Welcome to
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Timeless Healing Insights.
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I'm Dr. David DeRose.
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Let us pray together, Father
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in heaven,
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as we prepare
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to open your word,
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please speak to our hearts,
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draw us close to you,
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and may we gain
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practical insights
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that will be a blessing to us
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and to others.
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We ask In Jesus name, Amen.
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Let us look more
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at these first verses
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that set the stage
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for this dramatic, fast paced
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narrative in Mark 1.
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What are the key words
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you see it
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right here
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highlighted
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is the word immediately.
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It's a translation
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from the Greek euthus.
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Let me read
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the passage for you.
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Jesus is baptized and it says.
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And when He came
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out of the water, immediately
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euthus.
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He saw the heavens being
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torn open
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and the Spirit
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descending on Him like a dove.
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And a voice comes from heaven.
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You are my beloved Son.
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With you, I am well pleased.
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What is this?
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Immediacy.
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Very, very interesting.
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Very, very interesting.
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From the moment Jesus makes
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that commitment in baptism,
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we see things happening
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immediately.
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This word euthus
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is a very fascinating one.
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It is a more frequently
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used word in the New Testament
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than schizo
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that we looked at earlier.
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But about 80 times
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in the New Testament,
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this word is used,
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but fully half
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are in Mark's gospel.
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And then the largest number
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of occurrences
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of this word occur in Mark 1.
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Quarter
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of the time that Mark uses
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the word in chapter 1.
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Immediately
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this, immediately that.
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And you look at your Bible
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in english
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and you may see the word
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occasionally immediately,
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but it may say something like
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if you have the King
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James anon.
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Okay,
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so these are all translations
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of the word ethus, immediately.
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Why is this so significant?
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Well, I want you to
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think about it this way.
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If you realize that God's Word
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can work
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immediately,
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then how should that affect
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your attitude
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in your relationship with God?
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If God can do things instantly,
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if God can step into your life
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and make a difference
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immediately.
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What I would suggest to you,
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if you recognize that,
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if I recognize it,
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instead of
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increasing my stress,
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saying like, well,
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why didn't God act immediately?
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You know,
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I prayed for a new car
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and there's not one
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in the driveway.
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Instead of
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getting distressed by that,
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what should I say?
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I should say I know
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God has that kind of power
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and I can trust Him.
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If the timing were right,
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He would do that.
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Do you see,
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it's a vital, vital principle
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when it comes to
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stress management.
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I think all of you have heard
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the Serenity prayer.
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There are many versions to it.
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But here's
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one of the more popular ones.
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God grant us the serenity
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to accept the things
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we cannot change, the courage
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to change the things we can,
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and the wisdom
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to know the difference.
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We say,
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what does this have
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to do with immediacy?
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The idea
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is there's some things
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that we can't effect,
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we can't accomplish.
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God can.
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He can
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accomplish it immediately.
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But we recognize
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that the power is in
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God's hands.
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We can surrender it to Him.
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The biggest problem that I see
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sometimes in people's thinking
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is it's all the
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all the things they wish for,
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all the things that they
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you know,
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if I was only doing this
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or doing that, well,
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they can't do all that.
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It's just this
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wishful thinking that,
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oh, I should have done this.
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I should have.
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And if you go through
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your whole list of should of's,
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you would find
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that you've just come up with
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how you're supposed to
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spend 48 hours yesterday.
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It's not possible.
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Right?
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So why are you
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beating yourself up?
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So we ask God to show you
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what He wants you to do.
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And He can work immediately.
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The God of immediacy
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can work in your life.
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So this serenity prayer,
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I think, really has
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some powerful applications
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as far as dealing with stress.
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And Jesus reminds us of this.
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In Matthew's gospel,
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in Matthew 11:28 - 30.
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Come to me
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all you who are weary
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and burdened
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and I will give you rest.
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Take my yoke upon
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you and learn from me,
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for I am
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gentle and humble in heart,
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and you will find
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rest for your souls.
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For my yoke is easy
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and my burden is light.
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Yes. It's a beautiful thing.
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Jesus wants you
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to experience rest in Him.
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So I just want to
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tell you this because,
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you know, sometimes
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it depends on
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who you're hanging out with.
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Depends on what your
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what educational content
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you're consuming
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on the Internet,
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maybe documentaries.
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You know,
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there are many people today
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that are blaming
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religion, blaming
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Christianity, even
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for the world's problems.
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But if you look at
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the wealth of research,
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it actually shows us
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that spirituality,
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and especially biblical
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spirituality,
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is a blessing across
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many domains.
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Let me just show you one
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review recently published,
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just looking at
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some of the things.
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This is actually a study
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of Seventh-Day Adventist
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and some of the
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the context
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that they're giving
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from different
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research studies.
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And when you
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take more time to engage
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in corporate worship,
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when you take more time
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for Bible study and prayer,
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what kind of things happen
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if you look at the research?
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You actually tend
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to live longer.
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You have a
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greater sense of well-being.
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You're suicide rate will
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our suicide rates
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will decrease collectively.
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Better overall health.
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You're more likely
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to be engaged
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in community
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activities, volunteering,
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and you're
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less likely to engage
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in high risk behaviors.
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This is just a sampling
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of some of the things
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that objectively happen
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when people connect with God,
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connect
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with the God of the Bible
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and with true spirituality.
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So back to the word euthus.
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Euthus this immediacy.
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God's timing.
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So euthus challenges
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us to trust in
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God's perfect timing.
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And it also encourages us
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to be men
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and women of action ourselves.
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Okay?
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We need to act
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immediately at times.
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This is the flip side of it.
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So, yes,
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I'm supposed to trust God
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and what He can do that
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I can't do.
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But the other thing is
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I need to be willing to act
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when God asks me to act.
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Let's go back
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to the gospel of Mark
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in Mark 1.
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I want you to realize
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the only way
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that Jesus could accomplish
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what He accomplished
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and the only way that you and I
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could do anything
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good is if we allow the Spirit
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to work in us.
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So you see, just like
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we saw that
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baptism scene,
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we saw the heavens
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being torn open.
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We saw
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Jesus coming out of the water.
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Right?
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We see
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also now
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we're focusing on the Spirit
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coming down like a dove.
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From the outset
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of Jesus ministry,
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the Holy Spirit
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emerges as the efficacious
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power in His ministry.
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That's what gives
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His ministry effectiveness.
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It's the Holy Spirit.
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And you say, Well,
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how does that work?
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I mean, wasn't Jesus God?
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I mean, couldn't
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He just do anything?
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Jesus laid aside
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His divine prerogatives
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and He relied on the Father.
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He relied on the Holy Spirit.
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In Isaiah
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61 there's
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a prophecy
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about the
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ministry of the Messiah.
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Jesus is called to speak,
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and as He is speaking,
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He opens up the book of Isaiah
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and He reads this passage.
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The Spirit of the
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Lord is upon me
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because he has anointed me
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to preach the
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gospel to the poor;
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he has sent me
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to heal the broken hearted,
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to preach deliverance
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to the captives,
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and recovering of sight
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to the blind,
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to set at liberty
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them that are bruised,
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to preach
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the acceptable
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year of the Lord.
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Now, I want you to notice
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something here.
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Jesus is saying
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My ministry is to those
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who are sick, to those
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who need a physician. Right.
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But don't miss
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this other aspect.
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It says
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the Lord has anointed me.
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The Lord has anointed me.
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It's a very significant phrase
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because if you understand
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something about
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the significance of anointing,
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you realize
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this is the essence
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of the Messiah.
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The Messiah
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is the anointed One,
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the Christ
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is the christened
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or the anointed One.
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You're following along?
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So Jesus the Christ
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is the anointed One.
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When was He anointed?
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He we just saw.
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He was anointed at His baptism.
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What's even more
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interesting to me,
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if you realize what Jesus
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read from Isaiah 61,
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He stopped mid-sentence.
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He went up to the point
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where it says to proclaim
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the acceptable
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year of the Lord.
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But if He had continued
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on with verse 3
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He would have read
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and the day of vengeance
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of our God,
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why did He leave that out?
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He is
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preaching a gospel
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of repentance, but it seems
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that Jesus,
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as the Holy Spirit led Him,
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He knew what to share
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and when to share it,
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and the Holy Spirit
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will give you that same wisdom.
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He has a healing ministry.
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Some people aren't ready
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for them to to have the full
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diagnostic evaluation
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performed by you.
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Other times,
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God is impressing you
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to share something with someone
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in a loving way.
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Anointing is at
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the heart of Mark 1.
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In fact,
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it's at the very beginning.
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Because how is Jesus introduced
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in the first verse
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of the Gospel of Mark?
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How is He introduced?
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Look at Mark 1:1
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the beginning of the Gospel of
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Jesus Christ, the anointed one.
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That's what it means.
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So Jesus anointing,
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we see it take place,
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it?ark's gospel
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starting with the
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baptism of Jesus
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we start seeing this word,
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euthus immediately,
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and now things start to pick up
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in rapid order.
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We see that background.
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And Jesus points
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them to the time
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in which He is living.
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We look very briefly at this.
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The time is fulfilled.
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Why is this
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such a significant thing
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for Jesus to say?
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Some of you have studied
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the Bible prophecies.
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There are many
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Bible time prophecies
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if you've never studied them.
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It's an amazing study.
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Talk with one of us.
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We're happy to study with you,
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or if you like to study
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on your own,
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we can get you some
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material on this.
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Let me just give you
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one other example.
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In the book of Galatians,
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Paul is speaking about
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Jesus coming.
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He says it this way,
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but when the set time
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had fully come,
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God sent his Son
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born of a woman,
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born under the law,
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to redeem
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those under the law,
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that we might receive adoption
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to sonship. He came when?
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When the time had fully come,
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when the set
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time had fully come,
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or when the time
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had been fulfilled.
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What time are they
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all talking about?
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What was Mark talking about?
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What was Paul talking about?
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The most compelling evidence
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suggests that they are
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referring to
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Daniel 9.
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Daniel 9
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introduces us
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to a period of 70 weeks
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special focus
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as far as the baptism
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of Jesus on 69 weeks of years.
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Now I've heard in myself,
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I've taken
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a long time to explain
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Bible time,
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prophecies, you know,
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given, you know,
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one hour meetings or longer
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and feel like I still didn't,
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you know, cover
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all the ground
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that needed to be covered.
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But just by way of review,
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for those of you
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who've studied this
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and to whet your appetite,
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those of you that haven't.
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Daniel 9 is a prophecy
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of 70 weeks.
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It becomes very clear
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as you read through
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that prophecy,
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it's not literal weeks,
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it is prophetic weeks
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or weeks of years.
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And in this prophecy
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it says; Know therefore
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and understand that
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from the going
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forth of the command
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to restore and build Jerusalem
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until Messiah, the Prince,
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there shall be seven weeks
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and sixty-two weeks.
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So seven plus sixty-two,
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sixty-nine weeks
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from this decree
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to the time of Messiah,
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the Prince Messiah.
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In Greek, we'd say,
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Christ, the Prince.
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Okay, speaking about
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when Jesus would come,
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when does
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Jesus become the Christ
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the Messiah?
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It's when He is anointed
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at His baptism.
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If you actually look
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at this prophecy
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and when the dots
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are connected,
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you find that
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the beginning of this time
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prophecy was 457 B.C.
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This was a
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final decree to restore
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and build Jerusalem.
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And according
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to the Old Testament,
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this is the starting
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time for this amazing seventy
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week prophecy,
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the first sixty-nine
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weeks of which point
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to the
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beginning of Jesus ministry.
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And so you say, well,
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what's happening?
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The beginning of his ministry?
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Yes, He's
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baptized and His
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ministry starts.
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And you would say,
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wait a minute, wait a minute,
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How did you do this?
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How did you go
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from sixty-nine
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weeks to sixty-nine
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weeks of years,
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which would be, what?
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483 years.
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You can see some of the verses,
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their Numbers 14 and Ezekiel 4.
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There's a principle
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in Bible prophecy
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that many of the Bible time
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prophecies
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we use a day for a year,
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and that's the basis for now.
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Some people say,
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what do you mean many of them?
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We use it for all of them.
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No, we don't.
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You read about the millennium
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in the book of Revelation.
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We don't think that's a day
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for a year.
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In those day
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for a year prophecies,
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there's always some clue
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that this is not a
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normal reckoning.
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If you have a three
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and a half year old child,
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you don't
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when someone asks
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how old he is,
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you don't say,
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oh, he's 1260 days.
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Okay.
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There's there's
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there's something
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that clues you
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to this
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being a not an unusual number
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that the
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Bible writer
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and that the Holy Spirit
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was trying to say
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look at this
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in terms of the symbols
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and signs I'm giving you.
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So it is that way in Daniel 9.
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As you look through it, it's
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clear biblical symbolism
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and a 483 year period
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doing the math, right?
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Yes, 483 plus seven is 490.
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Okay.
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So you say, okay,
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so we're connecting the dots.
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But
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where does that bring us?
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It brings us to 27 A.D.
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If you go from 457,
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remember, there's no zero year.
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You add those 483 years,
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it'll bring you to 27 A.D.
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And some people say,
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well, Jesus was 30
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when He started his ministry.
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Why are you saying 27 A.D.
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was when Jesus was baptized?
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They didn't have the calendar
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quite right.
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If you actually studied out
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historically,
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Jesus was baptized in 27 A.D.
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This is remarkable.
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There were people studying
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the Bible prophecies now
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you study the Gospels,
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read Luke, especially.
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There were people
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that were looking for
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Jesus to come
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because they understood
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these time prophecies.
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And Jesus comes right on time.
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This God of immediacy,
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this God of urgency, this
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God of a coming kingdom. Now,
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what is
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so interesting
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with this background
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is what happens next
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is it's just rapid sequence.
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So we've been laying
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a foundation
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for the gospel of Mark,
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and Mark
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is laying
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a foundation himself in Mark 1.
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This is really what it's
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all about.
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He lays down these
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these first 14,
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15, 16 verses,
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however you want to
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carve them out.
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And then we come
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down to verse 16
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and we see things
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start happening.
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Jesus has been in
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the wilderness.
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It looked like
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nothing was happening
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at the beginning
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of His ministry.
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And now we start
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seeing this word euthus
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multiple times.
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Immediately. This immediately.
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Then I want you to notice
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something as we first
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look at this
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first bit of action
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in Jesus ministry
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after He's
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given this overview
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of His preaching,
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what His message
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is, He's been out there
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in the wilderness,
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but now
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starting to look at
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the actual stories that Mark
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and that he weaves together
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to give us an idea
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of how the kingdom has come.
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God's reign has begun.
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Satan's power is broken.
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First, notice this.
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Only a heart
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that hardens itself
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to God's voice will not respond
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to the power of God's
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mighty reign.
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Okay,
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so God's
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Word has power,
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but you have a choice.
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And so when we see what happens
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with these disciples
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in Mark 1:16,
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Jesus is walking
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by the Sea of Galilee.
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It says He sees Simon
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and Andrew, his brother.
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They're actually fishing.
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And Jesus says to them,
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‘Follow me
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and I will make you
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fishers of men
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?d what happens?
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It says they immediately
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left their nets
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and followed Him.
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Now, I want you to notice this.
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They didn't say a Hey,
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this is a you're asking a lot,
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you know, let us check our bank
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accounts and all and let's see
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if we've
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got everything together.
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They didn't say,
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Can we think about it?
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Can we have a few weeks?
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You know?
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By the way,
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the one of the pious ways to do
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it is to say,
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let me pray about it.
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Now, that's
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usually a good answer. Okay.
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But if the Holy Spirit
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is telling you to do something,
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that's not the time
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to pray about it,
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They didn't say,
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well,
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can we have a
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40 days of fasting and prayer?
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No, the Holy Spirit
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was speaking through Jesus.
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And what was their response?
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To immediately respond.
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And it's an important message
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because
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you may be looking for healing.
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You may be looking for
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something in your life,
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but the Lord's
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calling you to do something.
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And if the Lord's
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calling you to do something,
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do it right away.
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He will give you the power
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to do it.
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His word
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has that immediacy
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connected with it.
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You say, But I can't do it.
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The Lord's asking you to do it.
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His word will work in you
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and you will do it. Well.
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He goes a little bit further.
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Andrew and Peter,
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they're following Him
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and He sees James and John,
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his brother.
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Now this is really interesting
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because this time
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the immediately is on
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Jesus response.
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Jesus sees them
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and His response
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is to call them immediately.
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So things are happening
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and just fast action.
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He doesn't, you know, try to,
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you know, have small
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talk with them, say,
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you know, how's it going,
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how you know,
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how do you repair fishing nets?
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But the Holy Spirit
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impresses Him to say,
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follow me.
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And what do they do?
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They follow Him
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immediately as well.
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And they leave their
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father, Zebedee, in the boat.
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By the way,
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if you don't know anything
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about Middle Eastern culture,
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this is not
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what you're supposed to do.
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Okay.
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But here's the point.
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Sometimes when God calls, it
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even leads to something
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that could be interpreted
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as not being respectful
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of family values.
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Is that possible?
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It's possible.
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And they leave
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and they follow Jesus.
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So we see Jesus word has power.
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And when those
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individuals don't
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resist it, they respond.
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We come
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now to Mark 1:21 and verse 21.
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It says,
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They go in to Capernaum,
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and immediately on the Sabbath,
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He enters the synagogue
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and He begins teaching.
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And it says
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they were astonished
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at His teaching,
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for He taught them
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as one having authority
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and not as the scribes.
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Some of you have heard
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of the lawyers
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that are referred
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to in the Bible.
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They're not lawyers
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like we think of today.
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They are experts in the law
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and they know
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all the traditions
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about the law
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and they know what this
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great rabbi said
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and that great rabbi said,
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and they could have
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long discussions
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about aspects of the law.
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But when Jesus came,
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His word was with power. Why?
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Because He taught the truth.
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He taught it clearly.
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He taught the word of God.
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And so His word has power
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connecting a few of these dots.
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The Spirit has power.
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Jesus is given the Spirit.
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His word has power.
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And by the way,
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if you're
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listening,
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every one of these things
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you can tap into,
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you can tap into the
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power of the spirit.
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You can tap into God's word.
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You can study His word.
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That word has the same power
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it did
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when Jesus was
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walking on the earth. But
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we see,
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again
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some evidence of violence.
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This time
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it's Satan being violent.
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It's not the response
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of heaven.
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It's the response of Satan.
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And Satan inspires this man.
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This demon possessed man
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who happens to be
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in the synagogue.
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He says to Jesus, Let us alone!
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What have we to do with You,
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Jesus of Nazareth?
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Did You come to destroy us?
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I know who You are-the
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Holy One of God.
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And it's remarkable
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what happens.
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It's remarkable what happens.
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Jesus simply speaks.
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He says, ‘Be quiet
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and come out of him!
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Now, what's
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very interesting to me,
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we talked
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about how the heavens were torn
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open, rent apart.
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There is a similar word
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here, but a different one.
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The word is sparasso.
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Some of the versions say
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this man is torn by the demon.
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It is not the kind of tearing
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that connects us with heaven.
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It's Satan
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trying to tear things down.
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God opens things up
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and gives us access to Him
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and to His power.
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But Satan does what?
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He tries to break us down.
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And so he's doing that
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with this man.
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But the thing is,
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he's in the presence of Jesus.
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And Satan has no power
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when Jesus is present.
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That's all we need to do
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is invite Jesus presence,
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whatever you're dealing with.
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Okay?
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And that demon is gone.
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And it happens
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because of the power
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of His word.
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And what's really interesting,
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the response of the people,
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they don't say,
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Whoa, wow, Jesus
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casting out demons.
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That's not what the focus is.
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The first thing
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out of their mouths.
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Catch it here in Mark 1,
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‘What new doctrine is this?
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For with authority
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He commands
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even the unclean spirits,
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They're impressed
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with the power of Jesus Word.
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And so here is this
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this healing agency
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that God's given us.
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And we're seeing it
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as it played out
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in the gospel of Mark.
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And we often don't
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avail ourselves of it.
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Immediately this,
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immediately that
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they leave the synagogue
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as soon as they go
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out of the synagogue.
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Where are they?
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They? with Peter's
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mother-in-law.
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And when Jesus comes in,
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He sees this woman sick.
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And what does He do?
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He heals her immediately.
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The fever leaves her.
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She's freed.
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She can serve them now.
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This is not a bad thing
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in that culture.
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You wanted to
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serve your guests.
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And now she is restored.
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She's not only
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afebrile, fevers gone,
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but she's also what?
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She's actually whole.
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She's ministering.
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And so this immediacy.
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And then you come to verse 32,
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the sun sets.
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Sabbath is over.
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It's been a busy day.
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And then look at the account.
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It says that the whole city
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gathers together at the door.
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All of Capernaum comes there,
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He heals.
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Many who were sick
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with various diseases.
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He casts out many demons.
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It is amazing.
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And it's despite Jesus
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being up
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likely late,
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late into the night,
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the account ends.
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The account
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ends in an unusual way.
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Yes, He's forbidding
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the demons to speak.
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We'll talk about
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that as we go through
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Mark's gospel.
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It's an amazing aspect to it.
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But what's so amazing is
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Jesus is doing all this healing
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through the power of love.
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That's right.
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Matthew, when he talks
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about the same event,
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He actually quotes from Isaiah
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and He says
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He took our illnesses
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and bore our infirmities.
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The idea here is that
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Jesus only was able to heal.
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He was only able to heal
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because He was giving His life.
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He was committed
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to give His life.
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And He's actually experiencing
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as He's healing.
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He has experienced,
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to a certain extent,
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the pain
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that He is going to suffer
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when He bears
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the sins of the world.
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That's the connection
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that MatHhew makes.
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Well, we need to
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close on an important note,
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because we've been talking
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about the power of healing,
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the immediacy of God's word.
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How the Spirit
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wants to work in your life,
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how the Word wants
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to work in your life.
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And we have to end
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with Jesus example.
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Because Jesus example ends
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Mark 1:35
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with Jesus,
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even after all that busy day
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getting up early
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in the morning and praying,
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and this is a lesson for you
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and me.
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We can connect
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with our loving Father.
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We can connect with the power
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that works immediately
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in our lives,
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but a power
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that also calls
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us to be patient
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in the midst of our challenges.
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We?see more healing insights
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as we continue our study
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through the gospel of Mark.
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Let's Pray together
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following Jesus?ample.
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Father in Heaven,
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Thank you For Jesus?ample,
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Not only was His Word
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with power,
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but He prayed to You.
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Put that on our hearts,
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that desire
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to press close to you,
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to hear Your word
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speaking to us
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every day of our lives
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so that we too
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would be guided by You.
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We ask, in Jesus name, Amen.
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