Welcome to
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Timeless Healing Insights.
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I'm Dr. David DeRose.
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We're continuing today
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a message
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that I entitled
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Our All Powerful Savior.
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Let's pray to Him right now.
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Father in heaven, please
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bless us
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as we engage
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with the Word of God
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in the life of Jesus.
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Please speak to us
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through Your Holy Spirit.
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We ask in Jesus name, Amen.
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We've been asking a question,
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and that is, does
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your past experience
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determine
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your current life history?
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And we've been looking
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at Bible examples showing
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that's simply not true.
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The example
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that we've been focusing on
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is in Mark 4,
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Jesus quieting the storm.
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And we're seeing how Jesus
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quiets the storms in our lives.
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But whether you are like Jesus
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on that boat,
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whether you're able to sleep
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while other people
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are going crazy,
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or whether you right now
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are struggling,
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Jesus offers you peace today.
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Let me just make this
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as clear as I can.
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It's not just a story
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where Jesus gives us
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this assurance.
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Later,
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as you read
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through the gospel accounts,
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you'll come to John 14.
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And Jesus said
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these very words.
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Peace
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I leave with you, My peace
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I give to you;
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not as the world gives
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do I give to you.
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Let not your heart
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be troubled, neither
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let it be afraid.
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Take this to heart.
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Take this to heart. Now,
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as we've been going
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through this story,
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we've been empathizing
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mostly with the disciples.
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Right?
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We could understand
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how the disciples
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could be at peace
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after Jesus stilled the storm.
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But how could Jesus be at peace
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in the middle of the storm?
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We, I think, have all
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come to the conclusion
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it didn't have just
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to do with a pillow or Him
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being so tired.
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Now I know
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some of you
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may not be convinced
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because you say, Dr.
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DeRose,
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I can sleep through everything.
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Everything I just sleep
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right through it.
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There can be storms, lightning.
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Once I slept through a tornado,
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I woke up
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and my bed
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was just there on the
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front lawn.
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Okay.
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Now, I haven't
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actually heard that one.
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But some people just tell me
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they sleep through everything.
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Let me tell you
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something interesting.
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Just physiologically
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about sleep
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and sleeping through things.
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We learned this from people
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who move
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to interesting locations.
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I already mentioned.
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Some of you know that
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I grew up in the Chicago area.
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I grew up
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not all that far
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from O'Hare Airport.
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Now, I did not live
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in the flyway
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of O'Hare Airport,
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so I don't remember
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planes rattling my house
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or anything like that.
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But there were people who lived
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not all that far from me
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who had that experience.
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And you'll often hear
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people say things like this,
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whether it's a plane flyway,
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whether it's a railroad
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track that runs by their home,
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they'll often say,
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When I first moved there,
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I woke up
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every time a plane went over
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or a train went by.
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But after a while,
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I just slept through
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it all like a baby.
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That is not true.
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Okay.
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They may have thought
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they were sleeping through it.
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But on a brain level,
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they were arousing. Okay.
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But your brain was saying
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subconsciously,
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Oh, no, it's
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just the train again.
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And just.
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You don't need to get up.
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No alarm.
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But you were still
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on a subconscious level
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aware of what was going on.
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Here's why
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I make that point for you.
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Jesus was not oblivious
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to what was going on.
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And it wasn't
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just noise of the storm.
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He's probably
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laying in water at that point.
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Have any of you
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tried doing that? Okay.
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But Jesus
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in His subconscious state,
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somehow
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He is just sleeping through it.
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It doesn't say He was playing
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sleeping.
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It doesn't say
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Jesus was feigning
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to be asleep.
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He was actually asleep.
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I love the book,
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The Desire of Ages.
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We've gone back
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and forth to it,
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as we've been going through
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Mark's gospel.
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It is my favorite commentary
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on Mark's gospel.
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I think I would have to say.
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Here's how it's
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rendered in that source.
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Jesus rested
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not in the possession
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of almighty power.
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It was not as the Master
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of earth
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and sea and sky that
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He reposed in quiet.
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That power He had laid down,
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He says, I can of Mine own self
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do nothing.
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John 5:30.
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And by the way,
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we should just pause
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right here,
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as Jesus made it very clear
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the way He was walking
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on this earth.
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He was not depending on His own
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intrinsic power.
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He was only doing those things
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that His Father
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showed Him to do.
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He was, He was
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trusting in the Father
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at every step of the way.
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And so that's the point
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that's being made here.
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It's not that Jesus saying, oh,
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I can just get up
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and stop the storm.
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He is laying there
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trusting in His Father.
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He trusted in
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the Father's might.
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It was in
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faith - faith
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in God's love and care
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- that Jesus rested,
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and the power of that word
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which stilled the storm
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was the power of God.
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Now,
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here's the question
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that I have to ask you,
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because one of the things
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we've been noticing
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as we've been going through
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Mark's gospel
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is that
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there's an amazing connection
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between Mark's gospel and,
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well, an often
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neglected book of the Bible,
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at least in many
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Christian circles.
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And that is the book of Daniel.
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Jesus, we've seen in
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Mark, was very much aware
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of timing.
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Among the very first things
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out of Jesus?uth,
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these words, at least
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according to Mark,
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the time is fulfilled.
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Mark 1:15.
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We saw that this time,
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this fulfillment of time,
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what was Jesus referring to?
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If you study it out,
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the most compelling
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answer comes
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that Jesus was aware
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of the time prophecies
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in the Book of Daniel.
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Daniel 8 and Daniel 9 point
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with amazing precision
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to the very year
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of Jesus?ptism
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and the very year
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of His crucifixion, His death.
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Here is the point.
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When Jesus
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is on the Sea of Galilee
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in that storm,
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it is not yet
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the year of His crucifixion.
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Jesus?me has not yet come.
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Is it possible
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that part of God's
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watch care,
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part of the confidence
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He had in His Father
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came from His knowledge
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of the Bible?
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I think it is very possible.
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The account continues
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though, in Mark 4.
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And I want you to see this,
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this contrast
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between Jesus
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and the disciples.
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Let me just heighten it
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because it brings
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us to our next point.
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Jesus says to them,
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Why are you so fearful?
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How is it
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that you have no faith?
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And they feared exceedingly,
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and said to one another,
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Who can this be,
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that even the wind
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and the sea obey Him!
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The language of Mark's
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account is very interesting
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because the disciples start
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this story
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when the storm comes, at least,
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fearing for their lives.
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But after Jesus causes a calm,
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they're still afraid.
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But this time it's
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this awe inspiring fear.
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Who is this?
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Who has this power
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over the
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wind and the sea?
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Jesus rested in faith
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in the Father's care.
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What was He saying
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the disciples didn't have.
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Did you catch it?
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Why are you so fearful?
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How is it that you have what?
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No faith.
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Jesus has faith.
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They have no faith.
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That's the implication of even
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Jesus criticism
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of their attitude.
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Jesus rested by faith
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in the Father's care.
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Here's the message
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for you and me.
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We too,
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are to rest
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in the care of our Savior.
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If the disciples
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had trusted in Him,
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they would have been kept
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in peace.
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Their fear
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in the time of danger
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revealed their unbelief.
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Now, let's
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just stop right here.
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What kind of fears do I have?
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What kind of fears do you have?
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What are you dealing with
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today?
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I mean, do you have fears?
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We're not going to look for
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a show of hands,
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but there's all kinds of
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things that creep
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into our lives
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that we're worried about,
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that we're fearful about.
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And I would suggest to you
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that what we're studying in
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Mark 4
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is relevant for us, right?
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If you're tempted to be afraid,
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have you forgotten
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on some level, Jesus?
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And it's only
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when The Desire of Ages
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continues, it's only
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when in despair
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of self-dependence,
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they turned to Him
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that He could give them help.
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Now, remember,
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remember,
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if a boat is filled with water,
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they were doing some things,
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I can guarantee you,
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before they got to the point
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of calling on Jesus.
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What would you be doing
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if you were riding in a boat
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and it was filling with water?
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What would you be doing?
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Okay.
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You'd be bailing it out.
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Many of you are saying,
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I'm glad none of you said
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I'd be drilling
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a hole in the bottom
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so the water would drain out.
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Okay.
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Yeah,
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I think you realize
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that one wouldn't work.
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So the point is, their bailing,
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you can be
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sure they're bailing the water
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for all they're worth.
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Maybe some of them are trying
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to keep the ship
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from turning over there.
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I don't know
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if the sails are down or the
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the oars are out
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or whatever they do.
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You can tell.
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I don't know much
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about boating.
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Some of you will pull me
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aside, say,
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you know,
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you take the sail down
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in that situation
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or others say
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no, you go into the wind
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and you do this
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and you tack this way
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that I don't know
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what they were doing. Okay.
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I do know, though,
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if the boat's
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about to go under,
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they had time,
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but it's only
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when they gave up.
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Maybe they were saying, think
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maybe you've done this too,
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maybe you've even done it
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with someone close to you.
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Well, don't wake them up.
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They've had a hard day.
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Let's see
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if we can fix this ourselves.
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Right.
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Have you been there before?
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I could see some of
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you relate to that.
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And, and
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so that's what they're doing,
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it seems. Let's let Jesus rest.
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And they finally say,
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Hey, we're going to go down.
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- Some of you,
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after the last message,
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our last study together,
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I learned that
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you were kind
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scratching your heads
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about some of the
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streams of thought.
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And you're saying,
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what is all this
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about the favorites
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and God working
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through His church?
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And what is this about visions
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and dreams?
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Well, we're going to try
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to pull that all together
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right now. Okay.
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If you're wondering where
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that was all going
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to come to a culmination
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before we finish Mark 4.
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Remember, we looked at
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how God, in a sense,
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calls all of us, calls
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everyone on planet
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Earth His favorites.
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The Bible says
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God is not willing that what?
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Any should perish.
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Okay. God so loved the what?
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The world that He gave
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His only begotten Son.
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All of you are precious
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to Jesus.
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But here's what we saw
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in our last study,
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and that is
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that God
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can only ultimately work
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through those
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who have faith in Him,
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only those who are
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trusting Him.
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These are the ones
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who are, in a sense,
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in the language
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of Mark's gospel.
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They're the insiders.
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Jesus spoke about others
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being the outsiders.
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They don't get all the
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special information,
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the ones who weren't
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trusting Him,
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the ones who didn't have faith,
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the ones
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who are even
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plotting to kill Him.
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They're not brought
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into that inner circle.
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But when you trust Jesus,
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He explains things to you.
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He makes things plain.
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But even if
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you have a relationship
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with Jesus and praise the Lord,
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that's available
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for every one of us.
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If you don't,
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you can decide right now
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that you want Him
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as the Lord of your life.
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You can just ask Him
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and He will come in.
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But we can't be proud
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of that relationship.
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We saw some of the problems
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that can occur
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when we have
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that kind of spiritual pride.
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We saw it in the
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response of the Jewish leaders
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who already at this point
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in Mark's
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gospel, are
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plotting to kill Jesus.
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You can be overly confident.
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You can rely on yourself
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rather than God.
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Were the disciples
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doing that in the boat?
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No question.
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They're relying on themselves.
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They had just been told.
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Turn back
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in your Bibles to Mark 4.
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I don't want you to miss this.
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Jesus had basically
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just told them before
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this storm on the sea
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that you are really special.
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You're really special.
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Okay?
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You say,
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Where do you find that?
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Well, just look at Mark 4
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as Jesus is
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telling the parables to them.
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Verse 34,
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it says, Without a parable,
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He did not speak to them.
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That is the audience.
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This is Mark 4:34.
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And when they were alone,
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Jesus explained
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all things to His disciples.
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This is a special relationship
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with Jesus.
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Just like He wants you
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to have a special relationship
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with Him.
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But that doesn't mean
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just because you have
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a special relationship
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with Him now,
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it's all on your shoulders.
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Disciples got into big trouble
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that way.
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Just a few verses later.
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The other problem
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is, as we saw last time,
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we can depreciate
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the value of others.
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If we're solely focused
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on our relationship to Jesus,
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it can undermine the community
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that God is trying to build.
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Here's
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what's so fascinating to me.
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As you
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look at Mark
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4, a number of
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these issues are addressed
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and I want you to see this.
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If you didn't catch it already,
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the only
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time, the only time
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that there is
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any call for help,
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it doesn't come from Peter.
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It doesn't come from James.
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Doesn?ome from John
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or Andrew,
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or even Philip or Nathaniel.
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Every account,
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like Mark's,
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Luke's account agrees.
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Matthew's account agrees.
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It is a collective
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cry for help.
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So you see it there in verse
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38, it says, They awoke Jesus
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and they said to Him, Teacher,
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do you
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not care that we are perishing?
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They caught this sense
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that they're all
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in this together,
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and their only hope is where?
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It's in Jesus.
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Now, one other
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aspect of community
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that we touched on
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in our last study
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together that I want you
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to see connects with this story
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in a very special way.
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We talked about
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dreams and visions
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in our last time together.
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And like I said,
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some of you left scratching
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your heads, dreams and visions.
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What does all this have to do
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with Mark 1 through 4?
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Well, dreams
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and visions are forms
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of inspiration.
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God
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revealing His truth
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to an individual.
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In fact,
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some have said
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this is the most intimate way
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that today
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God can reveal His truth.
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Now, others would say, Well,
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I think a more intimate way is,
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as you're studying the Bible,
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that God personally
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brings the Bible truth to you.
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And some people say, Well,
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why would that be
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more intimate?
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It's because
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if I read something in the
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Bible, it stays there.
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If you have a
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dream or a vision,
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even if you write it down,
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you can lose the paper.
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You say, That's why
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I write it on my computer
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and put it on the hard drive.
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Well,
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maybe you haven't
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had this experience,
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but I've had computers crash.
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You say, Well,
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that's why
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I back up everything, Dr.
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DeRose.
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Okay, well,
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even the backup
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drives can crash.
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If that hasn't happened to you
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yet, it's happened to me. Okay.
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So here's my point, though.
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Whatever It is.
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It is an intimate form of God
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revealing His will.
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But we found
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something interesting
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as we looked at Bible examples
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in our last study,
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and that is often
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God will give someone
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a vision or a dream
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and it makes
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absolutely no sense to them.
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It's only as events transpire
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and as they transpire
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in a social context
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that they understand the dream.
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Maybe someone else tells them
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the interpretation
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of the dream.
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God, I believe,
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is highlighting
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how we often work
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through His church,
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through a body of believers.
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With that background,
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I want you to look now
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at some words of inspiration,
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and I want you to try
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to think of these words.
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Realize they were written
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hundreds of years
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before the account
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we just read.
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Psalm 107, beginning
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with verse 23.
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Those who go down to the sea
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in ships,
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who do business on
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great waters,
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they see the works of the Lord,
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and His wonders in the deep.
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Don't miss the point.
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Number of those people on
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that boat
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were fishermen
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who had worked all their lives
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on that very sea.
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He commands and
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raises the
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stormy wind, which lifts up
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the waves of the sea.
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They mount up to the heavens,
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they go down again
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to the depths;
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Their soul melts
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because of trouble.
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They reel to and fro,
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and stagger like a drunken man,
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and are at their wits?d.
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Then.
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Then they cry out to the Lord
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in their trouble,
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and He brings them
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out of their distresses.
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He calms the storm,
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so that its waves are still.
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Then they are glad
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because they are quiet;
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So He guides them
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to their desired haven.
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How many of you think
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this psalm
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sounds strangely familiar
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in the light of Mark 4?
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Think about it this way now.
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Remember, hundreds of years
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before this psalm is written
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and a mother is reading
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this psalm to her child.
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500 B.C., Let's
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just say hypothetically,
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or maybe even in Babylon,
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570 B.C., we?say, okay,
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reading this psalm
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and
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the child says, Mommy,
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what is this talking about?
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Did she have any
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idea of the full
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meaning of Psalm 107?
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I would say no
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because I believe the full
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meaning of Psalm
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107 is only seen in Mark 4.
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It is one of a series
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of amazing
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examples of inspiration,
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the very Bible writer
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who wrote the Psalm
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didn't
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realize what
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he was writing about.
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that amazing, okay?
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In fact,
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as you read in
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the New Testament,
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it says the Bible writers,
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and I'm paraphrasing,
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were struggling
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with what they were
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written, longing
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to see the things
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that we've seen
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who live
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ministry on planet Earth.
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The story of the
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storm in Mark 4
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is helping to lay
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an important foundation.
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We're going to continue
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to build on this
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because as we go through
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Mark's gospel,
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we're going to see
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other examples
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where prophecies
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sometimes given in the Psalms.
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You just think it's a psalm.
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Oh, no, no.
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It is a prophecy
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of Jesus?nistry
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fulfilled
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precisely by Jesus?fe.
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And what I would suggest to you
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is this shows
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how God is working
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through the church.
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Who is Mark?
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He's a member
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of the New Testament Church.
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The Holy Spirit is being given,
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the gift of the Spirit
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is being given to Mark,
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to interpret, to shed light
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on what had been written
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hundreds of years before.
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Now, here's the question.
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Practical question.
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This series
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we call it Healing Insights
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from the Gospel of Mark.
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Hopefully you've already gotten
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healing insights
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about dealing with
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challenges in your life,
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how we're dealing with stress,
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and how we can rise to the top
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by trusting in Jesus,
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by letting His Word
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have first place in our lives.
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But there's another dimension
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here, and that is,
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can the Holy Spirit
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guide you today?
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Can the Holy Spirit
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give you practical instruction
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about how to live today
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to avoid problems
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down the road?
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And I want to,
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I want to answer the question
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in perhaps an unusual way.
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You see,
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Jesus works through His church,
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through gifting the church
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in many diverse ways.
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One of the ways
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that Christ gifts
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the church is seen
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in Ephesians 4.
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I invite you to turn there
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to Ephesians
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4:11, Ephesians 4:11.
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This is speaking
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about spiritual gifts
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in the church.
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And I want you to notice
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something interesting
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because there are Christians
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and there have been Christians
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who have said, Well,
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the gift of prophecy,
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the gift of revelation
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was given to the early church,
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but it stopped
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as soon as the disciples
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died, as soon as John died,
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the last of the living
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12 disciples,
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that was the end of
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the gift of prophecy.
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The Bible does not
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give us that picture.
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I'm in Ephesians
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4, beginning with verse 11.
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He himself,
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speaking of Jesus,
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gave some to be apostles,
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some prophets,
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some evangelists,
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some pastors and teachers
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for the equipping
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of the saints,
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for the work of ministry,
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for the edifying
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of the body of Christ.
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Until we all come to
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the unity of the faith
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and of the knowledge
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of the Son of God
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to a perfect man,
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to the measure of the stature,
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of the fullness of Christ.
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And he goes on, he's saying,
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these gifts are given
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so we wouldn't be
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swept away
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by every wind of doctrine.
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We wouldn't be
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swamped
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by the storms of
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false teaching.
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This is why
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He has given gifts
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to the church.
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Now carefully look at verse 13.
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How long are these gifts given?
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Until we all what?
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Come into the unity
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of the faith.
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When is that fully going
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to be realized?
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When are we going to fully come
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to a knowledge
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of the Son of God?
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When will we fully reflect
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the full stature of Christ?
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That's the end of verse 13.
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When will that happen?
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Well it will only happen
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when Jesus has come back.
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So the essence of Ephesians 4
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is that
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the gifts
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are given to the church
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until the return of Jesus.
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Now, if that's not enough
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evidence for you,
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turn to 1 Thessalonians 5,
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and I want you to see this
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and I'm going to make
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an important distinction.
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1 Thessalonians 5,
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Paul is writing here
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to the church of Thessalonica,
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and as he's closing
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this letter.
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He gives them
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some very pointed counsel.
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1 Thessalonians 5:19.
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Do not quench the Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit's working.
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Don't press back against it.
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Do not what?
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Despise prophesying.
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Wait a minute.
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Why doesn't he say,
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Don't despise prophesying
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as long as
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the disciples are still alive?
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Why is there no qualification?
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Did the Holy Spirit not know
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that we'd be reading
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the Bible here
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in 2022 in Fort Wayne, Indiana?
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I believe God knew.
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Okay.
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God knew
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this Bible would be relevant
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till the end of time.
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And so if prophecy
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was just to last a short while,
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He could have made it
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very easy.
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Don't quench the Spirit.
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Don't despise prophecy for now.
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But as soon as John dies,
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then you don't have to
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worry about prophecy anymore.
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Wouldn't that have made it
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a whole lot clearer?
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No, because
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prophecy doesn't end
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with the disciples.
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Now, in our last study
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together, I will remind you,
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because some of you
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weren't here,
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we looked at an amazing dream
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that a young man
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by the name of Nabeel
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Qureshi had, remember that?
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He had an amazing dream.
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He received guidance from God.
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I don't have any question
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that God gave him that dream.
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Now, does that mean that
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we should go ahead
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and add the dream of Nabeel
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Qureshi to the Bible?
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Should we put it in our Bible?
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Should we add an extra chapter?
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No.
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God gave us
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a sufficient revelation.
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Nothing more needs to be
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added to the Bible.
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The Bible is sufficient.
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But that doesn't mean
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that God still doesn't
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give specific guidance
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to specific people.
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Is that clear?
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So we're not adding
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things to the Bible.
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We're not putting something
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on the level of the Bible
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because we believe the Holy
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Spirit still speaks today.
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Let me tell you why
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this is so important.
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Some of you know
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we're in a Seventh-day
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Adventist church today.
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And the Seventh-day
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Adventist Church
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grew out of a
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worldwide movement
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that started in
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the early 1800s,
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sometimes called
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the Great Advent Movement
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or the Second Great Awakening.
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One of the things that happened
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during that movement
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throughout the world,
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people were having visions
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and dreams.
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One of those people
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was a young lady,
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long before the Seventh-day
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Adventist Church
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was ever organized, a woman
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by the name of Ellen Harmon.
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And over the decades,
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she continued to have visions,
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even after she was married,
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now known to many of you
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as Ellen White.
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And she wrote amazing
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health counsel.
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One of the books that she wrote
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was called
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The Ministry of Healing.
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We could spend several hours
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or more
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looking at the
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Ministry of Healing
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and how it had cutting edge
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medical science.
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Someone did this, a physician
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by the name of Don
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McMann wrote a book
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called Acquired
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or Inspired,
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looked at Ellen
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White's health
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counsel and showed how
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no way you could explain it
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other than that, basically, God
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had directed her more accurate
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than anyone else
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living at her time.
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Just far and above
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amazingly insightful on target
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health authority.
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Not counsel from men
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is what
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McMahon's conclusion was
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as he worked
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with multiple physicians
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to analyze her writing.
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Let me just give you
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a few examples.
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Tobacco is a slow, insidious,
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but most malignant poison.
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And whatever form it's used,
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it tells upon the constitution;
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it's the more dangerous
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because its effects are slow
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and at first
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hardly perceivable.
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What do you think about this?
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Tobacco is a what?
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Most malignant poison.
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Some 60 years.
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The Surgeon General
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made the connection
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between smoking and cancer.
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Okay.
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Tobacco isn't only a problem
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for the one smoking.
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She calls it what?
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The poisoned breath of smokers.
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Do they have a right
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to defile the air?
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What's going on here?
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She's talking about the dangers
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of secondhand smoke.
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This is relatively
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recent history before
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public health
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caught on to this.
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And then how about this one?
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Adequate ventilation in homes.
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Do you realize
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the early advent movement
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started in New England?
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There's lots of a poisonous gas
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that comes up from the granite
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rock in New England
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called radon,
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second leading
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cause of lung cancer deaths.
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You can get rid of radon
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by adequate ventilation.
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And Ellen White wrote,
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Thorough ventilation
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in the rooms was essential,
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especially the rooms
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where you slept.
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You know what?
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God is in the business
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of helping His people.
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He's in the business
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of comforting His people.
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He wants to guide you
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through His Word.
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But the Lord is also working
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through His church.
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I encourage you, connect
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with the Bible, connect
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with God's people
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and you, too, will be blessed.
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Indeed, our all powerful
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Savior wants to work
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powerfully in your life.
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Let me pray to that end.
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Father in heaven,
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may Your Word of power
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have its place
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in the lives of each
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one who's tuning in today.
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We pray that You would
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bless them
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through the power of Your Word,
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through the life of Jesus.
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We ask in His name, Amen.
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