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After the Pharisees saw Jesus 
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embarrassed to Sadducees 
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they weren't finished. 
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the Pharisees and the Sadducees 
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Didn't believed in the 
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did not and there was a division
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this occasion as they come to 
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They team up. 
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Jesus. 
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about the resurrection to the 
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So the Pharisees send somebody 
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They sent a scribe, scribes were
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therefore, they knew the very 
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In fact, they had a reputation 
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be authorities in the Torah, or 
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five books of the law or as the 
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Those books of Moses and we're 
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Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers
and Deuteronomy they were 

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considered to be X experts. 
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Matthew chapter 22, the Bible 
says that this man was a lawyer.

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I read a number of Scholars that
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a lawyer because he was well 
known for his interpretations of

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the law JW McGarvey said this. 
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Like this would be suitable to 
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would be a man that was 
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Now, I don't know what you think
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lawyers, but lawyers in the days
of Israel were not the same kind

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of lawyers and attorneys that we
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Living under the law of Moses in
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matters. 
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state or We put a theocracy what
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fancy word for meeting this that
priest would rule in the name of

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God. 
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civil and religious put together
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case in this Theocratic state 
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would intervene with its laws. 
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combination of both secular and 
religious Affairs and it was 

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Guided by God's word now, 
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Therefore were one. 
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about this man picture this man,
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law. 
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guy though. 
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expert called him, a lawyer 
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It might be appropriate to view 
this man. 

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That approaches Jesus as half 
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Now, I have to say before we go 
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The questions that are asked of 
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We're questions that we're 
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on Jesus. 
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Jesus. 
You know, there were things 

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about Jesus, they absolutely 
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peace, bringing salvation to the
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In the last three years of his 
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There were two things that they 
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Number one is because he said, I
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That's number one, number two, 
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the Sabbath. 
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religious leaders, or juice 
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So the questions were all About 
eight. 

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But then the Scribe comes and it
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are not quite so difficult or 
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harsh. 
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coming with a friendly tone of 
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Now to appreciate the question 
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teacher which is the greatest 
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Now I think it's important to 
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this. 
Little bit of History here to 

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understand Judaism in the Lord's
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Among the Jews that were rabbis.
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was simply a scholar or a 
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In fact, there were times when 
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those passages. 
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you know why? 
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scholarly teacher. 
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under the law of Moses and they 
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debate. 
What is the greatest commandment

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of all? 
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with some kind of hierarchy. 
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of God are all the way down to 
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and they would do that. 
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here teacher, which is the great
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is rabbis devoted themselves as 
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hair-splitting legalism, And 
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What was the greatest? 
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Some think that each particular 
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severity of the penalty 
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For example, for example, the 
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interesting about the Sabbath 
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private Bible study. 
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talking about the Sabbath and 
Jesus the way Jesus handled the 

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Sabbath. 
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the Sabbath. 
He did anything, he wanted to do

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with his Seth, you know why? 
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Sabbath. 
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Sabbath. 
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Sabbath. 
So Jesus did whatever he wanted 

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on the Sabbath, but some of the 
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Wait a minute, their greatest 
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fasting tithing or even 
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They were more important now. 
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Matthew chapter 23. 
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going to address the debate and 
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God's laws are important. 
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mercy and Justice. 
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Matthew 23 and 23, he says to 
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Pharisees and he calls them 
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He said for you pay tithes of 
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cumin. 
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weightier Matters of the law. 
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of the law? 
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Justice, you neglected mercy and
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Now he wasn't saying you should 
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those. 
He said, you should have done it

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all. 
In fact, you have neglected, the

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weightier matters, what you 
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should have taken heed, the 
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Without leaving the others 
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So in the great debate among 
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what was the most important at 
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Matthew 23, it's all important. 
All of it is, you should have 

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kept it all Now. 
Is there a command that pleases 

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God? 
More than others. 

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Is there such a command you know
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answer that question with a yes 
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determines, whether it is a 
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limit obedience based upon a 
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And I'll just do them what's 
really required and nothing 

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else. 
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spiritual life. 
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It's called The God in the Box 
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In other words, it's called, 
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What do I really have to do? 
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says those words, what do I have
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Even the mindset is not right. 
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wants to ask what is required to
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something wrong with his 
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down to motive. 
However, if a person asks a 

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question, this question over, 
what's required for the purpose 

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of Understanding God's overall 
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better. 
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It is profitable and it is pure.
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Let's go back to the law of 
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Let's go back to the days of the
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The scribes, by the way have 
come up with 613 separate laws 

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of the 613. 248 were positive 
and 365 representing every day 

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of the year. 365 were - all 
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And by the way, under Jewish 
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codification of rabbinic 
tradition, there were far more 

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things, they came up with and 
God ever said, They came up with

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all manner of things. 
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talks about on the Sabbath you 
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Couldn't do any servile work on 
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You know what they did. 
The Jews came up with 39 other 

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things that you couldn't do 
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under the codification of 
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And one of which is you couldn't
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Jesus when he healed that man. 
He took a shot right at their 

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rabbinic tradition and he said, 
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All the And all manner of loss. 
Separate logs, all kinds of 

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things. 
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He said the 613 laws were 
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There are 613 separate 
individual letters in the Hebrew

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text in the decalogue, or the 
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So, they came up with 613 
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Let's go to Mark's account. 
Let's go to Mark's account and 

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chapter 12 and verse 29. 
Here Jesus is going to quote 

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something that's found in 
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4 and 5, you know, the Lord was 
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This was a great confession of 
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In fact, what I'm going to show 
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morning and every evening. 
And even today, I read this last

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week, Pious Jews even today. 
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Deuteronomy 6 4, & 5. 
They cite them self every day in

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the morning and also in the 
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Jesus going to answer the 
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preached, the sermon here and 
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He said this, he said hear o 
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The Lord is one. 
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this confession is called the 
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is they would cite these words 
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it is called the Shema. 
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here, another words in Hebrew 
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Oh Israel. 
Very important words to the 

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Jews. 
Now it was recited, you know, if

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they believed, they believed 
that if a Jew would recite the 

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Shema twice a day. 
It would be passport. 

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It was their literal passport 
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bosom is described in, Luke 16. 
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listen, this is our passport, 
they recited the twice a day. 

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Now, there's more. this Shima 
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Deuteronomy was one of four 
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they were put on small pieces of
parchment and placed in 

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phylacteries, Now you've heard 
you've heard us. 

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Talk about phylacteries know 
when Jesus was criticizing them 

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and condemning them. 
He said you broaden your 

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phylacteries and the purpose was
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What they would do is is really 
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I think they would take Parks 
mix a little parchments and they

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would write passages of 
scripture for different passages

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that was one. 
You know what they would do? 

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The men would take the 
parchments and a put it in a 

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Factory, a phylacteries a pouch,
John MacArthur said it's like a 

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little box and you know what 
they would do, they would bind 

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the Box on the left arm, the men
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you know, what else they would 
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They bind it on the forehead, 
they walk around like a bunch of

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box heads with it on their 
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And I want you to get this 
picture, please. 

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Jesus is speaking to Pharisees 
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No doubt stood before him with 
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They miss the whole point. 
Ever wonder why they did that? 

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You ever wonder why they did 
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Why did they bind those? 
Phylacteries, well, they did it 

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because of their literal 
interpretation of Deuteronomy 

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chapter 11 and verse 18, in 
Deuteronomy, 11 and 18. 

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The Bible says, therefore you 
shall lay up these words of mine

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in your heart and in your soul 
and what and bind them as a sign

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on your hand. 
Left arm time prayer for the man

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and they shall I'll be as 
frontlets frontlets between your

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eyes, put it on the forehead. 
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means? 
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to us, too. 
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Old Testament about raising, 
your children, talks about doing

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this, talk about binding, the 
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as frontlets between their eyes 
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You know what that means? 
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It simply means when you bind it
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gesture. 
Not literally what you're saying

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is what the word of God is 
saying is everything you do with

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your hands, your deed, your 
actions Have to be with 

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scriptures in mind. and 
everything that you see you view

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through the I've scripture when 
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That's what that means. 
You know, perception. 

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Is some people say, perception 
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That's not true. 
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it perception. 
Is your reality? 

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So what your perception is your 
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Everybody can have all manner of
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Right, your reality. 
So what do you got to do? 

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What do we have to do to have 
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We have to bind the word of God 
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let the word of God be as 
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make our decisions with the 
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Well, they understood the 
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They understood and they agreed 
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obviously. 
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the essence of the passage. 
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application of it. 
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No wonder why Jesus says about 
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it, why they know the law. 
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because they say and they do not
same as here. 

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They knew the passage probably 
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time probably standing there 
with eloquent speech, and all of

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that and masterfully, quote, the
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excuse me, and miss the whole 
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You know what the point was? 
They missed the essence of the 

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passage which was this. 
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Inner commitment to God is Not 
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tradition, under the Old Law. 
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tune, with its creator. 
Now, here's the answer to the 

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scribes. 
In verse 30 of Mark chapter 12, 

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here's the answer. 
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first commandment? 
And you shall love the Lord, 

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your God with all your heart, 
with all your soul, with all 

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your mind, with all your 
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This is the first commandment. 
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love, and I realize that 
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misunderstanding about love and 
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what you feel. 
This word love doesn't even mean

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that at all this word Love 
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will that is born, get this, not
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purpose. 
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you have for God is a choice. 
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on intelligence and purpose. 
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act of feeling. 
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free those side note, you know 
when people talk about falling 

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in love and they can't really 
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then one day they break up. 
I just fell out of love. 

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Ivan preached on that sermon 
about 15 years, but I'll tell 

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you. 
That's really crazy. 

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When you think about that 
following in falling out, just 

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do right in fell out. 
Do you know that love is a 

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choice? 
It always is a choice. 

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Person might have a feeling of 
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love. 
Real love that you need for the 

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rest of your life. 
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marriage, in your spiritual 
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That is an act of will And it's,
when I say I choose to love you 

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for the rest of my life. 
I choose that. 

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You say that to your spouse. 
You say that to your God, they 

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failed to understand the concept
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Jesus says, here's the command. 
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You got to love your God with 
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Now interesting, obviously, this
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An agape love. 
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agape. 
Love. 

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Can truly be described by the 
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Let's talk about what heart 
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the heart often and we should 
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This passage means this. 
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What is art? 
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stops his words and his deeds, 
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being. 
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physical, emotional, and 
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center of our personality. 
As Terry osberg talked about his

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heart. 
That's it, that's your 

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personality. 
That's what you are. 

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You've heard me say, you are 
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Sometimes it sounds harsh but 
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No doubt. 
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said, where your treasure is, 
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also be. 
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the heart. 
All right, the center of one 

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spirituality and Percy at 
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emotion for chance. it's the 
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Readiness to do anything that 
God requires That's what it 

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means to love God, with all your
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What About Your Soul? 
You know, the works sold their, 

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let's be said refers to the life
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Now, usually, in scripture, the 
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combination of spirit and body 
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So to love God with all One Soul
means this, we just sum it up 

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like this. 
It means this be ready to 

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sacrifice your life for God if 
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That's what that means. 
That's how you love God with all

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your soul. 
And I'm so thankful. 

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So, glad that Alan Bailey priest
it, right? 

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Not because I appreciate that 
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Revelation, 1 and 10, when Jesus
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death and I will give you a 
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It means not only it includes, 
but not only until your life is 

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over or all of your life until 
you die. 

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But it It actually means even if
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writing to people that were 
being persecuted, so harshly and

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badly. 
That some of them were going to 

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lose their life. 
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Jesus said you'd be faithful 
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you know what that is. 
That's loving God, with all your

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soul. 
You can do anything. if you have

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to, Your faithfulness requires 
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All right now, wait a minute 
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Try to put this together. 
My head, talk about the heart. 

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We know the heart's not feeling 
we know the heart has something 

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to do with your thinking your 
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So why is mind listed 
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What's mine mean? 
What does it mean with all of 

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your mind will remember this? 
The heart is the source of man's

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thoughts. 
The mind is not only the seat of

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intellectual life, but it's also
the seat of our disposition and 

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our attitude. don't you see they
go together because this your 

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attitude is the aroma of your 
heart which is your inner being 

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It is the aroma of your inner 
being they go together. 

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Have you ever stopped to 
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attitude is? 
I'm going to tell you something.

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Attitude is so important. 
Did you know this? 

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Now I'm going to tell you one of
the hardest things in the world,

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the beat is cancer. 
It's a tough one. 

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It's a tough one. 
And some people succumb to it 

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and do and don't make it. 
It's a hard hard battle, 

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fortunately, they've making 
great strides and people have 

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our beating it today. 
That's wonderful. 

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I'm very thankful. 
That I happen to be the 

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recipient of that good stuff. 
but I'ma tell you something, 

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when you talk about things in 
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know that your attitude even 
though you're taking the 

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medicine, even though you're 
praying to God and all the 

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things involved, it has been 
proven that a person with a 

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positive attitude has a far, 
better chance to beat that 

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terrible disease then if they 
have a rotten one, in other 

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words, if you got a rotten one, 
can cost you your life, can you 

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imagine having a rotten 
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What's that going to do? 
Ruin your spiritual life. 

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And the way you have to do and 
what you got to do, you got to 

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get rid of your rotten attitude,
I'm saying you as in general not

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talking about anybody in 
particular, you got to get rid 

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of your rotten spiritual 
attitude so you don't die 

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spiritually. 
Attitudes. 

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Everything you go. 
It is. 

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It's the mind again, it's a 
choice and it is a reflection of

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our inner being so. 
Partial dedication, folks is no 

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dedication at all. 
In these passages, we find this 

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that we are to love God with all
of our faculties strength. 

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By the way, is spiritual 
strength, not physical, 

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strength, spiritual strength. 
And incidentally, did you know 

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that the greatest act of 
strength? 

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Length is submission. 
I'm going to tell you, people 

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don't like to do this in the 
world. 

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They don't like to submit to 
anything. 

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They want to be strong on the 
outside and determine what 

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they're going to do and who 
they're going to obey and all 

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that. 
But I'ma tell you right now, the

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greatest act of strength is 
willful submission. 

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Now, that's every Christian to 
God, Your stuff to consider how 

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great and how strong are 
Christian. 

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Wives are When they have made 
the choice to willfully submit 

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to their husbands as an act of 
strength. 

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Pretty amazing. 
But that's every Christian to 

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folks. 
You know what the Lord is 

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saying? 
Here, you got to love God with 

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all your faculties, what are 
they? 

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Your heart, your soul your mind 
and your strength. 

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With all of that. 
Not partial dedication, Mark 12 

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and 30. 
This is the first commandment 

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Jesus sums up what he said. 
He sums up the answer. 

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To the question is that this is 
the first commandment. 

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But in response to describes 
question of what's the first or 

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the greatest Jesus. 
Now is going to add something. 

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I love this. 
Jesus is now going to add 

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something, he's going to preach 
another sermon, he's going to 

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bring it on down. 
It's going to make so much 

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sense. 
You've heard me say this before.

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It is true that some of the 
things that Jesus priests were 

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some of the most profound things
in all of the Bible and yet he 

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being the master, he could 
preach it in such a way that was

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so simple that even a child. 
Could understand. 

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You know, what Jesus says about.
Loving God, they got it. 

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Then he said this is the first 
commandment, they got it. 

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But you know what else? 
Now he's going to go to 

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Leviticus 19 and 18 and this is 
what he's going to say. 

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It's found in verse 31 of Mark 
12 and the second is like this, 

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you shall love your neighbor as 
your self. 

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Did you see that? 
You should love your neighbor. 

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As yourself, you know what that 
means? 

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That means you have to love 
yourself. 

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You know what that means? 
Hating yourself. 

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Is a sin? 
When you come into the world, 

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did you not know you've been 
given the quality of loving 

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yourself? 
And if I'm not telling the truth

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right here, then why did he say?
You got to love your neighbor as

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yourself. 
If it's alright to hate yourself

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and we know we can't hate I want
to add something else too. 

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I don't care who you are. 
I don't care who you are and I 

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don't care what your background 
is. 

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You've made mistakes. 
And so have I, and sometimes our

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mistakes shame us. 
Okay. 

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Okay. 
Make it right? 

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And be forgiven. 
Okay. 

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If God can forgive you like it 
never happened. 

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Why can't we forgive our self? 
We don't hate ourselves, folks. 

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We love ourself. 
That is scriptural. 

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In fact, Jesus says In this 
passage in this commandment from

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Leviticus, Jesus is saying that 
the standard in which you 

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measure love for your neighbor 
is the same one that's on par 

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with loving yourself. 
Again, if you can hate yourself,

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you can hate your neighbor. 
Can't do it. 

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Now. 
Here's kind of the problem, 

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though. 
You might wonder what who is my 

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neighbor. 
You never went Jesus. 

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Dealt with the lawyer one time. 
I'm not going to go very deep 

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into this, but really quickly. 
He dealt with the lawyer one 

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time. 
And Jesus tells the lawyer that 

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there was a man that fell among 
Thieves on the Jericho Road. 

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We know the whole thing fast 
forward, a priest went by and 

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passed on the other side. 
A worshiper of God. 

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He did nothing a levite, a 
worker in the temple. 

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You know what? 
He did, he come over, took a 

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look and then he passed by on 
the other side. 

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But then there was a man. 
And he didn't know this man at 

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all. 
He was a Samaritan. 

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And the Jews looked down upon 
the Samaritans, the combination 

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of a Jew and a gentile. 
They hated their guts. 

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He comes on the scene. 
He sees this man, he fixes his 

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wounds. 
He puts him on his Beast, he 

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takes him to the end. 
He tells the head of the end 

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there. 
He tells the man here, here's 

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money, right here, out of my 
pouch, and if it's not enough to

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cover his expenses while he 
recovers and recuperates, when I

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come back, I'll pay it Jesus 
turns to the lawyer much like 

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this guy right here, he turns to
the lawyer and he said, let me 

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00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:57,700
ask you this because the man had
said, well, who's my neighbor 

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Again, God In The Box. 
Give me the bare minimum. 

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I'm going to love him and I 
don't have to love him, so if I 

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don't have to love him, I'm not.
Jesus says, let me ask you this,

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which one was neighborly to the 
man. 

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And the lawyer said, the one 
that showed him Mercy. 

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The definition of neighbor in 
the dictionary. 

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You don't. 
It is a night dweller. 

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Meaning you live next to 
somebody by live next to Terry. 

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Terry is my neighbor. 
It's not the word neighbor here,

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folks. 
The word neighbor here is 

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referring to anybody. 
Anybody who providentially is 

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brought your way. 
And we have to treat them with 

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love as we love our self. 
Now upon reflection one. 

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Observes this McMillan said, 
this one observes that the first

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commandment, in fact, includes 
the second because you can't 

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love God without loving your 
fellow. 

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Man, they go hand in hand. 
In fact, these two passages, 

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that Jesus quotes are actually 
the essence of the two tables of

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the decalogue, or the 10 
commandments for Ample. 

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The first four Commandments 
regulate man's relationship to 

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God. 
In fact, there are practical 

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summary of what it means to love
God. 

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That's the first four 
Commandments the last six of the

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Ten Commandments regulates man's
relationship to his fellow man. 

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In other words, a practical 
summary of what it means to love

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your neighbor. 
Jesus adds this he said, here's 

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your answer. 
Here's the first commandment. 

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Here's the great. 
Commandment in the law. 

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00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:41,000
I'm going to add this though. 
Got to love your neighbor as 

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yourself. 
Ourselves, you know why they go 

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00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:44,600
hand-in-hand. 
You know why they're both the 

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00:31:44,608 --> 00:31:47,400
same. 
One. 

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Includes the other. 
In fact Jesus said this. 

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There is no other commandment 
greater than these. 

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Mark chapter 12. 32 and 33. 
Here's the response. 

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00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:13,500
I'm almost finished. 
So the scribes said to him well 

514
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:17,300
said teacher. 
You have spoken, the truth for 

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there is one God and there is no
other. 

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But he, and to love him with all
the heart, with all the 

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understanding, with all the 
soul, with all the strength and 

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to love ones neighbor, as 
oneself is more than all the 

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whole burnt offerings and 
sacrifices. 

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Now, you know what Jesus said 
after this, he said in Mark 12 

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and 34, Jesus saw that he 
answered wisely. 

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00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:51,500
Hey. now, the word wisely means 
sensibly, or in intelligently 

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00:32:52,700 --> 00:32:57,800
when Jesus saw that, the man 
answered intelligently In that 

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00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:02,400
response to Jesus. 
He was showing spiritual insight

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00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:07,500
and intelligence by seeing that 
moral responsibilities were far 

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more important than ceremonial 
observances of the Old Law. 

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Again, remember that? 
Remember the weightier matters? 

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00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,800
They neglected, the weightier 
matters. 

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They did all home and they did 
all kinds of stuff neglected. 

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The weightier matters. 
And Jesus says this. 

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He says to this man. 
You are not far from the kingdom

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00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:35,300
of God. 
Remember in a theocracy, by the 

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00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:37,600
way, which is a system of 
government, where priests ruled 

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00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:41,900
the name of God, under the, 
under the Old Law, in this 

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00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:45,900
theocracy people that were 
described as being far off. 

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00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:50,100
They were either exiled Jews 
according to Isaiah 57, or they 

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00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:54,200
were Gentiles. 
So you could be in proximity, 

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00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,900
you can be distant from the 
kingdom, I guess you could say 

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00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,800
and it would be described in 
miles or ceremonial stuff. 

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Observances. 
But not the New Kingdom. 

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Don't you see the new kingdom is
all about and the distance is 

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00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,000
not measured by Miles, its 
measured by your spiritual 

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00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,900
condition. 
Jesus says that in this manner, 

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00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:26,300
this man answered wisely, 
intellectually intelligently. 

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00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,600
And Jesus says, you're not that 
far away. 

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You're not that far away. in 
other words, intellectual you're

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qualified or almost qualified 
for admission to the kingdom and

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00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:46,199
then in verse 34 At the end of 
the verse but after that no one 

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dared, question him. 
Remember the question seems as I

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mentioned a little bit ago, the 
question of the Scribe, seems 

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00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:57,400
kind of friendly. 
But listen, there's no 

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friendliness going on here at 
all. 

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None at all, you know, when 
Jesus came into Jerusalem, all 

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00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:06,300
those, the hated Jesus. 
Remember how many people their 

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00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:10,800
loved Jesus, at least of, as of,
then the multitudes and them and

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00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,100
all of that, that would turn on 
Jesus later. 

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00:35:14,300 --> 00:35:17,100
They love Jesus. 
So you know what, the religious 

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00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:21,000
leaders said we got to do, we've
got to try to turn the people 

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00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:23,400
against Jesus because we want to
kill it. 

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00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,400
So it sounds as though it's kind
of nice polite friendly 

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00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,200
questioning from The Scribe but 
none of it was friendly, it was 

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00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,700
captious. 
It was hostile with the 

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00:35:35,700 --> 00:35:39,200
intention of into snaring. 
Jesus to destroy his credibility

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00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,200
with the multitudes. 
And after Jesus masterfully 

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00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,500
answers everyone at all 
backfired. 

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He answered the Pharisees, he 
answered the herodians, he 

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answered the Sadducees and now 
just straightened out the 

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Scribe. 
And the Bible says this. 

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Oh, after all. 
That they didn't estimate other 

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thing. 
Have you ever heard the phrase? 

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00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:06,600
Or the term, or this little rule
of thumb? 

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00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,300
When a lawyer in a court of law?
I've heard this, my whole life, 

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a lawyer is never supposed to 
ask a question that he doesn't 

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00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,800
already know the answer. 
So if you are, you got somebody 

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00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,400
on the stand, you ask him a 
question. 

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You know, what to look foolish? 
And prove, the other guys case. 

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So you better know what the 
answer is. 

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Can you imagine how it was with 
Jesus? 

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You got the Pharisees, you got 
the herodians, you get the 

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Sadducees, you got the scribes. 
You got a man? 

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00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:34,500
That was a lawyer. 
They think they got him dead to 

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00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:36,800
rights. 
He answers every one of them and

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00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,500
you know what happened? 
They said oh we're going to 

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00:36:38,500 --> 00:36:39,500
know. 
That's another thing. 

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00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:44,700
We just took a weapon, we better
not ask him one more thing. 

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But in closing, the Lord's not 
done. 

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00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:55,200
He answered the question and 
then now he's going to ask a 

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00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,100
question. 
He says to them. 

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00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:01,000
He says what do you think of 
Christ? 

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00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:09,200
He said whose son is he? 
You know, they said, oh, he's 

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00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,800
the son of David. 
You know, the son of David was a

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00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,500
time for the Messiah, the Jews 
believed in the Messiah, they 

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00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:17,000
just rejected the one that they 
got. 

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00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,600
They rejected the one that they 
got, they knew about the word 

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00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,700
Christ. 
The Christ, they knew about the 

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00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:25,100
word Messiah, they knew all 
about that. 

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00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,100
They knew about son of David. 
They knew what that represented,

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00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:32,900
they just recognized, or didn't 
recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 

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00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,600
Jesus asked him this? 
What do you think of Christ? 

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00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:38,500
Whose son? 
Is he? 

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00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:40,100
And they said, oh, he's the son 
of David. 

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00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:44,600
And then Jesus said this, how 
could David being in spirit, 

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00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:49,800
meaning, dead, Call his son, 
Lord. 

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00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:53,100
Can't you just see him stand 
there? 

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00:37:53,100 --> 00:37:57,100
Like penguins is staring? 
Saying nothing. 

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00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:00,800
It says they couldn't even 
answer. 

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00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,300
Jesus kind of got a little shot 
in there. 

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00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:12,000
Dan. 
This is what happened on this 

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00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,100
Tuesday in the day of questions.
Now, the questions are over 

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00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:17,800
with, but I'll tell you what. 
The Lord is not done. 

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00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,300
Oh, there's a sermon coming. 
There is a sermon coming. 

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00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,300
And he's going to rebuke them 
and I'll tell you, you could 

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00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:30,100
just see the Hostile Mobs 
turning on him little by little 

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00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:33,200
little by little, as we press 
toward Friday. 

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00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,300
And remember this Tuesday, 
there's more written and 

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described and put down and 
recorded on Tuesday than any 

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00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:42,800
other day except for Friday in 
the last week in the life of 

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Jesus. 
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