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Matthew chapter 22 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 22. Let us pray.
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  Our Father, who is in heaven, holy is your name, your Kingdom
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  come, and your will be done here on this earth, just as it is in
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  heaven. Give us today Our Daily Bread.
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  Forgive us for our many sins. Help us to forgive those who sin
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  against us. Lead us not into temptation.
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  God, deliver us from the evil one, for yours is the Kingdom
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  and the power and the glory forever and ever.
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  We love you, King Jesus, we love everything about you.
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  I decrease as you increase. Holy Spirit, teach us today.
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  Teach us your ways. We are here and we're listening.
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  We love you. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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  Start in verse one. And Jesus answered and spoke
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  unto them again by parables and said, if you've been following
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  along, you can see that this is the passion week.
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  You can see that Jesus is silencing all the opposition.
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  He is all authority and he has been given all authority.
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  And Jesus means what he says, and he says what he means. 2 The
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  Kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a
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  marriage for his son. He's talking about God, he's
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  talking about us, he's talking about the church, he's talking
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  about Jesus. 3 And he sent forth his servants to call them that
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  were bidden to the wedding, and that they would not come.
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  He's talking about the Israelites.
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  He's talking about how he sent all of the angels to gather up
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  the Israelites. He sent all the prophets to
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  gather them up four. And again he sent forth other
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  servants, saying, Tell them which are bid, and behold, I
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  have prepared my dinner, my ox and my fatlings are killed, and
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  all that are ready come unto the marriage.
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  He's talking about heaven here. He's saying he's prepared a
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  place, and he wants the Jews to come in five.
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  But they made light of it, and they went their ways, one to his
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  farm, another to his merchandise.
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  Six. And the remnant took his
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  servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
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  So here, the servants of the king, the prophets, they were
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  gone into Israel to try to get them to come in to eternity.
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  But what did they do? They slew them.
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  They treated all of them spitefully. 7 But when the king
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  heard of it, he was wroth, and he sent forth his armies and
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  destroyed those murderers and burned up their city.
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  He's talking about 8070. He's talking about the
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  Babylonians coming in and tearing down the First temple.
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  He's talking about how they could not find their refuge in
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  the temple of the Lord if they were not actually in tune with
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  God Almighty 8 and then said he to his servants the wedding is
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  ready but they which were bidden were not worthy.
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  He's talking about all those that refused to come into the
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  fold. 9 go you therefore into the highways, and as many as you
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  shall find bid to the marriage. So he's talking about all the
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  Gentiles, he's talking about the whole world.
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  He's talking about a representative from every people
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  group, every nation and tongue all over the globe coming in to
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  heaven. 10 So those servants went out into the highways and
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  gathered together all as many as they found both bad and good,
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  and the wedding was furnished with guests.
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  Think about it. It's how many of us have passed
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  that we're not too proud of. How many of us have passed that
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  we wish that we didn't have? But it is our testimony, isn't
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  it, friends? And God uses it.
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  Look at how many of us. We did not get what we deserved,
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  did we? We deserve hell.
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  But God has given us the Holy Spirit.
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  He has given us His promises. He's given us the hope of
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  eternity. Praise the Lord. 11 And when the
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  king came to see the guests, he saw their man, which had not a
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  wedding garment. So he's talking about the people
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  who are not actually clothed in the righteousness of Jesus
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  Christ. They're not actually clothed in
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  the blood of Jesus that covers them from the top of their head
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  to the bottom of their feet. And every single person is going
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  to stand before Almighty God. And he's only going to see them
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  one of two ways. He's either going to see the
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  blood of Jesus Christ covering them, or he's going to see that
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  one little secret sin that you didn't think anybody knew about.
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  And he's going to tell those people.
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  Depart from me, for I never knew you.
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  But for those of us who are clothed in the righteousness of
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  Jesus Christ, it is not by works that we get in France.
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  It is by Jesus perfect life that he lived in his perfect
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  sacrifice that you and I get in friends 12 And he said unto him,
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  friend, how did you come here and not have the wedding
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  garment? And he was speechless.
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  That's what happens. That's what's going to happen on
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  the day of the Great White Throne.
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  That's what's going to happen. But every knee will bow and
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  every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord.
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  And I want you to know that they're going to be speechless
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  when God opens the book and he shows them how many times they
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  had the opportunity to give their lives over to Jesus
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  Christ. All of creation proclaims his
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  name. So that man is without excuse.
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  Friends, even the rocks will cry out. 13 And then said the king
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  to the servants, bind him hand and foot and take him away and
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  cast him into the outer darkness, and there shall be
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  weeping and gnashing of teeth. This is the death of a billion
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  deaths where you can never die. It is a eternal place of torment
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  that no person would ever want to go.
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  Friends 14 for many are called, but fewer chosen.
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  How many people have the opportunity to give their lives
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  to the Lord, but they continuously blasphemy the Holy
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  Spirit? How many people will
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  continuously stiff arm God when He's calling them to Him, and
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  they continuously stiff arm them, and then they die in that
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  they harden their hearts and they die, and at friends, and
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  they are eternally banished to the weeping and gnashing of
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  teeth, where the worm never dies?
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  15 Then went to Pharisees and took counsel how they might
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  entangle him in his talk. They were trying to trap him
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  friends. 16 And when they sent out unto him their disciples
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  with the Herodian saying, Master, we know that you are
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  true, and teach us the way of God and truth.
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  Neither care for any man, for you regard not the person a man.
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  Thank God that's how Jesus is. That's how Jesus was at this
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  time. He does.
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  He's not the respecter of men. He does not look at the outside.
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  He is not about vanity. There was nothing about him that
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  drew us to Him. And so therefore He looks at all
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  of your intentions and your motives.
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  Friends, He looks at your heart. He knows all of your thoughts.
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  He knows your emotions and feelings.
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  He knows everything. Friends, you cannot hide from
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  Him. 17 Tell us, therefore, what do you think?
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  Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar or not?
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  They're trying to trap him and then tangle him.
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  Either way, he answered, if it was on one side or the other
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  side, it was going to be wrong. And he says, Is it lawful to
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  give tribute unto Caesar? 18 But Jesus perceived their
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  wickedness, and said, Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites?
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  19 Show me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a
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  penny. And he said unto them, Whose is
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  this image and superscription? 21 And they said unto him,
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  Caesar's. And then he said unto them,
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  Render therefore unto Caesar's the things which are Caesar's,
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  and unto God the things that are gods. 22 When they had heard
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  these words, they marveled, and they left him.
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  And they went their way. They could not trap him.
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  He was so good at what he did. And he shows us that we need to
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  give our entire lives over to God because we are made in the
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  image of God, friends. And he shows us here that we
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  need to obey the law, friends, unless the law goes against God.
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  23 And the same day came to him the Sadducees, which say there
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  is no resurrection. And they asked him, 24 Saying,
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  Master Moses said, If a man dies and has no children, his brother
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  shall marry his wife and raise up seed unto his brother. 25 Now
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  there was with us seven brothers, the 1st when he had
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  married a wife deceased, and having no issue, left his wife
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  unto his brother. 26 Likewise the second also, and the third
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  unto the 7th. 27 And last of all, the woman died also. 28
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  Therefore in the resurrection, whose wife shall she be of the
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  seven? For they all had her.
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  So here they're trying to trap Jesus.
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  They don't even believe in the resurrection.
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  They only studied the first five books of the Bible, these
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  Sadducees, and they did not believe in any of the spiritual.
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  They did not even believe in the angels.
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  They were so wrapped up in their hypocrisy, and they're trying to
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  trap Jesus. What did he say?
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  29 Jesus answered and said unto them, You do err, not knowing
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  the Scriptures nor the power of God. 30 For in the resurrection
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  they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the
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  angels of God in heaven, 31 But as touching the resurrection of
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  the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by
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  God, saying, 32 I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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  God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
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  So he didn't say I was the God of Abraham, I was the God of
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  Isaac, I was the God of Jacob. He's showing these religious
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  hypocrites. He's showing them that he is the
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  God and that no one ever really dies.
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  And he shows us here that in the resurrection we will have
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  resurrected bodies and we will not need to procreate.
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  And there is a final number of people that are going to come
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  into the fold. And Jesus said, I go to prepare
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  a place for you. And in my father's house there
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  are many mansions. And that is where we're headed,
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  friends. And he's showing them the air of
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  their ways. 33 And when the multitude heard this, they were
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  astonished at his doctrine. He used their own game against
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  him. He actually referenced the first
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  five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch.
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  He referenced it. And he showed them that right
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  there in the five books that they only believed in was the
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  answer to their own question. 34 But when the Pharisees had heard
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  that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered
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  together. They said, Oh, he thinks he's so
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  smart, we've got a game to play with them. 35 Then one of them,
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  which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him and
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  saying, What did he say, Master, Which is the great commandment
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  in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, You
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  shall love the Lord thy God with all your heart, with all your
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  soul, with all your mind. 38 This is the first and great
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  commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, You shall love
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  your neighbor as yourself. 40 And on these two commandments
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  hang all the law and the prophets.
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  So Jesus is showing them here in the most simple way.
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  He's showing them that he did not come to abolish the law, but
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  to fulfill it and everything that's fulfilled and loving the
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  Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and strength, and
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  loving your neighbor as yourself.
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  We would do well to keep these two in our minds throughout our
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  day all the time. We do not need to be duplicious
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  in our approach to our very lives.
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  In this day that you woke up today, you cannot serve both God
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  and Mammon. You must choose whom you will
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  serve today. But As for me and my house, we
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  will serve the Lord and then he goes on to compound that to say
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  love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself.
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  This is something we would do well to live peaceably among men
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  and to make sure that we're taking care of the widow and the
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  orphan in their time of distress, which is true religion
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  in the sight of God. 41 While the Pharisees were gathered
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  together, Jesus asked them, 42 saying, What do you what thank
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  you of Christ, Whose son is he? They said unto him the Son of
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  David. 43 And he said unto them, How then does David in spirit
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  call him Lord, saying, 44 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit you
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  on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. 45
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  If David then calls him Lord, how is he his Son?
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  46 And no man was able to answer him a word, neither did any man
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  from that day forth ask him any more questions.
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  Think about it for a second, friends.
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  Jesus put up with all of their blasphemous questionings and
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  then right here at the end of the chapter he flips the script
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  and he asks them a question and He shows them that He is all man
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  and all God. And here they are thinking that
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  their Messiah was going to just be born from the lineage of
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  David, but they did not know that he was going to be all God.
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  They were looking for a Liberator and not a savior,
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  friends. And they were.
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  They were just thinking one side of the coin.
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  And so many of us in our day, so many of us in our, our, we do
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  the same thing friends. So many of us, we are only
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  looking at prophecy from 1 lens and we try to boil it down and
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  we try to just get others to see it one way.
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  And God has many different tapestry and layers to 1
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  prophecy and it can mean things then we that is the reason that
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  we need to be students of the word of God.
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  And there are so many people that are willing to die on hills
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  that are not worth dying on. There's so many people who
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  divide over things in the Bible because they're only looking at
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  it from 1 angle. And there's so much tapestry and
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  layers to Scripture. And yes, we can know it, and
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  yes, we can learn it. And yes, we should be able to
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  teach it. We should be at places in our
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  walk with God where we're not just still on the spiritual
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  milk, but we're actually able to chomp down on the T-bone steak
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  and to digest it. Friends, it is not that it's so
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  unsearchable that we don't know it, but there's many things that
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  will come to light as time goes on and we must be OK with that.
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  Friends, sure hope you've been blessed by this chapter here.
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  I know I sure have many times over.
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  I love every single one of you. I'm praying for you and we'll
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  see you back here tomorrow. God bless you.