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Take your Bible if you would 
please, and turn to John Chapter

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And we are looking at the legacy

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of John the Baptist. 
It's a lasting legacy. 

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It's lasted some 2000 years 
because what John lived before 

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the world, he left behind for 
all of us to read and see and 

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hear and understand. 
His legacy made a tremendous 

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impact. 
Although his ministry was only 

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for 18 months, but this is the 
greatest man ever born of a 

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woman. 
And so if that's the case, what 

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kind of legacy did he leave 
behind? 

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And how do we evaluate our life 
in light of his life that we 

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might understand our legacy 
today? 

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The Bible tells us that that 
John came to testify to the 

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light, came to give a testimony 
about the light. 

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He said I am not the light, but 
I've come to testify about the 

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light. 
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one it talks about His 
testimony, how He would testify 

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before the world. 
Jesus would sum it up this way. 

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In John 5 verse #33 says you 
have sent John or you have sent 

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to John, and He has testified to
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Verse 35 He was the lamp that 
was burning and was shining, and

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you were willing to rejoice for 
a while in His light. 

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John was burning brightly. 
John was shining splendidly. 

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There was something about John 
that that made him the man that 

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he was as he came to testify. 
And he would become the first of

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eight witnesses in John's Gospel
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The Apostle John would refer to 
when it came to a testimony 

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before the world, and John was 
that great prophet, that great, 

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that great priest, that that 
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He was a prophet. 
Everyone who knew he was a 

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prophet that gave him 
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He was in the line of of the 
priesthood. 

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Everybody knew his father 
Zacharias, who was a priest. 

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And so for all practical 
purposes, John was a priest that

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gave him believability, but he 
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He lived a life that was the 
antithesis to the religious 

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establishment of the day. 
The way he dressed, the way he 

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spoke, the way he lived was a 
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And that that gave him 
integrity, which allowed him to,

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to be the kind of testimony, the
kind of witness that would speak

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volumes for the claims of 
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So this is the man John the 
Baptist and his legacy can be 

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wrapped up in 3 words, 3 words 
that you can apply to your life 

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as you will see as we go through
this, this week or last week, 

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this weekend and next week, of 
course, to help you understand 

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the legacy of, of John the 
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The first word is simply 
presentation. 

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Second word is preparation, and 
the third word is proclamation. 

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He presented #1 the preeminence 
of the light #2 He prepared the 

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pathway to the Lord, and #3 he 
was the one who proclaimed. 

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He proclaimed the person of the 
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That is the legacy of John the 
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the presentation. 
Because he was the one who 

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presented the preeminence of the
light. 

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He was the one who would show 
how great the light was and he 

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would shine brightly. 
He would shine splendidly as he 

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lived his legacy. 
So the question we asked last 

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week was how did he present the 
pre eminence of the light and 

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why did he present the pre 
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Those are the two questions we 
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So the first question, how we 
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But by showing you that he 
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longingly, that there was a, a, 
a, a loving message that John 

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would give. 
Love is giving people what they 

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need, not what they want. 
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They needed to know who the king
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They needed to know that the 
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They needed to know what it 
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When you love people, you tell 
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and his Kingdom. 
So he gave it to him lovingly 

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and he gave it to them longingly
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his heart, in his soul, because 
he had waited a long time, some 

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30 years to present the Messiah 
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Kingdom to come. 
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Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 
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the King to come and and set up 
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That's why in Luke 3 it says 
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life of expectation. 
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coming one, the expected one to 
arrive the Messiah so that the 

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Kingdom would come. 
And that's why they, they came 

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down from Jerusalem and from all
Judea in in the thousands to be 

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baptized by John of the Jordan 
River that they were expecting 

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the king and his Kingdom. 
And so John who, who longingly 

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was, was wanting to present this
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He had lived in anticipation his
whole life for this very moment,

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not knowing that it would only 
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He had no no clue that would be 
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Just think, spending 30 years 
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for the Messiah, only to last 18
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That was his life. 
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preeminence of the light 
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He would do it #2 instinctively 
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Talked about these last week. 
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filled with the Holy Spirit from
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He was controlled by the Spirit 
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It became part and parcel to his
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So by by by natural instinct, he
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with the gospel because the 
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do so. 
He would do it incessantly. 

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We showed you last week where in
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succession, in John one day, one
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this is what he was doing. 
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Because this is what he did all 
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John just gives us a glimpse of 
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This is something he did 
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It was something he did just 
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It was something he did every 
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This was his ministry. 
This was his life. 

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For him to shine brightly, he 
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So he did it lovingly and 
longingly. 

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He did it instinctively and 
incessantly, and he did it 

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graphically and gracefully. 
Graphically, he would say in in 

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Matthew chapter 3, when he saw 
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coming to him, he would call 
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You, you pack of snakes. 
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describe the the religious 
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He would tell them who warned 
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come. 
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Because I baptize you with 
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But there's one who's going to 
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fire, and you need to be 
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He would call out Herod in a 
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Herod was the king, but he would
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relationship with his wife that 
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said that you're living in sin. 
And Luke's account tells us that

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he reprimanded the king. 
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Because he would graphically 
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him. 
You know, we don't do that 

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today. 
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We instead of calling adultery 
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as if to, to give it some kind 
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We, we don't, we don't call 
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We call them people with an 
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Bible calls them homosexuals. 
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persons. 
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slanderer and the gossip. 
In fact, it says in in Ephesians

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5 and in Galatians 5 and in 
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the list of those who who will 
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heaven. 
And they're named graphically in

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the Scriptures. 
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says. 
I think this is very interesting

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about our our Lord. 
In Matthew 23 He says woe, woe 

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to you scribes and and Pharisees
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outside of the cup and of the 
dish, but inside they are full 

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of robbery and self indulgence. 
The blind Pharisee first clean 

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the inside of the cup and of the
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may become clean. 
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Woe to you scribes and 
Pharisees, hypocrites, for you 

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are like whitewashed tombs, 
which on the outside appear 

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beautiful, but in the inside 
they are full of dead men's 

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bones and all uncleanness. 
So you 2 outwardly appear 

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righteous to men, but inwardly 
you are full of hypocrisy and 

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lawlessness. 
Jesus called out sinners because

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of their hypocrisy. 
John would do the same thing, so

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when he would shine the light, 
he would do it graphically 

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because man needs to know that 
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that he's a Sinner. 
For without knowing that, you'll

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never see your need for a 
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You must understand that you are
separated from God and that your

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works are are worthless before 
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And John made sure of that 
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But he did it gracefully. 
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proudly. 
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that would that would be harsh, 
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would show grace. 
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Because Herod needed to repent. 
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relationship was immoral, that 
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So he called him out the 
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they were hypocrites that they 
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but on the inside they were like
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needed to know the truth and and
grace is is showing them that 

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look it once you know that 
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grace that can save you. 
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That's what I love what it says 
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Colossians the the 4th chapter 
when Paul would say these words.

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Colossians 4 verse #5 Consider 
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conduct yourselves, excuse me, 
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making the most of the 
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time. 
Let your speech always be with 

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grace, as though seasoned with 
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you should respond to each 
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Graceful speech is grace that is
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And salt's a preservative salt, 
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But salt also causes great pain 
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And so when you speak the truth 
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truth gracefully, those whose 
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sting badly. 
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the truth about how our Lord has
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sin. 
That was all of last week. 

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That's John the Baptist. 
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Lovingly, longingly. 
He did it instinctively, 

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incessantly. 
He did it graphically and 

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gracefully, but he also did it 
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Heartily and humbly. 
He he was crying in the 

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wilderness. 
John didn't do things half 

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heartedly. 
He did them full heartedly. 

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He was all heart. 
He was all in. 

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He he wasn't partially into his 
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He wasn't partially into into 
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He was all in for the Messiah. 
He was all in and what God 

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called him to do. 
So you do it with all of his 

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might. 
That's what Solomon says in 

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Ecclesiastes 9 verse #10 
whatever your hand finds to do, 

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do it with all of your might, 
all your might. 

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Paul would say it this way in 
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Colossians chapter 3, verse 23. 
He says, whatever you do, do 

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heartily. 
As for the Lord, not unto man, 

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knowing that you will receive a 
reward from the Lord heartily 

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with all of his heart. 
So when he came as a voice 

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crying in the wilderness, when 
he would speak forth the truth 

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of the gospel, he did it in such
a way that he would, he would 

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shout the truth. 
He wanted people to know the 

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truth, and so he did it with all
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But he did it humbly. 
Humbly. 

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He says I'm just a voice. 
I'm just a voice. 

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He never referenced his father 
as a priest to give him some 

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kind of clout with the other 
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He could have done that. 
Well, I'm a son of a priest, 

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just like, just like you are. 
No, he didn't say that. 

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So I'm just a voice of one 
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He says. 
I'm not worthy to to loosen the 

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straps of my Savior sandals. 
I'm not even worthy to do the 

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most menial task. 
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he says he must increase and I 
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What a great testimony. 
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so brightly is because he didn't
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himself. 
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focused on the Christ. 
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Christ today. 
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us. 
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those people who name their 
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that that's a very dangerous 
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Shouldn't do that because it's 
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It's about the ministry of 
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It's about putting Christ on 
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There's so many times we want to
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to faith or take credit for 
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take credit for this or take 
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the Spirit of God in a 
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lives of people. 
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wilderness. 
We are just vessels to be used 

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by God. 
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but yet very humbly presenting 
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And then, then lastly, he did it
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truthfully. 
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he, he preached the gospel. 
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He spoke the truth about the 
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He spoke the truth about entry 
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You got to repent and he was the
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exhortations. 
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account that he would speak to 
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quote Isaiah 40 verse #3 Why? 
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truthfully as to what he was 
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that he had the support of the 
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what he was doing. 
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to speak the truth. 
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we read earlier that Jesus said 
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truth. 
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before Pilate said these words, 
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truth. 
You see, when you shine brightly

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for the Lord, it's all about the
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And Christ came and John came to
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The truth about what? 
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hell, Truth about mercy and 
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about sin and salvation. 
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Christ is the truth. 
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the truth. 
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brightly, truthfully as well as 
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gave up. 
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tenacious. 
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life because as John one says, 
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so that all may believe. 
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stand strong and didn't live a 
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the truth tenaciously, without 
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down, it would not be effective.
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He came to testify as a prophet,
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How? 
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longingly. 
By speaking instinctively and 

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incessantly, graphically and 
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truthfully and tenaciously, you 
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You need to present the pre 
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Let's see the second question. 
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Well, using the same outline 
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along and you didn't get that, 
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that, but use the same word, 
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Let me show you how he did this 
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Why did he do it #1 because he 
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He loved the person of God. 
He loved his God. 

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Paul would say that the love of 
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Paul knew Christ. 
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Paul didn't know Christ, excuse 
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He was his cousin, so John knew 
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I'm sure that they would get 
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at different times. 
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but because they were related. 
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times that they got together, 
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familial relationship. 
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himself was. 
He loved the person of God. 

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That was his motivation. 
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Why would he speak against the 
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Why would he protest against all
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so graphically against sin? 
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loved him. 
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loved us and John loved the 
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You know one of the the greatest
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presenting the preeminence of 
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lack of love for the Lord? 
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to love him. 
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you see him, know him as you 
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and so you tell others about 
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This is John. 
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He wanted others to love him and
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the end of Christ's ministry, 
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resurrection, he appeared to, to
Peter on the on the shore of the

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Sea of Galilee. 
And he asked him, what question,

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Peter, do you love me? 
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carrying the gospel to the 
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You're going to open the door to
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But I got to know, do you love 
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Because if you don't love me, 
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to wane. 
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stand strong for me. 
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Because I want you to follow me.
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But you got to represent me. 
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And that's what Christ asked us.
Do you love me enough to present

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me the light in a World of 
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Because if you want to leave 
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got to do. 
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love the Lord with all your 
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your mind and all your strength.
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Matthew's Gospel, the 10th 
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father and mother more than me 
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He who loves son or daughter 
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worthy of me. 
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than you love me? 
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going to present me accurately, 
you're not going to present me 

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graphically, you're not going to
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you don't want to upset anybody,
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than anything else. 
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Christ demands. 
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when Elizabeth was six months 
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in his mother's womb. 
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and supernatural kind of thing, 
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mother's mother's womb. 
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the Son of God. 
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somebody I'm related to. 
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He, he, the Son of God, is the 
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He understands the the 
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He understands the importance of
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He understands the importance of
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up with is God in the flesh. 
He loved the person of God #2 He

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was inspired by the call of God.
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God. 
You can even say he was incited 

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by the call of God. 
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John where in the wilderness. 
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John and God would call him into
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Elijah, like Isaiah, those great
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called by God into the ministry 
and and knowing that John had 

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been personally called by the 
living God to now go preach 

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about the king and his Kingdom, 
present the preeminence of the 

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light. 
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it. 
It would inspire him because He 

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was simply called by God. 
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to proclaim the excellencies, 
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called us out of darkness into 
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The reason we do it is because 
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hand chosen by God to be used by
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That in and of itself is a 
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This is why John did it. 
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call of call of God upon his 
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We told you earlier that that 
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a heavenly calling. 
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It's a holy calling. 
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it is a high calling. 
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been called with the heavenly 
high and holy calling that 

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should inspire everyone of us to
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light. 
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Baptist. 
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the gifts and calling of God are
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God has gifted you and called 
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He's not going to go back on 
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Thank you. 
If He's called you into His 

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Kingdom, He's going to use you 
for His glory, because that call

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is irrevocable. 
So #1 he loved the person of God

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#2 he was inspired by the call 
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the Spirit of God. 
He was guided by the Spirit of 

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God. 
This is how He did it. 

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This is why He did it. 
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Because he was filled with the 
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womb. 
No other creature, no other 

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individual has ever had that 
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But when you, when you are 
called by God into his Kingdom 

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and you're born again, the 
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The Spirit of God takes up 
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we we have this spirit, Paul 
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verse #7 God has not given us 
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of power and of love and of of 
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Will we have this spirit that's 
one of power, this spirit that's

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one of love and self-discipline 
and it moves and and guides us 

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each and every step of the way. 
That's why the Bible says walk 

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in the spirit so you don't 
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We are to be filled with the 
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Ephesians 518 controlled by 
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Spirit under the the operation 
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Because when God's spirit is 
guiding us, everything around us

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changes because we are to 
respond to people in the way the

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Spirit will respond to them. 
Here's John filled with the 

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Spirit from his mother's womb. 
Remember the Old Testament, the 

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Spirit of God would would come 
upon people in the Old Testament

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to do certain things and 
accomplish certain objectives, 

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but didn't dwell them. 
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whole mystery that was concealed
in the old but revealed in the 

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newest Christ in you, the hope 
of glory that the triune nature 

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of God dwells within us and 
lives within us and moves us to 

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action. 
This is how we we know we can 

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accomplish what God's called us 
to do. 

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He's given us all the resources 
to accomplish the objective 

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because He is the resource. 
The Spirit is God himself who 

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lives within us. 
It doesn't. 

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It's not a spirit of timidity, 
of fear, but one of power, one 

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of love and one of 
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That was John. 
He was guided by the spirit of 

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the living God because he was 
inspired by the call of God. 

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But the heart of it all, he 
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But know this number four, his 
hope or he hoped in the promises

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of God. 
He hoped in the promises of God.

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Hope is a is a is a word of 
anticipation, knowing that God 

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will fulfill his promises. 
If you go back to to Luke's 

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gospel in Luke chapter 1, 
remember the the song of 

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Zacharias. 
It was all about the fulfillment

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of prophecy. 
It was all about the hope of 

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Israel. 
It was all about the hope of the

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Davidic covenant and it's 
fulfillment, the Abrahamic 

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covenant, it's fulfillment, the 
new covenant and it's 

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fulfillment. 
The king is coming. 

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He's coming to present the 
Kingdom, and my son is a 

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forerunner to the king and his 
Kingdom. 

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That means Davidic truth is 
going to come about. 

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That means Abrahamic truth is 
going to come to fruition. 

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That means that the new covenant
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That's how he speaks. 
So he says in verse 68 of Luke 

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1, blessed be the Lord God of 
Israel, for He has visited us 

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and accomplished redemption for 
his people. 

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He's visited us. 
That was the hope that the 

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Messiah would come. 
And it's raised up a horde of 

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salvation in the House of David 
His servant, as He spoke by the 

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mouth of the holy prophets from 
of old salvation from our 

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enemies and from the hand of all
who hate us. 

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To show mercy toward our fathers
and to remember His holy 

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covenant, The oath which He 
swore to Abraham our Father, to 

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grant us that we being rescued 
from the land of our enemies, 

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might serve Him without fear in 
holiness and righteousness 

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before Him all our days. 
And you, child, will be called 

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the prophet of the Most High, 
for you will go on before the 

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Lord to prepare His ways, to 
give to His people the knowledge

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of salvation by the forgiveness 
of their sins, Because of the 

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tender mercy of our God, with 
which the sunrise from the High 

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will visit us to shine upon 
those who sit in darkness in the

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shadow of death, to guide our 
feet into the way of peace. 

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All that was in hope of all the 
promises that God had given the 

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Old Testament. 
And so John is is raised that 

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way. 
He knows his father son song. 

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I'm sure by now John is John's 
father is, is not alive. 

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I mean, John's father was in his
80s when he was born. 

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So 30 years later, that would 
make him over 100 years of age. 

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I'm not sure that Zacharias 
lived that long. 

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And so he would remember the, 
the, the song of his father. 

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He'd remember the words of his 
father. 

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But as he studied the Old 
Testament, he would know during 

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those 10 years plus in the 
wilderness and communion with 

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his God, he would begin to 
understand the great prophetic 

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fulfilment of the coming king. 
This Kingdom he was inspired by,

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by hope. 
He hoped in the promises of God.

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He believed in the promises of 
God. 

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The king is here. 
He's coming with his Kingdom. 

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Repent and believe in him. 
And This is why in Luke 7, John 

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was so confounded. 
When he's in prison, he says the

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disciples to to ask Jesus are 
are you the Messiah? 

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Are you the expected one? 
Are you the coming one? 

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Or should we look for somebody 
else? 

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Why? 
Because he was so certain that 

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that the Messiah was there and 
the Kingdom would be presented 

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and he would establish his 
Kingdom. 

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But John did not know about how 
they would slay the one he 

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pointed to. 
John didn't understand the whole

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second coming of the Messiah. 
He just knew about the coming 

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King. 
This Kingdom, you and me, we 

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present the premise of the 
light. 

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Why? 
Why? 

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Because we hope in the promises 
of God. 

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That's why we pray. 
Our Father, who art in heaven, 

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hallowed be thy name, thy 
Kingdom come. 

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We're in hope of the coming 
Kingdom, the promises of God. 

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We are in hope of his, his 
return again. 

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That's that's why we, we tell 
others about, about the Christ. 

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We want them to be a part of 
that coming Kingdom. 

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We want them to know that Christ
is going to come again. 

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And so we tell them with 
passion, with drive and with 

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sincerity, the King is going to 
come. 

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He could come at any moment. 
Are you ready for him to arrive?

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That's how John and why John was
so strong in this presentation 

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of the King's Kingdom. 
We live in anticipation of the 

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coming of the king. 
We long for his coming again. 

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Our our hope is rooted in God. 
He is the God of hope and he 

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gives us this glorious promises 
that tell us what's going to 

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happen when he arrives again. 
Those are things that that move 

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us to present the pre eminence 
of the light so important. 

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So here is John. 
Why did he do what he did? 

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He loved the person of God. 
He was inspired by the call of 

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God. 
He was guided by the Spirit of 

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God. 
He hoped in the promises of God.

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And lastly, he trusted in the 
Word of God. 

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He would trust that God's Word 
would not return void. 

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He trusted that what he would 
say concerning the king of this 

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Kingdom would bring forth 
grapefruit. 

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He trusted in God's Word. 
He believed what God's Word said

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I I love what what the Bible 
says and Psalm Psalm 39, verse 

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number 7 and now Lord for what 
do I wait my hope is in you. 

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John's hope was was in the Lord,
but but he trusted in the word 

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of the Lord. 
Remember Psalm 119, verse 4042? 

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I will have an answer for him 
who reproaches me, for I trust 

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in your word. 
Psalmist. 

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Do that trust in the Word, verse
66 of Psalm 119. 

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Teach me good discernment and 
knowledge, for I trust in Your 

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commandments. 
Verse 1114 of Psalm 118. 

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You are my hiding place in my 
shield. 

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I trust Your word. 
I trust Your word Over in Second

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Samuel chapter 22 verse #31 
David says As for God, his way 

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is blameless. 
The word of the Lord is is 

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proven, tested. 
He is a shield to all who take 

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refuge in him. 
I would I would assume that John

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the Baptist knew about King 
David and knew about the words 

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of Second Samuel 22. 
He could read them in the 

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scrolls and he would trust in 
the word of the Lord. 

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How about you? 
You want to leave a a lasting 

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legacy. 
You got to shine bright for the 

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Lord. 
You got to you got to present 

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the light as preeminent in your 
life. 

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And how do you do that? 
You do it lovingly and 

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longingly. 
You. 

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You do it instinctively and 
incessantly, graphically and 

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gracefully. 
You do it in a way that's 

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heartily and humbly, truthfully 
and tenaciously. 

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Why? 
Why would you do that? 

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Because you love the Lord. 
The love of Christ compels you. 

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You love the person of God 
you're inspired by by the call 

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of God, and you're guided by the
Spirit of God. 

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Therefore, you hope in the 
promises of God and you trust in

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the Word of God. 
You're not trusting in yourself,

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you're not trusting in your 
presentation, you're not 

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trusting in the brightness of 
your light. 

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You're just trusting in the Word
of the living God, and you will 

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be well on your way and leaving 
a lasting legacy that will last 

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for generations to come, simply 
because you have presented the 

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preeminence of the light #2 you 
prepare the pathway of the Lord.

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How do you do that? 
That's next week. 

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Let's pray together, Father. 
We thank you Lord for today and 

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the opportunity to give us to 
come before you. 

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Our prayer, Lord, is that we 
would be the kind of people that

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present you brightly if you are 
preeminent. 

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We are not your king, we are 
your subjects. 

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Maybe we used by you in a way 
that honors your name until you 

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come again, as you most surely 
will in Jesus name, Amen.