? (Theme Song) ?
? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's worthy
? ? worthy of all... ?
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? (Music) ? Pastor
Byrd: Make Jesus famous.
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For Christians, Jesus is
the central figure of the Bible.
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His life is told four
times over in the Bible,
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in Matthew,
Mark, Luke and in John.
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His life was so
important that it transformed
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the entire course of
western civilization.
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The impact of Jesus' life
on society cannot even begin to
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be quantified, because people
everywhere either know Jesus,
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have known Jesus, have heard
Jesus or will hear about Jesus.
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Jesus was about people.
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Someone once said, if
your vision is for one year,
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plant wheat.
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If your vision is for
ten years, plant trees.
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But if your vision is
for a lifetime, plant people.
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And that's what Jesus did.
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He planted people.
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He impacted people.
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He cared for people.
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He made a difference
in the life of people.
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And I'm here to remind
somebody today that Jesus
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can make a
difference in your life.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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In fact, I want to suggest
if you have it, try Jesus,
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because if you don't
like Jesus then the devil will
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gladly take you back.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Jesus' earthly life began
in the manger, went through
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a carpenter's
shop, made several stops
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at the temple,
baptized in the Jordan river
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and then at the age of 30
he began his earthly ministry
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on what we call planet Earth.
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When on Earth Jesus
went about doing good.
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His ministry, his miracles,
my friends, they were not
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confined to one place.
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They were not limited,
but Jesus went everywhere
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and everywhere he
went people stood in need
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of what he gave.
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Jesus healed every sickness
and disease known to man.
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None too bad, none
too hard for my Jesus,
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because I
believe I've got somebody
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who knows there's
nothing too hard for Jesus.
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In the text, Jesus has
just finished overcoming the
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temptations of Satan.
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He has called the first
four of his disciples, Peter,
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Andrew, James and John.
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His earthly
ministry is just beginning,
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his fame is
beginning to spread throughout
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Galilee and he's
about to preach his famous
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Sermon on the Mount.
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The text says in Matthew 4:23,
and I read, "And Jesus went
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about all Galilee."
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Everybody say all.
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And everybody say Galilee.
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Now, let's stop there.
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Jesus begins
where the people are.
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He begins in Galilee.
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If you're going to spread
the gospel you've got to go
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where the people are.
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You do no good in your
house, in your closet, in secret
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trying to spread the gospel.
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You've got to go
where the people are.
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I believe a preacher preached
from this pulpit, if you're
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going to go fishing
for souls you've got to go
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where the fish are.
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Too many of us want to
limit the ministry to the four
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walls of the church.
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We want to sing to us,
preach to us, teach to us,
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talk to us.
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We're insulated and we're
isolated, but you've got to
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get up and go beyond the
four walls of this church and go
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where the people are.
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Jesus said, Go ye therefore.
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Not come where I am, but go.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Jesus went about all
Galilee, not some of Galilee.
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For the Bible says, he
went to all of Galilee.
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Not just to the high and to
the mighty, but to the last,
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the least, the lost,
the lowly, the lonely,
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the unlucky and the left out.
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He went to the rich,
to the poor, to the black,
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to the white, to the
old, to the not-so-old,
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to the male, to the female.
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He went to the young.
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Jesus, the Bible says,
went about all Galilee.
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There was
something about Galilee.
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Jesus' earthly
parents were from Galilee.
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Jesus was raised in Galilee.
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Jesus began his
ministry in Galilee.
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Jesus' disciples
were called from Galilee.
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The women who accompany
Jesus were from Galilee.
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After the Resurrection Jesus
met his disciples in Galilee.
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Galilee was
where the people were.
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The reason, Galilee,
history says, was approximately
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70 by 40 miles.
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History says Galilee
had 240 cities and villages,
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each with no fewer
than 15,000 people.
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Galileans were not
highly regarded, but were looked
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upon with contempt.
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Even Nathaniel had his doubts
about Galileans for it was
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Nathaniel who
said, can anything good
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come out of
Nazareth, which was in Galilee!
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When Jesus' ministry began
to spread, the people asked in
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John, Chapter 7, verses
40 to 42, is this really
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the prophet?
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Others said, this is the Christ.
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Still others said no, for
the Christ doesn't come from
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Galilee, does he?
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The Bible says that he "went
about all Galilee, teaching
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in their synagogues, and
preaching the gospel of the
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kingdom, and healing all
manner of sickness and all
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manner of disease among the
people." Now in verse 23, the
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verb here is went.
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Everybody say went.
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Jesus went, went here,
understand, is used in the
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imperfect tense and when you
have the imperfect it does not
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mean that it's
less than perfect.
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It just means that
it's continuous action
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in past tense.
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Somebody's going to
get this in a minute.
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Jesus went, continuous
action, in the past tense.
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In other words, Matthew
is trying to let us know that
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Jesus was constantly
going about, constantly going
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around, regularly going to
and fro, always ministering
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to all of the Galileans.
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Jesus never stopped.
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He was moving all the time.
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He was trying to touch
as many people as he could.
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The greater portion of
our Lord's ministry, earthly
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ministry, occurs in Galilee.
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Here, Matthew describes
the commencement of Jesus'
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Galilean ministry as
starting out with a bang.
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It was an instant success.
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It could not
have been otherwise.
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Jesus went about
Galilee teaching, preaching
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and healing, and because
he was teaching, preaching and
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healing, you can
imagine how much his fame
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must have spread.
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Now, the text gives us
three things that encompass
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his ministry.
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Number one, he was teaching.
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He was doing what, everybody?
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He was teaching
in the synagogues.
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Now, the synagogue, quickly,
was one of the most important
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institution in
the life of any Jew.
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It's like what the
church is to you and me today.
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The synagogue was important.
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The church is an important
institution in our lives.
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Your family is here.
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Your kids are here.
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Your friends are here.
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This is your life.
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It was no
different back in the day.
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The whole of Jewish life
centered around the synagogue.
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Divine worship for the Jews,
if you will, would be held,
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just like today, on
Saturday morning, because they
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regarded it and
recognized it as the Sabbath.
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The synagogue also served
as the center of education.
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Young men would go there
in their childhood and they
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would learn the Talmud
and further the synagogue was
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a theological school for men.
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So this was the center
of the whole concentration
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of Jewish life.
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And when Jesus went there
to teach, my friends, he would
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be directly
influencing Jewish thought
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and Jewish practice.
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Secondly, it says in
verse 23 that not only was there
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teaching in the synagogue,
but there was also preaching
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in the synagogue.
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Jesus was preaching
the gospel of the kingdom.
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Now, let's be clear.
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Teaching is
different from preaching.
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Nothing wrong with teaching
and, yes, I need teaching,
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but every now and
then, I don't know about you,
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but I need some preaching.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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I need what's on the
printed page to come alive.
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I don't know about you,
but I need to be, every now
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and then, stirred up.
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I need to be fired up.
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I need to be shaken up.
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And unless you shake a
bottle of orange juice, its
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concentrate will
fall to the bottom.
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Its flavor.
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Its savor.
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Its essence will fall to
the bottom making its power and
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strength weak and watery.
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When you're given a bottle
of medicine, you're told, shake
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it before you take it.
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We come to church, yes,
for teaching, but we also come
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to church to be stirred up.
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If we don't get stirred
up around here, all of our
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flavor, all of our savor,
all of our zest, all of our zeal
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will fall to the bottom
and there's not going to be too
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much happening around here.
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And so I come to be
stirred up on Sabbath morning.
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Nothing wrong with being taught.
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But I come so my soul can
get happy on Sabbath morning.
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It's my baptized brain
that makes me want to shout.
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It's my sanctified
psyche that makes me want
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to stand up and say, glory.
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Teaching is explanation.
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But preaching is proclamation.
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Proclamation means to tell it.
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That's preaching.
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Go tell it.
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Teaching is the
careful instructive relating of
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content that goes from
the mind to another mind.
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Preaching, however, is the
proclamation of content that
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goes from the soul of the
preacher through the mind of
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the preacher, through
the mouth of the preacher to
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the ears of the hearer
than penetrates the heart
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of the hearer.
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With Jesus, what I love about
him, there was never teaching
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without preaching.
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And there was never preaching
without teaching, because
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Jesus did both.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Let me give you some
good gospel news today.
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Jesus died for you.
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Jesus bled for you.
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Jesus hung for you.
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But Jesus also rose for you.
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And Jesus is
coming back to get ya.
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Your sins are paid for.
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Your eternal life is
already purchased and you
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can be in God's kingdom.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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It's that good news today.
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That's what Jesus came
preaching and teaching.
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The plan of salvation is
good news, somebody, that Jesus
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went to Calvary to save
a wretch like you and me.
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That's love. That's love.
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They hung him high.
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They stretched him wide.
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He hung his
head, for me he died.
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That's love, that's love.
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And that's not how, The
story ends, in three days
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he rose again.
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That's love, that's love.
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Jesus say, I've
got some good news.
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I've got a kingdom just for you.
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First teaching, then preaching.
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And then the Bible
says, number three.
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Healing.
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Now, Matthew 4:23 says,
he came and he was healing
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all--say all,
everybody--manner of sickness
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and all manner of
disease among the people.
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Now, what you had in
verse 23 is a one-verse summary
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of Jesus' entire
Galilean ministry.
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Matthew, in this one verse,
takes summary in chapter 4
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and then he expands it in
chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.
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And so these chapters, 5
through 9, they are merely an
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expansion of verse 23.
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In fact, his words in
the Sermon of the Mount, the
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beatitudes, alms, prayer,
forgiveness, our treasure,
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God, mammon, they are
all the subjects of Matthew,
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chapters 5-7.
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But then if you look
carefully at chapters 8 and 9,
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we see now his works,
cleansing the leper, healing
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the centurion's
servant, healing Peter's
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mother-in-law, stilling
the tempest on the sea, casting
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out demons, healing the
sick of the palsy, healing the
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woman with the issue of
blood, raising Jairus' daughter.
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These are now the subjects
of Matthew, chapters 8 and 9.
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So, Matthew actually and
simply introduces the two
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elements of word and works here.
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His words, the great truths
of the Sermon on the Mount,
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and then his
mighty works and miracles
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in chapters 8 and 9.
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In his works,
Jesus healed everybody.
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So, all that came to
Jesus, he healed everybody.
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Literally, in verse 23,
the Word of God says, and he
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healed every kind of
illness, every kind of disease
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among the people.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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He healed every kind
of illness, he healed
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every kind of disease.
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Are you hearing
what I'm trying to say?
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Physical, he healed it.
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Social, he healed it.
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Mental, he healed it.
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Economic, he healed it.
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Spiritual, he healed it.
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You name it, he healed it.
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You all still don't get it.
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I know it's a tough crowd.
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Let me try it this way.
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One minute he's a podiatrist,
the lame are walking again.
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The next minute, he's an
ear, nose and throat specialist,
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the dumb are talking again.
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One minute he's an
audiologist, the deaf are
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able to hear.
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The next minute he's an
hematologist, the woman with
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the issue of blood.
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One minute he's an
ophthalmologist, he's given
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sight to the blind.
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The next minutes he's a
cardiologist, he's fixing
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broken hearts.
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One minute he's a
dermatologist, he's healing
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lepers of their disease.
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Next minute he's a gynecologist,
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he's giving new life.
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One minute he's a psychiatrist,
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he's fixing deranged minds.
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Next minute he's
an anesthesiologist,
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he's easing the pains of life.
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He's Dr. Jesus.
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All manners--I think you
feel me now--of sickness.
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All manners of
disease Jesus heals.
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And so, because of
this, verse 24 says, "And his
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fame," his what, everybody?
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"Went throughout all Syria:
and they brought unto him all
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the sick people that were
taken with divers disease and
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torments, and those which
were possessed with devils,
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and those which were lunatic,
and those that had the palsy;
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and he healed them." Now,
notice that there are three
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diseases mentioned here.
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The palsy, which is the
greatest weakness of the
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body, lunacy, which is the
greatest malady of the mind,
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and possession of the devil,
which is the greatest misery
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and calamity of both.
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That Jesus heals all.
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Mmmm-mm.
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What a mighty God we serve.
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Now, verse 24 says
that his fame--his what,
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everybody, again?
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Spread throughout all Syria
and they brought to him all
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sick people taken with divers
diseases and torments, those
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who were possessed
with demons, those who were
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epileptic and those who had
the palsy and he healed them.
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Now, remember, to
show you the power of this,
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in those days,
medicine was not what
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it is today back then.
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Disease was rampant.
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Plagues were a
problem, and death was all
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over the place.
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But the people heard
that there was a healer,
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that there was still a
balm in Gilead, that there was a
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person who could heal
them, and this healer could heal
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everybody of everything.
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Can you imagine being
sick and knowing that there was
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someone who could heal you?
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Can you imagine--I
mean, let's be real today.
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I mean, you have
cancer but you know someone
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who can heal you.
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Maybe you've never been
sick like that so you don't know
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what I'm talking about.
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Let me try this.
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You have diabetes, but
you know someone can heal you.
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You can't walk, can't
talk, have a missing leg, have a
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missing arm, but you know
someone who can heal you and
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not only would they
heal you, but they'd heal you
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free of charge.
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All you had to do
was get to that person.
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You talking about
fame, you talking about news
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spreading about.
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All it took was a touch.
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Just one touch from Jesus.
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Just one word from Jesus.
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Remember there was a man
in the Bible who once came and
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said, "Just say the word,
Jesus, and he'll be healed."
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Somebody in this place knows,
somebody watching knows that
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Jesus can just say the
word and you can be healed.
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Jesus can just say a word.
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Somebody knows that you
can just say the name of Jesus
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and you will be healed.
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Jesus, sweetest name I know.
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Jesus, I've got to
tell it everywhere I go.
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Jesus, at that
name demons tremble.
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At the name of
Jesus, demons fickle.
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Jesus, just a touch from Jesus.
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The woman with the issue of
blood said, "If I could just
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touch the hem of his garment,
then I will be made whole,"
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and that's why the
old folks used to sing.
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I don't know if
we sing it anymore.
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He touched me.
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Oh, he touched me and all
the joy that floods my soul.
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Something, I don't know
what that something is, but
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something happened and
now I know he touched me
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and made me whole.
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But what I love about
Jesus, when Jesus healed, Jesus
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healed immediately.
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He healed at once.
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You see, with Jesus it
wasn't, you're going to get
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better, it was, you are better.
00:20:11.10\00:20:14.53
It wasn't, take this medicine
and you'll get better in time.
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It wasn't go through
this chemotherapy treatment
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and you'll get better in time.
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It was at that
moment you're healed.
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When he healed the
blind man, the blind man
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was healed immediately.
00:20:28.26\00:20:29.26
When he healed the
deaf man, the deaf man
00:20:29.26\00:20:31.26
was healed immediately.
00:20:31.26\00:20:32.26
When he healed the
dumb man, the dumb man
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was healed immediately.
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When the lame man was healed,
he was healed immediately.
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It wasn't any
stumbling or mumbling around
00:20:37.26\00:20:39.26
that's going to get better.
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Jesus healed with a
word, a touch and he healed
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immediately every time.
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There was never
any lingering healing.
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This was not processed healing.
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It was immediate.
00:20:52.06\00:20:54.03
Not only did Jesus heal
immediately, but also what
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I love about Jesus
is, Jesus healed totally.
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There was no partial healing.
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You know how it is.
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Well, we think we've
got most of the cancer.
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I restored your left
foot, but your right foot
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is still missing.
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No, that wasn't Jesus.
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Jesus healed
totally, Jesus healed wholly.
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Next thing I love about Jesus.
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Not only did he heal
immediately, not only did he
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heal fully and wholly,
but Jesus healed everybody.
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No discrimination.
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No bias.
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No precedent.
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No preference.
00:21:31.33\00:21:32.50
Jesus healed everybody.
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All manner of illness, all
manner of disease, all manner
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of sickness with a word, a
touch, immediately, totally,
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wholly healed everybody.
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He healed the demon-possessed.
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He healed the paralytic.
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He healed the lame.
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He healed the dumb.
00:21:47.03\00:21:48.60
He healed the deaf.
00:21:48.60\00:21:50.16
He healed the deranged.
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He healed them all.
00:21:51.73\00:21:53.33
He could even heal demoniacs,
because much of illness was
00:21:53.33\00:21:56.73
caused by demons.
00:21:56.73\00:21:58.96
Jesus was able
to handle that, too.
00:21:58.96\00:22:01.70
Jesus had the
power to cast out demons.
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He had the power over
the kingdom of darkness.
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Let that be a
reminder for us today.
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Jesus has power over Satan.
00:22:07.70\00:22:09.23
I said, Jesus
has power over Satan.
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The power of God is
greater than the power of Satan.
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You hear me say it all the time.
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Greater is he that is in me
than he that is in the world.
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If God is the greater
than is in me, there must be
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a less-than and that
less-than is the devil.
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Jesus had power.
00:22:25.60\00:22:26.80
Power to cast out
demons and he could even end
00:22:26.80\00:22:31.86
a demon-caused disease.
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So the Bible says in
verse 25, his fame spread.
00:22:32.86\00:22:36.66
"There followed him," the
Word says, "great multitudes
00:22:36.66\00:22:39.16
of people from Galilee,
and from Decapolis, and from
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Jerusalem, and from
Judea, and from beyond Jordan."
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His fame spread.
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Multitudes followed him.
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They came from the north,
the south, the east, the west,
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they came from around the world.
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They came from every direction.
00:22:57.33\00:22:59.36
They came to hear him,
they came to be healed by him,
00:22:59.36\00:23:01.66
they made him famous.
00:23:01.66\00:23:05.36
But that was then.
00:23:05.36\00:23:09.73
But this is now.
00:23:09.73\00:23:12.86
That was first century A.D.
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This is now 21st century A.D.
00:23:19.73\00:23:25.90
And my Bible says that
he's the same yesterday,
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today and forever.
00:23:32.73\00:23:35.26
Which means he still teaches,
he still preaches, he's still
00:23:35.26\00:23:43.70
healing and we've been
called to make him famous.
00:23:43.70\00:23:47.63
Go tell your family, I
know that my Redeemer lives.
00:23:47.63\00:23:53.73
Go tell your
friends, what a wonderful
00:23:53.73\00:23:56.13
change in my life
has been wrought since
00:23:56.13\00:23:58.83
Jesus came into my heart.
00:23:58.83\00:24:00.96
Go tell your friends, 'tis
so sweet to trust in Jesus.
00:24:00.96\00:24:06.16
Just to take him at his word.
00:24:06.16\00:24:09.56
Go put it on the
Internet, Jesus saves.
00:24:09.56\00:24:12.63
Put it on Facebook, Jesus saves.
00:24:12.63\00:24:15.36
Put it on
Twitter that Jesus saves.
00:24:15.36\00:24:19.00
Does anybody
know that Jesus saves?
00:24:19.00\00:24:22.13
Make it known.
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Make him famous.
00:24:23.70\00:24:25.10
Imagine if you
were in Jesus' day.
00:24:25.10\00:24:27.40
If a family member you
had was terminally ill.
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You take them to see Jesus.
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If you knew without a doubt
that someone could heal your
00:24:36.46\00:24:40.00
loved one, wouldn't you do
everything in your power to
00:24:40.00\00:24:43.36
get that loved one to the
person that could heal him.
00:24:43.36\00:24:47.56
You'd stand in line.
00:24:47.56\00:24:50.16
You'd wait long hours.
00:24:50.16\00:24:53.00
You'd do whatever it
would take to see Jesus.
00:24:53.00\00:24:55.23
Jesus teaching.
00:24:55.23\00:24:56.23
Jesus preaching.
00:24:56.23\00:24:57.23
Jesus healing.
00:24:57.23\00:25:04.50
And so, that made him famous.
00:25:04.50\00:25:07.43
The fact that there was
no sickness too difficult for
00:25:07.43\00:25:10.80
Jesus to heal
promulgated his fame.
00:25:10.80\00:25:13.73
Jesus gathered a following
from everywhere: Decapolis,
00:25:13.73\00:25:19.86
Jerusalem,
Jordan, Judea, everybody
00:25:19.86\00:25:25.50
was talking about Jesus.
00:25:25.50\00:25:26.60
Jesus' withdrawal to
Galilee did not destine him to
00:25:26.60\00:25:30.00
obscurity, rather it
propelled him to prominence.
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Can I talk about
Jesus for a minute?
00:25:35.10\00:25:38.36
He came from the bosom of the
Father to the bosom of a woman.
00:25:38.36\00:25:41.83
He put on humanity so
that we might put on divinity.
00:25:41.83\00:25:45.26
He became son of man in
order that we might become
00:25:45.26\00:25:47.80
the sons of God.
00:25:47.80\00:25:49.16
He came from heaven where
the rivers never freeze, winds
00:25:49.16\00:25:52.43
never blow, flowers never
fade, and one is never sick.
00:25:52.43\00:25:56.56
Somebody put on the Internet
that in infancy he startled
00:25:56.56\00:25:59.26
a king, in boyhood
he puzzled wise men,
00:25:59.26\00:26:02.96
in manhood he ruled
the course of nature,
00:26:02.96\00:26:05.53
he walked upon the billows
and hushed the sea to sleep.
00:26:05.53\00:26:08.16
He healed the multitudes
without medicine and made
00:26:08.16\00:26:10.16
no charge for his services.
00:26:10.16\00:26:11.96
He never wrote a book,
yet all the libraries in the
00:26:11.96\00:26:14.46
world cannot hold the
books that have been written
00:26:14.46\00:26:15.76
about him.
00:26:15.76\00:26:16.40
He never wrote a song, yet
he inspires the theme of more
00:26:16.40\00:26:19.16
songs than all the
songwriters combined.
00:26:19.16\00:26:21.16
He never founded a
college, yet all the schools
00:26:21.16\00:26:24.60
everywhere together
cannot boast of how many
00:26:24.60\00:26:26.43
students he had.
00:26:26.43\00:26:28.26
He never practiced
psychiatry, but he healed
00:26:28.26\00:26:33.96
more broken
hearts than doctors have
00:26:33.96\00:26:35.96
healed broken bodies.
00:26:35.96\00:26:36.96
He never marshalled an
army, drafted a soldier,
00:26:36.96\00:26:38.96
nor did he ever fire a
gun, yet no leader ever made
00:26:38.96\00:26:41.93
more volunteers who
have, under his orders,
00:26:41.93\00:26:44.80
made rebels stack arms
of surrender without a shot
00:26:44.80\00:26:47.70
being fired.
00:26:47.70\00:26:48.70
He's the star of astronomy,
the rock of geology, the
00:26:48.70\00:26:54.06
lion and the lamb of zoology,
the harmonizer of all chords,
00:26:54.06\00:26:58.80
the healer of all diseases.
00:26:58.80\00:27:01.06
Great men have come
and gone, yet he lives on.
00:27:01.06\00:27:04.83
Herod could not kill him.
00:27:04.83\00:27:06.96
Governments
could not silence him.
00:27:06.96\00:27:09.23
Money could not buy him.
00:27:09.23\00:27:11.13
Satan could not destroy him.
00:27:11.13\00:27:13.56
Death could not destroy him,
and the grave could not hold
00:27:13.56\00:27:17.03
him, because he's my Jesus.
00:27:17.03\00:27:18.53
And I've come, I said,
I've come to make him famous.
00:27:18.53\00:27:26.96
And just like the
people told it, we've got to go
00:27:26.96\00:27:29.33
and tell it.
00:27:29.33\00:27:30.66
Tell it to everybody.
00:27:30.66\00:27:32.43
Tell it everywhere.
00:27:32.43\00:27:34.03
Tell them Jesus was born.
00:27:34.03\00:27:36.36
Tell them Jesus was
raised in a carpenter's shop.
00:27:36.36\00:27:38.60
Tell them that he as a
child he amazed great preachers
00:27:38.60\00:27:41.70
and teachers and
theologians of his day.
00:27:41.70\00:27:43.33
Tell them he was
baptized in the Jordan.
00:27:43.33\00:27:45.23
Tell them Jesus healed
the sick, raised the dead,
00:27:45.23\00:27:47.06
fed five thousand hungry souls.
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Tell them.
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Please have your credit
card ready when you call.
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Or you may write us
to request your copy.
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Just send your check to
Breath of Life, P.O. Box 340,
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Newbury Park, CA 91319.
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PB: When you're sick,
tell them he healed you.
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When you're hungry,
tell them he feeds you.
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When you're naked,
tell them he clothes you.
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