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Jack Graham - Beloved Son

October 12, 2025 | 27:29

Jack Graham - Beloved Son
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.
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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - Beloved Son | October 12, 2025
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  • There is no person that god cannot save!
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  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
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  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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  • Today we're going to focus on jesus, the son of god, the
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  • Sonship of the lord jesus christ. the "beloved son". and
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  • This is majestic text that we find in our bibles. it is a
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  • Story about jesus that is recorded in all four of the
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  • Gospel accounts... matthew, mark, luke and john. all four
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  • Saw this as noteworthy and a milestone... a marker in the
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  • Life of jesus, because it speaks of jesus launching his
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  • Mission of redemption on the earth. and he does it with a
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  • Beautiful and prayerful act of personal devotion, and with the
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  • Promise and the approval of the heavenly father. so read with
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  • Me, beginning at verse 13:
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  • 13) then jesus came from galilee... (note again, there's
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  • That name) ... jesus came from galilee to the jordan to john
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  • (this is john the baptist), to be baptized by him.
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  • 14) and john would have prevented him, saying, “i need
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  • To be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” 15) but jesus
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  • Answered him, “let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for
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  • Us to fulfill all righteousness.” (mark those
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  • Words.) then he consented. 16) and when jesus was baptized,
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  • Immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens
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  • Were opened to him, and he saw the spirit of god descending
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  • Like a dove and coming to rest on him; 17) and behold, a voice
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  • From heaven said, “this is my beloved son, with whom i am
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  • Well pleased.”
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  • The question that everyone must answer is: who is jesus? and
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  • There are many answers. the devil makes sure that people
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  • Have a lot of different answers as to who is jesus. some would
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  • Say a messenger from god. others would say a miracle
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  • Worker. others would say a great moral teacher. others
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  • Would say a mystic of some kind. some would say a mad man,
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  • A lunatic. he thought he was god and wasn't. some would say
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  • A prophet. but jesus would say to his disciples: "who do you
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  • Say that i am?" and just as the disciples must answer that
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  • Question, so must you...
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  • It was simon peter under the revelation of the holy spirit
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  • Who said, “you are the christ, the son of the living god.” and
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  • That is the true confession of every true believer and
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  • Follower of jesus. “you are the christ, the son of the living
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  • God.” god the son and the son of god.
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  • Now when we speak of the divine sonship of jesus, to say that
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  • Jesus is the son of god, it means that he is the second
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  • Person of the godhead in the trinity... god the father, god
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  • The son, god the holy spirit. so jesus takes a role of
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  • Sonship. and in eternity past in the counsels of the deities,
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  • Jesus took this role, the son of god, to be the savior of the
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  • World.
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  • Now i know a lot of people get worked up trying to figure out
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  • The trinity. paul said, "great is the mystery of godliness,
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  • That god would be manifest in the flesh." so it is a mystery;
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  • It is a sacred mystery and a supernatural miracle that god
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  • Would become the son; that the son is god. and when we say
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  • That he is the son of god, it does not in one... in any way
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  • Diminish the deity of jesus. because jesus is just as much
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  • God as if he was not man at all and just as much man as if he
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  • Were not god at all. he is 100 percent god, 100 percent man.
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  • Very god of very god. someone said regarding the trinity,
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  • "don't try to understand it or explain it because you would
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  • Lose your mind. and then don't try to explain it away or you
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  • Would lose your soul."
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  • The fact is, the trinity... god the father, god the holy
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  • Spirit, god the son appear often in scripture as in the
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  • Case is right here at the baptism of jesus. you have god
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  • The son who is baptized; you have god the spirit who
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  • Descends upon... upon him, anointing and appointing him,
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  • Filling him in all the fullness of god. this is the anointing
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  • Of jesus for his ministry. and you hear the voice of god the
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  • Father. so god the father, god the son, god the holy spirit
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  • Right here in this one superlative passage of
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  • Scripture. so it is vital that you as a christian make this
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  • Confession. what makes you a christian... a follower of
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  • Jesus is that you are confessing that jesus christ is
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  • The son of god and your savior and lord. have you made that
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  • Confessing? this is the confession of the new
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  • Testament. it's the confession of the early church.
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  • As you roll through the centuries of the early days of
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  • The church some heresies began to rise, some controversies
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  • Regarding the nature, the person of christ. who is he?
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  • And about 325 a.d. one of these controversies was in full
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  • Bloom... full bloom. it's known as arianism. a man by the name
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  • Of arius began to teach in the church that jesus was made by
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  • The father, that he was not one with the father, but that he
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  • Was created by god the father. so there's all kinds of
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  • Controversy in the church in the early centuries regarding
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  • This controversy, or at least in this century.
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  • And so what did the church do? the church decided to get
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  • Together they... they took 300 leaders together of the church
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  • From around the world. all went to a place called nicaea, which
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  • Is modern-day turkey, and about 1500 to 2000 guests joined them
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  • From the churches and they had this conference, and the debate
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  • Ensued as to who is jesus. it's always the question, isn't it?
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  • Who is jesus? and so the leaders of the church, led by
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  • The spirit of god came up with an nicaea... nicene creed.
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  • This creed is important that was given in 325 a.d. this
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  • Creed is important because it is among the most ancient
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  • Documents of the christian faith. it shows us what the
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  • Early christians believed about jesus, and affirming that jesus
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  • Is not only man but that he is god. so here it is. and i
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  • Wanted to bring it to you today because it expresses it well:
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  • "we believe in one god, the father almighty, maker of all
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  • Things visible and invisible. and in one lord jesus christ,
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  • The son of god, begotten of the father... light of light, very
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  • God of very god, (that is truly god, truly god), begotten, not
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  • Made, being of one substance with the father, by whom all
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  • Things were made...; who for us men, and for our salvation,
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  • Came down and was incarnate... and was made man;
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  • He was made man. he did not become god when he came to
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  • Earth. he was god who was made man. he was not a teacher that
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  • Came from god; he was god who came to teach.
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  • And he suffered, and the third day he rose again, ascended to
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  • Heaven; from thence (or there) he comes to judge the living
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  • And the dead. and in the holy ghost.”
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  • So this is a great creed of christendom and it truly the
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  • Confession of a believer and follower of jesus. comparable
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  • To this is hebrews chapter 1 and verse 8:
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  • "but to the son he says (that is god)
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  • "your throne, o god, is forever and ever..."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • The bible is the bestselling, most translated, and most
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  • Quoted book of all time, and yet so many have neglected
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  • Reading or have completely missed what the bible is all
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  • About. in a world of chaos and confusion uncertainty out
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  • There, the bible is the only constant. the only certainty is
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  • Jesus himself and his word, who is the same yesterday, today,
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  • And forever.
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  • And i want to help you see god's word with clearer eyes.
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  • By sending you my brand-new book, “the jesus book, reading
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  • And understanding the bible for yourself.” the jesus book is my
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  • Salvation through christ, with the scarlet thread of
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  • Redemption running through its pages from beginning to end.
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  • That's why i call it the jesus book. i hope you'll take the
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  • The word of god come alive in you and abide in you now and
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  • Forever.
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  • Thank you so much for being a powerful part of god's word
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  • Through powerpoint. changing hearts, changing lives
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  • Till the whole world hears.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • John was a fiery preacher. he was known as john the baptist.
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  • John the baptizer. and he was a powerful
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  • Preacher. many would not like john because he was a hell fire
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  • And damnation kind of preacher. he was preaching in the
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  • Desert... repentance and righteousness with warnings of
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  • Judgment that is to come. but it wasn't all judgment. there
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  • Was the promise of jesus; there was the promise of a messiah
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  • Would come. some thought john the baptist was the messiah,
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  • But he clearly said, "i am not." he said, "i'm not worthy
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  • To unlash the shoes of the messiah." he ultimately pointed
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  • To jesus and said, "look. there's the lamb of god who
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  • Takes away the sin of the world."
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  • He was a great man. jesus said, "greatest man born of woman."
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  • Greatest human every born. john the baptist. he had a... he had
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  • A big crowd. he had a big following. he was a first
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  • Century rockstar. so many people were going out and being
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  • Baptized and repenting of their sin, and baptized in the
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  • Baptism of repentance. it was said of john that he was a
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  • Voice. he said of himself, "a voice shouting in the
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  • Wilderness." you think i get loud sometimes; you ought to
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  • Hear john the baptist! he was crying out; he was shouting in
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  • The desert for all who would hear. and so many would hear,
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  • Many were running out to the desert to hear john the baptist
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  • Preach and to be baptized.
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  • And then one day jesus got in line to be baptized.
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  • Now think about this. he's asking john... the son of god
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  • Is asking john the baptist, his first cousin to baptize him.
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  • And john is thinking, "are you serious? you should be
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  • Baptizing me! not the other way around." but jesus insisted. it
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  • Was as though jesus was asking permission the first time. but
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  • When john rebuts and says, "no, not me." jesus said, "john, i
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  • Really wasn't asking permission. do it." so jesus
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  • Was baptized.
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  • And then it says in the scripture when you read the
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  • Text that he went down into the water... he walked into the
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  • Water, he stepped into the water, and then he went down
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  • Under the water, immersed under the water, and then right here
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  • In our text said he came straightway up out of the water.
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  • And this word baptism, therefore, is a beautiful
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  • Picture of what happens to us when we become followers of
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  • Jesus.
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  • And as he's coming up out of the water the heavens open and
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  • A dove descends... like a dove the holy spirit descends upon
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  • Jesus, anointing and appointing him, and filling him for his
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  • Mission.
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  • And then the father speaks from heaven. the first two miracles
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  • Had to do with something visual; heaven opened, the holy
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  • Spirit by this dove descending. but now it becomes audible. god
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  • Is speaking. he said, “this is my beloved son.” he's
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  • Introducing jesus to the world. “this is my beloved son in whom
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  • I am well pleased
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  • We wonder, why was jesus baptized? ever ask yourself
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  • That question? if this was a baptism for repentance, jesus
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  • Never sinned, according to the scripture so why would jesus
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  • Choose to be baptized by john? why would he make this such a
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  • Huge deal in his life... the very outset, again, recorded by
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  • All four gospel writers. what is the importance and the
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  • Significance of the baptism of jesus? i have four brief things
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  • I want to say about that because they all apply to jesus
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  • And they all apply to you and me.
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  • Number one, he says to fulfill all righteousness. that's why,
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  • So how do we fulfill all righteousness? it was an act of
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  • Accreditation... an act of accreditation. and by that, i
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  • Mean there is the approval of john the baptist and his
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  • Mission and his ministry as the forerunner of christ. very
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  • Important! because the new testament is the fulfillment of
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  • The old testament and the old testament promised a
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  • Forerunner, one that would run in front of the messiah,
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  • Announcing his arrival! so john is the forerunner; john is the
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  • Last prophet; john is the baptizer and he's preaching
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  • This message of the kingdom of heaven and how to enter the
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  • Kingdom of heaven. and he's baptizing all of these people.
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  • So when jesus submits to the hands of john for this baptism,
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  • He is accrediting... authenticating the mission of
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  • John himself. he is saying, "what this man has been
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  • Preaching is true and i am the one who will follow." he was
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  • Showing solidarity with john the baptist.
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  • So it was an act of accreditation
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  • But most importantly, it is an act of identification... act of
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  • Identification. he identifies... jesus identifies
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  • With the sinful people who are coming for the baptism of
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  • Repentance. now don't miss this! jesus did not need to
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  • Repent of anything because he had never sinned. but he
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  • Identifies from the outset with sinful people like you and me.
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  • He stepped into the water which became dirty water as the sins
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  • Of the people were being confessed and repented of. and
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  • Jesus steps in to our world and he steps into this baptism, if
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  • You will, in order to identify himself with you and me. and
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  • Though he never sinned, he identifies with you and with
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  • Me. it's an act of identification.
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  • Jesus was pointing to the cross because in baptism this figure,
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  • This symbol represents the death, the burial, and the
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  • Resurrection of christ. that's why other modes or methods of
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  • Baptism just don't work. it is only immersion. paul said in
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  • Romans 6 and verse 4 that: "we are buried together with christ
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  • In baptism of his death... and raised... to walk in newness of
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  • Life." this is symbolic of spiritual baptism when we are
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  • Immersed into christ, when we are baptized into christ
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  • Spiritually then we signify this with an open confession in
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  • Obedience to god. and that is what jesus is representing
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  • Here. he identifies with our sin in order to provide
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  • Salvation.
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  • It was also an act of submission. an act of
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  • Accreditation... (maybe you should write some of these
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  • Things down. i would encourage you to take some notes.) an act
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  • Of accreditation, an act of identification in which jesus
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  • Identifies with us and now we identify with him, and an act
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  • Of submission. clearly jesus is submitting in humility to this
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  • Baptism.
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  • Jesus was powerful and strong and mighty, the son of god. but
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  • When he speaks of himself in matthew 11 and verse 29, he
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  • Says, "i am gentle and humble in heart... gentle and humble
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  • In heart." and even with the expression of the dove coming
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  • Down from heaven, fluttering down, representing the holy
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  • Spirit, there is this... there's this tenderness that we
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  • See here. and i see humility. he willingly walked into the
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  • Water and into the hands of his cousin john for baptism, even
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  • Asked john for permission as i noted. submission.
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  • And then finally this is baptism of jesus... an act of
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  • Accreditation, identification, and act of submission; it is an
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  • Act of preparation. jesus is getting ready to go, it's the
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  • Countdown. thirty years in nazareth... that's all over; 30
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  • Years as a carpenter's apprentice... that's done; 30
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  • Years being a nobody... that's over. jesus is now stepping in
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  • To his call. he is the chosen of god, the messiah, stepping
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  • Out of a silence, jesus steps into the water and he is
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  • Commended and coronated as king.
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  • Again, there is something strikingly majestic to me about
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  • This passage. this one man, the son of god baptized. jesus
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  • Steps on the stage of history and out of obscurity and into
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  • Obedience.
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  • This is the coronation of the king! the public announcement
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  • Of the king. he's now making public his ministry and setting
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  • Out on his mission to save the world. jesus waited on god the
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  • Father's perfect timing. and now it's "go" time. i hear drum
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  • Rolls here and trumpets blasting in this divine
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  • Coronation... this divine confirmation of jesus the son
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  • Of god. but of all points to why he came.
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  • J.r. miller, a man that i don't know, wrote something that i do
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  • Know is very powerful. he said, “the shadow of the cross fell
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  • On the green banks and on the flowing river of jordan, and it
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  • Fell also across the gentle and holy soul of jesus as he stood
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  • There. he knew what the baptism meant, to what it reduced him,
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  • What it's end would be. yet, knowing all, he voluntarily
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  • Came to be baptized, thus accepting the mission of
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  • Redemption.” jesus on his baptism was saying “yes” to you
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  • And his mission to fulfill the father's purpose of his life.
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  • No wonder the voice came from heaven, “this is my beloved son
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  • In whom i am always well pleased.”
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  • God the father is always pleased with his son jesus. he
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  • Was pleased when he left heaven and came to earth through the
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  • Portals of a virgin's womb and was born, the sinless
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  • Sacrifice, the lamb of god. the father was pleased with jesus
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  • Obeying his parents as a boy. "grew in wisdom, stature, favor
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  • With god and man." he was pleased that he always chose
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  • Righteousness and kept the commands... the 10
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  • Commandments. he was pleased when he said, "i must always be
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  • About my father's business." he was pleased when he was
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  • Baptized. he was pleased when he resisted temptation in the
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  • Wilderness. he was pleased when he went about doing good as the
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  • Scripture says; when he loved people and compassionately,
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  • Miraculously performed acts of grace upon people's lives.
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  • Healing [clap] the sick, the blind [clap], the lame [clap],
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  • The lepers. touching those who were hurting and bleeding and
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  • Dying without hope.
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  • Jesus pleased the father in all of this. and most of all, it
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  • Pleased the father when jesus voluntarily laid down his life
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  • On a cross, to be lifted up between heaven and earth, to
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  • Die on the cross for the sins of mankind, so that god and
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  • Man... holy god and sinful man could be united in a
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  • Relationship through the lord jesus christ. and god proved
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  • That he was pleased with his sacrifice because on the third
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  • Day he rose... jesus... he raised jesus from the dead!
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  • [applause] yes, the father is pleased with the son.
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  • [applause-amen!]
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  • That day all of heaven opened up.
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  • And when the father spoke, and said “this is my beloved son in
  • 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:29.317
  • Whom i am well pleased”, it now makes it possible for you and
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  • Me to hear those same words.
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  • And in our baptism we're signifying our love and our
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  • Devotion to him. and the father's love... the father's
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  • Affection and approval of his son is for you and anyone and
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  • Everyone who will trust in him! jesus came to earth to show us
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  • And to bring us the father's love. and now because of jesus
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  • You can hear the father speak to you, "well done, my good and
  • 00:26:06.588 --> 00:26:13.962
  • Faithful servant. you are my beloved son
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  • In whom i am well pleased."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Hello, everyone. pastor jack graham here, and i want to
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  • Personally invite you to join me for something very special.
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  • It's the patriot tour to washington, dc, april 22nd
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  • Through 27th, 2026. as we celebrate the 250th birthday of
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  • The united states, we're going to visit some of the most
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  • Powerful and historic places in our nation's capital, like the
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  • U.s. capitol, arlington national cemetery, the national
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  • Monuments, mount vernon, and the museum of the bible.
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  • This won't be just a tour. it will be a spiritual journey,
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  • Really. i'll be opening god's word along the way, teaching us
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  • About the spiritual foundations, the biblical
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  • Foundations of our nation, and the hope that we have for the
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  • Be a part of this unforgettable experience. for more
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