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Alright, turn in your Bible to 
Matthew chapter 23, No 22. 

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The Bible is awesome because the
Bible is living and active. 

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The Bible is God's word. 
This is part 85 and I have not 

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and I have not gotten bored with
Matthew. 

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If you have, then you're boring.
God's not boring. 

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The Bible's not boring. 
Matthew 22. 

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Remember, we're in the last days
of Jesus life. 

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So it's hard every week to give 
that context again. 

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But we need to, we need to say 
it once more. 

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This is the moment he's been 
building up for three years. 

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His ministry. 
He is the centerpiece of 

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everything that's happening in 
Jerusalem. 

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There's not like 17 people 
hovering around looking into 

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what this rabbi named Jesus is 
up to. 

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Thousands upon thousands upon 
many, many thousands have heard 

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him preach. 
You know somebody who knows 

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somebody who's been healed by 
Jesus at this point. 

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They have heard about the 
miracles. 

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I heard he raised Lazarus from 
the dead. 

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I heard he raised somebody else 
from the dead. 

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But they all know they weren't 
dead. 

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They'd only fallen asleep. 
There's all confusion. 

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No, Lazarus was dead 4 days, 
bro. 

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He actually came back. 
And right, for sure, that guy 

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was raised from the dead. 
All these stories have expanded 

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and swelled. 
He's fed thousands and they know

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that he didn't have the 
resources to do so, but he is 

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the resource to do so. 
So he's fed many people. 

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All this is expanded. 
The Pharisees are mad at him. 

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The Sadducees are mad at him. 
The Herodians are mad at him. 

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The Romans aren't quite sure. 
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what's going on. 
They're just going. 

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The Jews are doing Jew stuff. 
We don't really care that much 

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because we have the sword and we
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them. 
But of course, what they don't 

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realize is that Jesus has all 
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His Kingdom to subverse the 
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He's not going to. 
He has not yet come to rule with

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the sword. 
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did not come to rule with the 
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He came to rule the hearts of 
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The thing that no sword can 
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The sword can kill people and it
can force people to do things 

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that they don't want to do. 
Only Jesus has the power to 

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change you wanting to do 
something different. 

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Jesus can change your wonder. 
Jesus reforms and completely 

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transforms your desires so that 
the thing I wanted to do, I 

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don't need to be forced by the 
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I am drawn by the grace and the 
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He has changed me. 
He's made me new. 

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This is how Jesus is changing 
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He's stronger and He's better. 
He does what no man can do. 

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Men can force people with 
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Jesus can change a man's heart. 
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popularity. 
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now he's coming this week and he
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overturned the tables. 
The Sadducees are the ruling 

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group who ruled the temple. 
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the Pharisees. 
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considered. 
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as religious leaders. 
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Sadducees, although they were in
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not adored. 
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because they were very clearly 
political and they were very 

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wealthy men and they did not 
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They only adhere to the first 
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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 
Numbers, Deuteronomy, and yet 

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still they were even blind to 
those books that they claimed 

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that they believed. 
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and overturns the money changers
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carrying furniture through 
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court. 
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establishes his authority over 
the temple and they're going, 

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what are you doing? 
But what authority do you do 

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this? 
They're challenging him. 

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They don't just grab him. 
They don't just arrest him 

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because they said no one's ever 
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They sent people to go arrest 
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And they're like, we tried, but 
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because his power. 
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back because I didn't know what 
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So they're stumped, but they're 
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But this is His purpose. 
He came to die. 

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He's not the victim of the 
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He's not the victim of the 
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He's not a hostage to anybody. 
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You have no power over me except
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I lay it down. 
Jesus is the one marching to the

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cross. 
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and they are fulfilling their 
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Because of their hard hearts, 
because of their unbelief, Jesus

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is going to accomplish Jesus's 
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So they've been testing him. 
Remember, the Passover lambs are

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being tested this week. 
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They're being inspected. 
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Passover? 
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the Passover? 
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whenever it's time for the 
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ready? 
Jesus is the greater Passover 

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lamb who has been brought into 
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inspected all week. 
They test him, they try to trick

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him, they try to confuse him, 
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rebukes them over and over and 
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The same day Sadducees came to 
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resurrection. 
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saying, Teacher Moses said if a 
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brother must marry the widow and
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his brother. 
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Testament, the first five books 
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And there was a law, and this 
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This was to care for the widow, 
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within the family. 
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accumulated, whatever he had 
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within the family. 
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not married and your brother's 
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to marry her. 
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and this is also to keep the 
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family. 
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law that Moses gave us, and now 
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very complex situation that they
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There were seven brothers among 
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They were pretending that this 
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The first married and died and 
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wife to his brother. 
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to the 7th, I don't know. 
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brothers eventually would be 
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marry her. 
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but they go, you know, with this
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marries is like, well, hey bro, 
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God said you got to marry this 
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She's the Black Widow, as it's 
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Whenever people have been 
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down to the seventh verse 27 
after them all, the woman died 

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in the resurrection. 
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wife shall she be? 
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But Jesus answered them. 
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neither the Scriptures nor the 
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For in the resurrection they 
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marriage, but are like the 
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And As for the resurrection of 
the dead, have you not read what

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was said to you by God? 
I am the God of Abraham, and the

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God of Isaac, and the God of 
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He is not the God of the dead, 
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And when the crowd heard it, 
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teaching. 
God, help us to be astonished 

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with you and help us to be drawn
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Help us to be drawn to deeper 
surrender to you and to help us 

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to avoid the the foolishness of 
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the Sadducees. 
Lord, I pray that you would 

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drive unbelief out from us as we
submit to you today, as we come 

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humbly. 
Lord, when we come to you with 

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questions, help us to come with 
sincerity. 

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When we come to you with 
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you with humility. 
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questions, help us to come to 
you with childlike faith, always

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tender and always eager to 
receive what you would instruct 

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and what you would give. 
We receive your blessing this 

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morning of Your Word. 
We thank You for the Word that's

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living and active, that can 
divide and clarify between our 

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soul and our spirits. 
God, I thank you for breaking 

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bondages off of people this 
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I thank You for setting people 
free from unbelief. 

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God, I pray that you would raise
hope for the resurrection and 

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the life, not just the the life 
that will never end without any 

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time limit, but also the life 
that is of great value and worth

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here and now. 
In Jesus name we thank you. 

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Amen. 
So the Pharisees are your 

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traveling rabbis who are going 
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They would be your more 
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The problem is they also created
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God didn't put around God's law.
They said God says this, you're 

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not supposed to do this. 
So we're going to put this big 

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fence around this thing and 
we're going to say, don't do 

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that. 
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going to say that that's wrong 
and we're going to shame you and

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continue for that. 
And God saying, I didn't say 

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that. 
I only said this. 

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My law is enough. 
My law is perfect. 

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My law is right. 
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preferences for personal wisdom.
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this. 
Well, you're free in Christ, my 

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brother, my sister, you can do 
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But you need to be careful not 
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though it's Scripture and to say
this is the standard and this is

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the only way. 
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the Sadducees. 
These are the wealthy temple 

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elite. 
They are the priesthood. 

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They only believe the first five
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the supernatural. 
They do not believe in angels, 

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which are in the first five 
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They do not believe in any sort 
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They don't believe in life after
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They are a strange group. 
They are the liberal theologians

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who say whenever you show them 
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well, that's like an allegory. 
And they say, well, that was 

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kind of like just a metaphor. 
Like what about the Angel of the

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Lord here? 
And what about the Lord speaking

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with him here? 
And what about this? 

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And what about God appearing to 
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Like they have ways of of 
writing these things off, 

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downplaying, reinterpreting, or 
allegorizing them. 

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So since they denied angels and 
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they were forced to twist or 
ignore parts of Scripture that 

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clearly affirmed those 
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So miracles like the burning 
Bush, like the plagues, the 

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parting of the sea, they treated
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events, not evidence of an 
ongoing supernatural God who 

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still intervenes in the lives of
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Appearances of angels like the 
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sacrificing Isaac or who led 
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These things were dismissed as 
figurative language or poetic 

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storytelling. 
Does that sound familiar? 

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That's what modern lying false 
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They say, well, you know, that's
kind of like, which is a 

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dangerous ground to step on 
because it sounds an awful lot 

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like what Satan whispered in the
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Did God really say that's 
Satan's line? 

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You read your Bible and you 
think man seems like God's 

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saying what God is saying here. 
And then the snake will come in 

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and go. 
Did God really say, is it? 

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Is that really what he meant? 
So we don't want to encourage 

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bad interpretation and bad study
habits and misunderstanding of 

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Scripture. 
There's context to be considered

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and there's things to be 
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And yet we want to be humble to 
the Scripture and be default 

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believers, not cynics, not 
unbelievers. 

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Occasions of God appearing to 
men were reduced to symbolic 

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visions or moral lessons rather 
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living God, References to the 
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Like when God says he's going to
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fathers, this was interpreted as
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memory, not a continued 
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So these guys say they also 
believe that their that their 

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wealth was evidence of God 
blessing, God's blessing on 

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their lives. 
These are disobedient men. 

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These are the men who are mostly
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operation. 
Like we've talked about, you 

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can't take your water bottle 
through TSA. 

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They stop your water bottle and 
then you go through TSA and now 

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you have to buy a $15 dollar 
bottle of water. 

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This is the Sadducees who built 
that system. 

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These were the guys who were 
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My family and I, we, we picked 
out of our flock, we found the 

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best land we could find. 
He's the most perfect one. 

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We, he's beloved, my children 
love him. 

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We've given him a name. 
He's the most precious thing to 

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us. 
And we want to offer him to the 

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Lord because it's going to cost 
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It cost me money and it's 
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And we offer him up to the Lord.
And the Sadducees would inspect 

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and go, no, we found a defect in
this one. 

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You're going to have to buy one 
of our lambs here from the 

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temple courts, a pre approved 
temple lamb. 

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Jesus hated him. 
It was disgusting. 

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It was wicked. 
So he caused an uproar and he 

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said this is my father's house. 
It's a House of prayer. 

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You have turned it into a den of
thieves. 

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Nobody talked to these guys like
that. 

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Nobody, nobody would ever dare 
speak to them this way. 

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He doesn't care because he has 
authority over them. 

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And they're breathing his 
breath. 

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That's his air that they're 
borrowing. 

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Everything that they enjoy they 
have manipulated. 

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They revered Moses as a 
lawgiver, but they rejected the 

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God of power who parted the seas
and raised the dead. 

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Their religion had ritual, but 
it had no life. 

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It had the ritual, it had the To
Do List, but no real 

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supernatural power, no real 
life, and no real fruit. 

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So when they come here, This is 
why Matthew prepares his 

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readers. 
And remember, Matthew is a tax 

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collecting Jew. 
He's betrayed the Jewish people.

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Jesus calls him and says, 
Matthew, come follow me. 

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Matthew repents and now he 
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Years later, he's writing this 
gospel and he wrote this to the 

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Jews. 
So Matthew keeps pointing out 

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the context for the Jews and he 
says, remember the Sadducees who

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say there is no resurrection? 
Now bring their sarcastic 

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question. 
We don't even believe in the 

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resurrection, but we're going to
put this trick question to you. 

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Hey, Jesus, this guy who claims 
there's a resurrection, Here's 

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our story. 
Among us there was a guy. 

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And because we want to obey the 
law of Moses, so they present 

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this stupid hypothetical 
question with. 

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They come with their mockery. 
They come with no sincerity. 

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They ask their question. 
They're trap. 

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They invent this story about 
this woman who marries seven 

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brothers, each after another, 
each dying childless in the 

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resurrection. 
Whose wife will she be? 

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They think they make the whole 
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ridiculous. 
That's their motive. 

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That's what they think they're 
doing. 

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They think that they got some 
big gotcha moment. 

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We have similar things like this
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This is like abortionists who 
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has cancer and she's paralyzed 
and she's raped by a family 

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member. 
They're creating the most 

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horrific, wicked, extreme, 
devastating evil scenario they 

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can think of. 
And then they say, are you going

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to make her have the baby? 
Simultaneously, these hypocrites

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who asked this question, they 
would approve of abortion even 

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if a woman just didn't feel like
losing her Friday night 

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freedoms. 
But they have put on you this 

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devastating, chronically evil 
scenario. 

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And they're like, will you force
her to have a child? 

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Meanwhile, this person would 
approve if she's like, I just 

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feel like I want to go out with 
the girls more. 

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And they go, well, then you can 
abort your child as well. 

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You can murder your baby. 
That would be also be 

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acceptable. 
But they act as though they have

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presented a common moral dilemma
when it is neither common nor is

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it actually a moral dilemma. 
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Because the rapist can be 
legally executed by the 

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government, the girls should be 
cared for, cherished and 

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restored, and the baby should be
protected by everyone in 

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principle. 
It's also similar to the moronic

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mocking question that we talked 
about last week. 

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Can God make a rock so big that 
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Oh no, we're totally stumped. 
What a what a brilliant 

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philosophical problem you've 
created for us. 

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It's just stupid. 
It's just stupid. 

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It's not coming from a humble 
heart. 

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How am I supposed to answer it? 
You're not, You're not. 

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You don't give your pearls to 
dogs and to pigs. 

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You pray for them and you love 
your enemies. 

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But you need to recognize when 
someone has identified 

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themselves as your enemy so you 
can pray for them appropriately 

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and keep your heart pure towards
them so that they would come to 

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a saving faith of the Lord Jesus
Christ. 

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They would receive His grace 
because but for the grace of 

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God, we would be that ignorant, 
prideful, stupid, foolish jerk 

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who is rebelling against God. 
It's only by his grace that 

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we're not Jesus answered them. 
Verse 29 You are wrong because 

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you know neither the Scriptures 
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That is a giant slap in the face
to them. 

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I love it so much because they 
in fact intellectually knew the 

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Scriptures. 
They knew what the scriptures 

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said. 
That's why they brought that 

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scenario to him, said hey, 
there's this one law of this 

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thing, let's make fun of Jesus 
about it. 

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But Jesus is saying you don't 
know the Scriptures. 

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Isn't that an interesting point?
Jesus does not equate knowledge 

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of what the Bible says with 
knowing the Scriptures. 

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There's a different kind of 
knowing according to Jesus. 

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Oh, I know the word, I know the 
word. 

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Oh, I know the word. 
I've been in the word for a long

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time. 
I know the word. 

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Would Jesus say you know the 
word? 

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Because Jesus explanation of you
knowing the word means there is 

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fruit of that word in your life.
There are lots of people who 

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have brains full of the word. 
They have brains full of 

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Scripture, the Pharisees and the
Sadducees included. 

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Jesus was not pleased with them.
They were pleased with 

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themselves though, because they 
thought that that knowledge was 

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equal to their maturity. 
Knowledge does not equal 

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maturity. 
Passage of time does not equal 

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maturity. 
Maturity equals maturity. 

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Fruit equals maturity. 
That's what the Lord's judging. 

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That's what the Lord's looking 
for. 

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Remember Jesus rebuked a tree 
because it had all the leaves, 

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but it did not have the fruit. 
And he said, Israel is just like

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that. 
Look at all of our leaves. 

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Look at all of our religious 
rituals. 

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We are a tree with full of 
leaves. 

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And Jesus said, I don't see any 
fruit, so I'm cursing you and 

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you're dying. 
That tree. 

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It really did happen. 
It was an actual thing that 

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happened, but it was also a 
representation of what was 

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happening with Israel. 
You have been false and your 

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time is up. 
And now there's going to be the 

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true Jew. 
The true Israel is going to be 

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whoever puts faith in the Lord 
Jesus Christ and bears fruit 

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because they're actually loving 
him and following him. 

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So if you're a genetic 
descendant of Abraham, you're 

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welcome in through the blood. 
If you're not a genetic 

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descendant of Abraham, you're 
welcome in through the blood. 

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That's it. 
And you'll bear fruit. 

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You will not just be a tree. 
I have leaves. 

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What are leaves? 
I read my Bible, I go to church,

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I pray. 
These are leaves, He says, What 

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about the fruit? 
How does it show up? 

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What does it look like? 
You're wrong. 

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Nobody's ever told them that 
before. 

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You don't know the Scriptures or
the power of God. 

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Public rebuke. 
These guys are supposed to be 

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the teachers of Israel, yet 
Jesus exposes them as ignorant 

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of both the Bible and of God 
himself. 

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But let's not just pick on the 
Sadducees. 

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They're easy to pick on, right? 
We could just have fun. 

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I could just teach you and say 
look at these idiots and we move

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on. 
But this applies to you as well.

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You are wrong if you do not know
the scriptures and the power of 

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God as well. 
Know the scriptures that deeper 

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knowing that fruitful knowing 
Jesus does not count 

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intellectual knowing of the 
scriptures as knowing the 

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scriptures. 
They knew the Scriptures with 

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their minds, but they didn't 
actually understand them and 

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they didn't want to obey them 
with their hearts. 

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When people don't know the 
Scriptures and God's intent, 

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they invent false beliefs and 
they think that they are 

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correct. 
This leads to false doctrine. 

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This leads to misplaced 
priorities. 

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This leads to moral compromise. 
This leads to a redefining of 

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sin. 
I've got a verse. 

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We have the word of God. 
Remember, when you're reading 

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your Bible, you do not build 
your entire existence, entire 

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theology around a verse. 
The Bible interprets the Bible. 

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The Bible clarifies the Bible. 
We need the whole counsel of 

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God's Word for us to ask the 
question. 

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It's not, do you have a verse 
for that? 

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When we're thinking through 
things or we're discussing 

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things or even debating with 
someone, our questions should 

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not be hostile towards one 
another. 

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We should say, brother, show me 
that. 

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Where does the Word really teach
that? 

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And they bring you a verse. 
You go, wow, that really seems 

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to say exactly what they're 
saying. 

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Let's look into that more. 
What's going on here? 

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What's the kind? 
Oh, wow. 

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That is what the Word of God 
teaches. 

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That is what the Word of God 
reveals. 

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I'm, I've changed myself to the 
word. 

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I keep changing and repenting to
what the word says. 

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Or you realize, my brother in 
Christ, my sister in Christ, I 

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don't think this verse is 
communicating what you think 

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it's communicating. 
We have to take into account 

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this, then this and this. 
The Word of God is good and 

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safe. 
I don't want you to think the 

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Word of God is top shelf and 
it's not something you're 

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supposed to get to. 
The Word of God is for the 

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common man. 
It's safe to pick it up, to read

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it, believe it, apply it, and 
you will be safe to do so. 

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Why? 
Because a humble heart. 

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God will help. 
The Holy Spirit will lead the 

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humble heart. 
Who doesn't know anything. 

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How do you know Jim Michael? 
Because I am that guy. 

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I don't have any education and 
I've been that guy and I've come

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to my Bible years after year 
after year after year. 

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And I humble myself before the 
Lord and my pastor, I'm quoting 

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him. 
Doctor Ken Kramer has said to me

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before John Michael, the things 
that you've seen, like a lot of 

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guys had to go to seminary to 
learn, like I'll ask him 

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questions. 
Pastor, what about this? 

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What's going on here? 
You know, I say, all right, 

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doctor, I'm stumped on 
something. 

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You know, what's what's up with 
this and what's up with that? 

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And it seems to me like this, 
this, this and that, that, that.

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And he's like, yeah, he's like, 
yeah, that's like you're 3 of 

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seminary. 
So please, I think I have enough

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context with you all. 
I don't think you that you think

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I'm bragging. 
I think that's probably the 

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first time I've ever referenced 
something like that. 

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But what's the what's the moral 
of that story? 

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Joe Michael's awesome. 
No, that would be the wrong take

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00:21:57,800 --> 00:21:59,400
away. 
The moral of the story is your 

458
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,080
Bible is safe and humility when 
walking with the Lord will get 

459
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,160
you wherever you need to go. 
If you will humbly walk with the

460
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,240
Lord and you just go. 
Lord, I love your word, but I'm 

461
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,920
not a smart man, to quote 
Forrest Gump, but I know how to 

462
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,600
read. 
So with that approach, I can, I 

463
00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:19,800
can say, Lord, show me. 
Lord, reveal to me. 

464
00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:23,440
That doesn't mean I know all the
things, but it's been enough for

465
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,160
me to make it through the day. 
It's given me my daily bread and

466
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,280
it's given me enough bread to 
share with you, and it's given 

467
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:33,720
us enough bread to walk in 
faithfulness and fruitfulness 

468
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,600
and to be pleasing to the Lord. 
Amen. 

469
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:43,360
When people don't believe the 
power of God, when they don't 

470
00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:46,600
really believe the word of God, 
they think that God is like 

471
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:49,120
them. 
That is our default belief. 

472
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,840
Whenever we don't really believe
the scriptures, when we don't 

473
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,960
really know the Lord, we assume 
God is like us. 

474
00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:01,160
It's our default setting, the 
way that I think, well, it seems

475
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,000
to me that you know, somebody's 
about to, you know, whatever is 

476
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:05,840
about to come out of this 
person's mouth, they're really 

477
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,360
not walking closely with the 
Lord. 

478
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,360
I think the Lord ought to have 
done it this way. 

479
00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:12,400
Spoken like somebody who doesn't
know the Lord and know that he's

480
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,320
actually different from us and 
he's on another level. 

481
00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,920
We're made in his image or his 
thoughts aren't our thoughts, 

482
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,080
and He wants our thoughts to be 
His thoughts. 

483
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,280
But if we'll humble ourselves, 
He will lead us there. 

484
00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,200
People think that God is as weak
as they are. 

485
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:30,320
They think that He is as fickle 
as they are, that He is as 

486
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,480
unforgiving as they are, that He
is as unfaithful as they are, 

487
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,400
that He is tempted like they 
are, that He is limited like 

488
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,080
they are. 
The supernatural is often quick 

489
00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,280
to be eliminated from people's 
lives, and they rely only on 

490
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,520
human wisdom, psychology, and 
systems. 

491
00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,080
Why? 
Because it is predictable. 

492
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,680
I like predictability. 
You like predictability. 

493
00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:53,600
I like a formula. 
I want to do this and I get this

494
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,880
outcome every time. 
And the Lord says, well, faith 

495
00:23:57,880 --> 00:23:59,600
isn't going to look and work 
that way. 

496
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,000
As you read your Gospels, you 
won't see Jesus heal anybody the

497
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,240
same way twice may have happened
because he healed thousands upon

498
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,920
thousands upon thousands upon 
thousands of people. 

499
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,800
But the occasions that the that 
the Holy Spirit chose to give us

500
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:19,680
through the Gospel writers one 
day Jesus went and he made mud 

501
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,800
with his spit in the dirt. 
It's pretty gross. 

502
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,160
Pastor Jim Michael, I didn't do 
it. 

503
00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:27,480
Jesus did, and he rubbed it in a
man's eyes. 

504
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,560
That's weird. 
Take it up with Jesus. 

505
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:36,240
I didn't do it. 
And then another time he does it

506
00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,640
a different way, and another 
time he does it a different way.

507
00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,760
He says go show yourself to the 
priest. 

508
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:44,480
He says it's done according to 
your faith. 

509
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,360
It's looked like different 
things in different ways. 

510
00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,640
Well, I want a formula for the 
way things work and I want a 

511
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,880
formula. 
He's like, well, I want you to 

512
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:54,520
actually listen to me and I want
to give you instruction and that

513
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,080
will require that you walk with 
me. 

514
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,920
I want to give you the right 
thing at the right time. 

515
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:01,360
And that will require that we're
actually in fellowship because 

516
00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:03,880
if you'll remember correctly, 
that was all he always wanted 

517
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:06,320
anyway. 
Rewind to Genesis. 

518
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,720
He wanted his people, he wanted 
him to multiply and he wanted to

519
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:10,920
walk with us in the cold of the 
day. 

520
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,280
We're in the middle of a massive
and beautiful detour because of 

521
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,960
the cross now, but we're, he's 
going to restore all things and 

522
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,040
we're going to be the bride with
the groom and we're going to 

523
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,200
have the marriage supper of the 
lamb and we are going to live 

524
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,400
together happily ever after. 
Even though the Sadducees 

525
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:29,880
foolishly believed otherwise. 
But people are quick to 

526
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:33,600
eliminate the Holy Spirit and 
his work. 

527
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:37,320
They're they're quick to focus 
on their systems and they're the

528
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,840
things that they believe are 
predictable so that they 

529
00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,600
actually don't have to grow and 
learn and walk with God. 

530
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,480
And things that might be more 
mysterious to them and things 

531
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,800
that might not be as formulaic. 
Ignorance of God's word is what 

532
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,080
Jesus accuses them of. 
And unbelief. 

533
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,920
Those are the accusations. 
Well, we've been guilty of all 

534
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,800
that. 
Do you know the word of God? 

535
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,560
Well, like if you were to ask me
and I'd be like, well, I'm 

536
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:04,640
progressing, right? 
Like I don't think anybody would

537
00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:09,400
do you know the word like, yes. 
And I want to know it more. 

538
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,880
I want to know him more. 
Do you have unbelief? 

539
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,920
Yes and no. 
And I want to grow. 

540
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,800
Lord, increase my faith. 
Lord, help me to actually trust.

541
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,880
Help me to actually be 
childlike. 

542
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,320
If we knew the Scriptures and if
we trusted God's power, we would

543
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:29,680
not stray into false thinking, 
and we would not despair when 

544
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,200
facing troubles. 
Knowing the Word of God protects

545
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,520
you from bad thinking. 
Knowing the Word of God and 

546
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,800
believing in God's power keeps 
us from despair. 

547
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:39,920
When troubles come. 
You're going to experience 

548
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,000
troubles, Saints. 
It's not a bad confession, it's 

549
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,280
not a bad prophecy. 
It's just saying life gets a 

550
00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:48,320
vote and you have an enemy. 
You are in a war. 

551
00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:53,360
I love Psalm 23, but it stands 
out as an exception for most of 

552
00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:56,080
the Psalms because most of the 
Psalms have a setting of 

553
00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:59,520
warfare. 
Most of the Psalms have to do 

554
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:04,440
with extreme war going on. 
Psalm 23 we go, what a relief 

555
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,280
from the battle. 
But even then, he's talking 

556
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,360
about the presence of our 
enemies, even though he's 

557
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:11,760
talking about walking through 
the valley of the shadow of 

558
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,200
death. 
But the rest of your Psalms are 

559
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:18,440
largely warfare and combat. 
It's been said that we are in 

560
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,680
the middle of a love story, but 
the love story is taking place 

561
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:26,120
in the middle of a war. 
So yes, God loves us, but if we 

562
00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:29,200
deny the realities of the war 
around us, the spiritual war, 

563
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,400
the enemy who hates us, and we 
don't recognize that we have 

564
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,920
pain and difficulties to 
experience because of sin, we'll

565
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,680
be ignorant. 
But if we don't actually lean on

566
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,040
the power of God and believe in 
his supernatural impartations 

567
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,560
for our lives, we'll despair 
when these things come against 

568
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,440
us, and we'll be surprised every
time. 

569
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,760
How could this happen? 
How could this happen? 

570
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,680
Well, the world is broken, 
You've made mistakes, and you 

571
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,800
still make mistakes, and the 
devil hates you. 

572
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,880
That's why bad things happen. 
Why does anything good happen? 

573
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:03,120
Because God is so good and he 
loves you and you. 

574
00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:05,680
And that's why you've also seen 
what the enemy meant for evil in

575
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:07,920
your life. 
You've seen the Lord restore it 

576
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,760
and turn it for your good. 
You've seen evil and 

577
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:14,720
devastation, and still you've 
seen the Lord pour oil and wine 

578
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,360
in. 
It's not saying that the injury 

579
00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:18,680
didn't happen, but you see the 
Lord bring a resurrection out of

580
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:19,440
it. 
Why? 

581
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,360
Because God is good. 
So what are the things, what are

582
00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:24,760
the consequences when we live 
this way, when we don't know the

583
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,800
word of God, and when we don't 
believe in the really in the 

584
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,200
power of God? 
What are the things that keep us

585
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,440
from true understanding of God's
word? 

586
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,120
What are the things that keep us
from the power of God? 

587
00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:37,840
One of these we've already 
referenced Pride. 

588
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,560
Pride, assuming you already 
know. 

589
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:42,920
I cannot learn when I think I 
know. 

590
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:44,920
I have to deal with this all the
time. 

591
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,800
I make a point to put myself in 
rooms where I'm the small fish 

592
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,240
in a big pond. 
I make a point to put myself 

593
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,760
around men who I believe outrank
me and when I'm around them and 

594
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,080
they start to share something, 
the first thing a lot of times I

595
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,480
feel when they start to talk 
about a category I think I'm 

596
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,880
familiar with as I start to go, 
I already know that. 

597
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:03,960
I want him to know that. 
I know that so that he thinks I 

598
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,160
know that. 
And I have to say shut up flesh.

599
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,680
Be small and listen and learn. 
Be nobody. 

600
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:13,840
Take the small seat at the 
table. 

601
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,400
John Michael. 
He starts to talk about some 

602
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,400
things he does in his marriage 
and some things he does in his 

603
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,240
family and immediately I feel I,
I do that too. 

604
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,920
I know a lot of good stuff about
marriage and family. 

605
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,440
I'm actually, I actually teach a
lot of people. 

606
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,240
That's what my flesh, my flesh 
is like. 

607
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,840
Look at me, encourage me, give 
me information instead of shut 

608
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,480
up. 
Get on the cross. 

609
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:33,760
You already know what you know, 
stupid. 

610
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,920
You don't know what he knows. 
Humble yourself. 

611
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,840
Take pride in letting him not 
know anything about you. 

612
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,240
Take pride and let him find out.
Let another boast for you. 

613
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,840
That's good. 
I've got to do that all the time

614
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,520
because you can't learn when you
think you already know. 

615
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,560
Pride will keep you from knowing
God's Word. 

616
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,440
You go to the Scriptures. 
Yeah, I've been here, done that.

617
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,920
There is gold. 
It is living. 

618
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,920
It's active. 
There is a life source that will

619
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,520
flow to you from God's Word, 
whether you're you're reading it

620
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,160
with your eyes or listening to 
it with your ears or saying it 

621
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,160
to yourself or meditating upon 
it in your mind. 

622
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,440
There's more power there. 
It's not a history lesson. 

623
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,920
It has tons of history in it, 
but it's not exclusively a 

624
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,000
history lesson. 
It's really living. 

625
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,240
And if you believe in that 
supernatural power, you'll 

626
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,920
humble. 
You have to humble yourself to 

627
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,440
receive it. 
What's another thing that keeps 

628
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,680
us from understanding God's Word
and His power? 

629
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,560
Unbelief. 
It's just refusing to accept 

630
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,880
supernatural truth. 
This is the cynic. 

631
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:32,960
This is the well, I don't know 
about that. 

632
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,880
That is a choice that is not a 
debilitating, chronic issue 

633
00:30:37,880 --> 00:30:40,640
that's come from the outside. 
That is something that's coming 

634
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,240
from the inside, and that is a 
choice that is something that 

635
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,640
you can renounce and that you 
can repent of. 

636
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:51,920
Lord, I repent of my own belief.
I turn from my cynicism. 

637
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,960
I come, as Jesus demanded, with 
childlike faith. 

638
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,800
If you do not have the faith of 
a child, Jesus said, you will 

639
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,640
never even enter the Kingdom of 
heaven. 

640
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,000
They said, who's going to be the
greatest in the Kingdom? 

641
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,840
Lord, it's me, right? 
Is it me? 

642
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,440
They're talking about rank in 
the Kingdom, Who's going to have

643
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,600
the most glory in the Kingdom? 
And Jesus said, hey, let's take 

644
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,160
away the whole rank in the 
Kingdom conversation and let me 

645
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,520
slap you in the face with this 
one. 

646
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:18,840
You'll never even enter the 
Kingdom. 

647
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,880
What we're talking about how 
high we're going to rank. 

648
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,680
We're obviously going to enter 
the Kingdom. 

649
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,920
Lord, I'm trying to consider how
how great I'll be, how much 

650
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,200
prominence I'll have. 
Will I be over Peter? 

651
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,920
I hope I'm going to be over 
Peter because he kind of gets on

652
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,120
my nerves. 
What's my rank going to be? 

653
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:37,000
Jesus said you'll have no rank. 
You won't even enter the Kingdom

654
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,560
unless you come like a little 
child. 

655
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,000
And you're not coming like a 
little child right now because 

656
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,240
the little child's not thinking 
about that. 

657
00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:44,560
The little child knows they're 
small. 

658
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:47,960
I'm just here. 
Little children, they just run 

659
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:49,800
around in the world of adults 
and they don't think much of 

660
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,960
themselves. 
They're controlled, they're LED,

661
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,400
they're directed, and they're 
submissive. 

662
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,520
Jesus said that's how you should
be in the Kingdom. 

663
00:31:56,880 --> 00:31:58,960
You won't even enter the Kingdom
unless you come in that way. 

664
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,240
What are other things that keep 
us from understanding God's Word

665
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,800
truly, deeply in our hearts? 
Love of sin. 

666
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,520
Holding on to what God condemns 
will blind your heart to truth. 

667
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,840
I surrender this thing over 
here. 

668
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:17,120
I'll surrender that thing right 
there. 

669
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,480
But the Lord not this thing. 
Don't look at that thing. 

670
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:25,360
I'll surrender these other 
things over here if I love my 

671
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,480
sin. 
That is a massive blockage, 

672
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,640
Lord, breakthrough in this area.
Lord, come on, I need the 

673
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,120
breakthrough. 
I'm claiming it. 

674
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:35,360
I'm standing on the promise. 
Give me the breakthrough in 

675
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,760
Jesus name and I'm holding on to
this sin. 

676
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:40,960
It's a supernatural thing. 
I don't, it's out of my 

677
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,480
jurisdiction. 
It's out of my league to explain

678
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,640
the details of how it works. 
That's his area of expertise. 

679
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,960
But it's something, there's 
something there. 

680
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,280
Your heart's really not hungry 
and humble, and there's too much

681
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:55,840
weeds, there's too much 
blockage, there's too much 

682
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,280
demonic influence. 
If I love my sin and I'm holding

683
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,520
on to my sin, that's going to 
blind me from really seeing the 

684
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,400
word of God, really receiving 
God's supernatural power. 

685
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,680
What else keeps me from this? 
Just the neglect of Scripture. 

686
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,640
Neglect of Scripture. 
Rarely reading the Scripture 

687
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,400
leaves you spiritually 
malnourished. 

688
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,640
So if I'm just not coming to the
Scripture with enough frequency,

689
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:22,840
frankly, frankly, then I can't 
be well nourished eating a meal 

690
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,160
once a month. 
Like we're going to be 

691
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:28,840
malnourished in our physical 
bodies. 

692
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,640
So what do our what do our 
spiritual lives need? 

693
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,960
What do our mental lives need? 
What kind of cadence would 

694
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,000
actually be nourishing to your 
life, which is not coming with 

695
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,760
enough frequency, even enough 
humility to really be changed by

696
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,160
it? 
What else keeps us? 

697
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,360
What else makes us look like 
Sadducees? 

698
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,400
Men who deny the Scripture, 
don't know the Scriptures, and 

699
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,760
deny the power of God? 
A lack of the Holy Spirit's 

700
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,560
revelation. 
This is when you're trying to 

701
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,520
understand divine truth without 
actually being submissive and 

702
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,960
prayerful for understanding. 
Pray when you're seeking God in 

703
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,520
His word. 
Lord, show me, Lord, show me. 

704
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:04,880
And you keep coming back to that
thing. 

705
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,600
You can come back again tomorrow
and come back again tomorrow, 

706
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,000
and you keep reading your Bible.
There have been times where 

707
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,080
there are things I didn't 
understand and then years later 

708
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,120
in a place in my Bible, I wasn't
expecting it on a night I did 

709
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,760
not see coming. 
And I thought, I'm just going to

710
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,400
read the word for a few minutes.
And the Lord and His kindness 

711
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,480
and His blessing, this 
breakthrough, this light, and 

712
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:25,679
this revelation going, wow, 
never seen that before. 

713
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,600
Didn't realize that before. 
That answered my question from 

714
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,400
years ago, and it built me up 
and edified me and strengthened 

715
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:34,920
me and encouraged me and 
answered something for me. 

716
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:41,040
Worldly influence. 
This is whenever we've absorbed 

717
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,560
all these cultural ideas and 
philosophies that contradicts 

718
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,719
God's Word, those have become 
our normal operating system that

719
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,360
has to be driven out. 
Do not be conformed to this 

720
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,760
world. 
It's a mold like this box. 

721
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,880
You pour mold into it and you've
conformed to it, he says, But 

722
00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:59,160
instead be transformed by the 
renewing of your mind. 

723
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,360
The renewing of our mind happens
through the Word of God. 

724
00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:05,400
What else stops us from 
receiving God's truth deeply 

725
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,720
within us? 
Impatience, expecting quick 

726
00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:12,000
insights instead of slow, humble
meditation that leads to 

727
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,440
revelation. 
The Internet has rewired our 

728
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,760
brains. 
Doctors have continually been 

729
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,440
learning about this. 
It's still pretty daggone new. 

730
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:22,840
The internet's like, what, 20 
years? 

731
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,520
25 years? 
And it feels like it's been here

732
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,920
forever now. 
But it's rewiring our brains. 

733
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:32,040
It's making us dopamine addicts.
We are, most all of us, dopamine

734
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:35,200
addicted. 
Grab it, check, grab it, check. 

735
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,080
It's doing a little something in
your brain and it's changing 

736
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:39,200
things. 
And we're expecting 

737
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,840
instantaneous things. 
We thought the microwave spoiled

738
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,880
us when the Internet came, You 
know, I tapped something. 

739
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,760
I asked ChatGPT if it takes like
2 seconds, I'm like this stupid 

740
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,960
robot. 
Like my boys will tell you, I'm 

741
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,960
like, come on. 
It's like it's got to go to 

742
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,360
space. 
It's got to go to the server. 

743
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:56,600
It's got to get all this 
information. 

744
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,240
I still have like the answer to 
basically anything that at my 

745
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:05,040
fingertips, but 2 seconds is too
long impatience when we come to 

746
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,160
the scriptures expecting our 
insights. 

747
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:08,960
Come on. 
Hey, Lord, I want to know this, 

748
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,800
I want to know this and he's 
saying let's walk together. 

749
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:15,920
Walk with me, walk with me, son.
Well, I got AI just got a quick 

750
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:17,800
question. 
Walk with me, son. 

751
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:21,120
I want to walk with you and I 
want you to actually know me 

752
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:25,040
because what you think you need 
is knowledge and what you need 

753
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,360
is maturity. 
What you need is me. 

754
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
We want knowledge. 
And in our impatience, Lord, if 

755
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,600
you could give me like the four 
points to this thing of the four

756
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,280
points to that thing, ah, 
knowledge. 

757
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,680
So you can be puffed up, right? 
Because that's what knowledge 

758
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,240
does. 
Puffs me up. 

759
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,240
I'm somebody because I know some
stuff. 

760
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:48,160
Wow, quite impressive. 
So impatience can ruin us. 

761
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,800
Expecting quick insights instead
of slow humble meditation that 

762
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,200
leads to real revelation. 
And then the last one, 

763
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:59,680
unforgiveness, the older I've 
gotten and the more I've been in

764
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,680
ministry, the more I believe 
that unforgiveness is a massive,

765
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,720
massive blockage. 
And just like all the things, 

766
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,560
all the things. 
I was with some brothers this 

767
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:16,360
weekend at a conference get 
together thing and a brother had

768
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:18,640
shared something that he had he 
had experienced. 

769
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,480
I don't think he would mind me 
sharing the story. 

770
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,720
His one of his children had 
experienced A demonic attack 

771
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,120
months back. 
And we prayed together, me and 

772
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,480
the men in this group, we prayed
together over this man and and 

773
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:32,920
rebuked and dealt with this 
thing. 

774
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,880
And I think whenever a demonic 
attack happens on a one off 

775
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,200
occasion, I kind of can 
sometimes chalk that up to OK, 

776
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,040
like we, we, we saw, we see you 
devil. 

777
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,720
We and we addressed it and we 
kicked it out. 

778
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,120
But it's weird. 
It's weird because the devil 

779
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:51,440
really shouldn't have access to 
children, and if he does, it's 

780
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,880
because there's a doorway open. 
The Lord does not just give 

781
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,640
Satan just full direct access 
like you can do whatever you 

782
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,480
want to kids. 
No, because they have a 

783
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,320
covering. 
They have their mother and they 

784
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,840
have their father. 
And in this case, I know this is

785
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,680
a godly man. 
So I'm saying, OK, we deal with 

786
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,200
it, knock it out, no big deal. 
We move on. 

787
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,760
Well, he said, hey, while we're 
at this event together, he said 

788
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:12,920
my wife is texted and my 
youngest son is experiencing 

789
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,440
this thing going on again. 
And I was going, all right, 

790
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,040
right now this doesn't add up. 
Like the one time he comes in, 

791
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,600
we kick him out. 
Like that was a one off weird 

792
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:21,680
thing. 
You know, I think different 

793
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,040
parents have experienced 
different things. 

794
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,240
I think there was times where we
probably experienced like, what 

795
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:26,760
is this dark presence in my 
house? 

796
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,520
What is this about? 
And we stand up in faith and in 

797
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,400
prayer. 
We say, you get out, you return 

798
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:34,560
to hell. 
I don't know what's going on 

799
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,000
here, but we plead the blood of 
Jesus. 

800
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,520
And it was a one off occasion. 
We've experienced things like 

801
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,240
that and a little like, and that
and that's it. 

802
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:41,960
And I've met others who 
experienced. 

803
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,840
But for it to come back again, 
I'm going, brother, something's 

804
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,320
up, something's off. 
This isn't right. 

805
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:48,840
This doesn't add up. 
This doesn't make sense. 

806
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,800
Is there anything going on? 
He's like, I don't think so. 

807
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,200
I was like, you know, there's 
not like some hidden sin or 

808
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,040
anything. 
He's like, no man, no, that 

809
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,400
there's definitely not. 
I was like, you have any 

810
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,400
unforgiveness? 
I was like, that's the other go 

811
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:08,720
to and you just pause. 
And I was like, so yes. 

812
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:11,120
And he said, yeah. 
He said this person, I was like,

813
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:12,360
man, let's renounce that right 
now. 

814
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,400
So we prayed together, but then 
even after that, after this 

815
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,120
conversation, after we all 
prayed over him, he said the 

816
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,760
words out loud. 
I forgive so and so and he 

817
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,120
blessed so and so with his 
mouth. 

818
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:26,440
But afterwards we got talking. 
He's like, man, I'm not feeling 

819
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:27,800
free. 
Like I still feel burdened. 

820
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,880
I still feel bondage. 
He's like, but I said it. 

821
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,800
I was like, brother, a lot of 
people said a lot of things with

822
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:33,560
their mouths that do not come 
out of their hearts. 

823
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:37,480
A lot of people are going to 
hell who said I believe in the 

824
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,400
Lord Jesus Christ. 
I receive him as my Lord and 

825
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,680
Savior because their mouths at 
it, but they didn't believe in 

826
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,920
their heart. 
And I said, so you said you 

827
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,400
forgive him, but you didn't 
forgive him. 

828
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,240
And he's like, I don't know. 
You think it's really connected?

829
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,280
Well, his son had imagined a 
particular thing for their 

830
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,600
family, for their household. 
His son imagined their family 

831
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,720
burning in their house, their 
house burning and their whole 

832
00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:04,200
family burning up with it. 
And as his brother was talking, 

833
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:06,280
he was sharing. 
He's like, man, yeah, I do have 

834
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:08,320
unforgiveness towards this guy. 
And I think maybe that's what's 

835
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:09,680
going on. 
He said. 

836
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:13,720
I honestly. 
I I imagined before like burning

837
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:17,560
his house down with him in it 
and he didn't even make that 

838
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:20,920
connection that y'all just made 
and I said, tell me again what 

839
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,840
you've imagined. 
He's I would never I was like I 

840
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,840
know he said, but I imagine I 
said, what's your little boy 

841
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,560
imagine for your household and 
he goes you think they're 

842
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,680
connected? 
I go, you think I think so my 

843
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,560
brother. 
So you know, I prayed for him 

844
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:37,240
again. 
I said, you need to call him. 

845
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,840
He's like he's, he's a 
narcissist. 

846
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:41,520
He's like, he's not going to 
receive any of us. 

847
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,680
It's not your problem, not your 
business. 

848
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,560
He's like he's going to laugh 
whenever I say I've forgiven 

849
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,560
you. 
He's going to go was what am I? 

850
00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:49,120
I said then get off the phone 
and move on. 

851
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,840
So he did. 
So he called him, and then he 

852
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,800
calls me back and he says I'm 
free. 

853
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,680
I'm totally free. 
He said I can breathe again. 

854
00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,800
He didn't even know that it was 
impacting him. 

855
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,280
He'd experienced paralysis in 
his face months back whenever he

856
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,200
was going to an event that he 
knew this other guy was going to

857
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:06,720
be at. 
In the weeks leading up to it, 

858
00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:08,800
the stress was building. 
But he told his little boy, 

859
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,920
we're going to go do this thing.
And now he's like, Oh my 

860
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:15,520
goodness, freedom. 
Why'd you tell that, pastor? 

861
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,400
Because I want to encourage you 
to forgive, Pastor. 

862
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:20,080
Doesn't everybody have 
unforgiveness? 

863
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:25,040
We're not supposed to. 
We're supposed to have 0.0% 

864
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,640
forgiveness in US. 
Did he really have to call him? 

865
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,800
That's what it took. 
What will it take to be free? 

866
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,320
Do that thing that feels like 
cutting off my hand. 

867
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:37,000
That feels like gouging out my 
eye. 

868
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,360
Jesus said it's worth it. 
It's better to do that than to 

869
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,480
enter into the Kingdom and going
to hell with your hands and your

870
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,640
eyes intact. 
It's better enter into heaven 

871
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:48,400
missing a hand and missing an 
eye. 

872
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,760
Which of course was hyperbole. 
You won't actually be missing a 

873
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,400
hand. 
You won't actually be missing an

874
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,040
eye in the eternal Kingdom. 
Unforgiveness is massive and you

875
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,720
should be afraid of it. 
When you sense unforgiveness in 

876
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:01,680
your heart, not in in your life,
it should scare you like it. 

877
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,880
It should be your new enemy 
instead of the cat that you've 

878
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:05,920
been petting. 
Like the evil villain just 

879
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,200
stroking your cat and like, yes,
yes, they wronged us. 

880
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,840
I use cats, of course, because 
cats are evil. 

881
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,280
We all know this. 
I'm just seizing. 

882
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:19,840
Not really. 
So instead of stroking your 

883
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:23,880
unforgiveness and just holding 
on to it, holding on to it, to 

884
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:28,440
actually forgive, why should I? 
Good question, fair question. 

885
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,200
You're not saying that what they
did was good or right or OK. 

886
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,520
We're not saying that at all. 
To forgive is actually to say 

887
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,400
what you did was wrong. 
And I release you of the penalty

888
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:43,400
and the burden of it. 
You now owe me nothing and 

889
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,240
you're free and they're free. 
It's often been taught that 

890
00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:49,520
you're doing it for yourself. 
Well, that's actually still kind

891
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:53,080
of a selfish way to view, to 
view forgiving people. 

892
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,240
And yet you also are doing it 
for yourself. 

893
00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:58,040
It's a both and it's a win win. 
They're free. 

894
00:42:58,040 --> 00:42:59,720
But in this case, this guy 
didn't even care that he was 

895
00:42:59,720 --> 00:43:02,320
apologizing to he's like, well, 
come on, man, wouldn't it kind 

896
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:04,360
of your fault? 
Like he like went in right away,

897
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:07,120
like full narcissist mode like, 
well, I really think it was you.

898
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,960
And he's like, and I just like, 
I bless you and your wife and 

899
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,920
your children and I hope that 
good things come for you and I 

900
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,800
hope the Lord just blesses your 
household. 

901
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:17,600
And he's like, I just had to get
up because he was starting to 

902
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,040
ramp up against me. 
He's like, I'm free. 

903
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,480
So. 
So maybe they receive it and 

904
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,600
maybe they weep in tears and 
apologize, or maybe they double 

905
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,480
down and go, yeah, you're dumb, 
but thanks for the forgiveness, 

906
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,920
I guess. 
But you should be free. 

907
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,080
That was a whole sermon on 
unforgiveness there. 

908
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,880
Forgiveness. 
Unforgiveness can block us, 

909
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,280
Lord. 
Lord hasn't done anything in 

910
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,400
your life in years. 
You, you feel like there's no 

911
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,360
supernatural happening in your 
life at all. 

912
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,440
Is there any unforgiveness? 
Sniff that thing out. 

913
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,840
If there's not, there's not. 
You don't have to go hunting for

914
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,600
something that's not there. 
But if there is, if something 

915
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,720
came up when you've heard any of
this talked about, then you need

916
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:56,000
to take a next step on that 
thing. 

917
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,840
I didn't tell you what it was. 
Maybe it is the phone call. 

918
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:01,560
Maybe it is the text. 
He was like man to Michael, even

919
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:03,840
though as I was like dialing the
phone, he's like my blood 

920
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,320
pressure. 
He's like, my heart was pumped. 

921
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,840
Like, oh, it's all the angst of 
it. 

922
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:11,920
And now he's gone. 
What a relief. 

923
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,400
What a relief. 
Holiness brings relief. 

924
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,520
It brings freedom. 
You had this rock in your shoe, 

925
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,800
you didn't even know it was 
there and now you get the thing 

926
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,120
out. 
You're like, Oh my goodness, is 

927
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:25,000
this what walking feels like? 
I didn't know my shoes could 

928
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,200
feel so good. 
Those are the things that keep 

929
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:33,560
us and cause us to wander. 
When Jesus said you are wrong, 

930
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,160
that word wrong that he used had
connotation and context around 

931
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,120
it that would have been 
understood. 

932
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,600
It was a used, It was a word 
they used whenever we would talk

933
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:43,400
about stars or constellations 
that seemed to wander across the

934
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,080
night sky and seemed to wander 
from season to season. 

935
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,880
It was a it was a really, really
awesome and deep insight and 

936
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,560
deep insightful insult that 
Jesus deliberately used. 

937
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:56,960
He said, you're wandering. 
Christians, we even wander when 

938
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,640
we get away from the truth of 
God's word. 

939
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:00,600
When we get away from believing 
and trusting in the 

940
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,080
supernatural, we wander. 
But if you're if you're 

941
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:06,880
experiencing lack of freedom in 
any area of your life and if 

942
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,960
you're experiencing these 
blockages and if it feels as 

943
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:13,680
though I've wandered in my walk,
these are the things that you 

944
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,280
would want to watch for. 
We're going to start closing 

945
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:21,840
now. 
I'm going to clarify something 

946
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,240
for you in verse 30 when Jesus 
answers, he says for in the 

947
00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:27,880
resurrection they neither marry 
nor are given in marriage. 

948
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,120
And he's right. 
That's true. 

949
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,200
That means exactly what it says 
and it is exactly what it sounds

950
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:33,800
like. 
We will not be married in 

951
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,880
heaven. 
Marriage on earth is a picture. 

952
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,280
It is a beautiful picture. 
It is a wonderful picture. 

953
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,840
And honestly, with my limited 
earthly brain, I experience a 

954
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,440
wonderful and beautiful and 
godly marriage. 

955
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,800
So that's a strange thing for me
to think like I'm not going to 

956
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,640
be married to this girl. 
That seems like I'm taking a 

957
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:56,880
loss. 
Honestly, it seems like that's 

958
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:01,240
like a step back for me. 
That's what my mind thinks. 

959
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:05,040
But I know better. 
I know that there will be no 

960
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,520
demotions in heaven. 
I know that nothing will be 

961
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,600
downgraded in heaven. 
I know that everything is only 

962
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,480
going to be upgraded in the 
eternal Kingdom. 

963
00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:15,400
So I believe God, I believe that
He has something better. 

964
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:17,440
I believe that He has something 
greater. 

965
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,880
I believe that He has something 
holier and more fulfilling 

966
00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:24,600
because this earthly marriage 
was always a picture of Christ 

967
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,000
and the church. 
Christ in the church comes first

968
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,160
and he goes, I need to teach 
them. 

969
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,880
I need to give them something so
they can see what Christ in the 

970
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:36,040
church looks like. 
That is why he creates marriage.

971
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,440
Yes, Adam and Eve came before 
Christ came to the earth, but 

972
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:41,480
the Lord in his wisdom and 
sovereignty knew what he was 

973
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:42,920
doing. 
So he said, I'm going to make 

974
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,160
marriage so they'll have this 
picture of Christ in the church.

975
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:47,760
That's what our marriages should
be. 

976
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,120
People should be able to look 
into Christian marriages and go,

977
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,920
wow, He's like Jesus and she's 
like the church. 

978
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:57,360
He leads her with strength and 
he provides for her and protects

979
00:46:57,360 --> 00:47:00,680
her and loves her. 
She submits to him, she respects

980
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:05,160
him, she defers to him. 
She helps him accomplish his 

981
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:06,360
mission. 
They're united. 

982
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:09,520
They're in love. 
If that's Jesus in his church, 

983
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,240
sign me up. 
Our marriages are supposed to be

984
00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:16,760
a picture that sanctify us, that
bring us joy and bring babies in

985
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,720
the earth. 
That's a that's a primary 

986
00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:22,200
purpose of our marriages is for 
multiplication. 

987
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:24,920
And that's not going to have to 
happen in heaven. 

988
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,960
So when Jesus says you're going 
to be like the angels, he 

989
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:29,920
doesn't mean we're going to be 
angels. 

990
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,840
We're not going to sprout wings.
This is where bad doctrine and 

991
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,120
misunderstandings have come 
from. 

992
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:38,000
He says you're going to be like 
the angels in that there's a set

993
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,840
number of angels and there's 
they're not multiplying at that 

994
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:42,560
point. 
Once we enter into the eternal 

995
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,440
Kingdom, we're not multiplying 
anymore. 

996
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:47,480
This was where we multiplied and
then we go into heaven. 

997
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:50,560
He says now that season is 
finished and we're going into 

998
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,240
something higher, something new 
and something better. 

999
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,520
They're neither given nor 
they're neither married nor 

1000
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,880
given in marriage, but are like 
the angels in heaven. 

1001
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:03,240
And As for the resurrection of 
the dead, have you not read what

1002
00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:07,520
was said to you by God? 
I am the God of Abraham, the God

1003
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:14,200
of Isaac and the God of Jacob. 
This is the this is the nail in 

1004
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,080
the coffin. 
He's quoting the scriptures that

1005
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:21,920
they claim to believe. 
And God didn't say I was the God

1006
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,560
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 
the God of Jacob, because when 

1007
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,720
that verse was written, they had
been dead for hundreds of years.

1008
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:30,800
So God is saying I am still 
their God today. 

1009
00:48:31,160 --> 00:48:35,160
I'm still their God right now. 
And Jesus, the perfect 

1010
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,440
interpreter of all scripture, 
the author of all scripture, 

1011
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,800
says that scripture proves the 
resurrection of the dead. 

1012
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:45,720
Meaning when you die, you don't 
really die if you're in Christ, 

1013
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,200
If you have faith in God, you 
will never actually really taste

1014
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:51,640
death. 
Our body will, but that body 

1015
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:53,320
will actually be raised up 
again. 

1016
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:56,880
So when we die, to be absent 
from the body is to be present 

1017
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,640
with the Lord. 
We are carried safely into the 

1018
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,960
eternal Kingdom to be with the 
Lord, to be with all the Saints 

1019
00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,400
who have gone before us. 
And then at the last day there 

1020
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:09,600
will be a resurrection where our
bodies will actually come out of

1021
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,440
our coffins, or bodies that have
been burned, or bodies that were

1022
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:14,400
lost at sea, or bodies, all the 
things. 

1023
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,160
The Lord, that's his 
jurisdiction, not yours, not 

1024
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,360
mine. 
He will glorify those very 

1025
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,240
bodies. 
He will bring them back together

1026
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:23,960
and make all things work 
together for His good. 

1027
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,600
A Sadducee, a fool and ignorant 
person, would ask a stupid 

1028
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,840
question. 
Wait a second, what if somebody 

1029
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:34,160
died like 1000 years ago and the
molecules of their body went 

1030
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:37,080
into the grass? 
If the cow ate the grass and 

1031
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,080
then somebody ate the cow, the 
molecules of that person's body 

1032
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:41,520
are now in the person who ate 
the cow. 

1033
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:46,080
This is a fool who does not 
understand the scriptures nor 

1034
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:50,360
the power of God. 
Don't get caught up in stupidity

1035
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,640
and foolish argumentation. 
Believe in the power of God. 

1036
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:58,240
Be a child and say God knows. 
God knows. 

1037
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,680
I don't have to know. 
I'm just a sheep in his pasture.

1038
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,760
God knows. 
God sorts these things out. 

1039
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:09,480
So Jesus is proving, he's 
explaining I am the God of 

1040
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:12,960
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. 
This was dunking on their heads 

1041
00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:16,040
like they're on his poster and 
he's the Michael Jordan slamming

1042
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:19,560
it down on him in front of 
everybody because they didn't 

1043
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:22,160
understand the Scripture. 
But as Jesus preached the Word, 

1044
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,200
the anointing was on the Word 
and every, all the hearers of 

1045
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,520
the Word said there is a 
resurrection and people got New 

1046
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,480
Hope that day. 
They got encouraged that day 

1047
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,760
because they're like the 
Sadducees say this and Pharisees

1048
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,560
say that. 
Jesus clarifies. 

1049
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,600
Jesus tells the truth. 
He is not the God of the dead, 

1050
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,640
but of the God of the living. 
Whatever Jesus says the Bible 

1051
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,360
means, that's what the Bible 
means because He is the Word. 

1052
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:48,600
So for those in Christ, your 
body will be raised, your body 

1053
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,840
will be glorified, your body 
will be perfected, you will live

1054
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,600
forever with God. 
Death is not the end. 

1055
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,560
It is an enemy. 
It wasn't supposed to be here, 

1056
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:02,440
but thankfully it is temporary. 
DL Moody, the great evangelist 

1057
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,720
and theologian, said someday you
will read in the papers that DL 

1058
00:51:06,720 --> 00:51:08,800
Moody of East Northfield is 
dead. 

1059
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:13,480
Don't you believe a word of it. 
At that moment I shall be more 

1060
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,560
alive than I am now. 
I shall have gone up higher, 

1061
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:20,640
that is all, going out of this 
old clay tent into a house that 

1062
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:24,880
is immortal, a body that death 
cannot touch, that sin cannot 

1063
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,120
taint. 
A body like unto who? 

1064
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,800
His own glorious body. 
I was born of the flesh out of 

1065
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,200
my mother in 1837. 
I was born of the spirit in 

1066
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,080
1856. 
That which is born of the flesh 

1067
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,240
may die. 
That which is born of the spirit

1068
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:43,480
will live forever. 
Our brother Vodi Bakkam, did you

1069
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:45,640
see that he passed this past 
week? 

1070
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:49,400
Great man of God, preacher. 
He, he, he has said something 

1071
00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:51,160
similar in quoting in his own 
version. 

1072
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:52,400
He said you're going to hear us 
someday. 

1073
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,440
The Vodibakam has died. 
Don't you believe a word of it. 

1074
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,880
I've changed my address and I'm 
thriving and I'm doing well. 

1075
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:01,920
Charlie Kirk is conscious right 
now. 

1076
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:03,960
Vodibakam is conscious right 
now. 

1077
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,280
You're Saints, your loved ones 
who walked with Jesus. 

1078
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,760
They are neither old. 
They're neither hurting. 

1079
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,000
They are neither sad. 
You're sad. 

1080
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,360
I'm sad. 
We miss them, but we will 

1081
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,240
actually be reunited with them 
again. 

1082
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,520
We will sit together. 
Like actually us. 

1083
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:21,720
Are we going to remember us? 
Yeah. 

1084
00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:25,400
It's going to be us. 
Us not, not forgetful. 

1085
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:25,960
Us. 
Us. 

1086
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:26,880
Us. 
Better US. 

1087
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:29,320
Glorified us. 
Sanctified us. 

1088
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,920
Purified us. 
It's really going to happen. 

1089
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:34,040
It's really going to happen. 
Saints. 

1090
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,200
We're really going to live 
forever with God. 

1091
00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:38,520
Man, it seems too good to be 
true. 

1092
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:40,760
It's not, it's not too good to 
be true. 

1093
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,240
The reason your heart wants to 
latch onto it so bad is because 

1094
00:52:43,240 --> 00:52:44,720
it's what you were actually made
for. 

1095
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,760
That's the reason that you're 
like this. 

1096
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:49,520
This stirs me. 
Something's coming alive in me 

1097
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:50,720
as you're saying this pastor. 
Yeah. 

1098
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,600
It's God's promise to you. 
He wants you to receive the 

1099
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:55,040
blessing of it. 
He wants you to live with that 

1100
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:56,400
hope. 
He wants you to live with that 

1101
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,880
focus. 
It makes us realize that what is

1102
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,840
this, 80 years? 
Dang, we got to get to work. 

1103
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,560
We got to tell everybody. 
We got to tell everybody what 

1104
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,000
Jesus has done for us. 
We're going to focus on His 

1105
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,080
work, on His Kingdom, on his 
glory. 

1106
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,360
Who am I to hold on forgiveness 
when Jesus, my Savior, forgave 

1107
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:14,760
those who are murdering him on 
the cross? 

1108
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,080
Father, forgive them. 
They don't know what they're 

1109
00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:23,000
doing. 
Tombstones sometimes say rest in

1110
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:27,600
peace, but we will not just rest
in peace, we will be rejoicing 

1111
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:32,400
in glory because Jesus has 
beaten death and he promised us.

1112
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:35,520
If anyone keeps my word, he will
never see death. 

1113
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:40,440
And he said he who believes in 
me has eternal life. 

1114
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:44,840
So can God make a rock so big 
that even he can't move it? 

1115
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:48,520
Yes, but only for three days. 
And then the stone was rolled 

1116
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,360
away, and the one who is called 
the resurrection and the life 

1117
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:57,160
rose to life victoriously and 
beat death. 

1118
00:53:57,400 --> 00:54:00,640
If Jesus beat death and you put 
faith in Jesus, you will beat 

1119
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,920
death. 
You will never really die. 

1120
00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:08,720
The flawless Lamb goes to the 
cross, bearing our sins, dying 

1121
00:54:08,720 --> 00:54:12,080
in our place, and rising. 
So we too will rise. 

1122
00:54:12,240 --> 00:54:14,440
He doesn't just go to the cross,
He comes out of that tomb. 

1123
00:54:14,720 --> 00:54:17,800
Jesus is alive today and He is 
coming back. 

1124
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:22,000
He is coming back and He's going
to establish the eternal Kingdom

1125
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,120
and He's going to make a new 
heaven and a new earth, and He 

1126
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,440
is going to join them together, 
and we will rule and reign with 

1127
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,240
Him forever back to the Garden 
of Eden. 

1128
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:33,360
Except no snake can enter and 
nothing can ever be lost. 

1129
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,080
We're going to take communion 
now if Chris and Caleb would 

1130
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:44,560
serve us. 
Jesus said in John 14 verse 19. 

1131
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:49,400
Because I live, you also will 
live. 

1132
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:55,000
Good enough for me. 
I am the resurrection and the 

1133
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,120
life. 
Whoever believes in me, though 

1134
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:03,320
he dies, yet shall he live. 
Whoever drinks the blood of 

1135
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,040
Jesus and eats the blood of 
Christ will never really die. 

1136
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,800
We've already done it by faith. 
We're going to take the elements

1137
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:14,000
together. 
Now. 

1138
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,960
What I want you to do is I want 
you to bow your heads and close 

1139
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:22,320
your eyes, not so much for the 
privacy factor, but just to help

1140
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:30,400
you focus, to help you go inward
in your own heart to pray and 

1141
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,520
seek the Lord. 
Lord. 

1142
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:36,880
Is there anything you would have
me lay down? 

1143
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:38,600
Is there anything I should turn 
over? 

1144
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,680
Is there anything I should 
repent of so that I can be free,

1145
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,320
so that you can receive glory, 
so that I can be more holy and 

1146
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:48,080
so that I can understand Your 
Word better? 

1147
00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:50,600
Is there anything in my life 
that's keeping me from 

1148
00:55:50,600 --> 00:55:52,600
understanding Your word? 
Does the Bible seem dead to you,

1149
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,440
friend? 
Does the Bible seem boring to 

1150
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:58,000
you? 
I promise you, it's you and good

1151
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:02,040
news that can change. 
God's Word is alive and active, 

1152
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:04,080
but that just means there's a 
veil in front of your eyes. 

1153
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:07,000
There's something in front of 
you right now, and the Lord 

1154
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,120
wants that thing gone. 
He will burn that thing away. 

1155
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,840
He will RIP that thing away if 
you'll give that thing to him. 

1156
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,160
Are you, are you missing out on 
the supernatural power of God in

1157
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:17,760
your life? 
Are you not seeing it or 

1158
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:19,680
experiencing it? 
Does it seem like it's always 

1159
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:21,840
afar off? 
It seemed like somebody else 

1160
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,000
lives that kind of life. 
Somebody else enjoys that kind 

1161
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:25,680
of blessing. 
It seems like you don't. 

1162
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,840
You can't really relate when 
people talk about the power of 

1163
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,200
God, my friend, good news, there
is a blockage. 

1164
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,680
There is a blockage and the Lord
wants to remove it right now. 

1165
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,600
And if you've never called upon 
the name of the Lord in faith, 

1166
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:43,960
my friend said I forgive so and 
so, but he didn't forgive so and

1167
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,840
so. 
And maybe you've even prayed. 

1168
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:50,160
I trust the Lord Jesus, but you 
didn't trust the Lord Jesus with

1169
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:55,000
your heart and with your mouth. 
I want to lead all of you in a 

1170
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,000
prayer. 
Whoever would want to pray with 

1171
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:02,000
their heart and say with their 
mouth, repeat after me, Heavenly

1172
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,280
Father, I come to you in the 
name of Jesus. 

1173
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:10,640
Lord, if there are any 
blockages, anything between you 

1174
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,800
and me, anything between you and
me, anything stopping me from 

1175
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:19,080
seeing your word, anything 
stopping me from receiving your 

1176
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:23,240
power, stopping me from 
receiving your power, I turn it 

1177
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,680
over to you now. 
Turn it over to you now. 

1178
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:29,040
I lay down unforgiveness and I 
forgive. 

1179
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:35,080
I lay down sin and I pursue 
holiness, but I need strength. 

1180
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:39,800
I need power from you. 
I can't do this. 

1181
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:45,080
I've tried to do this. 
So I surrender under the scalpel

1182
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:49,400
of the Holy Spirit. 
Take out this Stony heart. 

1183
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:54,480
Give me a heart of flesh. 
I call upon the name of the Lord

1184
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,200
Jesus Christ. 
Call upon the name of the Lord 

1185
00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,840
Jesus, who suffered for my sins 
and who was raised on the third 

1186
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:06,320
day, Who was raised on the third
day, Who is alive today, The 

1187
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:11,040
only King, the only God, the 
only one worthy of my life, the 

1188
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,120
only one worthy of my life. 
I give you my everything right 

1189
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:16,240
now. 
I give you my everything right 

1190
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:17,440
now. 
Help me to walk with you. 

1191
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:19,640
Help me to walk with and love 
you more. 

1192
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:23,080
Thank you for saving me. 
Thank you for saving, not just 

1193
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:26,920
for eternity, not just for 
eternity, but for today so I can

1194
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:31,120
walk with you and be changed in 
Jesus name. 

1195
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:35,200
Chris and Kayla are going to 
bring the elf.