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John chapter 7 · Scripture Unscripted

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John Chapter 7. Let us pray, O Lord, our God who
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reigns on high, we thank you, Father, for who you are.
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Lord, you are our everything. You're the Master.
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You are moving everything in accordance with your plans and
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purposes. You are the great I am.
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You are exalted and high over everything, everyone.
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You are Yahweh. You are, I deny, all powerful.
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You are the banner over us. You are the all sufficient
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sacrifice. You are the atonement for our
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sins. You are our provider.
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You are our healer, and you see us.
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God, You are everything. You are the very breath in our
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lungs. And Lord, we just want more of
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you as we open up your Holy Scriptures today.
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Teach us, Holy Spirit, teach us the mind of Christ.
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Teach us your doctrine. Teach us your theology.
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God, I pray that we'll stay in the truth, that we will not air
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God and we will not go off the rails, and that we will stay and
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abide here with you. Father, on holy ground today.
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Lord, help us to gird up our loins.
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Help us to stand in your presence.
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Help us to come into the throne room, Father, and worship you in
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spirit and truth. Lord, we just want more of you.
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God, we want to hear from you today.
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Or let us be in tune and attentive to the still small
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voice that is roaring loudly over our circumstances, roaring
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loudly over our emotions, roaring loudly over our feelings
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and our past, our future, and for today.
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And God, we desire a touch, Lord, we desire to be healed and
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to be made whole, God, and to put on the righteousness of
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Christ. Lord, I pray that you'll
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continue to edify us and build us up.
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God, I pray that you'll continue to help us to finish this race
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well. Lord, we love you.
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Teach us, I decrease as you increase.
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It is you and it is you and it is you alone, Jesus Christ, that
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we are here for. You are the chief cornerstone
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and you are worthy to be praised.
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And Jesus Christ, holy, powerful, precious name, I pray,
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Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee, for he would not
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walk in Jewry because the Jews sought to kill him.
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So we're going to see here that Jesus is trying to be persuaded
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to go down into Jerusalem to the feast of the Tabernacle Sakuth,
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the Feast of Booths, and he's going to tell his brothers that
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it's not yet his time. Let's see how verse two goes.
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Now the Jews Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.
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Three, his brothers therefore said unto him, Depart from here
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and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see the works
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that you do. So if you can even imagine a
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little bit of a back story here, Jesus's brothers grew up with
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him, and we know that he had sisters as well.
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We know that his stepfather Joseph was out of the picture.
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Perhaps Jesus on his divine timeline, knew that he would go
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into ministry at 30 years of age and that his siblings would be
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old enough to be able to take care of themselves or to be
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married and have someone to take care of them.
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And so therefore he knew that this divine timeline was
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happening and his brothers would have grown up with him and would
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have heard all the things that Mary treasured up in her heart.
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And here they did not believe that he was the Messiah, and
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here they are trying to get him to reveal to themselves and to
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the whole world if he was the Messiah.
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Let's see how it goes. For for there is no man that
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does anything in secret, and he himself seeks to be known
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openly. If you do these things, show
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yourself to the world. So here his brothers are urging
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him to reveal if he is the long-awaited Messianic King that
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they are all waiting for. And Jesus is so intelligent.
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He is all divine counsel, He is all divine wisdom, and He knows
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exactly what they are after. They are not actually believing
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in Him. And it's so sad when you think
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about the Jews that demanded a sign from Him and He would not
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give them a sign other than the sign of Jonah, because He knew
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that it wasn't coming from the right place.
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When Herod demanded to see a miracle, Jesus knew that it was
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not coming from the right place. So He knows our inner motives.
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He knows our inner thoughts. We cannot go to Him in deceit
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because He sees right through our deception.
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Friends, we cannot go to God just on a basis of receiving a
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get out of jail free card. We cannot go to God on the basis
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of just heal me or heal my family member, heal my child and
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I will believe in you. And then as soon as the healing
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comes, we fall away. As soon as they get out of jail
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free card comes, we fall away. He knows our inner motives.
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He knows our inner thoughts. He knows if we are just
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approaching Him with the idea of fix my whole life, But if we
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will come to Him as broken, repentant sinners and allow Him
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access fully to every single database, all files, all
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emotions, and all circumstances. If we will give it all over to
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Him, then He will start the process of sanctification and He
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will help us to become more like Him every day.
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And we will see this world all around us the way that He sees
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it. And we will see ourselves in the
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right light that we are broken sinners and all of our
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righteousness is but filthy rags, friends.
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And it is only the blood of Christ that can cleanse us and
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make us whole. And we desperately need it.
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And we need it today. His brothers had missed it their
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whole lives. They watched this man their
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whole lives. He was perfect and sinless.
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And they are trying to prod him into losing his life before it
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was his time. But Jesus was too intelligent,
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too wise to fall for their trap. 5 For neither did his brothers
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believe in him, not yet. But they would.
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And they would go on to write some of the New Testament after
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his death, and after his burial, and after his resurrection and
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ascension to the right hand of God, to make intercession for
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you and for me friends. Afterwards his brothers finally
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had the light bulb moment where they go on to write some of the
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books of our New Testament. 6th Then Jesus said unto them, My
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time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
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So he's saying that this is the day of evil, and evil is having
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a heyday. But the day is coming, friends,
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when Jesus Christ will be revealed to the whole world, and
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every knee will bow and every tongue will confess, and Jesus
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will take his rightful place on the throne and rule and reign
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over the earth. Friends, his time was not yet.
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He was coming as a peasant. He was coming as the child of a
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poor set of parents. He was coming as a lowly baby in
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the Manger, in the barn, in a feeding through.
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He was coming and He was a lowly servant.
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And yet He was the king. He was a very humble servant and
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yet He was our leader. This is the way of God.
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The way up is down. Friends, Stay close to the
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ground. You will be up in the clouds.
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We must take the low position if we want to be exalted.
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But if we exalt ourselves, we will be humbled 10 times out of
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10. It never works out.
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Whenever we exalt self, we must take the low position.
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We must be as a servant. Friends 7 The world cannot hate
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you, but me it hates because I testify of it that the works of
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it are evil. Friends, we must pay attention
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here. Lock in.
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There is no good in US. No none.
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We are in desperate need of Him. All of the vanity, all of the
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pride and deceit must go. The only thing good in this
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whole world is Jesus Christ. The only thing good is what
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Jesus is doing in and through US.
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Friends, it is Jesus the chief cornerstone.
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If there is any goodness in you, it is coming forth because of
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what he has done for you and in you and through you.
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It is Jesus alone that is good. He asked the rich young ruler,
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Why do you call me good? There is none good but God.
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He's telling us that ever since the fall, ever since we were
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banished from Eden, ever since we had the coat of skins that
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was put on US, ever since we ate the apple, ate the forbidden
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fruit, ever since we rebelled against God, we have been in
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constant rebellion. Ever since building towers, we
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have been in constant rebellion. Friends exalting self and pride,
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we have been in constant rebellion.
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Friends murdering our neighbors with our tongue and in deed we
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are in constant rebellion to the goodness of God.
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And we must come to Him. And we must admit that there is
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nothing good in us and we desperately need to be made
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whole. And it is only through Him, it
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is only through the blood of Christ that we're going to enter
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in. And it is only through the
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sacrifice of Christ that we can start to be sanctified and start
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to have that mind of Christ, friends, and create in us a
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clean heart and a clear conscience.
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Jesus, we ask of you, He's testifying against the world
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because all the works of the world are evil.
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The most inner motives of man is evil.
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Even whenever we shroud it in the humanitarian efforts, it is
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still evil. All of the works of man apart
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from God are evil friends. Hey, go you up unto the feast.
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I go not up yet unto the feast, for my time is not yet fully
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come. He's telling his brothers, Go on
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up to the feast. I will not go yet. 9 When he had
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said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee. 10 But
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when his brothers were gone, up then went he also up unto the
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feast, but not openly, but as it were, in secret.
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So here he was going playing the background.
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He was not wanting to call a bunch of attention to himself.
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It was not yet his time. He knew that everyone was in
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high anticipation of the long-awaited Messiah.
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There were so many rumblings and grumblings, there were so many
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things that were causing the groundswell to come up that
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perhaps their long-awaited Messiah was in their midst
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because of the miracles that he had already done.
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And his brothers are trying to prod him and trying to get him
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to reveal his messianic claim to the masses.
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And Jesus knew that the divine timeline was not yet, and so
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therefore he played the background.
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Therefore he went Incognito, therefore he went inconspicuous,
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and let's see how it goes. 11 Then the Jews sought him at the
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feast and said, Where is he? So they knew that Jesus was
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making these claims and doing these miracles in the open that
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John the Gospel writer has already revealed to us all the
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things that Jesus has already done.
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He healed the man at Bethesda. He's turned the water into wine.
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Jesus has done many miracles already, and these Jews, they
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wanted to know where He was, What did He have to say?
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And what He says is of paramount importance to all of humanity,
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past, present and future. We must hang on His every
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syllable. And here they want to know where
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is He? They wanted to know what He had
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to say for Himself. 12 And there was much murmuring among the
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people concerning him, for some said he's a good man and others
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say no, but he deceives the people.
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And it's no different in our day and our our friends.
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There is no neutrality when it comes to God Almighty.
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You are either for him or you are against him.
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And there is such a division and there's division even amongst
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our own households, those that are hostile towards God and
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those that are truly 100% sold out to the King of Kings and the
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Lord of Lords. Those that have caught the fire,
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those that have caught the love of Christ, those that have
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locked eyes with him and seen his eyes like fire and hair like
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wool. Those that are completely
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raptured and in love with him. And there is no turning back.
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But the world will keep doing what the world does.
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And they're seeking after Mammon.
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They're seeking after self, they're seeking after all of the
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idols of this life. And here you can see the line in
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the sand and the division amongst all people everywhere
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over the whole globe, all time sake.
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This is the way that we are living our lives, friends, in
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the midst of all the people that you come in contact with.
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And the road to destruction is wide, and many go that way.
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But the road to everlasting life is straight, and it is narrow,
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friends, and only a few find it. 13 How be it no man spoke openly
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of him for fear of the Jews, Fear of man must go.
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Let fear of man break off. Today, friends, I pray in the
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name of Jesus that the fear of man will leave.
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We bind the enemy, and we cast him into the judgment that God
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has a waiting for him. Do not let fear of man drive all
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of your conversation. Do not let fear of man drive all
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of your thoughts. Do not let fear of man keep you
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in a perpetual state of imprisonment.
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Friends, we must let the fear of man go, and we must fear God and
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let everything else fade away. If we will fear God.
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Everything else bows to that. Everything else bows to Yahweh.
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All of creation, friends, is subject to our King.
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We must lock eyes with Him. We must call upon the name of
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Jesus Christ and watch darkness flee.
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And that spirit of fear must go. It cannot take up residence
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inside of the temple. Get rid of it.
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Consecrate your temple. Make a resolute decision today
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to take a hold of His garment. To lock eyes with him and to
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walk in the light friends, as he is in the light friends, and He
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will expose all the darkness. He will expose all of the
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demonic influence in your life. This sphere of man is not from
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God. And you can see here that these
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people were not willing to make their public proclamation of
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their decision to follow Jesus because they had fear of man.
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It has to leave. What can man do to us if God is
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for us? Who can be against us?
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And do not fear the one who can kill the body, but fear the one
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who can kill the body and cast your soul into eternal
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damnation. 14 Now about the midst of the feast, Jesus went
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up into the temple and taught. So look at Jesus.
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He goes, His brothers say, come to the festival of booths, and
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he says, no, I will not go. And then after they go, he goes
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privately. Then in about the middle of the
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week he goes into the temple to teach.
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Let's see what our Lord has to say.
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This is God in the flesh talking to mankind.
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Don't miss it. 15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth
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this man letters, having never learned.
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And they said the same thing about the band of disciples,
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these fishermen and tax collectors, that they were
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unlearned. Man, think about it.
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We need divine counsel, friends. We need to get our theology and
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we need to get our doctrine from the word of God, not from man
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made traditions and presuppositions and bylaws.
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The Word of God is all that we need.
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It is all that we need for people to be saved, nothing
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added and nothing subtracted. It is the word of God that is
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profitable, and it is only the word of God that is alive and
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active, and it is divine counsel that we are after. 16 Jesus
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answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his
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that sent me. This is God Almighty thoughts
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for us to wrestle with, friends, don't miss it. 17 If any man
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will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be
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of God or whether I speak of myself.
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He's saying, search the scriptures, they all point to
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me. 18 He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he that
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seeks his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no
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unrighteousness is in him. Jesus Christ is saying that I do
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not seek my own glory, but the glory of God Almighty, the
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create the only one created one that Yahweh sent Jesus Christ
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into the world and Jesus could only speak the words of God
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Almighty. He is God Almighty and He's
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showing them that He is equal to God. 18 is a beautiful verse 19.
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Did not Moses give you the law? And yet none of you keeps the
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law? Why go you about to kill me?
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So he's saying here that they can't even follow the law, and
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Jesus is coming to give them grace.
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And he's saying that he did not come to abolish the law, but to
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fulfill it. And instead of them rejoicing in
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that, they seek to kill him. How pathetic. 20 The people
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answered and said, do you have a devil who goes about to kill
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you? Jesus knew their inner motives,
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that they were trying to trap him, they were trying to arrest
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him, and they wanted to brutally murder him.
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And they were hostile, just as the same as Cain was hostile
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towards Abel. This is the murdering spirit,
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and you can see that Jesus knew all of their motives and he
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called them out and they're trying to cover their tracks. 21
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Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and
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you all marvel. So Jesus here, he's showing them
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that he is equal to God. He's referencing the the
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miracles that he's already done, and he's saying, you Marvel 22
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Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision, not because it is
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of Moses, but of the fathers, and you on the Sabbath day
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circumcise a man. So here Jesus is showing them
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that whenever he healed on the Sabbath that they air because
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they wanted to kill Him for working on the Sabbath.
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They wanted to arrest Him for making himself equal with God.
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And here He's showing them their hypocrisy and their duplicity in
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the way that they approach him. Let's see what else He has to
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say. 23 If a man on the Sabbath day receives circumcision, that
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the law of Moses should not be broken.
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Are you angry at me because I have made a man every wit hole
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on the Sabbath day? Here he's referencing when he
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says take up your mat and walk. And he made this man hole.
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He healed him at the pool of Bethesda, and the Jews were
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seeking to lay hands on Jesus because of the miracle.
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And he's saying you're angry at me even though you circumcise on
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the Sabbath. What hypocrisy. 24 Judge not
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according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
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How many of you who have an ox in the hole on Sunday will pull
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it out? Of course you would. 25 Then
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said, some of them of Jerusalem. Is not this he whom they seek to
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kill? So the people are seeing the
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duplicity and the hypocrisy of the Jews, of the Pharisees.
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They're seeing that this great multitude is watching and
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they're saying, if he's done something wrong, why did they
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not arrest him? But they could not. 26 But lo,
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he speaks boldly, and they say nothing unto him.
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Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?
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Yes, they did, and they still sought to kill him.
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They at the time were afraid that Jesus was going to disrupt
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all of their schemes, all of the things that they have built up
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using the temple and using the law for selfish, greedy gain.
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And here they were not able to look past their sin and their
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self and to acknowledge Him in the correct way, that He was the
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Messiah, that He was the long-awaited Christ.
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Even if He had every indicator that He was, they refused to see
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it. 27 Howbeit we know this man where he is.
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When Christ comes, no man knows where he is.
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So there was a general idea amongst the culture of that day
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that when Jesus showed up, He would show up, as the Scriptures
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say of His second Advent whenever He appears and the
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whole world will see him. They were not willing to accept
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that He was born as a baby, that he lived and He grew up amongst
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them and he was the son of a Carpenter.
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They were not willing to accept it.
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They wanted the second Advent, Christ to come and not this
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first Advent. And they had missed it.
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They had missed the mark, friends, but Jesus came to
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correct them. 28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he
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taught, saying, So this is very significant.
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This is Jesus lifting his voice and he's crying out, friends.
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Most of the teachings of Christ were done in a very way that was
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not loud. It was just very authoritative.
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And here you can see him standing in the temple and
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crying these things out to people.
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This would have been in an elevated tone.
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He says, You both know me, and you know where I came from, and
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I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true whom you
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know not 29 but I know Him, for I am from Him, and He has sent
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me. He is telling them emphatically
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that He is the only begotten Son of God.
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He is showing them that He is come from heaven, that He is not
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just the Son of a Carpenter, that He is God who is wrapped in
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flesh. 30 Then they sought to take him, but no man laid hands
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on him, because his hour was not yet come.
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So they were given orders. These soldiers were given orders
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to take a hold of them but they could not.
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Is like whenever he announced his messianic claim in his own
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hometown and they tried to take him to the edge of the Cliff to
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throw him off and he walked right through them.
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They could not because he was on a divine timeline.
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He was untouchable. And friends, God knows every
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single day that you're going to spend on this earth, and if you
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are blood bought, then you are bulletproof until it is your
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time and that is what you need to know. 31 And many of the
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people believed on him and said, when Christ comes, will he do
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more miracles than these, which this man has done?
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So you can see the division again here friends, that many of
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them are saying this has to be the Christ because no one is
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going to come that is going to do more than this man has done.
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The Christ is in our midst. And then you saw back up at
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verse 26 it says 27, it says when Christ comes, no man knows
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where he will come from. So you can see that there is
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this great division amongst the people, and some of them to
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eternal life, and some of them to damnation. 32 The Pharisees
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heard that the people murmured such things concerning him, and
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the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take
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him. 33 Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while am I
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with you, and then I go unto him that sent me. 34 You shall seek
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me, and shall not find me, and where I am there you cannot
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come. He's referencing his murder, his
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crucifixion, he's referencing his burial, he's referencing the
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resurrection, and he's referencing his ascension to the
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right hand of God. And he's telling all of the
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unbelievers who will not place their faith in him that where he
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is going they will not be able to go. 35 Then said the Jews
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among themselves, Where will he go, that we shall not find him?
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Will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach
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the Gentiles? 36 What manner of saying is
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this, that he said, You shall seek me, and shall not find me,
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and where I am there you cannot come.
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So they were perpetually confused friends.
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This is very similar to whenever the seed gets sown and the bird
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comes and snatches it. Jesus is teaching them truth.
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He's teaching them life and they refuse it.
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It's getting snatched from them as soon as it falls on the
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ground and they're even going back over and scrutinizing his
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very words and they still are refusing to believe. 37 In the
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last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried,
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saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
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He's crying out, friends. He is raising his voice and
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crying out to the people and saying, Come to me if you are
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thirsty, and I will give you living water.
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I will give you a drink, and you will never thirst again.
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He's telling you that and he's telling me that.
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And during this festival there would have been water that was
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taken and poured on the altar to remind them of how God provided
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for them in the wilderness. And on the last day it was to
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cease, and they were to pray for water.
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And hear Jesus is saying, If any of you thirst, come to me, and I
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will give you living water. 38 He that believes on me, as the
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Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of
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living water. So we know that out of the mouth
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flows from the abundance of the heart.
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Friends, we know that this living water, when it wells up
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within us, not only is it good for us, but it is good for the
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edification of the Saints. It is good for us to speak a
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better word over the lies that the enemy has sown in to our
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brothers and sisters, hearts and minds.
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And we can help those that are on this journey with us. 39 But
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this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him
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should receive. For the Holy Ghost was not yet
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given because that Jesus was not yet glorified.
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So we know that on the day of Pentecost they received the Holy
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Ghost. And he told him to go and to
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wait for this baptism of fire. Friends, and I hope that you
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have experienced this feeling of the Holy Spirit.
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I hope that you have that. And it is a seal.
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It is a down payment, friends, it is a deposit of the eternal
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life that is to come and we could start to bring heaven down
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to earth today. And He lets us live in this
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glory now and we will experience it fully then.
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And I pray that you are indwelled with the Holy Spirit,
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friends, and if you will call on the name of the Lord Jesus
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Christ and believe that God raised him from the dead, you
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will be saved and you will receive the Holy Ghost, friends.
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40 Many of the people, therefore, when they heard this
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saying, said, of a truth, this is the prophet.
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So we know in the Old Testament it was said that the prophet
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would come, and they were trying to figure out if the prophet was
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the Messiah. And they are wanting to believe
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on him, but they are stuck between a rock and a hard place
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because they know if they make that decision, they're going to
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be ousted out of the Sanhedrin. The they're going to be ousted
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out of the temple because he was to them, just a rogue St.
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Preacher who was deceiving the masses.
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And what a line in the sand we must make.
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Who is Jesus to you? If you cannot authentically,
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authoritatively say that he is Lord, then to you he is just
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another prophet. He's just another moral teacher,
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and there is no salvation in that. 41 others said this is the
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Christ, but some says, shall Christ come out of Galilee?
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So here they go again, this division line in the sand.
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Some of them are wanting desperately to believe that he
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is the long-awaited Messiah, but then they go right back to their
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thought patterns of But we know where he came from.
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We know that he's the son of Joseph, a carpenter's son.
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We know that he's from Nazareth. Can anything good come out of
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Nazareth? There's so many times that they
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were on the verge of believing and the bird came and snatched
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the seed. The ground was shallow and they
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fell away. Or the cares of this life came
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up and choked them out. Friends, and asphyxiated them to
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the point of fruitlessness. 42 Has not the Scripture said that
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Christ comes of the seed of David and of the town of
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Bethlehem where David was? So they missed the whole thing.
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Jesus was born in Bethlehem, the House of bread.
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He is the bread of life. And they missed it, friends.
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And there were many prophets who came out of Galilee and they
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missed it, Friends. They did not have sound
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doctrine. They were not actually steeped
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in the Scriptures. They were steeped in tradition
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and it's no different. In our day and our hour, we
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believe whatever is being propagated from the pulpit more
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than we believe in the Scriptures.
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Far be it from us to believe the doctrine of man and not believe
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in the Scriptures, the Holy Scriptures that we have access
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to. Praise God, you have access to
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the full counsel of God's Word. And we need to be on guard
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against the doctrine of demons who try to teach us all kinds of
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heretical theology, who tell us all kinds of wild ideas and wild
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stories that have nothing to do with this good book.
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But how would you know if you're not in it?
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Don't take my word for it. Get in the good book.
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Search the Scriptures for yourself.
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Be like the Bereans, friends. Know the Word, own the Word,
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live the Word, and don't let anybody talk you down out of
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your convictions that you get whenever you read the Word of
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God. 43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
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44 And some of them would have taken him, but no man laid hands
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on him. 40-5 Then came the officers to the chief priests
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and Pharisees, and they said unto them, Why have you not
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brought him? 46 The officer answered, Never
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man spoke like this man. They are acknowledging that
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Christ is speaking with full authority, so much so that they
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were afraid to take him. They said This is not of human
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origin, this is divine. And look how all of the
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religious folk of that day, the religious people of that day
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were so steeped in their own greed that they missed the mark.
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They missed the whole point of the whole matter, of the whole
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scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation, the cornerstone.
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And they were so steeped in greed and power that they
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refused to love the truth, but they delighted themselves in
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evil, and they were delusional friends. 47 then answered them,
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the Pharisees, are you also deceived?
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No, it was them that were deceived.
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He's saying that the religious folk are asking these officers,
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are you deceived? Have you believed what this
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rogue St. Preacher who's deceiving the
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masses is saying? We know where he came from.
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We know he's not the Messiah. That's the idea here. 48 Have
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any of the rulers or of the Pharisees, Pharisees believed on
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him? So they're saying, look at all
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the learned people, all the educated people, all the
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highfalutin, snobbish people. Have they believed on him?
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Because that's the indicator if you should believe on them,
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because you're just the common folk.
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Look how Jesus when he was picking his disciples, he picked
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too the common folk. He did not go to the synagogues,
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He did not go to the temple, He did not go to the rabbis and
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pick all of his disciples. Who did He pick?
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The unlearned man. Because He knew that they were
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so steeped in their traditions that they could not come to Him
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truthfully. And it's no different in our day
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and our hour. You should read the Word of God
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to get your doctrine and then make sure that you have received
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divine counsel from God Almighty before you go off to be
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reprogrammed by some school. And all they're doing is trying
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to push their own agenda and their own thoughts on their
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pupils. But we need the Word of God more
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than we need the teaching of man.
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Friends 49 But this people who knows not the law are cursed.
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So they're saying that all the common people are cursed because
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they do not know the law. And you know, isn't this just
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like man to wield the word of God over the masses and to use
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the word of God to manipulate people in exact greed and exact
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power and exact position and authority over the masses by
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using religion? It is no different today,
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friends. We must get the true religion.
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We must have the hem of His garment, we must be covered in
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the blood of Jesus Christ. We must receive the Holy Spirit.
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And the Holy Spirit will walk us through all the scriptures and
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every single one of the scriptures point to Jesus
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Christ. He is the chief cornerstone when
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you read Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, when you read
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Numbers, whenever you read Daniel and you read Isaiah and
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Jeremiah, whenever you read Proverbs and you read
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Ecclesiastes and you read First Kings, Second Kings, First
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Chronicles, Second Chronicles, Whenever you read the book of
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Jude and you read Revelation and you read James and Hebrews,
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whenever you read all of Acts and Romans.
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At all points to Yeshua, our long-awaited Messiah.
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It's all about Him, it's always been about Him, and it'll always
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be about Him. And that is our doctrine and
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theology, friends. 50 Nicodemus said unto them, He that came to
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Jesus by night, being one of them. 51 Does our law judge any
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man before it hears him, and know what he does?
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So here we can see that Nicodemus was an earnest seeker.
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We know that Nicodemus was genuine in his approach.
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We know that Nicodemus stuck his neck out for our Lord here. 52
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They answered and said unto him, Are you also Galilee?
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Search and look, for out of Galilee arises no prophet.
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And that was not true, friends, we know that Elijah was come out
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of Galilee, and we know that Jonah was come out of Galilee,
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and perhaps some of the other minor prophets had come out of
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Galilee. And so here they erred
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grievously by not knowing the Scriptures.
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Friends, we'll end on 53. And every man went unto his own
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house and they had to sit and think about it.
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They had to sit and wrestle through all of the truth that
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was just revealed by our Lord Jesus Christ in the temple,
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crying out and making them make a decision.
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And he does the same today. Friends, if you woke up today,
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he's not done with you and you must make a decision of who is
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Jesus Christ? Is he just the way that you get
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your living? Is he just a a good moral
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teacher? Is the Bible just a a tool for
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you to make your living? Or is he truly the Christ?
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Is He truly the only way to the Father?
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We must make that decision today.
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You cannot serve both God and Mammon.
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You will love 1. You will hate the other.
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Be in tune and walk in the spirit today friends, and let
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that still small voice speak to you when you read these
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scriptures. And do not be deceived, for
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there is such a spirit of mammon and there's such a spirit of
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deceit that is trying to sow its way into the culture and into
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our lives. And we must be on guard against
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the yeast of the Pharisees. Friends, We must have the word
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of God written on our hearts and receive a clean heart and
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receive from God and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
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Hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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I know I sure have praying for you.
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I love you, God loves you, Jesus loves you, and the Holy Spirit
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loves you. Where he is, we will go.
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He can be here with us now, friends.
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We can live out the abundant life.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.