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GregLaurie.TV | Everyone Needs Jesus | May 16, 2021
- ♪ This is the day the day when life begins ♪
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- ♪ This is the day the day when life begins ♪
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- - Hey everybody, why don't you grab your Bible now
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- because we're gonna have a message from the Scripture,
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- we're in a series in the Gospel of Mark that we are calling,
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- the gospel for busy people, and we're in Mark 5.
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- Turn in your Bibles to Mark 5.
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- The title of my message is everyone needs Jesus.
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- Lemme start with a question,
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- have you ever been in a situation
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- that seemed absolutely hopeless?
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- Well, compare it to a tumultuous storm
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- and you're out there on your little boat pitching back
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- and forth in the waves and you don't see any way out,
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- and suddenly the storm stops and the sun comes out
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- and the birds are singing?
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- Or maybe I'm talking to somebody right now
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- that had life going perfectly in so many ways
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- when all of a sudden you are hit with a severe illness
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- or the death of a loved one
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- and you don't know how you're gonna get through
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- what you're going through right now.
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- Then I think you're gonna find some hope in
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- what we're gonna look at together here in Mark 5.
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- This is a story of two very different people,
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- one was a man, the other was a woman,
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- one was unknown, one was relatively famous,
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- what they had in common was they both needed Jesus.
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- Starting with this woman.
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- She was in a helpless, hopeless situation.
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- She had spent all of her money on doctors to no avail,
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- and she could not get rid of this horrible sickness
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- that plagued her that we'll talk about in a moment.
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- The second person in our story was a man
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- who was a ruler of the local synagogue.
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- He had power and prestige, but he needed Jesus too
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- because his beloved daughter was at death's door.
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- So the point of it is, everybody needs Jesus,
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- every man, every woman, every old person,
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- every young person, every middle aged person,
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- every middle aged person who thinks they're a young person,
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- whoever you are, everyone needs Jesus.
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- He is there for you.
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- Let's look now at Mark 5, starting in verse 21.
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- We read these words.
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- "Jesus got into the boat again
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- "and went to the other side of the lake
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- "when a large crowd gathered around Him on the shore.
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- "Then a leader of the local synagogue
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- "whose name was Jairus arrived.
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- "When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet
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- "pleading fervently with him saying,
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- "'My little daughter is dying.
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- "'Please come and lay your hands on her,
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- "'heal so she can live.'
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- "Jesus went with him,
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- "and all the people followed, crowding around Him.
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- "A woman in the crowd who had suffered
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- "for 12 years with constant bleeding,
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- "and had suffered a great deal from many doctors
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- "over the years and spent everything she had to pay them,
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- "but had gotten no better,
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- "but in fact had gotten worse, heard about Jesus.
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- "So she came up from behind Him through the crowd
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- "and touched His robe, for she thought to herself,
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- "'If I can touch His robe, I can be healed.'
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- "Immediately the bleeding stopped
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- "and she could feel it in her body
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- "and she'd been healed of her terrible condition."
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- Let's stop there.
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- 12 years, very important timeframe.
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- 12 years this woman had been dealing
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- with this horrible illness,
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- and 12 years was the age of this little daughter of Jairus.
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- So the poor woman had been in poor health for 12 years,
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- and this young girl had experienced 12 years
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- of relative happiness as the apple of her daddy's eye.
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- I'm sure he doted on her and loved her in so many ways,
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- it's shown by his urgency as he comes to Jesus,
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- and the sick woman had experienced 12 years
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- of pain, rejection and tears,
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- yet on the same afternoon
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- both of their lives are dramatically changed
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- by their encounter with Jesus Christ.
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- Now, one of these people is a well-known ruler
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- of the local synagogue and his name is Jairus.
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- His daughters suddenly fell ill
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- and he felt that he needed to go to Jesus,
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- but as he's on his way home with Jesus to help him
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- this woman sort of burst on the scene.
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- But as we'll see, this interruption became an opportunity,
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- but let's focus a little bit on Jairus
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- and what actually happened.
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- I already said this little girl was 12 years old
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- and suddenly she's sick,
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- and he's trying everything he can to get her better
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- and nothing is working, and he hears that Jesus is near.
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- Now, I don't know if Jairus believed in Jesus yet,
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- if he had embraced Him and put his faith in Him.
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- He obviously was a Jewish spiritual leader,
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- but apparently he believed that Jesus had the power to heal.
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- So he approaches Christ and makes this amazing statement,
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- "Come lay your hands on my daughter
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- "and I believe she will be healed."
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- I mean, that's a lot of faith.
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- He just felt if Jesus can touch her,
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- I know she'll be healed.
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- So Jesus says, all right,
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- so they're making their way to the home of Jairus.
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- That crowd is following,
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- and all of a sudden, just seemingly out of nowhere
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- some woman touches the hem of Jesus' garment
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- which is no big deal, but it's that Christ suddenly stops
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- and asked the question, who touched me?
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- Now, how easily could Jairus have said,
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- hey lady, hold on, He's with me, no cuts.
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- Remember when you were in school, some of you still are,
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- and we'd be waiting to eat that horrible food in schools.
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- Is the food any better in schools today?
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- It never was back when I went to school,
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- sort of like school food, hospital food, an oxymoron,
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- you know, it's not really very good.
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- But boy, if someone cut in our line, we'd say,
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- hey man, no cuts.
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- Jairus could have said that to that woman.
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- What are you doing?
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- He's going home with me right now,
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- but actually Jairus did not do that.
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- So this woman touches the hem of the garment of Jesus.
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- She had this medical condition.
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- We don't even really know what it was,
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- but we know that she bled perpetually.
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- Maybe it was some kind of a hemorrhage
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- and no doctor could help her.
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- And by the way, the remedies back in these days
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- could be really strange,
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- so I don't know if she ever had
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- any proper medical attention,
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- but she had spent all of her money,
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- maybe on quack doctors promising her a remedy or a solution.
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- And she reads it,
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- "If I can touch Jesus, I know I can be healed."
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- Actually we're told in Mark 5:26,
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- "She suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors
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- "and spent all that she had,
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- "and instead of getting better, she only got worse.
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- "And she thought,
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- "'If I can touch the Lord, everything will change.'"
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- That brings me to my first question,
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- is it presumptuous to think that God heals people today?
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- Lemme answer those questions
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- I raised a little bit earlier about healing.
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- One of them was, where does sickness come from?
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- Why do we even have to get sick?
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- Well, listen to this,
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- it was never part of God's original plan.
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- We weren't supposed to get sick,
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- we weren't supposed to age, we weren't supposed to die.
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- It goes back to our first parents,
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- Adam and Eve they're in the garden,
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- if Adam and Eve had not eaten that forbidden fruit
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- we would not get sick.
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- If Adam and Eve had not eaten of the forbidden fruit
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- we would not age.
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- If Adam and Eve had not eaten of the forbidden fruit,
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- I would have hair still, right?
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- So we age and we have illness and ultimately we die.
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- Romans 5:12 says,
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- "As sin entered the world through one man
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- "and death through sin,
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- "in this way death came to all men because all have sin."
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- But why does God allow sickness?
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- That's the second question.
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- Here's the short answer.
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- God allows sickness in our lives
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- sometimes to bring us to Him,
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- and I've heard many stories of people
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- that felt they had no need for God,
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- but when they got ill on their death bed
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- or maybe in a hospital room,
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- they asked for spiritual help and of course they found it.
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- So sometimes it's to get our attention,
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- the psalmist said,
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- "Before I was afflicted, I went stray,
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- "but now I have kept your word."
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- But listen, sometimes God allow sickness
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- in the life of the believer to keep us humble.
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- Another reason God allows sickness is to be glorified
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- through your life as you honor God
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- even when you're struggling with the sickness.
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- But this brings us to question number three,
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- does God still heal today?
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- Does God still heal today?
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- And I believe the answer is yes.
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- Does He heal everyone?
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- The answer is no.
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- Does He heal some people?
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- The answer is yes,
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- but know this, God has the ability to heal,
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- God has the desire to heal and we need to understand that.
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- So why are some of us still sick?
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- Are you ready for my super simple answer?
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- It maybe because you've not asked God to heal you.
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- In the Book of James it says,
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- "You have not because you ask not."
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- Simple as that, you have not because you ask not.
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- Jesus said,
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- "Ask and it shall be given to you,
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- "seek and you shall find,
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- "knock and the door shall be opened."
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- And in the original language
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- there's an ascending intensity to those verbs
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- meaning, keep asking, keep seeking,
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- keep knocking, keep praying.
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- Now Paul prayed three times
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- that God would remove his thorn in the flesh,
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- and the Lord said,
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- "My grace is sufficient for you."
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- But other times the Lord will say yes,
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- maybe not after the first time you prayed
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- or the second or the third,
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- but maybe at a certain moment He says,
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- okay, I'm going to heal.
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- That's what this woman did.
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- She thought if I can touch Him I'll be healed,
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- and so that is what happened to her.
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- Let's go back to Mark 5:30.
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- "Jesus realized that once that healing power
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- "had gone out from Him,
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- "and He turned around to the crowd and said,
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- "'Who touched me?'
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- "And the disciples turned and said,
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- "'Lord, this crowd is all around you,
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- "'how can you ask, who touched me?'
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- "But He kept looking around
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- "because He wanted to see who had done it.
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- "Then the frightened woman trembling at the realization
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- "of what happened to her came and fell to her knees
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- "in front of Him and told Him what she had done,
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- "and Jesus said,
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- "'Daughter, your faith has made you well,
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- "'go in peace your suffering is over.'"
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- Don't you love that story?
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- Who touched me?
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- The disciples basically say,
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- excuse me Jesus, who didn't touch you?
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- Everybody is touching you, they're grabbing you,
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- they're pulling on you, they wanna be near you.
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- No, but someone touched me in a different way.
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- That brings me me to question number four,
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- why doesn't God heal everyone?
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- Clearly in this story there is a cause and effect
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- between her faith and her healing.
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- Who touched me?
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- Jesus says.
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- You know, literally that could be translated,
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- who touched me on my clothes?
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- Because power went out of Him.
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- Maybe I'm talking to somebody right now who would say,
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- I would love to have Jesus touch me,
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- but I don't feel His touch.
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- Then be like this woman,
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- if you're not feeling His touch,
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- reach out to Him and touch Him.
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- The Bible says,
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- "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you."
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- He's touchable,
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- He's someone you can reach out to right now.
- 00:12:08.280 --> 00:12:11.082
- So here's this woman, she's healed,
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- and Jesus wants to commend her.
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- She probably thought,
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- oh no, I'm scared He's gonna be mad at me.
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- He wasn't mad,
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- He wanted to say, lady way to go,
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- this was an act of great faith what you did.
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- Meanwhile, as this beautiful story is unfolding
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- something tragic now happens.
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- Go back to Mark 5:35,
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- "While He was still speaking to her,
- 00:12:34.973 --> 00:12:36.474
- "messengers arrived from the home of Jairus,
- 00:12:36.474 --> 00:12:39.110
- "the leader of the synagogue and they told him,
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- "'Your daughter is dead.
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- "'No use in troubling the Teacher now.'"
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- Don't miss this next verse.
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- "Jesus overheard them and said to Jairus,
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- "'Don't be afraid, just have faith.'"
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- How devastating that must have been for Jairus
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- to hear those words, your daughter is dead.
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- I've stood in the shoes of Jairus,
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- not losing a daughter, but losing a son.
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- Our son Christopher went to be with the Lord 12 years ago,
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- he died in an automobile accident.
- 00:13:13.078 --> 00:13:16.047
- And I remember distinctly the day I heard
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- the unthinkable news that he was no longer with us.
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- To say my life changed is an understatement.
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- And I bring this up from time to time,
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- and maybe someone would say,
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- Greg, you know, maybe you should stop talking about it.
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- Maybe you need to get over it.
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- Lemme just say to you, if you know someone
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- who's lost a loved one especially a child,
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- never say to them, you need to get over it.
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- That's an aberration.
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- You see, we know that we'll lose grandparents in time,
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- we know that our parents will die in time,
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- we know even the spouse could potentially die,
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- but we never make plans for our children
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- proceeding us to death.
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- It's out of the natural order,
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- that is not something that parent gets over
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- even decades after it happens they still remember,
- 00:14:03.128 --> 00:14:06.898
- it's still painful, but you can get through it
- 00:14:06.898 --> 00:14:10.535
- and that's why I bring it up
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- because whenever I bring this topic up
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- I'm flooded with responses, people write me,
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- they call me and they ask me for help.
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- Because you know, when you've heard
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- that your child has died,
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- you almost feel as though your life is over
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- and your world is ended
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- and you don't know how you're gonna get through it.
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- And so what I wanna say to someone right now,
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- if you've lost a loved one and especially a child,
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- you can get through this by hanging on to Jesus Christ,
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- He's your only hope at a time like this.
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- Jairus heard those dreadful words, your daughter is dead,
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- but I love the response of Jesus He said,
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- "Don't be afraid, just have faith."
- 00:14:52.143 --> 00:14:54.679
- You see Jairus had to choose
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- which voice he was gonna listen to.
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- Are you gonna listen to the voice of the man
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- that just said your daughter is dead,
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- or are you gonna listen to the voice of Jesus
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- who said, don't be afraid, just have faith?
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- You know Jairus could have beat himself up over this
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- and say, this is my fault.
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- I should have been more persistent.
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- I think when a child dies
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- the father may react differently than the mother.
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- The father feels he needed to fix it.
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- You know, dads fix things, right?
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- You know, when a child wants assurance
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- they go to mom for a hug,
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- but when they need something done,
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- or they need some money, or something repaired,
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- dad, can you do this?
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- We're used to fixing things
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- and it's very frustrating when you can't fix
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- the child who has left you.
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- And so he probably felt horrible about this,
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- but it's amazing to me 'cause
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- we don't see him seeing anything like that,
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- we see him trusting the Lord and waiting on the Lord.
- 00:15:53.004 --> 00:15:57.475
- And it's kind of an amazing thing
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- that Jairus approached Jesus
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- and humbled himself and begged Jesus to help him.
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- Listen, it's hard for us to understand this,
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- Jesus was not high on the cultural ladder.
- 00:16:07.652 --> 00:16:11.089
- Jairus is very high on the ladder,
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- he's a spiritual leader of the local synagogue,
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- he was a somebody,
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- Jesus, He was any like the son of a carpenter
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- and wasn't He from Nazareth,
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- not a city with a great reputation?
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- As Nathaniel said,
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- "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?
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- Yet this man of prestige
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- and power humbles himself before Jesus
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- 'cause he recognized Jesus was not the son of a carpenter,
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- he recognized Jesus was the Son of God,
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- and Jesus has the ability to heal my daughter.
- 00:16:41.920 --> 00:16:44.923
- But now we need something even greater than a healing,
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- he needs a resurrection
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- and he's waiting on the Lord to do His work.
- 00:16:50.328 --> 00:16:53.331
- I love what Christ says,
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- don't be afraid, go on believing there in verse 36.
- 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:59.204
- That can be literally translated, keep on believing.
- 00:16:59.204 --> 00:17:03.074
- So now they come to the home of Jairus.
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- What a tragic and depressing scene they come to.
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- They have all these wailers who are moaning
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- and crying and playing musical instruments.
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- That doesn't makes sense to us today,
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- but back in this culture depending on your level of income
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- when someone died,
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- you would bring in literally professional wailers.
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- I don't know where you found them,
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- maybe you googled in, it was like,
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- wailers are us, I don't know,
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- but these people would come
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- and they would play musical instruments and scream and moan.
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- And so that's the scene Christ comes to,
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- all these people lamenting
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- and crying and the music is playing
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- and Jesus walks in and here's what happens.
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- Look at Mark 5:38,
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- "When they came to the home of this synagogue leader,
- 00:17:50.922 --> 00:17:53.791
- "Jesus saw much commotion and weeping and wailing,
- 00:17:53.791 --> 00:17:57.162
- "He went inside and He asked,
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- "'Why all this commotion and weeping?
- 00:17:58.696 --> 00:18:01.166
- "'The child isn't dead, she is only sleeping.'"
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- Don't miss the next verse.
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- "And the crowd laughed at Him."
- 00:18:05.937 --> 00:18:07.872
- Wait, what?
- 00:18:07.872 --> 00:18:09.440
- Oh, they went from morning to mockery in a nanosecond.
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- Unbelief laughs at God's Word,
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- but faith believes for a miracle.
- 00:18:17.515 --> 00:18:20.318
- Clearly this environment was not conducive
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- to what Jesus wanted to do, so He tells all these people,
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- get out, leave the room.
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- They're all upset taking their musical instruments,
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- guy blown the flute a couple extra times.
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- Just leave, I don't want any of you here.
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- Peter, James, John, come on guys, come with me,
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- and they go in to see this amazing sight
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- of what Jesus is about to do.
- 00:18:43.041 --> 00:18:45.877
- Jesus says the child is not dead she's only sleeping.
- 00:18:45.877 --> 00:18:51.849
- You know, death for a Christian
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- is often compared in the Bible to sleeping.
- 00:18:55.053 --> 00:18:57.655
- By the way, that analogy is never used
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- of death for the nonbeliever, only of the believer.
- 00:19:00.959 --> 00:19:05.563
- The Bible talks in 1 Thessalonians about those that sleep,
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- speaking of those that are dead or in the graves.
- 00:19:09.267 --> 00:19:13.238
- You know, when I was a little kid I hated it
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- when someone would say to me, it's time to take a nap.
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- Oh, I hated naps as a kid.
- 00:19:18.142 --> 00:19:20.511
- Now, if my wife says,
- 00:19:20.511 --> 00:19:21.746
- "Greg, why don't you go take a nap?"
- 00:19:21.746 --> 00:19:22.814
- I'm like, yes, nap, you know.
- 00:19:22.814 --> 00:19:24.782
- So it's all how you see it,
- 00:19:24.782 --> 00:19:26.150
- but we don't have to be afraid of sleep or a nap
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- when even Steven the first martyr of the church
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- was put to death by stoning, a violent way to die,
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- the Bible says, he fell asleep.
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- So Jesus says she's only sleep and then He raises her again.
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- We read here in Mark that He goes to the little girl
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- and he says to her,
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- "Little lamb, arise."
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- And immediately life comes back into her body
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- and we read that she's walking around
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- and I love this detail,
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- Jesus said, give her something to eat.
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- And that great.
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- Now you're raised from the dead, probably hungry,
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- have something to eat.
- 00:20:07.358 --> 00:20:08.293
- Give this girl a sandwich.
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- Amazing story.
- 00:20:10.695 --> 00:20:12.497
- How my heart would have rejoiced
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- if someone would have said to me,
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- your son has risen from the dead,
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- but that didn't happen for me.
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- I've never shared this detailed publicly,
- 00:20:22.273 --> 00:20:24.842
- but the fact is after our son died,
- 00:20:24.842 --> 00:20:27.979
- we wanted to go see him, his body,
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- and we were told he was unviewable.
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- So I never got to see him in any way
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- after he passed into eternity.
- 00:20:37.221 --> 00:20:39.724
- I was given a plastic bag with the things
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- that he had with him.
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- I'd had his watch, it had his wedding ring,
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- and it had his wallet,
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- and in this wallet there was a little card for a carousel,
- 00:20:49.834 --> 00:20:53.271
- he would take his daughter Stella on
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- and it just was heartbreaking.
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- And I held this watch and this is a watch I gave to him,
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- and on the back of the watch I inscribed these words,
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- Jeremiah 29:11,
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- "I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord,
- 00:21:06.184 --> 00:21:08.853
- "thoughts of peace and not of evil
- 00:21:08.853 --> 00:21:10.555
- "to give you a future and a hope."
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- And now my son is gone,
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- and I'm reading the Scripture on the back of his watch
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- and I'm thinking,
- 00:21:15.827 --> 00:21:16.761
- where's the future and the hope?
- 00:21:16.761 --> 00:21:18.663
- Well, the future and the hope ultimately is in heaven,
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- isn't it?
- 00:21:22.033 --> 00:21:23.301
- It's being with Jesus.
- 00:21:23.301 --> 00:21:25.136
- And though it was devastating that day
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- and it's still heartbreaking to this day,
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- I have that hope still,
- 00:21:30.007 --> 00:21:32.377
- and Jeremiah 29:11 is still one of my favorite verses
- 00:21:32.377 --> 00:21:35.880
- because I know I will see my son again
- 00:21:35.880 --> 00:21:39.117
- because death is not the end of the road,
- 00:21:39.117 --> 00:21:41.652
- it's just a bend in the road that leads to heaven.
- 00:21:41.652 --> 00:21:46.891
- So look, sometimes God heals,
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- and it's a glorious thing when He does.
- 00:21:51.396 --> 00:21:52.964
- And I've seen people healed as we've prayed for them,
- 00:21:52.964 --> 00:21:56.534
- and we give Him and the glory.
- 00:21:56.534 --> 00:21:57.769
- Sometimes God allows the sickness to remain
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- so He can be glorified through it.
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- Sometimes He does it little more slowly
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- than you would like Him to,
- 00:22:05.877 --> 00:22:07.111
- and sometimes he just allows our life
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- to follow the natural cycle.
- 00:22:09.847 --> 00:22:12.250
- The Bible says,
- 00:22:12.250 --> 00:22:13.751
- "There's a time to be born and there's a time to die."
- 00:22:13.751 --> 00:22:16.254
- And then we're all gonna pass into eternity.
- 00:22:16.254 --> 00:22:19.624
- The Bible says,
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- "Our life is like a vapor of smoke,
- 00:22:20.892 --> 00:22:23.494
- "it appears for one moment and vanishes away."
- 00:22:23.494 --> 00:22:26.764
- A vapor of smoke.
- 00:22:26.764 --> 00:22:29.500
- So I've got this little can of facial spray.
- 00:22:29.500 --> 00:22:32.670
- I don't really use it, but it's a prop, okay?
- 00:22:32.670 --> 00:22:35.606
- But, puts out a lot of spray, think of that as a vapor.
- 00:22:35.606 --> 00:22:39.577
- Think of all the things we pursue in life.
- 00:22:39.577 --> 00:22:41.979
- Boy, I tell you what?
- 00:22:41.979 --> 00:22:43.214
- If I could just get this ultimate car,
- 00:22:43.214 --> 00:22:44.749
- look at that car, coolest car on the road and that's mine.
- 00:22:44.749 --> 00:22:47.885
- Nice, a vapor of smoke that appears for a moment
- 00:22:47.885 --> 00:22:50.788
- and vanishes away.
- 00:22:50.788 --> 00:22:52.557
- Oh, if I could just have this house
- 00:22:52.557 --> 00:22:54.125
- and remodel it and maybe add a room to it.
- 00:22:54.125 --> 00:22:56.494
- Yeah, okay.
- 00:22:56.494 --> 00:22:57.295
- Nice, a vapor of smoke,
- 00:22:57.295 --> 00:22:59.363
- it appears for a moment and vanishes away.
- 00:22:59.363 --> 00:23:02.066
- Well, I built this great career and this huge company.
- 00:23:02.066 --> 00:23:05.470
- Oh yeah, nice,
- 00:23:05.470 --> 00:23:06.704
- a vapor of smoke that appears for a moment
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- and vanishes away.
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- Life comes and goes so quickly.
- 00:23:10.274 --> 00:23:12.677
- The Bible says life is like a story, it's already been told,
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- and we put all of our stock in these things,
- 00:23:16.447 --> 00:23:18.549
- but what really matters is the afterlife,
- 00:23:18.549 --> 00:23:21.586
- the afterlife which goes on forever.
- 00:23:21.586 --> 00:23:24.422
- The before life, the life we're in now
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- is pretty short in comparison, isn't it?
- 00:23:26.991 --> 00:23:29.994
- We don't know when this life will end,
- 00:23:29.994 --> 00:23:32.396
- but what we wanna make sure of is that
- 00:23:32.396 --> 00:23:34.799
- we I have a relationship with God.
- 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:37.835
- As glorious as it was
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- that this woman was healed of this medical condition,
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- she ultimately died, didn't she?
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- As wonderful it was that the daughter of Jairus
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- was brought back to life,
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- she died and Jairus died and we all die,
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- and Christ died and rose again from the dead,
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- and because He died and rose again from the dead,
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- we don't have to be afraid to die as Christians.
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- That doesn't mean we have a death wish,
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- it doesn't mean we don't take care of ourselves,
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- but what it does mean is we know that
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- we will go to heaven one day and be with Him.
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- And I wanna ask you in closing,
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- if you were to die today, tonight, would you go to heaven?
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- You might say, well, I hope so.
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- I hope so, I've lived a good life,
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- tried to be a good person.
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- Well, you know what?
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- It's not about being a good person 'cause the reality is,
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- you and I and all of us are sinners
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- and we've all broken God's commandments.
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- Heaven is not for good people,
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- heaven is for forgiven people,
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- and the only way you're gonna get to heaven,
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- and the only way I'm gonna get to heaven
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- is not based on what I've done, it's based on what He did.
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- And what did He do?
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- Jesus died on the cross in your place.
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- As the Apostle Paul said,
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- "He loved me and gave Himself for me."
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- Jesus summed it up this way,
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- "For God so loved the world
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- "He gave His only begotten Son,
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- "and whosoever believes in Him should not perish.
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- "but have ever lasting life."
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- Christ died so you can live.
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- Hey, maybe God has been speaking
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- to your heart through this message.
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- I want you to know that Jesus Christ died
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- on the cross for you.
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- He shed His blood on the cross for you.
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- And you know what?
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- It wasn't nails that held Him to the cross,
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- it was love for you.
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- God loves you, and God has a plan for your life.
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- And Christ wants to come and live inside of you,
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- but He will not force His way in.
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- The same Jesus who died on the cross
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- and rose from the dead three days later,
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- is standing now at the door of your life and He's knocking,
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- and He's saying,
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- if you'll hear my voice and open the door, I will come in.
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- Would you like Jesus Christ to come and live in your heart?
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- Would you like your sin forgiven?
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- Would you like to fill that big hole inside of you?
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- Would you like to have your guilt removed?
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- And would you like to have this certainty
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- that when you die you will go to heaven?
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- If so, I'm gonna lead you in a simple prayer
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- and I would ask that you would pray this prayer
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- out loud if you like after me.
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- This is a simple prayer
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- of asking Christ to come into your life.
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- So again, if you want Jesus to come into your life,
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- pray this with me right here right now.
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- Pray these words,
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- Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner,
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- but I know that you're the Savior
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- who died on the cross for my sin
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- and rose again from the dead.
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- I turn from my sin now,
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- and I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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- In Jesus name I pray.
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- Amen.
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- Hey, did you just pray that prayer?
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- Maybe you felt something really emotional,
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- maybe you felt nothing.
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- I'll tell you this,
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- the day I prayed that prayer I didn't feel anything,
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- but I looked back and I know that is the day
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- Christ came into my life.
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- And if you prayed that prayer and mean it,
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- God heard it and He's answered it
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- and you are now a child of God.
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- Thanks for watching,
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- and until next time, God bless you.
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