Welcome to Timeless
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Healing Insights.
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I'm Dr. David DeRose.
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As we prepare to open the word
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let us pray together.
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Father in heaven,
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we look to you right now
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to be our guide
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as we study the Scriptures.
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Please give us minds
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to learn, minds to apply
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just what you want us to apply.
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We ask it all.
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In Jesus name, Amen.
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From the time
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I was just a little kid,
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when I heard about
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these things,
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I was so excited about them.
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I don't know what it was.
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But when I learned
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about these amazing things
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as a child called geodes,
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I was just captivated by them.
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Now, maybe some of you are
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are very familiar with these.
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Well,
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often simply ordinary
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looking rocks.
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I mean,
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at least to an untrained eye.
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Now, some of you
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might be geologists
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and you say, oh,
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I know exactly what that is.
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But you look at these rocks
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and they just look
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like ordinary rocks,
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and then you
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break the rock open
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or you cut into it,
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or you somehow smash the rock
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and you end up
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finding all kinds
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of hidden beauty.
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Can you appreciate geodes?
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I don't know what
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it was about them,
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but when I heard about them
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as just a child and saw them.
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You'd think
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my enthusiasm
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would lead me to be
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a geode collector, but I'm not.
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I've had a few over the years,
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But if we've still got some,
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I don't know where they are,
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but they're just amazing rocks.
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Now you say, Well,
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yeah,
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they look ordinary
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on the outside.
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Yeah, they're
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beautiful, often on the inside,
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sometimes even very valuable.
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What does this all have to do
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with a study
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on the Gospel of Mark?
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It's because sometimes
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things have to be ripped open,
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they have to be broken open
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in order
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to appreciate their full value.
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So I'm still not connecting
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this with the gospel of Mark.
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The Gospel of Mark
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is actually set
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in the context of things
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being broken, things
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being broken.
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Well, before we look
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at a particular passage
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in Mark,
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that makes this very clear.
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I want to expand the analogy
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a little bit,
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because some of you
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are thinking, well,
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how can this be good?
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I mean, maybe
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with a geode it's good,
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but why would we
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talk about things
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that are broken being good?
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Well, sometimes our health
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is undermined
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by things that are broken.
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Other times
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something in your life
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can be broken
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or cut or apparently damaged.
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But it can actually
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lead to better health.
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Are you confused?
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Good. Good.
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You're following along then.
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Well this one
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you can all relate to.
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If a bone is broken, what?
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That's going to
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compromise your health.
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I don't care
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how small the bone is.
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They're all there
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for a purpose.
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And some someone says, well,
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I know those bones are just
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really small in your ear,
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the ossicles.
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I probably could
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suffer a broken bone there.
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I'll tell you,
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if you get those ossicles
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out of place,
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you're not going to hear. Okay.
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So every bone
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has a special function,
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and if you break
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one of them, it's compromised.
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But now think about this.
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If an orthopedic surgeon
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breaks open your skin,
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makes an incision,
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they can go into your body
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and they can actually repair
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a broken bone.
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If you have a severe break,
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they might have to go in
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and do what
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we call
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an open reduction
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and internal fixation.
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Maybe they put
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hardware into that bone
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because it was
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such a bad break,
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they couldn't
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just set it with a cast alone.
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Are you following
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along with me?
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So do you see
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there was a cutting
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or a severing
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or an opening
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in order to repair something?
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So this idea of things
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being broken open
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doesn't always mean
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that it's bad. It can be good.
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Job, the book of Job
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has this
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beautiful illustration.
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I really love this picture
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of our loving father.
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Behold,
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Blessed is the one
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whom God reproves;
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therefore despise
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not the discipline
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of the Almighty for He wounds,
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but He does what He binds up.
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He shatters,
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but His hands heal.
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Do you get the picture?
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So it's
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this idea of God
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being the divine surgeon.
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Now, I'm thankful
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that we have people
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in our ranks here
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who have been
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active in ministry
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using surgery,
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whether they're the surgeon
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or assisting in the process.
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I am very glad
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that we have surgeons
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on planet Earth.
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But also as an
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internal medicine specialist,
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I try to help people
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avoid the surgeons
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as much as I can. Okay.
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Is that okay?
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And I think you probably
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can relate to that.
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Most people aren't lining up
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to see the surgeon,
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but catch this picture of God.
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Even though we may
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not like surgery.
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Why does God break?
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Why does He shatter?
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He does it so that He can heal.
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You know,
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sometimes that has to happen.
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You may have to break
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a bone and reset it.
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If the bone
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did not heal properly.
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Job 5 actually
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connects us with our theme.
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The Book of Mark. Mark 1.
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We have this very interesting
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verse.
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Mark 1:14
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The time is fulfilled
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and the Kingdom of God
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is at hand;
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repent
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and believe in the gospel.
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So this is Jesus, the very
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first words
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that come out of His mouth
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in the Gospel of Mark.
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And what is He speaking about?
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He's speaking about something
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that really, you might say,
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kind of breaks
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our spiritual comforts.
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He's calling us to repent.
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Now, that's
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not a word
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that always
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brings up warm feelings,
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but it is a word that really
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comes to us
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because Jesus is in the healing
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business.
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It's not cruelty
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to reveal disease.
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And Mark 2
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the Lord willing,
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we'll get there
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in our next study.
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But I want you to see what
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Jesus says about his ministry.
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He says it's not the healthy
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that need a doctor
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but the sick.
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I have not come to
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call the righteous but sinners.
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And what we're going
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to find today,
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as we look at
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well, look in more detail
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at Mark 1,
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we're going to find that
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Mark in rapid
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sequence helps us to see
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that Jesus is ministering
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to people who recognize
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that they're ill
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and recognize their need
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for healing.
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Let's just take another minute
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and expand this
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this picture for you.
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We're talking about
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seeing that
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which is not apparent,
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opening things up,
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getting insight.
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And the gospel of Mark really
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is set in that context.
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As a physician, we
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often order diagnostic imaging.
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Just this week
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there are two patients.
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These, of course,
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are not their real names
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and all the real details.
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But
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this is exactly what happened.
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Vinny,
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he was having abdominal pain.
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And so I actually ordered
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an abdominal ultrasound
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as part of our evaluation.
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And then there was Shirley.
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Shirley was seeing
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a specialist.
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And I'm not even sure
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why the specialist
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thought she needed an MRI,
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but the specialist ordered it
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for some reason.
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It wasn't something that seemed
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clearly indicated.
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She,
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you can see
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here, was having some
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I think she was having frequent
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urinary infections
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or something.
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And okay,
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so they're going to get an MRI.
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But she felt perfectly fine.
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Well, what happens,
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why do we do
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diagnostic imaging?
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Well, I can tell you
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in Vinny?ase
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we got that ultrasound back.
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It was totally normal.
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Totally normal.
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So how does that sound to you?
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Well, if you're the patient
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and you have a
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totally normal test,
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is that good news or bad news?
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Yeah.
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I mean, we say, well,
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that's good news because we're
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I mean, as physicians,
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but as laypeople, too,
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we're always
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concerned about
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the worst, Right?
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So you say, well,
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at least
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I don't have anything serious
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that showed up on
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the ultrasound.
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But the problem is,
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Vinny was having problems.
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And so
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now after the
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normal test comes back,
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what is he saying?
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Well, what's
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wrong with me then?
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You know, I want help.
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And they haven't identified
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what's wrong.
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So a bad test?
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Well, if it helps us
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to get the proper treatment,
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it may not be bad.
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What about Shirley?
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She was feeling perfectly fine,
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but when she had that MRI,
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it actually revealed
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a malignancy, a cancer.
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And so she's on a cancer
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treatment protocol.
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Going to see a specialist now
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that she would not
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have been doing
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had she not had that
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imaging study.
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Are you following
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along with me?
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So who had the better result?
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Well, you say I
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you know,
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I don't want
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a diagnosis of cancer.
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But here's the point.
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The very worst situation
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with cancer is where
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it's undetected
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until you roll
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into the hospital
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and they say there's
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nothing we can do
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and you've got a few weeks.
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You following along?
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So, seeing what is hidden
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may be reassuring,
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but when it comes
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to the gospel,
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all of us have sinned,
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the Bible says.
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And so
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as we come in
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contact with Jesus,
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His good news somehow first
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reveals where we fall short
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and we hear that
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call to repentance.
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In fact,
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some have summarized the gospel
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the good news in these words.
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They've said
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Jesus came
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to comfort the afflicted.
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So if you're
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weighed down today,
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if you
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you sense your need
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for Jesus, He's
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here to minister to you.
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But the flipside of it is,
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if you think you've
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got everything all together
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and everything's just perfect
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and you wish
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everyone else were
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just like you,
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well then
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I have good news for you too.
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Jesus wants to
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do that, diagnostic
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imaging on you.
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He's going to show you
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that you have things
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that need repair
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and He's going to afflict
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the comfortable.
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So it's just an
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interesting picture
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and it's so relevant
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because these are the things
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that we see
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throughout Scripture
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in the Psalm, Psalm 147,
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we read these words,
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Praise the Lord,
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how good it is to sing
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praises to our God,
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how pleasant
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and how fitting to praise Him.
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He heals the broken hearted
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and He binds up their wounds.
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Who does He heal?
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Those who are broken hearted.
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Those who recognize their need.
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Just like Jesus
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said, it's not the
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the well, people
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that come to see the doctor.
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It's those
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who recognize their need.
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Now, this might be pretty raw
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because all of us have
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just been impacted,
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at least in
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some shape or fashion,
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by Hurricane Ian. Right?
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We've heard about it.
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Maybe some of you know people.
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I was just
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speaking with someone
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just yesterday,
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fellow pastor there in Florida,
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talking about how
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their family was impacted,
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how others were impacted.
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They were not right in the
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the eye of the storm.
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So they fared a lot
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better than they could have.
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But the point was
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this touched
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thousands of people
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directly, right?
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And then as we hear stories
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like that,
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as we know people
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maybe as we just
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listen to the stories,
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your first response will be
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maybe well
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I'm glad
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I don't live by the coast,
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but then I'll tell you,
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we live nowhere near the coast
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in northern California,
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before we moved here.
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But the people that
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bought our house
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just a few weeks ago
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were evacuated
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because the fires
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came so close to their home
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that they were
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in serious jeopardy.
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So you say, well,
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I'm glad we're and,
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you know, Fort Wayne,
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no significant fire
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danger and hurricanes,
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they're off the list.
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But the point is,
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when we hear
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about these things,
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we realize how
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tenuous life is, right?
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Just a few years ago,
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I got a call
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actually was talking
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with some people in the clinic
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where where
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I do my telemedicine
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still there
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in Northern California.
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And they said
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one of the workers
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just, you know,
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their house just burned down
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and said, oh, no more fires.
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And they said, no,
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there were no fires,
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but it was just
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some electrical problem
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in their house.
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So you can see I'm
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glad I'm not in fire danger,
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but we are in fire danger,
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right?
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Doesn't matter where you, I'm
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glad I don't live
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near the coast,
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so I can't get flooded.
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No you can get flooded
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right here too.
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some of you know,
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by experience. Right?
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So the whole point is we're
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in a very unstable world.
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So you say,
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okay, this is
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not a real comforting message.
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Where's the good news?
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We're talking about things
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that unsettle us, things
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that open things up, things
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that break, things, things
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that rip open.
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And that brings us right
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to the first chapter of Mark.
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We're going to look at a word,
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a Greek word.
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And before we do,
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I'm giving you
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one more medical illustration
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because I think
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you can relate to this
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if you haven't related to
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anything else I've said.
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Probably most of
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you have heard
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of the
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medical diagnosis,
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schizophrenia.
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It is a severe mental illness.
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People,
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when it's florid
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when it's in its
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full blown condition,
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they're out of touch
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with reality.
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They may be hearing voices
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that are not there.
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They may be seeing things
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that are not there.
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They can be living in a
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totally delusional world.
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Many times they're paranoid.
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They're afraid of things.
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They're scared of things.
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They may be your friend,
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and yet they think you're
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trying to hurt them
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in some way.
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Schizophrenia comes from
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two Greek words schizo,
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which refers to splitting
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and friend,
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which refers to mind.
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So sometimes
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laypeople will say,
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Well,
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this is a split personality.
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Well, probably
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not the best way
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to describe it, but,
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you know,
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we'll cut you some slack
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as lay folks. Okay.
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But my point is
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this root schizo has to do with
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a violent separation.
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It is not just a word that is
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used in medical terminology.
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It is used in the
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gospel of Mark.
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And here it is.
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Mark 1:10.
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We read about Jesus baptism
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in our last study together.
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Here we look at it again
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because we really didn't
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talk about this
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dramatic word that is used.
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The account says,
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just as Jesus
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was coming up out of the water,
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he saw heaven being torn open.
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It's that Greek word schizo ok
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and the spirit
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descending on him like a dove.
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Say, well,
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why this dramatic word?
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It's actually
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a relatively unusual word
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in the New Testament.
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It only occurs ten times
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in the whole New Testament.
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But it always has this
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this this idea
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of this
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breaking apart, cleaving
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asunder, rending something,
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ripping it up.
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And we see it in relationships
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and we see it
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with inanimate objects.
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For example,
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in the book of Acts,
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you see this word
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schizo used
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when there is dissension.
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Paul and Silas
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preaching in Acts 14.
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It says
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The multitude of the city
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was divided.
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The word schizo is used there.
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And what happens?
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The Jews on one side,
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the apostles
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and those
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who accepted their message
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on the other,
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a dramatic division.
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Later on in the Book of Acts,
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Paul is called
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before the Sanhedrin,
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the ruling council,
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and when he recognizes
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that they have
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some different views
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of the afterlife
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being Pharisees and Sadducees,
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he says,
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I am called
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because of my
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belief in the resurrection.
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And this causes a dissension.
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It causes a splitting,
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a division, a schizo.
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Now, let's go back to Mark.
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Why does he use this word?
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And he uses it
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only one other place.
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I want you to see this.
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Mark in his gospel.
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At the beginning,
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he speaks about a schizo,
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a rending of the heavens.
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He uses the word
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only one other time in Mark 15,
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and he says
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the veil of the temple
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was schizo
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in two from top to bottom.
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What's happening
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when there's this ripping?
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I mean, you would say
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if you were a good Jew,
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this is terrible.
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The the veil of the temple,
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the Holy Temple
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Veil was just ripped.
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Was this bad news or good news?
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It was actually good news
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because Jesus was dying
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as the all
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sufficient sacrifice.
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So as Jesus dies, as He
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makes that final act
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of consecration,
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the temple veil is ripped
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in two
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and it's basically
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showing that, no,
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we don't need a high priest now
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to go into the presence of God
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just once a year.
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But we, as Paul
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said in Hebrews 4
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we can come boldly
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to the throne of grace
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if you need mercy today,
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If you need grace today,
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you can go right
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into the throne room of heaven.
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When you pray,
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when you lift up your voice,
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God hears your prayers.
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You don't need anyone
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to pray for you.
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Are you following along?
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And so this schizo that seems
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so violent
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is actually basically God
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authorizing, God saying,
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I'm opening
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heaven broader to people
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and it's
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that same picture that we see
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in Mark 1.
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He is opening the heavens up.
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And so Jesus is
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when He's speaking,
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not only does
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He speak about repenting,
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but He says
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the kingdom of God is at hand.
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What does that mean?
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The Kingdom of God is at hand.
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Now, if you think
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about it for a minute,
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you could say,
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Well,
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that's a little bit ambiguous
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if you don't think
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it's ambiguous.
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The Greek scholars tell us it
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is in the original language.
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They says you could read that
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they say you could read that.
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And, well, it means
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the kingdom of
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God is here already.
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But it could also mean
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that the kingdom of God
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is near.
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It's approaching.
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It's coming closer.
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Which is it?
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Is the kingdom near
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or has it come already?
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And the best answer
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is it's both.
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It's both.
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So when those heavens
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are rent apart,
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what's happening?
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That separation between heaven
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and earth is being bridged.
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Jesus is coming.
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God is coming to Earth.
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His ministry is beginning now.
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And we're going to see
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the power of heaven on Earth.
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We're going to see the
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kingdom of grace ushered in.
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But the Kingdom of
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Glory is not yet here.
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Jesus has not yet come back.
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Sin and suffering
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are not done away with.
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So it's quite interesting
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as you look through Mark
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1 and we'll do that
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today, by God's grace,
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we're going to see miracle
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after miracle,
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where it's showing us
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the power of Christ.
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It's showing us
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the closeness of the kingdom,
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Christ Kingdom
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is being established.
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His reign is being constituted,
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but His kingdom
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is not fully here.
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And so we also see
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we also see evidence
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that the kingdom of glory
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is not fully with us.
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Think about it.
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Every healing ministry,
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even every resurrection,
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Jesus raised people to life
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right during His ministry.
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We'll read about it
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in Mark's Gospel.
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What happened to those people?
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Ultimately, they all died.
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Or they got sick again
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with something else.
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So yes,
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Jesus stepped into their life,
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but it wasn't
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the full consummation
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of Christ's kingdom
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being established
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on this earth.
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So what we see in Mark 1
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is that God's kingdom is
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His reign is beginning.
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Jesus is here, physically here.
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We're going to see His power.
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We're going to see
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what he wants to do
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in your life in mine.
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But His kingdom
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has not fully arrived.
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Let's look
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at some examples of that
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before we look at the more
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inspiring examples.
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I want you to see this because
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and you know,
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I so appreciated this
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this kind of perspective
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that we've been cultivating
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as we've
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been going through this study.
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And that is that,
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you know,
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the way things look on
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the surface
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is not always
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the way things are in reality.
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And so here in verse 12,
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if you look at Mark 1:12,
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we see that the
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Holy Spirit drives
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Jesus into the wilderness.
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It's, again,
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kind of a stern word.
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He's throwing
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Jesus out into the wilderness.
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And then as you
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read down into verse 14,
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before Jesus even speaks,
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we read the words
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Now, after
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John was put in prison
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so stop and think about this,
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What kind of kingdom is this
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that started?
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I mean,
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how does Jesus ministry start?
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He consecrated Himself to God
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in baptism.
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The heavens are opened up.
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We see this.
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That God speaks.
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He tells Jesus
00:23:07.75\00:23:08.82
how He's approved.
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This is my beloved son.
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And you think that everything
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maybe from that point on,
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is this going to be amazing?
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And where does Jesus
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spend the next 40 days?
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In the wilderness.
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Who is He witnessing to
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in the wilderness?
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Go ahead, look at it.
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Look at it in Mark 1.
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How many people do you find
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Mark highlighting?
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All the amazing things
00:23:30.24\00:23:32.01
that Jesus does
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in the wilderness.
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It's quite interesting
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how he describes it.
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He says there
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that as Jesus is
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brought into the wilderness.
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Huh?
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I mean, would you believe it?
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Would you believe it?
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It doesn't mention
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a single person.
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It just mentions what?
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Wild beasts.
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Okay?
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What kind of ministry is there?
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Do you see it in verse 13?
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He's with the wild beasts
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and He's tempted by Satan.
00:24:03.54\00:24:06.68
I'm pointing this out to you,
00:24:06.68\00:24:08.31
and I'm reminding you of John
00:24:08.31\00:24:09.54
the Baptist in verse 14
00:24:09.54\00:24:11.18
now after
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John was put in prison,
00:24:11.95\00:24:13.31
because although
00:24:13.31\00:24:13.98
we're going to read as Mark's
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first chapter unfolds,
00:24:15.62\00:24:17.62
all these amazing things
00:24:17.75\00:24:19.22
that Jesus is doing,
00:24:19.22\00:24:20.66
how things happen
00:24:20.66\00:24:21.76
when Jesus speaks, sometimes
00:24:21.76\00:24:24.79
in the very context
00:24:24.99\00:24:26.19
of God's reign,
00:24:26.19\00:24:27.13
sometimes things
00:24:27.13\00:24:27.96
aren't happening. Okay?
00:24:27.96\00:24:30.43
And the point is,
00:24:30.43\00:24:31.20
it doesn't matter
00:24:31.20\00:24:31.87
where you're at on your journey
00:24:31.87\00:24:33.27
today, God is anxious
00:24:33.27\00:24:35.40
to work in your life.
00:24:35.40\00:24:36.44
Was He working in John's life
00:24:36.44\00:24:37.84
when He was in prison?
00:24:37.84\00:24:39.34
He sure was.
00:24:39.34\00:24:40.34
Was He working in Jesus life
00:24:40.34\00:24:42.21
when He was in the wilderness?
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Yes.
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So that's the context.
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In the midst of
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brokenness, there's
00:24:48.88\00:24:50.45
some really encouraging things
00:24:50.45\00:24:51.95
for all of us, though.
00:24:51.95\00:24:53.69
In the midst of brokenness,
00:24:53.69\00:24:55.19
some really encouraging things.
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I was just reading something
00:24:57.26\00:24:58.73
from the chaplaincy literature,
00:24:58.73\00:25:01.56
looking at,
00:25:02.10\00:25:02.96
especially at hospice care.
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And it was really
00:25:05.00\00:25:05.60
a very interesting paper.
00:25:05.60\00:25:07.74
The scientific literature
00:25:07.77\00:25:09.00
was talking about
00:25:09.00\00:25:10.31
how sometimes
00:25:10.31\00:25:11.44
when we're going through
00:25:11.44\00:25:12.04
the worst things in life,
00:25:12.04\00:25:14.41
turning our eyes
00:25:14.41\00:25:15.94
to the beautiful,
00:25:15.94\00:25:17.58
the things that have beauty
00:25:17.58\00:25:19.41
can change our perspective.
00:25:19.41\00:25:21.32
They can be restorative.
00:25:21.32\00:25:23.75
And so as I was
00:25:23.75\00:25:24.55
thinking about this,
00:25:24.55\00:25:25.39
it wasn't a spiritual paper,
00:25:25.39\00:25:27.26
But what we're going to see in
00:25:27.26\00:25:28.32
the Gospel of Mark
00:25:28.32\00:25:29.39
is the beauty of Jesus,
00:25:29.39\00:25:31.39
the beauty of His character,
00:25:31.39\00:25:33.23
His healing love, His power.
00:25:33.23\00:25:35.73
And so if you're going
00:25:35.96\00:25:36.83
through difficulty today,
00:25:36.83\00:25:38.50
you might say, Well,
00:25:38.50\00:25:39.10
where is Jesus?
00:25:39.10\00:25:40.30
Still turn your eyes to Jesus,
00:25:40.30\00:25:42.64
look to Him,
00:25:42.87\00:25:43.84
see His loving character,
00:25:43.84\00:25:45.34
see His love for you,
00:25:45.34\00:25:47.64
His care for you,
00:25:47.64\00:25:49.11
and even His call
00:25:49.11\00:25:50.78
for you to repent.
00:25:50.78\00:25:52.48
There might be things
00:25:52.48\00:25:53.31
in your life
00:25:53.31\00:25:53.92
that are getting in the way
00:25:53.98\00:25:54.95
of how God wants to bless you.
00:25:54.95\00:25:57.32
This is a sign of His love
00:25:57.32\00:25:59.62
just as much.
00:25:59.62\00:26:02.09
Well let's together
00:26:02.09\00:26:04.63
turn our eyes to
00:26:04.63\00:26:05.36
Jesus right now and pray.
00:26:05.36\00:26:07.40
Father in heaven,
00:26:08.16\00:26:09.00
we thank you so much
00:26:09.00\00:26:10.73
that you speak
00:26:10.73\00:26:11.63
to us through your word.
00:26:11.63\00:26:13.10
Thank you for opening
00:26:13.10\00:26:14.34
the Gospel of Mark to us, for
00:26:14.34\00:26:15.80
helping us to see practicle.
00:26:15.80\00:26:17.14
insights for us personally
00:26:17.14\00:26:20.08
and to share with those
00:26:20.38\00:26:21.48
that we love.
00:26:21.48\00:26:22.41
Continue to bless us
00:26:22.41\00:26:23.61
in future weeks.
00:26:23.61\00:26:24.48
As we continue on this journey,
00:26:24.48\00:26:26.28
we ask in Jesus name, Amen.
00:26:26.28\00:26:28.68
And as you continue
00:26:30.52\00:26:31.45
on your journey
00:26:31.45\00:26:32.05
through the Gospel of Mark,
00:26:32.12\00:26:33.46
we want to share with you
00:26:33.46\00:26:34.79
a special resource
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that we have prepared for you.
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It actually is called
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Healing Insights
00:26:38.79\00:26:39.66
from the Gospel of Mark,
00:26:39.66\00:26:41.03
and this is something
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we've already prepared.
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It's not the same
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videos that you're
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seeing on air or online,
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this is a series
00:26:47.84\00:26:48.90
that basically goes through
00:26:48.90\00:26:50.87
kind of rapidfire
00:26:50.87\00:26:53.01
through the same
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things we're taking more time
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with in this series.
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In eight
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half hour presentations,
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we go through high points
00:26:59.11\00:27:00.55
in the gospel of Mark.
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www.timelesshealinginsights.org.
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You can get a free copy of this
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any donor
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or an ongoing donor of $15
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either of those categories.
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This is good for a limited time
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that we're offering
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beginning in March of 2023.
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So we would love
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to have you partnering with us
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and we'd love to share
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this great resource with you.
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So may God continue
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to bless you
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as you continue your journey
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and Bible study,
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especially through the Gospel
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of Mark.
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I'm Dr.
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DeRose.
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