takes away that addiction to pornography.
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  He takes away your murderous acts.
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  He takes away your fits of rage. He takes away your insecurities.
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  He takes away all the times you tear other people down just to
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  build yourself up within your own mind.
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  He takes away your childhood trauma.
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  He takes away all of the past, all of the things that people
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  have done to you to hurt you. He stretches forth his hand and
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  he cleanses you and He makes you a new creation.
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  That's my story, friends, and it can be yours.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus that if anyone is in Christ, they're
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  a new creation. The old things have passed away.
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  Behold, the new has come, and this leper is going to
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  experience a new lease on life. This leper is going to
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  experience cleansing and wholeness and cleanness and
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  purity. And you and I, we can experience
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  that through the blood of the lamb, Friends says immediately
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  He was cleansed. That is what happens with you
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  and with me, friends. It is immediate.
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  He takes away our sins, but then we go through the process which
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  is sanctification, which is becoming more and more like
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  Jesus Christ every day, which is verse 4.
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  And he said unto him, see that you tell no man, but go your way
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  and show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses
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  commanded for a testimony unto them.
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  Verse 4 is a is a loaded verse. Verse 4.
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  We could camp out for a good while.
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  On verse 4. Notice how it says that it is a
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  testimony unto them. This was not something that they
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  encountered ever. Once you became a leper, there
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  was no cure and all other than the miraculous Moses, when he
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  prescribed what the ceremonial duties for a priest were to do
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  If someone was cleansed from leprosy.
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  Once he prescribed that, it never really got performed
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  because no one who contracted leprosy was ever healed.
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  So here Jesus is saying, go as a testimony unto them, Show
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  yourself to be clean. And they would have known this
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  man to have leprosy prior, and they would have seen him
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  spotless and clean. And what a word for you and what
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  a word for me, and what a word for this wicked and perverse
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  generation when God heals us from on high, when he cleanses
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  us, when we become that new creation.
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  And we go out and they say, isn't this the man that used to
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  do all these things? How is it that he's in his right
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  mind? And that is what Jesus does for
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  us, friends, you know, when we meet Saints and we meet people
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  who have a wonderful life and a wonderful testimony and they
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  have the peace of God ruling and reigning in their hearts, it
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  doesn't take much of A sit down and conversation with those
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  people to find out where they came from and what their life
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  was like prior. And that is the beauty of the
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  gospel of Jesus Christ. It cleanses us from all
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  unrighteousness. It puts us in heavenly places
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  with him, and we get to see the world the way that God does.
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  And there was once a time where we were wretched.
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  There was once a time that we were blind and deaf and God
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  pulled us up out of the muck and the mire.
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  God snatched us from the fire, and he put a new robe on us, and
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  he put a ring on us, and he made us sons and daughters of the
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  Most High King, and we will rule and reign with him forevermore,
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  and we will be there with him forevermore, praise God.
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  Hallelujah. 5 And when Jesus entered into Capernaum, there
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  came unto him a centurion begging him.
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  So a little side note, the centurion, he would have been a
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  man over 100 soldiers. He was a Gentile, He was not a
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  Jew. And here he comes to Jesus
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  Christ as Jesus enters into his hometown and he falls on his
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  knees and he's begging him. He says, Lord, my servant lies
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  at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.
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  Perhaps his servant had become a paralytic, and he was in such
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  pain. 7 And Jesus said unto him, I am willing to come and heal
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  him. We should always assume that
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  Jesus is willing to heal. We should always assume that He
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  is willing. When we stretch out our hands
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  and we lay hands and we pray over somebody, we should be
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  assumptuous that Jesus is willing.
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  It is only by Him revealing to us that whatever infirmity that
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  we are suffering is going to bring Him the most amount of
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  glory. Should we not ask for that
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  anymore? If you remember, 3 times Paul
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  begged of the Lord, and three times the Lord said that in his
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  weakness he is made strong. And so we should ask for healing
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  from on high. We should be persistent in that
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  healing until the Lord reveals to us that it is His will for
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  that infirmity to remain. Hey, the centurion answered and
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  said, Lord, I'm not worthy that you should come under my roof,
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  but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
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  So this centurion, he understood the power of Jesus Christ.
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  He understood how all Jesus had to do is speak a word.
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  He spoke everything into existence.
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  He spoke the planets and the universe, everything that teams
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  in the ocean and flies above us in the heavens.
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  Everything he spoke and it came to be.
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  And so therefore all He has to do is speak the Word, and the
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  healing comes from on. High Praise God. 9 For I am a
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  man under authority, and I have soldiers under me.
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  And I say to this man, go, and he goes, and I say to another,
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  come, and he comes, and to my servant do this.
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  And he does it, This centurion. He understands hierarchy, he
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  understands the brigade system, he understands how the army
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  works, and God is the God of the Angel armies.
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  And so this centurion understands that all Jesus has
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  to do as the Son of God is to speak the word, and it shall be
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  done. We need to believe that,
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  friends. 10 When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and he said, that
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  followed. Truly I say unto you, I have not
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  found such great faith. No, not in Israel.
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  So what a cut down, what a what a sly remark towards the Jews
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  that Jesus would say such a fond thing of a Gentile.
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  And it is a foreshadowing of you and me being brought into the
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  fold. Friends, His plan from the
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  beginning was for the whole world and the Jews.
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  They had thought that there would never be a Gentile to
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  enter into heaven, and they had thought that there would never
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  be a Jew to go to hell. And here with this one
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  statement, Jesus tears down all their presuppositions.
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  Friends, all their preconceived ideas of how heaven and hell
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  work. Here Jesus Christ, the Son of
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  God, tells us that you will be grafted in Gentile 11 And I say
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  unto you, that many shall come from the east and the West, and
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  shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom
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  of heaven. Praise God.
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  Hallelujah shows you here that heaven will be relational.
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  We will know each other, friends.
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  It is not a place that we go to float around on clouds and sing
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  hymns. Heaven is relational, and there
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  are two things that we can start now that we will be doing for
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  all of eternity #1 worship. Worship Him like the leopard
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  did, Friends. Worship Him knowing how far
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  you've come from. Worship Him knowing that He's
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  the only one who has made you clean.
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  Worship Him knowing that it is the blood of the Lamb that
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  cleanses us from all iniquities and unrighteousness.
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  Worship Him and #2 relationships.
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  We can start those relationships now that we will have for all of
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  eternity. And when we've been there 10,000
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  years, bright, shining as the sun, we have no less days to
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  sing His praise than when we first begun.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah.
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  We will know each other and He shows us that we will be
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  sitting. It will be a restful place.
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  We will see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven.
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  12 But the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into
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  outer darkness, and there shall be weeping and gnashing of
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  teeth. So he's showing the Jews that
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  they, if they cannot trust in the lineage of Abraham to get
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  them into heaven, that if they continue in their idolatry, if
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  they continue in their disbelief, they will be
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  vanished. They will send themselves to
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  hell. They will send themselves to
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  where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth and the worm
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  never dies and is the unquenchable fire, and there
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  will be torment there. And it is nowhere that anybody
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  would ever want to go here. Jesus is showing the Jews that
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  the Gentiles are running ahead of them. 13 And Jesus said unto
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  the centurion, Go your way, as you have believed, so be it done
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  unto you. And his servant was healed in
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  the self same hour. Imagine that.
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  Imagine going and imagine asking when did you start feeling
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  better? When did you get up and leap
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  like the gazelle? And they would have said it this
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  time, and he would have thought back and said, wow, praise God,
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  Hallelujah. That was the exact time that
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  Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the anointed, 1 Jesus of Nazareth,
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  That was the moment he said, go your way, for your servant has
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  been healed. All Jesus has to do is say a
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  word in healing from on high. Instantaneous healing,
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  miraculous healing from on high. Praise God, Hallelujah. 14 And
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  when Jesus was coming to Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother
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  laid and sick of a fever. So here we can see that Peter
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  had a wife, Peter was married. What a thought, what a thought
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  of Peter leaving everything to follow the Lord.
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  And here Jesus is bringing him back into Capernaum and he's
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  bringing him back in and staying at Peter's house.
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  And here Peter's mother-in-law sick. 15 He touched her hand,
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  and the fever left her, and she arose and ministered unto them.
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  Praise the Lord, that is our response when the Lord heals us
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  as we get up and we serve him. 16 When the evening was come,
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  they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils, and
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  he cast out the spirits with his word, and he healed all that
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  were sick. Jesus is willing to heal, to
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  cast out the demonic, to cast out infirmities.
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  Jesus is willing call upon that name today, friends, and be
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  healed. It is the name of Jesus.
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  It is the name above every name that breaks the chains, that
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  drives out the darkness. It is the name Jesus Christ.
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  Bring that name upon your lips today.
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  All who call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. 17 that it
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  might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet
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  saying himself took our infirmities and bore our
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  sickness. So as the healing power left out
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  of Jesus, even though he was all God, he was all man, and it
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  depleted and wiped him out. And here Isaiah prophesied that
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  he's. Bearing all of our infirmities
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  and our sickness. So this is perhaps one of the
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  reasons that it says that Jesus often withdrew to desolate
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  places. He went to go and be filled with
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  the presence of God and to be refueled and to be completely
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  filled back up because of healing power was leaving.
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  And yes, He is all God and He is omnipotent and all the power of
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  10,000 Suns surge from him. And for him to identify with our
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  manhood, with our infirmities and sicknesses.
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  He understood what it was to be depleted. 18 Now when Jesus saw
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  great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto
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  the other side. So Jesus here he sees all the
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  people pressing in, and they're bringing all their sick and all
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  their demon possessed, and he's bringing them all the ones who
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  are paralytic, and he's bringing them all the ones who are not
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  well. And he is seeing them pressing
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  in and it says that he healed all of them.
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  But as the crowds continued on, he said, let's depart from here.
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  19 A certain scribe came and said unto him, Master, I will
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  follow you wherever you go. I'm sure that he meant well.
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  I'm sure that he thought to himself, I have special skill
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  set that I can offer to you. 20 Jesus said unto him, Foxes have
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  holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man has
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  nowhere to lay his head. So here you can see that Jesus
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  is being honest with him. Jesus is saying, if you are
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  thinking that following after me is resulting in these massive
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  crowds and we can gather some kind of financial gain from this
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  following, I want you to know that the work that I have to do
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  is 1 where we will be driven from town to town, and we will
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  not even know where we're going to sleep.
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  Jesus was being real with this man. 21 And another of his
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  disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury
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  my father. So here you can see these
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  titles, these messianic titles that are being given to Jesus
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  Christ. He's being called Lord, He's
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  being called the Son of Man. He calls himself the Son of Man.
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  He's identifying himself with our humanity.
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  He's identifying himself with us when he says the Son of Man.
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  He's beckoning us back to Daniel.
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  He's beckoning us back to the Messiah.
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  He's beckoning us back to Christ.
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  He's beckoning us back to the promises of the Old Testament
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  being fulfilled in his life. Here, friends, 400 years after
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  the close of the Old Testament, here Matthew is pinning down all
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  these events for you and for me to read. 2000 years later, we're
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  still talking about it. He is the Son of Man, He is the
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  Lord, He is the Son of David, He is our Messiah, and we should
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  not wait for another. And here this disciple is
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  saying, let me go and wait out my father until he dies, and
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  then I'll bury him. Then I'll come find you.
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  And what does Jesus have to say? Jesus said to him, Follow me and
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  let the dead bury their dead. Wow, what a statement of Christ.
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  Christ here is telling this disciple.
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  He's saying that if you are not chosen before the foundations of
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  the earth, you are dead in your trespasses.
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  And if you were to die without the Holy Spirit indwelling you,
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  if you were to die without acknowledging Jesus Christ as
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  Lord, you are dead now and you will be twice dead then.
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  And for us, we were once dead, but Jesus Christ dawned on the
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  scene and we looked over the hill and we grabbed a hold of
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  the hem of His garment. We received our healing from on
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  high, and we are following after Him.
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  We've put our hands to the plow. We've locked eyes with Him, and
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  we are following after Him hard. Wherever He goes.
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  Praise the Lord, let's not sit on our blessed assurance.
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  Let's be found. Let's get into game, friends.
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  Let's make sure we're telling everyone about Jesus Christ.
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  Go and follow Him. He's worthy of all of your
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  adoration. Let the dead bury the dead. 23
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  And when he had entered into a ship, his disciples followed
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  him. And behold, there arose a great
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  Tempest in the sea, in so much that the ship was covered with
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  the waves, but he was asleep. Jesus Christ asleep in the boat,
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  all of the disciples there in the boat with them, and here
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  comes this Tempest. And perhaps the enemy was trying
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  to capsize the boat, get rid of the Son of God, get rid of all
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  the disciples that were going to go out into the ends of the
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  earth and be martyred for the faith and to push the seed down
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  in the ground. That would result in your
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  salvation and my salvation and thousands upon thousands of
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  people's salvation. And it always births from this
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  moment. And here we can see the wind in
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  the waves and they're trying to come over the boat.
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  And what is Jesus's posture? He's asleep, friends.
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  He's trusting in God Almighty. He knows the beginning from the
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  end. He's the alpha and the Omega.
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  He already knows what is to come.
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  He already knows what he's going to do.
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  And he is desirous to increase the faith of his disciples.
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  And he does the same thing for you and he does the same thing
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  for me. Friends, there's so many times
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  the wind and the waves and the cares and the tares of this
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  world are coming up and they feel like they're going to
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  capsize us. The pressure is so much, but
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  he's producing diamonds friends. He's unearthing the vein of
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  gold, friends. He's producing the Pearl.
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  Friends, in your life, it is desirous for you to increase
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  your faith. Lift up that shield of faith
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  today, friends. Increase it.
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  Lift it up higher over your head, over your circumstances,
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  over your emotions and feelings. Lift your shield of faith up
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  higher, friends higher. It might be heavy, but lift it
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  up even higher, friends, and extinguish the flaming darts of
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  the enemy. He was asleep. 25 The disciples
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  came to him, and they woke him, saying, Lord, save us, we
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  perish. This is what it looks like when
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  we cry out to the Lord and say, Save us, for we are perishing.
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  And what does the Lord say to us?
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  And he says to them, Why are you fearful of your little faith?
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  And he arose and he rebuked the winds in the sea, and there was
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  a great calm. Yes, he can do that.
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  Yes, when we cry out to him, for sure He can calm everything
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  around us. But He desires for us to walk in
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  our bridal identity. He desires for us to know the
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  power that we have from on high. He desires to know our sonship.
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  He desires to know that we are called daughters and sons of the
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  Most High King. He desires for us to have
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  dominion over our households, dominion over this land,
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  dominion over this nation, dominion over this globe.
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  Friends, that is your calling today.
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  He gives you the dominion and you need to walk in it and quit
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  squandering it to the enemy. Quit looking at the lustful
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  pleasures of the eyes. Quit making it all about mammon
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  and money and position and power and follow after the Lord Jesus
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  Christ and walk in your identity with the dominion.
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  That is what He gives to you, Friends.
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  Tap into the power source, Plug in friends and walk as someone
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  who is more than a conqueror. You put your foot on the head of
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  the serpent and you crush his head in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. It is that name, Friends 27 And
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  the men marveled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even
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  the winds and the sea obey him? They hadn't quite figured it out
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  yet. They have not the indwelling of
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  the Holy Spirit, which you do, friend.
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  You have the Holy Spirit if you're a born again, blood
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  bought believer. They have yet to receive this on
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  the day of Pentecost, and so they are still marveling and
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  wondering at what manner of man is this.
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  He is the Son of God. 28 And when he had come to the other
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  side into the country of Garrett Jesanese, there met him too,
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  possessed with devils coming out of the tombs exceeding fierce,
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  so that no man might pass by that way.
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  So here we're getting to see Jesus entering into the tombs
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  he's entering in, and perhaps This is why he was asleep in the
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  boat. He was getting ready for the
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  battle, He was getting ready for what was about to happen.
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  And here we're going to see how Jesus deals with the demoniacs.
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  29 And behold, they cried out saying, what have we to do with
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  the Son? Jesus, thou son of God, are you
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  come here to torment us before the time?
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  There's so many interesting points here, starting in verse
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  28 and here you can see into the demonic.
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  You can see how they're able to possess humanity.
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  They're looking for vessels, they're able to possess beasts,
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  they're able to go into the pigs here, and they're also
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  referencing before the time. So there is coming a time where
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  all of the demons will be dealt with.
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  And here we are getting to see these devils coming out of
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  tombs. We can see that they're
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  exceedingly fierce. We can see that no one can pass
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  by. We can see that they're crying
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  out. They acknowledge Jesus as the
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  Christ. They acknowledge him as the Son
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  of God. And even their disciples missed
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  it. But the demons do not miss it.
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  They know who Jesus is. 30 And there was a good way off from
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  them, a herd of many swine feeding. 31 And so the devils
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  begged him, saying, If you cast us out, suffer us to go away
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  into the herd of swine. 32 And he said unto them, Go.
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  And when they were come out, they went into the herd of
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  swine. And behold, the whole herd of
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  swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea and perished
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  in the waters. So you could see what the end
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  goal for the demoniacs were, that they were there to steal,
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  kill, and destroy. They were going to kill them
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  just as they killed the pigs. And perhaps they went in and
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  caused such a financial ruin for these farmers that they knew the
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  demons knew that it would make Jesus look bad, and so the
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  people would run him off. 33 And they, and they that kept them,
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  fled, and went their way into the city, and told everything
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  that was befallen to the possessed of the devils. 34 and
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  will end here. And behold, the whole city came
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  out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they begged him that he
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  would depart out of their coasts.
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  Imagine that Jesus does a wonderful work here in the tombs
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  and because of the financial ruin of the farmers and they
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  were afraid, they begged him to leave.
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  Isn't that what we do? Jesus comes in and he heals
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  somebody. Jesus comes in and he restores
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  marriage. Jesus comes in and he makes a
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  place safer. And what do we do?
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  We turn and we say leave from here.
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  We liked our little life prior. It's such a reference to how we
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  are as humans. And when Jesus comes in, he
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  changes everything and God is good.
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  But just remember that people are so in love with evil that
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  they refuse to love truth. And that is why he sends the
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  powerful delusion. And these people were
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  delusional. They were delusional to think
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  that they needed to send Jesus away because he cast out the
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  demons from these men in the tombs and their place was a lot
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  safer. But because they served money
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  and they served their finances, all they could relegate it all
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  to was their loss of the swine, and they were afraid and they
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  sent him away. And we do the same.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter here and Matthew.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you, so does God.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.