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Let's stand for the reading of 
God's word where in Matthew 

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chapter 6, the first few verses 
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We were in last week where Jesus
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begin speaking about motives of 
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And in this case, he highlights 
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Life Giving prayer and fasting. 
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look specifically at what he 
says about giving then we're 

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Going to spend several weeks, 
starting next Sunday, on the 

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Lord's Prayer, which is what 
follows, and then, we'll look to

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what he says about fasting but 
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right before, Thanksgiving, 
that's great timing. 

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All right, Matthew 6, this is 
the Lord's sermon, The Sermon on

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the Mount. 
I'll begin in verse 1 of Matthew

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6, and read through verse 4, 
beware of practicing your 

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righteousness before other 
people in order to be seen by 

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them for. 
Then you will have no reward 

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from your father who is in 
heaven. 

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Thus when you give to the needy 
sound, no trumpet before you as 

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the Hypocrites, do in the 
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that they may be praised by 
others. 

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Truly, I say to you, they have 
received their reward but when 

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you give to the needy, do not 
let your left hand know, what 

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your right hand is doing so that
your giving may be in secret and

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your father who sees in secret 
will reward you, this is the 

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word of the Lord. 
Thanks be to God, please be 

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seated. 
This morning in the time we have

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I would like to answer one 
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And the question is, how do we 
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desire in all of us to be 
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We all have it and if you don't 
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You do we all do. 
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ways with so many layers. 
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How do we to use that old word 
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This part of our flesh? 
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In Christ. 
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actually can receive compliments
which aren't wrong and not feel 

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pride in a way that elevates 
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do it. 
I'll get there in a moment. 

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We're going to focus 
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illustration, Jesus uses of 
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about tithing We had a long 
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year on giving. 
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about giving I think would be 
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This is about motivations of the
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prayer and fasting as an 
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And it certainly is applicable 
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So, the first thing I want to 
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a person who knows the Lord 
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debatable as those who know, 
Christ, the call in our life to 

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see those in need and respond 
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And benevolence is a Given In 
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If you look at verse 22, Jesus 
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needy and the word here is alms,
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talking about it, seeing in need
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the need specifically is of the 
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So Jesus says, thus when you 
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So giving is a given and that's 
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this morning because the focus 
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on the heart of the person who 
is giving in simply put in these

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few verses, Jesus shows us, 
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those who are in need. 
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And what's underneath all of 
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the Pharisees, the Hypocrites, 
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mentions here desire to be 
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So what's the wrong way? 
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Look at the Text look with me 
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Thus, when you give to the needy
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Before you as the Hypocrites, do
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streets that they may be praised
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This was their motivation. 
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They're deep heart's. 
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What every time we see sin in 
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loved one, or in the word people
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to be looking at what's the sin 
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The said it's easy to say, the 
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leaders. 
Got it wrong by wanting to be 

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praised by them. 
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praised by man? 
We're going to get there in a 

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minute, but Jesus clearly 
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give to those who are in need he
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give to the needy giving as a 
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you as the Hypocrites, do in the
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that they may be praised by 
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So what's the wrong way of 
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Making an announcement. when 
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desired something more than the 
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Need what was really taking 
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was given by actors craving the 
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An announcement was given by 
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thirsting for the Applause of 
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Why do I use the word actors? 
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Hypocrites do in the synagogues 
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was an actor. 
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would then put on a mask or some
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To deteriorate how they looked 
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So they moved into a place on 
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someone. 
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thing was happening with the 
religious leaders, they were 

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putting on the impression that 
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the appearance that they 
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They treasured the righteous 
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connected to the word righteous.
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but they didn't what they 
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man. 
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greater in your life than the 
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bring God. 
Praise You're a hypocrite. 

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The Apocrypha? 
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by those who wanted so much the 
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they were generous that they 
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So Jesus says, don't blow the 
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Don't make an announcement, 
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you're doing, so that you may be
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Those who do that are 
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They're actors, they give the 
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This, but their heart is far 
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He would say that later. 
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it? 
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He says, thus when you give to 
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before you as the Hypocrites, do
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streets that they may be praised
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Truly, I say to you, they have 
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I spoke about this. 
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I'm not going to spend much time
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when you give to the needy 
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Believers are generous. 
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when you give to the needy, do 
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what your right hand is doing so
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secret and your father who sees 
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Now, Jesus is clearly using 
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It is impossible for us to not 
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So, what's his point? 
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is this the Hypocrites long to 
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announcement with trumpets 
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their acts of righteousness and 
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They were making much of self, 
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That's the wrong way. 
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He uses his hyperbole to 
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the Hypocrites. 
Did, don't make an announcement 

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to others that you're giving the
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even make an announcement to 
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Don't let your left hand, know 
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your right hand, know what your 
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Don't announce it even to 
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Well, that's not possible. 
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understand what Jesus is getting
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We are so tempted to seek 
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Applause. 
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free in me to give what you're 
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But don't seek the Applause. 
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yourself. 
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You've been giving a long time 
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you to not have your name in 
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You like, you don't want that if
I give you shock that other 

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people do. 
So, does that mean you're free 

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from? 
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is that you would be tempted to 
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who want their name in print, 
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building or East on a brick, the
layers go deep because our enemy

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wants all of us, never to make 
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of self. 
It's not wrong to receive a 

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compliment. 
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someone after you see something,
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glory and say I have is 
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The Apostle Paul Come ins people
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is wrong is to live for that 
Applause. 

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It's wrong to Crave that 
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Don't let your right hand and 
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doing is really helpful because 
for all of us, when we receive 

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something like an affirmation, 
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to be like, no, no, no. 
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But the other end saying, give 
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ourselves on the back. 
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So much. 
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impossible. 
All the various ways I mentioned

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last Sunday at how we seek to 
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is overwhelming. 
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you last week, really were so 
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had the same almost defeated 
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get over this. 
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Well, the battle will never end.
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I mean you'll be tempted to 
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very end, like what you want 
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service or what you want. 
Put on your Tombstone, whatever 

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it is. 
But Victory really is ours in 

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Christ. 
There is a way this side of 

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Heaven in Christ in the power of
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this to actually be in a place 
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I mean, this is not hyperbole, 
there's only one way, there's no

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other way. 
The only way to not make Much of

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self. 
The only way to not announce 

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things that you're doing 
spiritually in order to be seen 

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and praised and applauded by 
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And that is to make much of God,
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Holy Spirit, always the only way
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To mortify, the flesh that wants
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Make much of self is to make 
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Holy Spirit. 
You hear that you're like well 

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of course, Of course. 
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but it doesn't work. 
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The issue isn't whether it works
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Or whether you experiencing it 
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It's that when we fail to make 
much of God, which is all the 

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time, it's making much of self 
which rises in and fills that 

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space But what's the sin 
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If we know it's wrong to blow 
the trumpet or if we know it's 

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wrong demon Bullock quiet 
trumpet in our closet or maybe 

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we're not announcing what we're 
doing but we're announcing it to

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self feeling pretty good about 
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How do we do this? 
How do we make much of God? 

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I want you to think turn in your
good, turn in a Bible, grab the 

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blue and in front of you and 
just for a few minutes, I want 

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to go to John 4. 
This is the story of the woman 

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at the well, it's a well-known 
Bible story. 

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It's about a woman who's going 
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What I want you to picture for a
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scene is that Jesus is fully 
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What we said about him with our 
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1 earlier in the service is all 
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It's also fully man he's hungry 
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He finds himself placed by a. 
Well, there's a well that has 

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historical significance and his 
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They've gone into town, they're 
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When a Woman by herself because 
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reputation by herself, she comes
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Jesus asked her for a drink, and
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takes place, I want to pick it 
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In verse 13, John 4:13, Jesus 
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of this water, speaking of the 
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everyone, who drinks of this 
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whoever drinks of the water that
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thirsty again, the water that I 
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him, a spring of water, welling 
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This woman doesn't understand. 
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responds in verse 15, the woman 
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water so that I will not be 
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fully man needs. 
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her that she has no idea how he 
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We knows, because he's God. 
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There's nothing he can learn 
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Jesus says to her go, call your 
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I wonder how long it was before 
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It might have been instantly, it
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But she says to him verse 17, I 
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Jesus said to her, you were 
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husband for you. 
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one you now have is not your 
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What you have said, is true. 
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perceive that you are a prophet,
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mountain, but you say that in 
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people ought to worship. 
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me the hour is coming. 
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nor in Jerusalem, will you 
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You were. 
Worship. 

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What you do. 
Not know we worship. 

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What we know for salvation is 
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coming. 
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worshipers will worship the 
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the father, is seeking such 
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lose this. 
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become one, who's going to 
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This, providential collision 
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Jesus in this woman, who's had 
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About to bring Salvation and 
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God in spirit and those who 
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spirit and Truth. 
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that Messiah is coming, he who 
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When he comes, he will tell us 
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Jesus said to her, I who speak 
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in. 
I who speak to you who just said

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you are right and claiming you 
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five. 
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not your husband, I who speak to
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don't want you to miss. 
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of yourself in prayer or in 
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who's in, you the very one 
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same man who was speaking to 
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How do we stop making much of 
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The Living God says, to this 
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he and he's the same God that 
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and spirit. 
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it says to the woman left her 
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town and said to his people. 
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She left her water jar. 
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There's something more important
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Then the water I would came for.
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living water water that, if I 
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again. 
I need people to know, so the 

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woman left, her water jar went 
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to the people come see a man who
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Can this be the Christ? 
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they were coming to him. 
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conversation with Jesus, then. 
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verse 39. 
Here's what happened. 

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This collision between this 
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The father seeking people who 
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Truth takes place. 
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many Samaritans from that town 
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woman's testimony, he told me 
all that I ever did, so when the

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Samaritans came to him, they 
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he stayed there, two days and 
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his word they said to the woman,
it is no longer because of what 

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you said that we Believe, for we
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And we know that this indeed is 
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same man that stayed with them 
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The same man that continue to 
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the living water is the same 
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We give to the poor for in his 
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It's the same one. 
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tempted to have other people 
think we pray deep and eloquent 

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prayers He it's the same saying,
same God. 

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Now what I'm about to tell you 
next is not in the Bible. 

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This is not what happened, but 
imagine is days and weeks went 

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on. 
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and Samaria. 
And people said, this is the 

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woman that met Jesus, at the 
well, who's he told her 

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everything she ever did. 
Imagine over time that woman 

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begin to say, well yes, it's 
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He did all those things but, but
don't forget about me. 

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I was the one who actually came 
to the well because I was 

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thirsty and I was getting 
Waterfront. 

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Don't forget about me. 
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don't forget about me, I have a 
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It's pretty. 
Sensuous, it's one of those 

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testimonies that really sizzles.
I wasn't just somebody that kind

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of grew up in the church. 
I have had five husbands and the

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man I was with when I met him 
wasn't even my husband, so don't

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forget about me. 
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Because I don't think that's 
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But when we are tempted, To blow
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Or to toot our own horn in the 
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Closet applauding, ourselves are
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That's how ridiculous it is. 
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ourselves to be praised by 
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And I do it all the time. 
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Would it ends to the 11:00 
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When it begins? 
The reason I have to confess 

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with you at 11:00? 
What? 

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I just confessed at 9:30 is 
because there's been enough 

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minutes in between but the same 
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And by the way, this is one of 
the most powerful public 

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confession of sins we've ever 
had and I don't know who wrote 

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it. 
It wasn't me. 

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But I'll confess it again later 
today and tomorrow and some of 

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you might say, then where's the 
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The victory is in the fact that 
when I'm convicted by the Holy 

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Spirit, the Living God, I know 
that the only way out of this 

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race. 
Is to make much of him. 

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It is not to bend. 
My will towards self and say 

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stop doing those things. 
It's actually to have my eyes 

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fixed on something that is so 
much greater so much more, 

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beautiful, who paid all that was
necessary for me to have 

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salvation. 
So that when I want somebody to 

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know that I'm giving a large 
tip, or I'm showing up with 

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money to give a group of hair 
stylists to Lost. 

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Money and covid and we're going 
to care for him as a church. 

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And I'm tempted to say, next 
time I come in I hope they know 

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it was me I think about the one 
who said, I gave my son. 

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And he never sinned. 
And he took all of your sin. 

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And all of his children sin and 
he died and suddenly that little

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voice and it really is little 
that saying, praise me. 

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I'm great. 
Our praise me because I'm not 

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that great. 
Is silenced. 

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Because something far more 
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far, more sacrificial. 
Something that's eternal. 

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Causes that to dissipate it 
really is the great Christian, 

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hymn lived out. 
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus. when 

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you're about to give, And you're
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Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus. 
When you're about to give a 

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quote, that makes you sound 
smarter than most Christians. 

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And for some reason that makes 
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Or if you despise people like 
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So you don't quote, anybody and 
you make makes you feel more 

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humble. 
Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus. 

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And look full in his wonderful 
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And here's what happens. 
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Including the praise of, man. 
You're a great mom. 

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You're a great dad. 
You're so generous? 

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and the things of Earth, 
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the things of Earth will grow 
strangely dim in the light of 

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his glory and grace. 
It's the only way. 

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There's no other way. 
The only way to kill to mortify 

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the part of us that says make 
much of me is to make much of 

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God, the Father Son and Holy 
Spirit. 

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Let me in with this. 
Ten times in Matthew 6, 12 18, 

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including twice in the verses we
looked at today Jesus says 

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something that wasn't said, very
often not said very often in the

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Old Testament. but said, 10 
times in these 18 verses that 

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deal with giving prayer and 
fasting 10 times he says Your 

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father in Heaven. 
What was the sin underneath the 

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sin that led these religious 
leaders to want the praise of 

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man? 
They didn't see God as father. 

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They saw God. 
As a slave master. 

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A militant tyrant. 
Who demanded perfection? 

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And so they lived a life of deep
insecurity That Was Then 

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motivated by other people giving
evidence that they're living a 

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righteous life. 
That's what motivated them 10 

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times. 
Jesus is going to present to his

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audience. 
The father. 

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Abba. 
Ten times. 

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He's going to make much of his 
daddy. 

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Ten times he's going to urge the
listeners to see God for who he 

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is. 
So how do we died is that self? 

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How do we modify that flesh? 
Make much of what the word of 

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God says about your heavenly 
father? 

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About his son Jesus and about 
the Holy Spirit who lives in 

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you. 
And as you do that, that voice 

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that says blow the horn. 
Make the announcement. 

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Let people know what you did or 
let people know what you didn't 

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do cuz that's a little horn. 
Make much of the father. 

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Make much of the Sun make much 
of the Holy Spirit. 

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And when you do watch The desire
for men's, praise to dissipate. 

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Make much of God. 
Or Jesus. 

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I'm so thankful that I'm in a 
church. 

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That wants to hear the word 
proclaimed. 

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I'm so grateful that I can stand
in this pulpit and admit how 

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hard the battle is. but to also 
celebrate that it's in the 

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bottle were used so graciously 
show us that your mercies more 

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You can actually help us to 
laugh at ourselves to take 

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ourselves less seriously. 
To see the foolishness. 

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Of how we could never be 
satisfied by enough. 

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Praise of man. 
And we don't need it. 

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We have you. 
The Living Water. 

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Make us secure in you and 
satisfied in, you? 

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God, please. 
Have mercy. 

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Become much, much greater. 
In all of our Lives. 

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We pray in Jesus name. 
Amen. 

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It's Dan.