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I want to invite your attention 
to the Gospel, According to Luke

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the 12th chapter and we want to 
begin reading. 

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There in verse 49, the words of 
Jesus spoke in a long, long time

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ago, Luke chapter 12 beginning 
there, in verse 49, from the new

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King James, Jesus said I came to
send fire on the earth and how I

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wish you were already kindled 
but I have a baptism to be 

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baptized with and how distressed
I am until it is accomplished. 

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Why do you suppose that I came 
to give peace on Earth. 

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I tell you not at all, but 
rather division for from now on 

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five and one house will be 
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two against three father will be
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against father, mother against 
daughter and daughter, against 

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mother mother-in-law against her
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daughter-in-law against her 
mother-in-law. 

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You know, there's a popular 
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concerning Jesus Christ. 
That Jesus was a man of Love who

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came to bring only peace to the 
entire world. 

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In fact, a very popular song 
that is sung around the 25th of 

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December was a message that is 
that Jesus came to bring peace 

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on Earth and Goodwill toward 
men. 

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That is message was peace 
through love But you know, even 

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the Jews have this expectation. 
When the Messiah came, they 

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thought that he would bring 
peace and that peace would come 

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to every one of them but folks, 
Jesus, absolutely shattered. 

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That expectation in verse 51. 
When Jesus said, do you suppose 

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that I came to give peace on 
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I tell you not at all, but 
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While this morning, I want to 
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was and is The great divider. 
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When he said those things? 
as we read in your hearing, just

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a moment ago and verse 51 of 
Luke chapter 12, Jesus says, do 

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you suppose that I came to give 
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I tell you not at all but rather
division. 

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When Jesus said that statement, 
as I mentioned, just a moment 

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ago and you're hearing Jesus 
literally shattered, all Jewish 

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expectations regarding the 
Messiah, for example, the 

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psalmist David would record in 
Psalm 72 that in his days. 

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The righteous would flourish 
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Even a man by the name of 
Zacharias and you might remember

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him, Zacharias was the father of
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Who was the Forerunner that went
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Jesus Christ to prepare the 
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Zacharias? 
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He said when the Messiah would 
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and he would guide our feet into
the way of peace. 

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Do you remember the words of 
Jesus, that were spoken after 

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that woman, and Luke chapter 7 
and verse 50. 

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The Bible says that she came and
she was a very sinful woman, I 

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don't know all the things that 
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know, it really doesn't matter. 
We categorize, and we classify 

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sin, but the Bible does not, but
we do understand that the people

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that knew her recognized her as 
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And the Bible says in Luke 
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picture in Our Minds Eye. 
And as she comes to the feet of 

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Jesus, his feet were Dusty. 
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He wore sandals and they didn't 
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we have today. 
So, when people would walk, they

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would walk in Dusty ground. 
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were Dusty in the Bible says, 
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all that, he was she fell down 
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so hard that the tears, drip 
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the Bible. 
Will says that she washed his 

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feet with her tears and then she
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I said all that to say this, 
remember what Jesus said to her.

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He said, go in peace, he said 
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time that Jesus healed, the 
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He told her go in peace, Jesus 
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said, Peace, I leave with you. 
My peace, I give to you. 

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Not as the world gives. 
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your heart. 
Be troubled. 

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Neither be afraid. 
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Jesus said these things I've 
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you might believe may have 
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So saying all of that, when 
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division, no doubt it shattered 
their expectations but you know 

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there was another reason to do 
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Remember when all the prophetic 
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They speak of him as being the 
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He was the one that would bring 
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Let me just say this as an 
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and all of those religious 
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There was one thing about the 
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the bad stuff that Jesus said 
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everything was bad. 
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their life that Jesus actually 
recognizes and praised Jesus 

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says what they say do it. 
But don't do as they do. 

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Don't Follow their example. 
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Because they say and they do not
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Pharisees for. 
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for knowing the word of God. 
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wanted to broaden their 
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pouches of scripture for 
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praise them and recognize how 
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And Jesus condemned that But he 
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fact that they understood the 
law and they understood the word

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of God saying all that, the 
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come to bring peace. 
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The problem was those Jews 
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peace that Jesus was going to 
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They thought that Jesus was 
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Do you remember in the last week
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up from Jericho. 
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traveling along. 
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Jerusalem, was an upward climb 
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about 3,000 feet. 
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there, it went about 15 miles 
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road. 
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the last week of the life of 
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He's traveling to Jerusalem, he 
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He understood. 
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understood all of that and 
people were walking along, have 

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you ever stopped to consider all
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him as the great Messiah and the
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And all of that they were 
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Anyway. 
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They misunderstood the kind of 
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and they misunderstood about his
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They thought that he was going 
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and they thought he was going to
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And you know, by the way, 
contrary to what those Jews 

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said, when they wanted Jesus 
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pilate, when pilate said, behold
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no King. 
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it. 
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They couldn't stand Caesar. 
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was going to be the king, he 
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National oppression, and all the
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didn't understand what his role 
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In fact, in Luke chapter 1 and 
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again. 
This is the father of John the 

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Baptist and he said this To 
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That we being delivered from the
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without fear. 
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something else. 
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Now, how do I know that look and
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Let's look at these two verses 
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This is how I know that. 
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This is spiritual deliverance 
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He goes on to say a saying that 
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being delivered from the hand of
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without fear in Holiness and 
righteousness before him all the

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days of our life. 
So the promise was the result of

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something spiritual. 
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now. 
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He was the Forerunner came 
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establish. 
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Jesus was going to establish a 
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And that kingdom was a kingdom 
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Now, even Zacharias. 
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It wasn't National peace. 
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It was spiritual peace. 
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He came to this world and did 
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His mission began when he was 
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He is Ministry lasted about 
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preached Peace, A kingdom of 
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peace. 
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The kingdom that Jesus talked 
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offered. 
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today. 
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Let me say that again. 
The peace that the Lord offers 

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does not come to just anyone, it
comes to all of those that obey 

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the gospel and live according to
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sermon that I preached a few 
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circumstance of life, Paul 
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salonica, talked about the idea.
He said that I would I'm going 

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to pray that you might have 
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would Grant you peace in every 
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Hey, you know, there are things 
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There are things in life that 
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There are things that you will 
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You don't feel very peaceful 
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the physical things in your 
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have peace of mind or not, then 
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map and that's not the peace. 
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Now I want to have the piece 
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Lord, but I want the piece 
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I'm going to be able to use in 
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What kind of piece is that it is
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It is the peace, that passes all
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Here it is. 
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peace is. 
Spiritual peace is to have peace

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of mind, to know, and understand
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In the eyes of God, regarding 
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the status of my soul And you 
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It's a matter of understanding 
to that regardless of difficult 

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times that God is in control of 
my life in time and he's in 

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control in eternity. 
And that's what Paul was talking

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about when he said about the 
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understanding spiritual peace 
but this piece is conditional on

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obedience. 
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the Jews, Choose their rejection
of Israel was fixed. 

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The religious leaders had 
rejected, Jesus. 

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They were plotting his death. 
There were people that would 

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join in screaming for his blood.
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that he did Miracles and perform
Miracles by the power of the 

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devil, remember, Matthew, 12, a 
few weeks ago when he cast out a

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demon from that young man. 
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said, oh, could this not be the 
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Meaning the Messiah A' and the 
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son of David, he does. 
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the power of the devil now, 
what's my point in that my point

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is they rejected Jesus as the 
Messiah that he was and is they 

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rejected him as the Savior, and 
when that happened, please get 

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this, they forfeited, their 
Monumental opportunity to have 

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peace, spiritual peace, at the 
Lord offers Their blindness of 

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their minds and ignorance and 
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Had put them in a state of 
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So instead of uniting all of 
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Lord, divides them. 
And we're going to talk about 

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the extent of that division 
later, but the Lord divides 

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them. 
How do I know that verse 51? 

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Do you suppose that I came to 
give peace on Earth? 

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I tell you not at all, but 
rather division. 

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So, the first thing we notice is
this, John, the Baptist came and

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he preached about the kingdom of
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peace. 
Jesus did the Very same thing, 

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he came and preached the kingdom
of Peace, spiritual peace. 

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It is conditional on our 
obedience beginning first to the

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gospel and then obedience to the
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life and that brings us to the 
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I want to talk about the 
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Jesus came a said I came to 
bring fire and what was he 

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talking about? 
I came to bring fire. 

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He said, do you think that I 
came to bring peace is not at 

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all. 
I came to bring fire. 

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Verse 49 and 50. 
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earth and how I wish you were 
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baptism to be baptized with and 
how to stress them, I until it 

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is accomplished. 
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was dividing all of humanity and
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into classifications of people. 
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this, please, would you do this 
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The word of God, only describes 
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just a simple verb. 
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that's a, that's a verb talking 
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every aspect of this in the New 
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that Jesus said I came or I have
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describing his mission every 
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to Jesus was to bring fire. 
Meet me noticed, a couple of 

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these times when Jesus said this
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He said, first of all, he said, 
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life And have it more 
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I came not to destroy, but to 
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and save that, which is lost. 
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what did Jesus do he came to 
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seek and save And if you don't 
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offers Jesus says, I have come 
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I need to make a point here 
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point about Luke chapter 3 and 
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Do you remember when John the 
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there were those in the audience
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John the Baptist is describing. 
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And Jesus and he said the one 
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paraphrase is mightier than I 
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translations render it. 
I'm not even worthy to loose or 

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or bind or whatever. 
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baptism of repentance before X2.
I baptize you with water but You

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are going to be baptized with 
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Have you ever heard somebody 
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Well, you know what, I want to 
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and with fire, I what what John 
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What did he mean? 
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says today they want to be 
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holy spirit, it's too late. 
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In fact, in all of mankind, in 
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of Miracles, baptism of the Holy
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It happened in Acts chapter 2, 
as the Bible says, a fulfillment

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of that, which is spoken by the 
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would be poured out over All 
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Spirit. 
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12 men on the day of Pentecost, 
the apostles Yes, and they spoke

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in tongues as the spirit. 
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that's the first time. 
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baptism of the Holy Spirit came 
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As a sign, please understand it 
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sign to show to the Jews that 
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be in the Kingdom. 
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could we how could we keep from 
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when they receive the same thing
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Meaning back on the day of 
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Baptism of the Holy Spirit. 
Only happened twice now, what 

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about fire? 
I've heard people say I want to 

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be baptized with fire. 
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baptized with fire, you don't 
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means. 
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That's what John was talking 
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He said, because of your willful
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Some of you are going to be 
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Meaning judgment Hey, you know 
fires a very interesting thing. 

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Fire does two things. 
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combustible and fire also 
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you can throw it on the fire and
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It's combustible. 
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combustible. 
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subject gold to the fire, all 
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and they scrape off the 
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And what do you have? 
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Do you see the point? 
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was talking about was going to 
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It was going to destroy or 
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And the other that is going to 
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going to purify that person. 
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what the Bible talks about about
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The gospel, by the way. 
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Jesus used? 
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talking about. 
The gospel does one of two 

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things it saves or offends based
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So the gospel is going to burn 
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going to save me if I accept it.
Isn't that great? 

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Somebody might say, well, you 
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preaching to save them that 
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He said this. 
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kindled. 
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renders it in the form of a 
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it be already kindled? 
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speaking about the fact that 
there are already conflicts 

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among the people over Doctrine 
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When he said that I came in 
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It's my purpose to do. 
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instrument of fire is the 
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And how I wish it were already 
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If you start a fire, what do you
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You get kindling? 
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get whatever, you have to get to
get the fire going and then it 

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becomes great flames. 
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I came to bring fire, I came to 
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I came to do all of that and I 
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the event that he's talking 
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death on the cross. 
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That's going to get the fire 
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And it's the gospel fire. 
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punished and the Kindle there 
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own death. 
He said how I wish it were 

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already kindled. 
Now how do I how do I know that?

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That's what it's talking about. 
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Verse 15. 
But I have a baptism to be 

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baptized with and how distressed
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Now, Jesus was talking about an 
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He was talking about a terrible 
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it. 
Guest cemani was not the only 

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time when Jesus was an Agony 
about the cross Let me just 

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mention one little thing and 
made, give you a little better 

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appreciation for Jesus. 
You know, Jesus lived about 33 

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years. 
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Perpetual Gethsemane. 
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what his purpose or his mission 
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have to be in view of his death 
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absolutely perfect, so he can be
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mankind. 
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What do we do when we when were 
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Make mistakes fall down, have to
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forgiveness, that's us. 
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The Bible says he was in all 
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Like as we are yet without sin 
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entire existence was in view of 
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all the days of his life. 
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soul is in agony and he was 
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Gethsemane and his sweat, 
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blood falling to the ground. 
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in agony. 
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what was coming and he said and 
how I wish it were kindled. 

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He said, in verse 50 I have a 
baptism to be baptized with that

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word. 
Baptism is the Same word that we

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use it for its baptizo and it 
means to plunge. 

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It means to dip and it means to 
immerse but there's something 

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else. 
It also means overwhelm That's 

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what Jesus did. 
He did an event, he did 

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something that was overwhelming.
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cross. 
He calls his suffering a 

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baptism. 
You know, that one time, he 

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challenged James and John 
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in the cheap seats are the chief
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Remember the mother of zebedee's
sons. 

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Oh, when you go in your kingdom,
can I have one of my boys on 

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your right? 
One of my boys on the left. 

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Misunderstanding everything. 
You know what Jesus says in 

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response to that. 
This is beautiful, Matthew 

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chapter 20 and verse 22. 
Jesus said, but Jesus answered 

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and said, you do not know what 
you ask. 

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Are you able to drink the cup 
that I'm able to drink and get 

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this? 
Here it comes. 

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And be baptized with the baptism
that I am to be baptized with. 

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Now we know he's not talking 
about John's baptism because we 

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understand in Matthew chapter 3,
that was long before. 

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Matthew chapter 20, what 
happened Jesus comes on the 

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scene and he's going to be 
baptized by the baptism of John.

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John says, no, no. 
You should baptize me. 

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And Jesus said, no, this is to 
fulfill all righteousness. 

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When did that happen? 
Matthew chapter 3? 

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So, when Jesus says, I have a 
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Can't be talked. 
It can't talk about and it's not

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talking about John's baptism is 
talking about the cross. 

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Jesus said regarding baptism 
this baptism, he says and how 

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just stressed I am until it's 
accomplished. 

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That word distressed comes from 
the word soon. 

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A coma a and it's a verb that 
means to seize. 

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It's the same word that's used 
to be in the grip of Fear. 

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Have you ever been afraid of 
something in your life? 

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Surely you have. 
I don't care who you are and if 

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you say, I've never been afraid,
you're not telling the truth or 

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and I say this out of respect, 
you don't mentally have the 

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capability of understanding your
surroundings and your 

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circumstance because I guarantee
you this, if you're living in 

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your life you've been afraid. 
You have been afraid of 

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something. 
Sometimes we get afraid every 

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day. 
Nothing wrong with fear. 

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Sometimes people say why do you 
keep falling? 

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Well, I'm afraid. 
Jesus lived in fear, in fact, 

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that's what the word distressed 
me. 

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Do you want to talk about fear? 
He was in fear. 

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He was afraid. 
But remember, as you've heard me

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say in so many times gone by 
there is no such thing with of 

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Courage. 
If there is no fear, it means to

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be gripped with fear. 
It means to be under tremendous 

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Relentless pressure, and he 
would be under that Relentless 

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pressure until when he's on the 
cross. 

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Everything happens. 
He's totally in control and he 

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also understood by the way. 
Oh, one more scripture, one more

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scripture has to be. 
Be fulfilled. 

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He said it's the one about when 
you're going to give me the sour

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wine, the vinegar. 
So I got one more prophecy to 

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fulfill. 
So he said, I thirst there it 

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is. 
There's the sour vinegar. 

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And then he said what he said, 
it's finished. 

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It's accomplished and he said to
his father into thy hands I 

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commend or I commit my spirit. 
Then it says he bowed his head 

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as a picture of willfully 
submitting to his death, totally

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in control. 
He was under the distress soon, 

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00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:43,700
a coma I until it was over until
he said it's finished. 

450
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,900
And that just give you a greater
appreciation for Jesus. 

451
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,300
The Great Dividing event is to 
cross. 

452
00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:57,000
A brings us to our next Point. 
What extent does Jesus divide 

453
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,200
Now, I said he's the great 
divider. 

454
00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:04,300
The dividing event is the cross.
He said, that was my purpose or 

455
00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:06,900
my mission to do what bring 
fire. 

456
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:08,800
What's fire? 
What's the instrument of fire? 

457
00:30:08,900 --> 00:30:12,100
It's the gospel and it's going 
to put two people in different 

458
00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:14,900
categories. 
If it saves, or fans based on 

459
00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:17,600
your response, he said, I wish 
it were already. 

460
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,800
Kindled are over with and that's
the cross. 

461
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,000
But he divides. 
Number one in eternity. 

462
00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:33,400
That is so sobering to me, the 
division is in eternity. 

463
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,300
Very quickly in verse 42 of our 
text. 

464
00:30:39,300 --> 00:30:41,700
In Luke 12. 
I'm just going to go through 

465
00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:46,100
this really quickly just by way 
of a narrative aspect of that. 

466
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:53,400
Jesus tells a story, now, every 
time Jesus gave a parable, his 

467
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:58,200
Parables were always true. 
In fact, for a parable to be 

468
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,300
true and parables are laying 
alongside a comparison. 

469
00:31:02,500 --> 00:31:06,200
And for a parable to be true, it
had to be true on the physical 

470
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,500
side as well as the spiritual 
side. 

471
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,700
Now every aspect of every 
Parable that he ever preached 

472
00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:16,900
was true. 
They were equal true, physical, 

473
00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:20,800
and spiritual both sides. 
He said, I'm going to tell you a

474
00:31:20,808 --> 00:31:25,000
little story. 
He said, master has servants and

475
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,900
the Masters going away and 
nobody knows when, but he is 

476
00:31:28,900 --> 00:31:30,700
going to come back. 
What? 

477
00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:34,500
The master do? 
He gave them something to do, he

478
00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:38,500
gave them something that they 
were entrusted with now the thus

479
00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:43,700
the master their depicts, the 
Lord, the Lord is going away and

480
00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:45,800
the servants have 
responsibilities. 

481
00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:51,200
Now, in verse 42, it describes a
faithful faithful servant, who 

482
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,200
does what he's supposed to do 
and he distributes the 

483
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:58,200
responsibility appropriately 
when the master comes back. 

484
00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:02,700
He's blessed. 
That's a picture folks. 

485
00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:06,500
Of someone that accepts the 
gospel and obeys it. 

486
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:11,100
Has spiritual peace because it's
conditional on your obedience to

487
00:32:11,100 --> 00:32:14,400
the gospel. 
He is living a life in a safe 

488
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,700
condition because he's doing 
what the master said, until he 

489
00:32:17,700 --> 00:32:20,600
comes back, what's going to 
happen with that person. 

490
00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:23,200
He's going to be rewarded, 
that's talking about the 

491
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,200
Judgment when the Lord comes 
back. 

492
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,300
But you know, there's a flip 
side of that too. 

493
00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:33,200
When the master comes back, 
there's going to be some that 

494
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,000
are not going to be faithful in 
verse 46. 

495
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000
And I'm glad the Lord said this.
Not me verse 46. 

496
00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:42,600
The master of that servant. 
This is the unprepared. 

497
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:47,700
One Unfaithful will come on a 
day when he's not looking for 

498
00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:52,500
him. 
And at the hour, he's not aware 

499
00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:57,900
that get this and will cut him 
in two and appoint him with 

500
00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:02,000
portion with the unbelievers. 
Now the phrase cut him in two, 

501
00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:07,100
we do not have time to go into 
this but the phrase cut him into

502
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,400
is a term that's used throughout
the Bible and it's always 

503
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,500
talking about punishment. 
You're taking notes I'm going to

504
00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:16,200
give you the passengers. 
We can't turn their 1st Samuel, 

505
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:21,000
15 and 33. 
Daniel chapter 2 and verse 5. 

506
00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:28,900
Daniel chapter 3 and verse 29. 
Hebrews 11 and verse 37. 

507
00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:36,300
Now, did you see the contrast? 
Did you see the contrast between

508
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:40,300
the faithful and the Unfaithful?
What a drastic? 

509
00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:44,300
Huge contrast. 
But that shows the difference of

510
00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:49,000
the division in eternity either 
faithful or Unfaithful rewarded 

511
00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:50,500
or punishment. 
All right. 

512
00:33:50,500 --> 00:33:53,300
Now, what did I say so far? 
I've said there's a common 

513
00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:55,500
theme. 
I've said your obedience to the 

514
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:57,400
gospel. 
Is what determines? 

515
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,200
Whether you have spiritual 
peace? 

516
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,200
It is the event is the cross, 
but that sends in the message of

517
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,100
Jesus, and the instrument is the
gospel. 

518
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,900
So, we have to obey that and 
whether we obey or not 

519
00:34:08,900 --> 00:34:12,600
determines, whether we are saved
or the gospel offense. 

520
00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:17,100
Secondly, we find also that we 
are we must obey the gospel in 

521
00:34:17,100 --> 00:34:22,300
order to be saved and Jesus 
separates people in eternity 

522
00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:25,400
saved or lost really quickly 
really quickly. 

523
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,600
Turn in your Bibles to First 
Corinthians 15. 

524
00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:30,100
We want to talk about what is 
the gospel? 

525
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,800
This last week we're up north 
knocking doors. 

526
00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:38,300
And there was a fellow at the 
door. 

527
00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:40,199
He said, gospel is a gospel 
meeting. 

528
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,900
He said gospel, I love that word
gospel, good news, I love that 

529
00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:47,699
word too but what does it 
actually mean? 

530
00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:50,900
What does gospel mean and what 
does it actually mean to obey 

531
00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:52,199
it? 
Let's just look at the passages 

532
00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:54,699
really quickly. 
First Corinthians chapter 15 

533
00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:59,400
beginning in verse 1, moreover 
Brethren, I declare unto you the

534
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,000
gospel, which I have preached 
unto you which also ye have 

535
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,100
received and wherein you stand 
by. 

536
00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:08,400
Which also, Also, you are saved.
Here's a condition. 

537
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,300
If you keep in memory, what? 
I preached unto you unless you 

538
00:35:12,300 --> 00:35:16,000
have believed in vain for I 
delivered unto you first of all,

539
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:21,000
how that I also received, how 
that Christ died for our sins, 

540
00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:25,200
according to the scriptures, how
he was buried and how on the 

541
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:30,300
third day he rose again. 
According to what according to 

542
00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:34,700
the scriptures. 
Now somebody might say, no, wait

543
00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:37,300
a minute, you're talking about 
obeying the gospel that is a 

544
00:35:37,308 --> 00:35:42,400
historical event. 
Jesus died on the cross. 

545
00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:46,300
He was taken down and buried, 
and he rose from the dead, the 

546
00:35:46,300 --> 00:35:48,200
third day, that's a historical 
event. 

547
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,700
How can somebody actually obey 
that first of all? 

548
00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:56,100
Look at Romans chapter 10, In 
Romans chapter 10. 

549
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,400
The Apostle Paul missed a very, 
misunderstood passage to in the 

550
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,000
world today. 
And beginning there in verse 13,

551
00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:10,300
for whosoever, shall call upon 
the name of the Lord shall be 

552
00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:13,500
saved. 
And how shall they call on him 

553
00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:17,000
in whom they have not believed? 
And how shall they believe in 

554
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,200
him in whom they have not heard?
And how shall they hear? 

555
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,700
Without a preacher? 
And how shall they preach? 

556
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,300
Except they be said as it is 
written. 

557
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,100
How beautiful are the feet of 
them? 

558
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:31,200
them that preach the gospel of 
peace and bring Glad Tidings of 

559
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:37,600
good things but let's go 
further, But they have not all 

560
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:42,600
obeyed, the gospel for Isaiah, 
saith unto them who hath 

561
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,200
believed our report. 
So faith comes by hearing and 

562
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:49,600
hearing by the word of God. 
Now, did they hear absolutely 

563
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,400
Verse 18, but I say, have they 
not heard? 

564
00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:56,000
Yes. 
Verily, their sound went out of 

565
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,900
all the Earth and their words, 
unto the ends of the world. 

566
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,400
Faith comes by hearing hearing 
what the gospel salvation comes 

567
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,700
in. 
Obedience to the gospel. 

568
00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:09,500
Now look at Romans. 
Chapter 6. 

569
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:14,400
We're talking about obeying the 
gospel and how do you do that? 

570
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:21,200
Romans chapter 6. and verse 17, 
the Apostle Paul says, but God 

571
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,400
be thanked He said, but God be 
thanked that you were the 

572
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,100
servant of sin. 
You no longer are though why 

573
00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:33,300
you've done, what you've obeyed 
from the heart that form of 

574
00:37:33,300 --> 00:37:37,900
Doctrine delivered. 
You now, the form is exactly 

575
00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:40,600
what we talked about. 
In First Corinthians chapter 15,

576
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,700
what is it? 
It's the gospel, it's the death,

577
00:37:43,700 --> 00:37:46,500
the burial, and the resurrection
of Jesus. 

578
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,700
That's what they did. 
They obeyed from the heart that 

579
00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:57,400
pattern or form All I got to 
figure out how to do is, do that

580
00:37:58,100 --> 00:37:59,000
and I'm home. 
Free. 

581
00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:01,400
Look at Romans 6. 
Beginning in verse 3. 

582
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:06,100
How do you do that? 
Know, ye not that. 

583
00:38:06,100 --> 00:38:11,900
So many of us as were baptized 
into Jesus Christ were baptized 

584
00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:17,300
into his death. 
Therefore we are buried with him

585
00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:21,200
by baptism into death that like 
as Christ was raised from the 

586
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,700
dead by the glory of the father.
Even so we also should walk in 

587
00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:26,900
newness of life. 
For if we have been planted 

588
00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:30,500
together in the likeness of his 
death, we should be also in what

589
00:38:30,500 --> 00:38:33,400
the likeness of his 
resurrection. 

590
00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:38,400
If somebody might say no, wait a
minute, I see that I see that 

591
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,000
baptism is what they're talking 
about then obey. 

592
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,900
The gospel is baptism, I get 
that. 

593
00:38:45,700 --> 00:38:49,400
But Frank a few passages ago, 
you said in Romans chapter 10, 

594
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,000
in fact you read it right out of
the Bible. 

595
00:38:51,100 --> 00:38:54,000
It says whosoever shall call on 
the name of the Lord shall be 

596
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,400
saved. 
That's true. 

597
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,800
The question is, how do you call
on the name of the Lord? 

598
00:38:59,900 --> 00:39:02,300
That's all we need to know. 
We've already proved that 

599
00:39:02,300 --> 00:39:04,300
obeying. 
The gospel is be baptized into 

600
00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:06,100
Christ for the remission of 
sins. 

601
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,800
You obey that former pattern 
that Jesus did on the cross 

602
00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:11,700
died, buried resurrected. 
We've already proven that Bible 

603
00:39:11,700 --> 00:39:14,200
did that. 
All we got to figure out is what

604
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:15,800
does it mean to call on the name
of the Lord? 

605
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,600
And we're home free to in Acts 
chapter 22 Saul of Tarsus had 

606
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,000
been on the Damascus Road. 
The Lord blinded him. 

607
00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:26,500
He sent him into it into town 
there and told him he's going to

608
00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:28,700
somebody's gonna come Men, tell 
him what he must do. 

609
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,900
He prayed for three days I would
imagine you know you pray for 

610
00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:35,600
three days I've never prayed 
anything close to that long 

611
00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:39,700
sometimes sometimes we get a 
little drowsy or sleepy of some 

612
00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:42,900
brother praise for 15 minutes. 
Can you imagine somebody praying

613
00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:46,700
for three days? 
Don't you think that in three 

614
00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:48,300
days? 
If something had to be said that

615
00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:52,700
God, he got it. 
But people today say all you got

616
00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:55,500
to do is say something, the Lord
that's what calling on the name 

617
00:39:55,500 --> 00:40:00,800
of the Lord is near Home Free. 
But in Acts 22:16 after he had 

618
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,200
prayed for three days ananias 
walks in, and what does he say? 

619
00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:07,600
He said what are you waiting 
for? 

620
00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:11,100
And now why tarriest thou arise 
and what? 

621
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,900
And be baptized and wash away 
your sins? 

622
00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:20,200
What is it called calling on the
name of the Lord? 

623
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:23,400
It's obeying. 
The Lord. 

624
00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,900
How do you obey the Lord by 
obeying the gospel when you're 

625
00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:32,500
baptized into Christ. 
But finally not only not only 

626
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:37,000
does Jesus divide through the 
instrument of the Gospel in 

627
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:40,400
eternity. 
But the last point, he also 

628
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:42,300
divides in time. 
Now, I'm going to tell you this,

629
00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:46,100
there may be times in your life,
I have seen many examples in my 

630
00:40:46,100 --> 00:40:49,100
life where I have known somebody
that decided I want to be 

631
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:53,000
baptized and they had to stand 
against their family for it. 

632
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,700
I want you to understand that if
you do something against your 

633
00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:01,800
family, it's nothing new. 
If you do something from a 

634
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,800
spiritual perspective, for the 
Lord and for your soul and your 

635
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,900
family doesn't like it, it has 
always been that way. 

636
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:17,400
And it always will. 
In fact you know what Jesus said

637
00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:21,300
he's talking about that dividing
instrument of the Gospel. 

638
00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:29,600
You know, he says get this he 
said from now on Now he was 

639
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:35,400
still living and he said from 
now on, you know, the Lord love 

640
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,100
that phrase member when he said 
to his disciples from now on 

641
00:41:39,100 --> 00:41:42,300
you're going to be what you're 
going to be Fishers of Men. 

642
00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:48,800
In Luke 22 and 69 Jesus while 
anticipating his Ascension. 

643
00:41:49,100 --> 00:41:54,000
He said from now on the son of 
man will be seated at the right 

644
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:58,200
hand of God in heaven. 
So when he says that phrase, he 

645
00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,500
means this is how it's going to 
be. 

646
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:05,700
I don't know about you but that 
encourages me because, you know 

647
00:42:05,700 --> 00:42:07,000
what? 
I'm human too. 

648
00:42:07,100 --> 00:42:11,000
And I get discouraged like 
anybody and everybody else. 

649
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:19,400
Oh, we get discouraged. but 
remember the Lord said, nope, 

650
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:27,300
from now on from that long. 
Even families will be divided 

651
00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:30,100
over the truth. 
That's brought to the world 

652
00:42:30,100 --> 00:42:33,100
through the gospel. 
Yes folks. 

653
00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:36,600
The gospel divides. 
And it goes all the way back to 

654
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:41,100
the dividing event of the cross.
Back in the day of Jesus some 

655
00:42:41,100 --> 00:42:44,400
accepted him. 
Others did not some accept the 

656
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,700
truth today. 
Others do not. and the reason 

657
00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:52,700
because is the is because the 
gospel is divisive You know, the

658
00:42:52,700 --> 00:42:55,300
gospel is a serious problem that
people that reject it. 

659
00:42:56,500 --> 00:42:59,100
In fact, sometimes you will be 
considered an outcast or a 

660
00:42:59,100 --> 00:43:03,800
weirdo if you obey it. 
People can't understand. 

661
00:43:05,100 --> 00:43:07,900
The standard that we live by. 
If we're Christians, they can't 

662
00:43:07,900 --> 00:43:12,700
get that. a lot of people don't 
understand that, what a weirdo 

663
00:43:12,700 --> 00:43:19,000
is that what an outcast and put 
you down and criticize you But 

664
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,000
you know, it's always been that 
way. 

665
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:21,900
Don't remember the disciples 
what they do to them. 

666
00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:23,800
Now, this has never happened to 
me. 

667
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,600
I've had people bark at me and 
say, a little something here or 

668
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:28,400
there, but I've never had this 
happen. 

669
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,200
You what they did? 
They physically and verbally 

670
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,600
cast them out of the 
synagogue's. 

671
00:43:34,700 --> 00:43:38,000
Now, I can't imagine when the 
Bible says, they were cast out 

672
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:42,000
of the synagogue, I'm sure it 
wasn't like, you know, fellas. 

673
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,600
I think it'd be great if you 
just went somewhere else. 

674
00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:48,200
No thanks. 
Appreciate your story and all 

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but no thanks I think you'd be 
better if you just don't come 

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back. 
That's not casting out the 

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synagogue's. 
They were violently cast out of 

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the synagogue's. 
You know why gospel divides It's

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divisive, it's going to happen 
in our life. 

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They were social outcasts. 
Even today, even today. 

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Now, this is very sad. 
But Jesus said this, we have to 

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read it. 
Luke 12 and 53. 

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Let's look at that. 
Passage Father will be divided 

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against son. 
And Son against father, mother 

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against daughter and daughter 
against mother and mother-in-law

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against her daughter-in-law and 
daughter-in-law against her 

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mother-in-law. 
You know, I read this not long 

688
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ago, that there was a story 
about a couple a young couple 

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they got married. 
They were trying to get start 

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their life together. 
And they had Catholic 

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background. 
They were their members of the 

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Catholic church, but they 
studied the Bible and they 

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realize, wait a minute. 
I need to follow Jesus, the way 

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the gospel determines that I 
should do. 

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So they had a child that was 
born into this world and the 

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Catholic parent, grandparents 
wanted to baptize that baby in 

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the Catholic church by way of 
sprinkling and pouring and all 

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of that. 
You know what happened? 

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The parents said, absolutely 
not. 

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You know what the grandparents 
did they said? 

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Well, from now on, we won't even
recognize that child's existence

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and they didn't even call it by 
name. 

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You want to call it it? 
Called him it. 

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Gospel, divides. 
Some of you have heard me. 

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Tell the story 1984. 
There was a young man with that,

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has mild cerebral palsy and 
epilepsy that I grew up with in 

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high school and he came to 
church with us every Sunday. 

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One day, he decided he wanted to
be baptized into Christ because 

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that's what the Bible says. 
That's how you obey the gospel 

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00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,700
we talked about. 
He wanted to be baptized into 

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Christ. 
He understood enough. 

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Sure he did want to be brother 
in Christ. 

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I want to be saved. 
That's what he said. 

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His grandparents said. 
If you do this, you're out of 

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the will You're done, you know 
what he said. 

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Oh, I love this. 
Then leave me out. 

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Man, that's great. 
Sometimes we think heroes. 

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Are these people that do great 
big, huge things in life, and 

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change history, and all that. 
You know what a hero really is 

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somebody that stands for the 
truth, regardless of opposition,

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whatever that may be, that's a 
hero. 

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That young man was a hero. 
Folks, Jesus is the great 

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divider. 
I say this in closing. 

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The crosses the Great Dividing 
event and based on our obedience

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00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:37,300
or lack thereof, tiffa gospel, 
which is the dividing 

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instrument, we are divided in 
eternity and we are divided even

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in this life in time. 
But here's the question and I 

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want to give you, I want to give
you a very encouraging bursts, 

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that we're going to end with 
right now. 

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Because that's really the thing 
we talked about the price in the

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cost. 
Yeah, that cost a lot. 

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It will cost you everything to 
be a Christian. 

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Yes, it will. 
We are not selling a cheap 

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religion because the Lord didn't
either. 

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The question isn't the price of 
the cost? 

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The question is, is it worth it?
Watch this. 

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When we already talked about the
fact, yeah, there's you're saved

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or lost by so sure, being saved.
But watch this, the disciples 

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came to Jesus and they said we 
have given up everything to 

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follow you. 
We're talking about giving stuff

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up, they gave it all up, you 
know what? 

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They didn't go back and get 
their luggage, they laid it down

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and went with the Lord. 
They gave up everything for 

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00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:40,500
Jesus. 
So you know what they said? 

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00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:42,600
They said. 
What about all of us that have 

746
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:47,000
given up everything to follow 
you, this what Jesus said, In 

747
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fact, let's just read what Peter
said. 

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First Matthew 19:27, Then Peter 
answered and said to him. 

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See we have left all to follow 
you there for what shall we have

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verse 29. 
Jesus said this. 

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Everyone who has left houses or 
brothers or sisters, or father, 

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or mother, or wife or children, 
or lands for my name's sake. 

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00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:16,900
What are you going to get? 
Shall receive a hundredfold and 

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00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:20,900
what else? 
And heater and inherit eternal 

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00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,800
life. 
Is it worth it? 

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Remember remember when Jesus? 
In the Book of Luke. 

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He was preaching to those great 
multitudes and there were people

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00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,400
that were following him for all 
manner of reasons. 

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00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,600
Do you remember what happened? 
As he's preaching to those, 

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00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,700
great multitude only finally 
said, unless you eat my flesh 

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00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:45,400
and drink my blood, you shall 
not have eternal life. 

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A story about obedience there, 
you know, the Bible says, it 

763
00:48:49,300 --> 00:48:54,000
says that many of them couldn't 
stand it and because he said 

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that, the Bible says, many, many
stop following him that day and 

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00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:01,900
we can only picture in Our Minds
Eye. 

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The look on the face of Jesus, 
and the tone in his voice, when 

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he turns back to his disciples 
and says, Will you also go away?

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00:49:10,500 --> 00:49:16,400
And Peter says to, whom shall we
go for thou Hast? 

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The words of eternal life? 
Is it worth it? 

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00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,700
It's worth it. 
Look what you get. 

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Sometimes we talk about all the 
things you have to give up to be

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00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,400
a Christian. 
But look what you get, you give 

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00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:31,900
up everything. 
You give up your land. 

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00:49:31,900 --> 00:49:35,000
You get 100 fold. 
It says, and you got eternal 

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00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:38,200
life. 
Are you here today? 

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00:49:38,500 --> 00:49:41,100
And you're not a Christian 
because you have never obeyed 

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00:49:41,100 --> 00:49:43,100
the gospel. 
We have proven from the word of 

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00:49:43,100 --> 00:49:45,200
God. 
What that means you have to be 

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00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:50,100
baptized in water in immersion 
and rise to walk in newness of 

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00:49:50,100 --> 00:49:51,900
life. 
That's what you have to do to be

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saved, obey the gospel. 
If you have never obeyed, the 

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gospel then come believing in 
Jesus. 

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00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,200
Repent of your sins confess, his
name as the Son of God and let's

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baptize you today in water for 
the remission of your sins. 

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Maybe you have taken those steps
though, but you're not living as

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you should, it's a wonderful 
opportunity to come back. 

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Come repenting of those things 
confess, those things and we'll 

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pray with you and for you and 
God will forgive and restore, 

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like, it never happened. 
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