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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - 24 (Part 2) | November 26, 2024
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- Jeffress: hi, i am robert jeffress,
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- We've talked about demons before in my series,
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- "the divine defense,"
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- And i encourage you to get that series
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- If you want an in-depth study of demons.
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- But let me just make three important points about demons
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- And then apply it to our lives today.
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- First of all, this passage,
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- This story reminds us that demons are real.
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- Some people have said, "well, this idea of demons,
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- That's just a crude first century attempt
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- To explain a mental illness.
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- You know, they didn't know what it was
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- And so they called it demons.
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- Demons are just some attempt to explain mental illness."
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- Well, if that's true,
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- Then jesus ought to be put in a straight jacket
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- And locked up in an asylum,
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- Because jesus was talking to demons.
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- He was interacting with them and they were talking to him,
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- So something was going on there.
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- The fact is demons are real spirit beings.
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- Paul talks about them in ephesians 6:11 and 12.
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- He said, "put on the full armor of god
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- That you may be able to stand firm against the schemes,
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- The plan, literally the blueprint
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- That the devil has for your life."
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- But the devil is not like god. the devil is not omnipresent.
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- He can't be more than one place at a time.
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- He's a created being.
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- So if he can only be in one place at a time,
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- How does he accomplish his purpose in your life?
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- Well it's found in verse 12.
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- "for our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
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- But against the rulers," plural, "against the powers,"
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- Plural, "against the world forces of this darkness,
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- Against the spiritual forces
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- Of wickedness in the heavenly places."
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- He's talking about demons here.
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- Demons were originally angels
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- Who joined lucifer in his rebellion against god
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- And was cast to the earth and some underneath the earth.
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- Demons are real beings,
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- Helpers of satan to carry out his plan.
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- They are real. secondly, demons can control people.
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- They have the ability to indwell and control people.
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- I think many of the unspeakable crimes you hear about today,
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- The acts of torture and brutality against other people.
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- The only explanation for that
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- Is demonic control of an individual.
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- Demons have the ability to control people.
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- Now, people always ask,
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- "well, can christians be possessed by demons?"
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- Well, it depends on what you mean by possessed.
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- Sometimes we use the word possessed to refer to ownership.
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- If you possess something, you own it,
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- And in that sense, no, christians cannot be owned by demons.
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- Ephesians 1:13 says that when we become a christian,
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- We are sealed with the holy spirit of god.
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- We are owned by god.
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- God doesn't share his possessions with anyone.
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- He's real stingy when it comes to his possessions
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- And we're grateful he is.
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- So by ownership, no.
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- But can demons control or influence christians?
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- You bet they can.
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- Any area of your life as a christian
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- That is not being controlled by the spirit of god,
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- Is being controlled by satan.
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- You may think you're the one directing your life.
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- No, there are no spiritual vacuums.
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- Either god is controlling your life
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- Or satan and his demons are controlling your life.
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- And that's why ephesians 5:18 paul says, "be filled."
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- Literally be controlled by the holy spirit of god.
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- You say, "is that really true?
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- Can satan really control the life of a believer?"
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- Just look at the example of the apostle peter.
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- Remember, peter loved jesus.
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- In fact, he loved him so much.
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- He said, "jesus, all this stuff
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- About going to the cross and dying.
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- You don't have to do that. forget that."
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- Jesus turned around to him and said,
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- -"get thee behind me-" -satan.
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- Satan, satan. why that's pretty harsh, satan.
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- It's peter, the guy who loves you,
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- But peter was allowing himself to be influenced
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- Not by god's plan, but by his own desires.
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- Yes, it's possible for demons to control people.
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- Number three, demons are under christ's authority.
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- Isn't it interesting, this demon here recognized jesus.
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- He said, "i know who you are.
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- You're the holy one of israel."
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- By the way, did you know demons are very
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- Conservative in their biblical beliefs?
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- (congregation laughing)
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- They believe in the inerrancy of the bible.
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- They believe every word of the bible.
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- They believe jesus is who he said he is.
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- They believe he's the savior of the world.
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- That ought to remind us
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- That believing the right things up here
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- Is not what makes you a christian.
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- You can believe all the right things about jesus
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- And go straight to hell when you die.
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- It's not enough to believe he's the savior of the world.
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- You have to come to a point in your life
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- When you cling to him to be your savior.
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- You trust in him for the forgiveness of your sins.
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- These demons, this demon believed
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- Jesus was who he said he was.
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- And notice verse 35,
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- "and jesus rebuked him saying, 'be quiet!'"
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- Literally be muzzled. put a lid on it and "come out of him!
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- And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst,
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- He came out of him without doing any harm."
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- Notice how quickly he obeyed jesus.
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- Jesus didn't go through any rituals here.
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- He didn't go any theatrics.
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- He said, "come out," and the demon came out.
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- People today wonder about this practice of exorcism.
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- You read about it all the time.
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- Exorcism, trying to cast out demons from other people.
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- And you see films about it sometimes, you know,
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- They turn down the lights and light the candles
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- And start doing all these incantations
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- And you know, all these rituals
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- And all this screaming and hollering and leaping around.
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- Is that biblical? is that biblical?
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- Are we supposed to exercise
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- The same kind of supernatural power that jesus did
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- And casting out demons?
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- Did you know in the old testament,
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- There's not one single instance of demon possession,
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- Not one recorded in the scripture, not a single one.
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- With jesus there was a lot of demon activity in the world.
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- There was something unique when the son of god was on earth
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- About a rise in demonic activity.
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- Jesus cast out demons.
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- When it came to the early chapters of the book of acts,
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- Some of the apostles had the ability to cast out demons
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- As a sign that they were truly sent from god.
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- But when you get into the latter chapters of acts
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- And through the rest of the bible,
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- Not a mention about exorcism, not a mention,
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- Not an instance of casting out demons.
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- Interestingly, paul, peter, john never commanded christians
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- To get involved in exorcism or casting out demons.
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- Here's why.
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- Now that we have the holy spirit within us,
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- The responsibility for living a life
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- That is free from demon control
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- Is our individual responsibility.
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- It's not what somebody else does for us.
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- It's what we do in cooperating with god's power
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- To live a demon free existence.
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- How do we do that?
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- We do it by ephesians 6,
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- By putting on that supernatural armor that god has given us.
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- We've talked about it before, those six pieces of armor,
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- Most of it's defensive, some of it is offensive,
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- But when we make and use that spiritual armor
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- That god has given to us,
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- We have the same supernatural power that jesus had.
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- Not to cast out demons from other people,
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- But to make the devil and the demons run away from us.
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- In fact, that's what james said in james 4:7,
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- "resist the devil and he will flee from you."
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- If you use that spiritual armor god has given you,
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- You can have the same kind of supernatural existence,
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- Power over satan that jesus experienced.
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- There is a third element in christ's ministry.
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- His ministry was marked by genuine compassion.
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- Look at verse 38, "and he arose and he left the synagogue
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- And he entered simon's house."
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- This was simon peter.
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- He had not received his new name peter, yet, he was simon.
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- "now simon's mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever
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- And they made request of him on her behalf."
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- Now, simon peter had a mother-in-law.
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- What does that tell you about simon?
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- -he also had a what? -wife.
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- You have to have a wife to have a mother-in-law.
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- So simon peter was married,
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- Contrary to the teaching of some.
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- He was married, he had a wife, he had a mother-in-law.
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- She got sick, and amazingly he wanted her healed.
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- Isn't that something?
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- We're not going to go there very far,
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- But, so he made a request of jesus.
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- In verse 39, "and standing over her,
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- Jesus rebuked the fever and it left her
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- And she immediately arose and waited on them."
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- Isn't that interesting?
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- When jesus healed, it was just simply with a word.
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- It was instantaneous and it was complete.
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- In verse 40, "and while the sun was setting,
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- He left the house there" and the bible says,
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- "and while the sun was setting,
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- All who had any sick with various diseases,
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- Brought them to him;
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- And laying his hands on every one of them,
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- He was healing them."
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- Jesus healed first of all out of compassion,
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- But he also healed to prove
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- That he was indeed the son of god.
- 00:13:39.675 --> 00:13:42.711
- Now, people again ask the question,
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- Does god heal today like he did back then?
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- You bet he does. of course he does.
- 00:13:50.552 --> 00:13:54.590
- I like what dr. criswell used to say.
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- He said, "i believe in faith healing,
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- I just don't believe in faith healers."
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- There's a difference.
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- God doesn't need any intermediary today.
- 00:14:05.601 --> 00:14:08.570
- If god wants to heal, he can heal instantly.
- 00:14:08.570 --> 00:14:11.040
- Again, the reason jesus healed
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- And the apostles healed was to prove
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- That they were sent from god.
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- Today, the way we judge a messenger
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- Is whether he came from god is whether or not
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- His teaching aligns with the bible.
- 00:14:20.382 --> 00:14:22.918
- But in jesus' day, in the apostle's day,
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- There was no new testament by which to judge
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- Whether somebody was speaking from god's authority.
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- Their ability to perform signs
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- Was the stamp of approval on their lives.
- 00:14:32.027 --> 00:14:35.364
- Today, i believe god heals.
- 00:14:35.364 --> 00:14:37.066
- Now, he doesn't heal all of the time.
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- If it were something that happened all the time,
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- It wouldn't be a miracle would it?
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- Miracles are miracles
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- Because they're the exception to the rule.
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- But even though i don't believe
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- We've got the ability to heal, only god heals.
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- We do have the ability to show the same compassion
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- For those who are ill that jesus showed.
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- Let me show you something
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- I think will be encouraging to you.
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- Turn over to matthew 8:16 and 17.
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- A similar passage, "and when evening had come,
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- They brought to him many who were demon possessed
- 00:15:07.529 --> 00:15:10.466
- And he cast out the spirits with a word
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- And he healed all who were ill
- 00:15:13.402 --> 00:15:16.038
- In order that what was spoken through isaiah, the prophet
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- Might be fulfilled saying, 'he himself took our infirmities
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- And carried away our diseases.'"
- 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:27.349
- Circle that word took.
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- In the greek language in which
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- It was translated from isaiah,
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- It's the word bastazo.
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- Bastazo. he bore our infirmities.
- 00:15:35.424 --> 00:15:39.328
- That word bastazo literally means
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- To bear another person's burden.
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- It's a picture of somebody who is carrying a heavy load
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- And he's buckling under that heavy load.
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- You see him and you come alongside of him
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- And you say, "i'll help you shoulder that load.
- 00:15:53.942 --> 00:15:56.378
- I'll help you carry that."
- 00:15:56.378 --> 00:15:58.847
- That's what jesus does for us.
- 00:15:58.847 --> 00:16:00.883
- Jesus doesn't always take away our sickness,
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- But he helps us carry the load of our sickness.
- 00:16:04.820 --> 00:16:08.891
- Now, i think about our friend john grable
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- Who went home to be with the lord this week.
- 00:16:11.927 --> 00:16:15.197
- Such a great man of god,
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- Helped us so much here in the church.
- 00:16:17.466 --> 00:16:20.269
- I talked to him two weeks ago. he knew he was about to die.
- 00:16:20.269 --> 00:16:23.739
- We were planning his funeral service.
- 00:16:23.739 --> 00:16:26.508
- He's said, "pastor, i have such peace about this."
- 00:16:27.509 --> 00:16:31.280
- We'd prayed for healing for john.
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- God said, "no," but god helped
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- Bear the burden of john grable.
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- He gave him peace. that's what jesus does for us.
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- He helps us shoulder the load.
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- In galatians 6:2, paul uses that same word.
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- He says, "bear one another's burdens."
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- When we see a christian
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- Who is suffering from physical illness,
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- We ought to pray for him,
- 00:16:57.639 --> 00:16:59.741
- But we also ought to come alongside him
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- And help him carry that load so he's not by himself.
- 00:17:01.610 --> 00:17:05.848
- One way we demonstrate the ministry of jesus
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- Is by showing compassion, walking alongside
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- Those who are suffering and helping them carry the load.
- 00:17:12.988 --> 00:17:17.292
- Finally, jesus' ministry was marked by regular solitude.
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- He was healing and then verse 42 says,
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- "and when day came, he departed and went to a lonely place
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- And the multitudes were searching for him,
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- And they came to him
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- And tried to keep him from going away from them.
- 00:17:33.575 --> 00:17:35.277
- They said, 'lord, where are you going?
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- Don't you know there are more people to be healed?'"
- 00:17:36.678 --> 00:17:39.581
- Listen, there are always going to be more people
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- Who need to be ministered to,
- 00:17:41.783 --> 00:17:43.085
- But jesus knew he had to get away
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- And spend time with god to revitalize
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- His own relationship with god.
- 00:17:48.924 --> 00:17:51.793
- If that was important for jesus to spend
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- Time alone with god every day,
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- Remember this is a 24 hour period.
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- If it was important for him to do that every day
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- To maintain his relationship with god,
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- How much more important is it for you and me
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- To make sure we get alone with god?
- 00:18:06.608 --> 00:18:09.344
- Even though there's still an endless task,
- 00:18:09.344 --> 00:18:11.880
- List of tasks to perform, more people to minister to,
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- It is important that we keep that time alone with god.
- 00:18:15.617 --> 00:18:19.321
- Austin phelps observes it has been said that
- 00:18:19.321 --> 00:18:21.657
- "no great work in literature or in science
- 00:18:21.657 --> 00:18:24.927
- Was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude.
- 00:18:24.927 --> 00:18:28.497
- We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion
- 00:18:28.497 --> 00:18:32.467
- That no large growth in holiness was ever gained
- 00:18:32.467 --> 00:18:36.505
- By one who did not take time to be often alone with god."
- 00:18:36.505 --> 00:18:41.843
- Seniors, let me just say this word to you.
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- You're going to be so busy in this next chapter of your life,
- 00:18:45.147 --> 00:18:48.250
- Whether it's school or something else,
- 00:18:48.250 --> 00:18:50.986
- Don't forsake your time alone with god.
- 00:18:50.986 --> 00:18:54.823
- During the time i was in college,
- 00:18:54.823 --> 00:18:57.626
- I set aside an hour every day
- 00:18:57.626 --> 00:19:02.231
- In which i read and memorized the scripture.
- 00:19:02.231 --> 00:19:04.700
- Much of the scripture i have in my heart right now
- 00:19:04.700 --> 00:19:07.836
- Is scripture i committed to memory,
- 00:19:08.604 --> 00:19:10.539
- Not in my high school days, but in my college days.
- 00:19:10.539 --> 00:19:14.509
- I memorized whole books of the bible
- 00:19:14.509 --> 00:19:16.378
- During my time in college
- 00:19:16.378 --> 00:19:17.813
- Because i knew it was a time in my life
- 00:19:17.813 --> 00:19:19.815
- I was getting ready to make some important decisions
- 00:19:19.815 --> 00:19:22.417
- About my calling, about my mate, about so many things.
- 00:19:22.417 --> 00:19:26.021
- I wanted to be sure i was walking with god.
- 00:19:26.021 --> 00:19:28.156
- And seniors, make that a priority. spend time with god.
- 00:19:28.156 --> 00:19:33.028
- You'll find every excuse not to do it,
- 00:19:33.028 --> 00:19:35.230
- But do it and god will bless your life.
- 00:19:35.230 --> 00:19:37.532
- That's what jesus did.
- 00:19:37.532 --> 00:19:39.167
- He made solitude with god a regular part of his life.
- 00:19:39.167 --> 00:19:43.272
- Now, in closing, in the last three minutes here,
- 00:19:44.206 --> 00:19:46.742
- I need to take some of my own medicine,
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- And that is apply what i've taught you this morning.
- 00:19:48.877 --> 00:19:52.414
- What's the application of this message?
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- Let me give you two quick timeless principles
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- From this passage.
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- Number one, we are to submit to the authority of jesus.
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- We're to submit to the authority of jesus.
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- The reason luke includes these vignettes from jesus' life
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- Is to prove that he really was
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- The son of god by his authority.
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- His authority in teaching, his authority over demons,
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- His authority over sickness all proved
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- That he was really who he said he was.
- 00:20:20.776 --> 00:20:23.645
- You know, isn't it interesting
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- That every creature in heaven right now,
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- The untold millions of creatures in heaven,
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- They are submitting to jesus' authority.
- 00:20:29.584 --> 00:20:32.788
- The demons underneath the earth,
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- They're submitting to jesus' authority.
- 00:20:34.589 --> 00:20:37.259
- There is only one place in this vast universe
- 00:20:37.259 --> 00:20:41.363
- Where there are creatures not submitting to god's authority.
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- And it's on this little spinning
- 00:20:45.334 --> 00:20:47.502
- Clod of dirt called planet earth,
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- But one day every creature in this world
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- Will submit to jesus' authority.
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- Philippians 2:10 says, "one day every knee will bow
- 00:20:55.811 --> 00:20:59.448
- And every tongue will confess
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- That jesus christ is kyrios, lord."
- 00:21:00.716 --> 00:21:06.054
- Let me ask you,
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- Are you right now doing what you will do one day,
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- And that is submitting to christ's rule in your life?
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- Are you obeying what you know to be
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- The will of god in your life?
- 00:21:19.167 --> 00:21:20.602
- We're to submit to christ's authority.
- 00:21:20.602 --> 00:21:23.705
- Secondly, we are to model the ministry of jesus.
- 00:21:23.705 --> 00:21:28.043
- In john 14:12, jesus said, "truly, truly i say to you,
- 00:21:28.043 --> 00:21:31.480
- He who believes in me, the works that i shall do,
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- He shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do,
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- Because i go to the father."
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- Do you want to have the same power
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- In your life that jesus had?
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- Do you want to know
- 00:21:44.893 --> 00:21:46.294
- That you're making a difference like jesus did?
- 00:21:46.294 --> 00:21:47.729
- You can even do more than jesus did,
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- If you have the same balance that jesus had in his ministry.
- 00:21:49.831 --> 00:21:54.803
- One pastor summed it up this way.
- 00:21:54.803 --> 00:21:57.506
- He said, "just notice the four locations of jesus' ministry.
- 00:21:57.506 --> 00:22:00.509
- It shows the balance in his life."
- 00:22:00.509 --> 00:22:02.477
- First of all, he ministered in the synagogue.
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- That would be the church today,
- 00:22:04.846 --> 00:22:06.148
- That was home base for his life.
- 00:22:06.148 --> 00:22:08.617
- Students, make sure seniors you find
- 00:22:08.617 --> 00:22:10.952
- A good bible believing church to go to.
- 00:22:10.952 --> 00:22:13.822
- Make it central in your life while you're away.
- 00:22:13.822 --> 00:22:17.092
- His church, the synagogue was central in his teaching.
- 00:22:17.092 --> 00:22:20.629
- Secondly, he ministered in the home.
- 00:22:20.629 --> 00:22:23.098
- It was peter's home, but it was still the home.
- 00:22:23.098 --> 00:22:25.367
- That's the most basic unit of society.
- 00:22:25.367 --> 00:22:28.036
- We're to have a ministry with our own family.
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- Thirdly, he ministered in the world,
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- Filled with all kinds of people and with all kind of needs.
- 00:22:32.340 --> 00:22:35.977
- And finally, jesus, his ministry
- 00:22:35.977 --> 00:22:39.347
- Placed him in the wilderness
- 00:22:39.347 --> 00:22:41.349
- Where he spent time alone with god.
- 00:22:41.349 --> 00:22:44.653
- If you want to experience the supernatural power
- 00:22:44.653 --> 00:22:48.523
- Of jesus in your life,
- 00:22:48.523 --> 00:22:50.692
- Then you have to demonstrate the same balance
- 00:22:50.692 --> 00:22:54.229
- That jesus demonstrated.
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- Of "pathway to victory."
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- Submit to the authority of jesus
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- And model the ministry of jesus.
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- Then and only then can we fulfill god's purpose
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- And experience his supernatural power in our lives.
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- Well, the sermon on the mount is often regarded
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- As the greatest message jesus ever preached.
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- In it, he commanded his followers to love their enemies
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- And turn the other cheek,
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- But are such lofty ideals truly practical in today's world?
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- Well, next time we will learn how to apply
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- These timeless principles from the sermon on the mount
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- To our lives today.
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- Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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- In our series, "the incomparable christ."
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- What i want you to notice is this message
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- We're going to look at for just a few moments
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- Is not a message for the unsaved.
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- There's nothing in this passage that will tell you
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- How to go to heaven when you die.
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- There's nothing about god's forgiveness
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- Through jesus or cross or the blood of christ.
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- This was a message for his disciples, his followers.
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