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The LORD your God in the midst of you is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over you with joy; he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.
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<span class="textmatt-25-1"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Matthew 22 and also in chapter 25; Jesus
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<span class="textmatt-22-1"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Crowds gathered to hear Jesus, and as
always there were the chief priests and scribes who listened with anger because
they knew he was referring to them in many of his parables, </span></span><span class="textmatt-21-46"><b><sup><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textmatt-21-46"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And although
they were wanting to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because the
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<span class="textmatt-22-1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The first story Jesus told was "The
Parable of the Wedding Feast." </span></span><span class="chapternum"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There was much interest about the kingdom of heaven so</span></span><span class="textmatt-22-1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Jesus was
again speaking to the people in parables, saying,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>“The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who
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he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have
prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered,
and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">But they
were too busy to heed the Kings invitation and went off, one to his farm, another
to his business,</span></span> <span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">while
the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed
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exceedingly angered the king, and he sent his troops and destroyed those
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then
he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were
not worthy.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding
feast as many as you find.’</span></span> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">So the servants
went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and
good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests, each dressed in the wonderful
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guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here
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the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and toss him into
the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.’</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">For many
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<span class="textmatt-25-1"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is a wise person who knows better
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</span>Our own goodness is as filthy rags in God's sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cannot come to God any other way but the
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like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the
bridegroom. <b><sup> </sup></b>Five of them were foolish, and five
were wise.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no extra oil
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Because
the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and decided to take a
nap.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">But at
midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’</span></span>
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all those virgins quickly rose up and trimmed their lamps.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">But
the wise answered, saying, ‘We cannot do that because there will not be enough
for us and for you, go find the sellers of oil and buy for yourselves.’</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;">
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were
ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Afterward
the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;">
</span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to
you, I do not know you.’</span></span> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">Watch
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even those who are willing to come to the celebration, must keep the fresh oil
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<span class="verse-10"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now when Jesus entered <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city> riding on the young colt, the whole
city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="verse-11"><span style="color: #333333;">And
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<span class="verse-15"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful
things that he did, and the children crying out in the
temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant, </span></span><span class="verse-16"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">and they said to
Jesus, "Do you hear what these children are saying?" And Jesus
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<span class="verse-17"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Soon afterwards, Jesus and his disciples left the temple, going
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to spend the night there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Early the next</span></strong><span class="verse-18"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> morning, as Jesus was returning to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city>, he was
hungry. </span></span><span class="verse-19"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found on
it nothing but leaves. And he said to the tree, </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">"May
no fruit ever come from you again!"</span></span><span class="verse-19"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> And the fig tree immediately began
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truth, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not
only be able to do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to
this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it will happen.</span></span><span class="verse-21"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="verse-23"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">And when Jesus arrived at the temple, the chief priests and the
elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and chided him
saying, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave
you this authority?" </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="verse-24"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus answered them, </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">"I
also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will
tell you by what authority I do these things.</span></span><span class="verse-24"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">The baptism
of John, from where did it come? Was it from heaven or from
man?"</span></span><span class="verse-25"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="verse-25"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">And they discussed it among themselves, saying, "If we say,
'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe
him?' </span></span><span class="verse-26"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">But if we say, 'From man,' we are afraid of the crowd, for they
all consider that John was a prophet." </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="verse-27"><span style="color: #333333;">So they answered Jesus, "We do not know." And
he said to them, </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333;">"Neither will I tell you by what authority I do
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<span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Jesus began to tell a story:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333;">"What do you think? A
man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, 'Son, Please go and work
in the vineyard today.'</span></span><span class="verse-28"><span style="color: #333333;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being very
busy with other things, the son</span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333;"> answered, 'I can't today,' but afterward he changed
his mind and went.</span></span><span class="verse-29"><span style="color: #333333;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333;">So the man went to the other son and asked him to go work
in the vineyard. And this son answered, 'Absolutely, I will go,' <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he did not go.</span></span><span class="verse-30"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333;">Which of the two son's did
the will of his father?"</span></span><span class="verse-31"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="verse-31"><span style="color: #333333;">Jesus said to them, </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333;">"Truly, I say to
you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place> before you.</span></span><span class="verse-31"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333;">For John came to you in
the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax
collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it,<b> you did
not afterward change your minds </b>and believe him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today we all have our opinions, and many of us have some sort of
religious training, but consider to re-think your options, and realize that
Jesus is the Son of God, the Only way to heaven. </span></span></div>
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<span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is time to put aside all
traditions and understand the religion is a form, but serving Jesus is a
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relationship with you that will continue through out eternity.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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37<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">- </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Wee Little Zacchaeus and Jesus' Triumphal
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<span class="textluke-19-1"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Today's happening of the Triumphal Entry is shared
in all four of the Gospels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="textluke-19-1"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Jesus was on a mission to arrive in <st1:city w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city>,
but as he was passing through the city of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jericho</st1:place></st1:city></span></span><span class="textluke-19-2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> there was a small man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax
collector, and he was very rich. </span></span><span class="textluke-19-3"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span><span class="textluke-19-3"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> The man was trying to see Jesus, but on account of
the crowd and him being so short, he could not see Jesus.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span class="textluke-19-4"><span style="color: black;">So he ran on ahead and climbed up
into a sycamore tree in order to see him, because Jesus was about to pass
that way.</span></span><br /></span><span class="textluke-19-5"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span></sup></span></h3>
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<span class="textluke-19-5"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">And when Jesus came to the place, he stopped and looked up in the tree
and called his name; </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">“Zacchaeus,
hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="textluke-19-6"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span><span class="textluke-19-6"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">So he hurried
and came down and received him joyfully.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="textluke-19-7"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span><span class="textluke-19-7"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"><br />And when the
crowd saw it, they all grumbled, “He should not do this; doesn't Jesus
know he is going to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="textluke-19-8"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span><span class="textluke-19-8"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">And Zacchaeus stood in front of Jesus and spoke; “I repent of my sins,
and Lord, half of my goods I will give to the poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if I have defrauded anyone of
anything, I will restore it four times.”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span class="textluke-19-9"><span style="color: black;">And Jesus said to him, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“Today salvation has come to this house. </span></span></span><span class="woj"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the
lost.”<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span class="woj"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Each of us must understand that Jesus knows OUR name and regardless of
our past, he is calling you to open the door of your heart so he and you may
enjoy fellowship.</span></span></span><span class="textluke-19-28"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">A while later Jesus
went on ahead, going up to </span><st1:city style="color: black; font-weight: normal;" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span class="textluke-19-29"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span><span class="textluke-19-29"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">When he drew near to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bethany</st1:place></st1:city>,
at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples
saying</span></span><span class="textluke-19-30"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">“Go into the village ahead of you, where you will
find a young colt tied, one which has not yet been ridden. Untie it and
bring it here.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"> <span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">If
anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has
need of it.’”</span></span> </span><span class="textluke-19-32"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span></h3>
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</span></sup></span><span class="textluke-19-32"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">So they went and
found it just as Jesus had told them.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span class="textluke-19-33"><span style="color: black;">And as they were untying the
colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”</span></span> <span class="textluke-19-34"><span style="color: black;">And they said, “The Lord has
need of it.”</span></span> <span class="textluke-19-35"><span style="color: black;">And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on
the colt, they set Jesus on it.</span></span> </span><span class="textluke-19-36"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span><span class="textluke-19-36"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road and some
threw down palm branches with children dancing and rejoicing.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span class="textluke-19-37"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span></sup></span></h3>
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<span class="textluke-19-37"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">As he was
drawing near to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city>
the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a
loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textluke-19-38"><b><sup> </sup></b>saying, “Blessed
is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven
and glory in the highest!”</span> <span class="textluke-19-39"><b><sup> </sup></b>And
some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your
disciples.”</span> <span class="textluke-19-40"><b><sup> </sup></b>He
answered, </span><span class="woj">“I tell you, if these were
silent, the very stones would cry out.” <br /><br />
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This same crowd who that day shouted Blessed is the King, would in a few days
change their words to be "We have no king but Caesar - - so crucify this man
Jesus."<br /><br />
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Today is a good day to make your declaration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus is MY King and I will praise Him and will serve Him all the days of my
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Know that Jesus is calling your
name and He desires to be your King.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Early in the ministry of Jesus, certain Greeks desired Philip to bring them to
see Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before them all Jesus began
to pray: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My soul is troubled; Father, save me from this
hour: but for this reason I came and am facing this hour. Father, glorify
thy name. Then there came a voice from heaven, <i>saying,</i> I have both
glorified <i>it,</i> and will glorify <i>it</i> again. The people that
stood by heard the voice but said it must be thunder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus answered and said, This voice came not
because of me, but for your sake. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />And I, if I be lifted up from the
earth, will draw all </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">men</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> unto me. This he said, signifying what
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus tried to prepare his disciples
about his death; </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">that He must suffer
many things, and be rejected of the elders, and <i>of</i> the chief priests,
and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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disciples refused to listen because they did not like this kind of
message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter openly rebuked Jesus
saying "Not so Lord, please do not talk this way, because you are scaring
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Jesus told Peter that he was listening to the wrong voice and it was time for
them all to begin to understand the Big picture of God's eternal plan of
salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Jesus even mentioned the cross as he shared: from Marks's Gospel chapter 8; </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his
cross, and follow me. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in
exchange for his soul?<br />
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A few days later as they passed through Galilee; Jesus the second time, again
taught his disciples about his death, and said to them, The Son of man is soon
to be delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that
he is killed, he shall rise the third day. But they did not understand
his saying, and were afraid to ask him.<br />
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would think the followers of Jesus might get a clue after being told twice that
he was about to be betrayed, killed and rise again, but no they were dense and
a third time Jesus attempted to help them to understand as they went up to
Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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chapter 20 says it this way: And Jesus took the twelve disciples aside, and
said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall
be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn
him to death, And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to
scourge, and to crucify <i>him:</i> and the third day he shall rise
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Another time Jesus again tried to
prepare his disciples that he was going to leave them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johns Gospel chapter 14 Jesus shared:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
my Father's house are many mansions: if <i>it were</i> not <i>so,</i> I would
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if I go and prepare a place for you, I
will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, <i>there</i> ye
may be also.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, they did not
understand that Jesus was saying He was the way to heaven if they would believe
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continued saying; These things have I spoken unto you, while I am still here
with you. But I will not leaved you comfortless,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the Comforter, <i>which is</i> the Holy
Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and
bring all things to your remembrance, what ever I have said unto you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The message for today is
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Often
when Jesus came through the town of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bethany</st1:place></st1:city>,
he would stop over at the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, to rest and have a
meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They became good friends. but one
day while Jesus was in another city, he received a message from Lazarus's
sisters Martha and Mary which said, “Lord, your friend whom you love is
ill.” <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/11-3.htm"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But when Jesus heard it he
said to his disciples, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the
glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Now Jesus cared about Martha,
Mary and Lazarus. But even hearing that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two
days longer in the place where he was. <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/11-7.htm"></a> Then he said to the
disciples, “Let us go to <st1:place w:st="on">Judea</st1:place>
again.” <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/11-8.htm"></a> The disciples
said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews in <st1:place w:st="on">Judea</st1:place> are
desiring to stone you, and are you sure you want to return there again?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus said to them, “Our
friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I must go to awaken him.” The
disciples said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, perhaps we should let
him rest.” <a href="http://biblehub.com/john/11-13.htm"></a> Now Jesus had
spoken of his death, but they thought that he meant taking rest in sleep.
Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Now when Jesus arrived just
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of <st1:placename w:st="on">Bethany</st1:placename></st1:place>, he was told
that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now many of the Jews had come from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city> to comfort Martha
and Mary concerning their brother's death. So when Martha heard that Jesus
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Martha said to Jesus, “Lord,
if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know
that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” Jesus said to
her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha said to him, “I know
that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus said to her, “I am
the resurrection and the life.<a href="https://biblehub.com/esv/john/11.htm#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts omit and the life"></a> Whoever believes in me, though
he die, yet he shall live, and everyone who lives and believes in me
shall never die. Do you believe this?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">When she had said this, she hurried
back to speak with her sister Mary, saying, “The Master is here and is calling
for you.” And Mary immediately got up and went to him. When the Jews
who were with her in the house, saw Mary get up so quickly, they followed her,
supposing that she was going to the grave to weep. When Mary came to
where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying, “Lord, if you had
been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping,
and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And he said, “Where have
you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Then Jesus
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Both Martha and Mary had just
blamed Jesus for their brother's death saying if you had come sooner when we
first sent you the message, our brother would still be alive - so there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their sorrow, these harsh words were like a
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tenderly Jesus told them he
was going to rise Lazarus from the dead, but both women were so deeply involved
in grief, and entrenched in Unbelief, they could not accept what Jesus was
telling them about the present day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the crowd was against him,
saying all kinds of negative remarks about Jesus. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He marveled at all their unbelief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Jesus, deeply moved
again, came to the tomb which was a cave, with a stone door. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus said, “Take away the
stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this
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and removed the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I
thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me. I said
this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you
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things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” Lazarus, who
had died came hobbling out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his
face wrapped with a cloth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus said to
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Many of the Jews therefore,
who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him, but
some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what was done. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the chief priests and the Pharisees
gathered the council and said, “What shall we do? For this man Jesus performs
many signs and wonders. If we let him go on like this, everyone will
believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our positions and our place.”
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But one of them, Caiaphas;
who was high priest that year, said to them, “Don't you understand that it is
better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole
nation should perish.” Being high priest that year he prophesied that
Jesus would die for the nation, and not for the nation only, but also to
gather into one family the children of God who are scattered abroad. So
from that day on the religious council made plans to put Jesus to death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I am reminded in Hebrews 13:8
that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever, yet we too are guilty at
times of relegating our miracle to the future instead of realizing that God
desires for us to enjoy health, provision, protection now, today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Jesus told Mary and Martha, "I am the
resurrection and the life, and those who believe in me shall never die."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wait a minute, don't we all expect to die
someday?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, but what was Jesus really
saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eternal Life is ours when we
receive Jesus, so when a believer "dies" physically on this earth, their
Spirit does not die, but is merely continuing on in a different form of life
everlasting with Jesus in heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of diseases, including deafness and blindness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We remember the happening of the man born blind, who was healed on the
Sabbath day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On that day, </span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #990000;">Jesus spit and
made mud r</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">ubbing it on his eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
wonder if he was simply creating new eye balls and putting them into the man's
eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyway, religious leaders after
questioning the now healed man, cast him out of the synagogue for believing on
Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His parents were afraid they too
might be cast out, but they did admit to the leaders that this was their son who
was born blind and now he can see.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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another blind man healed by Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bethsaida</st1:place></st1:city> some people
brought to Jesus a blind man and begged him to touch him.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-8-23"><b><sup> </sup></b>For some reason, Jesus wanted privacy,
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walking.”</span><span class="textmark-8-25" style="color: black;"><b><sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </sup></b>Then Jesus<sup> </sup> laid
his hands on his eyes again; and when he opened his eyes, his sight was
restored, and he saw everything clearly.</span> <span class="textmark-8-26" style="color: black;"><b><sup> </sup></b>And Jesus sent him to his home,
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all the more, and this time even louder - - “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on
me!”</span> <span class="textmark-10-49"><b><sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus heard him and stopped in his tracks and
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Jesus said to him, </span><span class="woj">“Go your way; your faith
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saying, "Come to me, what is it you want me to do for you?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I don't believe in lucky days, but I
do believe in Blessed days, and today can be your day of blessing when you come
to Jesus and lay out your life before Him. Just tell Him like it is. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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takes is for God's light to shine in our hearts and reveal to us the reality of
Jesus being the one who can bring you into the family of God and cause you to
become his child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By His Holy Spirit, he
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religious leaders were always disapproving of Jesus and condemning him,
especially because Jesus healed people on the Sabbath day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also from what he was teaching; Jesus was
putting himself equal with His father God and they were furious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So one day they criticized the disciples
eating bread without going through the traditional way to wash your hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus rebuked them by saying:<span class="content"> "Isaiah did prophesy well about you hypocrites, as it
is written;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'This people honors me with
their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of
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<span class="content"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting
the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God's word says to honor your father and your
mother, but you use the money that should go for your parents support, for
other things and say it is for God's work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus went on to speak of defilement as to what is in your heart;
"What comes out of a person's heart is what defiles him. For from
within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft,
murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander,
pride, foolishness.</span></span><span class="label"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="content"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">All these evil things come from within, and they defile a
person."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus turned his back and
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there he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And he entered a
house and did not want anyone to know where he was, never the less, he could not be
hidden as word spread. But immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean
spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was
a </span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Greek, a Syrophenician by her nation;</span><span class="content"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> And she begged Jesus to cast the demon out of her
daughter. The disciples asked Jesus to send her away because she is
bothering us and besides, she is a Gentile, she is not worthy of help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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Jesus </span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">answered and said to her, "<span style="color: black;">I am sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."</span>
Then she came and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, help me."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus continued saying: </span><span class="content"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take
the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." But she answered him,
"Yes, Lord; yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's
crumbs." And he said to her, "For this wise statement you may go
your way; the demon has left your daughter." And she went home and
found her daughter calmly resting in bed and the demon was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="content"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then he returned from the region of <st1:city w:st="on">Tyre</st1:city>
and went through <st1:city w:st="on">Sidon</st1:city> to the Sea of Galilee, in
the region of the <st1:place w:st="on">Decapolis</st1:place>. </span></span><span class="label"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="content"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And they brought to
Jesus a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment, and his friends begged Jesus
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<span class="content"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And Jesus took the man aside away from the crowd privately, he put
his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched the man's tongue. And
looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha," that
is, "Be opened." And his ears were opened, his tongue was
released, and he spoke plainly. And Jesus charged them to tell no one. But
the more he charged them, the more earnestly they proclaimed his fame. And
the people were astonished beyond measure, saying, "Jesus has done all things
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He even makes the deaf to be able
to hear and the mute to speak."</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today we see that
God desires our heart to be changed if we are harboring sin or ill will towards
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also viewed that Jesus had mercy
on a Gentile woman who was not a Jew and delivered her oppressed daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amazing enough was the fact that blindness,
deafness and not being able to speak was viewed as a curse and it was a custom
for people to spit on them in disgust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 12.5pt;">Jesus had appointed 72 of His followers to
go two by two and preach about him being the Messiah, to heal the sick and cast
out demons.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 12.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 12.5pt;">The 72 returned rejoicing
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in your name!” And Jesus said to them, <span class="woc">“Yes, I have
given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt
you.</span> <span class="woc">However, do not rejoice in this, that the
spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”</span></span></div>
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a young lawyer stood up to test him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to
inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, <span class="woc">“What is
written in the Law? How do you understand it?”</span> And he answered,
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as
yourself.” And Jesus said to him, <span class="woc">“You have answered
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some robbers surrounded him, stripped off his clothes, beat him and left him
half dead lying in the road.</span> <span class="woc"> Now as it so happened
a priest was going down that road, and when he saw the injured man he gingerly
pulled up his robe so as to not soil it, and crossed to the other side of the
road.</span> <span class="woc"> Soon a Levite approached but when he saw the
wounded man, he also passed by on the other side.</span> <span class="woc"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">But a Samaritan, as he
journeyed, came to where the man was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woc"> He went to him and
bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he carefully placed him on
his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.</span> <span class="woc"> And the next day he took out money which was about two days
wages and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and if
you spend more, I will repay you when I come back.’ <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Which of these three, do
you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">He said, “The one who showed him mercy.”
And Jesus said to him, <span class="woc">“You go, and do likewise.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now as Jesus continued on his journey teaching
and ministering, he entered the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">village</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Bethany</st1:placename></st1:place>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her
house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and
listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving her
guests. And she went up to Jesus and said, “Lord, do you not care that my
sister has left me to serve alone? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please tell her<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to help me.” But the Lord answered her, <span class="woc">“Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but
one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not
be taken away from her.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">So in today's broadcast we
have considered that as believers we can go forward in Jesus name and
especially rejoice that our names are written in heaven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must also consider that our neighbor is
the person who needs our help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And may
we always be reminded that no matter how busy we are doing those things that seem
important to us, we must also take time to sit at Jesus feet and learn more
about Him and all He desires for us to do for Him. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Who is Jesus? Chapter 32</span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">A Woman Anoints the Feet of Jesus </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">(from Luke 7)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus had been traveling and teaching
for many hours and the day was nearing evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to come to his home and eat with him,
and so he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at a table. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">And behold, a woman of the city, who was
a sinner, when she learned that Jesus was having a meal in the Pharisee’s
house, brought an alabaster flask of sweet smelling ointment, and
standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her
tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet, anointing
them with the ointment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now when the Pharisee who had invited
him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have
known what sort of woman this is touching him, for she is a sinner.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">And Jesus knowing The Pharisee's
thoughts said to him, </span><span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Simon, I have something to say to you.”</span></span><span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;"> And he answered, “Go ahead and say
it, Teacher.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">You will remember that Jesus often told
stories and there was a reason behind all this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He wanted to make a point to illustrate a bigger picture to all who were
in the house so He began by saying;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“A certain moneylender had two debtors. One
owed several thousand dollars, and the other one a few hundred dollars. When
they could not pay, he cancelled both their debts. Now which of them will love
him more?”</span></span><span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for
whom he cancelled the larger debt.” And Jesus said to him, </span><span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;">“You have judged
rightly.”</span></span><span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then turning toward the woman he said to
Simon, </span><span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Do
you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but
she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.</span></span><span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;">You gave me no kiss, but
from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;">You did not anoint my head with oil,
but she has anointed my feet with ointment.</span></span><span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Therefore I tell you, her sins, which
are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves
little.”</span></span><span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">And he said to the woman, </span><span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Your sins are
forgiven.”</span></span><span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">
Then those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves,
“Who is this, who even forgives sins?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">And Jesus said to the woman, </span><span class="woc"><span style="color: #a80000; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Your faith has saved
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The woman; a sinner had
some to worship Jesus and show her love for him, and he repaid her by forgiving
her sins, and telling her to go in peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus knew she was a sinner, because Jesus knows all about each and
every one of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He understands we are
frail, but He wants to make us strong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is ready to forgive the sins of the worse sinner and also the sins of
those who think they are good enough already and don't need to be forgiven.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The woman did not care
what others thought about her, she came to Jesus and received forgiveness and she
left a righteous person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus is
reaching out today to forgive your sins, large or small, regardless - - Jesus
loves and cares for you and will always be with you no matter what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kneel at his feet and he will accept you into
His kingdom.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="verse-1"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">After Jesus had finished a long session of teaching the people, he
departed and entered the city of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Capernaum</st1:place></st1:city>. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="verse-2"><span style="color: #333333;">Now
a High ranking Centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of
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<span class="verse-3"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">When the noble Centurion heard about Jesus, he sent a
message to Jesus by way of the elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal
his servant. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="verse-4"><span style="color: #333333;">And when they came to Jesus, they
pleaded with him earnestly, saying, "This man is worthy to have you
do this for him, because</span></span><span class="verse-5"><span style="color: #333333;"> he loves our nation, and he is the one who built
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<span class="verse-6"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">So Jesus turned to go with them to the man's home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now when he was close by the house, the Centurion
sent friends, saying to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am
not worthy for you to come under my roof. </span></span><strong><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">This is the reason I did not</span></strong><span class="verse-7"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> presume to come to you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know all you need to do is say the
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Because</span></strong><span class="verse-8"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> I too am a man
given authority by my superiors, with soldiers under me: and I say to one,
'Go,' and he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my servant, 'Do
this,' and he does it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this I know
that all you need to do is speak the word and my servant will be healed."</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="verse-9"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and
turning to the crowd that followed him, said, </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">"I
tell you, not even in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>
have I found such faith."</span></span><span class="verse-9"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="verse-10"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">And when the messengers returned to the house, they found the
servant well.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="verse-11"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Soon afterward Jesus, and his disciples and a great crowd
following him, traveled to a town called Nain. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="verse-12"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">As he came near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had
died was being carried out; the only son of his widowed mother, and a
considerable crowd from the town was with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now Jesus knew the widow depended on her son to take care of her, so she
was extremely heartbroken because of his passing at such a young age.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="verse-13"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">And when Jesus saw her, he had compassion on her
and said to her, </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">"Do not weep."</span></span><span class="verse-13"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="verse-14"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Jesus came up
and touched the stretcher and those who were carrying it stood still. And Jesus said, </span></span><span class="red-letterno-red"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">"Young
man, I say to you, arise."</span></span><span class="verse-14"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="verse-15"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">And the dead man
sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother alive and well.
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<span class="verse-16"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Fear and amazement seized all the crowd that had gathered,
and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has arisen
among us!" and "God has visited his people!"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="verse-17"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">And this report about Jesus spread
through the whole of <st1:place w:st="on">Judea</st1:place> and all the
surrounding country. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="verse-17"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14.0pt;">Paul reminds us in Hebrews 13:7-9 </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">Remember your leaders
who have spoken God's word to you. As you carefully observe the outcome of
their lives - - imitate their faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus
Christ never changes! He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Be
not carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing
that the heart be established with grace and truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-8-1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who is Jesus?
Chapter 30</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jesus and the </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Adulterous</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Woman </span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-8-1"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">As he often did
Jesus went to the <st1:place w:st="on">Mount of Olives</st1:place> to pray, and
about dawn</span></span><span class="textjohn-8-2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> he came again to the temple. All the people came to him,
and he sat down to teach them.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-8-3"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-8-3">Soon the
Religious leaders and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in
adultery, and had her stand before them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>T</span><span class="textjohn-8-4">hey said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman
was caught in the very act of adultery.</span><span class="textjohn-8-5"><b><sup>
</sup></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now Moses
commanded us to stone such a women. So what do you say?”</span> <span class="textjohn-8-6"><b><sup> </sup></b>This they said to test him, so
they might have some charge to bring against him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-8-6"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus bent down
and wrote with his finger on the ground.</span></span><span class="textjohn-8-7"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textjohn-8-7"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as they continued to question him, he
stood up and said to them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Let him who is without sin among
you be the first to throw a stone at her.”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-8-8"><b><sup> </sup></b>And
once more he stooped down and continued to write in the dust.</span><span class="textjohn-8-9"><b><sup> <o:p></o:p></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-8-9"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">(I have often wondered
what Jesus was writing in the dust of the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you suppose he was writing the names of
those who were guilty of this very sin?)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-8-9"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">What ever he wrote, conviction set in and those who heard him begin to leave
one by one, first the older ones, and finally, Jesus was left alone with the
woman standing before him.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-8-10"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus stood up
and said to her, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-8-11">She said,
“No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, </span><span class="woj">“Neither do I
condemn you; go, and from now on - - sin no more.”</span><span class="textjohn-8-11"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She knew it was
time for a life style change for she owed her life to Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-8-11"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">The people had observed all this and were amazed at his wisdom. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A</span></span><span class="textjohn-8-12"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">gain Jesus spoke to them, saying, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk
in darkness, but will have the light of life.”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <span class="textjohn-8-31"><span style="color: black;">Jesus said to the Jews who had
believed on him, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“If
you</span></span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">abide in my word, you
are truly my disciples,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="woj"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">and you will know the truth, and the
truth will</span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;">set you free.”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="textjohn-8-33"><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span></sup></span><span class="textjohn-8-59"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></h3>
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<span class="textjohn-8-59"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus did not
accept the woman's act of adultery as an okay thing to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than judge her, He forgave her and
told her to stop living that way and to change her occupation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-8-59"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">When God created
man and woman; sex was God's idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
perfect plan was for man and woman to leave their father and mother and live
together in marriage harmony enjoying one another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God intended for marriage to be holy and sex inside of marriage to be
lawful and right.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-8-59"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Paul reminded us
in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><i><span class="chapternummid-paragraph"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hebrews 13:4</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Let marriage be kept honorable in every
way, and the marriage bed undefined. For God will judge those who commit sexual
sins, especially those who commit adultery.</span></i><span class="chapternummid-paragraph"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="chapternummid-paragraph"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Paul continue in his letter to the Ephesians chapter
5: <i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"</i></span></span><i><span class="texteph-5-3"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">But among you
there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of
impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="texteph-5-4"><b><sup> </sup></b>Nor
should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of
place, but rather thanksgiving.</span> <span class="texteph-5-5">For of this
you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an
idolater—has any inheritance in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Christ</st1:placename></st1:place>
and of God. </span><span class="texteph-5-6"><b><sup> </sup></b>Let no one
deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s
wrath comes on those who are disobedient.</span> <span class="texteph-5-7">Therefore do not be partners with them. </span></span><span class="texteph-5-8"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For you were
once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of
light</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span class="texteph-5-9">(for the fruit of the light consists in all
goodness, righteousness and truth)</span> <span class="texteph-5-10"><b><sup> </sup></b>and
find out what pleases the Lord."</span> <span class="texteph-5-11"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you are being
tempted to engage in sex outside of marriage, let me suggest: If you
both consider yourselves to be in love, it is up to the man to bring a lawful
and legal solution to your union. If he truly loves the woman, he
will take action to be united with her in marriage which not only brings
respect to the woman he loves, but legal rights and financial gains for her
upon his death. (if he should go first.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Today out of His love for you; Jesus is asking you to decide to put Him first and to obey his
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Today's message is taken from
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Although Jesus
ministered from boats, many times out in the desert or on Mountain tops, it was often
that he taught in the Jewish Synagogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
Sabbath day as he taught in the synagogue located in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Capernaum</st1:place></st1:city>, the people found him there and
asked; <span class="textjohn-6-25"><span style="color: black;">“Rabbi, when did you
come here?”</span></span><span style="color: black;"> <span class="textjohn-6-26"><b><sup> <o:p></o:p></sup></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-6-26"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus answered them, Of a truth, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">you are seeking me,
because you ate your fill of the loaves.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the
food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-6-28"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-6-28"><span style="color: black;">Then they said to him, “How must
we do the works of God?”</span></span> <span class="textjohn-6-29"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">Jesus
answered them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“This
is the work of God, that you believe in him whom God has sent.”</span></span><span class="textjohn-6-31"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="textjohn-6-32"><span style="color: black;">Jesus then said to them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“I tell you the truth, indeed Moses gave you manna, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.</span></span> <span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">For the bread of God is he who comes
down from heaven and gives life to the world.”</span></span> <span class="textjohn-6-34"><span style="color: black;">They said to him, “Sir, give
us this bread always.”<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span class="textjohn-6-35"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus said to
them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not
hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me
I will never cast out.<b><sup> </sup></b>For I have come down from
heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.</span>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-6-41"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">So the Jews
grumbled about him, because he said, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I am the bread that came down from
heaven.”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-6-42"><b><sup> </sup></b></span><span class="textjohn-6-43"><b><sup> </sup></b>Jesus
answered them, </span><span class="woj">“Do not complain among yourselves.</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>No one can come to me unless the Father who
sent me draws him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I truly tell
you, whoever believes has eternal life.</span> <span class="woj">This
is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and receive
eternal life. </span> <span class="woj">I am the living bread that came
down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the
bread that I will give for the life of the world - - is my flesh.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="woj"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-6-52"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Jews
then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his
flesh to eat?”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-6-53"><b><sup> </sup></b>So Jesus said to them, </span><span class="woj">“I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of
Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.<b><sup> </sup></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my
blood has eternal life, know that I will raise him up on the last day.</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true
drink.</span> <span class="woj">Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my
blood abides in me, and I in him.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b></span><span class="textjohn-6-59"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">(Okay Jesus, now you are
changing the subject and getting weird - why is this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tell
me Jesus; Are you looking into your future when your flesh is broken and placed
on the cross for our sins and healing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are you speaking of the table of communion in remembrance of your
death?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those listening to you, do not
see into your future, because their eyes are only fixed on what you can do for
them each day for their food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I</span>n a
few days there same people might be part of the crowd that yells 'crucify him.')<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-6-60"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">On hearing these
strange words and not understanding that Jesus was speaking of spiritual things referring to his future in a few days. Very soon when his body would be broken during his appointed time of judgement, and the glorious future celebration of communion. They could not understand that Jesus was not
speaking of actually eating his flesh and drinking his blood, so as natural men, many of his
disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-6-60"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-6-61"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Aware that his
disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Does this offend you?</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj">Then what if you see
the Son of Man go up in a cloud to heaven where he was before!</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>(This too was a future event when after the resurrection, Jesus would return to heaven in a cloud.) The Spirit gives life and the words I have spoken to
you they are full of the Spirit and life.</span> <span class="woj">Yet
there are some of you who do not believe.”</span><span class="textjohn-6-64"> For
Jesus knew from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would
betray him.</span> <span class="textjohn-6-65"><b><sup> <o:p></o:p></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-6-65"><b><sup><br /></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-6-66"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">From this time
many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="woj"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textjohn-6-67"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">So
Jesus said to the twelve, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Do you want to go away
as well?”</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-6-68"><b><sup> </sup></b>Simon Peter
answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal
life,</span> <span class="textjohn-6-69">and we have believed, and have
come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”</span> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-6-70"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textjohn-6-70"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Jesus
replied, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a
devil!”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-6-71"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">(He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who,
though he was one of the Twelve, later would betray him.)</span></span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Today are you like Peter who says, I believe
You are the Holy One of God?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="chapternum"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="chapternum" style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Who is Jesus? Chapter 28 - Jesus heals a Blind man - - from John 9)</span></div>
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<span class="chapternum"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="chapter-1" style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span class="chapternum"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jesus
had been teaching at the temple in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city>,
and<b> </b></span></span><span class="textjohn-9-1"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span class="textjohn-9-2"><b><sup> </sup></b>And his
disciples asked him, “Master, who sinned, this man or his
parents, that he was born blind?”</span> <span class="textjohn-9-3"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span></div>
<div class="chapter-1" style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-3"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="chapter-1" style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-3"><span style="color: black;">Jesus
answered, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“It was
not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might
be done in him.</span></span> <span class="woj"><span style="color: black;"> As
long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”</span></span> <span class="textjohn-9-6"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b></span></span></div>
<div class="chapter-1" style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-6"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div class="chapter-1" style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-6"><span style="color: black;">Having said these things, Jesus spit on the ground and
made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud</span></span><span class="textjohn-9-7"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">and said to him, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.”</span></span><span class="textjohn-9-7"><span style="color: black;"> So he went and washed
and came back seeing.</span></span><span class="textjohn-9-8"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></sup></b></span></span></div>
<div class="chapter-1" style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-8"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></sup></b></span></span></div>
<div class="chapter-1" style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt; tab-stops: .75in;">
<span class="textjohn-9-8"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were
saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-9-9"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">Some said, “It
is he.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” But he kept saying, “Yes, I am the
man.”</span></span> <span class="textjohn-9-10"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">So they
said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”</span></span> <span class="textjohn-9-11"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and
anointed my eyes and said to me, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’</span></span><span class="textjohn-9-11"><span style="color: black;"> So I went and washed and
received my sight.”</span></span> <span class="textjohn-9-12"><span style="color: black;">They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-12"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span class="textjohn-9-13"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The neighbors decided to bring the man who had formerly been blind to the Pharisees.</span></span><span class="textjohn-9-14"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textjohn-9-14"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now it was a
Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-9-15"><b><sup> </sup></b>So
the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to
them, “Jesus put mud on my eyes, and I washed like he told me, and now I see.”</span> <span class="textjohn-9-16"><b><sup> </sup></b>Some of the Pharisees said, “This
man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-16"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-16">But others
said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a
division among them.</span> <span class="textjohn-9-17"><b><sup> </sup></b>So
they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has
opened your eyes?” The man declared: “He is a prophet.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-17"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-9-18"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Jews did
not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they
called the man's parents </span></span><span class="textjohn-9-19"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">and asked them, “Is this your son, who you
say was born blind? How then is he able to see?”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-9-20"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-20"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-20">His
parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind;</span> <span class="textjohn-9-21"><b><sup> </sup></b>But how he now sees we do not know,
neither do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak
for himself.”</span> <span class="textjohn-9-22"><b><sup> </sup></b>(His
parents said, 'He is old enough, ask him,' because they feared the Jews,
for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess
Jesus to be Christ and the Messiah, he was to be put out of the
synagogue.)</span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-9-24"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So for the
second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give
glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span class="textjohn-9-25"><b><sup> </sup></b>He
answered, “If he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that once
I was blind, now I can see.”</span> <span class="textjohn-9-26"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-26"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="textjohn-9-26">They
said to him, “What did he do to you? How
did he open your eyes?”</span> <span class="textjohn-9-27"><b><sup> </sup></b>He
answered them, “I have told you already, and you refused to listen. Why do
you want to hear it again? Do you also
want to become his disciples?”</span> <span class="textjohn-9-28"><b><sup> </sup></b>And
they became very angry and reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of
Moses.</span> <span class="textjohn-9-29"><b><sup> </sup></b>We know
that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he
comes from.”</span> <span class="textjohn-9-30"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span class="textjohn-9-30"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="background: white; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-height-alt: 12.0pt;">
<span class="textjohn-9-30"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The man answered,
“This is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and
yet he opened my eyes.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span class="textjohn-9-31" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><b><sup> </sup></b>We know that if anyone is a
worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.</span><span class="textjohn-9-32" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><b><sup> </sup></b>Since the world began - - it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span class="textjohn-9-33" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><b><sup> </sup></b>If this man were not from God, he
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answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and do you assume to teach us?” And with one accord they cast him out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(</span><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To be
thrown out of a synagogue and lose their Jewish </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">privileges</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, was very
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they had cast him out, so He found him and asked, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Do you believe
in the Son of Man?”<sup> </sup></span></span><span class="textjohn-9-36"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textjohn-9-36"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">He answered, “Who
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recognize that Jesus is Lord.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you
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the world.”</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-6-15">Jesus, knowing that they intended to
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At the instruction of Jesus, his
disciples entered their ship and determined to go to the other side of the sea,
as Jesus sent the people away, He ascended higher up on the mountain to pray
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the wind was contrary."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Rowing very hard, they were o</span>nly able
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between 3:00 and 6:00 in the early morning Jesus </span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">was alone standing on the land watching. He </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">could see the disciples rowing
frantically as the winds and waves tossed their boat and - -</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Immediately Jesus went to them walking on the
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And when the
disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a
ghost; and they cried out in fear. But right away, Jesus spoke to them,
saying, <span style="color: #bf3030;">"Be of good cheer; it is I; do not be
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the disciples for being afraid?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
would you have reacted if you had been there?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Peter hoping that
maybe this was really Jesus and not a spirit, answered Jesus by saying, <span style="color: maroon;">"If it is really you, then ask me to come to you on
the water."</span> And Jesus said, <span style="color: maroon;">"Come."</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taking a bold step of faith, Peter stepped
out and began to walk on the water toward Jesus, but suddenly fear took over
and he looked down at the troubled sea and began to sink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His next move was a good one, because Peter
cried out <span style="color: maroon;">"Lord Save me."</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Immediately Jesus
reached out and caught the sinking man, and lifted him up, saying to him;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Oh <span style="color: black;">you of
little Faith, why did you doubt?"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As the
two of them entered the boat the wind and waves ceased and all who were in the
ship fell at Jesus feet and worshiped him saying: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: maroon; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"Truly you are the Son of God."</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The disciples took some deep
consideration to confess that Jesus was the Messiah, but never the less, Jesus
accepted their worship, and if he were merely mortal and not God, it would have
been wrong to allow them to deify him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Today each of us need to
understand that Jesus is waiting to hear what we have decided about him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you ready to say; "Jesus you are the
Son of God, and I will worship you?"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">High up on the mountain was a favorite
place for Jesus to use as a place of solitude, but the crowds often followed
him.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then he would find a place to sit
where they could hear him teach.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">On one
occasion they asked Jesus to teach them to pray and he gave them an
example:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1. Address God as your father:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"<span style="color: #990000;">Our Father which is in heaven</span> - -2.
"Tell Him you recognize he is Holy:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #990000;">
</span></span><span style="color: #990000;">"Hallowed be your name.</span>"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>3. Give Him permission for His will to be done on earth:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #990000;">"Your Kingdom Come, your will be done on
earth as it is in heaven."</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span> </span>4. Ask
Him for your daily provision:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span><span style="color: #990000;">"Give
us this day our daily bread,"</span> 5. Ask for forgiveness and help to forgive
others: <span style="color: #990000;">"And Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against
us."</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6. Ask for assistance to avoid
evil and to live right: <span style="color: #990000;">"Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from
evil,"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>7. Acknowledge that God is
supreme and His Power and Glory is over all the earth:<span style="color: #990000;"> "<span style="background: white;">For yours is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever. Amen."</span></span></span></div>
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</span><span class="chapternum"><span style="color: #4f0d00; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus began to teach about<b> Judging</b> others:<b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </b></span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">He said, it is better not to judge, because it will come
back on you.</span></span><span style="color: black;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>For
with the judgment you declare, you will be judged, and with the measure
you use it will be measured to you.</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="woj">Why
do you see the tiny speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice
the two by four that is in your own eye?</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup>
</sup></b>You hypocrite, first take the big log out of your own eye, and then
you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus continued to teach
about <b>Asking, Seeking and Knocking</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ask,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> and it will be given to you;</span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 14.0pt;"> seek</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">, and you will
find; </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: 14.0pt;">knock,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> and it will be opened to you.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj">For everyone who
asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will
be opened.</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup><o:p></o:p></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus compared asking God
for something you need, with a child asking of their earthly father: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He put it this way:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Which one of you, if your son asks you
for bread, will give him a stone?</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>Or
if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span><span style="background: white; color: #001320; font-size: 14.0pt;">Or if they ask for an
egg, do you give him a scorpion? Of course not!</span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If
you then, who are natural men, know how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
those who ask him!"</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus continued to teach
what we know as<b> the Golden Rule:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"So whatever
you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law
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<b><sup> </sup></b>Following Jesus Christ is not always easy, and he gave
an example about <b>two gates</b>:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Enter
by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy<sup> </sup>that
leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>For
the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, but the path to eternal life - - is
worth every step you take.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus warned about <b>false teaching</b> that sounds good, but is not the true gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but
inwardly are ravenous wolves.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj">You will recognize them by their
fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?</span> <span class="woj">So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree
bears bad fruit and is cut down and thrown into the fire.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus likened<b> allowing Him
to be your foundation for life;</b> as a wise man building a house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He put it this way: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Everyone then who hears these words of
mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the
rock.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>And the rain fell, and the floods came, and
the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been
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everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a
foolish man who built his house on the sand.</span> <span class="woj">And
the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that
house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmatt-7-28">And when
Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmatt-7-29"><span style="color: black;">for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmatt-7-29"><span style="color: black;">God's Word is still teaching every one of us today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you paying attention to what Jesus is
asking you to do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> He is calling you to follow Him and allow Him to be Lord of your life.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Chapter 25 - The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath </span><br />
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was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now there is in <st1:city w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city> by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic<span class="footnote"><b><i><sup><a href="https://biblehub.com/esv/john/5.htm#footnotes" title="Or Hebrew"></a> </sup></i></b></span> called
<st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bethesda</st1:place></st1:city>,<span class="footnote"><b><i><sup><a href="https://biblehub.com/esv/john/5.htm#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts Bethsaida"></a> </sup></i></b></span>which has five
roofed porches. In these lay a multitude of invalids; blind, lame, and
paralyzed. One man was there who had been crippled for thirty-eight
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been
there a long time, he said to him, <span class="woc">“Do you want to be
healed?”</span> The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me
into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps
down before me.” Jesus said to him, <span class="woc">“Get up, take up
your bed, and walk.”</span> And at once the man was healed, and he took
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and it is against the law for you to take up your bed today.” But he
answered them, “The man who healed me, that man told me to <span class="woc">‘Take up my bed, and walk.’</span>” They asked him, “Who is the
man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” Now the man who had
been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a
large crowd in the place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said to him, <span class="woc">“See, you have been made whole! Sin no more,
so that nothing worse may happen to you.”</span> The man went away and
told the Religious Leaders that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this
was the reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these
things on the Sabbath.<span class="reftext"><b> </b></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Jesus answered them, <span class="woc">“My
Father is working until now, and I am working.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking
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tell the Religious Leaders where he received his authority and said to
them, <span class="woc">“Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing
of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For whatever the Father does, that the
Son does likewise.</span><span class="reftext"><b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><span class="woc">For the Father loves
the Son and shows him all that He himself is doing. And greater works than
these will he show him, so that you may marvel.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woc"> I tell you the
truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me receives eternal
life; and he does not come into judgment, but has passed from spiritual death
to eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life
in himself.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woc"> And he has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus continued to speak to the Religious Leaders: "For
the works that the Father has given me to accomplish, the very works that I am
doing, bear witness about me that the Father has sent me.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woc"> You search the
Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they
that bear witness about me,</span> <span class="woc"> Yet you refuse to come
to me that you may have life.</span> <span class="woc">For if you believed
Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.</span> <span class="woc"> But
if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today
we have heard Jesus testify of himself, that all He did was a direct command
from our Father God, and if we seriously take these Words and believe in Jesus
as God's son, we shall pass from spiritual death to eternal life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="woc"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">A wise person will say Yes to Jesus. I believe and I receive your everlasting life, come into my life and I will follow you always.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our message today is from Mark chapter 9
English Standard Version.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus was
speaking to his disciples a<span class="textmark-9-1"><span style="color: black;">nd
he said to them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“Of
a truth, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste
death until they see the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">kingdom</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place> after it has
come with power.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> (</span>In six days they
were to SEE the Glory of the Kingdom in a glance.)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-9-2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">After six days
Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high
mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured or changed before them,</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-9-3"><b><sup> </sup></b>and his
clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one<sup> </sup>on earth could
bleach them.</span> <span class="textmark-9-4"><b><sup> </sup></b>And there
appeared him, Elijah and Moses, as they were talking with Jesus.</span> <span class="textmark-9-5"><b><sup> </sup></b>And Peter not knowing what else to say,
declared to Jesus, “Master,<sup> </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is good that we are here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let us make three temples, one for you
and one for Moses and one for Elijah."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span class="textmark-9-7">Then a cloud overshadowed them,
and a voice came out of the cloud, “This is my beloved
Son; listen to him.”</span><span class="textmark-9-8"><b><sup> </sup></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-9-8">And suddenly, as quick at it happened, as they
looked around, they no longer saw anyone else with them but only Jesus. </span> <span class="textmark-9-6">And they were terrified at what they saw
and heard.</span> </span></div>
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<span class="textmark-9-9"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">As they were
coming down the mountain, Jesus charged them to tell no one what they had
seen, until the Son of Man had risen from the dead.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-9-10"><b><sup> </sup></b>So
they kept the matter to themselves, but they were puzzled and wondered
what this rising from the dead might mean.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-9-14"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textmark-9-14"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">As they
descended from the mountain and came to the other disciples, they saw a great
crowd, and scribes arguing with them.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-9-15"><b><sup> </sup></b>And
immediately all the crowd, when they saw Jesus, were greatly amazed and
ran up to him and greeted him.</span> <span class="textmark-9-16"><b><sup> </sup></b>And Jesus asked them, </span><span class="woj">“What are you arguing about with the
scribes?”</span><span class="textmark-9-17"><b><sup> </sup></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-9-17"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And a man from
the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I brought my son to you, for he has a
spirit that causes him to not be able to speak.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-9-18"><b><sup> </sup></b>And whenever it
seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes
rigid. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I asked your disciples to cast
out the spirit, and they were not able.”</span> <span class="textmark-9-19"><b><sup> </sup></b>And Jesus answered them, </span><span class="woj">“O faithless generation, how long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-9-20"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And they brought
the young boy to him. And when the spirit saw Jesus, immediately it convulsed
the boy, and he fell on the ground rolling about, foaming at the mouth.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-9-21"><b><sup> </sup></b>And
Jesus asked his father, </span><span class="woj">“How long has this been
happening to him?”</span><span class="textmark-9-21"> And he said, “From
childhood.</span> <span class="textmark-9-22"><b><sup> </sup></b>Often it
has thrown him into fire and into water, to destroy him; But if you can do
anything, have compassion on us and help us.”</span> <span class="textmark-9-23"><b><sup> </sup></b>And Jesus said to him, </span><span class="woj">“‘If you can believe, All things are possible for one who
believes.”</span><span class="textmark-9-24"><b><sup><o:p></o:p></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-9-24"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Immediately the
father of the child cried out<sup> </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saying, “I believe; help my unbelief!”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-9-25"><b><sup> </sup></b>And
when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean
spirit, saying to it, </span><span class="woj">“You voiceless and deaf
spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”</span><span class="textmark-9-26"><b><sup><o:p></o:p></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-9-26"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textmark-9-26"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And after crying
out and convulsing him terribly, the spirit came out, and the boy was like
a corpse, so that most of them said, “He is dead.”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-9-27">But
Jesus took the boy by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose.</span> <span class="textmark-9-28"><b><sup> </sup></b> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we
not cast the spirit out?”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-9-29"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And Jesus said to them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer and
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from there and passed through <st1:place w:st="on">Galilee</st1:place>. And he
did not want anyone to know where he was because</span></span><span class="textmark-9-31"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> he wanted privacy so he could teach his disciples, saying to them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The Son of Man is going to be delivered
into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is
killed, after three days he will rise.”</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-9-32"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">But they
did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-9-32"><span style="color: black;">Jesus was desiring to prepare his disciples for his death, burial and resurrection, but their spiritual understanding was darkened and they failed to realize the truth in what Jesus was telling them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-9-32"><span style="color: black;">How often do we find ourselves unwilling to listen and understand what the Holy spirit is saying to us? May be open our spiritual ears to listen and then with our heart be ready and willing to obey God's plan for the day, for the coming weeks, and possibly be willing to accept a change coming in the new future.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Today my desire is to take you to some happenings that are recorded in Matthew
chapter 15 and 16 and also in Mark chapter 8.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Everywhere Jesus went he was pushed and prodded
as people tried to reach out and touch him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus often needed to get away from the crowds to rest. At this time<span class="content"><span style="color: #616161;"> he went up on the mountain and sat
down there. </span></span><span class="label"><span style="color: #616161;"> </span></span><span class="content"><span style="color: #616161;">And great crowds came to him,
bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many
others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, so that the
crowd wondered; and they glorified the God of Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="content"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #616161; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Jesus
called his disciples to him and said, "I have compassion on the crowd
because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And I am
unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way." And
the disciples said to him, "Where are we to get enough bread in such a
desolate place to feed so great a crowd?" And Jesus said to
them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said,
"Seven, and a few small fish." </span></span><span class="label"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #616161; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>D</span></span><span class="content"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #616161; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">irecting
the crowd to sit down on the ground, he took the seven loaves and the
fish, and gave thanks as he broke the food and gave them to the disciples, and
the disciples distributed them to the crowds. </span></span><span class="label"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #616161; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="content"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #616161; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And they
all ate and were satisfied. And they took up seven baskets full of the broken
pieces left over. Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and
children. </span></span><span class="label"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #616161; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="content"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #616161; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And after sending away the crowds, he got into the boat and went
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">The Pharisees </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">and Sadducees <span class="textmark-8-11"><b><sup> </sup></b>came
and began to argue with him, seeking from him a sign from
heaven to test him.</span> </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Jesus knew their hearts were full of unbelief, and he sighed deeply in
his spirit, and said, <span style="color: black;">Why do you seek after a sign? I
must say to you, There shall no sign be given except that of Jonah.</span><span style="color: #bf3030;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>And he
left them, got into the boat again and departed to the other side. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-16-5"><span lang="X-NONE" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten
to bring any bread.</span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmatt-16-6">Jesus said to them, </span><span class="woj">“Watch
and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”</span> <span class="textmatt-16-7">And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, “Is
he saying this because we brought no bread.”</span> <span class="textmatt-16-8"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmatt-16-8">But Jesus, aware of this,
said, </span><span class="woj">“why are you discussing among yourselves the
fact that you have no bread?</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>Do
you not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five
thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>Or the
seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>How is it that you fail to understand that I did
not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”</span> <span class="textmatt-16-12"><b><sup> </sup></b>Then they understood that he did
not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the
Pharisees and Sadducees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-16-12"><span lang="X-NONE" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today we must also be careful what we read and messages we
listen to that seem good; and to examine what actually does the Bible say? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many are deceived by man's opinion or fanciful stories instead of
the true gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-16-13"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now when Jesus
came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Who do people say that
the Son of Man is?”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmatt-16-14">And they said, “Some say John the Baptist, others
say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”</span> <span class="textmatt-16-15"><b><sup> </sup></b>He said to them, </span><span class="woj">“What about YOU; who do YOU say that I am?”</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmatt-16-16">Simon Peter replied, “You are the
Christ, the Son of the living God.”</span> <span class="textmatt-16-17"><b><sup> </sup></b>And Jesus answered him, </span><span class="woj">“Simon, You are Blessed! For flesh and blood has not revealed
this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">I will give you the
keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed<sup> </sup>in
heaven.”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmatt-16-20">Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that
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Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city> and suffer many things from
the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third
day be raised.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmatt-16-22">Now Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying,
“Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you.”</span> <span class="textmatt-16-23"><b><sup> </sup></b>But he turned and said to
Peter, </span><span class="woj">“Get behind me, Satan! You are a
hindrance to me. For you are not setting your mind on the things of
God, but on the things of man.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-16-24"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textmatt-16-24"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Jesus told
his disciples, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself
and take up his cross and follow me.<b><sup> </sup></b> For what
will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or what shall a man give in exchange for
his soul?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Today, this also is a good question
for us to consider and to make our choice now to follow Jesus the
Christ.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nothing in this world would be
of value if we were to lose our own soul.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">If you have not already done so, decide today to receive Jesus into your
life and follow him. He is just a prayer away.</span></div>
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their boat had crossed over, they came to the land at Gennesaret.<span class="reftext"><b> </b></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the
people immediately recognized Jesus and ran about the whole region and began to
bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was.<span class="reftext"><b><a href="https://biblehub.com/mark/6-56.htm"></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span>And wherever he came, to the
villages, cities, or countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged
him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as
touched him were made well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pharisees with some of the scribes who had come from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city>, saw that some of his disciples ate
with hands that were not properly washed. (For the Pharisees and all the
Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in special ways<span class="footnote"><b><i><sup><a href="https://biblehub.com/esv/mark/7.htm#footnotes" title="Greek unless they wash the hands with a fist, probably indicating a kind of ceremonial washing"></a>
</sup></i></b></span>by their tradition.<span class="footnote"><b><i><sup><a href="https://biblehub.com/esv/mark/7.htm#footnotes" title="Greek unless they baptize; some manuscripts unless they purify themselves"></a>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him,
“Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of our fathers, but
eat with defiled hands?” And Jesus said to them, <span class="woc">“Well
did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, "This people
honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they
worship me, teaching as doctrine the man made commandments." You leave the
commandments of God in order to carry out your traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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people to come close and said to them, <span class="woc">“Listen, and
understand:</span><span class="reftext"><b> </b></span><span class="woc"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is nothing outside a person that by
going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are
what defile him.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him to explain what
he had just told the people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he
said to them, <span class="woc">“Then are you also without understanding? Do
you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since
it enters his stomach and is expelled and not his heart?”</span><span class="footnote"><b><i><sup><a href="https://biblehub.com/esv/mark/7.htm#footnotes" title="Greek goes out into the latrine"></a> </sup></i></b></span>(Thus he
declared all foods to be clean.) </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And he continued saying; <span class="woc">“What
comes out of a persons mouth is what defiles him.</span> <span class="reftext"><b><a href="https://biblehub.com/mark/7-21.htm"></a> </b></span><span class="woc">For from within, out of the heart of a person, come evil thoughts, sexual
immorality, theft, murder, adultery,</span> <span class="woc"> coveting,
wickedness, deceit, envy, slander, pride, and such foolishness.</span> <span class="woc"> All these evil things come from within, and they degrade a person.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And after they
had a time of rest, Jesus arose and went away to the region of <st1:city w:st="on">Tyre</st1:city>
and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sidon</st1:place></st1:city>.<span class="footnote"><b><i><sup><a href="https://biblehub.com/esv/mark/7.htm#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts omit and Sidon"></a> </sup></i></b></span> And he
entered a house and tried not to let anyone know where he was, but he could not
be hidden. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Immediately a woman whose little daughter had an unclean
spirit heard of him and came and fell down at his feet. Now the woman was
a Gentile, a Syrophoenician by birth. And she begged him to cast the demon out
of her daughter. And he said to her, <span class="woc">“Let the
children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and
throw it to the dogs.”</span> But she answered him, “Yes, Lord; yet even
the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.” And he said to
her, <span class="woc">“For this statement you may go your way; the demon
has left your daughter.”</span> And she went home and found her child
resting quietly and the demon was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then he returned
from the region of <st1:city w:st="on">Tyre</st1:city> and going through <st1:city w:st="on">Sidon</st1:city> to the Sea of Galilee, in the area of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><st1:place w:st="on">Decapolis</st1:place>.
And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had a problem with his speech,
and they begged Jesus to lay his hand on the man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And taking him aside from the crowd
privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his
tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, <span class="woc">“Ephphatha,”</span> that means, <span class="woc">“Be
opened.”</span> And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he
spoke plainly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And Jesus<span class="footnote"><b><i><sup> </sup></i></b></span> charged them to tell no
one. But the more he charged them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they were astonished beyond measure,
saying, “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute
speak.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">My prayer today
for you is that your spiritual eyes and ears will be opened to Listen to Jesus
saying:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come onto me and I heal your
heart, your eyes and ears, and cause you to become a new person as you follow
me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who is Jesus? Chapter 21</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-9-27"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today I will
present some happenings from Matthew's gospel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As Jesus passed by on the way to the house, two blind men followed him,
crying aloud, “Have mercy on us, Son of David.”</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmatt-9-28">The blind
men followed him into the house, and Jesus said to them, </span><span class="woj">“Do you believe that I am able to do this?”</span><span class="textmatt-9-28"> They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”</span> <span class="textmatt-9-29"><b><sup> </sup></b>Then he touched their eyes,
saying, </span><span class="woj">“According to your faith be it done to
you.”</span> <span class="textmatt-9-30"><b><sup> </sup></b>And their
eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, </span><span class="woj">“See
that no one knows about this.”</span><span class="textmatt-9-31"><b><sup> </sup></b>But
they went away and spread his fame through all that district.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-9-32"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">As the blind men
were leaving, a demon-oppressed man who was
mute was brought to Jesus.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmatt-9-33">And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, “Never was anything like this seen in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>.” </span> <span class="textmatt-9-34">But the religious Pharisees refused to accept that Jesus
was sent from God, and said, “He casts out demons by the prince of
demons," and they planned how they might do away with him.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-9-35"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">So Jesus went
throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and
proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every
affliction. </span></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-9-36"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When he saw the great crowds, he had compassion for them,
because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> <span class="textmatt-9-37">T</span></span><span class="textmatt-9-37" style="font-size: 14pt;">hen he
said to his disciples, </span><span class="woj" style="font-size: 14pt;">“The harvest is plentiful,
but the laborers are few;</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span class="woj" style="font-size: 14pt;"><b><sup> </sup></b>therefore pray
earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his
harvest.”</span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-10-1"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And
Jesus called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean
spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmatt-10-2">The names
of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter,
and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his
brother;</span> <span class="textmatt-10-3">Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas
and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;</span><span class="textmatt-10-4"> Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed
him. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-10-5"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">These twelve
Jesus sent out, instructing them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Go no-where among the Gentiles and enter
no town of the Samaritans,</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>but go rather
to the lost sheep of the house of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>And proclaim as you go, saying, ‘The
kingdom of heaven is at hand.’<sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup>Heal
the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. </span></span></div>
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<span class="woj"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Whoever
receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent
me.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>The one who receives a prophet because he is
a prophet will receive a prophet's reward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And who ever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold
water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose
his reward.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">When Jesus had finished
instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in
the surrounding cities saying; "</span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Come to me, all who labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj">Take my yoke upon
you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.</span> <span class="woj">For my
yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-11-20"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then Jesus
began to denounce the cities where most of his mighty works had been done,
because they did not repent.</span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> He declared; "For if the mighty
works done in these cities had been done in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sodom</st1:place></st1:city>, it would have remained until this day.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="woj"><b><sup> </sup></b>But
I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">land</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Sodom</st1:placename></st1:place> than for you.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-12-9"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus went on
from there and entered their synagogue, and</span></span><span class="textmatt-12-10"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> a man was
there with a withered hand. The Religious leaders asked him, “Is it lawful
to heal on the Sabbath?”— because they wanted to trap him.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> He<span class="textmatt-12-11"> said to
them, </span><span class="woj">“Which one of you who has a sheep, if it
falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not help it out?</span> <span class="woj">Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to
do good on the Sabbath.”</span> <span class="textmatt-12-13"><b><sup> </sup></b>Then
he said to the man, </span><span class="woj">“Stretch out your hand.”</span><span class="textmatt-12-13"> And the man stretched it out, and it was
restored, healthy like the other.</span><span class="textmatt-12-14"><b><sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup></b>But the Pharisees went out and
conspired against him, how to destroy him.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-12-15"><b><sup><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textmatt-12-15"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus, aware of
this, withdrew from there. And many followed him, and he healed them
all</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmatt-12-16"><b><sup> </sup></b>and ordered them not to make
him known.</span> <span class="textmatt-12-17"><b><sup> </sup></b>This
was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textmatt-12-18"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Behold, my servant whom I have
chosen,</span></i></span><span class="indent-1-breaks"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></span><span class="textmatt-12-18"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">my beloved with whom my soul is well
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Our story today is taken from
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</span>Jesus and his disciples left Judea and departed again for <st1:place w:st="on">Galilee</st1:place>. And he needed to go through <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Samaria</st1:place></st1:city>. So he came
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called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's
well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting
beside the well;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because his disciples
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A woman from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Samaria</st1:place></st1:city> came to draw water. Jesus said to
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"How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Samaria</st1:place></st1:city>?" (For Jews
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"Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do
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us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his
livestock." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of
water welling up to eternal life."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship
what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and
is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is
spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes,
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jar and went away into town and said to the people, "Come, see a man
who told me all that I ever did. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can
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town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me all
that I ever did." So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him
to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because
of his word. They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what
you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that
this is indeed the Savior of the world."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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departed for <st1:place w:st="on">Galilee</st1:place>. So when he came to
Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city> at the feast.
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one evening Jesus had a visitor, Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a leader of the
Jews; who stated, I know you are a teacher sent from God, because no one can do
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answered and said unto him, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man
be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These words puzzled Nicodemus, and he asked,
how can a man be born again when he is old; how can he enter again into his mother's
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of water and <i>of</i> the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of
God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of
the Spirit is spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wind blows and
you hear the sound, but you can't know where it comes and goes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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36:25-28.) <span class="textexposedshow"> Then will I sprinkle clean water
upon you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your
idols, I will cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit
within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my
judgments, and do them. And I will be your God.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Nicodemus of when God told Moses to lift up the serpent in the wilderness </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #990000;">even
so must the Son of man be lifted up</span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #990000;">That whosoever believes in him should
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good to memorize if you haven't already done so:<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #990000;">John 3:16 "For God so loved the
world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son
into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be
saved. He that believes on him is not condemned: but he that believes not
is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into
the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were
evil."</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Have you considered these words of Jesus? "God
so loved the World, (and that includes YOU;) that whosoever (and that also
includes you;) will believe on Jesus, you should not perish but have everlasting
life."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">All it takes is a choice to believe
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Chapter 18 "Jesus had Righteous Indignation"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-2-13"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Passover celebration was at hand, and
Jesus went up to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city>.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textjohn-2-14">In the temple he found those who were selling oxen, sheep
and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there</span><span class="textjohn-2-13">, and He became very angry</span><span class="textjohn-2-14">.</span> <span class="textjohn-2-15">Making a whip of cords, Jesus drove them all out of the
temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the
money-changers and overturned their tables.</span> <span class="textjohn-2-16">And he told those who sold the pigeons, </span><span class="woj">“Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a place
of business for you have made it a den of thieves when it should be a house of prayer.” </span><span class="textjohn-2-17"><b><sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup></b>His
disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will
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<span class="textjohn-2-17"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why would Jesus do all this damage?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was He concerned that God's house was being occupied
with confusion of buying and selling animals instead of prayer and
worship?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was it the fact that unfair
business practices were taking advantage of those who came to sacrifice their
animals?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or was it to reveal another
truth that soon the entire temple would be destroyed by an enemy nation?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textjohn-2-17"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Almost in the same breath, Jesus announced
"Destroy this temple and in three days I will rise it up again."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was not speaking of the Synagogue
building, but of his body being the temple and rising again after being dead
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<span class="textjohn-2-17"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">On another occasion Jesus became </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">angry and displeased with those who
refused to allow children to come to Him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mark 10:13 tells us:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="textmark-10-13"><span style="background: white;">People were bringing little
children and even their babies to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but
the disciples rebuked them.</span></span><span style="background: white;"> <span class="textmark-10-14"><b><sup> </sup></b>When Jesus saw this, he <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">was indignant</b>. He said to them, </span><span class="woj">“Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place> belongs to such as these.<b><sup> </sup></b>Absolutely
I tell you, anyone who will not receive the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place>
like a little child will never enter it.”</span> <span class="textmark-10-16"><b><sup> </sup></b>And he took the children in his
arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-10-16"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus is a protector of children and on another
occasion he declared with much </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">aggravation and displeasure</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">; <span style="background: white;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surely I say to you, Except you be converted,
and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of
heaven. Who ever shall humble himself as this little child, the same is
greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And who ever <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>receives one such little child in my name
receives me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="jesusgeorgia"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">But who ever shall offend one of these little ones which believe
in me, it would be better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and </span></span><em><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">that</span></em><span class="jesusgeorgia"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> he were drowned in the depth of the sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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that we all do get angry at times, but we can learn to control our emotions and
stop the furious rage in time before it does permanent damage. Make things
right with the person you are angry with, before the sun goes down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Translation edited says Ephesians 4:26, 31 this way: <span style="background: white;">And "don't sin by allowing anger to control you. Don't let the sun
go down while you are still angry, Let all bitterness, anger and wrath,
shouting, rudeness and slander be removed from you, along with all </span>spite
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes, we do get
angry at times, but be reminded to cool down and forgive those who offend
you;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>letting your aggravation expire as
the sun goes down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember God says,
vengeance is mine and I will repay them, so it is best to allow God to fight
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<span class="textjohn-1-1"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">John begins his gospel in chapter one by
referring to Jesus as the "Word;" </span></span><span class="textjohn-1-1"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;">In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.</span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;"> <span class="textjohn-1-2">He was in the beginning with God.</span> <span class="textjohn-1-3"><b><sup> </sup></b></span><span class="textjohn-1-1"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;">John also calls Jesus the creator who made
all things and without him not anything was made.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;">In Jesus was life who brings light to
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as the Word saying "and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we
have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace
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<span class="textjohn-1-1"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">John is giving testimony that he and others had
been witnesses of Jesus and the mighty works that He had done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we go on, it is important for us to
remember that John in his Gospel called Jesus; God and that He is "the
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<span class="textjohn-1-1"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">As Jesus ministered and healed many people, there
were multitudes that surrounded him, pressing and pushing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am reminded that Jesus would often retreat
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spied two ships as the fishermen were washing their nets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus asked if he might sit in one of the
boats and they gave permission. This would give him relief from being poked and
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<span class="textjohn-1-1"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">After teaching for several hours, Jesus requested
Peter to launch out into the deep and cast out his net.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter replied, we have toiled all night and
caught nothing nevertheless at your word we will do this." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The men probably thought how ridiculous this
was, but again they decided, "Why not?" So they threw their nets over
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Zebedee and the others with them were astonished, and Peter fell down at Jesus
feet saying, Lord I am a sinful man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus was all knowing and he was able to see something great in Peter
and the others, so Jesus told them, Don't be afraid, because from now on you
shall become fisher's of men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they
forsook all and followed Jesus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fish to come jump into the net, or I prefer to believe Jesus created fish from
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<span class="textjohn-1-1"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now the King had put John the Baptist in prison
because John told the king it was wrong to take his brother's wife for
himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As things happened, the wife
and her daughter schemed to have John the Baptist executed, and when it was
accomplished the sad message came to Jesus about the death of his cousin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was terrible news, and Jesus needed to
get away from the enveloping crowds, so he said to his disciples, let us take a
boat and go to the other side of the lake to a desert place and rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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so they decided to go on foot and perhaps get there soon after Jesus
arrived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure enough they found Jesus, and
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surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”</span> <span class="textmark-6-37"><b><sup> </sup></b>But Jesus answered them, </span><span class="woj">“You give them something to eat.”</span><span class="textmark-6-37"> And they
said to him, “Shall we go and buy four thousand dollars<sup>[</sup> worth
of bread and give it to them to eat?”</span> <span class="textmark-6-38">And
he said to them, </span><span class="woj">“How many loaves do you have? Go
and see.”</span><span class="textmark-6-38"> And when they had found out,
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groups on the green grass.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-6-40">So they sat down
in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.</span> <span class="textmark-6-41"><b><sup> </sup></b>And
taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven
and said a blessing and broke the loaves and the fish giving them to the
disciples to set before the people. </span><span class="textmark-6-42">And they
all ate and were satisfied.</span> <span class="textmark-6-43"><b><sup> </sup></b>And
they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces of bread and fish.</span> <span class="textmark-6-44"><b><sup> </sup></b>And those who ate the loaves and fish
were five thousand men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notice the five
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creator, and as he broke the bread and fish into pieces, it was multiplied and
was enough to feed a multitude of people.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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he commanded his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the
other side, to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bethsaida</st1:place></st1:city>,
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after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray.</span><span class="textmark-6-47"><b><sup> </sup></b>And when darkness fully came,
the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the land.</span> <span class="textmark-6-48"><b><sup> </sup></b>Jesus could see that they were painfully
making little headway, for the wind was against them. And about three
o'clock in the morning<sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup>Jesus
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the sea they thought it was a ghost, and cried out,</span> <span class="textmark-6-50"><b><sup> </sup></b>for they all saw him and were
terrified. But immediately he spoke to them and said, </span><span class="woj">“Fear not; it is I; Do not be afraid.”</span> <span class="textmark-6-51"><b><sup> </sup></b>And he got into the boat with them,
and the wind ceased. And they were utterly astounded,</span> <span class="textmark-6-52">for they were still puzzled about the loaves, because
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creator, did Jesus form a firm pathway so he could reach their boat?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-5-21"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today's message is taken from Mark chapter
</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">6 English Standard Version.<span class="textmark-5-21"><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Notice in these three stories for today that each person acknowledged
that Jesus was and IS the Son of God and the Messiah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> With words, with worship and with Faith in action.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-5-21"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">The storm was now quiet and Jesus and his
disciples in the boat had crossed to the other side, arriving at</span></span><span class="textmark-5-1"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> the country of
the Gerasenes.<sup> </sup></span></span><span class="textmark-5-2"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of
the tombs a man with an unclean spirit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-5-3">And no
one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,</span> <span class="textmark-5-4">for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he
wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="textmark-5-6">And when he
saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him.</span> <span class="textmark-5-7"><b><sup> </sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-5-7">And crying out with a loud
voice, he said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What have you to do with
me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?</i> I adjure you by God, do
not torment me.”</span> <span class="textmark-5-8"><b><sup> </sup></b>For
Jesus was saying to him, </span><span class="woj">“Come out of the man, you
unclean spirit!”</span> <span class="textmark-5-9"><b><sup> </sup></b>And
Jesus asked him, </span><span class="woj">“What is your name?” </span><span class="textmark-5-9">He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”</span> <span class="textmark-5-10"><b><sup> </sup></b>And he begged him earnestly not to send
them out of the country.</span> </span></div>
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<span class="textmark-5-11"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there
on the hillside,</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-5-12"><b><sup> </sup></b>and the unclean spirits begged him,
saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.”</span> <span class="textmark-5-13"><b><sup> </sup></b>So he gave them permission. And the
unclean spirits came out and entered the pigs; and the herd, numbering about
two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the
sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the herdsmen saw this they
were frightened because their business was hurt by this miracle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They pleaded with Jesus to leave and not
bother them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-5-18">As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been
possessed with demons begged him that he might go with him.</span> <span class="textmark-5-19"><b><sup> </sup></b>And Jesus did not permit him but
said to him, </span><span class="woj">“Go home to your friends and tell
them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”</span> <span class="textmark-5-20">And he went away and began to proclaim through out the
cities of <st1:place w:st="on">Decapolis</st1:place> how much Jesus had done
for him, and everyone marveled.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textmark-5-21"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And when Jesus had crossed again in the
boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the
sea.</span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-5-22"><b><sup> </sup></b>Then came one of the rulers
of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing Jesus, he fell at his feet worshiping
him</span> <span class="textmark-5-23"><b><sup> </sup></b>and implored Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come
and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”</span> <span class="textmark-5-24">And Jesus went with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span class="textmark-5-24"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">And a great crowd followed him
and thronged about him pushing and shoving.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-5-25"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-5-25"><span style="color: black;">Now there
was a woman with a discharge of blood </span></span><span class="textmark-5-26"><span style="color: black;">who </span></span><span class="textmark-5-25"><span style="color: black;">for twelve years</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-26"><span style="color: black;">had suffered much under many
physicians, having spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew
worse.</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-27"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">She had
heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched
his garment.</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-28"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">For she
said, “If I touch even <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the hem of his
garment, I will be made well.”</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-29"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And
immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was
healed of her disease.</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-30"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-5-30"><span style="color: black;">And Jesus,
perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned
about in the crowd and said, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“Who touched my garments?”</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-31"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing
around you, and yet you say, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">‘Who touched me?’</span></span><span class="textmark-5-31"><span style="color: black;">”</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-32"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-5-32"><span style="color: black;">Jesus looked around to see who had done it.</span></span><span class="textmark-5-33"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">But the
woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell
down before him and told him the whole truth.</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-34"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And he said to her, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in
peace, and be healed of your disease.”</span></span><span class="textmark-5-1"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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speaking, there came from the ruler's house some who said, “Your daughter
is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”</span></span><span class="textmark-5-36"><b><sup><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></sup></b></span><span class="textmark-5-36"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">But overhearing what
they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Do not
fear, only believe.”</span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-5-37"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and
James and John the brother of James.</span></span><span class="textmark-5-38"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They came to the
house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus<sup> </sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing
loudly.</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-39"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> <o:p></o:p></span></sup></b></span></span></div>
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entered, he said to them, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Why are you making a
commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.”</span></span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt;"> <span class="textmark-5-40"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And the mourners laughed at him. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span class="textmark-5-40"><span style="color: black;">But he put them all outside and took the child's father
and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was.</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-41"><span style="color: black;">Taking her by the hand he said to
her, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“Talitha cumi,”</span></span><span class="textmark-5-41"><span style="color: black;"> which means, </span></span><span class="woj"><span style="color: black;">“Little girl, I say to you, arise.”</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-42"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b></span></span></div>
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was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement.</span></span> <span class="textmark-5-43"><b><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></b><span style="color: black;">And he strictly charged them that no one should know
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</span>Reach out and touch Jesus for He is able to do for you the impossible - - regardless what others say or believe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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