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All right, you can turn in your 
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That's right. 
So yeah, I haven't. 

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Preached him. 
It was three weeks in a row that

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I didn't preach. 
So it's been like a month for 

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me, right? 
So today I'm going to go about 2

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1/2 hours to make up for it. 
Sounds like nervous laughter 

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instead of like, is he joking? 
I'm not so sure. 

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We do have a lot to. 
Cover so y'all better listen 

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fast. 
We're in Matthew chapter 12. 

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Didn't Brian Briggs do a great 
job? 

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Wasn't he a blessing when he was
here? 

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If you remember from a few weeks
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So we are picking up now in 
Matthew chapter 12. 

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We're in verse 22 and I'm going 
to read to you through verse 32.

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Then a demon possessed man who 
was blind and mute was brought 

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to him, talking about brought to
Jesus, and he healed him, so 

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that the man spoke and saw. 
And all the people were were 

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amazed and said, can this be the
son of David? 

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When the Pharisees heard it, 
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Beelzebel the Prince of demons, 
that this man casts out demons. 

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Knowing their thoughts, he said 
to them. 

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Every. 
Kingdom divided against itself 

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is laid waste, and no house or 
city divided against itself will

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stand. 
And if Satan casts out Satan, he

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is divided against himself. 
How then will his Kingdom stand?

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And if I cast out demons by 
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cast them out? 
Therefore they will be your 

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judges. 
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God that I cast out demons, then
the Kingdom of God has come upon

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you. 
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strong man's house and plunder 
his goods? 

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Unless he first binds the strong
man, then indeed he may plunder 

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his house. 
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against me, and whoever does not
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Therefore, I tell you, every sin
and blasphemy will be forgiven 

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people, but the blasphemy 
against the Holy Spirit will not

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be forgiven. 
And whoever speaks a word 

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against the Son of Man will be 
forgiven, but whoever speaks 

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against the Holy Spirit will not
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Or in the age to come. 
Heavenly Father, we approach 

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your word this morning with 
humility and we. 

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Ask for your. 
Direction and for your help. 

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I ask again for your help as we 
come to this passage that has 

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been often debated, often 
confused, and often become a 

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source of fear in the hearts of 
the tender. 

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Of your flock. 
But God, I ask. 

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That you administer as you see 
fit today, I ask that you would 

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speak through your word, that I 
would speak with precision, with

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clarity, and most importantly, 
with your anointing. 

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And that your power would come 
out to bless your people. 

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That your power would come to 
help your people. 

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That it would correct where it 
needs to correct. 

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They would it would relieve 
where it needs to relieve. 

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And that it would comfort where 
it needs to comfort. 

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So that your Saints would walk 
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more humble, more obedient, more
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faithful to you. 
That's our prayer. 

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Who is fit to do such a thing 
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So we need you, we trust you, we
rely on you. 

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Holy Spirit minister in Jesus 
name, Amen. 

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So this passage of scripture I 
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As a little boy, the. 
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my Bible, going to dad and 
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this unpardonable sin thing. 
So it's often referred to as the

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unpardonable sin. 
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explanation. 
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it was the, it was simple enough
that I could understand at that 

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time. 
And you're going to get the same

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true explanation today. 
You're going to get the same 

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clarity, but I'm praying that 
you'll have more understanding 

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around it beyond just the 
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The walk away is pretty simple 
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I wanted to speak to that right 
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not starting there, but that's 
oftentimes somebody goes hang on

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a second. 
I can't think or see anything 

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else until we address this big, 
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the room. 
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Yes, there most definitely is. 
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We're going to clarify and 
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we're going to start back up at 
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Verse 22 There's a man who is 
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and he is mute. 
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over and over. 
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began his ministry, He teaches 
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also shows what the Kingdom is 
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I wonder what God is like. 
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You can just look at Jesus. 
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this situation. 
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What God's will? 
Is pertaining sin. 

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Kingdom of heaven had come near 
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So Jesus preached repentance. 
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You remember when that happened,
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everybody have a wonderful plan 
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That wasn't the message of the 
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brought. 
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gospel, repent and follow me. 
So repentance hasn't change your

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life, change your direction, 
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But he also showed us what is 
the what is God like? 

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What's he really like? 
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sick and we haven't come across 
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Every single one we've come 
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So we're still waiting for all 
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want to heal. 
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there. 
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possessed people. 
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Jesus left the demons inside of.
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happening again. 
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maybe a few days previous, maybe
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We're probably not on the 
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So remember, Jesus was healing 
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whose. 
Hearts hate him. 

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Their hearts hate him. 
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Their problem is not that they 
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The problem is that they love 
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They hide behind a love for the 
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But the fruit of their life 
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word of God because if they love
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God. 
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they would love God's people. 
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They make no room. 
So disciples who get a little 

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bit of grain to eat, they go, 
you're violating the Sabbath. 

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Well, the word of God. 
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Your. 
Rules that you put say that. 

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So we talked about legalism and 
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these guys in their place, but 
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They continue to come after him.
And here they make really just a

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final and tragic mistake in in 
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A man is blind and mute, but 
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speak and he can see. 
Let's just state the obvious 

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again. 
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Really basic stuff here. 
Thank you, Pastor Obvious for 

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He wants to destroy people's 
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This is what he's continually 
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Jesus refers to people's 
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He refers to people's disease. 
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possession as a negative, an 
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It's not. 
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but look what the Lord did. 
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Don't confuse those two things. 
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Couldn't have happened unless 
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Also true, but that doesn't mean
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then later do good thing. 
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It's the principle of 
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So when something died, it now 
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So we have the gospel, we have 
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resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
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Because of the tragedy of the 
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And yet it wasn't God's will for
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This is basic logic stuff. 
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So Jesus understands that the 
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and everybody understands this. 
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people. 
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He makes people mute. 
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he doesn't only do this when he 
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We don't know why this man was 
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possessed potentially, but we 
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whatever he can to everybody. 
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oh, I just, I don't have to 
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Well, as a St. as a child of 
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that you could be possessed by 
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And yet scripture makes very 
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are oppressed by the enemy. 
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us that we are to put on the 
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wrestle not with flesh and 
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supernatural. 
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Pastor, you expect me to believe
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Yeah, of course I do. 
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Because Jesus does. 
Because the Bible teaches it. 

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This is a fundamental reality 
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It's not a natural phenomenon. 
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but it's real. 
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think that we weren't in some 
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impacted or influenced by the 
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Demonic persons. 
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entities, actual demon beings. 
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Well, Satan caused 1/3 of the 
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heaven in their rebellion 
against God, and now they have a

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limited authority on the earth 
to function and to interact, to 

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oppress people, to possess 
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You might think we don't see 
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in our modern. 
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but I think that's largely 
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put all of our mentally 
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streets to be homeless or. 
We just always assume it's a 

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mental illness. 
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mental illness, by the way, and 
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I think that's clear and obvious
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And yet our Western temptation 
is to always see anything wild 

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and crazy and go that it's a 
mental issue, it's a broken 

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brain, it's a mental imbalance. 
They need the right, they need 

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the right cocktail of chemistry 
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properly. 
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It's prideful arrogance of the 
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enlightened and in fact, in 
being wise we've become fools 

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because we don't recognize that 
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Enemy all around us, attacking 
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So what does that mean for us? 
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physically blind and physically 
unable to speak, then he wants 

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to make us spiritually blind. 
And if he can't make us 

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spiritually blind, if the Lord 
opens up the eyes of your heart,

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the Holy Spirit brings you to 
clarity in Christ, then the next

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thing Satan wants to do is he 
wants you to be a quiet 

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Christian. 
If he can't keep you blind, you 

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go, wow, I've seen the truth in 
the light of the gospel, and now

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you come into the Kingdom. 
The next thing he wants to do is

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make you a quiet Christian. 
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Just just just keep that to 
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Just stay quiet about it. 
So of course, that never happens

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When Jesus delivers somebody in 
the scriptures, though when 

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Jesus heals and delivers 
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go tell everybody. 
So Jesus heals this man. 

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Jesus delivers this man, He will
heal you. 

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He will deliver you if you 
submit to you. 

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He'll if you submit to him, 
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If you submit to him also, he'll
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This is a calling for every 
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and to make disciples. 
Well, I don't think I'm Billy 

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Graham. 
Nobody told you that you're 

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Billy Graham. 
But you are you and you are a 

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St. who has opportunities, who 
has relationships, and the world

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is literally going to hell. 
Literally, hell is real, Jesus 

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says. 
So again, these are all 

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fundamental realities in the 
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acknowledge and go, ma'am, my 
love. 

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For people compels me to tell 
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it. 
My love for people compels me to

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but they might get my love for 
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word of God so their conviction 
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mine and if it is I then I 
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I don't listen to my children 
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for me, particularly the 
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They were what they think is 
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Oh, but they might not like that
they don't want to get strapped 

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into the car seat. 
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I don't know. 
What a moral conundrum, right? 

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It's nonsense. 
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We do what's best for the people
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So the Lord will do that. 
But that's a prayer that you've 

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got to pray in submission. 
Lord, help me. 

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Help me to open my mouth. 
Lead me to persons of peace. 

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Lead me to the person who's 
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Lead me to the person who is 
eager. 

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Jesus said the harvest is ready,
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We're praying that that wouldn't
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Let's keep going to verse 23. 
And all the people were amazed. 

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And said, can this be the son of
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So the ministry has continued. 
Crowds have gathered. 

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Miraculous things have already 
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We've gone step by step through 
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ministry swell and grow and 
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Are more and more people? 
Are responding. 

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This is the work of the Holy 
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This isn't just people 
connecting the dots logically on

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their own, It's actually the 
work of the Holy Spirit because 

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they're saying could. 
This be the Messiah. 

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These people are building hope. 
They're beginning to believe, 

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but it's almost too wonderful to
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Do we have God with us? 
Come on, Remember the Jewish 

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people, how long they've been 
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They've they've seen all the 
promises. 

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They've seen all the promises. 
They've seen all the promises. 

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And now they're going look. 
What he's doing, Look how he's 

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setting the captive free. 
Look how he's healing. 

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Look what he preaches and what 
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Look how he speaks with an 
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and the Pharisees. 
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I can imagine that their faith. 
I can imagine their tears of 

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wonder as they're sharing these 
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excited and they're going home 
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This is what happened today, and
I've got to follow the Master 

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some more because I think this 
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Don't speak that way. 
You know, the Messiah is going 

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to destroy Rome when he comes. 
You know, they had all their 

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expectations of what he would be
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Should do it. 
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the night unannounced to the 
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But now his Kingdom is fully 
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He's expanding his Kingdom and 
they're beginning to glorify 

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Jesus because the Holy Spirit is
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And as this faith is building up
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came to save, the Pharisees and 
their hatred for Christ do a 

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terrible and wicked thing. 
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when they heard what? 
When they heard that, the people

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were saying could. 
This be the. 

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Son of David, could this be the 
Messiah? 

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The Son of David, Remember 
David, second king of Israel, 

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greatest king of Israel, the 
Messiah will be one of his 

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descendants. 
So the son of David is a 

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reference to the Messiah. 
Could this be the son of David? 

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That means is this the Messiah? 
When the Pharisees heard it, 

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they said no, no, no. 
It's only by Beelzebul, the 

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Prince of demons, that this man 
casts out demons. 

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This is not just a an ignorant 
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We have seen this case building 
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We've seen their hatred 
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We've seen their hearts 
hardening face to face. 

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They claim to know the 
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is now standing right in front 
of their face and they don't see

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Him. 
They don't know Him. 

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We know the Word of God. 
No, the word of God is standing 

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right there. 
His name is Jesus. 

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The Word has become flesh and 
you don't know him. 

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And This is why Moses. 
Will judge you remember Jesus 

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told them that earlier. 
He says I'm not even going to 

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judge you on that day. 
I'm going to step aside from the

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judgment and I'm going to say 
Moses, who you claim to love. 

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Moses will come and judge you 
because you love Moses 

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scriptures right? 
But Moses talked of me one 

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greater than Moses is here. 
Now you love Moses, you'll get 

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Moses, you're going to get all 
of Moses, and Moses will stand 

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there on that day in front of 
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He rejected the King, the 
Messiah. 

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And the Lord, they're going to 
go, but. 

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Moses, but nothing. 
The king who I pointed to has 

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come, and of his reign there 
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So their hatred has been 
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Their hatred has been building. 
And now what they've done is in 

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their heart. 
They have crossed a line. 

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And Jesus teaches here in a few 
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We won't get there today, we'll 
get there next week. 

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That it is out of the overflow 
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speaks. 
So it is out of the overflow of 

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a wicked, hateful heart. 
That they have now even gone 

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this far to say that no, no, no,
everyone that not only do they 

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believe this for themselves, 
wicked enough as it is, but they

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go, hey, everybody who's 
beginning to believe in the only

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hope and source of salvation and
the true God don't believe in 

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him. 
The work he's doing, He's doing 

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through the devil. 
So beelzebol was a slang term 

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that the Jews used. 
It was a derogatory term towards

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Satan. 
It meant the Lord of the Flies 

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for that book. 
So the term Lord of the Flies 

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comes from that. 
That's its background. 

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But the Jews would say Beelzebol
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It was a way to like make fun of
the devil. 

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It was a way to belittle him. 
And I like it. 

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I like trash talking the devil. 
I like derogatory speech towards

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the enemy. 
So fair game. 

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The problem is they applied it. 
To King Jesus. 

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The sinless, spotless Lamb of 
God and they've said he does 

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this by and they didn't even 
just say the devil, they said 

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the Lord of the flies. 
You just messed up, you went way

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wrong and and now the sin that's
been birthed in your heart. 

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Sin starts in seed form, starts 
with a seed and it grows and it 

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grows and it grows and it grows.
When's the best time to pull 

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that? 
Weed out of your heart. 

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Yeah, See that weed come out of 
the flower bed, Dink? 

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No big deal. 
Just stay on top of it. 

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Dink. 
Just no big deal. 

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Stay on top of it just a little 
bit. 

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A little bit, a little bit, but 
when something grows, when 

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something takes. 
Root. 

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Go pull that tree of. 
Just go ahead and. 

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Pull it up. 
Sin is sin, right? 

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No sin can grow. 
Sin is conceived, the Scripture 

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says, and then sin grows, and 
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To death. 
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So what we're seeing happening 
in real time right now is these 

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particular guys in this 
particular occasion is revealed 

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through the verses that are 
coming. 

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Their sin gives full birth and 
it's over now. 

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It's over for them. 
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Because they've rejected the 
Lord of Glory fully and 

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completely so. 
Quick side note also about 

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Pharisees. 
I always want to remind you of 

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this because this is a really 
common lie and really common 

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misunderstanding. 
Jesus doesn't oppose the 

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Pharisees because they are quote
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Jesus doesn't oppose religious 
leaders for being religious 

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leaders. 
I'm a religious leader and 

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Jesus. 
Isn't mad at me. 

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Jesus opposes the proud. 
So the reason you look at the 

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scriptures and you see Jesus 
opposing the Pharisees was 

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because of their pride and their
arrogance. 

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God opposes the proud so the 
ignorant and those unfamiliar 

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with the scriptures will go. 
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with drunk people and he wants 
to attend the most wicked filth 

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there is. 
That's not scriptural and. 

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And he hates religious people. 
That's that's what I see in the 

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Bible. 
You haven't read the Bible. 

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You should go read it because 
it's not what happens. 

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Does Jesus love sinners? 
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But he will oppose the prideful.
So whoever it could be, you. 

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Could qualify. 
I could qualify at any given 

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moment when we're. 
Prideful. 

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God opposes the proud, but he 
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So at this point, at this time, 
the religious elite were 

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extremely prideful. 
They had put all these rules 

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around the word of God, things 
that God didn't say, and they 

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have burdened the people of God.
They're supposed to shepherd the

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people closer to the Lord. 
And instead they've put 

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boundaries between the people 
and the Lord and said, well, 

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actually the Lord says this, but
we say be even more careful and 

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do this. 
They put all kinds of extreme 

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pressures on them that no one 
could keep and no one could 

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obey. 
And of course they didn't honor 

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the Lord. 
So then and now Jesus opposes 

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those who oppose him. 
And being the Good Shepherd that

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he is, he does give particular 
attention to those who mislead 

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others. 
So sure, the more influential 

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person is in their pride and the
way they mislead. 

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Others consequences will be 
greater as scripture makes that 

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plain as well. 
So the Pharisees hate Jesus. 

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And they're resisting the Holy 
Spirit who is revealing Jesus. 

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That's who they're resisting. 
The Holy Spirit reveals Jesus 

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and brings conviction for anyone
to love Jesus, for anyone to 

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feel any impulse of repentance. 
Anytime you've ever felt any 

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guilt? 
Anytime you felt any ever any 

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shame or condemnation? 
Well, I'm going to use those 

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words loosely for now. 
Anytime you have felt the bad 

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thing for doing a bad thing, 
that did not come from you. 

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That did not come because I was 
raised right. 

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That came as a gift from God. 
Every human on earth has that 

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from them. 
How? 

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Because the Holy Spirit is that 
kind and that gracious to 

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everyone. 
So those who have never heard 

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the Scriptures still have the 
Spirit of God poured out on the 

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earth because the Bible also 
tells us that God has written 

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His law on the hearts of 
mankind. 

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This is why everyone knows at 
some point they might not any 

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longer because they went on that
path long enough and he gave 

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full birth and the Holy Spirit 
said. 

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I'm finished with you. 
Which is what we're about to see

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the Holy Spirit is willing to do
in certain occasions, He is 

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absolutely willing to do that. 
Why? 

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Well, because you wanted him to.
And that's the that's where we 

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have to make sure we get the, 
the cart behind the horse and, 

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and understand the correct order
of things. 

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But they're resisting the Holy 
Spirit who's been revealing 

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Jesus. 
And they go so far as to say 

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it's only by Beelzebel, the 
Prince of demons, that this man 

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casts out demons. 
So they apply this derogatory 

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term to Jesus. 
He's been preaching the Kingdom,

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showing the Kingdom. 
The God they're claiming to 

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follow is standing right in 
front of them and they say that 

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he's now working with the devil.
But the Holy Spirit reveals 

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their thoughts to Jesus and 
Jesus now proceeds to expose 

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them and then he's going to 
instruct them and then he's 

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going to condemn them in verse 
25, knowing their thoughts, He 

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said to them, every Kingdom 
against itself is laid waste, 

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and no city or house divided 
against itself will stand. 

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Just perfect logic from Jesus. 
Just showing the stupidity. 

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Of the argument that they're 
making, it doesn't make any 

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sense. 
If Satan robs banks and then 

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Satan gives money to banks, 
Satan's not making any progress 

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here. 
His Kingdom is ineffective. 

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Just basic stuff. 
A child goes, yeah, I get that 

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that seems stupid, and Jesus is 
pointing out the stupidity, the 

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ignorance. 
But why is it that the Pharisees

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are that stupid? 
It's that they're that blind. 

454
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,960
How could you be that blind? 
Because your heart gets that 

455
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,280
hard. 
This is what you see in your 

456
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:32,680
world today. 
Demonically influenced people 

457
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,240
often can't make coherent 
arguments. 

458
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:40,280
The. 
Frequent The frequent result of 

459
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,760
a disordered heart is a 
disordered mind. 

460
00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,440
We see this often in our 
culture, with the most popular 

461
00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:48,640
sins in particular. 
I highlight these for you. 

462
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,880
Unrighteous people can't make a 
clear and logical argument 

463
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,960
regarding abortion or other 
sexual perversions. 

464
00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,760
We'll keep it generic. 
So they lie, they make up words 

465
00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,440
and they say things like it's a 
reproductive right when there's 

466
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:08,120
nothing reproductive about it. 
Or they say things like love is 

467
00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:11,640
love when there's nothing loving
about encouraging a person to 

468
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,760
sin. 
If you pull the thread on those 

469
00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,400
conversations, these folks will 
quickly put the brakes on and 

470
00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:20,440
say I don't want to get into 
what the clear and coherent 

471
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,320
thinking through the issue 
morally, ethically, and in the 

472
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,960
sight of God. 
No, I don't want any of that. 

473
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,640
Why? 
Because I hate God, that's why. 

474
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,320
That's why. 
Because I hate the Holy Spirit 

475
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,440
and his conviction and I can't 
and I won't think through it 

476
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,080
because to think through it 
would lead you to the inevitable

477
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,680
conclusion of evil. 
And that is the thing I'm 

478
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,720
staying away from. 
That is the Holy Spirit that I'm

479
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:46,600
rejecting. 
You think this is bold? 

480
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,400
There's no, there's nobody 
bolder than Jesus. 

481
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,120
The boldest pastor you know of 
is a Kitty cat compared to Jesus

482
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,400
in the way that he preached and 
taught this. 

483
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,000
So who are? 
You condemning John Michael? 

484
00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,000
No one, because it is not my 
jurisdiction. 

485
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,360
I am teaching you this sin and 
how it works. 

486
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,320
Oh, I think that might apply to 
no, no, no, no, no, don't do 

487
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:09,880
that. 
Don't do that. 

488
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:12,560
Don't apply it to anyone because
it's not your jurisdiction. 

489
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:14,720
This is between them and the 
Lord. 

490
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:16,760
What am I supposed to do in that
situation? 

491
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,320
You're supposed to pray to them 
and continue to minister the 

492
00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,760
gospel and hope that they 
haven't gone so far that they 

493
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:24,560
have fully rejected the grace of
God. 

494
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,280
That's what you do because you 
love them and because you care 

495
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,720
for them. 
Whoever, so whoever comes up. 

496
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,840
Oh, I bet. 
No, no, no, no, no, no. 

497
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,800
No, you're not the judge. 
You're not the judge. 

498
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,960
We don't condemn anybody we 
judge as Scripture commands us 

499
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,960
to. 
Jesus is literally getting ready

500
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,720
to tell us judge fruit. 
Judge the tree by its fruit. 

501
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,480
I don't know what kind of tree 
that is, somebody know? 

502
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,280
It's a Maple tree. 
You guys just judge that tree. 

503
00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:56,240
They did we we make all kinds of
judgments, right? 

504
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:59,520
There's certain things if you 
saw me do them, you would say 

505
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,040
that is wrong. 
What is that? 

506
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,000
It's called judgment. 
It's right. 

507
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:07,240
What you shouldn't do is condemn
me to hell and say, therefore 

508
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,360
there's no hope for Joe Michael 
Clark and he can never be 

509
00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:11,080
redeemed. 
Then you've gone too far. 

510
00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:14,440
So Jesus taught us a lot about 
judgment. 

511
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,200
Matthew Chapter 7, every non 
Christian's favorite verse. 

512
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,880
Judge not lest you be judged. 
And then of course they don't 

513
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,320
read everything else he says and
goes here's what I mean by that.

514
00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:26,400
Here's how to judge. 
So the perfect logic of Jesus 

515
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,480
making things plain. 
Jesus gives us clear logical 

516
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,240
truth. 
You think the devil is now in 

517
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:32,960
the business of restoring 
people's lives? 

518
00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:35,920
He destroys their life and then 
wants to go. 

519
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:39,080
And let me, hey, let me control 
you and possess you, and now 

520
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:45,080
also let me help you. 
Every Kingdom divided against 

521
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,640
itself is brought to ruin. 
Jesus says so again, he's just. 

522
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,840
It's just plain and simple logic
that doesn't make sense. 

523
00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,800
It would break. 
It would fall apart. 

524
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:54,600
Satan's Kingdom would cease to 
function. 

525
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,920
Satan does have a Kingdom. 
Another obvious point here to 

526
00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,400
note. 
It's not. 

527
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,360
Equal to the Lord's. 
They're not like, Oh no, it's an

528
00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:04,040
epic battle. 
Who's going to win? 

529
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,640
It's going to go. 
It's like, it's not like a Rocky

530
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,840
movie. 
Oh no, it's going to be a close 

531
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,160
fight. 
That's not what happens. 

532
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:11,400
That's not what it's like at 
all. 

533
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,880
And yet through through Adam's 
sin, Satan has a temporary and 

534
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,720
limited authority on the earth. 
Through our through our our 

535
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,120
lease is how Satan has his 
functioning abilities right now,

536
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,320
but Jesus is coming in as the 
stronger man. 

537
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,760
As the stronger man, if you want
to go into somebody's house and 

538
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,280
take his stuff, Jesus saying I 
want to go into Satan's house 

539
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,320
and take his stuff, he's like 
you got to tie up the strongman.

540
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:35,200
Well, who can tie up the 
strongman? 

541
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,400
A stronger man, Jesus is that. 
Stronger man, he's going. 

542
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,000
I'm going to come into his house
and I'm going to take what I 

543
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,720
want. 
What does he want to take? 

544
00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,560
He wants to save you. 
He wants to rescue you from your

545
00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:49,240
wicked, wicked tyrant, Satan, 
from your own flesh, from your 

546
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,080
own sin, from your own 
perversions, from your own 

547
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,920
lusts. 
That is what Jesus saying. 

548
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,200
I'm coming in to deliver people.
I'm going to open the eyes of 

549
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,920
the blind. 
I'm going to open the mute 

550
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:00,560
mouths. 
I'm going to heal the sick. 

551
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,600
And most importantly, I'm going 
to deliver people from the evil 

552
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,480
of sin. 
So they will be. 

553
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,400
A new creation in me. 
I'm going to give them a new 

554
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:11,280
life. 
Their old life is so bad that 

555
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,560
they have to die, but it's going
to be a spiritual rebirth that 

556
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:19,480
they're going to experience. 
Every Kingdom divided against 

557
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,160
itself is brought to ruin. 
This also means something for us

558
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,960
practically, that we can see the
obvious point. 

559
00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,280
This would apply to our country.
This would apply to our region. 

560
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,880
This would apply to our 
household. 

561
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,240
If our country continues to 
divide, the outcome is 

562
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,320
inevitable. 
It's not. 

563
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,120
That's not negative talk, it's 
just obvious talk. 

564
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:42,440
If our if a country continues to
divide any country, pick your 

565
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,600
country, pick your issues. 
If they continue to divide, the 

566
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,640
outcome's inevitable. 
Simple. 

567
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,680
Statement. 
Same thing's true in any 

568
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:53,160
environment, any any place where
there once was unity if there 

569
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,280
continues to grow in division 
in. 

570
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:58,400
A household, the outcome is 
inevitable. 

571
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,480
My question for you is, when you
think about the country and we 

572
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,400
think about your household, 
let's be honest, which of these 

573
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,240
areas do you have the most 
influence in? 

574
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,800
Now, which of those areas are 
you most tempted to give your 

575
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,680
attention to? 
The most tempted to The one I 

576
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,160
have the least influence. 
Over. 

577
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:17,520
That's the typical. 
Thing. 

578
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,880
I hope not. 
So what does it? 

579
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,560
Look like for a household, the 
most common way, not the only 

580
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,760
way. 
These are quick generalizations.

581
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,200
They're generalizations because 
they're generally true. 

582
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,320
The most common way that a 
husband divides his household is

583
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:33,360
by taking a passive role in his 
household. 

584
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,560
He doesn't do anything 
maliciously, but he doesn't do 

585
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,680
anything at all. 
The most common way a wife 

586
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,560
divides her household is with 
her anxious control. 

587
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,280
Her fears rise up within her, 
therefore she jumps to the 

588
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:50,440
outcome that she wants. 
That shows up in all kinds of 

589
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,760
ugly ways. 
I love my country and I'm 

590
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,520
concerned about its future. 
But if we had all focused on our

591
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,960
own households for decades now, 
our country wouldn't be where it

592
00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:02,200
is. 
It would be wholesome and it 

593
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,040
would be. 
Thriving. 

594
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,200
How did we get here? 
Men didn't nurture their wives 

595
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,240
and children and lead their 
families into God's Word. 

596
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,040
Wives didn't submit to their 
husbands. 

597
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,320
Parents let the world shape 
their children. 

598
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,760
How did we get here? 
It just happened with I know who

599
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,080
it is and name the politician 
you like. 

600
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:23,000
Least blame them there. 
It's foolishness. 

601
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:27,840
It's stupidity, it's dishonesty.
The church is is largely 

602
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:29,960
responsible. 
And I told you this recently, 

603
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,640
the pulpit is largely 
responsible for the state of the

604
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,840
United States of America. 
Because when the pulpit is weak,

605
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:39,360
then the families are also weak.
But, but you make sure you take 

606
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,000
your fair share of 
accountability as well. 

607
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,640
Men in particular, men in 
households. 

608
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,280
I'm looking at you, eyeballs on 
eyeballs. 

609
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,240
As a man goes, so goes the 
household. 

610
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,200
As the household goes, so goes 
society. 

611
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,960
So anyone in any place can have 
a righteous influence. 

612
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:03,040
My encouragement to you is look 
first at yourself. 

613
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,160
We are supposed to judge fruit. 
Jesus commands it. 

614
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,800
We are supposed to be fruit 
inspectors, and yet we're 

615
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,400
supposed to look mostly and. 
Firstly, at our own fruit. 

616
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,920
What is your fruit look? 
Like that's we got a big mirror 

617
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,600
in here. 
It's a good analogy for this 

618
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,160
church. 
Look in that thing first before 

619
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:21,400
you look around and go, what 
about? 

620
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:25,960
What about hang on, judge 
yourself is the command and then

621
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,960
you won't be judged. 
And then you can make proper and

622
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,360
healthy assessments to get the 
log out of your own eye. 

623
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,040
Now you can help your brother 
get the splinter out of his or 

624
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,600
maybe he has a log as well, but 
you want to make sure that you 

625
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,520
are clear and walk in with the 
Lord and all that you're doing. 

626
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:44,040
I'm going to skip to verse 30. 
I'm going to continue on this 

627
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,040
point and then we'll come back 
to those other verses. 

628
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:50,680
How did we get here as a nation?
It was one step at a time. 

629
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,400
It was households not taking 
accountability for themselves. 

630
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,880
In verse 30, Jesus says whoever 
is not with me is against me, 

631
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,320
and whoever does not gather with
me scatters. 

632
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,880
What's the point here? 
The point is that there is no 

633
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,080
neutrality. 
According to Jesus, there's no 

634
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,480
neutrality. 
This is another mistake. 

635
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:12,480
That the church made throughout 
the past decades, for sure for 

636
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,960
the past six decades. 
The church believed this lie of 

637
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,080
that the enemy sold the church 
and said, hey, you do your 

638
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,680
thing, We'll do our thing. 
And the church was like, OK. 

639
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,480
And the church just made a small
step, just a baby step, towards 

640
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:28,600
the Cliff. 
And the enemy kept saying, you 

641
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:29,840
do your thing, we'll do our 
thing. 

642
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:33,680
And the church somehow was the 
only one, whoever gave up any 

643
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:37,640
ground in that conversation just
a little bit. 

644
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,080
Have you noticed the window 
sliding? 

645
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,440
Have you noticed how things 
shift over time? 

646
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:47,360
How what used to be holy and 
righteous is now a right wing 

647
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,920
extremist, you know, and now 
what? 

648
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,880
What used to be liberal is now 
something that if you had told, 

649
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,440
if you had told any of us 20 
years ago that things will be 

650
00:31:56,440 --> 00:31:59,720
normalized in our nation that 
are today all I believe, I would

651
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,920
bet, I would bet all the money 
that I have, I would literally 

652
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:08,360
do it that that we all would 
have laughed and said that is 

653
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,200
not possible. 
That's ridiculous. 

654
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,320
That is not going to happen. 
Well, yeah, it is, because if 

655
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,000
this leads to that, then that 
could lead to that. 

656
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,520
That obviously that's the 
slippery slope fallacy. 

657
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,680
And that will never happen. 
Well, here we are at the bottom 

658
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,840
of the slope. 
But the church kept going. 

659
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,480
I guess we should stay neutral. 
I guess we should stay neutral. 

660
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,720
I guess we should stay neutral. 
And Jesus said, I'm coming to 

661
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,800
take over the earth, go into all
the world, teach them everything

662
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,040
that I have, or teach them to 
what? 

663
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,920
Obey everything that I have 
commanded you. 

664
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:44,080
Teach the world, all nations to 
obey everything I've commanded 

665
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:49,880
you. 
Teach the world to obey Jesus. 

666
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:53,840
The job of the church is to make
disciples for the glory of God. 

667
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,600
And for the love of people, 
that's not a neutral position, 

668
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,560
right? 
That's not the Coexist bumper 

669
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,600
sticker. 
Well, you know, you do your 

670
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:01,960
thing. 
I'll do my thing well, But our 

671
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:03,880
things are diametrically opposed
to one another. 

672
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,880
Oh, well, let's have daytime and
nighttime at the same time. 

673
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,440
We can you know, Allah is not 
God. 

674
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:13,560
Allah is a demon. 
Allah is a false religion. 

675
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,720
Islam is is destroying people's 
lives. 

676
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,280
It's bondage. 
I don't think you should say 

677
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,120
that. 
Well, I just I believe the book 

678
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,800
and I'm going to keep pursuing 
Jesus truth. 

679
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,960
So this this live neutrality, it
doesn't exist in Jesus. 

680
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,520
Jesus was not Mr. Rogers. 
Jesus is Jesus, so the more you 

681
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,440
let him speak, the more you get 
the full picture. 

682
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,120
Now we're getting a heavy dose 
in this particular passage, 

683
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,720
right? 
So we remember, we see all of 

684
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,880
Jesus as we read the Gospels. 
We don't just see one side, we 

685
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,280
see both sides. 
We see Jesus is the right thing 

686
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,720
at the right time for the right 
person. 

687
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,960
What do you need if you're 
prideful? 

688
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,400
I can tell you what Jesus you're
going to get. 

689
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,720
If you're humble, I can tell you
what Jesus you're going to get. 

690
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,120
So he calls us to humility, He 
calls us to obedience, He calls 

691
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,280
us to submission. 
But he makes it plain whoever is

692
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,400
not with me is against me. 
If you're not gathering the 

693
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,840
harvest with me, you're 
scattering the harvest. 

694
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,520
So we don't take a neutral 
stance, but we also. 

695
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,840
Remember, let's be clear, we 
don't wrestle against flesh and 

696
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,719
blood, we just continue to go 
tell the truth. 

697
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,159
Why did I even have to say that?
I didn't give any examples of 

698
00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:24,560
wrestling with flesh and blood, 
but I know where your mind goes,

699
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,040
and I know where my mind goes. 
So we remember how do we advance

700
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,040
this Kingdom? 
We bear the fruit of the 

701
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,679
Kingdom, and then we share the 
good news of the Kingdom, no 

702
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:35,520
matter what the consequences 
might mean for us. 

703
00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:38,440
Now let's go back to verse 27. 
Jesus still with this perfect 

704
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,600
logic here, If I cast out demons
by Beelzebel, if I cast out 

705
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,880
demons with the Lord of the 
flies, He's the one empowering 

706
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,280
me to do this. 
By whom do your sons cast them 

707
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,199
out? 
Therefore, they will be your 

708
00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:54,440
judges. 
So the disciples of the 

709
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,160
Pharisees. 
It's who he's referring to here,

710
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,560
not their actual sons. 
But he's saying your sons would 

711
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:00,880
be a reference to their 
disciples. 

712
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,600
So he's saying you guys cast out
demons, which history seems to 

713
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,000
tell us that the Jews had, that 
the Lord and His mercy and grace

714
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,320
had a ministry through people 
where they were exercising 

715
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,800
demons. 
So praise God for that but Jesus

716
00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,320
saying if I'm doing it that way,
who do y'all do it by again just

717
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,960
dumps them with obvious and 
plain thinking and continuing to

718
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,600
highlight hey, but now he goes 
on to say, but if it is by the 

719
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,920
Spirit of God that I cast out 
demons, then the Kingdom of God 

720
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,960
has come upon you. 
He's been saying the Kingdom of 

721
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,600
God has already come upon them, 
but now he's saying it 

722
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,080
emphatically. 
This man was blind and unable to

723
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:37,160
speak, but the Kingdom of God is
now breaking in on the earth. 

724
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,040
The strongest man is here the 
king himself. 

725
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,880
Verse 29 Or How can someone 
enter a strong man's house and 

726
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,720
plunder his goods unless he 
first binds the strong man? 

727
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,840
Jesus saying I just bound the 
strong man. 

728
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,040
To deliver the goods. 
His sight. 

729
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,200
To set free the things that 
Satan had taken hostage, he's 

730
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,080
saying this is how this works. 
I had to go. 

731
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,440
I have defeated Satan. 
I am crushing Satan. 

732
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,760
I am working against Satan. 
I'm not neutral with him and I'm

733
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:07,480
certainly not partnered with 
him. 

734
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,920
The strongest man is here, the 
King himself is here. 

735
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,080
So Jesus makes it clear that the
opposite of what they have said 

736
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,040
is true. 
Not only is he not working with 

737
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,160
Satan, but he has bound Satan. 
To accomplish this miracle. 

738
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,040
He's come to plunder Satan's 
house and rescue all of his 

739
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,440
hostages. 
Satan is the quote strong man, 

740
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:33,200
but Jesus is the stronger man. 
And now we come to the blasphemy

741
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,520
against the Holy Spirit, verse 
31. 

742
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,240
So that's our context leading up
here. 

743
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,760
Men who hate Christ, who have 
been hating Christ for a while 

744
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:45,680
now. 
Therefore, I tell you, every sin

745
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,760
and blasphemy will be forgiven, 
people, but the blasphemy 

746
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,960
against the Spirit will not be 
forgiven. 

747
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,720
And whoever speaks a word 
against the Son of Man will be 

748
00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:56,520
forgiven, but whoever speaks 
against the Holy Spirit will not

749
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,680
be forgiven, either in this age 
or in the age to come. 

750
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,960
Blasphemy against the Holy 
Spirit will not be forgiven, 

751
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,880
ever. 
Let's be honest and plain about 

752
00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:07,400
that. 
Jesus said it. 

753
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,360
That settles it. 
And yet it still begs the 

754
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:11,960
question, all right. 
What does that mean, though? 

755
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,680
What does that really look like?
That is the question, right? 

756
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,120
That was the question I had as a
little boy. 

757
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,440
Oh, my goodness, have I made 
this mistake? 

758
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,760
The good news is I'll give you 
the I'll give you the answer up 

759
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,000
front. 
This is not the same thing as 

760
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,920
like an emphatic moment of if 
you put your finger right there 

761
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,040
on this thing, that's the 
unpardonable sin. 

762
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,320
It doesn't have the same kind of
visual clarity for the whole 

763
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:36,480
world That the that the sin of 
the garden did this this fruit, 

764
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,680
if you eat it. 
You will surely die, he didn't 

765
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:41,560
say. 
You can't look at it. 

766
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,000
He didn't say you can't touch 
it. 

767
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,400
He didn't say you can't sniff 
it. 

768
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,360
He said if you eat it, you'll 
surely die. 

769
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:50,760
This sin, and I'm going to show 
it to you from Scripture is not 

770
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,440
the same kind of doesn't have 
the same kind of clarity around 

771
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,360
it, which is why it's been 
perplexing to many and it's 

772
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,040
grieved many people's souls and 
thought. 

773
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,080
I'm afraid I think I've 
committed the unpardonable sin 

774
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,920
because one time I said. 
God is dumb or? 

775
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:05,400
Whatever. 
And they thought, well, I've 

776
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,000
blasphemed the Holy Spirit. 
And and so now I'm doomed. 

777
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:10,480
So we're going to walk through 
this. 

778
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,640
The context and other scriptures
are going to help us to see it. 

779
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:22,960
The context shows us that this 
is a person who hates the Lord. 

780
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:25,640
We see that. 
This is a person. 

781
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,320
Jesus hasn't said this anywhere 
else. 

782
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,840
He's come across a lot of people
who didn't believe, come across 

783
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:31,840
a lot of people who didn't 
really care, but he never said 

784
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,720
anything like this. 
But now he's come across the 

785
00:38:33,720 --> 00:38:36,000
first people who have 
continually, continually, 

786
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,160
continually. 
Sin was conceived. 

787
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:39,920
Oh. 
That's dangerous. 

788
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:42,880
Kill it now. 
Now it grows. 

789
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,160
Oh, it's getting worse. 
Don't let that thing be born. 

790
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,040
And now it's fully born. 
Jesus saying this is the moment 

791
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,440
that you have sinned and 
blasphemed the Holy Spirit. 

792
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:55,000
This is a moment where your 
heart has gone so far that you 

793
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,360
will never again want to repent.
So faithful pastors and 

794
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,400
commentaries all talk about this
the same way. 

795
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,880
The point is simply, if you're 
worried that you've committed 

796
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:09,040
the blasphemy against the Holy 
Spirit, then you most definitely

797
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,240
have not committed the blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit. 

798
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,680
Wait, why? 
Because the Holy Spirit is the 

799
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,240
only one who convicts you of 
sin. 

800
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,480
And if you feel any conviction 
or concern over your sin, you 

801
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,120
have the Holy Spirit convicting 
you and concerning you of sin 

802
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,520
therefore. 
You have not been given up by 

803
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,080
God in his judgement to be 
condemned. 

804
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,120
That's the short answer. 
But now I'm going to keep 

805
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,120
proving it to you. 
So this isn't the same thing as 

806
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,840
saying in a moment, I did the 
thing, I pushed the button, I 

807
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:44,280
said the thing. 
This this is revealing to us 

808
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,240
that this isn't just saying the 
Holy Spirit's dumb or even 

809
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:49,440
accidentally attributing the 
work of the Holy. 

810
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,160
Spirit to Satan, because again, 
if we look at this text and face

811
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,240
value, which I love to have you 
do all the time. 

812
00:39:54,240 --> 00:39:57,640
Agreed, pastor, you're always 
saying what's the word say, 

813
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,080
what's the word say? 
But remember, as as wise 

814
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,440
Christians with the Scriptures, 
the question is not, do you have

815
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,640
a verse for that? 
That can lead to you to some 

816
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:11,000
foolish and dumb places. 
The question is not, do you got 

817
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,400
a verse for that? 
The question is, what does the 

818
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,360
Word of God teach? 
That's the better question. 

819
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,840
You got a verse for that? 
Hang on a second. 

820
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,240
We can do some weird stuff with 
some verses. 

821
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,720
We can take this verse and that 
verse and go ta da like that's 

822
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:27,520
not, no, that's not what the 
Word of God teaches. 

823
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,400
Well, I I. 
Found a verse like hang on, I 

824
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,600
love the word of God. 
Do you love the word of God? 

825
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:34,960
Yeah. 
All right then let's come. 

826
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,400
Let us reason together and let's
look at what the word is 

827
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,600
teaching. 
I'm OK with whatever outcome we 

828
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:42,240
arrive at as long as we did it 
honestly from the Word. 

829
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,720
So the question is not, do you 
have a verse for that? 

830
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:47,720
The question is, what's the word
of God teach? 

831
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,800
There's plenty of times in 
Scripture, those Saints, where 

832
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,800
the verse and the teaching are 
explicitly plain and they go, 

833
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,440
they go hand in hand, right? 
And that's where we go. 

834
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,160
Look, let's just read out. 
Loud and be honest. 

835
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,480
About what's happening here and 
then come to other places where 

836
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:02,720
we go, but that seems to 
contradict. 

837
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,880
OK, well, time out. 
We know it doesn't, so let's 

838
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:08,880
learn. 
We know it doesn't contradict. 

839
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,200
Well, which is true. 
We'll both. 

840
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,680
So let's let's dig in. 
Let's study the word of God. 

841
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,760
There's treasures here for us. 
They're hidden for us to enjoy 

842
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,200
and to get to know him more. 
He'll share these things with 

843
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:21,480
us. 
That's why we approach the Word 

844
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:26,040
of God prayerfully and humbly. 
Mark's account, Mark's account 

845
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,800
of the same situation, not a 
separate event, but Mark's 

846
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,880
gospel says in the same thing 
that Jesus said these things 

847
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,960
because they said that Jesus has
a demon. 

848
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:41,640
So this reveals that it's not a 
particular verbal sin that took 

849
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,160
place. 
The blasphemy against the Holy 

850
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,840
Spirit is not just they said you
just did something by the work 

851
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,880
of the Spirit. 
I'm going to say that you did it

852
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,360
by the work of the devil. 
Boom, you're doomed. 

853
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,920
That's not how it works. 
If that was the case, then that 

854
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,240
would mean our cessationist 
brothers and sisters who we love

855
00:41:57,240 --> 00:41:59,480
and love the Lord. 
Cessationist meaning people who 

856
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:00,880
don't believe. 
That the gifts of the Spirit are

857
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,760
still in operation today and one
of them were to hear me praying 

858
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,240
in tongues. 
That's a supernatural gift from 

859
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:08,960
the Lord. 
That is clearly a Holy Spirit 

860
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,760
ministry thing going on. 
And they go, I think that's 

861
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,600
satanic chanting. 
What did they just do? 

862
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,400
They plainly and clearly just 
attributed the work of the Holy 

863
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,120
Spirit to the work of the devil.
Are they ignorant for doing so? 

864
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,760
Yes. 
Are they prideful? 

865
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,640
Probably. 
Are they mistaken? 

866
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,560
Definitely. 
But did they just? 

867
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,560
Commit the important able sent. 
No, they did not. 

868
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,400
This came up from a place of 
ignorance, not from a place of 

869
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:35,680
why because the sin is not about
you said the Holy Spirit did the

870
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,400
thing that the devil did or you 
said the devil did the thing the

871
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,120
Holy Spirit did. 
That's not what was happening 

872
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:40,960
that that's what happened at the
surface level. 

873
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,240
That was the final, final piece 
of fruit for these Pharisees. 

874
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,160
That was the final evidence why 
Jesus said your heart is so far.

875
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,320
Gone that you've condemned and 
rejected the Lord entirely. 

876
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,640
So the unpardonable sin is the 
thing where you won't repent 

877
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,520
ever again. 
That's why it can't be forgiven.

878
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:02,720
Because you won't repent, you 
can't be forgiven of the. 

879
00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:05,680
Unpardonable sin because you'll 
never ask to be forgiven. 

880
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,680
You'll never care about being 
forgiven until you get to hell. 

881
00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:17,480
So this is all about a heart 
that is so opposed to God that 

882
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:21,240
it's willing to lie. 
It's willing to call good evil 

883
00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:24,040
and evil good, and when we 
consider the role of the Holy 

884
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,800
Spirit and what his role is, we 
understand this better. 

885
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,600
Jesus tells us in the Gospel of 
John that the Holy Spirit 

886
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,760
convicts the world of sin, so we
know that is a primary function 

887
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:34,440
and ministry for the Holy 
Spirit. 

888
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,800
And we know that he's also going
to reveal Jesus to the world. 

889
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:41,520
So the Holy Spirit wants to 
glorify Jesus and say look at 

890
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,960
him, look at him, look at him, 
and the Holy Spirit convicts you

891
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:47,040
of sin. 
And every other person who's 

892
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:50,720
never heard the name of Jesus 
still has hope for the Kingdom, 

893
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,760
because they can still respond 
to the goodness and the glory of

894
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,560
God through the ministry of the 
Holy Spirit. 

895
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,160
And he will lead a humble heart.
We also know the Scripture 

896
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,880
teaches plainly the blood of 
Jesus cleanses us from all sin, 

897
00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:05,960
according to first John and 
other various places in the New 

898
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:07,960
Testament. 
That's kind of the thing, right?

899
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:12,560
That's kind of the gospel. 
So this can't mean that there is

900
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,200
a sin that Jesus didn't carry on
the cross. 

901
00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:18,120
This can't mean that. 
It can't mean that the Father 

902
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,480
said I'm punishing Christ for 
this and this and this and that.

903
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:23,760
I'm not going to punish him for 
that. 

904
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:24,880
Why? 
Because the other scriptures 

905
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:26,520
tell us that Christ was punished
for everything. 

906
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,240
So we know this has to be 
revealing something different, 

907
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:35,080
which is why it takes thoughtful
conversation, study and and 

908
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:38,480
humility to not just go, I have 
a verse and I'm going to latch 

909
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,240
on to it and build an entire 
doctrine from it. 

910
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,840
It's out of the mouth of every 
two or three witnesses. 

911
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,400
That means we need multiple 
places in Scripture. 

912
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,760
Multiple accounts that build 
doctrine for us so we can be 

913
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:53,640
safe. 
So what this refers to is the 

914
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,440
same thing that we saw in 
Hebrews recently. 

915
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,120
Hebrews chapter 10 verse 26 to 
31. 

916
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,520
I'm going to read it to you. 
Hebrews 10/26. 

917
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,320
For if we go. 
On sinning deliberately after 

918
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,600
receiving the knowledge of the 
truth, there no longer remains a

919
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:16,240
sacrifice for sins, but a 
fearful expectation of judgement

920
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,240
and a fury of fire that will 
consume the adversaries. 

921
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,840
Anyone who set aside the law of 
Moses dies without mercy on the 

922
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,320
evidence of two or three 
witnesses. 

923
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,720
How much worse punishment do you
think will be deserved by the 

924
00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:35,720
one who has trampled under foot?
The Son of God. 

925
00:45:36,240 --> 00:45:39,400
And has profaned the blood of 
the covenant by which he was 

926
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,360
sanctified. 
And has outraged the spirit of 

927
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,120
grace. 
Who is the spirit of grace? 

928
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,240
It's not a true question. 
The Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit 

929
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:52,120
is the spirit of grace. 
You can outrage. 

930
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:55,160
The Holy Spirit according to the
Bible. 

931
00:46:02,110 --> 00:46:05,430
For we know him who said 
vengeance is mine, I will repay,

932
00:46:05,430 --> 00:46:07,390
and again. 
The Lord will judge his people. 

933
00:46:07,670 --> 00:46:10,230
It is a fearful thing to fall 
into the hands of the living 

934
00:46:10,230 --> 00:46:12,160
God. 
So we defined this before we 

935
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:13,760
said God intervened with his 
goodness. 

936
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:15,760
You're the car on the 
Interstate, going 80 miles an 

937
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,680
hour towards the Cliff, and he 
steps in front of you. 

938
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,520
But you. 
Plow straight through and run 

939
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,640
him over. 
Trample him under your car. 

940
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:28,920
The point is, there's no one 
else coming to save you. 

941
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:31,520
He was it. 
There's not. 

942
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,160
There's nothing else. 
There's not a guardrail. 

943
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:34,920
Well, I think I can hit AU turn 
later. 

944
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,320
You can't. 
And you won't, and you won't 

945
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,560
want to. 
Jesus is the only barrier. 

946
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,000
There's nothing and there's 
nobody, and there's nothing else

947
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,680
in all creation that can save us
or can stop us. 

948
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,280
Not our good morality, not 
anything else. 

949
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,520
Good morality is good. 
Comes from God, by the way, but 

950
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,600
that's not the same thing as 
being rescued and saved by the 

951
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,840
blood of Jesus and putting your 
faith and love and devotion into

952
00:46:54,840 --> 00:47:00,120
Him so to trample over him. 
How do I do that if we go on 

953
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,600
sinning deliberately after 
receiving the knowledge? 

954
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,000
Of the truth. 
If we go on sinning deliberately

955
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,920
after Pastor, I still sometimes 
sin. 

956
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,000
Well, congratulations. 
Sounds like you're a human 

957
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,920
being. 
You have flesh. 

958
00:47:12,520 --> 00:47:13,760
Do you want to crucify that 
flesh? 

959
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,080
Well, of course I do. 
Of course you do evidence that 

960
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:19,320
you love the Lord and that you 
want to continue to grow in 

961
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:23,200
sanctification and holiness. 
Well, I'm going to continue to 

962
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,200
do my thing. 
And I, I'm, you know, I asked 

963
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,360
God in my heart, you know, 700 
years ago, you know, when I was 

964
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:29,560
in Sunday school, when I was a 
little kid. 

965
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:31,000
And I'm going to do what I want 
to do now. 

966
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:33,360
Hey, may I share something with 
you? 

967
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,560
I'm really concerned. 
Like that fruit doesn't seem to 

968
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,880
match up at all with. 
Don't judge me. 

969
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:39,920
So you know, I see. 
You know that verse. 

970
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:41,880
Can we look at the rest of them 
together? 

971
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,040
No, you're a bigot. 
OK, Well, now what? 

972
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,600
I pray. 
I'm very concerned about the 

973
00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:49,920
absence of fruit. 
But I'm not the judge to 

974
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,480
determine the finality of the 
situation. 

975
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,480
I want to speak truth. 
I want to be loving. 

976
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:57,720
Loving is speaking truth. 
By the way. 

977
00:47:57,720 --> 00:48:00,280
Same thing at the same time. 
It's not one or the other. 

978
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:02,160
You can be loving or you can 
tell people the truth. 

979
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,200
Hey man, the bridge is out. 
I recommend not driving over it.

980
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:10,440
Don't tell me how to drive. 
I love you enough. 

981
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:17,440
To tell you how to drive. 
So you're driving. 

982
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,760
You trample him. 
There's no one else to save you 

983
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,400
at that point, and you will. 
Receive the wrath that you've 

984
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:23,800
already deserved. 
That's the point. 

985
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:27,320
So it goes like this. 
If you reject the testimony in 

986
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,400
the ministry of the Holy Spirit,
what's the testimony in the 

987
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,720
ministry of the Holy Spirit? 
The testimony in the ministry of

988
00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:35,080
the Holy Spirit is this. 
He testifies to Jesus and He 

989
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,400
convicts you of sin. 
Follow with me. 

990
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,360
If if you reject the testimony 
in the ministry of the Holy 

991
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:45,080
Spirit, you have rejected your 
only hope of having the Son 

992
00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:48,640
revealed to you, you, you're 
unforgivable because you will 

993
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,880
never seek his forgiveness. 
You've rejected the one who goes

994
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,280
Hey, I. 
Want to talk to you about your 

995
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:58,400
sin and you go no. 
It'd been one thing to just let 

996
00:48:58,400 --> 00:48:59,440
it linger. 
It'd been. 

997
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,480
It'd been another thing to still
obey the weakness of the flesh. 

998
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:07,080
It's another thing to say no, 
Holy Spirit, I reject your 

999
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:09,880
conviction. 
Well, now there's no forgiveness

1000
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:13,600
for you because, like, the whole
forgiveness mechanism is gone. 

1001
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,680
He's removing it. 
You can outrage the spirit of 

1002
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:20,120
grace to the point where he says
you really want that. 

1003
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,080
Yeah. 
Where do we see that? 

1004
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:25,920
Pharaoh is the perfect example. 
First plague Pharaoh harden his 

1005
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,160
heart. 
Second plague Pharaoh harden his

1006
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,360
heart. 
Third plague Pharaoh harden his 

1007
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:34,320
heart. 4th plague Pharaoh harden
his heart. 5th plague Pharaoh 

1008
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,480
harden his heart. 6th plague God
harden fair his heart. 

1009
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,840
No fair. 
God spoken like a created being 

1010
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,920
full of pride and arrogance and 
no humility before the king. 

1011
00:49:47,720 --> 00:49:49,240
Everything Pharaoh got was 
mercy. 

1012
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,920
Everything we all got was mercy,
remember? 

1013
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,040
I can't believe God flooded the 
whole earth and drowned 

1014
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:56,640
everybody. 
I can't believe he saved eight 

1015
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,360
people. 
That's his mercy. 

1016
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,560
That's his grace. 
Eight people. 

1017
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,680
Why in the wickedness that we 
deserve? 

1018
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,080
Because he is good, as we sang, 
mute. 

1019
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:17,280
Me got to have a coffin spell, 
got to try it out. 

1020
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:37,830
Give me a second. 
It's not awkward. 

1021
00:50:37,830 --> 00:50:43,670
For me it might be for you. 
I'm fine with it. 

1022
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:57,240
I'll repeat that point. 
If you. 

1023
00:50:57,240 --> 00:51:00,040
Reject the testimony and 
ministry of the Holy Spirit who 

1024
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:01,960
testifies to Jesus and convicts 
you of sin. 

1025
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,000
You've rejected your only hope 
of having the Son revealed to 

1026
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,000
you. 
You're unforgivable because you 

1027
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,480
will never seek forgiveness. 
Pharaoh, when God hardened his 

1028
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,480
heart was unforgivable. 
Or what if he repented? 

1029
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,360
Or what if the Pharisees wanted 
to repent later? 

1030
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:24,640
You still have missed the point.
Then they won't want to, because

1031
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,880
remember, who gives you the 
desire to repent? 

1032
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,360
The Holy Spirit does, and guess 
who's never going to do that 

1033
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:31,880
again? 
The Holy Spirit. 

1034
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,240
That's what Jesus is saying. 
There does come a point. 

1035
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,360
There can come a day. 
I wonder if so and so, not your 

1036
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:43,120
jurisdiction, not your business.
It's just the fact that Jesus 

1037
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,160
was pointing out for these 
individuals at this time. 

1038
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:49,040
And you should be very careful 
to allow your mind to wander in 

1039
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,960
this direction for others, 
because haven't you seen people 

1040
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:57,800
who you thought they hate God? 
And then you see decades later 

1041
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,760
they've turned to the Lord and 
are following the Christ. 

1042
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:02,960
They're following the Lord and 
righteousness and holiness and 

1043
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:03,960
faith. 
And you go. 

1044
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:07,200
Praise God. 
So we're not the ones called to 

1045
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:08,640
go. 
I think he's done the impartable

1046
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:09,600
sin. 
I think the Lord is. 

1047
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,200
I think in all of his pride, 
he's gone to the he's gone 

1048
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:14,920
through the six steps of Pharaoh
and I think he's too far gone. 

1049
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,040
And the Lord has said you can 
have what you want because that 

1050
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:19,840
is the judgment of God. 
Romans one and two tells us the 

1051
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:23,320
same thing. 
Judgment of God says I want 

1052
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:25,960
this, I want this, I want this 
and the Lord says finally you 

1053
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,720
can have it. 
That is his judgement. 

1054
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:32,400
That is his penalty. 
Why he gave you the phone and 

1055
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:35,480
that's what Romans talks about. 
The Lord gave them up to their 

1056
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,720
desires so that men burned with 
passion for men and women burned

1057
00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:42,480
with unnatural desire for women.
The grace of God is the thing 

1058
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:44,320
that withholds. 
But when the when the Lord says.

1059
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,000
We said please. 
And we're scratching and 

1060
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:48,600
clawing, and it's when the Lord 
goes. 

1061
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:53,000
And now the inevitable comes the
sin. 

1062
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:57,360
It continues and it spirals and 
it grieves the Lord, but he's 

1063
00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,880
not going to allow Christ to 
continually be trampled forever.

1064
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:03,960
So what if the Pharisees want to
repent later? 

1065
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:08,840
They won't want to, because the 
desire from for repentance comes

1066
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,960
from the Holy Spirit. 
If you sin by rejecting the Holy

1067
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,240
Spirit's work, who is there to 
bring you back? 

1068
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,080
Who is there if you sin by 
rejecting the Holy Spirit? 

1069
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,880
Who who now can save you? 
You can't be forgiven because 

1070
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:25,720
you never will again be given 
the desire to be forgiven. 

1071
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:27,760
You will never want to repent 
again. 

1072
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:30,520
God opposes the proud and gives 
grace to the humble. 

1073
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:31,840
This is one way that He does 
that. 

1074
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:37,240
So if you care at all, then that
is evidence that you haven't 

1075
00:53:37,240 --> 00:53:40,520
committed this sin because the 
Holy Spirit is still ministering

1076
00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,360
to you and that reveals He has 
not given you over to judgment. 

1077
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,800
So this is a matter of the heart
rather than something that you 

1078
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,480
do suddenly and something that 
you do in one moment. 

1079
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:53,120
And we're closing, Adam. 
So Jesus says, as we're going to

1080
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:54,640
see next week, out of the 
overflow. 

1081
00:53:54,640 --> 00:54:00,120
Of the heart, the mouth speaks. 
And this isn't the first time he

1082
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:03,520
said anything like this. 
Just a few weeks back, we 

1083
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,920
remember he was giving the woes.
Woe to you, Pharisees. 

1084
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,800
Woe to you scribes. 
Woe to you, Bethsaida. 

1085
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,920
Woe to you, Capernaum. 
What were the woes in the 

1086
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,760
judgements he was pronouncing on
everybody? 

1087
00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:20,160
Why was he doing it? 
He said he told Capernaum. 

1088
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,800
They said it's going to be 
better for Sodom and Gomorrah on

1089
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,160
the day of judgement. 
A filthy, filthy, filthy wicked.

1090
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:28,920
Place that God thought was. 
So bad that it had to be 

1091
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,160
destroyed with fire from heaven.
Actually happened. 

1092
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:34,560
Really happened. 
The Bible says so. 

1093
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,600
Jesus says so, he tells 
Capernaum. 

1094
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:40,600
Just the little fishing city 
that he lived in. 

1095
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,480
It'll be worse for you on the 
day of judgement than for Sodom 

1096
00:54:43,480 --> 00:54:45,640
and Gomorrah. 
And we understood why. 

1097
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:46,840
We talked about why. 
Why? 

1098
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:48,680
Because you had the fuller 
grace. 

1099
00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:51,040
The more you've received, the 
more you're responsible for and 

1100
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:53,760
the more you'll be judged 
according to the more light that

1101
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:57,320
you've been given, the more your
darkness becomes unacceptable. 

1102
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,720
So Sodom and Gomorrah are 
filthy, godless places to begin 

1103
00:55:00,720 --> 00:55:02,800
with. 
But eventually God says, I, I 

1104
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:04,920
can't, I can't have any more of 
that. 

1105
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,400
But for Capernaum, you've got 
the king of glory. 

1106
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:12,040
He, he sleeps in the city, he 
walks, he preaches and he 

1107
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:13,320
teaches. 
And Capernaum went. 

1108
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:19,560
And he goes on to tell and he 
goes on, and we're going to 

1109
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:21,960
connect the dots in Matthew in 
the next couple of weeks where 

1110
00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:24,240
you see. 
He goes on to say the men of 

1111
00:55:24,240 --> 00:55:26,400
Nineveh will rise up in 
judgement against you. 

1112
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,280
He says that to the Pharisees. 
Remember Nineveh, That was 

1113
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,840
Jonah. 
The Lord called Jonah to go to 

1114
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:33,360
Nineveh and he's like, I hate 
those people. 

1115
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:34,960
I don't want to go. 
I know what's going to happen. 

1116
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:38,120
You're going to send me, I'm 
going to preach and that you're 

1117
00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,880
going to not kill him. 
And that makes me mad. 

1118
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:43,480
I want you to kill him. 
So I'm not going to go preach. 

1119
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,200
And the Lord says you are going 
to go preach to Nineveh. 

1120
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:50,480
So he arrests him with a fish, 
probably bleaches his skin white

1121
00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:52,560
with summic acid. 
And he's probably bold by the 

1122
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,440
time he arrives. 
Jonah's probably a wreck. 

1123
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,280
And he preaches the worst sermon
ever, 40 days in if it will be 

1124
00:55:58,280 --> 00:55:59,520
destroyed. 
And that's it. 

1125
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,640
He walks through the city and 
hopes that they all die. 

1126
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,160
And the Lord says, thank you, 
Jonah. 

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00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:06,760
I love those people. 
I'm going to I'm going to work 

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00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,000
in their hearts. 
So the Holy Spirit ministered to

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00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:10,200
them. 
But Jesus says the men of 

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00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,080
Nineveh will rise up in 
judgement against the Pharisees.

1131
00:56:12,080 --> 00:56:13,760
Why? 
Because the men of Nineveh 

1132
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:17,320
responded to the conviction of 
the Holy Spirit through the 

1133
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:20,560
worst sermon ever. 
The Holy Spirit moved and he's 

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00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,840
like all right, Jonah that was 
that was terrible, but I worked 

1135
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:27,640
with it and the Holy Spirit 
because it is love for people. 

1136
00:56:27,640 --> 00:56:30,720
He came to minister. 
So don't you dare walk away from

1137
00:56:30,720 --> 00:56:33,920
this text or from this sermon 
going can't believe the Lord 

1138
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,840
would do that. 
You have missed everything if 

1139
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:41,040
you don't recognize the kindness
of God to stare Christ Jesus in 

1140
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,800
the face for months and maybe 
years and to continually hate 

1141
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:46,960
him. 
You don't understand the 

1142
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,200
kindness of God that's been 
showed to everyone in the earth,

1143
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,320
the kindness of God that's being
showed to you and I right now as

1144
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:54,560
we have the privilege of 
gathering in his name to receive

1145
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,840
his word. 
Don't walk away from this and 

1146
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,000
go. 
I'm not sure that the Lord 

1147
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,440
should be doing that. 
Walk away and. 

1148
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,640
Go God, Your kindness and your 
mercy is so. 

1149
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:06,040
So, so rich. 
It's so beautiful and it's so 

1150
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,840
kind. 
Keep responding to the to the 

1151
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,560
Holy Spirit. 
If you hear his. 

1152
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,720
Voice, If you feel his 
conviction today, that is God's 

1153
00:57:15,720 --> 00:57:17,760
love. 
That is God's mercy being shown 

1154
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:21,800
to you. 
Satan deceives people with 

1155
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:24,640
pride. 
That's why it's become such a 

1156
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:26,600
popular thing to reject 
correction. 

1157
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,840
Oh, in the name of tolerance, 
you need to be tolerant of me, 

1158
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,800
friend. 
I love you and I call you 

1159
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:37,880
friend, but it's my love for you
that that holds this up as the 

1160
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:39,200
standard. 
Forget my standard. 

1161
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:41,200
I don't. 
I didn't make him up. 

1162
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:43,600
I didn't write the book, but I'm
talking about the King. 

1163
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,560
I want to teach you to obey 
everything that that he's 

1164
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:49,480
commanded because he's worthy 
and because he's good, you 

1165
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:50,600
believe something wrong about 
him. 

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00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:52,880
If you don't want to love and 
follow Jesus, there's something 

1167
00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:55,200
you're missing. 
There's something off, There's 

1168
00:57:55,200 --> 00:57:56,480
something and we just got to 
find it. 

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00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,200
I don't know what it is. 
You think that, that, that he's 

1170
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:00,920
not worth it. 
I don't know how in the world 

1171
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:03,000
you could think he's not worthy.
I don't know how in the world 

1172
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,720
you don't feel. 
Have you, have you resisted the 

1173
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:07,960
Holy Spirit like you're 
resisting me? 

1174
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,640
You resist me, it's fine, but 
don't resist the Holy Spirit. 

1175
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:12,480
When we leave here in this 
conversation, and I know you're 

1176
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:15,240
mad at me now, but please pay 
attention to the Holy Spirit 

1177
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:17,560
because I'm going to be praying 
that he's going to speak to you 

1178
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:19,880
and he's going to bless you and 
lift you up. 

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00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,600
I don't need to be lifted up. 
I'm not in a pit. 

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That's the path. 
That's the path. 

1181
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:33,000
That's the wrong direction. 
Why? 

1182
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:37,320
It's pride. 
I don't need to be saved. 

1183
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:39,720
Saved from what? 
Now? 

1184
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:41,360
That's the problem with many in 
the West. 

1185
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:45,280
Jesus died for your sins. 
What sins? 

1186
00:58:46,720 --> 00:58:48,400
I mean, yeah, I guess. 
You know, I'm not perfect. 

1187
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:50,000
Nobody's perfect. 
No, no, no. 

1188
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,160
You don't get it. 
You deserve the wrath of God. 

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00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:54,240
Let's be plain. 
Tell the whole truth of the 

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00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:55,680
Scriptures. 
The both. 

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00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,560
And the grace of God is only 
valuable because you understood 

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00:58:59,800 --> 00:59:03,080
what you deserved. 
Jesus loves you so much. 

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00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:04,480
Yeah, of course he does. 
I'm awesome. 

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00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:06,920
Why wouldn't he? 
Thanks. 

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00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,080
That's why that gospel hasn't 
penetrated anybody's heart, 

1196
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:11,640
because it's not actually the 
whole gospel. 

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00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:13,160
The whole gospel tells both 
hand. 

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00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:15,080
The gospel doesn't just say 
you're going to hell. 

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00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:17,720
And the gospel says, hey, 
everybody's going to hell. 

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00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:19,640
Good news, good news. 
Bear with me. 

1201
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,440
Jesus came and paid a price so 
that we could all be rescued and

1202
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,320
redeemed. 
If you'll bend the knee, if 

1203
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:28,280
you'll kiss the son, if you'll 
love and follow him, he'll save 

1204
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,080
you from everything. 
That's the whole story. 

1205
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:33,160
I mean, it's pretty condensed, 
but that's the whole story. 

1206
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,280
You take one without the other. 
You don't have the gospel 

1207
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:37,960
anymore. 
You have condemnation. 

1208
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,440
You're going to hell. 
It's not the whole story. 

1209
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:45,160
We don't preach that, but we 
also don't go Jesus loves you. 

1210
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,160
The end. 
Hang on, that's also not the 

1211
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:50,560
whole thing. 
The whole truth is beautiful. 

1212
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,080
The whole truth is powerful. 
The whole truth is the gospel. 

1213
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:56,920
When you minister to people, 
when you tell people the story 

1214
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:00,840
of the Kingdom, keep it simple. 
Keep it as good and true and 

1215
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:02,880
pure as it is. 
Hey, we've all sinned and 

1216
01:00:02,880 --> 01:00:04,200
falling short of the glory of 
God. 

1217
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:08,520
But God, who is rich in mercy, 
while we were still sinners, 

1218
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:12,280
sent Christ to die for us. 
Jesus is the worthy King. 

1219
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,240
And friend, if you sense 
anything going on in you right 

1220
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:17,120
now. 
That's the Holy Spirit, that is 

1221
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:20,240
the God loving you right this 
second want to save you. 

1222
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:22,600
And that applies to every single
one of you. 

1223
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:25,920
Heavenly Father, thank you so 
much for sending the Holy 

1224
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,400
Spirit. 
Holy Spirit, we honor you in 

1225
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:32,000
this moment. 
Oh Lord, forgive us for all the 

1226
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:35,360
times we've ignored you. 
Forgive us for all the times we 

1227
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,000
didn't pull that weed up right 
away when it was in our. 

1228
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:42,040
Heart and confess our sin or 
make us a humble people, Make us

1229
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:45,400
childlike in our faith. 
Felt like I was tender as a 

1230
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:49,440
child running to my father. 
Daddy, have I done this thing? 

1231
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:53,600
Am I in trouble? 
Is God keep us tender and soft 

1232
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:58,600
and pliable in your hands? 
Certain only of what You say, 

1233
01:01:00,280 --> 01:01:05,280
help us to doubt our doubts, but
to trust Your Word. 

1234
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:08,480
God, I pray your Saints would be
comforted today. 

1235
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:10,720
I pray that they would sense the
depth of Your grace and your. 

1236
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:13,600
Your love that you have for the 
whole world and for them. 

1237
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:18,680
God, I pray that we'd be that we
would be emboldened by love to 

1238
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,800
go tell the truth and the whole 
truth and nothing but the truth.

1239
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:27,640
So help us God, empower us, Holy
Spirit to do the. 

1240
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:29,520
Work. 
Of the ministry. 

1241
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:32,280
The harvest is ready. 
Jesus said it, so I believe it. 

1242
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:33,600
I'm not going to ask the 
harvest. 

1243
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:36,360
I'm going to ask the King. 
And the king says the harvest is

1244
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,560
ready. 
And it's that we just need more 

1245
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:41,000
laborers. 
God, don't let us be silent. 

1246
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:45,920
Christians, don't let the enemy 
mute us, deliver us from that 

1247
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:48,920
evil Jesus and glorify your 
name. 

1248
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:52,280
And now the Lord bless you and 
keep you. 

1249
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:56,680
The Lord make his face Shinedown
upon you and be gracious to you.

1250
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:00,640
The Lord lift up his countenance
upon you and give you great 

1251
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:04,080
peace in Jesus name. 
Amen. 

1252
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:07,760
Adam and Angelina are going to. 
Be here for prayer.