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Episode 149 - LORD Over The Law · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord, O my soul and
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  Speaker 1: all that is within me. Bless His holy name. We
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  Speaker 1: welcome you once again to this another edition of End
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  Speaker 1: Time Revival Ministris. Here's a podcast. For those of you
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  Speaker 1: who are listening to us by way of our audio podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: and for those of you who are viewing us by
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  Speaker 1: way of our YouTube channel One Voice in the Wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: we thank God for you as well. And again we
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  Speaker 1: are a man uh here by the grace of God,
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  Speaker 1: to disseminate the word of the Living God, to be
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  Speaker 1: faithful to the truth of God. A man his word,
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  Speaker 1: a man his kingdom, A man because it is he
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  Speaker 1: who has made us, and not we ourselves. We belong
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  Speaker 1: to him. A man. He has purchased us with the price,
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  Speaker 1: and that price was the precious blood of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the Lamb of God. Amen. And so we are here
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  Speaker 1: a man to proclaim liberty to those who are in captivity.
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  Speaker 1: A man. The prison doors are unlocked the way it
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  Speaker 1: has been made, and all who come to Jesus will
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  Speaker 1: find freedom and liberty like they've never known before. A man,
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  Speaker 1: he whom the Son sets free, the Bible says, is free.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed and that's what Jesus came to do. A man
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  Speaker 1: to set at liberty those who are bruised, those who
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  Speaker 1: are bound, those who are broken hearted, a man those
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  Speaker 1: who are in captivity and enslaved to sin. Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: has come to a man, set you free. And so we,
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  Speaker 1: a man, are here to proclaim that liberty, to preach
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  Speaker 1: that gospel, the gospel of Jesus Christ, which still Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul says, is the power of God into salvation to
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  Speaker 1: everyone that believes. He that believes in is Baptist, I
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  Speaker 1: shall be saved. He that believes not shall be condemned.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus said, this is the condemnation that light has
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  Speaker 1: come into the world. But me help us, Lord, prefer
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  Speaker 1: the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we want you, We compel you. We amen, plead with you,
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  Speaker 1: those of you who are in the darkness. Amen to amen.
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  Speaker 1: See the light. It's there, it's shining, it's here for season.
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  Speaker 1: It's here, Amen, to save you. It is here to
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  Speaker 1: a man. Illuminate your pathway. Amen, there is a way.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible said that seems right to a man. But
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  Speaker 1: the end thereof death, and so we are called of
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  Speaker 1: God to be faithful to the truth of God, the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of God, Amen, the Word of the Living God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, tonight or brother, this afternoon. This is the
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  Speaker 1: seventh day of the third month of the year of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. A man. We are a man by
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God in another which is rapidly passing by.
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  Speaker 1: We've already culminated two months in this new year of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. And again we are thankful to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord for life, health, strength, provision and all of his
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  Speaker 1: promises that are yea and amen to the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: So we're in a series for those of you who
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  Speaker 1: have been following along with us on God, Government, Church,
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  Speaker 1: and state. And today today we're going to look at
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  Speaker 1: a man again, Jesus interacting with the rulers and the
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  Speaker 1: government of his day. Lord over the law. Jesus is Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and he is Lord over all, and he's Lord over
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  Speaker 1: the law. God is not a man. God is not
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  Speaker 1: like man. That's what we need to certainly understand before
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  Speaker 1: we dive into it. And I'm ready to dive in.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just take a moment or two and give God
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  Speaker 1: Father again, thank you for your mercy, faithfulness, your goodness,
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  Speaker 1: your loving kindness towards us while we were yet sinners. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you died for the ungodly. You died to set us free,
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  Speaker 1: and we are here by the grace of God. It
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  Speaker 1: is of your mercies that we will not consume your compassions.
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  Speaker 1: They fail not new every morning. Thank you, Lord for
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  Speaker 1: your faithfulness. Help us Lord today to speak for for
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  Speaker 1: your truth with plainness, soberness a man. Help someone to hear,
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  Speaker 1: to see, to know, and to come to a man.
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  Speaker 1: Believe that you are the Christ, the son of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. That only way of salvation be glorified in
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  Speaker 1: all that we say and do In Jesus name, we
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  Speaker 1: praying it. Thanks, Amen and Amen. Again. God is not
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  Speaker 1: a man. God is not like man. He is the lawmaker,
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  Speaker 1: He is the lawgiver. And God established an instituted human government.
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  Speaker 1: It is God who established and instituted human government. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came down to this earth not to be in subjection
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  Speaker 1: to the law of man, Amen, but rather to uphole
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  Speaker 1: and to fulfill the law of God. Amen. And this
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  Speaker 1: law of God, of course, the ruling class despises and rejects.
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  Speaker 1: They reject the law of God. They reject the rule
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  Speaker 1: of God. They despise, they detest him ruling over him
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  Speaker 1: over them rather as Lord and God. And Jesus is Lord,
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  Speaker 1: make no mistake about it. Jesus is God, manifested in
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  Speaker 1: the float. And Jesus loves the law of God. And
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  Speaker 1: he testified against the law of this world, the darkness
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  Speaker 1: of this world, the deeds of man, the wickedness of
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  Speaker 1: the heart of man. He testified against it. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why Jesus said, this is why they hate me, because
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  Speaker 1: I testify against it. Amen. And so this is precisely
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  Speaker 1: why Jesus was, I say was and is despised, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and rejected by the rulers, not only of that day,
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  Speaker 1: but even now to this very day. The world, the leaders,
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  Speaker 1: the rulers, the governments, they don't want, they don't want
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  Speaker 1: the rule of God. They don't want the law of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But never forget that Jesus is Lord over the law, Amen, Luke.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen. I'm gonna show you some examples today of
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  Speaker 1: how Amen. Jesus again, he never shied away from interacting
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  Speaker 1: with Amen, these rulers and lawyers. And it wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: that they would come to Jesus, Jesus would I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't see it any other way. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna restate this in just a few moments. But
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  Speaker 1: he provoked them, He provoked them in a good way
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  Speaker 1: to do the right thing, to make the right decision.
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  Speaker 1: But yet, as we know, they didn't. They refused to
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  Speaker 1: let me. Let me start first in the Gospel of Luke.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have your bibles, please follow along the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of Luke, chapter fourteen. I want to begin reading
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  Speaker 1: that verse number one. Now, watch how Jesus again interacted
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  Speaker 1: with these leaders, these rulers, who were in fact representatives
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  Speaker 1: of the government. Amen. Now it happened as he went
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  Speaker 1: into the house of one of the rulers. You hear
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  Speaker 1: that one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat
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  Speaker 1: bread on the Sabbath, that they watched him closely. Now
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  Speaker 1: who is they, the Pharisees, the rulers, Amen, the authorities,
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  Speaker 1: the ones who were the so called guardians of the
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  Speaker 1: law of Moses, who sat in Moses's seat, as it were.
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  Speaker 1: So they watched Jesus, the Bible says, closely. And behold
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  Speaker 1: verse two, there was a certain man before him who
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  Speaker 1: had dropsy, and Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and pharisees, saying,
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  Speaker 1: is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? Now, the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day was instituted by God, and of course the
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  Speaker 1: rulers of this world, the Jews, from their perspective, because
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  Speaker 1: they were given the law of God and the Sabbath day,
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  Speaker 1: it was something that was given to them. They had
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  Speaker 1: added to the law of God. They had taken away
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  Speaker 1: from the law of God. And so Jesus again came
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  Speaker 1: to uphold and to fulfill the law of God. But
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  Speaker 1: never forget again. He is over. He is lord over,
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  Speaker 1: as he would say himself, I am Lord of the Sabbath,
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  Speaker 1: over the Sabbath. Amen. So Jesus asked them this question,
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  Speaker 1: is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? And the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says verse four. They kept silent, and he took
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  Speaker 1: him and healed him and let him go. Then he
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  Speaker 1: answered them saying, which of you, having a donkey or
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  Speaker 1: an ox that is falling into a pit, will not
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  Speaker 1: immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day? And they
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  Speaker 1: could not answer him. Regarding these things. You don't think
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was provoking these people, Yes, yes, he was
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  Speaker 1: now again he was calling them out for their hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: And in our previous session we asserted and man that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus came down from glory, came down into this world,
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  Speaker 1: which is his world, by the way, and he came
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  Speaker 1: to his own people, by the way, of course. But
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  Speaker 1: he did not come to avoid the governments, to avoid
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  Speaker 1: the leaders, to avoid the rulers of this world, but
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  Speaker 1: rather to overthrow their authority in a very unique, amen
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  Speaker 1: and surreptitious way. It's really indescribable. It's really beyond our
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  Speaker 1: ability to comprehend how Jesus was able to needle them
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  Speaker 1: in the right way, with the right motives, for the
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  Speaker 1: right reasons, in order to bring about the right outcome,
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  Speaker 1: which would be their obedience, their salvation, their deliverance. But
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  Speaker 1: yet in so doing he actually provoked them because of
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  Speaker 1: the wickedness that is in their hearts. And that's the problem,
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  Speaker 1: the same problem we have in this is why a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people again, people will not be saved, won't
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  Speaker 1: come to Jesus. It's because they are provoked out of
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  Speaker 1: the anger and malice and hatred of their heart. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of brokenness, instead of contrition, instead of acknowledging that they
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  Speaker 1: are wrong, instead of acknowledging, heyman, that he is right
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  Speaker 1: and that he is Lord and that he is God.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of doing that, they they come against the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and against this Christ. Psalmn number two read it, So
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  Speaker 1: Jesus came to overthrow their authority, and again in a
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  Speaker 1: way that again they could clearly see how they were
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  Speaker 1: being undermined, how they were being challenged, how their authority
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  Speaker 1: was being you know, kind of taken away from them. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking from their perspective. They saw Jesus as a threat.
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  Speaker 1: They saw Jesus as a problem, even when he was
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  Speaker 1: doing the good that he was doing people, Amen, delivering people,
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  Speaker 1: setting people free. No no, no, no, no, no no no
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  Speaker 1: no no no no no no, oh no no no.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do this. You can't do this on the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day. This is not to be done on the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day, they would say, they would cry. And so again,
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  Speaker 1: this was something that Jesus did. I believe. I believe
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  Speaker 1: it was done intentionally. This was something that was done intentionally. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And again it wasn't for their destruction, It's for their good. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It's for their heart to be changed, it's for their
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  Speaker 1: heart to be convicted. It's for them to Amen, come
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  Speaker 1: into the righteousness, into the Amen, correct interpretation and performing
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  Speaker 1: of the law of God and not the law of man. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But they wanted to have it their way. So again
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  Speaker 1: they were overtly threatened by Jesus until they were forced
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  Speaker 1: to make a decision concerning Jesus, which they believed to
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  Speaker 1: be in their own self interest. Amen. And of course
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  Speaker 1: we know what that ended up. Being a man, he
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  Speaker 1: had to he had to die, he had to be
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  Speaker 1: disposed of, We had to we got to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of him, and and and and and so what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to further demonstrate, I believe decisively today is what
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  Speaker 1: I would call deliberate divine uh provocation on the part
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus uh and and and this is just and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps one of a few of the many per perhaps
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  Speaker 1: confrontations he had with these who opposed him, who against
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  Speaker 1: these were the rulers of the people people. The people
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  Speaker 1: were fine with Jesus. The people were flocking to Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the people had no problem with Jesus because
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  Speaker 1: they were really under oppression and they needed to be
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  Speaker 1: set free. And so that's what Jesus came to do.
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  Speaker 1: And it was the government, it was the rulers, it
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  Speaker 1: was the leaders of the people who opposed Jesus. Amen
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  Speaker 1: on every front, literally on every front. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to look at today. I just gonna
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  Speaker 1: look at it. Probably two other passages of scriptures in
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  Speaker 1: the gospels. I believe there were probably many other encounters
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  Speaker 1: perhaps that they had with Jesus, confronting him, challenging him again,
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  Speaker 1: as John wrote in his Gospel, all the other things
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus did, there were so many things that he
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  Speaker 1: did that he said he was supposed that all of
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  Speaker 1: the world will not be able to contain all of
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  Speaker 1: the books that would be written. So there perhaps were
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  Speaker 1: many other incidents, many other encounters, many other confrontations that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had with the rulers of this world that is
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  Speaker 1: not even recorded in the gospel. But well, we have enough,
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  Speaker 1: we have enough in the gospel writings a man to
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  Speaker 1: understand Amen, their mindset, Amen, and how they felt about Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: how they Amen thought about Jesus. And so from the
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  Speaker 1: account that we do have recorded in the gospels, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: there in my mind should be little to no doubt
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus provoked these leaders, Amen and rulers to choose
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  Speaker 1: of their own volition by the way between public the
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  Speaker 1: acknowledging what is the perfectly good and acceptable thing to
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  Speaker 1: do in these cases that we're gonna look at on
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  Speaker 1: the Sabbath day, in showing mercy, in showing compassion, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: or to defend their own hypocrisy. This is this is
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  Speaker 1: this is this is so beautiful. I mean, you had
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  Speaker 1: to you had to choose between showing mercy, compassion, and
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  Speaker 1: and and and and goodness to one of your fellow
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  Speaker 1: human being who was bound, who was possessed, who was
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  Speaker 1: it's suffering. You had to choose between that and whether
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  Speaker 1: or not you were going to defend your own hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: Only God, only God, That's what That's what I mean
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  Speaker 1: by Jesus provoking them Amen. So they had they had
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  Speaker 1: to make a choice defend their hypocrisy or do the
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  Speaker 1: right thing and acknowledging that it was perfectly okay, that
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  Speaker 1: it was reasonable, that it was plausible, that it was
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  Speaker 1: the right thing to do for someone to be healed, delivered,
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  Speaker 1: set free on the Sabbath day. Hmm, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to just do here. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to the Gospel of Mark, chapter number three.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you another incident here, another confrontation. Uh. So,
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna peek at a few samples, if you will, uh,
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  Speaker 1: which will show that they had a very hostile attitude
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  Speaker 1: towards Jesus that came out of their hearts. And these
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  Speaker 1: were again with the people who were ruling over the
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  Speaker 1: common people, who had for the most part, taking to
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  Speaker 1: themselves the authority of Moses, as it were. But they,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they summarily rejected the righteousness of God, the
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  Speaker 1: goodness of God, the mercy of God, the love of God,
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  Speaker 1: the compassion that we all are commanded to a man,
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  Speaker 1: not only put on display from within, but to demonstrate
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  Speaker 1: in our deed a man. So look at the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Mark, chapter number three, and I'm going to begin
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  Speaker 1: reading that verse number one. And he that is Jesus
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  Speaker 1: entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man
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  Speaker 1: there which had a withered hand, and they watched him
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  Speaker 1: whether he would heal on the Sabbath day, that they
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  Speaker 1: might accuse him. Now, who is they? It wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: common people no, who was they the rulers, the leaders,
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  Speaker 1: because they had a motive. What is that motive? We've
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  Speaker 1: got to get rid of, Jesus. He's a threat to
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  Speaker 1: our power, he's a threat to our authority. He's a
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  Speaker 1: threat to our seat. Mmmm. Oh yeah. And so look
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  Speaker 1: at verse three. And he said, unto the man which
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  Speaker 1: had the withered hand stand for and he said unto them.
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  Speaker 1: Now Jesus, Now he brings the man front and center.
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  Speaker 1: So now he turns, as it were, rulers to the leaders.
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  Speaker 1: And now the Bible says, he says, unto them. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus could have just simply just healed the man and
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  Speaker 1: went on by this business. And no, no, no, he
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  Speaker 1: puts them on the spot, as it were. Amen, make
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  Speaker 1: a choice, choose, ye this day? What is the right
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  Speaker 1: thing to do? What is the good thing to do?
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  Speaker 1: What is the decent thing to do? What is the
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  Speaker 1: honorable thing to do? What is the merciful thing to do? Choose?
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  Speaker 1: Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath days?
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  Speaker 1: Or to do evil? To save life or to kill?
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  Speaker 1: But they held their peace. Man, let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: someth about the heart of man. I can I can
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  Speaker 1: I can I can tell you anything that the Bible
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  Speaker 1: anything different than what the Bible says, Brother, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is desperately wicked. These are these people are these
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  Speaker 1: people are obstinate, they are hardened in their position. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, they will not speak. They knew because they knew,
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  Speaker 1: they knew. And then this this man, this is hot.
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  Speaker 1: I listen, God will box you in a corner, as
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  Speaker 1: it were. And that's what Jesus did. He had them,
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  Speaker 1: he had them cornered, and so you know, they couldn't say, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's good to do good on the Sabbath day, it's lawful.
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  Speaker 1: What you're doing is okay, because then they have to
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  Speaker 1: give approval to him, and they were not about to
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  Speaker 1: do that. They were not. In their minds. We're undermining
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  Speaker 1: our own authority. We're undermining our own power if we
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  Speaker 1: if we acquiesce to what Jesus is teaching. So the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, they held their peace. And when he had
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  Speaker 1: looked round about on them with anger. Don't tell me
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't get angry. Now he tells us, be angry,
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  Speaker 1: and sin not gonna let the sun go down on
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  Speaker 1: your wrath. But Jesus had a righteous anger, a righteous indignation,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. The Bible says, being grieved what for
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  Speaker 1: the hardness of their hearts? You see, that's the problem,
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  Speaker 1: hardness of their heart. They were obstinate in their way.
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  Speaker 1: They got in that corner, and they were not going
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  Speaker 1: to come out. They were not going to admit. They
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  Speaker 1: were not going to confess. They were not going to
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge that Jesus was right amen, that Jesus had the
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  Speaker 1: right amen, motives, the right teachings. They weren't going to
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  Speaker 1: do it. So Jesus is angry. He is grieved for
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  Speaker 1: the hardness of their hearts. So he said, unto the man,
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  Speaker 1: stretch forth thine hand, and he stretched it out, and
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  Speaker 1: his hand was restored whole as the other. And the
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees went forth and straightway took counsel with the Herodians
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  Speaker 1: against Jesus how they might destroy him. Now, let me
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  Speaker 1: just say very quickly, the Pharisees and the Herodians were
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  Speaker 1: not at all in agreement. They were enemies, sort of
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  Speaker 1: like let's say the Democrats and the Republicans for example. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they did not get along, they did not agree. And
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  Speaker 1: so when it came to Jesus. They got together. Ah,
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  Speaker 1: this is how much they hated Jesus. They got together
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  Speaker 1: with people they didn't agree with, they didn't get along with.
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  Speaker 1: But this one thing they agreed on. We have got
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of Jesus. This is one thing that
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  Speaker 1: the rulers of this world all for the most part
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  Speaker 1: agree on. No Jesus. We can't have Jesus. We can't
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  Speaker 1: have him in authority. We can't have him as lord.
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  Speaker 1: We can't have him ruling over people. We can't have
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  Speaker 1: him setting the people free. We can't have him ruling
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  Speaker 1: over us. They all agree on that. Oh yes, oh yes.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible says the Pharisees got together with the Herodians,
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  Speaker 1: and they plotted how they might destroy him. But Jesus
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  Speaker 1: withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea, and a
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  Speaker 1: great multitude look look at this, And a great multitude
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  Speaker 1: from Galilee followed him, and from Judea, and from Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: and from Idumiah, and from beyond Jordan. And they about
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  Speaker 1: tire and sight on a great multitude. When they had
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  Speaker 1: heard what great things he did, they came to Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen, this is not the people we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the government we're talking but the rulers, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: the authorities who hate Jesus, who are plighting against Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: who in their minds have to get rid of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you again, nothing has changed today. Now,
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  Speaker 1: all of these healings that Jesus performed, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: on the Sabbath day, many of them Jesus did that
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  Speaker 1: we said again, demonstrated in the Bibles, demonstrated in the Gospels.
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  Speaker 1: Many healings Jesus performed on the Sabbath day. And man,
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  Speaker 1: it was provocative to the leaders of the Jews. And
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  Speaker 1: and again they were the ones accusing Jesus of violating,
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  Speaker 1: in a blatant disregard, the law of Moses. They accuse
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  Speaker 1: Jesus of violating the law of Moses. Now, let's let's
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  Speaker 1: let's let's let's let's let's And in case you say, well, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Jesus, you know, I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: had any any kind of motive, any kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: design by doing this on the Sabbath day, I would argue,
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  Speaker 1: I would argue otherwise, I think, I think I believe
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  Speaker 1: with all my heart he did it. Intentionally. Jesus didn't
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  Speaker 1: do anything by accident. He didn't do anything without purpose.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't do anything that was not ordained. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: do anything that was not going to bring about a
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  Speaker 1: certain outcome. Amen. And so Jesus did this on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: He's a God of purpose. Amen. Now, could Jesus not have,
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  Speaker 1: for example, avoided all of this conflict with the rulers,
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  Speaker 1: with the religious leaders of the Jews. Could he not
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  Speaker 1: have avoided So? Of course he could have. He certainly
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  Speaker 1: could have. First of all, he could have not healed
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  Speaker 1: anyone at all. He could have just avoided doing miracles,
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  Speaker 1: signs and wonders all together. And there were certain times
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  Speaker 1: when he did not, because the Bible says of people's unbelief,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't do certain miracles and signs of wonders. But
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  Speaker 1: when he did, he didn't have to. He'd have to
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  Speaker 1: do it at all. That's number one. Number two, he
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  Speaker 1: could have done it on another day. He could have
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  Speaker 1: simply deferred the healing until the next day or the
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  Speaker 1: next week. He could have said to the man, He
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  Speaker 1: could have said to the woman that we're gonna see.
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  Speaker 1: He could have he could have said, Hey, I see
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  Speaker 1: your I see your condition, let me let me come
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  Speaker 1: back tomorrow, meet me over as or he could have
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  Speaker 1: just said, oh, we're not gonna do this in front
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  Speaker 1: of the you know, the rulers.
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  Speaker 2: What I want you to do is I'm gonna heal
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  Speaker 2: you now, and you just kind of turn around in
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  Speaker 2: secretly a slide out of here so you can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: be delivered from your infirmity.
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  Speaker 1: No, Jesus not only did it in front of them,
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  Speaker 1: but before he went healed in a couple of examples
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  Speaker 1: that we've already looked at. He asked, he put on
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  Speaker 1: the spot the rulers to see where their heart was,
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  Speaker 1: to see if they had compassion, to see if they
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  Speaker 1: had mercy in them. So Jesus could have altogether avoided
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  Speaker 1: all of these conflicts with them. But he went further,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, by pointing out the hypocrisy of these rules.
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  Speaker 1: Who walked all the Sabbath day worked diligently to pull
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  Speaker 1: their donkey, their ox, or any animal that had fallen
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  Speaker 1: into a pit up out of that pit. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: and then you now you know you had to have
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  Speaker 1: some help by the way you you I as a man,
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  Speaker 1: no one I mean, unless you know you get cooperation
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  Speaker 1: from the donkey, from the ox. It's, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: an ox that falls into a pit a man, one man, No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta get some help. You have to get some
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  Speaker 1: other beast of burden. Perhaps tis a rope. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how, but it required labor to get an ox
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  Speaker 1: out of a ditch, out of a pit. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: they would do this on the Sabbath day. And this
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  Speaker 1: is why again they had to keep silent, because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: called them out for their hypocrisy. Now, for an animal
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  Speaker 1: is to be shown mercy, if an animal is to
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  Speaker 1: be helped up out of a pit, up out of
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  Speaker 1: a situation of danger or potential death, then how much more,
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  Speaker 1: one of your fellow men, how much more. That's all
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was pointing out to them. Look at let me
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  Speaker 1: give you this another one more example. Here in Luke,
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirteen, verse ten, Jesus was teaching in one of
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  Speaker 1: the synagogues on the Sabbath day. And behold there was
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  Speaker 1: a woman who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen
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  Speaker 1: years and was bent over and could in no way
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  Speaker 1: raise herself up. But when Jesus saw her, he called
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  Speaker 1: her to him and said to her woman, you are
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  Speaker 1: loosed from your infirmity. And he laid his hands on her,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately she was made straight and glorified God. But
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  Speaker 1: the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: had healed on the Sabbath, and he said to the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: there are six days on which men ought to work. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: come and be healed on them, and not on the Sabbath.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord answered him and said, hypocrite, does not
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  Speaker 1: each one of you, Now who is he talking to?
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  Speaker 1: These are rulers, not only the rule of the synagogue,
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  Speaker 1: all of you, rulers who bind heavy burdens on other people,
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  Speaker 1: does not each one of you, on the Sabbath loose
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  Speaker 1: his ox or donkey from the stall and lead it
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  Speaker 1: away to water it. That's far more work than Jesus
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  Speaker 1: simply placing his hand on this woman to heal her.
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  Speaker 3: So all, not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham
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  Speaker 3: whom Satan has bound.
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  Speaker 1: Think of it, Jesus says, for eighteen years, be loose
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  Speaker 1: from this bond on the Sabbath. Why would she have
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  Speaker 1: to wait another day, Why should she have to wait
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  Speaker 1: another hour? Why should she have to come back next week,
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  Speaker 1: and when he had said these things, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the
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  Speaker 1: multitude rejoice. See the people, they were fine, they were happy,
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  Speaker 1: They would glory find God. They rejoiced for all the
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  Speaker 1: glorious things that were done by Jesus. Again, Jesus did
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  Speaker 1: not at all shrink away from calling out and pointing
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  Speaker 1: out the blatant hypocrisy of these rulers, who would again
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  Speaker 1: put all this other thing about ruling classes. They loved
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  Speaker 1: to put heavy burdens, taxation of weights, rules, regulations on
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  Speaker 1: the people, but they themselves, no doesn't apply it them, No,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't. Nothing has changed, folks, nothing has changed, nothing
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  Speaker 1: has changed, nothing has changed, nothing has changed. Never forget it,
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  Speaker 1: and it won't change. This is just, this is just
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  Speaker 1: how Amen desperately wicked the heart of man is. And
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  Speaker 1: so they lay grievously heavy burdens on other folk. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: But they themselves are exempt from abiding by the same standards.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly what Jesus did. And this is why
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  Speaker 1: these people were sought. These rulers. They were so upset
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus because he called them out for their hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: The rulers of this world have always held nothing but
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  Speaker 1: contempt and rebellion in their hearts for the righteous rule
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  Speaker 1: of God, for his law, for his government, for his kingdom. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Because it is a law, it is a kingdom. It
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  Speaker 1: is a way of goodness, of mercy, of compassion, of love,
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  Speaker 1: of kindness, of forgiveness, of freedom, of liberty, justice. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: they don't want that. They don't want that because it
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  Speaker 1: benefits the masses. It takes away their power, it takes
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  Speaker 1: away their authority. Oh yeah, m m. Is it any wonder,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, that not many mighty, not many nobles, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: not many princes of this world, not the wise in
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  Speaker 1: their own eyes, not many a call. That's what Paul
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  Speaker 1: wrote about in First Corinthians. By the way, let me
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  Speaker 1: just read a couple of verses very quickly, Verse twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven of First Corinthians, Chapter one. God has chosen the
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  Speaker 1: foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise.
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  Speaker 1: God has chosen the weak things of the world to
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  Speaker 1: put to shame, the things which are mighty, and the
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  Speaker 1: base things of the world, and the things which are despised.
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  Speaker 1: God has chosen and the things which are not to
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  Speaker 1: bring to nothing the things that are that no flesh
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  Speaker 1: should glory in his presence. That's exactly what Jesus did.
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  Speaker 1: He came and he put to shame, Oh yes, he did.
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  Speaker 1: He put to shame the educated, the exalted, the elites
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  Speaker 1: of this world who profess themselves to be wise. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what happens. When you profess professor rather yourself to
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  Speaker 1: be wise, you become a food. You become a food.
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  Speaker 1: But they profess themselves to be wise by choosing a
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  Speaker 1: man to again oppress instead of liberate, to do evil
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  Speaker 1: instead of doing good. And even on the Sabbath day
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  Speaker 1: again they were in blatant violation of the law of Moses,
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  Speaker 1: the law that God gave to Moses. Now they would
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  Speaker 1: get upset, they would be righteously indignant with others on
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  Speaker 1: the Sabbath day, and they would call them out if
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  Speaker 1: they saw them doing something which they had interpreted to
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  Speaker 1: be illegal to do on the Sabbath day. But yet
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  Speaker 1: Jesus see, God sees everything. Jesus, y'all, take your ox,
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  Speaker 1: you take your horse, you take your donkey, you take
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  Speaker 1: your mew out of the stall on the Sabbath day
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  Speaker 1: and lead them to the water to drink. But this
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  Speaker 1: woman who's been bound for eighteen years, you take your
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  Speaker 1: acts out of the stall one day for one day.
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  Speaker 1: This woman has been tied up, bound up for eighteen years.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't like it. They didn't like it. And again
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did not shrink away from these people. He deliberately,
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  Speaker 1: he with design, he with intent, he with purpose, went
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  Speaker 1: after them, Amen. Not to condemn them. No, they did
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  Speaker 1: this of their own choosing, of their own heart, because
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  Speaker 1: they would not believe they were used to relieve. You
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  Speaker 1: see that there's something in all of us.
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  Speaker 4: It's called pride, it's called rebellion, it's called enmity against God.
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  Speaker 4: And it has to be broken because if it is
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  Speaker 4: not mm hm.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, but but but but but but again,
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  Speaker 1: he put to shame these rulers, Amen. And he did
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  Speaker 1: it by choosing to heal, to deliver, to set free
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  Speaker 1: those who were weak, those who were helpless, those who
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  Speaker 1: were hopeless, those who were oppressed by the devil, not
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  Speaker 1: only by the devil, but by the rulers, by the
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  Speaker 1: governments of this world, who again are in collusion with
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  Speaker 1: the devil, in collusion with the principalities and the powers
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  Speaker 1: of the darkness. Amen, in shackling the souls of men, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: those who need to be, those who need to be
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  Speaker 1: set free, Oh lose to animal, but keep the people bound.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly what the Lord of the Sabbath, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord over the Law, has come to do. Free us
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  Speaker 1: and give us rests from the misery, from the weariness,
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  Speaker 1: from the weightiness of the power of sin, that we
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  Speaker 1: should live no longer. Therein because he whom the Son
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  Speaker 1: sets free is free. Indeed, thank God for his unspeakable gift. Father, again,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you, Blessed be your name, for this time
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  Speaker 1: and forth and even forevermore. Amen. Amen, God, bless you
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Mhm.