Welcome to another
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episode of Timeless
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Healing Insights.
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I'm Dr. David DeRose.
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As always,
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we long for God
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to be our Instructor.
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With that in mind,
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let's pray together.
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Father in Heaven.
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Your Word is a living Word.
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You spoke through
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holy men of old.
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And You want to speak
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to people today.
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Please do that again
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through Your Spirit
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as we open Your pages.
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We ask In Jesus name, Amen.
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We're going on this journey
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through the Gospel of Mark,
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and we're seeing
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the power of Jesus Word.
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As we're walking
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through Mark 1,
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we've been seeing that
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Jesus sometimes does things
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that may seem strange to us.
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One of those strange things
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that we've been grappling with
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is why does
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Jesus sometime
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forbid people from sharing?
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We found in the closing
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illustration of Mark 1,
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there is a leper that is healed
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and we learn that
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one of the reasons
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that Jesus
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did not have him publish
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the word abroad
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is because Jesus wanted him
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to get a righteous verdict
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so that when he went
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to see the priests
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in Jerusalem, they would say,
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you are all healed.
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And he could say,
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Praise the Lord,
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I've got a clean
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bill of health.
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I can go anywhere I want.
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In all the realm.
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I've been certified
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free of leprosy.
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But Jesus had other reasons
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for enjoining silence.
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Let's look back at this story
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in Mark 1:40 and onward.
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Why else might
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Jesus have told this man
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not to spread
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abroad his healing?
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The book, The Desire of Ages,
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that we've looked at
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in reference to this story,
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I think again
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is right on point.
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Page 264, we read this.
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There were other objects
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with which Christ had in view
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in enjoining silence
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on the man.
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The Savior knew
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that His enemies
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were ever seeking
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to limit His work,
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and to turn
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the people from Him.
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He knew that
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if the healing of this leper
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were noised abroad
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other sufferers
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from this terrible disease
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would crowd about Him,
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and the cry would be raised,
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what?
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That the people
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would be contaminated
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by contact with them.
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The word would get out, right?
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Oh, all the lepers
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are coming to Jesus.
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You don't want to go to Jesus,
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You know you'll be in trouble
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if you go there.
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Even if you get there,
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there's all these
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lepers around there.
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You may not even be able to
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see Jesus,
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and you'll just get leprosy,
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that's all you'll
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get out of it.
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You could see how
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this would not be good
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for Jesus ministry.
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By drawing lepers about,
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and there was
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another problem too.
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It would give occasion
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for the charge
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that Jesus
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was breaking the law.
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He was pulling down
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the rituals.
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This would have further
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hindered His ministry.
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But what I want you to notice
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is what Jesus did
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was remarkable.
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What Jesus did was remarkable.
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He upheld the law, even the
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ritual law.
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He told that
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healed man to do what?
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To go to Jerusalem
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and get the certification
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that he was healed.
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Jesus, by touching the man,
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thus was not showing
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that He didn't regard the law.
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He was showing that actually,
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for those
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who were willing to see it,
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that His healing power
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overcomes sin.
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It overcomes disease.
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And so when Jesus touches you,
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no matter what
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you're dealing with,
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it heals you.
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It has healing power.
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There's nothing
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that you can be holding on to
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that if you surrender to Jesus,
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you will not be cleansed of.
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Unfortunately, unfortunately,
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this man did not follow
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Jesus advice.
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Perhaps he thought he was doing
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Jesus a favor.
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Perhaps he thought
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Jesus was just being modest.
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And it says here
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in the inspired account,
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verse 45 of Mark 1,
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he went out and began
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to proclaim it freely
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and to spread the matter
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so that Jesus could no longer
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openly enter
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the city,
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but was outside
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in deserted places.
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And they came to him
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from every direction.
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This is relevant to us today.
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Remember, remember,
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let the Holy Spirit guide you
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and what your witness
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should be.
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And by the way, don't judge
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anyone else
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as to what
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their witness should be.
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The Holy Spirit
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can guide them as well, right?
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So don't say, hey, well,
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if I was running that ministry,
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you know what?
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Why aren't you give,
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you know,
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I know your ministry is,
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you know, with the youth
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or with,
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you know, community services
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or maybe you,
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you know, you do it,
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but you should be doing it
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this way.
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No, I mean
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if you have some
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good counsel, I
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mean, share it, okay?
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But we don't
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sit in judgment
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of how the Holy Spirit leads
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someone else.
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Now, with that background,
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that's what we're going
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into, right? In Mark 2.
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That's where it's taking us.
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And before we go there,
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I want to ask you a question.
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What do you do
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when you're exposed
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to serious adversity?
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If you were to hear gunshots
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in your neighborhood,
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how many of you, don't raise
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your hands,
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would run toward the gunshots?
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We just heard about that
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terrible hurricane
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that swept through Florida.
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Many people there
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received evacuation orders.
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Some of them evacuated.
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Others did what?
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That's right.
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We're going to stay.
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We're going to ride
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out the storm.
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We saw that a lot in California
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fire season.
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I remember one of the coworkers
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I had there, she had a picture.
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Family stayed during
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the evacuation
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and a picture of flames
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just as high as you can see.
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And and it just looks like,
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you know,
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they're they're goners. Okay.
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But the Lord blessed them.
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And they felt like
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because they stayed, it
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helped save their house.
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It doesn't always end up
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that way, though, right?
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So which group are you in?
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Do you,
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do you tend to run
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toward adversity
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or do you tend to
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run away from it?
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Dobbs,
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some of you may know the name,
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he was a
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foreign correspondent
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for ABC News for many years.
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He wrote a book
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called Life in the Wrong Lane:
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Why Journalists Go In
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When Everyone Else Wants Out.
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Let me tell you what
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he said
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in the preface to his book.
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I call this book
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Life in the Wrong Lane,
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because that's where
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journalists live
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in the one lane
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heading toward a catastrophe.
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Everyone who's normal
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is in the other lane,
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any other lane,
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going the other way.
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They're getting out.
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Think of life
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as a highway, Dobbs says.
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A divided interstate highway.
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And somehow, you've missed
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those omnipresent, red
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“wrong way” signs,
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and you've gotten going
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down the exit ramp
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into the oncoming
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traffic lanes.
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Sounding kind of chilling, huh?
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Is that ever the right lane,
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he asks. No.
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Not for anyone but us.
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In fact,
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we go looking for signs
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saying “wrong way”.
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These are the ones
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that guide us.
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Oncoming
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traffic is our livelihood.
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Now, some of you say,
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Well, that's why I'm not
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in that business.
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I'm asking you to think
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about this for a minute,
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because if you catch
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what Gary Dobbs is saying,
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I think it will change
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your perspective.
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You see,
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how do we feel as Christians,
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if we find ourselves
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what seems like going
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the wrong direction.
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Has it ever been that way?
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Maybe it's some relationship
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that's going the wrong way,
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and you say, like,
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why am I in this relationship?
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How did I ever get into this?
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Some people told me not to go
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this way
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cause it?he wrong way.
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But the Lord was leading you.
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And you
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say, But this doesn't seem
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to be
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working out all that well.
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But I was sure
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God was leading me.
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Remember the emphasis,
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Mark 1:35,
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early in the morning,
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spending time with God.
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If God is leading,
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you keep going forward, okay?
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Now, it does pay to get wise
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counsel.
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There is wisdom
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in a multitude of counselors
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and we can
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sometimes lose our bearings.
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But the point is,
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is it possible,
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is it possible
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that God might have you
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as a special
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correspondent for Him
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or maybe a special ambassador,
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maybe
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as you
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in a terrible work situation
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because He needs a witness
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for Jesus
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in that work situation.
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Is that possible?
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Perhaps even
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at some point in your life
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led you to a bad church.
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Some of you have told me,
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you know, your life history
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and you've been in churches
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that you
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thought were just
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terrible places to be.
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But maybe He wanted you there
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because He wanted your witness,
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or maybe He wanted you
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to have an experience there
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that you would share
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with other people.
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I started to think
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about this myself.
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Because if I were to
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script out my life,
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I would just say, You know,
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this good thing happens
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and this good thing
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I do this for God
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and this is blessed
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this way, and
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God helps me do this
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and this happens.
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That's how I?cript it out,
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wouldn't you?
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I mean human perspective,
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that's what I would think.
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But God
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often leads us into adversity,
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just like ABC News.
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There are some war
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that just broke out
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and Gary Dobbs
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is flying on a plane
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to get there to cover this
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when everyone else is leaving.
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You get the picture?
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So don't judge God's
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leading in your life
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because it looks like bad
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things are happening
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around you.
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Just press closer to Him.
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He may have a reason
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for sending you there.
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And why this is so relevant,
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as Mark
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1 transitions into Mark 2.
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We just had all these stories
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of Jesus speaking and healing.
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Demons are healed.
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Lepers are healed.
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His Word is going with power.
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People are flocking to Him.
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When you get to chapter
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2, it all changes.
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Yes, Jesus is still healing.
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He's still having
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powerful experiences.
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But now you start seeing
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adversity and conflict.
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What's happening
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is Jesus Healing
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ministry is trying
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to be covered over by Satan.
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He wants people
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to focus on controversy
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instead of
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focusing on the Healer,
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on Jesus.
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Let's look at how it starts.
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Mark 2:1 and 2, it says.
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And when he returned
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to Capernaum, after some days,
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He just He'd been in Capernaum.
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Great successful
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ministry there.
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No sign of any controversy.
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Then He leaves on
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this Galilean ministry,
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and when He comes back,
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things are different
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in Capernaum.
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He returns.
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After some days
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it's reported
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that he was at home.
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And many were gathered
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together,
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so that there was no more room,
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not even at the door.
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And he was preaching
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the word to them.
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Now some may say,
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Well, wait, wait, wait,
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His home?
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Jesus made
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it very clear He
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didn't have a home
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like you and I have, okay?
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You've got a place tonight
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to lay your head, your own bed.
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I trust, to my knowledge,
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all of you are in
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such a situation.
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Maybe there's some of you
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that aren't,
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but most
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all of you have a place
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to call your own, right?
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Jesus did not have that.
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He made it
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clear in Luke 9:58,
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He had no place.
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But He was so connected
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with people
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that there was
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a place in Capernaum
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that He apparently frequently
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spent time at
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that was referred
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to as His home.
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Some think that that perhaps
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was the home of Peter
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and maybe Peter
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living with extended family,
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maybe even
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Andrew's family was there,
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maybe was a central courtyard.
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Some people have have thought
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maybe it was some
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setting like that.
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Others have said, well,
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as this story
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plays out in Mark 2,
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this sounds like a bigger place
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than we think
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Peter was living in
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as a fisherman.
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Whatever the case,
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Jesus connected
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with people in Capernaum.
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They feel like that's His city.
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And as the
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account goes
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on, it says in verse
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3, the Bible tells us
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they came,
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bringing to Him
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a paralytic carried
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by four men.
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And when they could not
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get near Him, near Jesus,
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because of the crowd,
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they removed
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the roof above Him,
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and when they had made
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an opening,
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they let down the bed
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through the roof.
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This is not a conventional way
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to enter a church.
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It's not a conventional way
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to enter a home.
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If you compare Luke's
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account in Luke 5,
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it says they removed the tiles.
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So different
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types of roofs
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were used in antiquity.
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It sounds like it was
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a tile roof.
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And they removed these tiles
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and then down through the roof
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comes the paralytic.
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Four friends
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bringing this man to Jesus.
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Could he have gotten
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there without their help?
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Remember one
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of the things
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about Mark's gospel
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that is healing
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we're talking about
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healing insights
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is the social connections
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that are drawn out
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in Mark's gospel.
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And I really want
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you to see it here,
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because to me,
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I think we could
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legitimately ask a question,
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when did the healing
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actually begin
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for the paralytic?
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When did it actually begin?
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Because many of you know
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how the story plays out.
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We're going to look at it.
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But was he already receiving
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healing on a certain level
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when his four friends
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are carrying him to Jesus,
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bringing him up
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on the top of the roof,
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opening up the roof,
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how is he feeling
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as he sees
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what his friends
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are willing to do for him?
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He was clearly,
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clearly receiving
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social support.
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We call it tangible
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or instrumental support.
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Let me tell you a story.
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I learned about Kevin Penn
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from the medical literature.
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An amazing story,
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41 year old man,
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father, husband,
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got two young sons
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and he gets that diagnosis
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no one wants to get, cancer.
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He has an acute leukemia.
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At the time,
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he was an executive
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in a public utilities company,
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a very detail oriented person
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by virtue of his career
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and just his nature.
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And he actually wrote,
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published
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in one of the nursing journals
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his story
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of dealing with acute
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myelogenous leukemia,
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death sentence
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without treatment.
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He did, he responded
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to the initial treatment,
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but then he relapsed.
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Cancer spreading again,
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and he's got to
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get more treatment.
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He ends up
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with one of those bone
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marrow transplants,
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and this is how he put it,
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conveying how hellacious
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that treatment process
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was is nearly impossible.
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It was terrible, was a terrible
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ordeal, is what he's saying.
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And then he goes on in a
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way that only a
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a very compulsive, detail
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oriented person could do.
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He starts describing
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all that he went through.
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He said, I got 52 high-dosage
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chemotherapy treatments.
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I got
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11 bone marrow biopsies.
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I spent
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114 days in the hospital.
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By the way, that's a long time.
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That's nearly four months.
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He got 10
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total body
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irradiation treatments.
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He even counted the pills
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he took, over 5600 pills.
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Now, I know
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this is going to hit home
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for some of you
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because I've got patients
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who won't even,
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I got big guys
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who won't even go
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and have their blood drawn.
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They say I don't like needles.
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He had over 1300 blood tests
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for this involved
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with this cancer,
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67 blood or platelet
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bags transfused
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and 9 million stem cells
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that he received
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from his brother.
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It's an ordeal, he said.
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This doesn't do justice to it.
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That's what Kevin says.
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He said, All of this
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wasn't very pleasant,
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of course,
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but it wasn't all horrible
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and dark.
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In fact, in looking back,
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I have many positive memories.
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Most of them, perhaps
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even all of them,
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are because of the individual
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acts of kindness I experienced.
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Well,
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what kind of acts of kindness,
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what kind of momentous things
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in a terrible ordeal
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like this
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would make a difference?
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Let's listen to the list.
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A caring smile from nurses
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when they hung the dreaded
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chemotherapy bags.
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Staff quietly
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slipping into the room
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during the night
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so as not to disturb him
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or his family.
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If you ever have been a patient
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in a hospital, right,
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you can relate to that one.
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Giving him a high five
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when in his weakened condition
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he could only do what?
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Walk to the end of the hallway
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and come back.
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Giving him a high five.
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Was that over the top?
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That encouraged
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him and encouraged Kevin,
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encouraging a positive attitude
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at all times.
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One of the nurses
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indelibly impressed on his mind
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this statement, act sick
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and what?
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You'll be sick.
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Act sick and you'll be sick.
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And then he said,
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just providing a shoulder
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to cry on
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when the overwhelming
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gravity of the situation
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became too much to bear.
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Now the story
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of a cancer patient.
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But what about
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the other ordeals
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that we go through
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and the people around us
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are going through?
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How much effort does it take
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to do some of those things?
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Yeah, I mean,
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sometimes they have
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some bigger needs,
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but the whole point is
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there's small things
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that you can do
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right here in the church.
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How do you interact
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with people?
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But I don't know anybody here,
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Pastor DeRose,
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I don't know anybody.
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Well, smile anyway, okay?
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Meet somebody,
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shake their hand.
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Perhaps the most significant,
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the most lasting, Kevin said,
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and certainly the most
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inspiring part
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of a medical professionals
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job is not
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what was learned in school
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or what was read
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in a book,
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instead,
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it is those small,
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unscripted, unexpected
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acts of kindness
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that really matter.
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You know, I'm very grateful
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that we have greeters here
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at the church that welcome you
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when you come in.
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If you didn't slip in
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through the back door, perhaps.
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And, and yet,
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you know what, as important
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as that role
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is, the person
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who doesn't have a role
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as a greeter,
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their greeting often goes
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further than the person
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whose job it was to do it.
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You follow
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along with what I'm saying?
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If someone thinks
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that's your job,
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no matter how nice you are,
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and I'm glad we have
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nice people doing it, don't,
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believe me, don't
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all turn in your resignations
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if you're, you know, greeters.
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We we value you
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and we appreciate that
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that role.
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And that's important.
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But I'm just saying,
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even if you don't have
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an official role,
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what you do,
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those acts of kindness
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make a difference.
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So the question I ask
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in Mark 2,
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was this man
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already being healed?
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But what's even more to
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the point,
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is as
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you read through the account,
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it says in Mark 2:5,
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when Jesus saw what?
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It says,
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when He saw their faith.
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Jesus?aling power
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only works where there's faith,
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okay?
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We have to accept it.
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We have to accept
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His healing power in our lives.
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And then Jesus says this.
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He says, Son,
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your sins are forgiven.
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Now, let me ask you a question.
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Look in your Bibles.
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Go ahead and look
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right there at Mark 2:5,
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and I want you to tell me
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what does the,
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what does this man say when
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Jesus speaks
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these healing words?
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What does he say?
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Following Mark 2:5,
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tell me, give me a quote
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from this paralytic.
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You're appropriately silent
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because he says nothing. Okay?
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He says absolutely nothing.
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Well, what does that mean?
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Well, what it implies,
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if you come in
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to a doctor's office,
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make it practical.
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At least in my world,
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if someone comes in
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and I say, don't worry,
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I've got it all covered,
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you know, here
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is the dietary
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prescription for,
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you just walked
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through the door.
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You didn't say anything.
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I said, got all covered.
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No problem. Glad you're here.
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Here's
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your dietary prescription
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for your diabetes.
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And if you
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if you don't say anything,
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if you just smile
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and you walk out
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with that prescription,
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you'll say, Wow,
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what an amazing doctor.
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How did he know what I needed?
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That's exactly what I came for.
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But if you came in
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because your knee?urting,
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what are you going to do
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when I give you that?
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What are you going to do?
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You're going to say,
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What's this?
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I'm here for my knee.
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I just hurt my knee.
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Here's why
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I'm telling you this.
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If that paralytic,
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if his greatest need wasn't
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forgiveness of sin,
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he would have objected.
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He would have said, Well,
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thank you, Jesus,
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but that's not why I'm here.
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Can't you see I can't move?
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But he doesn't say anything.
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He accepts
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the fact
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that Jesus knew
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his deepest need.
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And so he lays there,
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I believe, rejoicing in
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freedom from sin
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and freedom from guilt.
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Jesus does the deepest
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healing in this man's life
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first.
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He gives him full
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forgiveness, full
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freedom from guilt.
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This is important stuff.
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We're talking about
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healing insights.
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There's all kinds of studies
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that look at the relationship
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between guilt and health.
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I decided to just look
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what's currently
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being published out there.
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Look 2022
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and a number of studies
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out there.
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This one caught my attention.
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It's
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a study from the Czech Republic
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looking at connections
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between guilt, shame
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and chronic disease.
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These researchers
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came to a conclusion
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after looking
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at a representative sample
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of the Czech population.
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Some 1000 individuals aged
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above 14 to 15 and older.
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They found those
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who felt more guilty.
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So it wasn't shame, was shame
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wasn't the issue.
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So it wasn't like,
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well, I'm ashamed
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you know,
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I grew up on the wrong side
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of the tracks or,
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you know,
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shame was not the issue.
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Guilt was.
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They felt
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they had done something wrong.
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They were more likely to suffer
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from a chronic disease.
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They had feelings of
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of guilt
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that were persisting, okay?
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We could say
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they weren't experiencing
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the forgiveness of Jesus.
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How much difference did it
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make? 5%? 10%?
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How much more chronic disease?
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Here's
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actually data from the study.
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And if you look at this
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this graphic,
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you'll see their likelihood
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of having any chronic
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disease doubled.
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Arthritis, over doubled.
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Cardiovascular disease,
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nearly tripled.
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Depression,
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over four fold
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the risk of being depressed.
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But the highest
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connection they found
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was with cancer.
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Now, this doesn't
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mean you can look
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down this list and say,
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Oh, wow, now I know why all my,
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you know,
00:23:09.18\00:23:09.42
now I know why, you know,
00:23:09.82\00:23:10.52
Auntie Sue has arthritis.
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Now I know why,
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you know, Sister
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Jill has asthma and why,
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you know, you
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no, no, no,
00:23:18.53\00:23:18.73
it doesn't work that way, okay?
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These are multifactorial.
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There's multiple things.
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But the whole point is,
00:23:23.26\00:23:24.53
is that guilt
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is one of the things
00:23:25.53\00:23:26.40
that's undermining our health
00:23:26.40\00:23:27.94
as a society
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and as individuals.
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And Jesus offers the remedy.
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Do you see?
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We can come to Him
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just as we are,
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even if you feel that you
00:23:35.31\00:23:36.48
can't get to Him.
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I told you, though,
00:23:42.08\00:23:43.69
it's not all, praise the Lord.
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Because what's happening
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is the religious
00:23:48.39\00:23:49.19
leaders are now there
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and they're watching
00:23:50.96\00:23:52.03
Jesus?ery move.
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And when Jesus
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heals this man of his sin,
00:23:56.30\00:23:58.53
they're there to criticize
00:23:58.80\00:24:01.07
His healing ministry.
00:24:01.07\00:24:02.74
And they say,
00:24:02.74\00:24:04.21
Why does this Man
00:24:04.21\00:24:05.44
speak blasphemies like this?
00:24:05.44\00:24:07.44
Who cannot forgive sins
00:24:07.74\00:24:09.54
but God alone?
00:24:09.54\00:24:11.25
Now, this is
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interesting, right?
00:24:13.01\00:24:14.78
They're basically saying
00:24:14.78\00:24:16.65
if Jesus is really doing
00:24:16.65\00:24:18.79
what He says
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He's doing, He's God.
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But they're saying He's not.
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And therefore He can't,
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He can't forgive sins
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because He's not God.
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And so Jesus
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asked this question.
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Why do you reason
00:24:31.07\00:24:32.10
about these things
00:24:32.10\00:24:32.90
in your hearts?
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They didn't speak it out loud.
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Jesus knew their hearts
00:24:35.54\00:24:36.57
and that had to take them
00:24:36.57\00:24:37.54
aback, right?
00:24:37.54\00:24:38.71
Kind of whispering
00:24:38.71\00:24:39.51
under their breath.
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Which is easier, to say
00:24:41.01\00:24:42.24
to the paralytic,
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Your sins are forgiven you,
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or to say, Arise,
00:24:45.55\00:24:46.92
take up your bed and walk?
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So which is easier to say?
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Well,
00:24:52.19\00:24:53.22
I mean, there's different ways
00:24:53.22\00:24:54.12
you could look at it,
00:24:54.12\00:24:54.89
but from the structure
00:24:54.89\00:24:55.92
of the story,
00:24:55.92\00:24:57.33
Jesus is saying it's easier
00:24:57.33\00:24:59.23
to say, in effect,
00:24:59.23\00:25:00.96
your sins are forgiven
00:25:00.96\00:25:02.03
because there's
00:25:02.03\00:25:02.46
no objective way
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that you can evaluate
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that, right?
00:25:05.50\00:25:06.17
So that's the argument
00:25:06.17\00:25:07.17
He's presenting.
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He's saying, well, that's
00:25:07.77\00:25:08.37
you know,
00:25:08.37\00:25:08.64
you could say that's easy.
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Anybody could say that
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and not have the
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authority to do it.
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But what about to say, rise,
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take up your bed and walk?
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What about that?
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How difficult is that?
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And so Jesus says,
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so that you may know,
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that you may know
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that the Son of Man
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has power on Earth
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to forgive sins.
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He then turns to that man
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and He does what?
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He says, I say to you, Rise,
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take up your bed
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and go to your house.
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Now, what's
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remarkable about
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this is not only that
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Jesus has the authority,
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the ability,
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the power to speak healing,
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but He is depending on the man,
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right?
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He's saying, you get up.
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And what if the man said,
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But I can't.
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You see?
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And it comes back to a point
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that we raised earlier.
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God's Word is so powerful.
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It's only if we resist it.
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It's only
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if we determined to resist it.
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If you're saying, Well,
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I don't know
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if I have enough faith.
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No, just act on
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what God's saying.
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Just trust Him
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and you'll be healed.
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Euthes.
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His call to act immediately.
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Let me make one final point
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on this note as we wind up.
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And that is, just like
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in medical circles, doctors
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bemoan noncompliance, okay?
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We'll give
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patients instructions
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and they won't do it.
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I was just thinking
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about a patient the other day.
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She had very
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high triglycerides.
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I instructed her
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about her diet.
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I gave her some supplemental
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Omega 3 fats to help her.
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When I saw her back,
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she had not
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followed my counsel.
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She wasn't taking
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the supplements.
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She had them,
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but just hadn't
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started taking them.
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It was like a month.
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Do you think it helped her?
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Did you think it helped
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to have those
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in her medicine cabinet?
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No.
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It's the same with Jesus, okay?
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When Jesus dispenses healing,
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when He offers you forgiveness,
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when He offers you healing,
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what do you have to do?
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You have to accept it
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and put it into practice
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in your life.
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When you do that,
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you'll see the healing power
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of Jesus at work in your life
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and in your relationships.
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Let's pray one more time.
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Father in Heaven.
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Thank you again
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that Your Word
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speaks with power.
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Thank you for speaking
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to our hearts.
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In Jesus name, Amen.
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And we long to help you
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on your journey
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to better health
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spiritually and physically.
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If you're in the Fort Wayne,
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Indiana area,
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we often have public programs
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that you can connect with.
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Check them out
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at
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www.TimelessHealingInsights.org.
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Do you live out of the area?
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No problem.
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We've got free
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health resources programs
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that you can go through online.
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It's all at that same website,
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TimelessHealingInsights.org.
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