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Welcome to a redemption hill podcast for more

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information about redemption, so go to redemption hill

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It says this then they sail to the

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country

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of the gu.

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Which is opposite

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Galilee.

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When Jesus had stepped out on land,

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there met him a man from the city

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who had demons.

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For a long time, he had worn no

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clothes, and he not lived in the house,

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but among the tombs.

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When he saw Jesus, he cried out and

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he fell down before him and said with

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a loud voice what have you to do

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with me, Jesus,

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son of are the most high God.

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I beg you.

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Do not torment me. For he had commanded

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the uncle clean spirit to come out of

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the man for, many a time and it

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seized him and he was kept under guard

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bound with the chains and shackles, but he

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would break the bonds and be driven by

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the demon into the desert. Jesus then asked

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him. What is your name?

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And he said legion for many demons that

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entered him. And they begged him not to

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command them to depart into the abyss, now

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a large herd of pigs was feeding there

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on the hillside, and they begged him to

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let them enter these, so he gave them

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permission, then the demons came out of the

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man entered the pigs and the herd rushed

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down the Steep bank and into the lake

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in drowned.

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When the herd saw what had happened,

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they fled and told it in the city,

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and in the country, then people went out

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to see what had happened, and they came

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to Jesus and found a man who, from

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whom the demons had gone, sitting at the

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feet of Jesus cloth in his right mind,

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and they were afraid.

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When those who had seen it told them

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how the demon possessed man had been healed,

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than all the people of the surrounding country

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of the ga scenes asked him to depart

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from them for they were seized with great

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fear. So he got into the boat And

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he returned the man from whom the demons

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had gone begged that he may be with

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him and Jesus sent him away saying returned

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to your home.

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And declare how much God has done for

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you, and he went away proclaiming throughout the

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whole city, how much Jesus had done for

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him.

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Now when Jesus returned,

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they... The crowd welcomed him for they were

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all waiting for him, and they came... And

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there came a man named G, who was

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a rule of the synagogue and falling at

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Jesus feet implore him to come to his

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house.

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For he had an older daughter about 12

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years of age who was dying,

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and Jesus went, and Jesus went and the

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people pressed around him, and there was a

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man who had a dish... Or a woman

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who had a discharge of blood for 12

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years. And though she had spent all of

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her living on physician, she could not be

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healed by anyone.

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She came up behind them and touched the

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fringe of his garment and immediately or discharge

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of blood ceased.

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And Jesus said who was at the touch

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me when all denied it Peter's said master

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or the crowds

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surround you and are pressing in on me,

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but Jesus said someone touched me for I

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perceived, the power has gone out from me

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And when the woman saw that she was

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not hidden, she came trembling and falling down

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before him declaring in the presence of all

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why she had touched him and shall... How

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she had been immediately healed,

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and he said to her daughter, your faith

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has made you well go in peace.

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While he was still speaking, someone from the

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rulers house came and said your daughter his

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dad, do not trouble the teacher anymore? But

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Jesus on hearing this answered him, do not

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fear only believe and she will be well.

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And we came to the house. He allowed

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no 1 to enter with him, except Peter,

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in John, and James and the father and

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mother of the child and all weeping and

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mourning for her, but she said... But he

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said do not weep for she is not

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dead but sleeping.

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And they laughed at him, knowing that she

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was dead. But taking her by the hand,

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he called... He called saying child arise and

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her spirit returned,

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and she got up at once, and he

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directed that someone should be given... Something should

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be given to her to eat and her

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parents were amazed. But he charged them to

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tell no 1 what had happened. This is

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the word or the lord. If father the

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asked that you would meet us with your

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word.

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Now you promised that it doesn't return avoid

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that it does work that it soften or

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harden it's always working and moving. So we

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ask. That you would make it no different

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today even in a text that's difficult than

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1 that we don't want to think about

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with a with topics like demon possession and

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it got, but john near us.

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Let us see the beauty of Jesus. Let

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her see that he has the keys to

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to all him and maybe come to him

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for that. We pray that in and your

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name Meet us here. Lord. Newman amen?

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So I don't generally give out a sermon

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title,

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while preaching a message. Yeah. I'll cut the

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podcast later and try and figure out something

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cool to type in

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but I don't normally give 1 out during

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the preaching

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of the text, but I'm gonna, kinda break

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that habit or unwritten rule for me today.

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This message

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is titled, and we're we're we're gonna just

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reveal our cards. And nothing will be hidden

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close to the chest,

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just come to Jesus.

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No matter who you are, what you need,

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how far gone you think things are, where

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your head space is at. What's going on?

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It doesn't matter just come to him.

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He's not a genie in a bottle.

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Me don't get to come and rub the

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lamp and get the 3 coolest wishes that

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you think would make your life better,

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but

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there's literally nothing

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too big for him to deal with that

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that you do need.

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For those who have years, let them here

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in light of the text that we have

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been preaching as of late. And but I

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I just ask you to to consider. It's

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July 20 first. I don't know what your

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plans are, Some of you went watch fireworks

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last night. I don't know what you've been

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doing or what you've got planned later. But

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before the message

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starts going,

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have you considered, is there something that you

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need to go to Jesus 4? Something weighing

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on

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your heart something that you've been wrestling with

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in the back corners of your mind or

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maybe in a Dna group or C, is

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there something that you need to come to

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him for?

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A sin pattern that you just can't get

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out of

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struggling to believe that Jesus really is

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enough in life at the moment? Are are

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you struggling with faithfulness

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steadfast

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being a hard 1 for us, contentment.

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Is bitterness or Mel colleague or

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ind or apa,

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just kind of got you.

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And you know that you've been stuck and

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you've been trying to get out of it,

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and you don't really know how... And and

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you're not sure how deal it. I just

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ask you to consider before even get into

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the depths of the text? Have you considered

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going to Jesus as a remedy for that?

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And maybe the always year it would be

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leading you towards that today. Hey, there's a

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ocean of freedom with King Jesus.

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Has it been considered.

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Luke is on a mission

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to present to us in

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this part of the gospel which just the

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the fullness of the

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salvation of Christ. And we discussed it heavily

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in the text last week,

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and we're gonna add some nuance to that

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in the text today, hoping to bring interview

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this kind of simple concept, you cannot,

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see the fullness of salvation

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without simultaneously

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considering the fullness of the power of King

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jesus to bring about said,

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salvation.

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Put differently. We cannot truly consider the miracle

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of salvation without considering the miracle

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worker.

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And his power

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that is beyond the power of anything else,

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the 1 who pulls it off.

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His salvation is truly the transfer of a

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soul from death to life. If if if

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that's real,

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if salvation is the taking of the heart

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of of stone, it's hard and un

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and turning it into a heart of flesh.

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If it's transferring a person, from their realm

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realm of darkness into the realm of light,

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not only just their their inheritance, but their

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very nature out of darkness and the light.

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If it's really that big of a deal.

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How powerful is the 1 who accomplishes

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How mighty is the 1 who does what

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no 1 else could do?

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This is what Luke is pressing on us

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to see Is a really big deal.

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of Jesus to accomplish

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salvation is huge. Oh that we would believe

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it that it's huge.

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the forces of nature, all the forces that

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they can master, they sit down when Jesus

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says

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sit now. A storm rage, the disciples thought

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they're going to die. They run to Jesus.

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We're gonna we're gonna die and Jesus says

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something to the effect of peace b still

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and the waves submitted. They didn't just calm

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down a couple knots. It didn't just chill

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out a little bit. All of a sudden,

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it went from chaos. We're going to die

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massive,

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massive storm to done,

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left the disciples asking a question who is

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They are wrestling with all and wonder. What

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kind of man, what kind of being, what

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kind of person can can do this. What

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kind of man can make the very forces

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of nature bow down with with a word.

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And what's interesting is the text just ends

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with that question. Who is this?

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And it ends that way for us to

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consider that in our own lives. But the...

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Notice the disciples don't answer the question of

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who is this. It just sits there. But

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today in the text, that question gets picked

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back up and it gets answered by a

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person that you're probably going to be a

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There's an important lead in concept I wanna

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push us

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to to see before we get going. The

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disciples in the text last week. They panicked

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in fear of the storm,

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completely lost it. They did not even consider

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Jesus because of their fear, of the storm

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in the incident. Their faith was completely

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neutralized and short circuit. They went from from

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high faith big faith. Jesus will follow you

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to the end of the world We're gonna

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die, no faith at all, and Jesus asks

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them the question where is your faith because

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of it?

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That question in return to them was not

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meant to be a a soul crushing slam

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as much as a invitation into

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future faith.

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He's asking them

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to consider not so easily casting aside their

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faith next time a fear comes.

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Where a store comes where a trial comes.

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And and there's some beauty in this if

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we think about.

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And Jesus and his patience in his kindness

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towards his followers,

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is a big deal. He is quick to

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give them a second chance.

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Even after the epic screw up, the the

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disciples again, they go from full faith to

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to no faith in Jesus doesn't bench them.

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He doesn't fire them. He he doesn't tar

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feather them or dis them. He heads them

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straight to the shore.

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To try again.

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They go from an encounter with a dark

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and powerful storm

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to an encounter with a dark and evil

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force a demon civilized man immediately after.

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I don't know about you, but I find

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that troubling and encouraging at the same time.

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Troubling because they thought of going from 1

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epic scary thing,

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followed by another, makes me go like, what

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if I fail with that 1 too? Like,

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oh too bad,

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but it also is a bit encouraging.

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Hear me. Because

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if we would be honest, I'll I'll I'll

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I'll say it from my perspective, but

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it's encouraging because I know what it likes

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to what it's like to feel like a

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disappointment.

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I know what it's like to feel like

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I've dropped the ball in front of Jesus.

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I know what it's like to have a

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big moment

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in realize I met it with complete un

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unbelievable.

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Right? To to fall on my face unequivocally,

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which is exactly how the disciples felt this

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stay. And yet, Jesus gave them another chance

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to get back up, believe and have faith.

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That gives me hope that it'll do the

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same for you and me. Yes, there's days

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when we will fall short,

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And yet when we do,

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there's another moment.

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Until Jesus returns, there's always another moment to

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have faith.

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King Jesus is not only powerful, but he's

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kind and gentle, and you're gonna fall, and

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I'm gonna fall and he's still gonna give

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you another chance to get back up and

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believe and get back up and believe and

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that's a profound goodness. Because because what do

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we do? We normally go... Man I fail

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too big that time. I don't get another

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chance.

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Takes them to the shore. Immediately, they get

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another 1.

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Immediately, after the storm, they found themselves on

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the on the coast of the ge scenes,

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and there's no buffer, no decompression, no week

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off. And as soon as they get off

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of the the the boat. Right? They've literally

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crossed the other side, storm, Jesus calms that

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they get off right there. In and they

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get met by a man possessed by demons.

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He meets Jesus as he gets off the

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boat.

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In the demons inside of him start yelling

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out and loud

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voice, what do you want with me?

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Jesus son of the most high God.

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My god. That... That's

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a somewhat of an interesting greeting when you

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hit the shore.

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There was an answer to that question that

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we mentioned earlier. Remember, again, the their disciples

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to ask who is this man

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The demons answer with no hesitation.

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Jesus is the son of the most high

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God.

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Their answer is interesting and a little bit

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of a weird overstate at the same time.

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It's interesting because if you if we if

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we study cultures and civilizations throughout all of

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history,

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most of them are going to be poly.

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They believe in many gods and they create

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many gods and worship many gods, but even

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though they have kind of a pant of

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different gods,

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in culture that they observe, there's always this

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1 high God.

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He's the strong 1. He's the the big

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1,

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even the demons who are evil and powerful

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no.

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They're standing before, not some demi god.

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This is not zeus or Hercules or some

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other thing. They're standing in front of not

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even another powerful spirit like them, they're standing

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in front of the God the most high

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God.

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Now, the statements are a little bit weird

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as well because

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If there is,

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I'm I'm not so good with grammar all

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the time you can tell. And if you've

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ever read my transcript, you'd really be able

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to tell.

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But if you say the high God,

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like, you've already hit the Apex. High is

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like Uno top.

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That's as high as you can get. So

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it's a bit of an overstate to say

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the the most High god. You've you've already

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got High God. Top God. Most High God

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is a big overstate

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But that's kind of the point.

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The demons even know that they're are in

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front of the alpha and omega,

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not just a power

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the all powerful god man is in front

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of them.

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Now hear this. Well, humanity still wrestle. Where

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the verdict is is out. I'm still trying

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to decide. I'm just just trying to kinda

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figure out who this Jesus is. We're always

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trying to figure out who Jesus is? Will

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we believe in him? Will we submit him

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in our day to day lives in the

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here and now what we need to understand

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is is any of our

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belief does not change the fact it does

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not move the needle at all. It give

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him power or take it away. That Jesus

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is the most powerful that there is. He

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is the God man.

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This is why the demons

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beg him,

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do not torment me.

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We probably should do a little bit of

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of groundwork here. Alright? We're not gonna get

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into a whole theology of demon.

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Here's a ground level to try and wrap

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minds around some of it though. The bible

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talks about the concept of a tri God.

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That is,

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God in 3 persons, 1 God in 3

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persons.

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The father,

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God, the son, God, the holy spirit and

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God created

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everything that we see. Nothing was created outside

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of the tri God. So God created the

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earth

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and human in animals and heavenly beings, including

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angels.

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And at some point, some of the angels

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rebelled against God. They wanted to be more

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powerful than God.

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In a moment just like Adam and Eve,

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it in the garden, all of a sudden

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they begin to doubt God's goodness. I could

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do better on my own. God's trying to

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hold me back. IIII

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wanna overthrow him. I wanna do my own

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thing.

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We learn in a not so detailed account.

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That when the angels did this, God cast

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the angelic beings who tried to rebel against

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him down to earth out of heaven and

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down to earth.

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Of these, the the lead of these angels

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was what we call Satan nor the devil,

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and the other ones are what we know

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as demons.

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And they are now warring against God. The

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Bible says they're pro around, like, a roaring

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line, looking for people to devour

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in destroy. They were in heaven, decided to

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try and get over overthrow god. God throws

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them down. He gives him a point of

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power on earth for a time before they're

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going to be destroyed forever, while they're here

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on earth, they're trying to destroy and wreck

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shop in whatever way that they can.

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Now the logic, we've been talking about the

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Day several times in the last Sermon.

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God created humans in the Ama day.

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Meaning he made humans not to be little

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gods, but he made us to reflect his

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nature in what he is like. So we're

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meant to live in union with God, worshiping

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God, finding our meaning in God and the

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reflecting his character back to the world around

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him.

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So the demons now try and possess humans

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to take them over as a way to

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try and,

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destroy the yam ama day in them. This

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is a indirect war at god through humans.

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So demons will try and possess people,

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and do often awful things to them, pressing

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humans to the point of despair,

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unimaginable sin in broken. And this is exactly

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what they run

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into here. Alright. Like, are are we tracking

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all of a sudden, the the demons are

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war with God? I'm gonna try and crush

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even the very image of God in these

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humans by destroying them. This is the war,

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this man now lived naked

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with no home,

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and he's wandering around

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grave tombs because of the demon immunization.

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We need to see, and I I know

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this is uncomfortable to talk about. We could

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have other discussions later if you want about

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if you've seen it if you have it,

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and why don't we see it all time?

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We we could do that another time, But

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but we need to understand of this man

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right now is he's not just in mental

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crisis.

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Dude didn't just lose his marble.

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This is a man who demons have taken

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over,

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and now they have driven him to this

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horrible spot. He was uncontrollable.

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He was dangerous.

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He was more wild than he was man

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running around naked, un contempt ill,

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and it was a result.

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Everyone was against him and staying away from

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him.

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Think about this guy's position.

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He's d,

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animal,

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marginalized and both frightened and fearful at the

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same time.

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This is utter misery.

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We hear that for a time the people

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in the town tried to seize him. But

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I got 1 part. He's a part of

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the culture. He had a family. He had

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he he had AAA

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beginning to his life and and people were

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trying to bind him trying get it fixed,

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trying to rest sustain him from doing evil.

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And when they bind him and lock him

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up and try and guard him, the the

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the

546
00:19:26,721 --> 00:19:28,893
would would literally break free.

547
00:19:29,612 --> 00:19:31,788
His strength seemed un human

548
00:19:32,565 --> 00:19:34,242
just like this new way of life, then

549
00:19:34,242 --> 00:19:36,637
the demons would drive him into the desert

550
00:19:36,637 --> 00:19:38,807
every time they try and strain him. Was

551
00:19:38,807 --> 00:19:40,642
try and fix this. He'd break out and

552
00:19:40,642 --> 00:19:42,716
he'd run into the desert where he'd roam,

553
00:19:43,195 --> 00:19:45,030
naked it among the tombs and despair.

554
00:19:46,403 --> 00:19:48,001
Again, what we're meant to see is this

555
00:19:48,001 --> 00:19:49,759
man is now acting more like a while

556
00:19:49,759 --> 00:19:50,798
animal than a human being.

557
00:19:51,757 --> 00:19:53,675
Again, the yam ama day you're supposed to

558
00:19:53,675 --> 00:19:55,603
reflect the character of god and this guy

559
00:19:55,603 --> 00:19:57,514
is reflecting more of a wild animal and

560
00:19:57,514 --> 00:19:58,311
a wild beast.

561
00:20:00,223 --> 00:20:02,055
The question may have been asked from anybody

562
00:20:02,055 --> 00:20:04,458
you've seen him or knew him or heard

563
00:20:04,458 --> 00:20:06,764
of his story, and we get other accounts

564
00:20:06,764 --> 00:20:08,753
that he was very, well known and people

565
00:20:08,753 --> 00:20:11,299
literally avoid the the area because of him,

566
00:20:12,427 --> 00:20:13,939
The question may have been asked is there

567
00:20:13,939 --> 00:20:15,371
any yam ama day left in there.

568
00:20:16,325 --> 00:20:18,552
Is there any glimpse? Any reflection is he

569
00:20:18,552 --> 00:20:20,799
beyond saving, Is he too shattered? Or does

570
00:20:20,799 --> 00:20:22,314
he too messed up as is he beyond

571
00:20:22,314 --> 00:20:22,554
hope?

572
00:20:24,627 --> 00:20:26,461
And at that point, Jesus shows up and

573
00:20:26,461 --> 00:20:29,186
the pneumonia ends up in front. Of him.

574
00:20:31,572 --> 00:20:32,629
This is a massive

575
00:20:34,118 --> 00:20:34,277
confrontation.

576
00:20:35,311 --> 00:20:37,785
Again, the demons are trying to devour and

577
00:20:37,785 --> 00:20:40,402
destroy the chief of man's creation to to

578
00:20:40,402 --> 00:20:43,043
stamp out any hint of the divine likeness

579
00:20:43,098 --> 00:20:45,504
in man. It's a full on assault on

580
00:20:45,663 --> 00:20:47,418
God through the assault on the man. So

581
00:20:47,418 --> 00:20:49,252
the demons are trying to crush the image

582
00:20:49,252 --> 00:20:50,688
of God in this man, then all of

583
00:20:50,688 --> 00:20:52,682
a sudden, God shows up the 1 who's

584
00:20:52,682 --> 00:20:53,400
created the man.

585
00:20:56,127 --> 00:20:57,244
This is a big moment.

586
00:20:58,760 --> 00:20:59,979
What I find amazing

587
00:21:02,047 --> 00:21:03,482
is if this was a war movie all

588
00:21:03,482 --> 00:21:05,078
a sudden there'd be this epic clash in

589
00:21:05,078 --> 00:21:06,035
this epic battle,

590
00:21:08,681 --> 00:21:10,828
the demons didn't talk any messages at Jesus,

591
00:21:12,180 --> 00:21:13,850
they didn't try and stand off with him.

592
00:21:15,361 --> 00:21:17,111
They without hesitation.

593
00:21:18,555 --> 00:21:20,141
Just began to beg Jesus,

594
00:21:21,171 --> 00:21:22,122
not to torment them.

595
00:21:23,469 --> 00:21:25,475
Whereas the disciples in in our

596
00:21:25,863 --> 00:21:28,331
beliefs can wax and wan The demons belief

597
00:21:28,331 --> 00:21:30,798
in Jesus in his power did not wax

598
00:21:30,798 --> 00:21:32,390
and wayne for even a second. They knew

599
00:21:32,390 --> 00:21:32,948
his power.

600
00:21:34,079 --> 00:21:36,076
In hear this, they're the power of king

601
00:21:36,156 --> 00:21:38,893
Jesus terrified them to the point of grove.

602
00:21:41,124 --> 00:21:42,961
If nothing else maybe today may that be

603
00:21:42,961 --> 00:21:45,678
a reminder to us that darkness shutters of

604
00:21:45,678 --> 00:21:47,275
the name and presence of Jesus.

605
00:21:48,089 --> 00:21:50,163
Our king isn't to be tri with. He

606
00:21:50,163 --> 00:21:52,736
cannot be over overpowered. We get so

607
00:21:53,114 --> 00:21:53,614
ex

608
00:21:53,991 --> 00:21:55,586
and worried. And what am I gonna do

609
00:21:55,586 --> 00:21:56,942
and how am I gonna deal with? Do

610
00:21:56,942 --> 00:21:57,740
you know who your king is?

611
00:21:58,949 --> 00:22:00,381
Yes, there's gonna be rough stuff here.

612
00:22:01,176 --> 00:22:02,608
But a king is all powerful.

613
00:22:03,245 --> 00:22:04,836
It is with you for all of eternity

614
00:22:04,836 --> 00:22:06,507
if you're following king jesus. We need a

615
00:22:06,507 --> 00:22:06,960
fresh

616
00:22:07,316 --> 00:22:07,712
reminder.

617
00:22:08,188 --> 00:22:10,168
Jesus is this powerful and the demons know

618
00:22:10,168 --> 00:22:11,595
it... Oh, I wish that the children of

619
00:22:11,674 --> 00:22:12,704
God understood it again.

620
00:22:14,383 --> 00:22:15,121
And Jesus

621
00:22:15,652 --> 00:22:17,477
commanded the demons come out of the man.

622
00:22:18,587 --> 00:22:20,253
And all they do is beg, please don't

623
00:22:20,253 --> 00:22:21,229
torment us

624
00:22:21,539 --> 00:22:22,980
And Jesus asked the man,

625
00:22:23,779 --> 00:22:26,259
his name and the demon spoke for him

626
00:22:26,259 --> 00:22:27,559
saying we are

627
00:22:28,660 --> 00:22:28,900
legion.

628
00:22:33,786 --> 00:22:35,702
The legion is a regiment of the Roman

629
00:22:35,782 --> 00:22:38,596
Army would have contained 6000

630
00:22:39,148 --> 00:22:40,915
mend my foot a hundred and 20

631
00:22:41,841 --> 00:22:43,585
horsemen and some other strategic.

632
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:48,220
Personnel.

633
00:22:49,621 --> 00:22:50,651
To a Jewish man,

634
00:22:51,998 --> 00:22:53,211
hearing legion

635
00:22:53,679 --> 00:22:54,477
What's your name?

636
00:22:55,035 --> 00:22:55,993
My name's Legion.

637
00:22:57,749 --> 00:22:59,584
It would have brought about this idea of

638
00:22:59,584 --> 00:23:00,462
a great number.

639
00:23:02,307 --> 00:23:02,807
Efficient

640
00:23:03,181 --> 00:23:05,350
organization, relentless strength and absolutely

641
00:23:05,883 --> 00:23:07,551
brutal unstoppable power.

642
00:23:08,599 --> 00:23:11,013
The idea is this isn't a small amount

643
00:23:11,471 --> 00:23:14,103
of of demons are a small problem. This

644
00:23:14,103 --> 00:23:16,894
is a force of darkness and evil, unlike

645
00:23:16,894 --> 00:23:17,771
many scene.

646
00:23:19,772 --> 00:23:21,039
It's bad. It's really bad.

647
00:23:22,228 --> 00:23:23,892
And yet this great force,

648
00:23:26,284 --> 00:23:28,347
only begs Jesus, please don't throw us into

649
00:23:28,347 --> 00:23:28,902
the abyss.

650
00:23:30,726 --> 00:23:33,027
That is don't throw us into. We understand

651
00:23:33,027 --> 00:23:33,875
abyss to be

652
00:23:34,473 --> 00:23:36,867
kind of like final judgment. Don't destroy us.

653
00:23:37,985 --> 00:23:40,799
Notice the irony here. The the demons terrorized

654
00:23:40,938 --> 00:23:42,396
and tormented the man

655
00:23:42,948 --> 00:23:45,338
trying to destroy him and utterly crush him,

656
00:23:45,657 --> 00:23:47,728
and then they begged Jesus not to torment

657
00:23:47,728 --> 00:23:49,162
them and utterly destroy them.

658
00:23:50,292 --> 00:23:51,885
You do you see that? We'll do this

659
00:23:51,885 --> 00:23:53,159
to him. Please don't do that back to

660
00:23:53,159 --> 00:23:53,398
us.

661
00:23:55,469 --> 00:23:57,141
There's a great herd of pigs feeding on

662
00:23:57,141 --> 00:24:00,028
a nearby hillside. And the demons begged to

663
00:24:00,028 --> 00:24:02,105
enter those pigs instead of going to the

664
00:24:02,105 --> 00:24:04,103
abyss, instead of in their mind, it's just

665
00:24:04,103 --> 00:24:07,393
pigs or or or final judgment in and

666
00:24:07,393 --> 00:24:08,588
and Jesus allows it.

667
00:24:09,464 --> 00:24:10,978
And they enter the pigs at once so

668
00:24:10,978 --> 00:24:13,151
the pigs rushed down a hill and drowned

669
00:24:14,403 --> 00:24:14,801
instantly.

670
00:24:17,204 --> 00:24:18,633
We hear that, and that probably use us

671
00:24:18,633 --> 00:24:20,459
with more questions than we start with? Like,

672
00:24:20,617 --> 00:24:21,808
why did Jesus allow this?

673
00:24:23,317 --> 00:24:26,194
Why didn't Jesus just completely destroy them now

674
00:24:26,194 --> 00:24:27,875
and forever, they're begging and he's should just

675
00:24:27,875 --> 00:24:29,315
lowered the boom. Why why didn't why didn't

676
00:24:29,315 --> 00:24:30,994
they get him? Well likely because God has

677
00:24:30,994 --> 00:24:33,394
designated a time to judge all things.

678
00:24:34,369 --> 00:24:35,988
When we we we don't talk

679
00:24:36,687 --> 00:24:37,885
about it a lot, but there's a time

680
00:24:37,885 --> 00:24:39,403
to judge the living in the dead, and

681
00:24:39,403 --> 00:24:41,162
then there's a final judgment that'll will come

682
00:24:41,162 --> 00:24:43,490
for Satan and his demons as well. Likely,

683
00:24:43,649 --> 00:24:45,079
this is not the final time.

684
00:24:46,508 --> 00:24:47,938
So he sends them to the pigs. It's

685
00:24:47,938 --> 00:24:49,526
not your time, but that time is coming

686
00:24:49,526 --> 00:24:49,844
for you.

687
00:24:52,401 --> 00:24:53,593
I do find it poetic.

688
00:24:55,580 --> 00:24:57,487
The demons had worked so hard to turn

689
00:24:57,487 --> 00:24:58,838
the man into an animal.

690
00:25:00,761 --> 00:25:02,453
With all their work and they're torment,

691
00:25:04,736 --> 00:25:06,167
it just lands them in animals.

692
00:25:07,042 --> 00:25:08,553
Do you see that? That part of amaze

693
00:25:08,553 --> 00:25:10,635
me that King Jesus pulls her versa on

694
00:25:10,635 --> 00:25:10,794
them.

695
00:25:11,906 --> 00:25:13,678
You you you want to make

696
00:25:14,291 --> 00:25:16,198
that man in the Ama day in animal

697
00:25:16,198 --> 00:25:18,106
send you into the animals. How do you

698
00:25:18,106 --> 00:25:18,821
like them apples?

699
00:25:19,552 --> 00:25:20,427
I love that part.

700
00:25:23,450 --> 00:25:24,484
And then look at what happens.

701
00:25:31,513 --> 00:25:33,906
Overlooked part of the story. Man we just

702
00:25:33,906 --> 00:25:35,661
miss some of the heavy things sometimes.

703
00:25:36,949 --> 00:25:38,857
The Herd in the town people who witnessed

704
00:25:38,857 --> 00:25:40,231
the dramatic destruction

705
00:25:40,606 --> 00:25:41,163
of evil.

706
00:25:42,911 --> 00:25:44,835
They found themselves in front of Jesus and

707
00:25:44,835 --> 00:25:47,221
they witnessed his power and his goodness.

708
00:25:48,255 --> 00:25:49,846
Right? They saw the man who had been

709
00:25:49,846 --> 00:25:50,346
terrorized

710
00:25:51,118 --> 00:25:53,439
on this countryside for years and they knew

711
00:25:53,439 --> 00:25:55,346
how bad off he was. And and they

712
00:25:55,346 --> 00:25:57,095
and they knew how terrorized he was. And

713
00:25:57,095 --> 00:25:58,684
and they they didn't think he was crazy.

714
00:25:59,002 --> 00:26:01,068
He was well known as the act. They

715
00:26:01,068 --> 00:26:03,074
knew exact what was going on and yet

716
00:26:03,074 --> 00:26:05,386
he's there, and he's calm. And he's in

717
00:26:05,386 --> 00:26:07,618
his right mind, and he's restored, and he's

718
00:26:07,618 --> 00:26:09,075
peaceful. There was a miracle

719
00:26:10,904 --> 00:26:13,142
epic deliverance of grace had happened there.

720
00:26:15,379 --> 00:26:17,297
And what is the reaction before Jesus the

721
00:26:17,297 --> 00:26:17,936
most high God?

722
00:26:22,584 --> 00:26:23,302
Begged to leave.

723
00:26:28,252 --> 00:26:28,891
That's heavy.

724
00:26:32,808 --> 00:26:33,923
They wanted know more of them.

725
00:26:35,594 --> 00:26:37,903
This is heartbreaking. A demon eyes man utterly

726
00:26:37,903 --> 00:26:38,937
shattered and destroyed.

727
00:26:39,669 --> 00:26:41,283
Is healed in an instant

728
00:26:42,136 --> 00:26:43,728
that the word of Jesus he's made whole

729
00:26:43,728 --> 00:26:45,183
he's been put back together

730
00:26:46,752 --> 00:26:48,424
all because he came to Jesus.

731
00:26:49,714 --> 00:26:51,795
And Jesus met him in his broken and

732
00:26:51,795 --> 00:26:52,595
yet the Herd.

733
00:26:53,634 --> 00:26:56,195
They likely saw the great financial loss that

734
00:26:56,275 --> 00:26:58,843
Jesus had brought. Like this 2000 pigs cost

735
00:26:58,843 --> 00:26:59,559
a lot of money.

736
00:27:02,823 --> 00:27:04,494
Because I don't want anymore what you're selling.

737
00:27:05,131 --> 00:27:06,564
You know how much that's already cost me.

738
00:27:10,326 --> 00:27:11,761
Please leave us. I don't want any of

739
00:27:11,761 --> 00:27:11,921
it.

740
00:27:13,835 --> 00:27:14,872
Salvation is in front of them.

741
00:27:17,917 --> 00:27:19,271
And that they want Jesus to leave.

742
00:27:20,306 --> 00:27:22,217
And I think there's a profound undertone in

743
00:27:22,217 --> 00:27:22,717
that

744
00:27:23,730 --> 00:27:24,446
to to us.

745
00:27:26,775 --> 00:27:28,775
Some will come to Jesus and find salvation

746
00:27:28,775 --> 00:27:30,294
and peace that they desperately need,

747
00:27:32,375 --> 00:27:34,214
and some were refuse to come and even

748
00:27:34,214 --> 00:27:34,855
ask him to go.

749
00:27:36,546 --> 00:27:38,380
Even when it's clear who he is and

750
00:27:38,380 --> 00:27:40,054
his power and what he's done and he's

751
00:27:40,054 --> 00:27:41,809
he's shown himself to be good.

752
00:27:45,334 --> 00:27:46,613
Which 1 of those groups are you in?

753
00:27:47,891 --> 00:27:49,410
Do you come to Jesus for your needs?

754
00:27:51,248 --> 00:27:52,606
Or or do you walk away or try

755
00:27:52,606 --> 00:27:53,965
and get him to go away and handle

756
00:27:53,965 --> 00:27:54,365
it yourself?

757
00:27:56,290 --> 00:27:57,802
You come to Jesus for what you need

758
00:27:57,802 --> 00:27:58,995
or do you beg him to go because

759
00:27:58,995 --> 00:28:00,586
you're afraid that it'll cost you too much.

760
00:28:01,541 --> 00:28:02,894
Man, if I just put all of my

761
00:28:02,894 --> 00:28:04,980
faith in you... You're gonna make me do

762
00:28:04,980 --> 00:28:06,416
something that I don't want... I I don't

763
00:28:06,575 --> 00:28:07,612
I don't want any part of it. We

764
00:28:07,612 --> 00:28:09,765
just just go. Just go.

765
00:28:13,609 --> 00:28:15,365
His heartbreaking, Jesus is right in front of

766
00:28:15,365 --> 00:28:16,482
them and they want nothing of it.

767
00:28:18,478 --> 00:28:20,016
I don't have time to focus

768
00:28:20,553 --> 00:28:22,011
too deeply on it, but

769
00:28:23,282 --> 00:28:23,782
the

770
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:25,277
1 to go with Jesus.

771
00:28:26,075 --> 00:28:27,352
Right, he's... Like, can I get the boat?

772
00:28:27,592 --> 00:28:29,586
I go with you? Like, I'm, I'm here

773
00:28:29,586 --> 00:28:29,986
forever.

774
00:28:31,198 --> 00:28:32,715
And jesus just tells them to go home.

775
00:28:34,391 --> 00:28:37,106
He says go and and show the people

776
00:28:37,106 --> 00:28:38,383
from where you've come from what I've done

777
00:28:38,383 --> 00:28:39,761
for you Given them your testimony.

778
00:28:41,826 --> 00:28:44,134
Things often work like this, Jesus often sends

779
00:28:44,134 --> 00:28:45,885
us into the places that we too... We

780
00:28:45,885 --> 00:28:47,398
feel too embarrassed to go.

781
00:28:48,447 --> 00:28:50,117
He sends us into the place where the

782
00:28:50,117 --> 00:28:52,345
the the the the full picture of who

783
00:28:52,345 --> 00:28:54,095
we were before him was on this place

784
00:28:54,095 --> 00:28:55,845
is go show them exactly what I've done.

785
00:28:57,532 --> 00:28:58,250
Show off the work.

786
00:29:00,085 --> 00:29:01,201
Not you. Show off me.

787
00:29:02,557 --> 00:29:03,992
So some of them may come to me

788
00:29:03,992 --> 00:29:04,631
through it as well.

789
00:29:08,953 --> 00:29:11,347
It brings to mind even the the text

790
00:29:11,347 --> 00:29:12,943
about John, the Baptist blessed of those who

791
00:29:12,943 --> 00:29:13,981
are not ashamed of me.

792
00:29:15,033 --> 00:29:16,469
Many of us are too ashamed to go.

793
00:29:18,702 --> 00:29:20,377
We just saw the power of jesus on

794
00:29:20,377 --> 00:29:22,849
full display as a man came to him.

795
00:29:24,779 --> 00:29:26,533
Had a legion of demons cast out of

796
00:29:26,533 --> 00:29:28,687
him, He was freed from his despair. And

797
00:29:28,687 --> 00:29:31,558
now Jesus returns back to the other shore

798
00:29:31,558 --> 00:29:33,074
and a crowd is waiting for him.

799
00:29:34,924 --> 00:29:37,724
And in this crowd is Jai, the the

800
00:29:37,724 --> 00:29:38,765
ruler of the Synagogue.

801
00:29:40,045 --> 00:29:41,565
To be the ruler of the Synagogue, this

802
00:29:41,565 --> 00:29:42,365
is like a big deal,

803
00:29:43,337 --> 00:29:45,568
he was by alright, a powerful man,

804
00:29:46,524 --> 00:29:49,551
influential man important man, known man. He's eating

805
00:29:49,551 --> 00:29:51,861
good. He's doing big things, deciding who's speaking

806
00:29:51,861 --> 00:29:52,934
in the Synagogue

807
00:29:53,391 --> 00:29:55,704
or running the operations of it. Like, like,

808
00:29:56,342 --> 00:29:58,974
this guy wasn't living paycheck to paycheck. He

809
00:29:58,974 --> 00:30:00,968
was doing well. Powerful man.

810
00:30:02,739 --> 00:30:04,257
Yeah, This powerful man all of a sudden

811
00:30:04,257 --> 00:30:04,577
falls,

812
00:30:05,216 --> 00:30:06,815
like a sack of potatoes at the feet

813
00:30:06,815 --> 00:30:08,493
of Jesus begging him to come to his

814
00:30:08,493 --> 00:30:08,733
house.

815
00:30:09,452 --> 00:30:11,131
Well because his 12 year old daughter is

816
00:30:11,131 --> 00:30:11,370
dying.

817
00:30:13,381 --> 00:30:15,135
They were out of options.

818
00:30:16,731 --> 00:30:18,087
If I can, again, I I told you

819
00:30:18,087 --> 00:30:19,443
when not keeping the cards close to the

820
00:30:19,443 --> 00:30:21,197
chest. Notice the reoccurring theme.

821
00:30:22,490 --> 00:30:24,569
Another person coming to Jesus in faith for

822
00:30:24,569 --> 00:30:24,890
their need.

823
00:30:26,650 --> 00:30:28,329
Jesus agrees used to go to the man's

824
00:30:28,329 --> 00:30:28,829
house

825
00:30:29,545 --> 00:30:31,384
and they head that way. With the crowd

826
00:30:31,384 --> 00:30:33,464
is not easy to navigate. It's it's full

827
00:30:33,464 --> 00:30:36,505
on mob now. Imagine, like, AAA concert scene

828
00:30:36,505 --> 00:30:38,345
and they're pushing towards the stage. This is

829
00:30:38,345 --> 00:30:40,440
kinda what's pushing at him and the people

830
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,519
are all coming to to Jesus for a

831
00:30:42,519 --> 00:30:44,840
million different reasons, some with good, motives, some

832
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,852
with not, but they're all coming. And they're

833
00:30:46,852 --> 00:30:49,021
rushing in, and there's a massive crowd

834
00:30:51,065 --> 00:30:52,416
and in the crowd was a woman who

835
00:30:52,416 --> 00:30:54,483
had a discharge of blood for 12 years.

836
00:30:56,406 --> 00:30:59,051
If you're not following, she'd been hem blood

837
00:30:59,186 --> 00:31:00,854
stop for 12 years,

838
00:31:01,569 --> 00:31:03,555
this is a female cycle that would not

839
00:31:03,555 --> 00:31:03,873
end.

840
00:31:07,627 --> 00:31:08,127
12

841
00:31:09,062 --> 00:31:09,461
years.

842
00:31:11,134 --> 00:31:12,410
So this wasn't a small deal.

843
00:31:14,499 --> 00:31:16,416
On just a social level, she would be

844
00:31:16,416 --> 00:31:17,316
considered ceremonial

845
00:31:17,854 --> 00:31:18,094
unclear.

846
00:31:20,011 --> 00:31:21,585
According to the directive of

847
00:31:22,184 --> 00:31:25,164
Levi vi. She would transmit her un cleanliness

848
00:31:25,784 --> 00:31:27,944
to to anyone that she came in talk

849
00:31:27,944 --> 00:31:29,784
contact with or anyone that she touched.

850
00:31:31,159 --> 00:31:33,077
She would have been because of this, forbidden

851
00:31:33,077 --> 00:31:35,154
to have sexual relations, so she had a

852
00:31:35,154 --> 00:31:37,631
husband. She was likely divorce by now after

853
00:31:37,631 --> 00:31:38,191
12 years.

854
00:31:39,323 --> 00:31:42,267
She was os size from normal society, barred

855
00:31:42,267 --> 00:31:44,176
from temple worship, you can't come in in

856
00:31:44,176 --> 00:31:44,733
the state.

857
00:31:48,643 --> 00:31:51,204
That doesn't even take into consideration the physical

858
00:31:51,417 --> 00:31:52,606
and emotional effects.

859
00:31:53,478 --> 00:31:54,508
She desired a child.

860
00:31:55,634 --> 00:31:56,454
She wanted a

861
00:31:56,833 --> 00:31:58,991
companionship. If she just wanted peace.

862
00:32:01,469 --> 00:32:03,626
The text says that she'd exhausted every option.

863
00:32:03,866 --> 00:32:04,905
She'd spent all of her money.

864
00:32:05,877 --> 00:32:08,026
Trying to go to to every physician she

865
00:32:08,026 --> 00:32:09,857
could? Can you fix me? Can you fix

866
00:32:09,857 --> 00:32:11,528
me? Can you fix me? I I did

867
00:32:11,528 --> 00:32:14,252
some reading about some of the the the

868
00:32:14,252 --> 00:32:16,485
remedies that they would use back then and

869
00:32:16,485 --> 00:32:17,543
they range from

870
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:18,580
incredibly

871
00:32:19,516 --> 00:32:20,393
incredibly weird.

872
00:32:24,553 --> 00:32:27,179
Painful and humiliating beyond what you can imagine,

873
00:32:28,851 --> 00:32:30,681
and she tried all of them.

874
00:32:31,809 --> 00:32:33,160
And paid each step of the way.

875
00:32:35,862 --> 00:32:36,974
Until now there's nothing left.

876
00:32:37,768 --> 00:32:40,668
No more options, no more money. No more

877
00:32:40,804 --> 00:32:43,590
relationships for the most part. No more hope.

878
00:32:44,067 --> 00:32:45,261
And then and then hear this,

879
00:32:46,614 --> 00:32:48,285
each time she tried another thing. It just

880
00:32:48,285 --> 00:32:48,763
made it worse.

881
00:32:51,244 --> 00:32:53,711
We're we're not net neutral. We're we're worse.

882
00:32:54,427 --> 00:32:55,302
Empty alone,

883
00:32:55,859 --> 00:32:56,097
broke,

884
00:32:56,814 --> 00:32:57,848
despair, it's bad.

885
00:32:59,059 --> 00:33:01,696
She's cut off from home society religion in

886
00:33:01,696 --> 00:33:02,415
declining health.

887
00:33:05,053 --> 00:33:06,971
She couldn't have felt any lower at the

888
00:33:06,971 --> 00:33:07,210
time.

889
00:33:08,104 --> 00:33:10,434
While G was a man of

890
00:33:10,889 --> 00:33:11,866
substantial prestige

891
00:33:14,072 --> 00:33:16,062
with a profound worry that it just landed

892
00:33:16,062 --> 00:33:16,460
on him.

893
00:33:18,065 --> 00:33:19,971
Both of them we see in luke came

894
00:33:19,971 --> 00:33:23,250
to Jesus on the same day in hope

895
00:33:23,465 --> 00:33:24,656
and in faith.

896
00:33:25,784 --> 00:33:26,603
Very different

897
00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:30,333
situations, both coming in faith. The woman pushes

898
00:33:30,333 --> 00:33:32,988
through the crowd and desperation, and she touches

899
00:33:33,445 --> 00:33:35,288
Jesus corner of his garment at the edge

900
00:33:35,288 --> 00:33:36,874
of it, and she is healed.

901
00:33:39,095 --> 00:33:40,840
You gotta sit back Sometimes we're so familiar

902
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,683
with a story. We don't think about Imagine

903
00:33:42,683 --> 00:33:44,597
the frame of mine, if I can just

904
00:33:44,597 --> 00:33:47,468
get to him and touch the ta, that'll

905
00:33:47,468 --> 00:33:47,708
do it.

906
00:33:49,383 --> 00:33:51,695
Pushing through the crowd, the massive crowd,

907
00:33:54,013 --> 00:33:54,727
and she does.

908
00:33:58,218 --> 00:33:58,932
And it works.

909
00:34:01,406 --> 00:34:03,150
The discharge of blood that had flowed for

910
00:34:03,150 --> 00:34:04,815
12 year ceased. It didn't slow.

911
00:34:06,163 --> 00:34:06,718
It stopped.

912
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,159
Her despair led her to push through to

913
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:11,920
Jesus that day and faith and it healed

914
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:12,079
her.

915
00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:16,159
Think about the competing interests of the moment

916
00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:16,900
and G

917
00:34:17,851 --> 00:34:19,861
his stomach would have been in knots. The

918
00:34:20,395 --> 00:34:21,452
the the crowd

919
00:34:22,303 --> 00:34:24,371
in Jesus and in his way, and he's

920
00:34:24,371 --> 00:34:25,166
got to Jesus,

921
00:34:25,739 --> 00:34:26,936
and he's begged him, and he says that

922
00:34:26,936 --> 00:34:29,251
he's gonna come. And there's a whole crowd

923
00:34:29,251 --> 00:34:31,725
and a distance in streets in between us

924
00:34:31,725 --> 00:34:33,641
and my house and my daughter, it must

925
00:34:33,641 --> 00:34:34,255
have felt

926
00:34:34,934 --> 00:34:36,295
excruciating. You had to be thinking just get

927
00:34:36,295 --> 00:34:38,934
out of my way. Please move. Please move.

928
00:34:39,094 --> 00:34:40,855
Don't you understand? We don't have very much

929
00:34:40,855 --> 00:34:41,094
time.

930
00:34:42,786 --> 00:34:44,059
Please just get out of the way. This

931
00:34:44,059 --> 00:34:45,913
is our only hope. Don't you get it

932
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,427
as they push forward, the slow progress turns

933
00:34:50,427 --> 00:34:51,303
into no progress.

934
00:34:54,822 --> 00:34:56,575
Just go go go.

935
00:34:57,371 --> 00:34:59,522
Why are we stopping? Jesus says who touched

936
00:34:59,522 --> 00:34:59,681
me?

937
00:35:01,927 --> 00:35:02,882
He reached out for me.

938
00:35:05,826 --> 00:35:07,099
Darius must have felt like he was gonna

939
00:35:07,099 --> 00:35:08,134
lose his mind at the moment.

940
00:35:09,984 --> 00:35:12,461
Peter even says something like Jesus, there's a

941
00:35:12,461 --> 00:35:14,459
crazy big crowd. Like, who knows who touched

942
00:35:14,459 --> 00:35:14,619
you.

943
00:35:15,578 --> 00:35:16,936
Nobody tries to fe up.

944
00:35:20,387 --> 00:35:22,223
Peter says everyone's trying to touch you. How

945
00:35:22,223 --> 00:35:22,861
are we gonna know.

946
00:35:24,618 --> 00:35:26,214
Jesus says with someone did touch me and

947
00:35:26,214 --> 00:35:27,412
power is going out for me. I wanna

948
00:35:27,412 --> 00:35:28,151
know who

949
00:35:30,538 --> 00:35:33,249
The woman at some point came trembling before

950
00:35:33,329 --> 00:35:35,163
Jesus fell out at at his feet and

951
00:35:35,163 --> 00:35:36,120
fest up. It was me.

952
00:35:39,807 --> 00:35:40,927
I touched you. I did it.

953
00:35:42,525 --> 00:35:44,363
Keep in mind, she was considered in this

954
00:35:44,363 --> 00:35:45,961
cultures is a really big deal whether you

955
00:35:45,961 --> 00:35:47,974
know much about how their culture deals with

956
00:35:47,974 --> 00:35:50,851
cleanliness. She was considered ceremonial uncle unclear at

957
00:35:50,851 --> 00:35:53,168
the moment that that she pressed into the

958
00:35:53,168 --> 00:35:55,645
crowd. Everyone she touched with ceremonial, leon uncle

959
00:35:55,645 --> 00:35:57,734
clean, And then Jesus who she just grabbed

960
00:35:57,734 --> 00:35:59,170
a ahold of, even by the him of

961
00:35:59,170 --> 00:36:01,722
his garment was made ceremonial uncle unclear. No.

962
00:36:01,882 --> 00:36:03,716
He wasn't made a sinner by this, but

963
00:36:03,716 --> 00:36:05,471
he was ceremonial uncle unclear.

964
00:36:08,510 --> 00:36:10,499
She had no idea of Jesus would cha

965
00:36:10,499 --> 00:36:11,056
eyes her.

966
00:36:13,614 --> 00:36:15,598
Maybe even take away or cure because she

967
00:36:15,598 --> 00:36:16,336
had been

968
00:36:17,739 --> 00:36:18,239
dis

969
00:36:18,850 --> 00:36:19,588
to the

970
00:36:20,612 --> 00:36:22,226
the formal laws of

971
00:36:22,681 --> 00:36:23,181
cleanliness

972
00:36:25,786 --> 00:36:26,582
and yet still,

973
00:36:28,348 --> 00:36:30,573
She had enough faith, chased through fine Jesus

974
00:36:30,573 --> 00:36:32,083
grab a ahold of him and enough faith

975
00:36:32,083 --> 00:36:34,387
that admit to him what she had done.

976
00:36:36,312 --> 00:36:37,987
When Jesus says to her daughter, your faith

977
00:36:37,987 --> 00:36:40,220
has been made well, and go in peace.

978
00:36:42,294 --> 00:36:44,447
Or your faith has made you well.

979
00:36:48,838 --> 00:36:50,030
Think about her faith, though.

980
00:36:52,415 --> 00:36:54,108
Her faith was uninformed

981
00:36:56,414 --> 00:36:56,914
super

982
00:36:57,375 --> 00:36:58,355
awkward pre

983
00:36:58,894 --> 00:36:59,295
imperfect.

984
00:37:01,295 --> 00:37:02,974
Right. You gotta think through this mind. This

985
00:37:02,974 --> 00:37:04,822
isn't like This is gonna be the savior

986
00:37:04,822 --> 00:37:06,413
who's gonna die for my sins and I

987
00:37:06,413 --> 00:37:08,083
have this need. This was... I just gotta

988
00:37:08,083 --> 00:37:08,402
touch him.

989
00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:14,237
Her faith was all of those things, but

990
00:37:14,237 --> 00:37:15,115
it was also real.

991
00:37:17,431 --> 00:37:20,246
And Christ accepted her m formed faith

992
00:37:21,035 --> 00:37:21,512
wholeheartedly.

993
00:37:25,483 --> 00:37:27,890
Let that kinda sit. Her faith

994
00:37:31,232 --> 00:37:33,251
was almost foolish and reckless.

995
00:37:35,548 --> 00:37:38,185
More aligned with superstition in eastern religion and

996
00:37:38,185 --> 00:37:39,557
rubbing AAA

997
00:37:39,557 --> 00:37:41,892
genie in a bottle than actual biblical faith

998
00:37:45,460 --> 00:37:48,193
and yet, Jesus accepted it warm and without

999
00:37:48,331 --> 00:37:48,570
reservation.

1000
00:37:49,541 --> 00:37:51,212
Daughter, your faith has made you well.

1001
00:37:52,565 --> 00:37:53,998
And this is some of the greatest news

1002
00:37:53,998 --> 00:37:56,068
that we can get. We are so caught

1003
00:37:56,068 --> 00:37:56,760
up in

1004
00:37:57,197 --> 00:37:57,697
in

1005
00:37:58,390 --> 00:37:59,345
in procedure.

1006
00:38:00,538 --> 00:38:02,129
And this doesn't mean, hey, there's no rules,

1007
00:38:02,367 --> 00:38:04,851
but so often we wanna... Well, I wanna

1008
00:38:04,851 --> 00:38:06,128
come when I have it figured out when

1009
00:38:06,287 --> 00:38:07,802
I know enough when I've got this taken

1010
00:38:07,802 --> 00:38:09,637
care of in this take care, we want

1011
00:38:09,637 --> 00:38:11,950
to kind of come rightly before Jesus, when

1012
00:38:11,950 --> 00:38:13,545
the point is you're broken, you can't.

1013
00:38:16,504 --> 00:38:17,936
None of that was necessary for her.

1014
00:38:19,367 --> 00:38:21,614
See Jesus is the perfect 1 in the

1015
00:38:21,614 --> 00:38:23,451
equation. Our faith doesn't have to be perfect

1016
00:38:23,451 --> 00:38:25,289
because he is perfect.

1017
00:38:26,248 --> 00:38:28,246
We can have a foggy understanding of our

1018
00:38:28,246 --> 00:38:28,485
faith.

1019
00:38:29,380 --> 00:38:30,738
And Jesus still accepted.

1020
00:38:33,135 --> 00:38:36,032
Again, authentic faith isn't perfect looking faith. It's

1021
00:38:36,091 --> 00:38:38,182
faith in the perfect 1, for what you

1022
00:38:38,182 --> 00:38:40,414
desperately need and he'll meet you there in

1023
00:38:40,414 --> 00:38:40,893
glad.

1024
00:38:41,451 --> 00:38:43,284
She had that in spade any healed or

1025
00:38:43,284 --> 00:38:44,958
because of it. Again, there can be people

1026
00:38:44,958 --> 00:38:48,163
who run too far Nothing matters. It's fine

1027
00:38:48,163 --> 00:38:50,556
and we can become. No. No. In your

1028
00:38:50,556 --> 00:38:52,389
need though when you come in faith, he'll

1029
00:38:52,389 --> 00:38:54,543
accept you. It doesn't mean there's no rules.

1030
00:38:56,390 --> 00:38:57,425
Man you don't have to have it be

1031
00:38:57,425 --> 00:38:58,778
perfect or have it all figured out for

1032
00:38:58,778 --> 00:39:00,768
him to open up his arms and accept

1033
00:39:00,768 --> 00:39:01,007
you.

1034
00:39:05,882 --> 00:39:07,797
No. While Jesus was still speaking,

1035
00:39:09,950 --> 00:39:11,705
before he even turned away from her, the

1036
00:39:11,705 --> 00:39:13,794
worst knew just that G could get k?

1037
00:39:14,672 --> 00:39:17,546
1 person's healing, and they're blessing and their

1038
00:39:17,546 --> 00:39:19,222
joy seemed to come at the cost.

1039
00:39:22,828 --> 00:39:24,740
Of what g desperately needed.

1040
00:39:25,775 --> 00:39:26,890
He hears it's too late.

1041
00:39:28,641 --> 00:39:30,473
Your daughter's dead, leave them alone.

1042
00:39:32,713 --> 00:39:34,378
We couldn't get there fast enough if. It's

1043
00:39:34,378 --> 00:39:34,696
over.

1044
00:39:38,838 --> 00:39:40,672
They're sit in that moment for a moment

1045
00:39:40,672 --> 00:39:42,746
and just kinda think about it. The horror

1046
00:39:42,746 --> 00:39:43,485
of seeing

1047
00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:47,133
1 person get what they want while you

1048
00:39:47,133 --> 00:39:48,170
lose everything that you want.

1049
00:39:50,258 --> 00:39:52,034
Seeing the sheer joy and

1050
00:39:54,405 --> 00:39:57,036
rush over in the peace rush over, she

1051
00:39:57,036 --> 00:39:57,409
is

1052
00:39:58,250 --> 00:40:00,650
overcome with... Worship glad that he has done,

1053
00:40:00,730 --> 00:40:02,250
what couldn't be done and at the same

1054
00:40:02,250 --> 00:40:04,809
time, you're crushed, the biggest fear that you

1055
00:40:04,809 --> 00:40:05,710
have has been

1056
00:40:07,463 --> 00:40:09,081
it it's come true that

1057
00:40:09,459 --> 00:40:10,577
that's a heavy thing.

1058
00:40:13,451 --> 00:40:15,446
Jesus looks at G, and he doesn't tell

1059
00:40:15,446 --> 00:40:15,946
him

1060
00:40:17,058 --> 00:40:18,734
or he doesn't test him or let him

1061
00:40:18,734 --> 00:40:21,289
keep going or wondering, he immediately says say

1062
00:40:21,369 --> 00:40:21,848
I don't fear.

1063
00:40:23,445 --> 00:40:24,961
Believe she'll be well. I've got this.

1064
00:40:26,093 --> 00:40:27,763
I'm not sure about you, but that moment

1065
00:40:27,763 --> 00:40:28,717
would have been hard for me.

1066
00:40:31,024 --> 00:40:32,693
G would have been tempted to lash out

1067
00:40:32,693 --> 00:40:34,443
and anger. What do you mean? I've got

1068
00:40:34,443 --> 00:40:35,238
the She'll will?

1069
00:40:37,478 --> 00:40:38,987
Would we have been tempted to lash out

1070
00:40:38,987 --> 00:40:39,543
with the woman?

1071
00:40:42,244 --> 00:40:43,753
My daughter died because you had to come

1072
00:40:43,753 --> 00:40:44,389
in and do this.

1073
00:40:47,343 --> 00:40:49,408
Maybe the temptation be... It's it's over jeez

1074
00:40:49,408 --> 00:40:50,679
get away from. You can't do what I

1075
00:40:50,679 --> 00:40:52,902
need. He failed me. You didn't come through.

1076
00:40:53,061 --> 00:40:54,729
You didn't take care of what I needed.

1077
00:40:56,018 --> 00:40:56,576
But he didn't.

1078
00:40:58,729 --> 00:41:00,903
In the face of what seemed impossible,

1079
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,115
he just did what Jesus asked and he

1080
00:41:03,115 --> 00:41:03,594
came with him.

1081
00:41:05,044 --> 00:41:06,640
They kept believing and walked home.

1082
00:41:08,875 --> 00:41:10,391
When they get to the house, Jesus had

1083
00:41:10,471 --> 00:41:12,466
Peter James and John come in with them,

1084
00:41:13,359 --> 00:41:14,556
into the room with a mother and the

1085
00:41:14,556 --> 00:41:16,232
father and the daughter who had just died.

1086
00:41:17,988 --> 00:41:19,505
The family stood there and they began to

1087
00:41:19,505 --> 00:41:21,181
weep and they began to mourn and they

1088
00:41:21,181 --> 00:41:23,427
begin to to grieve, and Jesus said do

1089
00:41:23,427 --> 00:41:24,942
not weep for she's not dead.

1090
00:41:25,738 --> 00:41:26,695
She's just sleeping.

1091
00:41:30,296 --> 00:41:31,493
They literally laughed at him,

1092
00:41:33,168 --> 00:41:34,922
knowing that she was actually dead.

1093
00:41:39,882 --> 00:41:41,873
Shock. How how could you say that?

1094
00:41:43,228 --> 00:41:44,900
But Jesus took the girl by the hand

1095
00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:46,494
and said child her eyes and so she

1096
00:41:46,494 --> 00:41:48,899
did her spirit instantly returned to her and

1097
00:41:48,899 --> 00:41:49,458
she got up.

1098
00:41:51,054 --> 00:41:52,651
That's some of the details just get me.

1099
00:41:53,369 --> 00:41:54,726
Jesus looks as I, get her some food.

1100
00:41:54,886 --> 00:41:55,605
It's been a long day.

1101
00:41:58,812 --> 00:42:00,567
Death was cast out as fast as the

1102
00:42:00,567 --> 00:42:01,923
demons and the discharge were.

1103
00:42:03,039 --> 00:42:04,874
The death had its praise stolen right from

1104
00:42:04,874 --> 00:42:06,389
under its nose and could do nothing about

1105
00:42:06,389 --> 00:42:07,745
it because King Jesus was there.

1106
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:10,900
Jesus was

1107
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,539
1 healing at a time

1108
00:42:15,119 --> 00:42:17,199
restoring those who came to him and faith.

1109
00:42:18,972 --> 00:42:21,287
But he's also destroying the power of evil

1110
00:42:21,287 --> 00:42:22,644
and sin over humanity.

1111
00:42:24,161 --> 00:42:25,837
King Jesus was at work and nothing could

1112
00:42:25,837 --> 00:42:26,236
stop him.

1113
00:42:27,289 --> 00:42:28,563
He took imperfect faith,

1114
00:42:29,918 --> 00:42:31,989
and turned it into perfect restoration.

1115
00:42:33,661 --> 00:42:35,516
And then again, the story stops

1116
00:42:36,943 --> 00:42:38,379
with just Jesus saying, hey, I don't go

1117
00:42:38,379 --> 00:42:38,937
tell anybody.

1118
00:42:43,164 --> 00:42:45,477
Again, that probably raises more questions Okay?

1119
00:42:47,006 --> 00:42:48,675
Why did he tell the pneumonia act to

1120
00:42:48,675 --> 00:42:49,630
go tell everyone?

1121
00:42:51,299 --> 00:42:52,809
But now he's telling the parents not to

1122
00:42:52,809 --> 00:42:53,604
go tell anyone?

1123
00:42:55,614 --> 00:42:56,014
Why?

1124
00:42:57,454 --> 00:42:58,414
Why did you do that?

1125
00:43:00,175 --> 00:43:01,474
Will likely it is

1126
00:43:08,071 --> 00:43:10,717
Jesus will heal all who come to him

1127
00:43:12,142 --> 00:43:13,416
overcome by their evil in their sin.

1128
00:43:15,487 --> 00:43:18,378
There's no person lost in sin and broken

1129
00:43:18,768 --> 00:43:20,122
even to the point of the demonic act,

1130
00:43:20,281 --> 00:43:22,192
who doesn't come to Jesus in faith of

1131
00:43:22,192 --> 00:43:24,102
the problem of their sin and the broken

1132
00:43:24,102 --> 00:43:25,853
ness that he will not heal.

1133
00:43:26,982 --> 00:43:29,848
The he'll turn away. There's this perpetual promise.

1134
00:43:30,485 --> 00:43:32,156
Come to me all who are weak and

1135
00:43:32,156 --> 00:43:33,907
heavy laden and, come and find rest for

1136
00:43:33,907 --> 00:43:36,073
your soul. Come. I'm the light come to

1137
00:43:36,073 --> 00:43:38,941
me over and over and over, Jesus will

1138
00:43:38,941 --> 00:43:39,259
heal.

1139
00:43:41,729 --> 00:43:42,866
Us from our sin

1140
00:43:44,371 --> 00:43:45,983
our spiritual broken ness

1141
00:43:47,231 --> 00:43:49,375
and the evil around us, he will give

1142
00:43:49,375 --> 00:43:50,010
it to you.

1143
00:43:52,969 --> 00:43:54,170
Does that mean? If you're stuck in a

1144
00:43:54,170 --> 00:43:55,369
sin pattern and can't get out.

1145
00:43:56,409 --> 00:43:57,849
Whether it's hidden well or everyone was, like,

1146
00:43:57,929 --> 00:43:59,130
I Seen in Africa couple months.

1147
00:44:00,583 --> 00:44:02,179
Or even if Evil and incentives us push

1148
00:44:02,179 --> 00:44:03,616
you to the place of broken us like

1149
00:44:03,616 --> 00:44:03,776
the,

1150
00:44:04,653 --> 00:44:06,250
either way, come to jesus and he can

1151
00:44:06,250 --> 00:44:07,926
and we'll set you free. There's freedom,

1152
00:44:08,579 --> 00:44:09,770
in the hands of the savior.

1153
00:44:10,644 --> 00:44:12,971
Jesus tells the pneumonia act to go tell

1154
00:44:13,027 --> 00:44:14,616
everyone, so that they may come and repeat

1155
00:44:14,616 --> 00:44:16,443
the same cycle. He's got what you need.

1156
00:44:18,048 --> 00:44:18,844
He'll take care of that.

1157
00:44:19,639 --> 00:44:22,741
He's faithful and just and kind and does

1158
00:44:22,741 --> 00:44:24,411
not give bad gifts to those who come

1159
00:44:24,411 --> 00:44:26,578
to him and ask in faith Jesus creamy

1160
00:44:26,578 --> 00:44:27,776
from the sin. Okay.

1161
00:44:33,063 --> 00:44:34,659
There's caveats on that. You may go, like,

1162
00:44:34,978 --> 00:44:35,935
I've tried that and he hasn't.

1163
00:44:37,132 --> 00:44:39,126
Sometimes you you come to him for your

1164
00:44:39,126 --> 00:44:39,366
sin.

1165
00:44:40,179 --> 00:44:41,454
You wonder why he doesn't fix it and

1166
00:44:41,454 --> 00:44:43,129
he's asking to put 3 things down. He

1167
00:44:43,129 --> 00:44:44,404
no full well. You won't put him down.

1168
00:44:44,564 --> 00:44:46,159
He's trying to act. You won't let him.

1169
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:51,925
Again, he's faithful to meet you

1170
00:44:52,298 --> 00:44:53,490
when you come to him or the problem

1171
00:44:53,490 --> 00:44:53,966
of your sin.

1172
00:44:55,396 --> 00:44:57,484
While the raising of the dead is not

1173
00:44:58,349 --> 00:45:00,574
Like, that's not a perpetual promise on repeat.

1174
00:45:01,369 --> 00:45:02,958
This is a miracle that he performed,

1175
00:45:04,230 --> 00:45:05,978
but not something he's gonna do for everyone

1176
00:45:05,978 --> 00:45:06,614
in anyone.

1177
00:45:07,424 --> 00:45:08,700
I imagine that's why he says,

1178
00:45:09,418 --> 00:45:11,093
to the parent I don't go broadcast it.

1179
00:45:12,210 --> 00:45:14,204
I want the message of spiritual healing come

1180
00:45:14,204 --> 00:45:16,197
to me as your savior. I want that

1181
00:45:16,197 --> 00:45:16,995
to be what they hear.

1182
00:45:21,317 --> 00:45:22,514
I don't want others to come to me

1183
00:45:22,514 --> 00:45:24,667
for that miracle as well, I will gladly

1184
00:45:24,667 --> 00:45:24,906
do it.

1185
00:45:28,750 --> 00:45:30,904
If we step back and look look look,

1186
00:45:31,383 --> 00:45:33,537
Luca showing us Jesus can do anything.

1187
00:45:35,067 --> 00:45:36,503
You get that right, The storm,

1188
00:45:38,257 --> 00:45:38,757
legion,

1189
00:45:40,411 --> 00:45:43,064
12 years of of pain and hem,

1190
00:45:44,492 --> 00:45:45,525
even to the point of death,

1191
00:45:48,860 --> 00:45:49,972
there's nothing you can't do.

1192
00:45:53,088 --> 00:45:54,844
So Luca showing us the power of Jesus,

1193
00:45:55,003 --> 00:45:56,999
but even more than that we're getting the

1194
00:45:56,999 --> 00:45:58,515
invitation to come to jesus ourselves role what

1195
00:45:58,515 --> 00:45:58,914
we need.

1196
00:46:01,958 --> 00:46:03,309
This is the thing that our hearts need

1197
00:46:03,309 --> 00:46:05,535
to continue to wrestle with. Salvation is coming

1198
00:46:05,535 --> 00:46:08,556
to Jesus for your sin and for salvation

1199
00:46:08,556 --> 00:46:09,112
and healing.

1200
00:46:11,274 --> 00:46:13,103
Jeez Center in need of a savior.

1201
00:46:13,898 --> 00:46:15,251
I know I can't fix it. I can't

1202
00:46:15,251 --> 00:46:16,603
deal with. I can't remedy it and I

1203
00:46:16,603 --> 00:46:18,273
can't clean myself. I can't wash myself.

1204
00:46:19,084 --> 00:46:21,237
I I can't. I Come to you. I

1205
00:46:21,237 --> 00:46:22,434
put all of my faith in you King

1206
00:46:22,514 --> 00:46:25,066
Jesus. I need. Your forgiveness. Put... I believe

1207
00:46:25,066 --> 00:46:26,581
in you for the problem of my sin.

1208
00:46:26,900 --> 00:46:28,256
You come to him once for that.

1209
00:46:30,345 --> 00:46:32,976
But then a part of san justification or

1210
00:46:32,976 --> 00:46:35,449
disciples ship or the maturing walk of Christ

1211
00:46:35,449 --> 00:46:37,384
is to continue to come to him over

1212
00:46:37,522 --> 00:46:39,293
and over and over again.

1213
00:46:42,650 --> 00:46:44,328
Again, can we hear that? We we don't

1214
00:46:44,328 --> 00:46:46,006
come to Jesus over and over and over

1215
00:46:46,006 --> 00:46:46,646
to be saved.

1216
00:46:47,860 --> 00:46:49,460
But we do come to him over and

1217
00:46:49,460 --> 00:46:50,760
over and over to be

1218
00:46:51,219 --> 00:46:52,340
transformed and freed.

1219
00:46:54,099 --> 00:46:54,980
Come for your struggles.

1220
00:46:56,512 --> 00:46:57,309
Comfort your anger.

1221
00:46:59,380 --> 00:47:01,133
Come for your apa, you're ind.

1222
00:47:05,123 --> 00:47:06,709
Come for the habit that you can't shake,

1223
00:47:07,344 --> 00:47:08,692
and you're starting to not be able to

1224
00:47:08,692 --> 00:47:08,929
hide.

1225
00:47:11,961 --> 00:47:13,952
Come for the bitterness that's taken root. You

1226
00:47:13,952 --> 00:47:14,748
can't get it out.

1227
00:47:16,738 --> 00:47:18,251
Come for the heart that feels distant and

1228
00:47:18,251 --> 00:47:18,490
weak.

1229
00:47:19,859 --> 00:47:21,296
Then and then hear this because sometimes we

1230
00:47:21,296 --> 00:47:22,334
hear that and be like, and I don't

1231
00:47:22,334 --> 00:47:24,090
got nothing that broken right now. Okay?

1232
00:47:26,007 --> 00:47:27,045
Come to the heart that wants to be

1233
00:47:27,045 --> 00:47:27,843
deeper in love with him.

1234
00:47:30,170 --> 00:47:31,759
Come for the 1 that wants to have

1235
00:47:31,759 --> 00:47:33,371
the the the first

1236
00:47:34,380 --> 00:47:35,413
feeling of

1237
00:47:35,810 --> 00:47:37,319
of the love of faith that you had

1238
00:47:37,319 --> 00:47:38,908
to Rec kindle just come.

1239
00:47:41,079 --> 00:47:42,940
This is the beauty of Jesus come

1240
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,800
and see that he will meet you. Jesus

1241
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:46,760
own where it's come to me.

1242
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:47,640
All,

1243
00:47:48,453 --> 00:47:50,044
all who are weary heavy laid. And I'll

1244
00:47:50,044 --> 00:47:51,396
give you rest for you your soul. I've

1245
00:47:51,396 --> 00:47:52,351
got what you need.

1246
00:47:53,146 --> 00:47:55,533
For salvation. Yes, and then freedom beyond them,

1247
00:47:56,090 --> 00:47:56,567
come to me.

1248
00:47:58,418 --> 00:47:59,697
So what we'll do we'll have some time

1249
00:47:59,697 --> 00:48:00,436
and prayer

1250
00:48:00,815 --> 00:48:02,893
in the gathering again today, like we've we've

1251
00:48:02,893 --> 00:48:03,532
been doing.

1252
00:48:06,664 --> 00:48:07,943
And then we'll have some time. This is

1253
00:48:07,943 --> 00:48:09,481
a third week where we've been

1254
00:48:10,020 --> 00:48:12,438
sending aside time to to lay on hands

1255
00:48:12,817 --> 00:48:14,655
for prayer upfront after service.

1256
00:48:15,468 --> 00:48:16,981
So just ask you to consider, hey, what

1257
00:48:16,981 --> 00:48:17,458
do you need?

1258
00:48:20,802 --> 00:48:22,554
What do you need from him? Are you

1259
00:48:22,554 --> 00:48:22,793
stuck?

1260
00:48:23,525 --> 00:48:25,282
Are you lost? Are you tired? Are you

1261
00:48:25,282 --> 00:48:27,119
hurting? Are you confused? Do you just want

1262
00:48:27,119 --> 00:48:29,276
more of the father in your life? What

1263
00:48:29,276 --> 00:48:29,916
what do you need?

1264
00:48:31,527 --> 00:48:33,283
Would you maybe consider that the front time

1265
00:48:33,283 --> 00:48:34,422
of prayer? Just some

1266
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:36,476
some prayer to the lord and some so

1267
00:48:36,476 --> 00:48:38,391
some kind of contemplation of what you may

1268
00:48:38,391 --> 00:48:40,400
need? And then After the service would you

1269
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,235
consider coming to be pray for for that?

1270
00:48:43,351 --> 00:48:44,947
See he's a fountain of grace for all

1271
00:48:44,947 --> 00:48:47,100
who believe He doesn't give salvation and leave

1272
00:48:47,100 --> 00:48:48,616
you alone to figure the rest out yourself?

1273
00:48:50,548 --> 00:48:52,866
See he's available to come to in faith,

1274
00:48:55,343 --> 00:48:57,341
and we'll find when we regularly come to

1275
00:48:57,341 --> 00:48:58,755
him for what we need. He'll meet us

1276
00:48:58,795 --> 00:48:59,274
with grace.

1277
00:49:02,550 --> 00:49:04,947
As we move along in in worship would

1278
00:49:04,947 --> 00:49:06,306
you consider coming to him?

1279
00:49:11,578 --> 00:49:12,612
Then I was just say for some of

1280
00:49:12,612 --> 00:49:13,829
you. I was thinking

1281
00:49:14,204 --> 00:49:15,716
for my own heart and for some of

1282
00:49:15,716 --> 00:49:16,353
you this morning.

1283
00:49:17,482 --> 00:49:19,390
Just this term... There's an ocean of grace

1284
00:49:19,390 --> 00:49:20,900
and freedom there for you.

1285
00:49:21,854 --> 00:49:23,046
But you have to come ask for it

1286
00:49:23,046 --> 00:49:23,444
sometimes.

1287
00:49:24,398 --> 00:49:25,193
Don't assume it.

1288
00:49:26,878 --> 00:49:29,582
Practice your faith by asking your brothers and

1289
00:49:29,582 --> 00:49:31,014
sisters to pray with you. Again,

1290
00:49:32,684 --> 00:49:34,117
yeah. This used to be a gym. The

1291
00:49:34,117 --> 00:49:35,364
house of lord is called

1292
00:49:36,119 --> 00:49:37,470
my my father's house meant to be a

1293
00:49:37,470 --> 00:49:38,503
house of prayer. What do we do We

1294
00:49:38,503 --> 00:49:40,194
go to him and prayer regularly.

1295
00:49:41,442 --> 00:49:43,269
Way we... May we be those who come

1296
00:49:43,269 --> 00:49:45,752
to him Again, and again, and again, knowing

1297
00:49:45,752 --> 00:49:47,904
that he's able and kind to meet us.

1298
00:49:50,215 --> 00:49:52,542
And gonna remind you of and jesus his

1299
00:49:52,542 --> 00:49:54,376
own words as well. There's some things. We're

1300
00:49:54,376 --> 00:49:55,972
gonna get in some rut, and have some

1301
00:49:55,972 --> 00:49:56,450
moments.

1302
00:49:57,328 --> 00:49:58,764
We just try and get out and can't.

1303
00:49:58,923 --> 00:50:00,598
And the disciples had this happen to him

1304
00:50:00,598 --> 00:50:01,236
at 1 point.

1305
00:50:02,126 --> 00:50:03,896
And they, hey. Like

1306
00:50:04,349 --> 00:50:05,460
why couldn't we fix this?

1307
00:50:06,175 --> 00:50:08,001
It gives them the most simple answer. Some

1308
00:50:08,001 --> 00:50:09,112
gonna can only be done with my prayer.

1309
00:50:10,954 --> 00:50:12,471
And so my hope for us today is

1310
00:50:12,471 --> 00:50:13,907
we spent some time asking what we need

1311
00:50:13,907 --> 00:50:15,503
from the Lord. And now I I don't

1312
00:50:15,503 --> 00:50:17,978
wanna manipulate you or manufacture, but I would

1313
00:50:17,978 --> 00:50:19,036
just say in and

1314
00:50:19,744 --> 00:50:20,141
hopefully,

1315
00:50:21,012 --> 00:50:22,359
in an honest humble heart,

1316
00:50:23,627 --> 00:50:25,211
why wouldn't we come more to pray?

1317
00:50:26,735 --> 00:50:28,735
He has what you need that we would

1318
00:50:28,735 --> 00:50:30,974
become a people that trust him more, ask

1319
00:50:30,974 --> 00:50:32,575
for what we need and see him meet

1320
00:50:32,575 --> 00:50:33,535
us there.

1321
00:50:34,985 --> 00:50:36,577
Man you guys can come back up. Our

1322
00:50:36,577 --> 00:50:38,110
hope is that we would see

1323
00:50:38,485 --> 00:50:40,077
king Jesus profoundly good.

1324
00:50:41,525 --> 00:50:43,224
We'll take comm again

1325
00:50:44,085 --> 00:50:46,484
today like we always do. And here's the

1326
00:50:46,484 --> 00:50:47,364
the understanding.

1327
00:50:48,085 --> 00:50:49,777
He has all we need first he has

1328
00:50:49,777 --> 00:50:51,289
what we need for salvation, and then he

1329
00:50:51,289 --> 00:50:52,802
has what we need to carry us through

1330
00:50:52,802 --> 00:50:53,280
to the end.

1331
00:50:54,235 --> 00:50:55,747
But the beauty of the table every time

1332
00:50:55,747 --> 00:50:58,231
is remembering, it's his body, in blood. It's

1333
00:50:58,231 --> 00:51:00,142
the only reason that we can be saved.

1334
00:51:01,098 --> 00:51:03,248
So we take first corinthians 11 says for

1335
00:51:03,328 --> 00:51:05,080
I received from the Lord, what I also

1336
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:05,717
delivered to you.

1337
00:51:06,928 --> 00:51:08,364
That the lord g's on the night when

1338
00:51:08,364 --> 00:51:10,279
he was betrayed, took bread when he given

1339
00:51:10,279 --> 00:51:11,715
thinks he broke, and he said this is

1340
00:51:11,715 --> 00:51:12,912
my body, which is for you.

1341
00:51:14,684 --> 00:51:16,284
Do this in remembrance of me in the

1342
00:51:16,284 --> 00:51:18,924
same way. Also, he took the cup after

1343
00:51:18,924 --> 00:51:20,605
supper saying this cup is the new covenant

1344
00:51:20,605 --> 00:51:21,244
in my blood.

1345
00:51:22,059 --> 00:51:23,500
Do this as often as you drink it

1346
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:25,180
and remembrance it's of me for as often

1347
00:51:25,180 --> 00:51:27,019
as you eat the bread and drink the

1348
00:51:27,019 --> 00:51:28,860
cup, you claim the Lord's death until he

1349
00:51:28,860 --> 00:51:29,180
comes.

1350
00:51:30,875 --> 00:51:32,554
Will sing and have some moments of pray

1351
00:51:32,554 --> 00:51:34,074
and come to the table and remember it's

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Christ

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alone that brings us salvation.

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That my sincere hope for us, whether your

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need is big or small,

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that several you would come to be prayed

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for and realize he has what you need

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today as well.

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Then maybe that would kind of ignite some

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worship in our hearts over the pattern to

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continually come and continually see that he is

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faithful

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and kind a strong king who can do

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all things and is eager to meet us

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when we come to him in faith.

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Would you stand in and pray with me

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today?

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Father Pray that you help us, would you

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straighten out all things today?

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But I pray that you straighten out my

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words that you would help us see

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jesus that you're powerful and good.

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There's nothing that you can't do.

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There's also nothing out there that can give

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us more than you. Let us see that

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and believe it.

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But fill our hearts with your goodness and

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your kindness? Would you meet us draw in?

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For the struggling.

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Spirit would you draw here and speak?

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Would you give freedom to some?

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Would you re kendall worship for some?

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Would you give hoped, some

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let her pray that you would renew and

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revive and restore and work where we need

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it. God calm john dear us.

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When I pray that you help us not

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get lost.

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The middle of July in the middle of

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summer with a million things going on. Maybe

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see again.

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You have what we need

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faithful, kind, good.

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Remove our distraction,

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re kindle the fire of our salvation lord.

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A worship that comes from a grateful heart

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and seizing or that it sees that you

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are just better. God.

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Come and work. We pray that in your

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name. Would you be glorified may meet us

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at the table and may you meet us

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and prayer.

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We love you.

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Amen.