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 Mark chapter 6, it's almost a hill up and then back down as you look at the gospel of Mark.

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 The height of the popularity of the ministry of Jesus comes toward the midst of the book in the gospel of Mark.

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 And then after you get to about the middle of the book, it begins to focus upon the cross.

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 And Mark spends a lot of his time talking about the last days of Christ in Jerusalem.

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 So when you get to Mark chapter 6, we are at the height of the popularity of the ministry of Christ primarily in Galilee.

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 He's been on that boat with those disciples.

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 And when it moors into the dock, it is central to most of his ministry, that area.

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 It is not far from his adopted hometown of Capernaum where he did so much ministry.

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 It's not far from where he taught the Sermon on the Mount.

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 And much of his healing had taken place among those very people.

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 The whole region is alive with anticipation because the word is spreading what Christ has done.

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 Perhaps they see the boat approaching the shore.

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 I say the boat because Mark always refers to it as the boat.

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 As if it was a boat that was for just Christ and the disciples.

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 They were using somebody's boat to get around.

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 And crowds were moving toward him.

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 There was a great sense of urgency and desperation.

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 And I want us to look this morning at how they responded to Christ as he came to shore in Mark chapter 6, verse 53.

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 Because I believe that it's a proper response that we should have for Christ's work.

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 It's in Mark chapter 6, verse 53.

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 It says this.

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 When they crossed over, they came to the land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore.

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 And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognized him.

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 And ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was.

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 And wherever he came, villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment.

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 And as many as touched him were made.

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 Gennesaret is a beautiful area.

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 It is often called the paradise of Galilee.

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 The word itself means a garden of riches.

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 It is so prominent in that area that Luke chapter 5, verse 1, even says the Sea of Galilee is called the lake at Gennesaret.

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 It's got very rich soil.

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 Soil that allows almost everything to grow there.

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 Josephus is a first century Jewish historian that said this.

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 There is not a plant with its fertile soil refuses to produce.

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 And its cultivators, in fact, grow every species in that area.

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 I've been to that area.

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 We spent the night in Tiberias and headed toward Galilee and rode the bus through the area as we went toward Galilee and Capernaum.

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 It's about a three-mile section.

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 And it is filled with date palms, banana groves, and irrigated fields.

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 It stood out.

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 It was obviously a fertile area.

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 And where food can grow, people live.

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 The area was also known for its mineral springs.

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 And it was thought that they would bring medical benefit to people.

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 If it didn't bring medical benefit, it still felt good on hurting bones and muscles.

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 And people came.

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 And now in this populated area, Jesus has arrived.

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 What I want to hone in on this morning for just a few moments is how they responded to Jesus and what we can learn about their response.

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 I believe that how they responded is how we should respond as we saw.

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 How do we respond to Jesus?

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 First thing is we recognize him.

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 Verse 54 says the people immediately recognized him.

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 Now, Jesus is from this area.

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 After leaving Nazareth, he made his home in Capernaum.

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 And that is in this area.

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 And he had ministered in that area in a powerful way.

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 They knew who he was.

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 They knew he was the best preacher in all the land they had ever heard.

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 They knew that he taught like no one ever taught.

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 He was, in fact, the master teacher.

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 They knew he had power over evil.

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 They had seen that.

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 He cast out demons by speaking authority over them.

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 Death could not defeat him.

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 He healed the sick.

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 Unless, of course, they died first.

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 And then if they died, he raised them from the dead.

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 Don't you dare think that he did that because he was late.

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 He was always on time.

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 He fed them.

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 He fed them.

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 He fed them the word of God and then miraculously fed them a meal.

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 And word got out.

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 Word gets out about all of that.

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 Any of that would get the word out.

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 But all of that together really got the word out.

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 More than anything else, word got out about his healing.

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 People saw that he had power in his touch.

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 And they heard the strength of his voice.

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 And they felt a connection even with his garments.

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 And therefore, they came.

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 They show us how to come as well.

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 They ran to him.

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 The way we ought to recognize and respond to Jesus is to run to him.

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 Verse 55 says,

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 They ran about the whole region.

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 Now, we're not just talking about a group standing by the shore that happened to recognize Jesus as they walked up.

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 No, we're talking about people from throughout that region.

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 They dropped what they were doing and they went immediately.

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 I spent most of my life being separated from some family by miles.

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 My dad was in the Air Force.

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 And the only place that I remember him serving before he retired was in the upper peninsula of Michigan.

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 We had a grandmother in Grand Rapids, Michigan, outside that area.

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 But we also had a grandmother in South Carolina.

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 So anytime we got a vacation, we typically came to South Carolina to see Grandma.

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 When my dad retired, we moved to Greenville.

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 And then we had a grandmother in Michigan.

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 So anytime we got a time to go, we'd ride up to see her.

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 Ohio is bigger than any country in the world.

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 You can't get through the end of it.

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 But anyway, we'd ride up that way to see her.

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 And then I went to New Orleans Seminary.

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 Moved 600 miles away from my parents and went back to see them anytime I got a chance.

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 Dawn and I met when I pastored in South Mississippi as a seminary student.

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 We married shortly after my graduation.

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 And we moved to South Carolina.

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 Her people are all in Mississippi.

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 And so oftentimes, we'd go during the year down to Mississippi.

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 We moved back to Mississippi.

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 We had folks in South Carolina.

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 Anytime we got a week, we'd go back to South Carolina.

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 I've spent my life going from place to place.

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 Now, there's very few of us in Mississippi are folks.

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 We've got a brother down there.

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 And I got all my folks right here amongst us right now.

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 So we don't have to do that as much now.

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 But when my children were young, we always spent Thanksgiving away from home.

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 And we always spent it in one of our parents' homes, regardless of where we live.

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 And therefore, we had to reach out here.

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 This is great.

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 And so Black Friday came.

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 Now, some of y'all too young to know what Black Friday is.

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 I mean, I know they do it, but they don't do it.

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 Not like they did before the Internet.

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 It was serious before the Internet.

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 And we always went on Black Friday.

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 We'd get up about 4 a.m. and go stand in line somewhere.

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 We may not need anything.

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 It may not be anything we're looking for, but I'd just like to see the friends.

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 I like to grab the last thing before somebody else can get it when they really want it and watch.

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 There's been a lot of grandmas elbowed in the mouth over the years because of Black Friday.

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 One time we were standing in a Torres or Us line, standing outside.

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 We didn't know what toy we was going to buy.

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 I don't think we came there for anything particular.

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 But there was some little battery-powered rodent that was popular that year.

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 And people, they only had so many, and they were giving out tickets.

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 They got a ticket.

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 They didn't have a ticket.

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 And they were giving out tickets.

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 They only had like 200.

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 There's 400 in line.

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 And so people said, I don't want my test on.

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 I said, I'll tell you what I'm going to buy all the things I'm going to sell.

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 Well, I didn't get that many of them.

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 But I did get some, and I took them home to my children because it was the prize possession.

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 It was what you had to have that year.

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 They had never heard of it, didn't care nothing about it.

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 I think they wound it up, and it ran under something, and we never found it again.

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 You know, it's under the refrigerator somewhere.

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 But we loved going, and there was this frenzy to watch these people get so, the first GPS I ever bought, I bought it in a circuit city in some big bin.

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 And grabbed it, smacked somebody in the head, and grabbed another one, you know, and put it down somewhere else and hit it just so that person couldn't have it, you know.

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 I confessed all that to the Lord.

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 When I read about these folks running about the whole region, I thought about it like that.

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 Before there were Internet sales and before you could get it all shipped to the house and all that kind of stuff,

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 when you had to show up and get the limited supply, it was something to say.

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 And I feel sure in that fertile region, this was something to say.

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 They let nothing come away coming to Jesus.

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 And I want you to notice something that I believe is remarkable.

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 When responding to Jesus, bring others with us.

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 Bring others with us.

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 Look at verse 55.

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 It says, they began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard He was.

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 They ran with all that they could to get to Jesus.

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 But they did not come to Jesus alone.

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 They brought someone to Jesus with them.

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 So did we.

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 They found folks with needs.

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 They found folks who were hurting.

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 I want you to hear me today.

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 They found folks that would not.

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 They found folks that could not come on their own.

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 And they brought them to Jesus.

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 They didn't ignore Him.

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 They didn't look out for just themselves.

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 They didn't send them away.

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 They didn't try to get something of Jesus and not worry about somebody else.

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 They made a point.

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 Wherever they heard He was to bring all that they could to Him.

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 It is crucial.

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 Bring people with you to Jesus.

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 Verse 56 says, wherever He came.

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 In villages, cities, or countryside.

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 Folks, that means that there were small town people there.

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 There were big city slickers there.

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 That means there were country people there.

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 They had one common bond.

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 They all mean Jesus.

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 And they brought all people to Jesus.

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 I'll tell you another way they responded to Jesus.

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 That I think we can learn from.

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 Reach for them.

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 Verse 56 said, they laid the sick in the marketplace and implored Him that they might touch even the fringe of His garment.

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 It's interesting.

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 Implored Him.

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 That means they were begging Him.

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 And the verb there in the original language says that they were continually begging Him.

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 Continually to implore Him.

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 Asking again and again.

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 They had to get a touch of His garment.

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 Why a touch of His garment?

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 Well, let's look back at Mark chapter 5 that we covered a few weeks ago.

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 Mark chapter 5 verse 24 says,

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 And He went with them.

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 And a great crowd followed Him and thronged about Him.

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 And there was a woman who had a discharge of blood for 12 years.

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 And who had suffered much under many physicians.

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 And had spent all that she had.

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 And was no better but rather grew worse.

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 And she heard the reports about Jesus.

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 And came up behind Him in the crowd and touched His garment.

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 For she said, if I touch even His garment, I will be made well.

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 And immediately, the flow of blood dried up.

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 And she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease.

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 I wonder why those folks wanted to touch His garment.

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 They had heard reports.

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 The Lord had changed her life.

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 And now those reports had got out.

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 And people were running all over the region.

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 To bring as many people to Jesus as possible.

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 To find healing by grasping.

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 Matthew tells us.

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 They brought people from all over the region.

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 May all Pippins County.

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 No.

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 Of the hope of Christ.

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 Folks, we reach beyond Pippins County.

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 May all Oconee County.

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 No.

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 They can reach Christ.

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 May all Greenville County.

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 No.

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 May all Anderson County.

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 No.

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 May all Transylvania County.

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 Yeah, we got some coming over the mountain to get here.

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 Transylvania County.

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 No.

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 May all know.

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 In all the surrounding regions.

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 Power.

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 And touch.

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 On Jesus.

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 You need a touch of Jesus.

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 Just reach for Him.

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 Peter was sinking in that water.

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 In the midst of his storm, he cried out to Jesus.

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 Jesus.

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 And when he cried out to Jesus.

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 Jesus took him.

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 Jesus took him out of hand.

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 I thank you.

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 He'll always meet you where you are.

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 He'll always break you to where you need to be.

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 He'll make you what you need to be.

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 He'll clean up the coming crows.

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 If you can't clean up one time.

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 He'll meet you where you are.

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 One more response I want you to see.

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 It's powerful to me.

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 A proper response to Christ is to be changed by him.

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 They could not heal themselves.

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 None of us can.

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 They had to surrender themselves to Him.

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 Reach out to Him.

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 They implored Him to change their lives.

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 And He did.

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 Verse 56 said,

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 And as many as touched it were made well.

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 I want to dig into that for just a moment.

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 Just leave it up for just a moment.

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 That word touched there,

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 in the Greek it's an heirs verb.

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 Which means it's a punctiliar verb from the past.

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 It means that it happened at one time.

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 It was a one time movement.

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 Done in one action.

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 In the past.

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 They touched Him.

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 But it's not only that.

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 The text emphasizes that when they touched Him,

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 at the point that they touched Him,

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 He made them well.

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 I don't like to dig among the weeds a whole lot.

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 I like to do my homework and study,

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 and then try to put it in English.

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 But I don't want us to go into a language.

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 When it says that as soon as they touched Him,

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 excuse me,

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 as many as touched Him were made well.

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 The word there for well is sozo.

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 Sozo.

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 I want you to understand what it's saying.

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 That word is used several times.

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 It's used when the woman of the issue of blood touches you.

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 That's found in Mark 5, verse 34.

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 It says,

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 And He said,

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 Daughter, your faith has made you well.

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 Sozo.

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 Go in peace

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 and be healed

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 of your deceit.

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 However,

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 it's also the same word that's used in Luke chapter 19, verse 10.

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 For the Son of Man came to seek and to sozo the lost.

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 He came to seek and to save the lost.

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 Let me give you another one.

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 Ephesians chapter 2, verse 8.

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 For by grace you have been sozo.

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 You have been saved through faith.

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 One more.

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 Romans 10, 9.

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 If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord

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 and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,

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 you will be sozo.

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 You will be saved.

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 Actually,

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 the most accurate translation of our passage for today

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 is that as many as touched him were saved.

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 Now,

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 they changed that

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 because the context is

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 they were looking for physical healing

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 and they got it.

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 But in reality,

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 they got a whole lot more than physical healing.

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 And when you reach for Jesus today,

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 He'll change your life.

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 Reach for Him.

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 He's reaching for you.

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 He'll change your life.

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 Do you know what I find so ironic?

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 That in the midst of the storm,

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 the disciples didn't recognize Him

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 even though they were with Him

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 day after day.

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 Day after day,

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 they were with Him,

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 but yet they thought He was a ghost.

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 But Mark tells us

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 this crowd recognized Him immediately.

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 It's quite amazing

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 that sometimes it's the people

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 that are most familiar with the church.

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 Sometimes it's the people

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 that are most familiar with the things of God.

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 Sometimes it's the people

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 who are the people of God

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 that are the ones

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 that do not recognize Him

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 and they miss out

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 on the very best that He has.

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 I want you to notice,

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 we learned last week,

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 that recognizing the things of God

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 gets tough when we're hard-hearted.

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 Even though the disciples

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 had walked with Him,

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 they were hard-hearted.

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 That's what the Scripture says.

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 And they had a hard time recognizing it

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 because they were hard-hearted.

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 And I've preached long enough

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 and experienced enough

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 movements of God

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 in congregations

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 to realize that some

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 of the most faithful in attendance,

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 some of the longest standing in membership,

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 some of the most experienced in worship,

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 sometimes can be the most skeptical,

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 most hardened about experiences

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 in the church.

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 Some,

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 and I want you to hear me today,

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 clearly,

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 some can't help

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 that they go to sleep here in worship.

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 They can't help it.

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 Medication's rough, okay?

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 This past Friday,

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 I celebrated a one-year anniversary.

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 Many of you,

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 if you were here,

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 you remember,

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 I had a massive heart attack

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 a year ago, okay?

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 Had cardiac arrest three times,

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 and every cardiologist

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 I saw in hospitals

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 was a miracle that I made.

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 And I tried to come back to church

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 just as soon as I could.

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 This church took care of me

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 and had the pulpit filled

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 for five weeks for me,

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 immediately.

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 But after a couple of weeks,

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 I wanted to come back to worship.

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 I'd do the welcome

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 and I'd go over and sit down.

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 I'd stay for the second service,

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 I'd do the welcome

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 and I'd go over there and sit down.

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 I'm going to be honest.

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 Because of the medication I was on,

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 because of the state of the healing

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 that I was going through

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 and all that stuff.

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 And that second worship hour,

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 it got rough over there,

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 just like it does for you

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 every Sunday Friday.

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 It got rough over there for me, okay?

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 And I got more sympathetic

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 about those.

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 Now, my wife has told me

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 a long time

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 that God called me

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 in the ministry

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 so I'm going to have to sit in the queue

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 because I don't do a good job.

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 But I got sympathetic to those

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 that have to take so much medication

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 they can't hardly hold their head up.

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 And so I know

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 that some people can help.

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 I get that.

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 I get that.

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 But I'll tell you another thing too, folks.

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 Some set out to go to sleep in church.

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 I mean, I've seen people

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 that sit on the end

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 that kind of nuzzle up

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 to get positioned right.

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 Hoping I'll preach long enough

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 and soft enough

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 for them to get a good nap in,

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 but not so long

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 they got to wake up and hear me.

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 I've witnessed that.

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 Never here, of course.

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 I'm talking about churches

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 a long way from here.

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 But my point is this.

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 It's not just the young

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 and the spry

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 that need a touch from God.

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 We all need a touch from God.

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 Instead, it is often the one

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 that has been in the boat

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 of the Lord a long time

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 that needs it the most

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 and does not recognize

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 when Jesus walks

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 in the midst of the congregation

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 or walks in the midst

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 of our lives.

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 It is a blessing

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 yet often shame

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 who seeks out

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 and recognizes

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 the movement of the Lord.

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 People who are hungry

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 for the Lord,

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 they don't sit back

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 and worship and say,

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 I dare you to bless you.

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 They don't do it.

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 They pursue the things of God.

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 They strive to tell others

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 of the movement of God.

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 They put themselves second

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 so that God and His work

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 can be first.

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 They seek Him.

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 Do you know where they find Him?

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 I love the book of Revelation.

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 There's a lot of misunderstanding

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 about it

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 and I had a lot of misunderstanding

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 about it.

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 And I wanted to understand it more

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 and I set out several years ago

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 to really study it

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 to get an understanding

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 for myself.

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 Okay?

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 I look at it a little differently

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 than a lot of times

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 with soul and people.

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 But I enjoy the book of Revelation.

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 I appreciate the fact that

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 the context in which it's written,

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 it is written,

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 Revelation 2,

00:24:45.100 --> 00:24:45.980
 chapters 2 and 3

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 tells us

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 that it is written

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 that seven churches

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 in Asia Minor,

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 I know because of the setting,

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 that they were all under

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 the persecution

00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:56.620
 of the Roman Empire.

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 It was illegal

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 for them to be in church

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 in the area

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 in which they are on.

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 And John is exiled

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 to the island of Patmos

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 because he will not

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 stop preaching to God.

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 And as he's on

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 the island of Patmos,

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 God gives him

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 a vision.

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 A vision that takes him

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 into heaven

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 to see what's going on

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 in heaven.

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 A vision that takes him

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 back to earth

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 and then back to heaven

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 and then back to earth

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 and then back to heaven

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 several times.

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 And he comes out

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 writing and sharing

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 what he saw in heaven

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 and what he saw on earth.

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 And he's writing

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 to give hope to those

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 in those seven churches

00:25:36.620 --> 00:25:38.259
 who are struggling

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 under the persecution

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 of the Roman Empire.

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 He writes to them

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 a coded letter.

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 A letter using

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 a lot of Old Testament

00:25:48.779 --> 00:25:49.339
 imagery.

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 But he writes to them

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 an imagery

00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:54.299
 that they will understand

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 and they will get.

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 A lot of it he repeats

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 in different ways too.

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 But he writes to them

00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:00.859
 an imagery

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 that they will understand

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 so that he can give

00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:04.220
 that letter

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 to a Roman courier

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 and that Roman courier

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 cannot read it

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 and understand what it says.

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 And then that Roman courier

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 takes it.

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 If you look at the order

00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:19.500
 of the churches

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 that's listed

00:26:20.579 --> 00:26:22.460
 in Revelation 2 and 3

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 and you pull up a map

00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:26.899
 and you connect the dots

00:26:26.899 --> 00:26:28.799
 from city to city to city

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 you'll notice that it is

00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:32.940
 an egg-shaped route.

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 That's exactly what it is.

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 It is a Roman postal route.

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 He was giving him

00:26:39.439 --> 00:26:41.119
 a vision

00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:42.199
 for a letter

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 to be written

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 to be brought

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 to the first church

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 that would

00:26:46.679 --> 00:26:48.419
 handscribe

00:26:48.419 --> 00:26:50.159
 what that letter says

00:26:50.159 --> 00:26:51.779
 and then pass it on

00:26:51.779 --> 00:26:52.500
 to a courier

00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:53.679
 to the next church

00:26:53.679 --> 00:26:54.759
 without the courier

00:26:54.759 --> 00:26:55.859
 never knowing

00:26:55.859 --> 00:26:56.699
 what he was saying.

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 You know what he was saying?

00:27:01.339 --> 00:27:02.819
 A lot of what he said

00:27:02.819 --> 00:27:04.379
 wasn't about

00:27:04.379 --> 00:27:04.979
 what's going to happen

00:27:04.979 --> 00:27:05.500
 in our future.

00:27:05.500 --> 00:27:06.839
 You know what?

00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:08.259
 The book of Revelation

00:27:08.259 --> 00:27:09.359
 wasn't written

00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:10.140
 first to us

00:27:10.140 --> 00:27:11.339
 in our generation.

00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:12.640
 It was written

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 first to us.

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 And if everything

00:27:15.059 --> 00:27:15.660
 in that book

00:27:15.660 --> 00:27:16.339
 has to do with something

00:27:16.339 --> 00:27:17.079
 that's still going to happen

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 it didn't give them

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 a lick of hope

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 that day.

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 So the reality is

00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:22.140
 what he was telling them

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 is not only

00:27:23.380 --> 00:27:24.740
 what had happened

00:27:24.740 --> 00:27:25.539
 to them

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 what was happening

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 to them

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 but then praise God

00:27:29.539 --> 00:27:30.359
 what will happen

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 not only to them

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 but to all of us

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 is what he was telling them.

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 But of all those things

00:27:36.059 --> 00:27:36.620
 in Revelation

00:27:36.620 --> 00:27:37.960
 I love chapter 1

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 the most.

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 You know why I love

00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:41.759
 chapter 1 the most?

00:27:43.019 --> 00:27:44.640
 It's because chapter 1

00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:45.519
 tells me

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 where Jesus is.

00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:53.180
 John sees the imagery

00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:54.820
 of each one of those churches

00:27:54.820 --> 00:27:56.740
 as capital students

00:27:56.740 --> 00:27:59.200
 with a light burning

00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:02.000
 burning in the darkness

00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:02.859
 of their sin

00:28:02.859 --> 00:28:04.759
 shedding the light

00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:05.240
 of the Lord

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 and he said

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 I want you to know

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 that Jesus

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 and he gives a great

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 image of Jesus

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 and we just spent days

00:28:14.619 --> 00:28:15.319
 on the night

00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:16.980
 and he's walking

00:28:16.980 --> 00:28:17.680
 in the morning.

00:28:20.019 --> 00:28:21.740
 The most reassuring thing

00:28:21.740 --> 00:28:22.079
 in the book

00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:22.460
 of Revelation

00:28:22.460 --> 00:28:24.579
 is Jesus.

00:28:25.900 --> 00:28:26.819
 He's walking

00:28:26.819 --> 00:28:28.019
 in our lives.

00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:28.940
 He knows

00:28:28.940 --> 00:28:30.019
 our circumstances.

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 He knows

00:28:32.759 --> 00:28:33.320
 the valleys

00:28:33.320 --> 00:28:34.080
 that we go through.

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 He knows

00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:35.460
 the mountaintops

00:28:35.460 --> 00:28:36.080
 that we go through.

00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:36.840
 He knows

00:28:36.840 --> 00:28:37.740
 all of that

00:28:37.740 --> 00:28:38.740
 and he's walking

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 with us

00:28:39.580 --> 00:28:39.900
 through that.

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 Friends,

00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:41.400
 it don't only happen

00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:41.920
 when we come

00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:42.620
 into this building.

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 He walked in.

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 If you're a child

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 of God today

00:28:45.120 --> 00:28:46.500
 he walked in with you.

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 He's leaving

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 with you.

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 He's always

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 with you.

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 He's walking

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 in the midst.

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 The Lord

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 is here.

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 We just need

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 to reach out

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 and claim

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 what he has

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 for us.

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 Or as

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 Deuteronomy

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 chapter 4

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 verse 29

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 says,

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 Seek the

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 Lord your God

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 and you will

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 find him

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 even if you

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 search out

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 with all your

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 heart

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 and all your

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 soul.

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 Sometimes

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 it is the

00:29:25.579 --> 00:29:25.940
 people

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 that have

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 heard it

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 again

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 and again

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 and are

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 used to it

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 that have

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 never really

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 recognized

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 Christ,

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 have never

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 really ran

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 to Christ,

00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:41.000
 have never

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 really surrendered

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 to Christ.

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 you're here

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 this morning

00:29:46.660 --> 00:29:47.799
 and there's

00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:48.299
 never been

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 a time

00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:48.940
 in your

00:29:48.940 --> 00:29:49.339
 life

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 that you've

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 surrendered

00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:51.339
 your life

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 to the Lord

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 Jesus Christ.

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 Don't you dare

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 believe church

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 attendance,

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 church

00:29:56.339 --> 00:29:57.099
 membership,

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 church

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 leadership,

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 don't think

00:30:00.859 --> 00:30:01.539
 any of that

00:30:01.539 --> 00:30:03.140
 will save you.

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 The only thing

00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:07.000
 that will save

00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:08.799
 you is when

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 the Lord

00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:11.019
 Jesus calls

00:30:11.019 --> 00:30:11.579
 upon you

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 to surrender

00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:12.679
 your life

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 and you

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 respond

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 to the

00:30:15.639 --> 00:30:16.039
 weakness.

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 You've

00:30:17.879 --> 00:30:18.399
 never given

00:30:18.399 --> 00:30:18.799
 your heart

00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:19.059
 and life

00:30:19.059 --> 00:30:19.419
 to the Lord

00:30:19.419 --> 00:30:20.199
 Jesus today.

00:30:20.579 --> 00:30:21.379
 I encourage

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 you to

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 confess that

00:30:23.439 --> 00:30:23.839
 you need

00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:25.479
 you're a

00:30:25.479 --> 00:30:26.000
 sinner and

00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:26.299
 you need

00:30:26.299 --> 00:30:26.939
 to forgive

00:30:26.939 --> 00:30:27.359
 you and

00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:27.839
 to cleanse

00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:28.679
 you and

00:30:28.679 --> 00:30:29.239
 to commit

00:30:29.239 --> 00:30:29.599
 to you

00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:29.979
 from this

00:30:29.979 --> 00:30:30.239
 day of

00:30:30.239 --> 00:30:30.399
 Lord.

00:30:30.439 --> 00:30:30.679
 I'm going

00:30:30.679 --> 00:30:31.039
 to live

00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:31.879
 for you

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 I want

00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:33.659
 you to

00:30:33.659 --> 00:30:33.959
 take a

00:30:33.959 --> 00:30:34.239
 life.

00:30:35.239 --> 00:30:35.579
 I want

00:30:35.579 --> 00:30:35.859
 to live

00:30:35.859 --> 00:30:36.039
 it.

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:38.179
 If you've

00:30:38.179 --> 00:30:38.659
 done that

00:30:38.659 --> 00:30:39.039
 but you've

00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:39.339
 done that

00:30:39.339 --> 00:30:40.000
 privately

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:43.119
 we need

00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:43.319
 to do

00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:43.420
 it

00:30:43.420 --> 00:30:43.799
 publicly.

00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:45.759
 As I

00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:46.279
 read last

00:30:46.279 --> 00:30:46.539
 week

00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:47.119
 Jesus said

00:30:47.119 --> 00:30:47.420
 if you're

00:30:47.420 --> 00:30:47.880
 ashamed of

00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:48.299
 me before

00:30:48.299 --> 00:30:48.720
 men I'll

00:30:48.720 --> 00:30:49.099
 be ashamed

00:30:49.099 --> 00:30:49.299
 of you.

00:30:51.299 --> 00:30:51.759
 The reality

00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:52.380
 is if you're

00:30:52.380 --> 00:30:52.859
 ashamed of

00:30:52.859 --> 00:30:53.259
 him you've

00:30:53.259 --> 00:30:53.839
 never acknowledged

00:30:53.839 --> 00:30:54.339
 him publicly

00:30:54.339 --> 00:30:55.039
 it's not

00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:55.579
 really happened

00:30:55.579 --> 00:30:56.059
 privately.

00:30:56.740 --> 00:30:57.339
 There's evidence

00:30:57.339 --> 00:30:58.019
 of that anyway.

00:30:58.720 --> 00:30:59.180
 So if you've

00:30:59.180 --> 00:31:00.740
 never acknowledged

00:31:00.740 --> 00:31:01.420
 him and Jesus

00:31:01.420 --> 00:31:02.279
 by his example

00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:02.740
 and by his

00:31:02.740 --> 00:31:03.079
 commission

00:31:03.079 --> 00:31:03.740
 tells us to do

00:31:03.740 --> 00:31:04.099
 that for the

00:31:04.099 --> 00:31:04.339
 baptism.

00:31:04.460 --> 00:31:04.740
 We're going to

00:31:04.740 --> 00:31:05.339
 baptize next

00:31:05.339 --> 00:31:05.619
 week.

00:31:06.140 --> 00:31:06.500
 If you've

00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:06.880
 never been

00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:07.640
 baptized as a

00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:08.119
 believer I

00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:08.880
 encourage you

00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:09.800
 to come

00:31:09.800 --> 00:31:10.160
 and say

00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:10.720
 pastor I

00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:11.120
 know I'm

00:31:11.120 --> 00:31:11.480
 saved.

00:31:12.360 --> 00:31:12.700
 I need

00:31:12.700 --> 00:31:12.860
 to be

00:31:12.860 --> 00:31:13.140
 baptized.

00:31:14.820 --> 00:31:15.400
 Maybe you're

00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:15.640
 here and

00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:16.060
 God's leading

00:31:16.060 --> 00:31:16.460
 you to pick

00:31:16.460 --> 00:31:16.840
 this first

00:31:16.840 --> 00:31:17.080
 better.

00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:19.060
 God's doing

00:31:19.060 --> 00:31:19.500
 a wonderful

00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:20.060
 work in our

00:31:20.060 --> 00:31:20.200
 church.

00:31:20.300 --> 00:31:20.400
 I'm

00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:20.640
 thankful.

00:31:22.120 --> 00:31:22.520
 God's

00:31:22.520 --> 00:31:22.840
 leading you

00:31:22.840 --> 00:31:23.120
 to be a

00:31:23.120 --> 00:31:23.340
 part of

00:31:23.340 --> 00:31:23.400
 the

00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:23.820
 God.

00:31:25.460 --> 00:31:25.820
 If you

00:31:25.820 --> 00:31:26.180
 need more

00:31:26.180 --> 00:31:26.660
 Lord Jesus

00:31:26.660 --> 00:31:27.200
 this morning

00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:30.240
 if you need

00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:30.640
 to publicly

00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:31.080
 acknowledge

00:31:31.080 --> 00:31:31.420
 him this

00:31:31.420 --> 00:31:31.680
 morning

00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:34.320
 if you need

00:31:34.320 --> 00:31:34.640
 to join

00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:35.060
 this church

00:31:35.060 --> 00:31:35.560
 this morning

00:31:35.560 --> 00:31:37.440
 maybe there's

00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:37.860
 something on

00:31:37.860 --> 00:31:38.360
 your heart.

00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:40.100
 Maybe there's

00:31:40.100 --> 00:31:40.380
 something in

00:31:40.380 --> 00:31:40.780
 your life

00:31:40.780 --> 00:31:41.140
 that you need

00:31:41.140 --> 00:31:41.560
 to lay down

00:31:41.560 --> 00:31:42.040
 this altar

00:31:42.040 --> 00:31:42.500
 and just give

00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:42.880
 it to him.

00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:44.700
 You can do

00:31:44.700 --> 00:31:45.140
 that in the

00:31:45.140 --> 00:31:45.700
 pew where you

00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:46.260
 stand in just

00:31:46.260 --> 00:31:46.580
 a moment.

00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:47.180
 Just a quiet

00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:47.440
 prayer.

00:31:47.540 --> 00:31:47.820
 You can do

00:31:47.820 --> 00:31:48.180
 it in this

00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:48.460
 altar.

00:31:48.780 --> 00:31:49.060
 You can do

00:31:49.060 --> 00:31:49.340
 it with a

00:31:49.340 --> 00:31:49.920
 pastor praying.

00:31:51.380 --> 00:31:51.900
 There's no

00:31:51.900 --> 00:31:52.580
 reason for any

00:31:52.580 --> 00:31:53.520
 of us to leave

00:31:53.520 --> 00:31:55.000
 this room with

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:56.220
 unfinished business

00:31:56.220 --> 00:31:56.880
 with God.

00:31:58.120 --> 00:31:59.000
 He spoke to

00:31:59.000 --> 00:31:59.200
 us.

00:32:00.540 --> 00:32:01.120
 We need to

00:32:01.120 --> 00:32:01.680
 respond to

00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:01.940
 the people.

00:32:02.300 --> 00:32:02.620
 Respond

00:32:02.620 --> 00:32:03.340
 correctly.

00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:04.940
 Respond the

00:32:04.940 --> 00:32:05.540
 way they did

00:32:05.540 --> 00:32:06.520
 in the last

00:32:06.520 --> 00:32:06.880
 morning.

00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:10.060
 without

00:32:10.060 --> 00:32:10.680
 reluctance

00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:11.980
 after we

00:32:11.980 --> 00:32:12.380
 pray

00:32:12.380 --> 00:32:13.600
 we'll stand

00:32:13.600 --> 00:32:14.080
 and sing.

00:32:15.060 --> 00:32:15.620
 You come.

00:32:15.780 --> 00:32:16.340
 Any questions

00:32:16.340 --> 00:32:16.840
 about what

00:32:16.840 --> 00:32:17.180
 do you

00:32:17.180 --> 00:32:17.540
 come?

00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:19.000
 Let's

00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:19.280
 talk.

00:32:19.600 --> 00:32:19.960
 Let's pray

00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:20.280
 together.

00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:21.640
 Lord Jesus I

00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:22.280
 love you and I

00:32:22.280 --> 00:32:22.780
 thank you dear

00:32:22.780 --> 00:32:24.500
 God for the

00:32:24.500 --> 00:32:25.000
 love that you

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:25.620
 have for us

00:32:25.620 --> 00:32:26.240
 and I ask

00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:27.500
 today that

00:32:27.500 --> 00:32:27.960
 you'll help

00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:28.940
 us to respond

00:32:28.940 --> 00:32:29.740
 to you as

00:32:29.740 --> 00:32:30.260
 your spirit

00:32:30.260 --> 00:32:30.900
 leads us

00:32:30.900 --> 00:32:31.580
 right now.

00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:33.240
 Jesus precious

00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:33.599
 name.

00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:34.039
 Amen.

00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:34.779
 Amen.

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