BREATH OF LIFE
MINISTRIES PRESENTS
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B541 HE'S A Mighty God
AND THE EVERLASTING FATHER
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BREATH OF LIFE THEME[music]
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PB:  The Word of God says to
us in Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6-
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-if you have it, let
me hear you say amen.
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Aud.:  Amen.  PB:  "For unto us
a child is born, unto us a son
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is"--what? Aud.:  Given.   PB: 
"And the government shall be
upon his"--what, everyone?
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Aud.:  Shoulder.   PB: 
"And his name shall be called"--
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Aud.:  Wonderful.   PB:
"Wonderful. Counsellor, The
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mighty God, The
everlasting"--what?   Aud.:
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Father. PB:  "And the
Prince of"-- Aud.:  Peace.
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PB:  We talked about Wonderful.
We talked about Counselor.
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Today we continue with He's
the mighty God and everlasting
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Father. Father in heaven, Lord,
now for the next few minutes we
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ask that You would speak
now through Your Word. I'm so
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unworthy to stand here. When
I think about God, the gift that
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You gave us through Your
Son, I say thank You, Jesus,
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because it makes me
able to stand here today.
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Penetrate Your people's
hearts, and when we leave,
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we'll be able to say it
was good to have been in this
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place today. Forgive me of
my sins. In Jesus' name, amen.
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He's a mighty God and
the everlasting Father.
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In Isaiah's day, the
people were not godly people.
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In fact, the children
of Israel had messed up so
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badly that God was
bringing the nation of Assyria
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down upon them to
punish them. So in Isaiah's day
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it was extremely dark,
dismal, dim, and depressive.
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But it was on the
edge of this darkness that
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God revealed that He was
going to do something about it:
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that God was going
to send a great Light,
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that He was going to send
a child of hope and promise,
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that He was going
to send Jesus Christ.
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But just before Isaiah
9:6, God lets His people know
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in Isaiah 9:4 that He's going
to break down their enemies.
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And He's not going to
just do it with Wonderful,
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not just with Counselor,
but He's also going to do
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it with the mighty God.
When Isaiah prophesied that
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this child would come, Isaiah
said something very distinct.
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Isaiah, this child would be
God. This was then in harmony
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with Genesis 1:1. "In
the beginning God created the
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heavens and the earth. And
the earth was without form, and
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void; and darkness was upon
the face of the deep. And the
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Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters."
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In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth.
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We skip down to verse
number 26, and the Bible says
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"And God said, Let us make
man in our image, after our
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likeness," which means God was
not one. But there was God the
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Father, God the Son, and God the
Holy Spirit, because the text
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says "And God said, 'Let us
make man,'" not let Me make man.
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We then go to the New Testament,
and the Word of God says
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in John 1:1, "In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word
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was with God, and the Word
was God." The Bible continues,
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"The same was in the
beginning with God [because] all
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things were made by him;
and without him was not any
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thing made that was made."  But
then we go to verse 14 of John
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1, and it says that the Word
became flesh, dwelt among us,
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which then makes Matthew 1:21
make sense: "And she shall bring
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forth a son. Thou shalt call his
name Jesus, for he shalt save
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his people from their sins."
Which then means, friends of
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mine, Jesus is God. In
John 10:30, Jesus said,
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"I and my Father
are one." In John 14:9,
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Jesus said, "He who has
seen me has seen the Father."
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Someone once said to a preacher,
"Preacher, I want to see God.
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I want to see the Father. Show
me the Father." The preacher
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then responded and said,
"If you want to see the Father,
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look at the Son."
Because if you look at Jesus,
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you'll see the Father. So if you
want to know what God is like,
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look at Jesus. If you
want to know God, know Jesus.
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If you want the grace of
God, seek Jesus. If you want
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the love of God, love Jesus. If
you want the salvation of God,
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trust Jesus. If you want the
blessings of God, tell Jesus.
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And if you want to live
eternally with God, live Jesus.
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Jesus is God. But Isaiah doesn't
just say that Jesus is God.
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But Isaiah also says
that Jesus is the mighty God.
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Now, the Hebrew word for
God is El. Everybody say El.
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Aud.:  El.  PB: 
That's E-L. And in the Bible,
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the word El is always
prefixed before the adjective
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that describes God. El
Shaddai, the all sufficient God;
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El Hannora, the awesome God;
El Elyon, the most high God;
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El Olam, the everlasting God.
And then we come to Isaiah 9:6
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and we have El Gabor,
which means the mighty God.
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Mighty means possessing
great strength, possessing great
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and impressive power.
When this child that Isaiah is
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prophesying about comes,
He then would come with power.
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So Jesus is not just God, but
Jesus is the mighty God full of
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power. When we look throughout
history, we see the mighty,
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powerful acts of a mighty God
in the person of Jesus Christ.
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Look at His birth. You had to
know that He was a mighty God,
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because He's the only one
in earth's history that had one
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human parent and one divine
parent. So then He inherited
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both the nature of man and
the nature of God: He's a mighty
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God. But then look at His teen
years. He's the only one that
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could speak with authority among
the preachers, teachers and
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theologians of his day, as a
teen. He's a mighty God. But
then look at His miracles.
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I think about the one
recorded in the Old Testament.
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In the Old Testament
there are three Hebrew boys,
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they're on death row. They're
about to experience capital
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punishment. They are about to be
executed. They're about to be
thrown in a fiery furnace.
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The king comes out to watch,
to make sure that the execution
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has been completed. But
when the king gets there,
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he looks into the fiery
furnace. He sees not three men,
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but the Bible says he
sees four men. And he says,
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"One looks like the Son
of God." He's a mighty God.
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But then I go to a New Testament
story, and I go to Mark chapter
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5, which tells the story of a
desperate father by the name of
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Jairus, who forsakes his
pride, forsakes his high social
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standing, and pleads with Jesus
to heal his near-death daughter.
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Jesus agrees. I'll heal
your daughter, but on the way to
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Jairus' house, everything goes
wrong. First, they're delayed. A
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woman with an issue of blood
stops Jesus because she wants to
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be healed herself. Then Jairus
is approached by one of his
servants who tells him,
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"Look, Jairus, it's too late.
It's over. You took too long.
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And because it took too long
for Jesus to get here, the girl
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died." But Jesus said, "Man,
don't you know who I am? I am
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the resurrection and the life."
Don't worry about when I got
here. Don't worry about
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how I got here. Just believe.
Your emergency is not God's
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emergency. Just because you're
in a hurry doesn't mean God is.
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What you have to understand,
friends of mine, is that if God
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is time, He holds the time. Life
is in His hands and death is
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in His hands, so what does He
have to rush for if He's already
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there? [Aud. reaction]   PB: 
When they get to the house it's
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a crazy scene. People are crying
and mourning the little girl's
death. But Jesus says,
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"The little girl is not
dead, she's just asleep."
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The people laughed at
Jesus, they mocked Jesus.
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But Jesus lifts the little girl
up by the hand, speaks a few
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words, and the little girl is
alive again. Lungs that had no
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air fill up again. A heart that
was still starts to beat again.
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Flesh that turned gray became
rosy again. Eyes that had sunk
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in and rolled back in her
head because bright again.
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He's the mighty God.  And so the
lesson for us today is simply
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this: Like Jairus, our lives may
be full of limitations and road
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blocks. Medically speaking, it
doesn't seem like it's going to
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get any better. Financially
speaking, it doesn't seem like
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you can do this. The thing
you're dreaming of can't happen
with your resources.
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We live in limitations. We're
limited by our own strength.
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We're limited by our education.
We're limited by our finances.
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We're limited by our resources.
But Jesus the mighty God
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knows nothing about limitations.
He crosses every barrier.
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He breaks through every
wall. It doesn't matter to Jesus
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that people laugh. It doesn't
matter that this has never
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been done before. It doesn't
matter that a father's faith
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is wavering. It doesn't matter
that people say it can't happen.
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He's the mighty God. He
transcends time, surpasses
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space, outdoes obstacles, breaks
barriers. He's a mighty God.
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He heals the sick, He raises
the dead, He forgives sinners,
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He delivers captives, He blesses
the young, He respects the old,
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He rewards the diligent,
He's Master of the mighty,
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Captain of the
conquerors, Head of the heroes,
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Overseer of the overcomers,
Leader of legislators,
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Governor of governors,
King of kings, Lord of lords.
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He's a mighty God. 
He's incomprehensible, He's
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invincible, He's irresistible.
You can't get Him out of your
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mind. You can't get Him off your
hands. You can't outlive Him
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and you can't live without
Him. There's nobody before Him
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and there'll be nobody after
Him. He's CEO of the universe.
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You didn't vote Him in,
and you can't vote Him out.
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You can't impeach him
and He's not going to resign.
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[Aud. reaction]  PB: 
He's the mighty God. And what I
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love about Jesus the
mighty God is that He devised
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everything that's supposed
to happen. What do you mean,
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Pastor Byrd? Well, they
conspired against Jesus.
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They made up all this
stuff about Jesus. You know how
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people make up stuff
about you. But the good news
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is a lie can't live. I wish
I had a witness in this place.
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[Aud. reaction]  PB:  They
made all this stuff up about
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Him to get Him out of the
way and then they killed Him.
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They thought they were
finished with Him. They thought
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He was never coming
back. They thought it was the
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end of the story. We've got
the troublemaker out of the way.
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But God stepped in,
usurped their schemes, turned
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everything upside down,
and superseded their plans
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with a plan of His own.
What was His plan? His plan
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was Jesus had to die on
Friday. He lay resting in the
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grave on the Sabbath,
which means Jesus was obedient
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to His commandment even in
death. But early Sunday morning,
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on the third appointed day,
He got up with all power in His
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hands. Let me tell
you something. It's called
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Resurrection power because
that's what the mighty God is
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all about. He takes the
most difficult things in life,
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the situations we say
that are unchangeable,
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and does
something amazing with them.
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Why is the Resurrection
so important in the life
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of a Christian? Why is
the Resurrection so important
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in the life of an
Adventist? It's not just because
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He got up. It's not
just because He rose.
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It's not just
because Jesus now lives, but
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it's also because as
I've learned in my life,
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in life's moments,
when life has encased us,
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when life has closed us
inn, when life has boxed us in,
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when life's stones
have been rolled to close us
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up in our own human
experiences, and when all human
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indicators say there's
no way out, the Resurrection
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reminds us that there's nothing
too hard for the mighty God.
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That God
reverses the irreversible.
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That God fixes the unfixable.
That God does the undoable.
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That He beats the unbeatable.
He saves the unsaveable.
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He's a mighty God.
He's a miracle-working God.
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He's a Satan-defeating God.
He's a circumstance-changing
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God He's a wonder-working
God. He's an overcoming God,
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because He's a
mighty God. [Aud. reaction]
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PB:  That wherever you
are today, to say that God
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can't get you out of it
is for you to say you don't
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believe in the
power of His resurrection.
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What a mighty God we
serve. Angels bow before Him,
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heaven and earth adore
Him. What a mighty God we serve.
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That's the power of God,
that's the miracle of His
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resurrection. But also,
it's the gospel of redemption.
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Let me tell you something.
There is no greater miracle
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that God has worked than
the redemption of your soul.
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Let me say that one more
time. There is no greater
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miracle that God has worked than
the redemption of your soul.
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Somebody in this place
today--I know you look good,
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but you should be out
there strung out somewhere-
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-there's somebody in this
place, you should have lost
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your mind by now. But
there is no greater miracle that
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God has worked than the
redemption of your soul.
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So if you're looking
for a modern-day miracle,
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baby look in the mirror.
And look at yourself and say,
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what a wonderful change
in my life has been wrought,
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since Jesus came into
my heart. Without Christ,
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all of us--all of
us--without Christ, all of us
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have been sentenced
to hell like an inmate.
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Locked behind
bars, can't be acquitted.
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When we are living
without Christ, friends of mine,
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our lives have already
been condemned to live out
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in the heat and blaze of
hell's fire. But with Christ,
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He comes in, He fans the
flames, reaches in and rescues
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the perishing, and then He
brings us close to Himself.
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Then He says you
belong to Me, and anybody that
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belongs to Me can't
be taken out of My hand.
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That's some good news
today. [Aud. reaction]
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PB:  That I don't
care what you've done,
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I don't care how far
you've been backed up,
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I don't care how
bad you've messed up,
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if you're in the hand of God, no
devil in hell can take you out.
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Let me tell you something.
What I love about our faith
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is simply this: our faith
is not based on coming do,
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but our faith is
based on already done.
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Somebody missed this.
Our faith is not based
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on coming do, our faith is
based on it's already done.
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Somebody got it. I
hear you. Somebody got it.
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Satan is done.
Satan is already defeated.
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Satan is already
finished. Nobody can undo
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what Jesus
already did at Calvary.
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You can't undo what
God has already done.
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God had a plan to
redeem you and me before
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the foundation of
the world. It's done.
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That's why I love to
praise God. It's done.
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That's why I love to
worship God. It's done.
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That's why I love to
live for God. It's done.
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That's why I love to
stomp my feet. It's done.
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That's why I love to
lift God. It's already done.
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Don't wait till the
battle is over. Shout now.
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In the end you're
going to win, because He who
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has begun a good work
in you will continue and
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complete it until
the day of redemption.
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It's done, because He's a mighty
God. And because Jesus is God.
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But because Jesus God has
revealed Himself to us as a
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mighty God, God's power--listen
to me good--God's power is not
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just in Jesus. But if Jesus is
in us, His power dwells in us.
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[Aud. reaction]  
PB:  Can I be real today?
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Some of us don't know
who we are. We're sitting
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on a ton of dynamite. I
refuse to walk around like
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a pitiful, scared, wounded,
Seventh-day Adventist Christian.
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I can do all things through
Christ which strengthens me.
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If God be for us, who
can be against us? No weapon
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formed against us is going
to prosper. Jesus died for me.
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Jesus rose for me. Jesus lives
for me, and I've got power.
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Anything we ask in the
name of Jesus, it shall be done.
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Ask and it shall be
given, seek and ye shall find,
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knock and the
door shall be opened.
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This is the confidence
we have in approaching God,
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that whatever we
ask, we know we have.
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When Jesus left this earth,
He gave us the Holy Ghost,
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and the power of the Holy
Ghost has been given to us.
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[Aud. reaction]   PB: 
So I can tread on serpents.
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I can tread and stomp on
scorpions. I can denounce
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and depress demons,
because we serve a mighty God.
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Oh, you don't hear me. I
said, we serve a mighty God.
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Somebody in here,
you're weak and weary.
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But we serve a mighty God.
Somebody in here, you're faint,
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but we serve a mighty
God. I need a mighty God.
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You need a mighty
God. We need a mighty God.
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I'm trying to move
to everlasting Father,
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but my soul is all happy
'cause we serve a mighty God.
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If you're having trouble with
your life, He's a mighty God.
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If you're having trouble with
your job, He's a mighty God.
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If you're having trouble in your
marriage, He's a mighty God.
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If you're having trouble with
your children, He's a mighty
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God. If you're having trouble
with your finances, He's a
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mighty God. If you're having
trouble with your health, He's a
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mighty God. You may be
weak, but He's a mighty God.
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You may be in your own fiery
furnace, but He's a mighty God.
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You might be in a lions' den
today, but He's a mighty God.
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Somebody, you may be
going through it right now,
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but He's a mighty God. Somebody,
your back is up against the
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wall, but He's a mighty God. So
I just stopped by to tell you,
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number one that we
serve a mighty God.
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But not only is He a mighty
God, He's an everlasting Father.
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[Aud. reaction]  PB: 
Now, we're smart people.
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So somebody wants to
know how can Jesus be the Son
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and the Father at the same
time? There's God the Father,
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God the Son, and God the
Holy Spirit. And though there
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is one God, three co-eternal
Persons working to bring
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about our salvation,
the Son is not the Father,
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and the Father is not
the Son. So how can the Son
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be the everlasting
Father?  If you study the text,
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you will notice that the
text has no bearing upon the
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position and titles of
the Godhead with regard to one
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another. The text does not
indicate the relationship of God
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to Himself, but it indicates the
relationship of Jesus Christ to
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us. Jesus to us is
the everlasting Father,
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which means Jesus is
eternal, Jesus is endless,
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Jesus is enduring, Jesus is
undying, Jesus is perpetual,
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Jesus is never-ending, Jesus
is infinite, Jesus is boundless,
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Jesus is timeless, Jesus is
immortal, Jesus is everlasting.
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Let me put it to you this
way. Jesus was always here,
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always has been
here, always will be here,
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because He always
was and He always is.
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Because HE is what He
was, He was what He is,
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and what He was and
is He will always be.
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[Aud. reaction]   PB:  Jesus
couldn't be called everlasting
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if it were possible that
one day He would cease to exist.
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So then Jesus is as
eternally the Son as the Father
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is eternally the Father. For
according to Colossians 1:15, 16
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and 17, Paull says that "Jesus
is the image of the invisible
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God, the firstborn of every
creature. For by him were all
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things created that are
in heaven and the earth,
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visible and invisible, whether
they be thrones, dominions,
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principalities, powers.
All things were created by him,
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for him, and he is before all
things, and by him all things
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consist." Jesus is everlasting,
but now, let's link everlasting
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and Father. Now, in our finite
minds, the Father must be before
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the Son. But we must understand
that the terms used in Scripture
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to represent God are
not intended to literally be
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understood or rendered in their
exact earthly sense, because
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human language fails to convey
the very essence and fullness of
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heavenly things. God says,
your says are not My ways. Your
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thoughts are not My thoughts.
Jesus is as eternal as the
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Father, or He would have never
been called the everlasting
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Father. But Pastor, how is Jesus
Father? Because in order to be a
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father, you've got to have
children. But remember, any man
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can make a baby; it takes a
father to rear a child.   [Aud.
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reaction] PB:  But let me give
you one way Jesus is Father.
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First, Jesus is Father who
represents those who are in Him,
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just like the head of a
tribe represents the descendants
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in that tribe. If you
read First Corinthians 15,
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the Apostle Paul
speaks of two Adams: the first
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Adam and the second
Adam. Adam is a Hebrew word
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that has two meanings.
Number one, it has a general
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meaning and number two,
it has a specific meaning.
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Generally speaking, Adam
is a generic term meaning man
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or mankind or humanity. In
this sense, this Adam includes
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everybody, male and female.
White and black. Young and old.
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Jew and Gentile. Rich and poor.
North and south, east and west,
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this is everybody. But the
second meaning of the word Adam
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is specific and individual.
It means Adam, the man. Adam,
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the male. It means Adam,
the husband of Eve. Adam,
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the father of Cain and
Abel. Adam, the primary ancestor
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of every race and nation. Adam,
the progenitor of the human
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family. Adam, the common father
of us all. Adam, whom God made
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and place in the Garden of
Eden to develop and maintain it.
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But the Bible says that the
first Adam stood for us in the
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Garden, then he fell and ruined
it for all of us. The Bible says
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wherefore as by one man sin
entered into the world, death by
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sin, so death passed upon all
men, for all have sinned. Which
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means then, the first Adam was
the representative man by whose
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obedience we should have
been blessed, but through whose
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disobedience we've been made
sinners.  The first Adam was the
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representative head of all of
us, and when he fell we all
fell. In the first Adam,
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we all die. But praise God
today, there's a second Adam,
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and His name is Jesus.
The everlasting Father.
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For the wages of sin is
death, but the gift of God is
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eternal life in Jesus Christ
our Lord. We call the first Adam
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"father" sorrowfully, because we
were cast out of Eden because of
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him. We till the ground --
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