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Need him to direct us, and
so let us pray to that end.
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And now again, are great and
glorious God. You are higher than the
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heavens, higher than we can imagine, more glorious than we can take in.
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Lord, you deserve our honor,
or worship, our praise. And
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Lord, we also want to hear
your word, for you have given it
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to us and you have ordained ministers
of the Gospel to proclaim your word to
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your people that they might be strengthened
and edified. And so, Lord,
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as we come to your word this
morning, I confess that I am not
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worthy or able to rightfully divide the
word of truth on my own, but
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I need you to guide me and
direct me as I deliver your word to
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your people. I pray, God, that you would indeed keep me from
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error and, Lord, help me
to preach only your truth. And Lord,
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I pray God that you would be
lifted up, that the Gospel would
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be lifted up, that Christ would
be lifted up in the words that I
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speak this morning. Again, illuminate
us. Lord, let your word be
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a lamp to our feet, light
to our path. Let your word indeed
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direct us in all that we do. If we pray and ask these things
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in Christ name. Amen. We're
looking at the gospel of Luke Chapter Four
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this morning and we'll be looking beginning
with verse thirty one of that chapter,
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and we'll be going through Um so
again, beginning with verse thirty one of
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Luke Chapter Four. Here, I
remind you once more, is God's own
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word. And he went down to
Capernaum, the city of Galilee, and
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he was teaching them in the Sabbath, and they were astonished at his teaching,
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for his word possessed authority and in
a sin God, there was a
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man who had the spirit of an
unclean demon and he cried out with a
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loud voice, ha, what have
you to do with us, Jesus of
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Nazareth? Have you come to destroy
us? I know who you are,
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the holy one of God. But
Jesus rebuked him, saying being silent and
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come out of him. And when
the demon had thrown him down in the
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midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. And
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they were all amazed and said to
one another, what is this word?
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For? With authority and Power He
commands the unclean spirits and they come out,
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and reports about him went out at
every place in the surrounding region,
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and he arose and left the synagogue
and entered Simon's house. Now Simon's mother
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in law was ill with a high
fever, and they appealed to him on
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her behalf, and he stood over
her and rebuked the fever and it left
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her and immediately she rose and began
to serve them. Now, when the
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sun was setting, all those who
had any who were sick with the barious
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diseases, brought them to him,
and he laid his hands on every one
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of them and healed them. And
Demons also came out of many crying you
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are the son of God, but
he rebuked them and would not allow them
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to speak because they knew that he
was the Christ. And when it was
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day, he departed and went into
a desolate place, and the people sought
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him and came to him and would
have kept him from leaving them, but
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he said to them, I must
preach the good news of the Kingdom of
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God to other towns as well,
for I was sent for this purpose,
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and he was preaching in the synagogues
of Judea. Thus we are in the
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reading of God's word. Please be
seated. So last week we looked at
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Jesus visit to his hometown, the
synagogue and Nazareth, and we saw that
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that really didn't end very well.
Uh. He was rejected by the people
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of Nazareth because they knew him growing
up there, they knew his family and
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they did not believe that, therefore, he could be a prophet and they
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rejected him and even got so angry
that they sought to kill him, but
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he was, of course delivered and
was not killed. And so this morning
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we come to Jesus moving to Capernaum
and we're gonna focus on the Authority of
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Christ, and I'll speak in a
little bit to that word. But we
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will look in versus thirty one and
thirty two at the authority of his teaching,
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and then we'll look at versus thirty
three through thirty seven for the authority
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over demons, and then we'll look
at versus thirty eight through forty four to
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see his authority over disease. So
let's begin with versus thirty one to thirty
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two. We come to another Sabbath, but this sabbath now is in Capernaum,
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which appears to be beginning from the
beginning here and going forward. The
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headquarters of the Ministry of Jesus.
In Matthew Nine one matthew refers to Capernaum,
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not now Erith, but Capernam has
Jesus own city, and since this
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was the city that Peter Lived,
some speculate that Jesus actually lived with Peter
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in his household. But we don't
know that. The name copernam basically means
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a city of Nahom, but whether
that city had any correlation to the Old
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Testament Prophet by that name, we're
not sure about that Um but that is
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the name. It's an important city. We know it's important because there is
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a centurion who was stationed there,
Roman Centurion, which would mean he was
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a ruler over about a hundred men, and so that cluses in that the
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Romans considered it an important city.
And later on Jesus will speak in the
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Gospel of Matthew of Copernam and he
will say you are Exalted to Heaven,
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which indicates that indeed Capernam had a
high reputation in those days. The reception,
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however, of Je us it's going
to be much different in Capernaum than
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it was in Nazareth, and almost
to the opposite extreme. Now I'll point
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out to you once more luke gives
no time markers. He doesn't use time
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words, so we don't know when
things happen in correlation to others and all
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that. So we have that simple
word that you note, that you can
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look down on you in your scripture
and see how luke just continues to use
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the word and kind Greek, which
is just basically a conjunction that doesn't say
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anything about time. And so luke
doesn't do that, and so he is
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not trying to give us any indication
of how the time in Capernam relates to
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the time in Nazareth, where it
was before or after. None of that
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matters. And at Verse Thirty One
it says he went down to Capernaum,
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and that is a literal down.
Okay, when he says down, Nazareth
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is about twelve feet above sea level. You might know the city of two
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son is about twice uh that amount
in its elevation, but Kapernaum is about
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seven hundred feet below sea level.
So Jesus is going about nine hundred feet
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down when he goes from Nazareth down
to Capernaum. And it is the sabbath,
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we are told. Again Luke actually
where record for us five different miracles
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that Jesus does on the Sabbath.
Remember, that's a bonus contention between Jesus
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and the Pharisees and the other leaders, because he is doing miracles on the
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Sabbath. And so luke will mention
that. And so it says in our
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thirty two of the people at Capernaum
are astonished at his teaching. Now that
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word astonished actually means to expel by
a blow. It's a strong word uh
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in what it means, and so
these people are absolutely amazed at his teaching.
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And I do like the E S
V translation here better than the King
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James. The King James says his
word was with power, and I'm sure
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it was, but the E S
v Um says uh different, talks about
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authority. I told you I had
come back to this Um, to this
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kind of concept of authority. Some
of you maybe know that there are two
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main words in the Greek language that
are used in the New Testament for power,
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and one is dunamous, and dunamous
is where we get our word dynamite
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and Dynamo. Dunamous is a word
that seems to UH conjure up ideas of
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power and strength. So dunamous is
that? The other word is Excusia,
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and that word means more authority than
power, and that is the word that
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is here. It is the word
that's found in Matthew Eighteen, where the
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King James says all power is given
to me, where the E S V
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again translates all authority is given to
me. Now, why do I like
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the Word Authority? There's a reason
here and it has to do with what
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I think is Luke's point in what
he's telling us here, and it's an
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important point, about the Ministry of
our Lord and how he did it.
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When a rabbi would come to a
town like this and teach, and these
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would be all different than our Lord. When they would come, the way
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a rabbi taught was by quoting other
rabbis. That's what they would do.
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Their whole message would be just quotations
from other rabbis. Rabbi a liaiser said
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in the Talmud nor have I ever
in my life said a thing which I
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did not hear from my teacher.
Never said anything that I didn't hear from
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my teacher. Another Rabbi Johanna and
Bizaki, said he never in his life
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said anything which he had not heard
from his teachers. So that's what the
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rabbis did. Now I use quotes
in my messages, obviously, but I
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don't make the whole message quotes from
other people. Uh. But Jesus was
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uh the exact opposite. He said
he taught. He didn't quote anybody,
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he just he would say things like
you have heard, it was said of
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them and old but I say unto
you. Well, no rabbi would ever
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dare say anything like that. And
he was speaking about life and death issues.
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He wasn't talking about how many angels
can dance on the head of a
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pandre any of those kind of quarrels. That came up later on in the
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church. But but his teaching had
eternal consequences, so mark puts it this
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way. And they were astonished at
his teaching, for he taught them as
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one who had authority and not ascribes. Kent Hughes, in his commentary tells
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a story about Harry ironside who for
many, many years was the pastor of
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Moody Church. And UH, one
Sunday after ironside has delivered his sermon,
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there was a visitor in the congregation
that came up to him afterwards and said
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he he really enjoyed the service,
but he said to uh, to to
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pastor ironsides. He said, uh, but you know you're not a very
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great preacher. and Uh ironside said. Well, he said, I know
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I'm not a very great preacher,
but he said, I'm curious what makes
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you say that? And he said, well, I understood everything you said.
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So I guess that's how he well, I try to make my messages
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understood. Hopefully they are, and
there might be some things that maybe some
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of you are but we even want
the children to understand, of course.
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And UH. And so as we
saw, we were seeing for those of
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you that are in the parable study
in the fellowship group, that Jesus taught
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the crowds and parables, but here
he's speaking very directly. Okay, this
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is the time when he's speaking directly
to the crowds and we are uh,
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to teach that way. The pastors, Paul Tells, Timothy and second Timothy,
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for to preach the word, be
ready in season out of season,
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reprove, rebuke and exhort with complete
patience and teaching. You have to be
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ready. I remember years ago.
I didn't have this in my nose,
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which just came to my mind,
so I'm gonna say it anyway. But
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I was I was visiting a friend. This was back when, as any
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assembly of God church and I and
we kind of surprised him and came to
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their church on Sunday night for the
service and and he said to me,
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do you want to preach? I
said why? I didn't come prepared to
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preach. I said I don't have
any notes or anything, and and he's
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uh, he said. Oh,
he said, well, I was just
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going to read some of these scriptures
in the twenty translation Bible and maybe make
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some note comments on it. And
I said, you know what, I'll
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preach. I decided I wanted something
more than that. But but anyway,
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we need to be able to preach
that. They thus say at the Lord.
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That's why we use his word.
So we move on to our thirty
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three, where there's a man who's
possessed of an unclean spirit or a demon,
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and he cries out Ha is,
how our translation puts it. What
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have you to do with us,
Jesus and Nazareth? Some translate that phrase.
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Don't meddle with me. The literal
Greek, is what to us and
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you. That's literally, in other
words, what do we have in common
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with each with each other? In
other words, this has nothing to eat
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to do with you. You Go
away, Jesus, you just you go
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your own way. And then they
asked the question if you come to destroy
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us? And Uh, there's different
ideas about that Um as to what he
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means, means by that. But
I side with those that say, uh,
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is this the purpose? You've come
into the world, to destroy us?
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And the answer is yes. First, John, three, eight,
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the reason the son of God appeared
was to destroy the works of the devil.
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And finally, he says, I
know who you are, the holy
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one of God. And indeed the
demons did know who he was and they
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knew what was the truth. When
when heretics like Jehovah, Witness says,
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or reprobates or apostates come and try
to tell us that Jesus was not God,
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they showed that they know less than
the demons. The demons knew indeed
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he was God. And so Hendrickson
said, as when radicals deny Christ's deity,
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they show less insight than the demons, for they are constantly acknowledging it.
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And so the demons called Christ,
at various times in scripture, the
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holy one of God, the son
of God, the son of the most
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high, and this saying of the
of the demon, saying I know who
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are, the Holy One of God, Causes Christ to respond by saying be
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silent. The literal word here be
muzzled. The word actually means it's non
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form of muzzle, and Jesus says
be muzzled. It's that word in the
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scripture, as it says you shouldn't
muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads
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out the corn. That's the exact
word, uh, that we have here.
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So the question is, why does
Jesus tell the demons to be silent?
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Why does why does he say that? And there are different ideas about
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this because, you see, of
all the groups that surrounded Christ and had
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various ideas about who he was,
the one group God it right, were
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the demons. Uh. Now,
Peter would confess later, of course,
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that Christ is the holy one of
God, but but at this point the
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only people that are, only beans, I should say, that are saying
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that are the demons. They confess
with the people of Nazareth. Wouldn't confess
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that. We saw last week.
They're willing to say that. Um.
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And so why does he say be
silent? Well, some say there's a
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messianic secret that he doesn't want that
getting out right now because it could cause
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his death to come sooner than he
knows the time is in regards to that,
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Um and others say he doesn't.
He doesn't want, UH, who
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he is to be broadcast by a
demon. Uh You know, if if
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there's someone you know that is known
to be a very untrustworthy person, you
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probably don't want them telling other people
what a Greek guy you are or what
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a great woman you are because,
uh, you know, you go.
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Well, that's gonna make everybody think
just the opposite. So you don't want
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certain people telling people who you are. Kelvin says he refused to have his
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heralds and witnesses of his divinity those
whose praise could have no other effect than
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the soil and injure his character.
Other people think that Christ was just saying
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be silent because the Demon was interrupting
the synagogue teaching. We don't know.
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Well, the Gospel Writers don't tell
us why. So that's all right,
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we can we can go without that. And remember there was a time in
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the book of acts when Paul and
Silas are at Philippi and there's this servant
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girl who's got a demon and she's
going around saying, you know about these
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men, are showing us their servants
of the Most High God who were claimed
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to you. A way, by
the way, she says, a way,
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not the way of salvation, but
a way of salvation. And we're
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told, uh, in in very
uh humorous fashion, that after a while
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Paul gets annoyed with her and turns
around and cast out the demon. Why
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he didn't do it before, what, I don't know, but at some
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point he just said, like pop
ie, take to all I can stand
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and I can stand no more.
However that goes, but anyway, Um,
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and so the demon comes out of
the man. Throwing them down.
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Luke mentioned throwing them down and doing
no harm. This is again the physician.
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Uh Luke is talking about them,
and so probably Luke had asked people
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who were there present at this time, because it's doubtful the luke was,
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and he said, Hey, when
that demon came out, what what happened?
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That? was any harm done to
the man when he fell to the
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ground? And the people was a
Nope, nope. And of course when
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Christ does something he doesn't right and
doesn't where there is no harm. And
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so Christ has conquered Satan and the
wilderness, the temptations. So now he
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can take over his minions as well, into your authority. I uh memory
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I have my Bible College days was
with a very proper English professor by the
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name of Professor Snow, who taught
us theology, and I remember one time
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he was talking about the theology of
the devil and uh, as he did,
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one of the students walked into the
class a little eight and came and
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sat down and remember Dr Snow saying
speak of the devil and his IMPs to
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appear. So anyway, from the
hierarchy we get from scripture it's clear,
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though, the devil is at the
apex. He is the head of the
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Kingdom of evil and and Jesus has
already conquered the Goliath. So of course
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these others have no ability to withstand
him. And so later when Paul will
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speak of Christ's work on the crossing
Collossians to fifteen, you'll say he disarmed
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the rulers and authorities and put them
to open shame by triumphing over them in
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him. So earlier they were astonished
or struck with his teaching. Now they
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are amazed or astounded in his power
that even the demons are subject to him.
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And there says this word astonished means
to render immovable, again a very
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strong word. So his fame goes
all over the country where you are told,
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and who is doing this reading?
All the people, not just the
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apostles. In fact, the apostles
aren't really going places, they're staying with
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Christ. But it is a common
people, that the lay people, that
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are going out and proclaiming the word
about Christ. And again I say that's
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what the way it should be today. Paul says Philippians to fifteen, that
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you may be blameless and innocent,
children of God without blemish, in the
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midst of a crooked and twisted generation
among whom you shine as lights in the
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world. Well, let's move to
verses four. So we see that Jesus
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goes to Peter Maybe Andrew's houses.
Well in Capernaum, and Simon's mother in
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law is ill with the fever.
Note that mother in law. Okay,
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Um, we learned that the first
pope was actually married okay. So because
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he had a mother in law and
UH. Also, luke notes that it's
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not just a fever, but again, as a physician, this is a
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high fever or danger fever, and
so all of the people are appealing to
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Jesus on her behalf. It appears
that she's a well loved woman, like
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Dorcas and in acts. And so
in verse thirty nine, Luke again gives
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us the doctor's view. The physician
with normally treating the patient stand over the
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patient, as Jesus does to Peter's
mother in law. And Jesus rebukes the
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fever same word we had earlier when
he said to the demon be muzzled.
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It's the same word for muscle,
and so he muzzles, uh, the
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fever at this point as well.
G Campbell Morgan wonders whether Jesus said be
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muzzled to the fever as he did
earlier to the demon. But the only
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other instance that we have in scripture
of Jesus actually saying to be muzzled to
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an inanimate object is when he calms
the Raging Sea. Again he uses that
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same term and uh, and that's
in mark four, where he says be
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Zl to the sea. And so
the healing which took place must have been
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very quickly is told to us in
just a few words and so complete as
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the healing we're talking this morning.
UH, some of us about covid and
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how the the fatigue that sometimes hangs
on after you've got rid of most of
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the UM symptoms. But she gets
up right away. High fever, she
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gets up and what does she do? She starts serving them. That's pretty
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interesting that that that she was able
to do that. I remember another Bible
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College teacher of mindset that he thought
that if Jesus was going to take Peter
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Away from his house for three years, it's a good idea to get the
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mother in Law on board. Um. So I don't know if that's true
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enough, but that's another thing.
I remember humorous things from Bible College.
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I'm not sure if I remember serious
things, but there must have been some
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things. But anyway, Calvin says
about this. The synoptic gospels all recording
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this miracle. He says the evangelists
appeared to have taken particular notice of this
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here called not that in itself it
was more remarkable or more worthy of being
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recorded than other miracles, but because
by means of it. Christ gave to
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his disciples a private and familiar illustration
of His grace. That's an interesting take
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on that. It's a private illustration
to the apostles of His grace. And
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so in verse forty, apparently the
news from the healing of the mother in
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law and the casting out of the
demon has reached everyone in the city,
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so that all of them, whoever
had any kind of illness or sickness or
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deformity, came out at sunset.
Mark describes it as the whole town.
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You might say, well, why
did they wait till sunset? Well,
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remember, it's the Sabbath, and
so they wouldn't travel until sunset and then
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they would come out when the Sabbath
was over. And here we have what
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appears to be rare in the Ministry
of Jesus, at least from what we
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were told by the Gospel Writers.
And that is what we have, a
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wholesale healing that Jesus said, everyone
that comes, everyone is healed. Um
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that that's pretty amazing. I don't
see faith healers today doing that at all,
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healing everybody that that comes to them. Do you ever wonder why faith
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healers don't? You just go to
hospitals, you know, and just heal
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people there. If what they have
is real, why don't they just do
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that? But for some reason,
uh, they don't do that. But
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not only those who have diseases,
but those who are possessed of demons are
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delivered and like the previous demon,
they are also crying out you are the
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son of God. And again we're
told that Jesus doesn't allow them to speak.
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And in verse forty two of the
beginning of the next day, Jesus
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departs to a desolate place. Um
Luke doesn't tell us why, but mark
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does. Mark tells us that he
goes out when it is yet dark and
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he actually goes out so that he
could pray. But has he is praying,
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the people come out and interrupt him
and start praying that he would not
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leave them. They wanted him to
stay in Copernaum. Then I don't want
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him to go anywhere. But Jesus
says that he has a mission to preach
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the Kingdom of God in other places
as well, and this is the first
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time to phrase Kingdom of God appears
in Luke. It's a very common phrase
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in the Gospels. Matthew usually uses
the more euphemistic Kingdom of Heaven, because
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he's writing to the Jews who had
a sensitivity to the name of God being
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used. Um. But it is
the Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of God.
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Yet they are both very um common
phrases in the Gospel. So copernam
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is doing the opposite of what Nazareth
did. Nazrath said, let's get him
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out of here, if we have
to kill him, let's get him out
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of here, and Copernaum is like
no, no, no, don't,
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don't leave. Stay with US forever, do you know? Be Here,
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be our resident healer and be all
this. Well, both are wrong,
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both of those reactions. Now,
probably the Nazareth reaction is worse, but
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they're both wrong because nobody has authority
over Jesus. Nobody you can tell Jesus
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where he can go, not even
his disciples, and they're wondering what in
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the world is he going to a
Marria for? We don't have any dealings
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with Samaritans. But nobody has the
right to tell Jesus what to do and
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where he can go. He has
to go where his father directs and so
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he can't even follow his own disciples. So he goes to all the various
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synagogues of Judea. Well, let's
make some application from the Texas morning.
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I'm gonna just deal with something and
when I'm done here, I feel free
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to go to your pastor and get
correction because because I'm gonna freely, I'm
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gonna tell you stuff I'm not I'm
not an expert on this, so okay,
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but but it's in the text I
want to at least deal with it.
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The question that has often asked about
this text and others like it is,
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are there still demons today and,
if so, do we need those
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who can cast them out? Now, as I said, I'm not the
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expert on this and I don't think
Sunday morning is the best way to give
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a theological treatise on some thing like
this, but I do want to provoke
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our thinking just a little bit.
It does appear that demonic possession was something
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very common in the days of Christ
and in the Ministry of Jesus we see
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it often. Some think that because
this was a time when Christ was manifested,
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so God was manifested on the Earth
in a unique way, that it
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also provoked the demons and Satan's kingdom
to also become more manifest at that time.
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It does appear also that the UH
there are demonic episodes in the book
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of acts where the apostles also reached
these but it might be it seems perhaps
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less prevalent in regards to that.
Some would say that this still exists today,
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but because of the limited number of
demons and the expanded population that are
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in existence today, that they're still
there, but we don't run into it
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quite so often now. Um Not. It's kind of interesting because we run
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into Um, characteristics that we would
consider to be natural, Um kind of
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diseases that are said to be caused
by a demon. and Um, we
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have things like not being able to
speak or mutinous. We have deafness ascribed
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to a demon, seizures ascribed to
a demon, insanity described to a demon,
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deformity described to a demon in the
Gospel accounts. Now, please hear
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me very carefully. One thing I
want to make a couple of things really
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clear in this, because I'm gonna
Muddle the other things. But these things
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you need to be clear on,
and that is not everybody who has those
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conditions has a demon. Okay,
if we, I don't know who does
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or if they do. But but
you can't say what. That person has.
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Has Deafness, so they must have
a demon, because the guy in
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the gospels had a demon. No, we can't. We cannot do that
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at all. We cannot say that, and so we we want to be
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careful on that. And again,
not even all those who had those conditions,
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even though at times it is ascribed
to demonic, other times it is
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not ascribed to that. So we
have to look at that scripturally. And
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the second thing I want to make
absolutely clear to you is I firmly believe,
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and the Bible teaches, no Christian
can have a demon, no Christian
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can be possessed. The Holy Spirit
and an evil spirit cannot dwell together in
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one now I used to believe them. I used to believe that Christians could
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be demon possessed, and so I
believe that I had a demon. Um,
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and so I went to a guy
who was known to be able to
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cast demons out of Christians, and
so I went to him and Um,
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he uh, he cast this demon
out of me, I guess, Um,
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and for three days I had like
a euphoric experience after he cast this
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demon onto me. But then things
change back to normal. Now you might
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think, well, yeah, pastor, because you left your house empty,
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swept and Garnage, so the demon
came back because you hadn't put anything in
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there. Well, Um, but
there is no example in the Bible anywhere,
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no teaching anywhere that would ever lead
to the idea that the true believer
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could ever have a spirit, not
a demon. That could not happen.
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Now it's certainly not inspired scripture,
but Martin Luther's great him says, the
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Prince of darkness. Grim we tremble
not for him his rage. We can
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endure for low his doom is sure. One little word will fail him.
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Well, the question is, if
indeed there are still demons around, do
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we need people in the church that
can cast them out? John MacArthur says
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after Jesus and the apostles passed from
the scene, the only way to be
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delivered from demons is through saving faith
in Jesus Christ. Now, Reverend MacArthur
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has been very good about highlight in
the excesses of the charismatic movement, but
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I don't know that I agree that
he has scripture, uh, to back
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up what he says there. And
I'll just say in my own life there's
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been a couple of instances where I
have met things that are very, very
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suspiciously like things I read in the
Bible and I had my very great questions
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about what was going on there.
And I don't know, I don't know.
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So what am I telling you that
I believe? I guess. I'm
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telling you I don't know. Um, I'm not sure. It's it's something
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that in fact, my my son
was preaching his PC church here a few
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weeks ago and and he called me
to ask me what I thought and I
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said I don't even know. Um, I don't know what to say.
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I'm not sure. It's a difficult
question. But so I say you have
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your pastor here and you can always
ask him after sabbatical was over. Um.
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But we want to know it here
also as well, that what Jesus
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does, what he teaches, the
Kingdom of God. And what is the
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Kingdom of God? There's there's different
you can run into all kinds of different
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definitions of the Kingdom of God,
but I think the simplest and best definition
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of the Kingdom of God is the
rule and reign of God in the hearts
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of God's people. That is the
Kingdom of God, and of course it
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can mean the church, you can
mean the kingdom we're praying for in the
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Lord's prayer. But the important point
is, is the Kingdom of God ruling
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in us? Is it reigning in
us? Is Jesus reigning in our life?
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That's the important question about the Kingdom
of God. Is He for sure?
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Can you say yes, I have
made him the savior and the Lord
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of my life. He has changed
my life, he has come into me
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and the Kingdom of God has established
in me and he is my Lord and
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my God. That is what's important. Even the demons confess he is the
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holy one of God. So don't
let the demons make a confession that you
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won't make, but make that this
morning, that Jesus is indeed the Lord
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of our lives. And then we
learned, as I said, that had
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authority over everything that he came in
contact with in his life. He had
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authority and his preaching, Authority over
demons, authority over sickness, and this
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was true not only then when he
was on the earth, but it remains
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to our day. He still has
authority over everything. There is nothing in
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our lives we encounter that Jesus doesn't
have authority over we saw earlier. He
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had authority over temptation, he has
authority over demons, he has authority over
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sickness, he has authority over sin, he has authority over death. And
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First Corinthian Paul says the last enemy
to be destroyed is death. Have you
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ever thought about in our Lord's ministry, he as far as we're told by
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the Gospel Writers, he encountered three
people that were dead and they were all
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in various stages of death. Right
in uh he went into the home of
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Gyrus, the ruler of the synagogue, and he encountered his twelve year old
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daughter who had recently, just within
probably minutes or hours, had just died.
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and Jesus, and some of the
most wonderful words uh that he ever
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uttered, raises her from the dead
as well. Then, secondly, he
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comes to a widow of Nane.
Now this a son of hers, has
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been dead for a while because they're
having the funeral procession and however long that
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took. But Jesus now encounters this
one who is a little further along in
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the death process. And Uh,
he encounters that and has authority over death.
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And then the KUDATA. He comes
to Lazarus, who has been dead
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four days and they don't even want
to open the grave because they're afraid of
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the smell and the stench would be
there. But four days he has been
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there in the grip of death,
and Jesus, in three words, says
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Lazarus comes forth, come forth,
and he comes out wrapped in his grave
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clothes. Now, why do you
think the Gospel Writers Record this for us?
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I think there's, of course,
various reasons, but one that I'd
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say is the one enemy that probably
all of us, at some time or
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another, have feared is death.
It is something that we wonder about and
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we have questions about. It is
the last enemy that we're going to face.
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The writer to the Hebrew says in
Hebrews too, since therefore the children
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share in flesh and blood, he
himself likewise partook of the same things,
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that through death he might destroy the
one who is the power of death,
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that is the devil, and deliver
all those who, who, fear of
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death, were subject to lifetime slavery. In our life we encounter weakness,
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we encounter temptation, we encounter sickness, and our Lord shows us he has
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authority over all of that, and
I'm not saying that means you're always going
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to be healed of his sickness.
That's still in his providence and his will
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as to what he does. But
there's still looms out there. Are Mortal
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enemy, the last enemy, and
that is death. But we need to
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understand our Lord has authority over death
as well every enemy we face in this
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life. Our Savior has authority over
and we don't face the enemies alone,
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but he is with us. And
so Paul and that triumphant scripture at the
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end of Romans Chapter Eight says.
No, in all these things we are
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more than conquerors. Through Him we
loved us, for I am sure that
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neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor rulers, nor things present,
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nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor
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anything else in all creation we'll be
able to separate us from the love of
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God in Christ, Jesus, Our
Lord. I don't know what you're facing
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this morning. Some of you are
maybe facing great temptation for something, some
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of you may be facing a weakness, some of you may be facing a
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sickness. I don't know, but
I want to assure you, whatever it
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is, Jesus has authority over and
however it ends, it ends because he
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has deemed it to end that way. But let us put our faith,
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in our trust into one who has
all authority in Heaven and earth. Let's
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pray. Lord, we thank you
for your word. Thank you, God,
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that you do have authority and Lord, that when we, Lord,
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are regenerated by your spirit and when
we come to the place, that we
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indeed pray that prayer that asked you
to be the Lord over our life,
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the Lord indeed you come, it's
the triumphant king who rules and reigns over
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everything. And Lord, that we
can do all things through Christ, who
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strengthens us. And Lord, that
you are able to do exceedingly abundantly above
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all that we ask or think,
according to the power that is at work
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in us. And so, Lord, we thank you for the Authority you
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have shown on earth and the authority
that you still continue to wield at the
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right hand of the father. And
we praise you, God, that the
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things we face we don't face alone, but you are there with us,
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and we give you praise in Christ
name. Amen. Can
