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It's good to see everybody that 
came out this evening. 

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Thank you for your presents and 
spend a few minutes tonight. 

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Studying God's word. 
Please open your Bibles to the 

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first chapter of Matthew, will 
be kind of touching some on some

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verses in Matthew chapter 1 and 
Matthew Chapter 2, and 

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referencing some passages from 
the Old Testament, as well. 

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For the next few minutes to just
a very simple aim that I have. 

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And that is to show Jesus and 
God's word in a way that by the 

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time we're finished here, that 
were more encouraged that were 

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more enlightened and more more 
have more faith in Jesus, and 

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what he is, and what he does for
us. 

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And for those who, you know, may
be young and still fully 

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grasping the whole concept of 
the gospel. 

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And also, for those who have 
been in the church for a long 

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time, 50, 60 years, whatever, 
maybe hope that we just have a 

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new Fresh Vibrance of Jesus and 
who he is and what he has done 

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for us. 
So, I wanted to, I wanted to 

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touch bases on how Jesus Changes
Everything. 

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Everything Changes Things in our
life changes things, in 

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perspective, that, that a lot of
people in the gun in the world. 

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Don't know. 
And we're going to start, of 

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course in the Book of Matthew in
verse 1. 

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And it says there, Matthew 
chapter 1 verse 1. 

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It says the book of the 
genealogy of Jesus Christ, the 

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son of David, the son of 
Abraham, I'm going to stop right

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there. 
We're going to notice eight 

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points on how Jesus changes 
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And the number one way that that
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Jesus redefine. 
Ends history. 

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You know, the first book of the 
New Testament starts with 

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genealogy that is really not 
very pleasant to read sometimes 

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and it's just redundant when we 
get into the genealogies and we 

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want to skip over it but there's
a strong significance. 

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Why it's in there and there's 
reasons why every single passage

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in the Bible is in there and 
from from the start of the Book 

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of Matthew, which Matthew was a 
disciple of Jesus, It's showing 

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that all the history is pointing
to Jesus. 

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Everything in the Old Testament,
Matthew calls that the book, the

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book that he wrote the book of 
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Now, of course, if there's any 
confusion we know that Christ is

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not a last name. 
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anointed one. 
The Messiah, the promised one 

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ever since the entrance of sin 
into the world, in the beginning

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of the Bible, God promised the 
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Messiah. 
I'll Messiah or one who would 

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defeat sin and deliver people 
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So in Genesis 3 and 15, we 
remember that were right after 

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sin entered into the world. 
God said to the serpent, which 

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was the tempter. 
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between you and the woman and 
between your Offspring and her 

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Offspring and then it talks 
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woman and said, is he shall 
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bruise his heel. 
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beginning of the Bible, there 
was there was an immediate 

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prophecy of Jesus and he would 
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would come to from The Offspring
of a woman and would bruise. 

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It, he would bruise The tempters
Head, and some translations say 

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he will crush your head. 
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Matthew says, That basically the
snake Crusher has come Jesus is 

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here. 
This is what all the Old 

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Testament has been pointing to. 
Jesus is The Offspring of from 

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the woman and he has come to 
conquer sin and Satan and the 

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rest of the chapter will tell us
the miraculous story of how 

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Jesus would be born, uniquely 
from The Offspring of woman and 

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not a man, not from Adam, the 
first man who was, of course 

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succumb to sin. 
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about, he would not be like us, 
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would save us from sin. 
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looking still at the first verse
in Matthew, it says, the book of

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the genealogy of Jesus Christ. 
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Offspring from David, who can't 
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forever. 
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2nd, Samuel 7. 
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build a temple for God, but God 
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is going to build that temple in
that passage God, promised David

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that his offspring would 
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Then one from his line would 
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It says, when your days are 
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father's I will set up your seed
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your body and I will establish 
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He shall build a house for my 
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Throne of his kingdom forever. 
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referencing Solomon in this but 
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Christ as well towards Jesus. 
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will establish a throne forever.
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16th verse of second Samuel 7, 
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kingdom shall be established 
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Before you, your throne shall be
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We read in the in, in the 
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over and over again, the promise
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Also, in Isaiah 9:6 through 7 
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Who would come to sit on the 
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David who would who would bring 
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righteousness into the Earth and
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through 25 tells about a davidic
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Covenant for all nations and we 
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and passages and passages of 
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Spent that reference at the 
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Testament? 
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looking for a different King. 
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the line of David and what 
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the King has come Jesus is here.
This is the one that you guys 

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have been looking for. 
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It says they're you know as we 
read these names it's not 

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actually a comprehensive 
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read. 
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family tree is included. 
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that have been skipped. 
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Why did Matthew decide to skip 
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We read in in, in the 17 verse 
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generations from Abraham to 
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from David until the Captivity 
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generations and from the 
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Christ are fourteen Generations.
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three times in this one verse. 
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why why would he specifically 
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And I kind of started doing some
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And this, this is just 
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It may or may not make any sense
to anybody, but it goes all the 

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way back to the Hebrew name of 
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Going back to a little bit of 
Hebrew information in the Hebrew

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language. 
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Gematria in. 
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had specific numbers identified 
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Alphabet, for example, like we 
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the, this is the Hebrew 
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each letter, They came up with a
number that was identified to 

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each letter of the alphabet. 
So example, you would have a 

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number of soy sauce associated 
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is the Hebrew name of David? 
Is this here? 

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And then you add these numbers 
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number comes out to 14, For 
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I think Matthew may may, if we 
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putting the stamp that this is 
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here. 
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interesting to me. 
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is the son of David and he's 
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So one more look back at the Old
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in Genesis 12 1, through 3 1, 
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Lord had said to Abraham get out
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and from your father's house to 
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will make you a great nation. 
I will bless you, and make you a

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great new your name. 
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And you shall be a blessing. 
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you, and I will curse him who 
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you all the families of the 
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tells Abraham that he would 
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nations and the Kings would come
from his line and then says, in 

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verse 10 of chapter 49 from the 
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who shall be The Obedience of 
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So, now, in Matthew 1, verses 1 
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book of the genealogy of Jesus 
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son of Abraham Abraham was 
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father of Jacob, and Jacob, the 
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So we can see that Jesus is The 
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come to bless all nations. 
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Old Testament? 
History of David? 

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The Bible is making it extremely
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nothing is done by accident. 
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accident in the Old Testament, 
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study this a little bit on 
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evening throughout history from 
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Everything in the Old Testament 
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would come then from the first 
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Bible is announcing. 
The King has come Jesus Christ. 

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The son of David, the son of Of 
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He is the center of history, and
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to hear because you and I are 
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Our Generation that we live in 
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The United States is not the 
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Throughout history, billions of 
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people have gone empires have 
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countries Nations, Kings 
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have come and gone. 
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stands. 
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So, the second thing that she's 
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reunites Humanity, Jesus, 
redefines history and reunites 

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Humanity. 
Here we have a list of different

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people, different Generations, 
different backgrounds, there are

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men, and women Jews, and 
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Kings to lower class prostitute,
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common. 
They all point to Jesus. 

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and we're going to read the 
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Versus a Matthew too. 
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Now, after Jesus was born in 
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of Herod, the king behold, wise 
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Jerusalem saying, where is he, 
who has been born King of the 

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Jews? 
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East and have come to worship 
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When Herod the king heard this. 
He was troubled and all 

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Jerusalem with him. 
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chief priests and the scribes of
the people together, he inquired

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of them where the Christ was to 
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Or was to be, yes, was to be 
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So they said to him in Bethlehem
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by the prophet, but you 
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are not the least. 
Among the rulers of Judah for 

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out of you shall come a ruler. 
Who will Shepherd My People 

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Israel then Herod when he had 
secretly called, the wise men 

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determined from them? 
What time, the star appeared and

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he sent them to Bethlehem and 
said, go and search carefully 

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for the young child and when you
have found him bring back word 

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to me, That I may come and 
worship him also. 

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When they heard the king, they 
departed and behold the star, 

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which they had seen in the East 
went before them till it came 

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and stood over where the young 
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star, they rejoiced with 
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And when they had come into the 
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with Mary, his mother and fell 
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And when they had opened their 
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to him. 
Gold, frankincense, frankincense

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and myrrh. 
Merv then being divinely warned 

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in a dream that they should not 
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They departed for their own 
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That's a pretty fascinating 
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There's there's been some 
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you know, by the way, it never 
says there was three wise men As

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sometimes as depicted in what we
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But there was never never says 
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political influence. 
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or powerful ones. 
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evident in the wealth that they 
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this and Daniel. 
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Testament, when the people of 
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the East during the Exile. 
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studies of the Stars, they were 
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we don't have time to look out, 
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Son of beor and the utterance of
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the utterance of him who hears 
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knowledge of the most high who 
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I see him but not now I Behold 
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come out of Jacob and a scepter 
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a scepter or a king would rise a
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this King would be king. 
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So think about, you know, we can
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well-respected magician, a Seer 
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and a king that would rise from 
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or Magi from the East. 
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was born, King of the Jews. 
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history, starts orchestrating 
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planets and the stars in the 
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That Jesus is here. 
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the East. 
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to see Jesus? 
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are, these wise men come and 
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worshiping a baby because they 
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before whom All Nations bow. 
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for one type of people, but for 
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Nations, you know, as we read 
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more about how the Old Testament
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denying that it was all 
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Jesus. 
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church is made up from people, 
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got and we've gathered here. 
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come, we have one king. 
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worshiping together. 
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reunites Humanity but we're 
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Mean for our lives and that 
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number three and that is Jesus 
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So back to Matthew chapter 1, in
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list of names of sinnard after 
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of Jesus family. and, Judah and 
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from and then whom Dave David, 
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king, after evil King, who led 
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immorality, even resulting in 
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Jerusalem and deportation to 
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After Story of people who 
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think about it, you know I was 
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about the great, great, great, 
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hated God and were leading 
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Yes, Verse 18. 
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birth there and they want to 
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New Testament that word means 
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That is the Greek definition of 
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awesome to think about it. 
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language that God decided to 
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us back to the very beginning. 
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started, you know, and he's 
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bringing us a new start. 
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going to do things because Jesus
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Jesus is who we are going to 
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Yeshua or Joshua, it means the 
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as God use Joshua in the Old 
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into the promised land. 
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come to lead people into eternal
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of Matthew. 
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of Jesus Christ was as follows. 
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She was found with child of the 
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husband being a just man and not
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example was minded to put her 
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thought about these things 
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appeared to him in a dream 
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not be afraid to take this to 
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that, which is conceived in her 
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will bring forth a son and you 
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A lot of people hope that when 
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they'll go to heaven because of 
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hope that their Good Deeds are 
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Overcome their bad. 
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whole way of thinking, one sin 
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Holy God is worthy of infinite 
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tried to do, we can't erase that
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many more scenes than that. 
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we've turned from God's ways, to
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all the time, but the beauty is 
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overcome bad with good. 
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because we are good enough. 
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because Jesus Died for our sins 
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us, because Jesus has come, and 
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sins. 
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to earn it. 
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over all of our sins is the 
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could ever know ever have. 
We can be forgiven of all, of 

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our sins today before a holy 
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because we do enough good 
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following Jesus as he commands 
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If I mean, think of all the 
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with some of the stories in the 
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adultery Rahab, The Prostitute 
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people known for their sexual 
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fresh start to all of those who 
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Every one of us. 
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dignity and that family tree of 
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family tree. 
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I've always wondered, you know 
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Why are the names of such 
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the line of Jesus. 
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same reason that our name is 
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Jesus. 
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God. 
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multitude of sins that what 
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God sent his son, to save an 
undeserving, an unlikely people 

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like you. 
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who was writing this book was a 
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because Tax Collectors were were
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the public stole from people who
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ripping off the Jewish people in
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Matthew had at his House at the 
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reprobates and, and I think 
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the least likely person to be 
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what makes the gospel such an 
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The good news that God Saves us,
not based upon our vain efforts 

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at goodness but based upon his 
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We can have a new identity and 
new, I didn't and new dignity 

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and Jesus. 
Next Jesus gives us fresh hope. 

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You know, you think about all 
these stories of sin and shame 

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that we read about often in the 
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What if all those sinful 
shameful stories and shameful 

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decisions that people made? 
But if that was all there was 

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You know, we may have 
circumstances in our life that 

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we look upon or sins that we may
have committed or actions that 

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we may have done that. 
We can feel like there's no way 

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that we're going to get back 
from this. 

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I've made this poor decision and
I'm not going to get back from 

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this. 
Maybe we've sinned in a way that

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could take, you know, that we 
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to Define my life forever. and 
if we have ever thought that or 

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thinking that that's I think 
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We need to be careful of that 
because Jesus gives us fresh 

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hope that sin does not define 
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But as we read the gospel, 
stories will see story after 

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Story of people who have sinned,
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Everything Changes, Everything 
Changes for these people all the

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way to the cross, with the thief
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for forgiveness. 
Jesus said today, you will be 

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with me in Paradise, Jesus 
ensures that sin will do not do 

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not Define our life, and that's 
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Then there are those are those 
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result of sin, you know, sin 
causes consequences, not only to

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ourselves, but those around us 
and it has an impact that we 

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don't consider sometimes when we
make those choices and, you 

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know, some of us here, a lot of 
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of us here have family members 
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church or worship here because 
sin and Satan in the Gold has 

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taken hold of them. 
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to divide the family unit that 
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And then for those who have 
family members that aren't here,

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because of the choices that 
they've made doesn't have an 

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effect on us. 
Doesn't that hurt us? 

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Doesn't their choice affect us. 
Don't we suffer because of other

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choices and other sinful nature.
Not just, of course attendance. 

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It's not what we're talking 
about solely but also because 

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the choices that they make out 
in the world or, you know, 

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worldly decisions that may have 
an effect on somebody, you know,

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the choices we make whether we 
like it or not or have an effect

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on people around us. 
And we need to understand that 

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before we make a choice 
suffering is a reality, you 

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know, we try to raise our 
children teaching them, raising 

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them by God's standards, and the
way that God would have us to 

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do, and Then all of a sudden, 
things get flipped 180 degrees, 

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blindsided completely, 
blindsided. 

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Or someone who we have entrusted
and ensured, all of our trust 

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into becomes the person who 
hurts us the most. 

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Or sudden death of a loved one, 
or a family member. 

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You know, of course we get down.
Of course we lose heart but if 

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we have lost heart, understand 
that Jesus gives us fresh hope. 

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Because he ensures that 
suffering will not be the end of

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the story. 
You know, are we need to 

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understand or mark it down, 
whatever it takes suffering is 

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not the end of anyone's story 
because we trust in Jesus. 

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The one who had saved us from 
our sins, and came and conquered

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death itself. 
With Jesus suffering, will never

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be the end of our story with 
Jesus even Earthly, tragedies 

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turns into Eternal Triumph 
because Jesus changes 

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everything. 
That brings us to our fifth 

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Point, Jesus is presence will 
never leave you alone in Matthew

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1, 22. 
It says, all this took place to 

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fulfill what the Lord had 
spoken. 

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By the prophet, behold, the 
Virgin shall conceive and bear a

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son, and they shall call his 
name Emmanuel, which means God 

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be with us. 
That prophecy was given seven 

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year hundred years before 
Matthew one, that Jesus is god 

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with us. 
It's the astounding truth of 

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Christianity. 
It seems income. 

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Principal to those who don't 
believe it. 

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But those who believe it is an 
irresistible truth. 

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The stairs. 
And there was a story of a group

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of man in the Middle East who 
who said to themselves or to 

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others, they were in a group 
talking that that there's no way

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that God himself could come to 
this person. 

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There's God is too great and too
glorious to debase himself and 

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become a man like us and a 
Christian man replied to him. 

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And said he said, let me ask you
a question in my life. 

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I once met a woman and my heart 
fell in love with her, when it 

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came time for For me to tell her
that I loved her. 

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Do you think I got somebody to 
go and tell her that I loved her

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for me? 
Or do you think that I went and 

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told her myself? 
And of course the man in the 

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Middle East said, of course she 
went and the Christian Man 

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replied in matters of love. 
One must go himself and not send

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somebody else and that's the 
point. 

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Our God is so great. 
And So Glorious that he is not 

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just sent the Prophet. 
This Prophet or that Prophet, or

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this person, or that possible 
person. 

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God Has Come himself in jazz 
Jesus. 

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Because in matters of love one 
goes himself. 

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It's pretty amazing when we 
think about that, the God who 

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spoke the world into the, into 
being, who rules, and Reigns 

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over creation, who knows every 
star in the sky by name, who 

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tells every ocean wave where to 
stop. 

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The god around whom multitudes 
of angels worship and sing and 

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praise, and continually day and 
night. 

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Worship Him. 
The god, whose glory is beyond 

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our imagination, who's Holiness 
is beyond our comprehension that

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God came here for us. 
Jesus is the constant companion 

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that our soul. 
Craves, no matter what happens 

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to you. 
No matter what happens around 

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us, no matter what we may go 
through. 

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To all who follow Jesus 
Commandments, we are never alone

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in the world. 
You can do we ever feel alone? 

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I think all of us at some point 
I felt alone in our lives. 

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Like people don't understand 
what we're going through like 

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00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:53,700
what we're experiencing even 
heard it in a description at 

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times you know. 
Have you ever been in a A crowd 

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of people, but filt absolutely 
alone. 

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Will know that Jesus has come so
they we might never be alone. 

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He will never ever leave our 
side if we don't leave his 

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Number 6, Jesus will never lead 
you astray in the middle of 

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Matthew 2. 
We read from a quote, from Micah

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5:2 about the promises of a 
coming Messiah and at the end of

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Matthew verse 6, it says from 
from you shall come a ruler. 

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Who will Shepherd My People 
Israel? 

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That picture of a Shepherd is 
actually not in. 

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Micah 5:2, it goes all the way 
back to Samuel second. 

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Samuel 52 were God. 
Anointed David as king over 

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Israel. 
And God told him. 

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You were not just to lead my 
people. 

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You were to Shepherd my people. 
You don't just rule over them. 

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But you should you lead them and
you Shepherd them, you care for 

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them, you protect them, you 
provide them, this is a picture,

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this is Jesus. 
And as Jesus Will Shepherd us as

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well, he's not just going to 
Reign Over Us. 

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He's going to Shepherd us as 
well. 

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And you know, do we ever wonder 
which direction to take in life?

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What choice? 
We ought to make. 

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Jesus is the Y Shepherd that we 
need. 

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We need to always go to. 
What Jesus has instructed us to 

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do to make the choices in life. 
We are never without guidance. 

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And number 7, Jesus is word. 
Will Never Let You Down in the 

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Old Testament. 
Quotations, just keep the keep 

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the quotation from the Old 
Testament. 

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The first couple chapters of 
Matthew were, are quite a bit. 

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I thought, when I started 
reading it, And in Matthew 215, 

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after Joseph and Mary flee to 
Egypt and then return Matthew 

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says that that was not by 
accident. 

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He says this was to fulfill what
the Lord has spoken by the 

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prophet out of Egypt. 
I called my son just like God 

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had brought Deliverance out of 
Egypt into from Egypt in the Old

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00:36:03,500 --> 00:36:05,800
Testament. 
Jesus coming is coming out of 

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Egypt to bring Deliverance in 
the New Testament. 

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And then we get down into verses
17 and 18 of Matthew Chapter 2, 

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where he quotes from Jeremiah 31
verses, 15 through 17, and his 

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family's were weeping because 
babies were dying in Bethlehem. 

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Because King Herod made a decree
to have all the, all the male 

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babies killed because he was 
afraid of Jesus was going to 

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rise above it. 
So, so hair decided to have all 

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the male babies killed. 
Matthew takes us back to 

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Jeremiah 31, where families were
weeping as they were being 

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ripped apart from each other. 
In the deportation to Babylon in

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Jeremiah 31, God promises just 
as I brought hope in Jeremiah 31

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when I said you helped, you'll 
have a future in this. 

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Will not be the end. 
He is now promising. 

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Even though you have weeping and
are experiencing, this, this is 

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all perfect. 
The whole point is that God is 

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always faithful to his word. 
Jesus is the faithful deliver. 

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Our deliverer, our soul desires.
And we need to understand that 

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God's word will prove true every
single time. 

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Jesus is a picture of that all 
these promises that God had made

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over the hundreds of years are 
now coming into fulfillment. 

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When Jesus comes the Bible tells
us all of God's promises are in 

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Jesus and that's found in 2nd 
Corinthians 1 verse 20 he's the 

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picture of God's faithfulness. 
That brings us to. 

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Our eighth point where Jesus is 
Love, is worthy of Our Lives. 

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The Jesus is, the thing is all 
these things. 

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We talked about and he is worthy
of our life. 

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He is worthy of everything that 
we can give to him and the rest 

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of the Book of Matthew. 
We can see the question over and

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over again, that who is going to
believe Jesus. 

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Jesus is living, and he's 
teaching and Performing Miracles

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and he's seeing who was going to
follow me. 

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And we see that religious 
leaders reject him, Roman 

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rulers, reject him, but then a 
small band of disciples believe 

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that he's worthy of their lives 
and Jesus changed their lives. 

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And then threw him. 
He quite literally change the 

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world through a small band of 
guys and Jesus. 

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So Do we believe that Jesus is 
the one whose love is worthy of 

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our entire life? 
Followers of Jesus are not 

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people for whom Jesus is just 
part of their lives. 

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Us as followers of, Jesus are 
not people who kind of do what 

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they want to do with their 
lives. 

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And and then tack on Jesus, on 
Sundays, actually, that's not 

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following Jesus, that's actually
patronizing. 

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00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:09,800
Jesus, I think, You know, we 
have to is he Lord of our life. 

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Does he determine every decision
that we make? 

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Does he change everything in our
lives to follow him everything? 

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00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:28,800
You know, the curse wrote this 
down, the curse of nominal, 

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00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:33,100
Christianity is people who claim
the name of Jesus, but have no 

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real love for him or desire to 
follow him as their life 

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00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:38,900
followers of. 
Jesus are not people who for 

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whom Jesus is part of their 
lives. 

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Followers of Jesus are people in
whom Jesus is their life. 

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When we put our trust in Jesus 
and confess his name, and be Pat

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back baptized into his name, 
then we can be sure that life is

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yours forever. 
As long as we keep his 

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Commandments, no matter what, 
inspect unexpected, things come 

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in to us in our lives. 
Or this week, we can be sure 

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that we are secure in Jesus and 
his promises as long as we don't

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leave his side. 
So how can we not see in the 

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first just here in the first two
chapters of the New Testament 

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that all the Old Testament 
prophecies pertaining to Jesus 

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as coming as a king. 
How can we see that? 

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We those are not fulfilled, you 
know I'm as I mentioned before 

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we would have to make a 
conscious decision to deny the 

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writings and the Prophecies of 
the Old Testament. 

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It would have to be a mental 
choice that we make to deny it. 

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So what has Jesus changed in 
your life or a better question? 

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Does Jesus change your life? 
Every day, does he change the 

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way? 
We think? 

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What we do, the decisions we 
make everything. 

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Jesus changes everything. 
Have, we surrendered all to him 

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is Jesus, lord of, or law, Lord 
of our life. 

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