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Allen Jackson - Stormproof Foundations (Part 2)

January 27, 2025 | S25:E28

Allen Jackson - Stormproof Foundations (Part 2)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Stormproof Foundations (Part 2) | January 27, 2025
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  • Allen jackson: the things matthew tells us the devil knows
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  • Are intriguing to me.
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  • He knows jesus is the son of god.
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  • He knows the words of scripture.
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  • The devil knows that the angels will follow god's commands.
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  • We got all of that from reading those three or four
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  • Little verses.
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  • The devil acknowledges that god has angels who will follow
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  • His directions.
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  • And we're told in other places in scripture that they're
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  • Almost an innumerable number of angels; in one scene, more than
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  • 100 million.
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  • What do we have a population these days?
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  • About 300 million people?
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  • Imagine being able to see a third of all the population of
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  • The united states in one scene.
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  • We've got a scene like that of angels worshiping the lord.
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  • And they're messengers.
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  • The scripture says: "sent forth into the world to do god's
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  • Bidding on our behalf."
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  • And the devil knows it. no wonder he's angry.
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  • No wonder he doesn't play fair. he can't play fair.
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  • He's got no chance if he plays fair.
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  • Verse 12: "when jesus heard that john had been put in prison, he
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  • Returned to galilee."
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  • Now, i'm gonna take a little license at this point.
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  • In english, the translation that i typically would use here is
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  • The new international version, the niv.
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  • And that phrase there in the niv simply says that when john
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  • Heard--when jesus heard that john had been in prison, jesus
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  • Returned to galilee.
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  • But my--one of my habits is i'll try to read a passage if
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  • Time permits in more than one translation or i'll change
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  • Translations from one year to the next so that sometimes i
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  • Will remember it differently than the translation i'm reading
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  • And then i'll check, and in this case, the niv's translation is
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  • Softer than the greek words.
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  • In the niv it says jesus returned to galilee.
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  • I put the same verse in the new american standard in your notes.
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  • It says: "when jesus heard that john had been taken into
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  • Custody, he withdrew into galilee."
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  • To me, there's a pretty significant difference.
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  • In the niv it says, you know, when jesus heard about john
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  • Being arrested, he went home.
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  • But the greek actually says that when he heard that john had been
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  • Arrested, jesus withdrew.
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  • That's a very different response.
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  • Different translations will offer different insights
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  • Sometimes, not every day.
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  • So if you've done this more than once, maybe you wanna change the
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  • Translation you're reading this year.
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  • Say, "well, i like this."
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  • I got it. you don't have to.
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  • The best translation to read is the one you will read.
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  • People get really--"pastor, pastor, i have a question."
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  • They get really serious on this one.
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  • "do you read the king james?"
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  • Yeah, i do, actually.
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  • In fact, i started as a child reading the king james.
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  • I still sometimes think in thous and thees.
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  • I don't know what they mean, but i think in them.
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  • But the question, you know, "which translation is the best?"
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  • They get really serious on this one and my answer is--you know
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  • My answer.
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  • But if they don't know me, i'm gonna pull them in.
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  • "oh, i have a word from the lord on that.
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  • I know definitively the absolute best translation."
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  • And now i got them.
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  • I mean, they're like, "really?"
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  • "yeah, the best translation is the one you'll read."
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  • There's no perfect translation; they're translations.
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  • Well, why does it make a difference?
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  • Well, occasionally--it doesn't always make a difference and
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  • Don't build your theology around a word or a comma.
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  • See, translation requires opinion, so reading a different
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  • Translation gives you a perspective from a
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  • Different opinion.
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  • It's not about good or evil.
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  • You wanna get to know the character of god from the
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  • Broader story.
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  • The effort of language and communication is important.
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  • It's why the manipulation of language which we are watching
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  • These days in unprecedented levels.
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  • They're making new translations of the bible that are leaving
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  • Almost completely much of what's very apparent in the languages
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  • From which they're translating to make it more
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  • Politically correct.
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  • But we've got to begin to read our bibles.
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  • I put matthew 12 because the same word is used there and in
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  • This case, even in the niv, they used, i think, a better word.
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  • It says: "the pharisees went out and plotted how they might
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  • Kill jesus."
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  • It's in your notes.
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  • "aware of this, jesus withdrew from that place.
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  • And many followed him, and he healed their sick, warning them
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  • Not to tell who he was."
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  • Now if all that it had said in matthew 12 was, "jesus went
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  • Home," you would again have missed the point.
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  • But here you get this sense, it's very similar to the verse
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  • In matthew 4 and verse 12.
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  • Now in matthew 12, it says that "they're plotting how they can
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  • Kill jesus.
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  • And aware that they're doing it," jesus knows what
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  • They're doing.
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  • "so he withdrew from that place.
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  • And when many people followed him, he kept ministering.
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  • He healed many people, but he warned them not to draw
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  • Attention to himself."
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  • Now that's a pretty important piece to understand about jesus.
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  • On more than one occasion when he was faced with very real
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  • Threats, very determined adversaries, he withdrew.
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  • He wasn't reckless.
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  • I have to think about that a bit, cause that's probably not
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  • My intuitive response.
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  • Somebody pushes you, you push them harder.
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  • They're bigger than you, get an equalizer.
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  • But from time to time, jesus, led by the spirit,
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  • Would withdraw.
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  • You see, when we're led by the spirit of god, we know when to
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  • Be bold and defiant because on multiple occasions, jesus is
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  • Very bold and very defiant of those in power.
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  • He is frequently not a peacemaker.
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  • But it's equally clear that there were times he knew when to
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  • Be measured.
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  • "well, how do you know?"
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  • Well, i suppose we'd have to learn to listen to the spirit.
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  • "oh, couldn't i have a formula?"
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  • Yes, listen to the spirit.
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  • That's the formula.
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  • Verse 13.
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  • Now remember verse 12, "when jesus heard that john had been
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  • Put in prison, he withdrew into galilee."
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  • In verse 13: "leaving nazareth, he went and lived in capernaum."
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  • Well, he kind of withdrew.
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  • Nazareth is tucked in the hills of galilee.
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  • It's a sleepy little village, 1200, 1500 people.
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  • There's no major roads there.
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  • There's not a water source, barely could sustain the people
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  • Who live there, so there's no reason for people to come there,
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  • But he moves to capernaum, which is on the largest water source
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  • In the entire region, not just israel.
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  • And capernaum is located on a major roman road.
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  • It's still there until today with the roman mile markers,
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  • Just like we have mile markers on our interstates.
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  • So jesus left, he withdrew to galilee, but he left nazareth
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  • And he moved to a city on a busy road, "which was by the lake in
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  • The area of zebulun and naphtali--to fulfill what was
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  • Said through the prophet: 'zebulun and naphtali, the way
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  • To the sea, along the jordan, galilee of the gentiles--the
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  • People living in darkness have seen a great light; on those
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  • Living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.'
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  • And from that time on jesus began to preach."
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  • Up until this time, jesus hasn't been preaching.
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  • When he left nazareth, after withdrawing to galilee because
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  • Of the anxiety that was building, the hatred that was
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  • Building around john and his message of repentance.
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  • Now the time has come and jesus begins to preach.
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  • "repent for the kingdom of god is near."
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  • Jesus began his public ministry by leaving the comfort and
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  • Familiarity of nazareth, the town where he'd grown up.
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  • Leaving behind is a part of following.
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  • It's not always about maintaining the status quo.
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  • Jesus's preaching, his public ministry.
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  • It all began after the water baptism, the descent of the
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  • Spirit, the temptation in the wilderness, john's imprisonment.
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  • That's not a string of events that you would normally look to
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  • To build momentum in your life.
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  • I think if there's a conclusion, it's that ministry involves
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  • Obedience, the help of the holy spirit, and the presence
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  • Of opposition.
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  • You can't be reading matthew's gospel even in chapter 4 without
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  • Understanding that the purposes of god are going to be resisted.
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  • That isn't political.
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  • Oh, the resistance may be given expression through political
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  • Vehicles or delivery systems, but below that there's a
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  • Spiritual force.
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  • I mean, john's words got him arrested.
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  • But the authority with which his words were delivered were
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  • Derived from scripture.
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  • That there's a law that supersedes the laws of men.
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  • There's a divine law, god's law, that we are bound to, whether it
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  • Makes us popular or not.
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  • And jesus begins his ministry and begins to preach from
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  • That platform.
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  • Verse 18: "as jesus was walking beside the lake, the sea of
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  • Galilee, he saw two brothers, simon called peter and his
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  • Brother andrew, and they were casting a net into the lake, for
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  • They were fishermen.
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  • And jesus said, 'come, follow me, and i'll make you fishers
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  • Of men.'
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  • And at once they left their nets and they followed him.
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  • Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, james the son of
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  • Zebedee and his brother john.
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  • They were in a boat with their father zebedee, preparing their
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  • Nets, and jesus called them, and immediately left the boat and
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  • Their father and they followed him."
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  • Now i'm reading through that, there's something in there that,
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  • To me, is pretty unusual.
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  • It borders on bizarre.
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  • In two separate instances, two different families, they're not
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  • All united, it wasn't just one message.
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  • On two separate occasions, jesus extends an invitation, "come,
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  • Follow me."
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  • Not dramatically, i mean, i understand the persons
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  • Are different.
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  • I'm not suggesting that, but we get invitations all the time:
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  • "read your bible with me."
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  • I mean, we're very familiar with that kind of an exchange, but in
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  • This case, it says, first of all, in verse 20 that "at once
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  • They left their nets and they followed jesus."
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  • At once, like, right now.
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  • Did he just say, "let's go"?
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  • What'd you hear him say?
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  • Something about, "follow, let's go."
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  • Wow, that's weird.
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  • "at once," matthew says.
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  • Female announcer: if you look, you'll find good
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  • News everywhere.
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  • Female: our baby was born healthy and strong.
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  • Female: we have the groceries we need.
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  • Male: another year cancer-free.
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  • Female: we bought our first house this year.
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  • Female: the raise came through when i needed it most.
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  • Male: i have a working car.
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  • Female: my husband came home safe.
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  • Female announcer: philippians 4 tells us to, "think about
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  • Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable,
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  • Excellent and praiseworthy."
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  • All of these things honor god and when we take time to notice
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  • Them, we welcome god's presence and experience his peace.
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  • Allen: you know, the two most critical junctures of any
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  • Enterprise are how we begin and how we conclude.
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  • So, the beginning of a new year is a tremendous opportunity.
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  • We've prepared a tool we want to share with you.
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  • It's a good news journal.
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  • We wanna help you set a habit this year to do something with a
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  • Bit more intention than perhaps has been our pattern in
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  • The past.
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  • We wanna start our year with an attitude of appreciation and
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  • Gratitude for the blessings of god in our lives.
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  • So, we've designed this journal so that you can use it as a part
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  • Of your devotional.
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  • It's something you could include the children, the grandchildren.
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  • You could take it to work and create a good news journal for
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  • The people you work with.
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  • Wherever that may be, let's start our year out purposefully,
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  • Intentionally saying, "thank you," to the lord for his
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  • Goodness to us.
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  • I know there's challenges and we have places where we need god's
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  • Help, but we're gonna begin with gratitude and walk into the
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  • Blessings of god in this year.
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  • God bless.
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  • Female announcer: when you keep a good news list, you'll notice
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  • Record your good news, prayers you saw god answer, and your
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  • Current prayer requests.
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  • As you look back on your lists over the weeks and months to
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  • Come, you'll find a personal record of god's faithfulness
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  • To you.
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  • Allen: and then this last segment of this chapter, i think
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  • It's really a synopsis of jesus's ministry.
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  • I mean, it fits into context here.
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  • It fits into a sequential place.
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  • It's an unfolding story, but if i had to find two or three
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  • Verses to give you a summary of jesus's ministry, this is it.
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  • "jesus went throughout galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
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  • Preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every
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  • Disease and sickness among the people.
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  • News about him spread all over syria," beyond israel, all
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  • Over syria.
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  • "and people brought to him all who were ill with various
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  • Diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those
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  • Having seizures, the paralyzed, and he healed them.
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  • Large crowds from galilee, the decapolis, jerusalem, judea and
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  • The region across the jordan followed him."
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  • It's a pretty remarkable story.
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  • Jesus has had opposition from the devil himself.
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  • In this chapter, we've only looked at one chapter, jesus had
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  • Opposition from the devil himself.
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  • His friend john has been imprisoned.
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  • So there's a public declaration that there's a very low
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  • Tolerance for challenging the status quo.
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  • You better cooperate.
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  • John said, "i think not," and he's in prison.
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  • The beginning of jesus's ministry, the establishment has
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  • A bias against him.
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  • His cousin's already been arrested.
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  • Jesus is obedient, fulfilling his assignment.
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  • There's two separate initiatives moving forward in time
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  • And space.
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  • The proclamation that the kingdom of god is at hand and
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  • The opposition to it, they are both emerging.
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  • That is a very biblical principle.
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  • See, i used to imagine that revivals would take place, they
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  • Would be so universal, so sweeping, so broad in scope that
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  • Everybody you know would be raising their hand, going, "oh,
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  • I'm in on that."
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  • That really isn't biblical.
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  • There's a couple of exceptions: nineveh, we get this report of
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  • Widespread--but it's a very unusual circumstance.
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  • Typically, you see all the forces at work and the collision
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  • Coming between the perspectives.
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  • Jesus is teaching and preaching regarding the kingdom of god in
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  • Their synagogues, matthew tells us.
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  • Now, i promise you something about the 1st century in israel.
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  • It's very similar to the 21st century in tennessee.
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  • Not everybody went to synagogue.
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  • I've visited synagogues that have been excavated in many of
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  • Those smaller communities, and they would hold a few
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  • Dozen people.
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  • Not everybody in the community went to synagogue.
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  • But jesus went to deliver his message in the synagogue.
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  • If you wanted to get the jesus message, you had to go to
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  • The synagogue.
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  • Now i know he spoke to broader crowds and he gave a sermon on
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  • The mount, but the direct report is that he traveled around the
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  • Region, speaking in the synagogues.
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  • You had to be in the synagogue to hear jesus.
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  • Then it says that he was healing every disease and sickness.
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  • Jesus is a healer.
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  • He still is.
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  • Don't debate that.
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  • I'm amazed at christians.
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  • I mean, i got--i hear--i read the stuff.
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  • They publish whole studies, seminars, video tapes.
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  • "does jesus heal?"
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  • I'm like, "which bible did you read?
  • 00:17:34.969 --> 00:17:42.243
  • I mean, how could you arrive at that conclusion?"
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  • Jesus is healing every sickness and disease.
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  • News about him spread over a very wide area.
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  • You could miss this if you don't know the geography a little bit.
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  • Jesus's reputation is growing very rapidly.
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  • It says that people were brought to him who were ill.
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  • There's no easy ministry.
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  • I smile, we raise our hands and go, "i would like to lead
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  • A group.
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  • I'll host a small group."
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  • Then you call in a few weeks to go, "i want a different group.
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  • The people in my group are difficult."
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  • I saw it years ago.
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  • I saw an advertisement.
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  • It was--i'm sure it was manufactured.
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  • This was before ai.
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  • But it said: "lion tamer wants tamer lion."
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  • I feel that way about ministry most times.
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  • "god, isn't there an easier problem?
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  • Don't you have somebody that like had the sniffles?
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  • I don't want to pray with somebody with a
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  • Life-threatening problem.
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  • Is there anybody who didn't come from a torqued family?"
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  • No, not many.
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  • Ministry is challenging.
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  • It's sacrifice.
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  • You have to think about somebody else in front of you, you have
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  • To clean your house.
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  • Ah, what a hassle.
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  • Well, i mean, i know there's eternity in the balance and
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  • There's rewards to be gained, but i'd have to vacuum.
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  • I mean, it's very clear, we just--we haven't read
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  • A chapter.
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  • Well, we have read a chapter.
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  • They're bringing only sick people to jesus.
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  • They weren't bringing all the people to say, "you're the man."
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  • They're putting difficult cases in front of him and going, "what
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  • Are you gonna do now?
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  • What are you gonna do with this one?"
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  • We know it's true because you're gonna read in matthew where they
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  • Bring cases to his disciples and his disciples can't help them
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  • And they go find jesus, say, "we brought him to your disciples
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  • And they couldn't do anything."
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  • It's like a test every day.
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  • Couldn't we just have a polite bible study and not talk about
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  • Praying for people?
  • 00:19:46.701 --> 00:19:51.038
  • You could, but there'll be no life there.
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  • There'll be no vitality there.
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  • Jesus described it as the blind following the blind, not because
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  • You're blind and you can't read, but you're spiritually unaware.
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  • Large crowds are following jesus.
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  • This is not a house church initiative.
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  • I smile, people say, "you know, the new testament is just about
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  • The house church."
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  • Which new testament?
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  • They're bringing people.
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  • Listen to matthew's description.
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  • It says: "they brought people from all over syria," not just
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  • From israel; syria.
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  • Syria is north of israel, if you don't know your map.
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  • And then he--then he said that they were bringing the people,
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  • Large crowds from galilee, the region where he was, the
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  • Decapolis, that means ten cities in greek.
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  • Eight of the cities are on the other side of the jordan river
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  • In modern-day jordan.
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  • So they're gathering people from modern-day syria, modern-day
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  • Jordan, all over the northern part of israel, from jerusalem
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  • And judea, which is the south of israel.
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  • There are people coming from multiple nations.
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  • Yeah, jesus's reputation is growing.
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  • This is one chapter, folks.
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  • We started the chapter, he's in the wilderness being tempted by
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  • The devil.
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  • God's up to something.
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  • Now i've got 2 minutes, which is perfect because i've got
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  • 2 passages.
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  • And because we're reading matthew together, i want to skip
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  • Ahead and those last verses i read you from matthew 4, see if
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  • They--these seem familiar to you.
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  • These are the applications.
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  • In matthew 24, jesus is saying to his disciples--matthew 24 is
  • 00:21:39.146 --> 00:21:43.384
  • Jesus's largest, longest prophetic message.
  • 00:21:43.384 --> 00:21:46.954
  • He's telling to his friends what's ahead of them.
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  • And not just his first century friends.
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  • He says: "you'll be handed over to be persecuted and put
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  • To death."
  • 00:21:55.963 --> 00:21:57.431
  • Gee, like you and john?
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  • "and you'll be hated by all nations because of me."
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  • I'm amused people say god doesn't care about the nations.
  • 00:22:05.306 --> 00:22:07.508
  • In which bible?
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  • "at that time many will turn away from the faith and will
  • 00:22:10.978 --> 00:22:13.514
  • Betray each other, and many false prophets will appear and
  • 00:22:13.514 --> 00:22:16.016
  • Deceive many people.
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  • Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most
  • 00:22:17.785 --> 00:22:19.854
  • Will grow cold, but he who stands firm to the end will
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  • Be saved.
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  • And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the
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  • Whole world."
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  • Matthew told us in chapter 4 that jesus preached the gospel
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  • Of the kingdom in all the synagogues around galilee.
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  • And when jesus is getting near the end of his life, he looks at
  • 00:22:36.837 --> 00:22:39.673
  • His closest friends and he said, "this gospel of the kingdom that
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  • You've heard me preach dozens and dozens and dozens of times,
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  • It's gonna be preached in the whole world.
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  • And then the end will come."
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  • If you want to find the penultimate, the ultimate sign
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  • Of the end of this age, it's the proclamation of the gospel of
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  • The kingdom in the whole world.
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  • And the church has to be engaged with that.
  • 00:23:02.997 --> 00:23:05.533
  • We're a part of the catalyst for the end of the age.
  • 00:23:05.533 --> 00:23:09.403
  • And then finally last chapter of matthew, similar message: "the
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  • Eleven disciples went to galilee, to the mountain where
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  • Jesus had told them.
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  • When they saw him, they worshiped him; and
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  • Some doubted."
  • 00:23:18.145 --> 00:23:19.513
  • Folks, things haven't changed.
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  • Jesus has been resurrected and some believe and some don't.
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  • "and jesus came to them and said, 'all authority in heaven,
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  • On earth, has been given to me.
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  • Therefore,'" and i put the pronoun in parenthesis.
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  • So i added this, but it is included in the language of
  • 00:23:36.964 --> 00:23:40.134
  • The text.
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  • It's just not normally the way we would speak.
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  • "therefore (you) go and you make disciples of all nations, (you)
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  • Baptize them in the name of the father and the son and the holy
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  • Spirit, and (you) teach them to obey everything i've
  • 00:23:50.311 --> 00:23:53.113
  • Commanded you.
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  • And surely i'm with you always, to the very end of the age."
  • 00:23:55.216 --> 00:24:00.754
  • Jesus said, "you've watched me do it.
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  • You've been a part of that drama.
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  • I've commissioned you and sent you out to do it, and now i'm
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  • Leaving and you preach this message."
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  • Folks, we're the 21st century edition.
  • 00:24:12.766 --> 00:24:16.370
  • We read one chapter.
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  • We saw the conflict between satan and the unfolding purposes
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  • Of the kingdom of god.
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  • We saw the difficulty of honoring the lord.
  • 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.181
  • John is imprisoned, he'll lose his life.
  • 00:24:27.181 --> 00:24:30.851
  • We saw jesus facing challenges.
  • 00:24:30.851 --> 00:24:32.653
  • Every day people found challenges and brought them
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  • To him.
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  • If you will help people, other people will find troubled people
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  • And bring them to you.
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  • And if your response is, "i don't wanna be bothered with
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  • That," you really need to reflect a little bit.
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  • "it's my time."
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  • Well, i understand you need some me time.
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  • Do you need some kingdom time?
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  • I brought you a prayer and it's really psalm 138.
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  • If you look at the last phrase in verse 2, it's really what
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  • Brought me to this psalm.
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  • It says: "you have exalted above all things your name and
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  • Your word."
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  • Jesus said there wouldn't be one letter, one stroke of a pen in
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  • His word, that god wouldn't give attention to.
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  • One of the ways you and i can exalt the lord is by investing
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  • Time and effort and energy in his word.
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  • So again, the invitation.
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  • But the outcome of doing that is wrapped around that verse in
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  • This psalm and so i think it's an appropriate prayer, a
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  • Conclusion for us, a commitment for us.
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  • If you'll stand with me, we'll read it together.
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  • If you're joining us someplace else, you stand and read it with
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  • Us unless you're driving.
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  • You just sit right there.
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  • Can we read it together?
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  • "i will praise you, o lord, with all my heart; before the 'gods'
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  • I will sing your praise.
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  • I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name
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  • For your love and your faithfulness, for you have
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  • Exalted above all things your name and your word.
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  • When i called, you answered me; you made me bold
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  • And stouthearted.
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  • May all the kings of the earth praise you, o lord, when they
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  • Hear the words of your mouth.
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  • May they sing of the ways of the lord, for the glory of the lord
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  • Is great.
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  • Though the lord is on high--"
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  • Congregation: "he looks upon the lowly,
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  • But the proud he knows from afar.
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  • Though i walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life;
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  • You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes,
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  • With your right hand you save me."
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  • Allen: "the lord will fulfill his purpose for me;
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  • Your love, o lord, endures forever--do not
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  • Abandon the works of your hand," amen.
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  • God bless you. enjoy your bible.
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  • ♪♪♪
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