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Luke chapter 12 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Luke chapter 12. Let us pray.
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  Oh Heavenly Father, we thank you.
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  We thank you God for another day.
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  Lord, we thank you for waking us up.
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  Lord, we thank you for putting us on our feet.
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  Lord, we thank you for giving us our marching orders.
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  God, we thank you for our salvation.
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  God, we thank you for this holy word that we hold in our hands.
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  God, we thank you for the salvation of Jesus Christ, for
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  the work of the cross. God, we thank you that you have
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  gone to prepare a place for us, that where you are, we will be.
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  God, we just want to be wherever you are.
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  And so God, the Spirit and the Bride say, come, Lord, we are
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  crying out. Lord, we are looking up.
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  We are patiently awaiting your return, God.
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  And while we wait, help us to wait.
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  Well, Father, I pray in the name of Jesus for power from on high.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus for healing from on high.
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  God, I pray in the name of Jesus that you will bring the captives
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  home. Lord, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, that those that will be saved, get saved today.
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  Lord, I pray that you will move mightily in our midst.
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  Lord, I pray that today is the day of salvation for many.
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  And so God, I just pray that I'll get out of the way.
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  Lord, let you speak or let these be your words, your thoughts,
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  God, and I pray that I will decrease as you increase.
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  Father, teach us Holy Spirit, give us discernment.
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  Holy Spirit, let us see these words alive.
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  God, let us see these words in use and empower.
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  God, I pray that you will help us to be your hands and feet.
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  Help us to love you more. Help us to understand this text.
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  Lord, help us to know what to do and when to do it and how to do
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  it. God, I pray that you will come
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  alongside of us, that we will be yoked together to plow, God, to
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  go out into the harvest. Father, I thank you for all the
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  many blessings that you've already given us today.
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  The breath in our lungs, God, the very heartbeat in our chest,
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  God, cognition, the ability to reason.
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  And so, God, we come today expectantly, knowing that you
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  want to do a greater work in our lives, a greater work in this
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  land. And God, we confess all the
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  time, times that we've made it about sin and self and about
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  money and greed, God, about position and power.
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  God, we confess all the times that we have turned our backs on
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  you, God, for pleasure. And so God, I pray right now, in
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  the name of Jesus, that we will receive our forgiveness and
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  healing God from on high. Lord, I pray that you will help
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  us to have a change of mind today.
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  Lord, I pray that you will let these words wash over our minds
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  today. God, I pray that these words
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  will be the very thing that's on the forefront of our minds all
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  day today. God, I pray that we'll take
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  every word captive and make them obedient unto you, Christ.
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  Jesus. God, I pray that we'll worry
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  about nothing. But Lord, pray about everything.
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  God, even the menial things. Lord, even the trivial things.
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  God will pray about everything as we rejoice always.
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  Lord, help us to pray without ceasing.
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  Lord I desire within my own spirit and self God to pray
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  without ceasing. Lord help us to pray 247365 God
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  I pray in the name of Jesus. We will be sold out, laid down
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  lovers who are completely obsessed about you King Jesus.
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  Lord we just want to see you. We want to see you rightly.
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  We want to see your face. Show us your glory, God, we love
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  you, King Jesus. It's all about you, King Jesus,
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  it will always be about you. King Jesus, here we are.
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  We wait on you, Lord, we wait expectantly on you, knowing that
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  you are going to return, knowing that you are in our midst,
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  moving mightily and where two or more gathered, there you are.
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  So God, thank you Jesus, for all the many things that you do and
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  have done and will do, and it's all about you.
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  We love you and Jesus Christ, holy and precious name, I pray,
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable
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  multitude of people and so much that they trode one upon
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  another, He began to say unto his disciples, first of all,
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  beware you of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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  Wow. So Jesus just holds no punches.
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  He gets right to the point here, this chapter 12 of Doctor Luke.
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  You can see here that He makes it plain.
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  He doesn't leave it vague. He tells them what the leaven
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  is. It is this hypocrisy.
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  He tells them that the Pharisees are teaching all kinds of false
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  doctrine, and he's telling them to beware of it.
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  It's very subtle. It creeps in, it sounds good,
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  but if it's not in the Word of God, it is nothing but man's
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  tradition. And man's tradition always goes
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  underneath the authority of God's Word, the supremacy of
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  God's Word. God said it and we believe it,
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  and that settles it. And we don't have to understand
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  it, but we have to get in line with it and obey it, friends.
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  We might not even agree with it, but we must be obedient unto it,
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  friends, because it produces the character, it produces the
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  perseverance, it produces the results that God is after, which
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  is the sanctification, friends, and becoming more like Jesus
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  Christ each and every day. And if we will take this word at
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  face value and we will read it, and if we don't understand it,
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  just keep reading, just keep pressing on, It will all become
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  clear. And what you will find as time
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  goes on, the very passages that you've read 100 times will come
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  alive to you. They will quicken in your
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  spirit. They will quicken in the inner
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  man friends inside of you and come alive and become real and
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  relevant and become more and more and more useful to you in
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  your life. You will see different facets
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  and tapestry layers upon layers upon layers inside of this word
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  because it is alive and active and sharper than any 2 edged
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  sword, friends. And you don't read it, it's
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  reading you first two. For there is nothing covered
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  that shall not be revealed, neither hid that shall not be
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  known. So here God is telling us, shout
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  it from the rooftops. Tell the truth.
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  Don't even try to deceive. Don't even try to lie.
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  Don't even try to cover up your tracks.
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  If you do something, just March right in the room and tell
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  whoever it is that you have done it and get your punishment over.
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  It is by telling the truth that you are set free.
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  You are set free from the bondage within your own mind and
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  heart. When you start wrapping those
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  cords, those chains around you that binds you, it is by
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  starting. It's in the infancy.
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  We must nip it in the bud. We must get it at the beginning.
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  We must just oh, up and own our mistakes and the things that
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  we've done that have caused hurt or that we're not right.
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  We need to own those things and get it over with, friends,
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  because nothing will be covered. Go ahead and just say it.
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  Three. Therefore, whatsoever you have
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  spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, and that
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  which you have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed
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  upon the housetops. So here you can see that we must
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  practice integrity, and integrity is just doing the
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  right thing, even when no one is looking.
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  Everything that you are doing, everything that you are saying
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  is being recorded. Friends, if there was ever a day
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  and a time in the history of mankind to practice integrity,
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  it would be today. Friends, do the right thing even
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  when no one's looking. But what is the right thing?
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  The right thing is honoring God always.
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  It is by living up to the promises contained inside of
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  this good book. That is the right thing.
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  For and I say unto you, my friends, be not afraid of them
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  that killed the body, and after that have no more that they can
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  do. He's telling you right here,
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  it's very simple. Don't worry about someone who
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  can take your life away. And he tells you who you should
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  fear. 5 But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear.
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  Fear him, which after he has killed, has power to cast into
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  hell. Yes, I say unto you, fear him.
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  This is God Almighty who we should fear.
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  Fear God. And everything else bows.
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  No one in their right mind would ever want to go to hell.
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  And we make light of it and we make jokes of it and we think
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  it's going to be this big party and all of our friends are going
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  to be there, but we are in grave danger of the hell fire.
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  And if someone chooses to go there, it will be a place where
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  the worm never dies and the fire never quenches.
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  This weeping and gnashing of teeth, friends, and you can see
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  it here. This is what we should fear.
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  Fear the one who has the power to cast you into hell.
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  And there will be many who stand before him and say, Lord, Lord,
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  and he will say, depart from me, for I never knew you.
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  It's not enough to know him. You must be known by him,
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  Friends. Six are not 5 sparrows sold for
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  two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God.
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  He's telling you that he even notices the Sparrow, even
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  notices the minute details. There is nothing that God
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  doesn't know, and he's going to tell you here in seven.
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  But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
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  Fear not, therefore, you are of more value than many sparrows.
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  So he's telling us here that we have such a high place.
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  We are God's masterpiece. We are made in the image of God,
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  friends, and God cares for us. He knows every single second
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  that we're going to be on this earth.
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  He knows every single hair on your head.
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  He knows every single breath that you will take.
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  There is nothing hidden from God.
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  He knows everything. Give Him His glory today.
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  You cannot hide from Him. You cannot be mad enough at God
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  to get rid of Him. It does not work that way.
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  You cannot be so hostile to God that God disappears from the
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  scene. God is preeminent.
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  God is everywhere. God is all knowing and all
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  powerful. And he is watching.
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  He's watching us, friends. And to God everything is naked
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  and laid bare and He knows even your inner thoughts and
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  emotions. Friends give him his glory.
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  A Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him
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  shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of
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  God. So here we get to see the scene
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  where we stand before God Almighty and you have Jesus
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  Christ saying this one is mine and it's in the presence of the
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  angels. And did you know that when God
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  created man and he told the angels that they were to serve
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  man, there was a great rebellion in heaven?
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  And Can you imagine this scene right here, friends, whenever we
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  stand before God Almighty and Jesus Christ the Son of God, the
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  only begotten, says, This one is mine in the presence of the
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  angels. 9 But he that denies me before men shall be denied
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  before the angels of God. So here this calls for wisdom.
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  Friends, we cannot deny Jesus Christ to this wicked and
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  perverse generation. Friends, we cannot just live a
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  life that does not honor Him. And when subtle persecution
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  comes about, we stay silent and we don't speak up for our Lord.
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  When people are taking the Lord's name in vain, when people
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  are lying and asking us to lie, when people are deceiving and
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  asking us to deceive, we cannot just go along with them and be
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  LED off into hell. We must stand up for Jesus
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  Christ. We must speak out for the things
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  that God tells us to speak out about the shedding of innocent
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  blood. Friends, we must speak out for
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  those that sow discord amongst brethren.
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  Friends, we must speak out for dishonest scales.
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  We need to speak out for the things that God tells us break
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  his heart, and the things that God hates, Friends, because if
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  we do not, we are in grave danger of being denied before
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  God and before the angels. 10 And whosoever shall speak a word
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  against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him.
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  But unto him that blasphemes against the Holy Ghost, it shall
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  not be forgiven. Imagine that, friends, Imagine
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  the Holy Spirit drawing you unto himself, and you blasphemy the
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  Holy Spirit, and then you die in that sin, and there is no more
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  salvation for you. There's no purgatory, there's no
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  praying people out of hell. Friends, it doesn't work that
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  way. 11 And when they bring you unto the synagogues and unto the
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  magistrates, and powers, make you no thought how, or what
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  thing you shall answer, or what you shall say, 12 For the Holy
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  Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you ought to say.
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  So here this calls for wisdom. Here we are being drug off into
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  the courtroom. Here we are having to stand
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  before Agrippa. Here we are and we we are biting
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  our nails trying to figure out our defence and counsel and
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  hiring lawyers to try to get us out of whatever charges it is.
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  And Jesus is telling us, take no thought of that.
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  The Holy Spirit will overcome you and overpower you, and you
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  will be given an opportunity to speak for the Lord Jesus Christ
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  and to tell the truth and to bring many lost people unto
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  himself. Whether it is the judge in the
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  courtroom, whether it is the jury in the courtroom, whether
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  it is the observers and spectators that there in the
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  courtroom, whether it is the stenographer, whoever is in that
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  room, whenever you give your testimony, praise God,
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  Hallelujah. Count it all as joy, friends.
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  Count it all as joy when you're given the opportunity to speak
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  for the Lord Jesus Christ and what the Bible says.
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  We do not need to be the PR for God.
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  God's Word reign supreme. God's Word is the complete and
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  full authority for the land, friends, whether you acknowledge
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  it or not, it doesn't change anything.
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  It is our full counsel from Genesis to Revelation.
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  The inerrant, infallible Word, friends, it has all power. 13
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  And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my
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  brother, that he divides the inheritance with me. 14 And he
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  said unto him, Man, who made me a judge, or a divider over you?
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  15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of
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  covetousness, for a man's life consists not in the abundance of
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  the things which he possesses. So here Jesus knows the heart of
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  this man, that no matter what he got, it would never be enough.
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  And that is why we are called to contentment, friends.
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  We are called to be content with our wages.
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  We are called to be content with food and clothing.
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  This is the Christian walk is contentment which produces joy.
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  And contentment is not found in more materialism.
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  Contentment is not found in more money and a raise.
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  Contentment is not found in having more wealth.
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  Contentment is found by being happy in the circumstance that
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  you find yourself in, no matter where that is.
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  Finding the joy in that season, finding the joy in that space,
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  knowing that God has called you there and he's trying to pull
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  things out of you that do not belong.
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  The dross, the impurities, friends that do not belong.
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  He's got you in the refiners fire.
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  Count it all as joy, my friend. You can see that life does not
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  consist in the abundance of things.
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  Foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has
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  nowhere to lay his head. And here we need to know that
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  everything we have needs to be held loosely so that when God
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  asks you for that thing, you can freely give it because it was
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  freely given to you. Knowing that there's plenty in
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  his storehouse, knowing that there is no lack in the Father's
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  house, Knowing that he has the cattle on 1000 hills.
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  He's the one that puts the oar in the earth that we value our
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  currency off of. Think about it friends, you
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  cannot out give God. 16 And he spoke a parable unto them,
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  saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth
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  plentiful. And he thought within himself,
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  saying, What shall I do? Because I have no room where to
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  store my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do.
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  I will pull down my barns, I will build greater, and there I
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  will store all my fruits and my goods. 19 And I will say to my
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  soul, soul, you have much goods laid up for many years.
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  Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20 But God said unto
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  him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you.
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  Then who shall those things be which you have provided?
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  21 So is he that lays up treasure for himself, and is not
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  rich toward God. So we can see here this parable
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  of the rich. We can see here that we need to
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  be open handed towards God. We need to not think of just
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  self. We did not need to just think of
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  self preservation. We do not need to just think
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  about our own future. We need to be open handed.
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  We need to be generous towards God and towards His people.
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  We need to make sure that whatever we have, we are willing
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  to give up in a moment's notice. We don't need to look at
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  anything as if it's ours, because you came into this world
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  with nothing, and you will leave this world with nothing other
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  than that which you have stored up in heaven.
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  Friends, store up treasures for yourself in heaven, where moth
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  does not destroy, rust does not destroy, the thieves do not
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  break in and steal. We need to be storing up
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  treasure in heaven for ourselves.
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  And this calls for wise counsel, Friends.
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  This calls for discernment. Friends, you need to know that
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  what you have here on this earth is to be blessing others, not
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  just for your own selfish gain. If you have much, you need to be
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  blessing others with that much, knowing that when you sow into
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  the lives of others, you will be blessed even more.
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  It will be heaped on top of you even more.
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  Friends, and mostly what that is, is freedom and peace, peace
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  with God. Friends, knowing that you are
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  doing the things that the Lord has asked of you and it pleases
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  Him and he encircles you with His grace and his love and his
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  mercy and his protection. Friends, knowing that God is
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  fighting all your battles, knowing that you are living open
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  handedly, knowing that you are being generous with others is
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  such a blessing, and you are storing up for yourselves
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  treasures in heaven, and there will be great rewards for you in
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  a crown to throw at his feet. We need to be rich towards God.
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  22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto
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  you, Take no thought for your life what you shall eat, neither
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  for the body what you shall put on. 23 For the life is more than
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  meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider are the
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  Ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which neither have
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  storehouse nor barn, and God feeds them.
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  How much more are you better than the fowls?
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  So here is a principle that we all need to drive home that we
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  all need to understand is that God is the one that feeds us.
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  God is the one that clothes us, friends, but we must get out of
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  the nest and go and find that food.
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  If, if a man doesn't work, he doesn't eat.
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  And so therefore we need to know that God is richly providing
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  everything that we need, but we must put our hand to the plow
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  and go to work out in the harvest, Friends. 25 And which
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  of you with taking thought, can add to his stature?
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  1 Cubit 26 if you then be not able to do that thing, which is
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  least why take you thought for the rest.
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  Here he's saying you cannot even add a single inch to your
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  height. She cannot add a single moment
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  to your life. If you can't even do that, why
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  are you so worried about the future?
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  Let tomorrow worry about itself. Today has enough worries.
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  Just sit in the finished work of the cross.
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  Be still and know that He is God.
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  Know that He is fighting your battles, and that you are more
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  than a conqueror, and you are seated with Him in heavenly
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  places. Friends, don't worry about
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  anything, but pray about everything.
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  Take every thought captive and make it obedient unto Christ.
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  Rejoice always and pray without ceasing in.
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  The lust of the eyes and the lust of the flesh and the pride
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  of life are not from God, and when you sit inside of that
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  reality then you can rest, knowing that God is all around
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  fighting all of your battles and you do not need to worry.
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  Most of the things we worry about never even come, and we
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  spend our lives spinning around in circles in never achieving
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  much because we were too worried about everything.
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  Let God take care of it, friends. 27 Consider the lilies,
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  how they grow. They toil not, they spend not.
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  And yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not
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  a raid like one of these. 28 If, if then God so clothes the
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  grass, which is today in the field and tomorrow is cast into
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  the oven, how much more will he clothe you?
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  O you of little faith, we don't need to worry about where our
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  next meal is going to come from, and we don't need to worry about
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  what kind of clothing that we have.
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  God clothes us, God feeds us. When you come unto the Lord and
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  you give your full life over to him, he takes care of your food
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  and raiment. And then he says, with that be
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  content. Be content with food and
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  clothing. Don't take any thought of it
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  friends. That is the way the heathen and
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  the pagans behave. We do not need to worry about
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  that. We belong to Father God and He
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  protects us and He leads us in heavenly places and He is taking
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  us from glory to glory. Just know that this little life
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  that we have down here is to point people towards Jesus
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  Christ, the only one that can give them their salvation, the
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  only one that can give them this peace with God.
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  That is our whole sole purpose while we are here is to scatter,
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  seed friends, to glorify God in the highest, and to point many
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  to the Father. 29 And seek not what you shall eat or what you
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  shall drink, neither be you of a doubtful mind.
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  Do not doubt, friends, increase your faith.
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  Faith is the currency that we operate out of, and it is faith
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  in Jesus knowing that he can do anything. 30 For all these
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  things do the nations of the world seek after, and your
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  Father knows that you have need of these things.
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  God already knows your needs before you even bring them to
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  him. Friends, He already knows what
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  you need. Seek you first, the Kingdom of
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  God. 31 but rather seek you the Kingdom of God, and all these
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  things shall be added unto you. 32 Fear not, little flock, for
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  it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the
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  Kingdom. Fear not, little flock Jesus.
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  Jesus is so good. Jesus tells us that we are his
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  little flock. Praise God.
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  Praise God that we belong to him.
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  Praise God that he is pleased to give us the Kingdom.
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  Jesus went to prepare a place for us friends, and where he is
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  we shall be friends. 33 Sell that you have, and give alms,
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  Provide yourselves bags which wax not old.
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  A treasure in the heavens that fails not where no thief
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  approaches nor moth corrupts. 34 For where your treasure is,
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  there will your heart be also. So we need to know that God
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  doesn't need our money. We can't out give God.
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  And God desires our heart, friends.
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  He desires for you to live sold out completely over to Him, that
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  your very existence is surrendered unto Him.
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  Every single thing, every dollar, every penny, every
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  breath, every thought is unto God. 35 Let your loins be girded
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  about, and your lights burning. 36 And you yourselves like unto
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  men that wait for the Lord, when he will return from the wedding,
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  that when he comes and knocks, they may be open unto Him
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  immediately. So here this calls for wisdom.
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  We must gird up our loins and stand in His presence and wait
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  on Him, friends, keeping our lamps full, keeping our Wicks
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  trimmed, waiting upon him. Because your redemption is
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  drawing near, friends, and you do not know the hour that He
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  will come, and by and by He is closer today than he was
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  yesterday. Friends. 37 Blessed are those
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  servants whom the Lord, when he comes, shall find watching.
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  Truly I say unto you that He shall gird himself and make them
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  to sit down to meet, and we'll come forth and serve them.
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  Look at how our Master is serving us at this great
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  banquet, this marriage, this, this great supper of the Lamb.
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  Look at how we are seated, and he prepares A banquet for us in
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  the presence of our enemies. 38 And if he and if he shall come
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  in the second watch, or come in the third watch and find them,
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  so blessed are those servants. We do not need to be found
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  sleeping. Friends, wake up.
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  O Sleeper, see that your redemption is drawing near, and
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  his rewards are with him. 39 And this know that if the good man
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  of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would
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  have watched and not have suffered his house to be broken
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  through. So these are the ones that are
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  hostile towards God and they think that they can somehow back
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  God up into a corner, prove that God's not real, or that God is
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  dead or that God is sleeping. And I want you to know they will
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  be dismayed at this time. I want you to know that there is
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  no strong man that can ever protect himself from what is
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  about to happen when every stone is unturned and every cave is
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  broken down and every hidden place is laid bare and they try
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  to hide themselves from the face of God.
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  But God sees everything. God sees everything.
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  And we would do well to bow today to confess Jesus as Lord
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  today. It will be far better for you to
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  do it on this side than on the next 40.
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  But you therefore ready also for the Son of Man comes at an hour
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  when you do not think. Praise God, Hallelujah, He's
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  coming when we least expect it. But our call, friends, as
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  believers, is to look up and to wait, and to wait well, and to
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  see the leaves on the fig tree appearing, and knowing that it's
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  coming, and knowing that it's near, and knowing that it's
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  closer today than it was yesterday. 41 Then Peter said
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  unto him, Lord, do you speak this parable unto us, or even to
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  all? And of course he speaks this to
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  everyone, friends, and Peter here he just says what everyone
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  else is thinking. Aren't we thankful for Peter and
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  his boldness? 42 And the Lord said, Who then
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  is that faithful and wise steward, whom his Lord shall
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  make ruler over his household to give them their portion of meat
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  in due season? So here Jesus is going to wax
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  eloquently and he's going to speak another parable is going
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  to cast along with some object lessons that they would
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  understand. He's going to speak to them in a
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  way that they have to engage in and have to actually use their
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  heads for something besides hanging a hat on.
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  And Jesus here is going to invite them in to this parable.
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  43 Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when he comes, shall
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  find so doing. 44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make
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  him ruler over all that he has. 45 But and if that servant say
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  in his heart, my Lord delays his coming, and shall begin to beat
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  the men, servants, and the maidens, and to eat and drink
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  and be drunk, 46 The Lord of that servant will come in a day
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  when he looks not for him, and in an hour when he is not aware,
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  and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion
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  with the unbelievers. So what Jesus is trying to say
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  to us is that he's coming at a time when we do not expect it.
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  And if we fall into the trap of thinking that he's a long way
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  off and that everything just keeps going as it always has,
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  and that we think that God is slack in his coming, do not
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  forget that a day is like 1000 years to the Lord, and 1000
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  years is like a day. And God is not slack in His
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  return. But He's waiting for the full
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  number of those who will believe to come into the fold.
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  Friends, He knows all who belongs to him, and he makes it
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  his business to go out. And aren't all angels
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  ministering spirits sent to protect those that will inherit
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  eternal life? And we can see here that God has
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  this infinite plan. He has this divine mystery that
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  we in our finite minds are trying to wrestle through.
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  But don't forget that you have the mind the size of a soda
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  Canon. God has the mind that's grander
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  than all the the oceans in the world.
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  And here. This calls for wisdom.
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  Friends, we must wait patiently. We must know that there is
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  nothing that is holding us back from being caught up to meet him
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  in the air. And there we will be with him
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  forever. 47 And that servant, which knew his Lord's will, and
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  prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall
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  be beaten with many stripes. So there's a very unfamiliar
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  thought process when it comes to studying God's word.
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  And there are these different degrees of torment within hell
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  just as much as the. Levels of rewards for believers
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  are of different degrees. The levels of torment for
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  unbelievers are of different degrees.
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  And this calls for wisdom. 48 But he that knows not, and did
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  commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with a few
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  stripes. For unto whomsoever much is
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  given of him shall be much required, and to whom men have
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  committed much of him they will ask the more Wow, what a
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  passage, what a thought process, what theology we can form around
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  this one little section of Scripture, this one little
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  passage. Here in Luke you can see friends
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  in Romans chapter 2 verses 131415.
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  You can see here, friends, that where the gospel of Jesus Christ
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  has been preached, there is such a grave response ability.
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  And when you know the truth, you have to make a decision.
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  But there are the unreached people groups in the world.
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  There are those who did not hear prior to Jesus coming on the
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  scene. They did not hear prior to the
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  evangelism of the world. They did not hear prior to their
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  death. And their consciences bear
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  witness, and in the day of Jesus they will either be accused or
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  excused. And this calls for wisdom. 49 I
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  am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I if it be
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  already kindled? So Jesus is the divider of men.
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  That's not a common thought process.
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  We all think of Jesus's love and lovey love and God is love and
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  praise the Lord, yes and Amen. God is love.
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  We love because we were first loved and we don't even know
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  what love is except for a relationship with God Almighty.
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  Here you can see that Jesus is showing the true intentions of
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  what it is to separate the sheep and the goats and to turn the
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  tables over to drive out the money changers.
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  Here you can see what it is when he's about his Father's business
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  is this is the zeal of his house. 50 But I have a baptism
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  to be baptized with, and how I am straightened until it be
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  accomplished. We know that He set his face
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  like a Flint. We know that he was headed
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  towards Calvary. We know that it was the shedding
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  of His blood that brought about our redemption, that brought
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  about our salvation, that brought about our right standing
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  with God. Friends, it was this zeal. 51
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  Suppose you that I am come to give peace on earth.
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  I tell you no, but rather division, not a This is not a
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  very popular teaching about Jesus here.
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  Lock in, pay attention. You're going to find a different
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  facet of his love. This is the love of Jesus, and
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  He could immediately bring the peace on the earth.
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  But he knows that there are many who have false allegiance to
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  him. He knows that there are many who
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  do not care anything for him. They do not care anything for
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  God. They do not care for anything.
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  And they are the children of the devil, friends.
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  And God is dividing the sheep from the goats. 52 For From now
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  on there shall be 5 in one house divided, 3 against two, and two
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  against. 353 The father shall be divided against the son, the son
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  against the father, the mother against the daughter, and the
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  daughter against the mother, the mother-in-law against the
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  daughter-in-law, the daughter-in-law against her
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  mother-in-law. We can see here.
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  And it's happening all around the globe.
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  When you make a decision to follow after Jesus Christ, don't
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  be surprised if the first line of persecution comes from within
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  the four walls of your house. You can see now that there is
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  such an agenda that is being lied to this generation that
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  whenever you speak out for the Lord and you speak out for what
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  the word of God has to say, don't be surprised if your own
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  family turns your turns their back on you.
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  Don't be surprised when you stand for God if people ridicule
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  you and say all kinds of false things about you.
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  Counted all this joy, friends. 54 And he said also to the
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  people, when you see a cloud rise out of the West,
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  straightway you say there comes a shower, and so it is. 55 And
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  when you see the South wind blow, you say there will be
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  heat, and it comes to pass. 56 You hypocrites, you can discern
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  the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it that you do
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  not discern this time? He's talking about his second
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  Advent. He's talking about how he was
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  here on this earth during his first Advent.
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  He's talking about all of the truths that are contained in
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  this word. He's talking about how we should
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  be so completely obsessive and preoccupied with his coming and
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  we do not need to just discount it and think that this world is
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  for us and for our pleasure. It is for God and it is for for
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  us to sow the seeds amongst all people, groups everywhere, for
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  the whole globe. And we need to call many men
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  into repentance. We need to call many men into a
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  relationship with God through His Son Jesus Christ.
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  We do not need to make it about wealth.
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  We do not need to make it about self.
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  We do not need to make it about preservation of of our skin,
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  friends. We do not need to make it about
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  all the pleasure and pleasantries.
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  We need to make it about God and God and God alone.
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  And is Jesus Christ the the Redeemer of our souls that we
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  are obsessive over? We love him.
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  He is the first thought on our minds.
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  He is the whole day that we think about Him and meditate
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  upon him. And he is our last thought
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  before we go to bed, friends, and he is what we dream of.
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  We dream of the day that we can be united with Him, and look
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  upon him, and kiss his feet, and anoint his feet with our tears,
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  and wipe them with our hair friends, and pour out our
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  alabaster jar upon him. 57 Yes. And why even of yourselves judge
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  you not what is right? 58 When you go with your
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  adversary to the magistrate as you are in the way, give
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  diligence that you may be delivered from him, lest he hail
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  thee to the judge, And the judge delivers you into the officer,
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  and the officer cast you into the prison. 59 I tell you, you
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  shall not depart from there until you have paid the very
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  last might. Do you not know that you will
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  judge the world? Do you not know that you will
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  judge the angels? Do you not know that you are the
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  temple of the Lord? God has given us the mind of
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  Christ and we should be able to judge within ourselves without
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  getting the secular Pagan world involved in our affairs.
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  As brothers, we should be able to come together and reason
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  together, friends, and this calls for wisdom.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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  I know I sure have. Praying for every single one of
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  you. I love you, so does God.
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  Let's meditate on these words today and let them soak in and
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  become reality. Not just words on a page, but
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  part of our very existence, part of our very DNA.
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  Love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.