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we worship in singing We Worship
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and hearing hearing the voice of
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God, our King, and we will do. 
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Gospel, According to Mark, and 
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and Mark 331, join me, Mark 331.
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And his brothers came. 
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to him and called him. 
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him and they sent to him your 
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outside. 
Seeking you And he answered 

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them, who are my mother and my 
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And looking about are those who 
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He said, here are my mother and 
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will of God. 
He is my brother and sister and 

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mother. 
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Help us understand the glories 
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Lord arrest every intrusive 
thought calm every aroused 

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emotion that would distract us. 
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Mary of Bethany to sit at your 
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your voice. 
Jesus name, amen. 

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Many places of the scriptures. 
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extract many comforting truths 
that stems from The Marvelous 

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reality, that Jesus Christ. 
The son of God became a human 

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being Are we not blessed? 
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When we see him in different 
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The all sufficient, Lord hungry.
Tired. 

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Thirsty. 
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hearts when we are told that 
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Righteous indignation. 
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Surely we are we are built up so
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our savior. 
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Temptation and overcoming each 
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giving us the assurance that we 
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sympathizes with us, And as we 
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He does not turn his back, but 
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What we need in order to endure 
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There are so many components. 
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Christ, the Eternal one who 
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into his creation experience. 
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means to be human, though, 
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especially for those who depend 
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As we are Earthbound. 
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with us in this journey closer 
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So close. 
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us in this Human Experience that
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to his nature for all of 
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What a love. 
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and within that supply of hope, 
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Jesus Christ, there is a detail 
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And I just read that, I believe 
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meditate on and it is this that 
the Lord Jesus was born into and

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was raised with a diverse. 
A complex. 

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A fallen group of other human 
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family. 
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of Jesus, we almost we almost by
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See him as a person. 
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But very distant from others. 
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didn't really have deep 
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have relational history. 
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believe Christ had disciples. 
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And though, the Bible doesn't 
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years with his half-brothers. 
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enough for us in the scriptures 
to encourage Us in that 

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inescapable reality. 
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providentially placed in a unit 
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The Lord knows what it's like to
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He knows what it's like to be a 
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He knows what it's like to be a 
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And there is in the Bible. 
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equip us to know how we can 
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No matter what kind of family, 
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see that briefly in this text, 
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see that there is a new family 
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creating to this day that you 
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part of which is a hopeful 
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to drink from. 
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Lord's wisdom, the 
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promises of yes, what we see in 
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Earth. 
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calling all men to join 
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31, his mother and his brothers 
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They sent to him and called him.
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Why are they here? 
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interrupt Jesus in the middle of
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And when his family heard it, 
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Jesus is drawing, good 
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jeopardize attention and the 
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for him. 
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There's there is a fraction of 
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themselves. 
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on a mission to do something 
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what he was doing, and to bring 
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But the came, it came with 
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criticism. 
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testify that you've been able to
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world, the bitterness of this 
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and nurturing love of those who 
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You're home though imperfect. 
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indeed a sanctuary. 
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secured for you a level of 
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protection and nourishment. 
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God for those experiences of 
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I did not know such consolation.
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And when you gather The Limited 
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interaction, with his brothers, 
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most positive portrait of a 
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His siblings seem to only add to
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was knowing in all other areas 
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from all other avenues. 
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his family should be present and
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nowhere to be found. 
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before the cross brokenhearted 
and there is no mention of his 

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half-brothers being there and 
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wanted to in love care for his 
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After his departure, he does not
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brothers but gives it to one of 
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their absent. 
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for us to know Jesus 
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He understands fully what? 
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those. 
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He understands what it's like to
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To his life. 
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Perfection and his sinlessness 
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submit to his claims or his 
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The difficulty of serving God 
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understands he knows. 
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agree that the most painful 
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family that is surely, Fallen is
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necessarily, but how they treat 
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namely Jesus Christ. 
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should understand today. 
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members He had those who didn't 
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least for a great portion of 
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7 verse 1 and we're going to 
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the brothers of Jesus have with 
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Tabernacles. 
John 7. 

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So his brother said to him, 
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Your disciples Also may see the 
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You are doing for no one works 
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If he seeks to be known openly, 
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yourself to the world. 
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think that Jesus brother's here 
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are giving him, some kind of 
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compelling and effective that he
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And so they are, they're 
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direction. 
Hey, why are you doing all these

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things in the region like 
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It's the feast. 
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have pilgrims around the world. 
Go, do your stuff, there 

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manifest, your power there. 
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say yeah that seems like a 
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read verse 5. 
For not even his brothers 

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believed in him. 
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believed in him. 
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the place of allegiance to 
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They were coming from the heart 
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these Works implies that they 
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miraculous works. 
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that for themselves or or more 
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signs and wonders. 
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were just like many of the other
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certain signs and wonders, not 
for Redemptive purposes, but for

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selfish purposes. 
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We want somebody who can give us
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someone that can overthrow or 
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Maybe that's the kind of mindset
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So they being his relative 
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advantage in all of this say. 
Jesus, come on, do your stuff 

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there. 
Let's get this thing going. 

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Let's let's win this nation. 
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posture is, you know, what this 
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they understood and even though 
they believe that Jesus can do 

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and could do certain things, 
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Didn't believe in his claims and
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They didn't believe his 
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but his, his, his deity, his 
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Now, coupled that, with the 
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hearing about the events 
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Who knows what Mary told the 
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Who knows what they understood. 
About Jesus, miraculous entrance

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into the world. 
And yet, with all of that, They 

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didn't believe you would think 
that if there anybody would be 

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quick to believe it was those 
who for year. 

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After year, after year, saw 
someone that was unlike any 

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other person in the world, even 
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that. 
At 12 years old confounding. 

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The priests a wisdom, 
unparalleled more than a moral 

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Majesty. 
That just didn't make sense 

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humanly speaking because there's
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And then only to come into his 
adult life for him to shake the 

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nation with his power. 
Working with his message. 

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And yet, still John tells us 
even his brothers Did not 

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believe. 
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confidently look out to this 
crowd this afternoon, knowing 

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that many of you have a lost 
husband, a lost wife, a lost, 

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brother lost sister, lost 
children, and tell you with 

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great confidence, that their 
case of unbelief is not more 

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hopeless than these men. 
These men who would later on as 

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we see in the book of Acts, 
chapter one would become his 

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followers. 
I can't I can't move on from 

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this tax without first seeing 
how Jesus responds to them 

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because the way Jesus responds 
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Gives us wonderful insight about
the contrast between a believing

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life and an unbelieving life. 
Look at verse 6, Jesus said to 

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them. 
My time has not yet come but 

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your time is always here. 
My time has not yet come but 

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your time. 
It's always here. 

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What what does that mean? 
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saying. 
Unlike you, I do not navigate 

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through life apart from a 
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A total submission to God's 
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I'm surrendered to a different 
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I walked to a different beat 
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And the father said, this is not
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whatever you want, walk wherever
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want, desire and chase after 
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but that's not me. 
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what I see my father doing. 
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Have no thought about God's 
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his Sovereign rule. 
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want to live by their own 
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utterly despise the notion that 
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being that would impose his will
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And that's the hint that we get 
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a true servant of God with his 
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True followers of Jesus Christ. 
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I placed my future in the hand 
of him. 

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Who is the author of life? 
I do what he says. 

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I go where he goes, I stay where
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But you go do whatever you want.
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because he goes on to say 
something in verse 7 to the same

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group, the world cannot hate 
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The world cannot hate you, but 
it hates me because I testify 

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about it that it's works. 
Are evil. 

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I can't go to the feast because 

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there are those who hate me and 
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But you, if you connect verse 6,
you can go go whenever you want 

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implying? 
What you can go because you are 

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of the world. 
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You imagine his own, brother's 
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world, you participate in the 
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therefore because you are of the
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The world loves you as its own. 
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The world hates me, the world 
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True Believers like Jesus will 
take opportunities with wisdom 

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and love to confront and expose 
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The falsehood in the wickedness 
of the systems in the beliefs of

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this world, they will not hold 
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They will not shy away. 
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Whether they arouse antagonism, 
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tells them to do no matter how 
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no matter how familiar, they are
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receive Condemnation from God 
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shoulder from this world. 
And what's fascinating is Jesus 

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is indicting them with that. 
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here. 
I'm not of the world you are of 

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the world. and I look at that 
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half brothers were. 
They weren't neutral. 

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They weren't shy and and they 
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Jesus. 
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all. 
Okay, yeah, we thought so, 

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There's friction here. 
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There's clashes of worldview 
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And the point is this, You I'm 
sure have loved ones who are 

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worldly, who are skeptical, who 
maybe even like the 

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half-brothers of Jesus are 
willing to associate with Jesus,

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as long as it benefits them. 
And here's what I want to tell 

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you today. 
Christ can save them. 

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He can save them as impossible 
as it may seem as, as much as 

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they are. 
Hardened and indifferent. 

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Christ can save them. 
You know, I think about James in

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the Book of James Jude and James
are believed to be the 

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half-brothers of Jesus who were 
given a privilege to have their 

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writings in sacred RIT. 
James 21, don't turn there. 

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You can just hear this. 
Can you imagine the same James 

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who was in this group of 
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this matter, who criticized, 
Jesus and our main text and Mark

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3, that same James and James 21 
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No partiality. 
As you hold the faith in our 

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Lord, Jesus Christ. 
The lord of glory, the lord of 

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Glory. 
That's how James spoke that's 

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what happened to James. 
That's what can happen to your 

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brother. 
What can happen to your sister. 

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So I can happen to your father 
to your mother, to your child, 

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even if your child is here right
now, distracted out of their 

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minds, it can happen to them. 
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We get a little glimpse of how 
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unbelieving brothers, who are 
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obstacles. 
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the father, if you want to know 
how it is, that you can move 

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with courage to serve your God, 
despite the Deep bonds that you 

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have, despite the Loyalty of 
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line, look at how your lord 
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Yes. 
There's plenty of wisdom 

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throughout the scriptures, but 
look at how Jesus acted in this 

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moment and let it Infuse you 
with a Grace and a strength. 

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To move forward with your love 
for Christ. 

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John 7, verse 8, you go up to 
the feast I am not going up to 

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this Feast for my time has not 
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Fully. 
Come after saying this, he 

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remained in Galilee Do you 
struggle to obey the Lord? 

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Because of the voices of those 
who raised you who were raised 

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with you. 
Who contributed so much to who 

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you are today in a human sense. 
I know people who can't get 

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baptized because of their 
family. 

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They don't want to dishonor 
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They don't want to be disowned 
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I know people who don't want to 
make their Christmas dinners 

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awkward. 
I know people who don't want to 

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create division in their 
household. you know what Jesus 

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says to his own half-brothers 
You walk that way, I'm walking 

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this way. 
I'm going to, I'm going to serve

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and obey my father. 
And if you don't want to walk 

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with me, then I'll walk alone. 
I will stay where God tells me 

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to stay, I will go where God 
tells me to go, if that means we

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will take different paths, so be
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That is the high cost of 
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God's will taking precedence 
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those painful moments, when you 
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something similar, knowing that 
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ridicule accusation and maybe 
even rejection you have a savior

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who knows. 
She knows. 

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Be comforted in that truth. 
Now, let's come back to our main

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text because Jesus also has a 
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informed him your mother, and 
your brothers are outside 

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seeking you. 
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them in verse 33. 
Who are my mother and my 

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brothers. 
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will dedicate an entire message 
to the Catholic doctrine of 

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Mary. 
We're not going to do it today. 

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He said, here are my mother and 
my brothers, whoever does the 

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will of God. 
He is my brother and sister and 

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mother. 
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redefining what true family is 
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Comforted to know that he's not 
attacking this biblical 

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Institution. 
Be comforted to know that he is 

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not devaluing the 
responsibilities that we have to

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our kin. 
But what Jesus is doing here, is

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he is revealing and teaching 
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That is more important holds 
more worth than any other group 

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that you can be tied to whether 
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that is being part of the family
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And there is a warning in this 
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other texts, a word of 
encouragement. 

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The word of warning is just like
the physical family of Jesus who

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thought that they had certain 
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Based on a false assumption. 
There are those who also, for 

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various reasons think that they 
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But their confidence is in vain.
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And the word of encouragement is
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where you came from the Lord, 
Jesus invites, you to be part of

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the most glorious, loving 
unending Fellowship, that you 

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can ever know. 
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faith. 
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the physical description of the 
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Look at verse 31, who are the 
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The mother and the 
half-brothers, and who are the 

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ones who are sitting in close 
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who were eager to do the will of
God. 

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So even the physical picture 
here, denotes that spiritual 

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principle, there are those who 
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relationship with Jesus in a 
Redemptive way, but are actually

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outside. 
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think are the most unlikely 
candidates to receive Rich 

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Fellowship, saving fellowship 
with Christ who are actually at 

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his feet. 
So Jesus looks and he says, true

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access. 
True access to me is exclusively

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made available by you knowing 
the will of God and wanting to 

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submit to the will of God. 
There is no other entrance. 

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There is no other qualification.
There is no other way, only 

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through this way can, you know, 
Mia's family. 

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But, what does it mean for Jesus
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I mean, it's powerful to just 
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there has to be some meaning to 
this when he says, here are my 

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brother's here on my sister's 
here on my mother's, right? 

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It's there's something being 
said there. 

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Did you notice that? 
He doesn't include father? 

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Look at verse 35, whoever does 
the will of God. 

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He is my brother and sister and 
mother. 

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This is a symbolic statement. 
but he omits, father And without

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reading too much into it, I 
believe it's because Jesus 

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relationship with the father is 
so unique so special so sacred. 

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That he would not even apply 
that title to somebody else. 

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Even if it was symbolic, And we 
can't get caught up here with 

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making a distinction between ol,
brother means this and sister 

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means that and and mother means 
that. 

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No, that's not what he's trying 
to do, what he's trying to say 

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is You all have access to being 
unique members in my family. 

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It's as simple as that. 
Ramifications, we can't even, we

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can't even touch the surface in 
one sitting. 

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The consequence of Jesus making 
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Sinners is worthy of a series of
messages. 

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But can I show you at least one 
idea of what this means to be 

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his brother, his sister, what it
means to be related to him with 

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this language, a family and a 
very familiar passage, but maybe

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you haven't seen it in this way.
Romans 8:29. 

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Romans 8:29. 
For Those whom. 

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He foreknew, he also predestined
to be conformed, to the image of

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his son in order that he might 
be the firstborn among many 

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brothers and they worry that one
more time. 

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For Those whom. 
He foreknew, he also predestined

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to be conformed, to the image of
his son in order that he might 

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be the firstborn among many 
brothers. 

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God has purposed and predestined
from eternity past that those 

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who had believed on his son's 
name. 

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Which so pay attention, which so
resemble. 

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And reflect his moral features 
that it would cause others. 

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To realize and confessed that 
there is a shared spiritual DNA.

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In the same way that some of 
you, many of us here, display 

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characteristics, physically that
give Clues to others that you 

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are the brother of, or you are 
the son of you look like your 

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mom, you have these features 
that just reflect your father. 

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God has predestined. 
God has prepared a work that 

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those who would be joined to 
Christ by faith. 

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Would communicate over time to 
other people? 

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You are related to Jesus. 
You must be related to Jesus. 

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Because you look like him, you 
sound like him, that is what God

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has predestined that in Christ. 
He is creating and conforming. 

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Sinners. 
Through Jesus Christ, having a 

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preeminent position of the 
firstborn following him. 

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This vast family, who by the 
spirits work would have others 

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look with angels hosts and say 
they are related. 

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It look like him. 
And this is what comforts me. 

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You look at Romans 8:28 and we 
know that for those who love 

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God, all things work together 
for good. 

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For those who are called 
according to his purpose. 

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Don't separate that from verse 
29. 

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For Those whom. 
He foreknew, he also 

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predestined. 
That's in connection to verse 

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28. 
Here's what I rejoice and I'm 

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looking at different people here
and you're wired differently and

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you have different callings and 
different giftings and you will 

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go into different places and 
maybe even move to different 

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locations. 
But there's one thing I know 

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about all of you who are in 
Christ and I'm not a prophet nor

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my son of a prophet. 
Here's what I know that no 

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00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:22,500
matter how or where God takes 
you, it is all for the purpose 

458
00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:25,600
of conforming. 
You To the image of his son. 

459
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:32,800
And God's Wonderful Plan. 
Is that through the first born? 

460
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,600
They would be more Brothers. 
That would resemble the first 

461
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:41,500
born. 
What an awesome plan, what an 

462
00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:47,500
overwhelming plan? 
That's how close got intends to 

463
00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:50,900
sanctify us. 
Do you understand that's how 

464
00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:54,700
near God wants to bring each of 
our characters? 

465
00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:02,000
So that as we stand for Christ 
and as we declare our allegiance

466
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:06,100
to Christ, it wouldn't be just 
through waving our adoption 

467
00:32:06,100 --> 00:32:09,800
papers which would be our 
confession of Faith. 

468
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:14,400
It's more powerful than that. 
Yes those adoption papers 

469
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,500
through the confession of our 
mouths. 

470
00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:20,800
Is a wonderful statement that we
belong to him, it is our 

471
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,500
confidence. 
But through this I see that 

472
00:32:23,500 --> 00:32:28,200
would also be the surfacing of 
Molarities to the one that we 

473
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,800
have submitted to that would 
cause people to say You must be 

474
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:38,200
related to Jesus. 
And that might discourage some 

475
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,500
people because you know that 
you've had better days and 

476
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:44,400
others, you had better stretches
of weeks where you saw even 

477
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,600
yourself God's doing a work in 
me. 

478
00:32:46,608 --> 00:32:50,900
He's changing me. 
But this idea of Brotherhood is 

479
00:32:50,900 --> 00:32:56,300
not just a practical Glory. 
There is a positional Security 

480
00:32:57,300 --> 00:33:00,400
in knowing that I am a sibling 
of Jesus. 

481
00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:06,000
Can I show that to you? 
I was rejoicing all night and 

482
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,000
even today about this verse in 
Hebrews 2. 

483
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:20,700
Hebrews 211. 
Let this verse comfort, you. 

484
00:33:21,900 --> 00:33:27,300
As a child of God, even when you
fail to submit and yield to the 

485
00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:31,000
promptings of the spirit, who is
the agent that is seeking to 

486
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:38,600
make you reflect as a brother, 
the firstborn Hebrews to 11 for,

487
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:44,400
He Who sanctifies and those who 
are Sanctified all have one 

488
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,500
source. 
That is why he is not ashamed to

489
00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:52,900
call them brothers. 
I almost don't need to explain 

490
00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:55,100
that. 
It's Rich, it's so rich in 

491
00:33:55,108 --> 00:33:57,800
itself. 
We can just let that sit on our 

492
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:03,500
hearts and let it melt into us. 
For He Who sanctifies that's 

493
00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:06,900
Christ and those who are 
Sanctified. 

494
00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:12,300
That's you all have one source, 
meaning all come from the same 

495
00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:16,300
place all belong to the same 
Association. 

496
00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:19,900
So to speak. 
God, the father and his family. 

497
00:34:22,699 --> 00:34:25,000
The sanctifier made that 
possible though. 

498
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:28,699
She don't don't kill don't 
confuse Jesus statement for 

499
00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:31,300
those who do the will of God. 
Yeah, they are my mother and my 

500
00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:34,100
brother and sisters. 
He's not trying to propagate 

501
00:34:34,100 --> 00:34:36,500
this idea. 
That it's through, Pious 

502
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:39,500
Excellence that you you win a 
seat at God's table. 

503
00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:46,199
Hebrew says, he who sanctifies, 
he Sanctified set apart, Sinners

504
00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:51,100
and imputed his Holiness unto 
them so that they would inherit 

505
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:56,300
that position of brother. 
And he did so to Such Great 

506
00:34:56,300 --> 00:35:00,100
Lengths that he comes into our 
world and becomes a man, so that

507
00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:04,300
he would take sinful man, and a 
lot of to become siblings of the

508
00:35:04,300 --> 00:35:13,200
Holy One. and this work was so 
true, so effective, so powerful,

509
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:18,700
so real, That Jesus looks at us 
even today and he says, I'm not 

510
00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:20,900
ashamed to call them my 
brother's. 

511
00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:22,800
You know why? 
That blesses me? 

512
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,800
Because I also read in 
Revelation that the accuser of 

513
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:31,300
the Brethren stands before God 
day and night, And he says, look

514
00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:32,700
at Daniel bitar. 
See. 

515
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,000
You're going to actually 
associate them as a child of 

516
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,400
God. 
Look at so-and-so. 

517
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,300
Look at so and so on. 
He he loves to bring up our 

518
00:35:44,300 --> 00:35:45,400
past. 
Is he not people? 

519
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,400
Always wonder how do I know 
what's this voice? 

520
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,800
What's that voice? 
Let me give you a hint, any 

521
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:53,400
voice in your head that brings 
up a sin that has been repented 

522
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:58,900
of is not of God that Satan He 
loves to bring that up and he 

523
00:35:58,900 --> 00:36:01,400
brings it up, not just to like, 
look how cruel he is. 

524
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:06,600
So he stands before God and he 
accuses you to God. 

525
00:36:07,500 --> 00:36:13,000
And then he comes to you. 
And he accuses God to you, he's 

526
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,300
not faithful, he's not good. 
He doesn't hear you. 

527
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,700
He doesn't love you. 
He's forgotten you then he goes 

528
00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:23,700
back to God, this person's not 
faithful, they're not good to 

529
00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:25,300
you. 
They only like we said the joke.

530
00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:27,300
They only just love you because 
of what you give them. 

531
00:36:27,500 --> 00:36:31,300
This is who we're dealing with. 
And you know what, I see as the 

532
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:35,900
enemy Deuces, does this day and 
I I see Jesus Christ. 

533
00:36:37,100 --> 00:36:40,500
Promising me that he will never 
change his mind about me. 

534
00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:45,200
I see my savior, your elder 
brother, and mine. 

535
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:50,000
Now only willing to endure such 
accusations but willing to even 

536
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,300
return praise and say I'm not 
ashamed to call them. 

537
00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:59,000
My brothers. 
And if that doesn't cause your 

538
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,900
heart to flutter, let me give 
you something else. 

539
00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:03,300
I will. 
Hopefully, hopefully jolt you 

540
00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:06,200
into Joy. 
You're in Hebrews 211, right? 

541
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:19,300
Go to Hebrews 11 verse 16. 
I don't know which I love more. 

542
00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:21,400
The sound of you singing or the 
sound of your Bibles turning 

543
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:25,400
like that. 
Hebrews 11 16. 

544
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:28,900
But as it is, they desire a 
better country. 

545
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,800
That is a Heavenly one. 
Therefore, God is not ashamed to

546
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,900
be called their God. 
For, he has prepared for them a 

547
00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:41,300
city. 
Hebrews 2. 11 tells me that my 

548
00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:46,100
sanctifier my high priest is not
ashamed to call me brother and 

549
00:37:46,100 --> 00:37:51,100
Hebrews 11. 16 tells me that my 
God is not ashamed for me to 

550
00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:56,000
call him my God. 
You see, Jesus assures us for 

551
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,600
those who are not ashamed of him
in this adulterous and perverse 

552
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,300
generation. 
He will not be ashamed of them 

553
00:38:01,300 --> 00:38:05,100
when he confesses us before the 
father and the Holy Angels, 

554
00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:09,000
that's why Hebrews 211 is so 
important when I stand before 

555
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,600
him. 
The atmosphere of absolute 

556
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:16,100
Holiness and all those creatures
in their thousands and millions 

557
00:38:16,300 --> 00:38:19,000
will have their blazing Gaze on 
me. 

558
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,900
I will have an elder brother 
that will stand before the 

559
00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:26,300
father and say, father, I am not
ashamed of him. 

560
00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:34,200
He is mine. and you couple that 
with Hebrews 11, So that you 

561
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,000
can. 
Be free from this notion that 

562
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,200
God is more reluctant. 
Or he is in some way, 

563
00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:47,900
disinclined to accept me or two 
number me as his own. 

564
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,400
No, my God is not ashamed to be 
my God. 

565
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:58,100
Back to Romans 8, he was the one
who predestined and sent the son

566
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:02,100
so that the son would be the 
first born through him. 

567
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,600
Many more brothers and sisters 
would come. 

568
00:39:05,100 --> 00:39:09,100
That's the father's plan. 
And so you have the son who is 

569
00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:11,300
not ashamed. 
And you have the father who is 

570
00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:14,800
not a shame. 
So then why are you? 

571
00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:22,400
So then how would we even Dare 
for a moment entertain, even a 

572
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:27,200
slight shade of embarrassment 
about the Lord Jesus Christ and 

573
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,400
our God. 
If there's anyone who should be 

574
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,200
ashamed in this whole thing, 
it's God. 

575
00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:36,900
With all our failings and all 
are inconsistencies. 

576
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,400
And all our lack of Courage. 
If there's anyone who should 

577
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:45,900
blush at being linked to us, 
it's him here we are. 

578
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,200
In a world that will 
increasingly become more hostile

579
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,600
about your faith. 
I charge you in the name of the 

580
00:39:52,607 --> 00:39:55,600
Lord, Jesus Christ. 
Don't be ashamed of the Gospel. 

581
00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:00,100
Paul could say, I am not ashamed
of the Gospel. 

582
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,400
Because he served the Christ 
that was not ashamed of him and 

583
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,600
a God who is not ashamed to be 
called his God. 

584
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:08,900
You know why? 
That is so important? 

585
00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:10,900
Let me give you a final verse on
a time together. 

586
00:40:12,700 --> 00:40:28,200
And First John 3. 1st John. 
I shared this first not too long

587
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,900
ago. 
At prayer. 

588
00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:40,300
First John 3, 20. 
For whenever our hearts condemn 

589
00:40:40,300 --> 00:40:43,400
us. 
God is greater than our heart. 

590
00:40:44,700 --> 00:40:49,000
And he knows everything for 
whenever our hearts condemn us. 

591
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:53,800
God is greater than our hearts. 
Do you know what that means? 

592
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:57,100
Your heart is susceptible to 
lying to you about your position

593
00:40:57,100 --> 00:41:01,100
in Christ. 
Our hearts are so vile. 

594
00:41:01,100 --> 00:41:05,700
And so Twisted that even after 
that experience of being saved 

595
00:41:05,700 --> 00:41:09,700
being born again, still willing 
to creep up and say you're not 

596
00:41:09,700 --> 00:41:11,400
really is. 
Look at you. 

597
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:13,900
So we have the devil to deal 
with. 

598
00:41:13,900 --> 00:41:17,600
Then we have this heart to deal 
with and at times it's willing 

599
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,200
to accuse us and here's what 
this verse is saying. 

600
00:41:21,500 --> 00:41:26,400
God's word, God's verdict. 
God's promise is more 

601
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,600
trustworthy than your heart. 
This is one of the most profound

602
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,500
verses and I give it to you so 
that you can use it for yourself

603
00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:36,100
and for others who are prone to 
listen to their feelings. 

604
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,900
This is one of those verses that
obliterates the idea of trusting

605
00:41:39,900 --> 00:41:44,500
your gut at times. 
Here's what my heart is telling 

606
00:41:44,500 --> 00:41:46,500
me. 
And the word says God is greater

607
00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:50,200
than that, no matter how strong 
that feeling is no matter. 

608
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,600
What kind of evidence might be 
mounting, though, contradicts 

609
00:41:53,600 --> 00:42:01,000
this word, understand that God 
is greater His court is higher. 

610
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,700
And you know what's even I'm so 
glad the Holy Spirit. 

611
00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:10,100
Put this last part in. 
And he knows everything. 

612
00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:14,200
He knows everything. 
You know what, the reason why 

613
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:18,300
many of our hearts condemn us is
because we know something about 

614
00:42:18,300 --> 00:42:21,900
us that others don't not your 
wife, not your husband, not your

615
00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:26,500
best friend, not your pastor and
so what tends to condemn us is 

616
00:42:26,500 --> 00:42:31,300
the most hidden thing about us 
so perverse, so dark. 

617
00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:36,900
So cruel. 
So in just and it haunts us it 

618
00:42:36,900 --> 00:42:40,800
torments us Torrance us to the 
point where we can't even 

619
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,600
fathom, how we would be 
forgiven. 

620
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:46,500
And here's what the holy spirit 
says through, John God is 

621
00:42:46,500 --> 00:42:48,400
greater than your heart because 
he already knows about it. 

622
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:53,100
All He has taken into 
consideration all even though 

623
00:42:53,100 --> 00:42:57,300
men may not know about it, God 
knows about it and he still does

624
00:42:57,300 --> 00:43:01,000
not hold it against you because 
of what Christ, he who 

625
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:07,300
sanctifies as done in you. 
The sun is not ashamed of me. 

626
00:43:07,300 --> 00:43:10,200
The father's not ashamed of me. 
How dare I be ashamed of him? 

627
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:13,600
Here. 
My brother's here. 

628
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,900
My sister's here. 
Am, I - you want to know how you

629
00:43:15,900 --> 00:43:17,300
can be part of the family of 
God. 

630
00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:23,000
You first submit to The 
Obedience of the one who made it

631
00:43:23,008 --> 00:43:27,700
possible. 
The reason why God can look at 

632
00:43:27,700 --> 00:43:30,400
us with such favors not because 
that you have won his favorites 

633
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:36,200
because somebody did it for you.
And it's such a deep transfer 

634
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:41,000
and impartation. 
That when God looks at you. 

635
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,200
He doesn't even choose to 
remember the things that need to

636
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,100
happen for this to take place in
your life. 

637
00:43:50,500 --> 00:43:56,400
Pure and clean, and holy. 
To such a degree that God can 

638
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:01,100
bring you to himself. 
And say my child, not just my 

639
00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:07,200
servant, not just my friend, not
just my disciple, my son, my 

640
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:12,200
daughter, You Belong To Me, 
repent, and believe, on the 

641
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:17,800
Lord, Jesus Christ, run to him 
who is giving out whatever it is

642
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:21,800
that is needed for you to 
secure, such a wonderful Grace 

643
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,400
and place before the Father. 
Oh, I invite you to come to him 

644
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,300
or I plead with you, not to how 
much more glorious can it be 

645
00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:35,000
than this if God were to D me a 
slave, I would still love him 

646
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,900
and worship him all the days of 
my life by his grace, but he 

647
00:44:38,900 --> 00:44:43,700
goes beyond slave, he goes 
beyond Bond servant, he goes 

648
00:44:43,700 --> 00:44:46,600
beyond ambassador. 
My son. 

649
00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:51,200
My son and that's available to 
you. 

650
00:44:52,300 --> 00:45:08,000
Lord, we thank you. 
Overwhelmed or overwhelmed, are 

651
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,600
we in your presence this 
afternoon? 

652
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,300
Thank you, Lord. 
That we are predestined. 

653
00:45:21,300 --> 00:45:29,100
To be like the first born. 
Thank you, Lord. 

654
00:45:29,100 --> 00:45:38,200
That you are not ashamed of us. 
Our words are limited today, but

655
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:43,300
our hearts are full. 
We just say, thank you. 

656
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:50,100
Thank you. 
For those who might be leaning 

657
00:45:50,100 --> 00:45:55,200
on a false security. because 
maybe of a certain Sacrament, 

658
00:45:55,200 --> 00:46:00,800
that they kept, or because they 
come from a certain ancestry or 

659
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:06,700
a certain culture But in fact 
standing outside because they've

660
00:46:06,700 --> 00:46:10,100
not truly obeyed what you've 
called us to do and that is to 

661
00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:15,300
believe on you and to repent, 
let this word touch their hearts

662
00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:19,500
and For Those whom you have 
given access to sit at your 

663
00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:23,000
feet, but their hearts are 
condemning them. 

664
00:46:24,900 --> 00:46:28,000
May they know that you are 
greater than our hearts your 

665
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,700
greater than our feelings, your 
greater than our arguments, your

666
00:46:31,700 --> 00:46:34,500
greater than whatever it is. 
That seems to keep us in that 

667
00:46:34,500 --> 00:46:41,800
place a fear. 
Help us Lord in this day to not 

668
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,700
be ashamed. 
To not be ashamed. 

669
00:46:44,700 --> 00:46:48,200
And when we feel tempted to be 
ashamed, to remember that there 

670
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,400
is a day where we will stand 
before an audience of angels. 

671
00:46:53,500 --> 00:46:57,600
And the Holy One. 
And you will stand by us and say

672
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:03,700
I'm not ashamed of him. 
We need this truth to be ever 

673
00:47:03,700 --> 00:47:07,800
more real to us. 
This increasingly evil World in 

674
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:09,600
Jesus name, we pray. 
Amen.