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Thank you brother Mike
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morning church
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How’s the family this morning
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Good
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good to see you all
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Uh take a deep breath
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just relax
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We’re gonna wait on the Lord a little bit this morning and pray that he will have some
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something to just deposit down into our spirits down into the deep places I pray Amen
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We need to hear our father’s voice
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Sometimes
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he brings peace He brings a sadness
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He brings a courage and a confidence to meet the day
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It’s his words that we’re after not somebody else’s
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We thank you father this morning
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that you communicate with us that it’s on your heart to be very close up up close and tight and intimate with us
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that we can count upon you to speak to us and that we can count upon you to lead us that we can count upon you Lord just to have our backs
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We thank you this morning that you are here and that you know exactly where we are sitting
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and where we are
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in our hearts and in the deep places
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speak your words Lord We pray
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in the mighty name of Jesus Amen
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Amen Well you know I um have
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through this Easter season
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I had begun reading
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all about what happened that last week in jesus’ life and the lives of his disciples
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and then what happened right after the resurrection and
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and in the few days after and and and I was so taken by the things that happened those days that I made it the title of this message Now I don’t know how much of these things I’m gonna cover this morning because
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Pastor Bill said I can only have two pages
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But
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there is something there is something else that you challenged me with And that is what you know those things are very interesting that took place in those days those few days
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But how do they really affect our lives How do they really connect with where we are How do they really transform our lives And I got to tell you that I wrestled
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with that
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so hard
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because I do I’ve got a whole bunch of notes here with facts and things that happened and I think they were incredibly important things
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you know but how what kind of a difference do they make to us
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So I wrestled with that and I don’t know that I had an answer even until this morning actually
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But I think I do have an answer this morning
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first Let me tell you some of the things that happened that not everything but a few of the things that happened
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and one of the things that happened several different times was
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was around the table of the Lord or at meal time Things that happened at around the table I don’t know if you know who Guinness is He’s a brit
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and he writes about the things that are taking place in America But he made this statement that in Europe dining table the dining table is the central thing to cohesion of the family It is central to what keeps the family stuck together It is central to what
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brings unity in a family It’s around the dinner table that there is openness There’s freedom to share with respect around the dinner table There should be unconditional love freedom to be truthful with one another and express the things that are on your heart and the things that are in your mind It’s the thing that sticks us together
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It’s unconditional love around a dinner table
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And you know
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the meals and tables were very significant in scripture As you go through you’ll find Jesus shared many meals Remember the big meal where he fed 5000 with just a few fish and a couple of loaves of bread
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Amazing often at the table you find him with tax collectors and sinners
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He ate a lot of times with his friends Lazarus and Mary and Martha and he shared he shared the table with them and many meals of course with the disciples including that very last meal that they shared together the last supper
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that evening right before his crucifixion
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Tim Chester states that in Luke’s Gospel you’ll find Jesus going to a meal
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add a meal or coming from a meal
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Meals were that
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central
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in the lives of Jesus and his disciples and the families
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the Passover meal was the the last supper that they had together before his crucifixion And so he had some last words I think to say to those disciples And if they were
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at the last supper and they were the last words and they must have been pretty important
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And so
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knowing that his hour had come
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and he is troubled he had much to say and much to share
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because he was trying to prepare their hearts and their minds for the days ahead
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It’s when he instituted the last supper
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as a as a a formal thing And he wanted them to know that this is a new covenant that he was gonna make with them This was a new whole new life that they were going to under comprehend and and become involved in But it was through the cost of his own body and his own blood
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He wanted them to get it
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He instituted that new covenant and to explain it and to explain to his disciples what his forthcoming death was all about He didn’t give them a theory He gave him a meal
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and when you break bread he said this is my body the cup is the new covenant for you Remember this Don’t forget this It’s letting you know how much I love you
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and I want to restore you to fellowship with my father
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He told him a whole lot of things Remember he started talking to them about the vine in the branches
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He says I want you to abide in me
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You’re gonna need to abide in me because without me you can’t do anything on your own
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You know that the branch cannot bear fruit of its own power
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You’ve got to abide in the vine
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And so he
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Jesus himself he demonstrated how that would look
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you would find him in the secret places in in intimate times having times alone with his own father many times early in the morning or all night Even he would go out into a lonely place or up into the mountains to pray
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He began his ministry with 40 days being tempted to the devil with prayer and fasting and he set the precedent and here’s how he did it in Hebrews We are told that in the days of his flesh
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he offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears
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before choosing his disciples He needed wisdom and direction from his father
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When he was exhausted with ministering to those crowds of people and dealing with the opposition and the accusation that came from those religious guys
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He needed the comfort in the words of his father
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he needed refreshing Sometimes he just needed to hear his father’s words And so he went to that quiet place he went to that place where there was no noise and he could hear his father speaking to him You know a father’s words matter
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at jesus’ baptism What happened The heavens opened and he heard his father say
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you are my son
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in whom I am well pleased
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Sons and daughters need to hear a father’s voice
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affirming and reaffirming
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This is my son This is my daughter I’ll never forget the day when my spiritual father said something like that to me In fact he said it in a very strange way He says I want you to know Dave that the Lord thinks that you’re a pretty cool guy
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Well let me tell you something
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I had been in a from the Lord for about 10 years and uh my track record was one of failure
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And so when I came back to the Lord I guarantee you
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it meant a great deal for me to hear my my spiritual father say my heavenly father thinks that I’m a pretty cool guy
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I needed to hear that Sons and daughters need to hear the voice of their fathers before my father passed I would I would even call my my mom and dad on the phone And by this time I’m 55 somewhere between 55 63
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I would regularly call them up and my and my dad he he would he would pray over me and he would speak words of blessing over me and encouragement
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And just before he passed
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on his bed like Jacob we were all gathered around his bed as cool as all get out
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My mom had a piano at the end of the bed
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you know not a dresser a piano And my daddy would be laying there in the bed you know and she would play and we all gathered around his bed and we sang to him
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and we ministered to him and we could tell that the angels of the Lord were gathered about round about them At that time It was an awesome time But just before he passed my father
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he he put his hands on my head and on my two brothers and he blessed us just like Jacob did his own sons It was an awesome time of blessing and encouragement and he blessed us and our families We need to hear the blessing in the words of our heavenly father and Jesus showed us how to abide in the favor and the and the presence of the Lord
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A father’s strength can be powerful A dad’s words can be fueling and inspirational hugs from my dad can be deeply comforting A dad’s smiles can instill joy and confidence Time with a dad can be fun and productive A dad’s physicality can be challenging
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A dad’s guidance can be life changing and foundational A father’s correction can be life saving
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and life giving
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adventures with the dead can be exciting and memorable
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Our Heavenly Father wants us to have that kind of experience as we abide in him
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And Jesus wanted the disciples to abide in him and get to know their Heavenly Father’s voice and let his words abide in them richly What does that mean When the Heavenly Father when our heavenly Father speaks words into our hearts breakthroughs come
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his words will stabilize us His words will secure us and bring us stability
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and give us identity as sons and daughters I’ll never forget
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the time
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And Mike you’ll appreciate this story
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years ago when I had just come back to the Lord and
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and uh at at my job
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Mike and I work in the same field Um we we we sell cars and trucks and and
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this this season of time in in in my store we had a a general manager that brought in a new sales manager
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a young sales manager
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and
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and I remember one day I brought a deal to the table and a deal to the desk and
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and it was an important one and it was going to be a good deal and I needed this guy
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to to to work the deal for me and work out you know the the the the the facts of the deal and the numbers and so forth and and so I got up to his desk and I knelt down in front of the desk and
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and I gave him the story of what was going on and
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and this new sales manager didn’t even look up at me
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just staring at his computer I thought he was playing a game or something
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and I said
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I can’t remember his name but he called him my name and I said you need to look at me
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you need to to pay attention I’ve got a deal here going on pay attention
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Well he took that to the general manager
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and told the general manager that I was
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usurping his authority that I was embarrassing him publicly
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And um being very noisy about it
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I wasn’t
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but this new guy was his boy was the general manager’s boy you know brought him in
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And so the general manager came out
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and he hollered at me
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get to my office
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So I went to his office and I sat down
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and he began to intentionally
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berate me and humiliate me and break me down
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And I wept
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because
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truly
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do what I was being accused of was the furthest thing from my heart and the intentions of my motives at that time in my life because I had just come back to the Lord
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and I had already done what they were accusing of me of many for many years And I had blown my reputation
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and my credibility and the only thing that I wanted to do at this moment in time
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was to restore credibility
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and to bring glory to God in my life And I would actually I told my sons and I told my coworkers that knew me well and watched me through those years
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I told them watch me now watch me now
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and to have this kind of accusation and then to be intentionally humiliated just broke me
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And I wept in front of him and I was humiliated again
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And so I after he finished with me I walked back to my desk
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and I sat down and all the flesh in me wanted to do what I would have done in the past
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And I would have broke out
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I would have broke out and threw a fit big time because I had in the past I would have broke something I would have broke someone I would have hollered loud and and and and and just do all that fleshy stuff
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But as I was sitting at my desk
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the Lord brought back to my mind Hebrews 12
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and in Hebrews 12 he says
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don’t
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don’t reject the correction of the Lord
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because the Lord corrects the sons and the daughters that he loves
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You are my son
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Stand up now
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put your shoulders back and put your head up and I literally stood up
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and I put my shoulders back and my head up I want you to show and demonstrate how a Son of God handles unjust criticism
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Take what you deserve If there’s something there and let the rest go
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You’re my son
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Show it
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And I did
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And I thank you Lord The ministry of the Holy Spirit at that moment was powerful And when he when I heard his voice it stabilized me it strengthened me and it encouraged me
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and we need to hear our father’s voices don’t we
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We thank you Lord He is faithful
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Well Jesus had a whole lot of other things to say to those disciples that night that would prepare them for the things that were gonna come He warned them of opposition from the world You you know that if they hated me they’re gonna hate you
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I want you to know how to handle it Remember that I’m telling you this up front so that you won’t fall Remember that you won’t use it as an excuse to stumble and fall away
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He says I’m gonna tell I’m I’m telling you something else I’m gonna send the Holy Spirit to you as well
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I’m letting you know ahead of time
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that the Holy Spirit is gonna come when I’m gone I’m gonna send him and he’s gonna be it’s good because he’s gonna be not only with you he’s gonna be in you
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and me and the father are gonna come by him and we’re gonna dwell with you That’s an incredible promise of the spirit of our father And of the son Amen
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And then
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and all of this is happening at the last supper All of this is happening around the table
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But then he gets to this part
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and he he says one of you is gonna betray me
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That changed the whole tone of the night
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that changed the whole enjoyment You know that changed all the fun and the pleasure
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because when he announced
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that somebody was going to betray him
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it started an argument
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You would think that they would go
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Oh dear Lord Jesus don’t let it be me
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instead It must be you you because it’s not gonna be me I’m not gonna I’m going I would go to die for you
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I think they started blaming each other and it started an argument about who would be greatest in the kingdom They still had their minds set on Jesus setting up a physical military political
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kingdom of sorts and government and they were going to rule and reign in it
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Yeah
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But I mean we don’t we get there sometimes to you know we need Jesus
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to come and change and transform the way we think about things the way we see him the way we see ourselves the way we see one another
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and how we judge one another and how we relate to one another
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or not
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And so
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Jesus had to do something
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to break
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It’s kind of like a spirit invaded that
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that meal
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Indeed He said that Satan entered Jesus Judas
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It’s almost like he was trying to enter the rest of them
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And so Jesus had to do something to break that thing and he stood up
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and he went and stripped off his outer clothes and he picked up the base and the water probably at the door That was that was there only for the lowliest of servants to take hold I mean
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he’s he he took a towel and he started washing the feet and those disciples
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and they were just kind of shocked
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I it broke it broke that prideful spirit
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He broke that thing
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He demonstrates
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true leadership
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to them This is another thing that he wanted to get across to them Unfortunately it took something this drastic And he said
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I want you to know what true leadership looks like in the kingdom
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Philippians tells us exactly
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the extent that he went to
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in chapter two He said let this attitude let this mind
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like what I’m doing right here
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Let this mind be in you That is also in me
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that even though I am God I’m my very form My essence is God
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I didn’t count equality with God as something to be held on to it at all costs
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But he emptied himself and he takes this form of the lowliest of servants
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and he humbles himself
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He didn’t need somebody to humble him He humbled himself
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and only servants do this
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Jesus told him it’s true I am your master and Lord
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but I am among you
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as one who serves
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I didn’t come to serve to be served but I came to serve and to give my life a ransom for many
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Thank you Lord for that And so he sets the example of how to serve one another
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I have an example in my house My wife Mary Anne she’ll tell you that she was in the food business for many many years and she knows what it is to serve and to be a server
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But even at home
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she serves me and has always for all of these years she’s
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she serves me every day Not not because I expected her or or or she’s coerced to she doesn’t do it out of demand She just does it
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because she’s a servant at heart
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It’s her gift
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It’s what comes natural
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Peter tells us that each of us
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should use whatever gift that we have
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been given
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to serve
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and to serve one another as faithful stewards of that grace in whatever form it has been given Amen
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Finally
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Jesus prays for them
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I love it that he prays for them
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Do you know that he’s still at the right hand of the father ever living to make intercession for us He’s a faithful high priest and that job didn’t stop when he left this earth Hallelujah He knows exactly where we are and what we need and he’s faithfully interceding to the father on our behalf
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So you are not forgotten this morning and what you are dealing with in the very depths of your being this morning you are not forgotten He sees it and he knows it and he’s holding you up as a faithful high priest
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And he’s asking you come right on in come right on in here to this secret place Come right in here to this holy place No no no this is the mercy seat Come on in here where the mercy is in your time of need He knows he sees he cares
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and he wants to minister to the deep places of your heart that no one else in here
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knows what you’re going through
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He knows what you haven’t told anybody
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He knows what you’re afraid to tell somebody
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He knows
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every little detail of the things that trouble you in the deep places of your heart
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and he cares
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now he wants you to come
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and be healed
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Healing takes place around the table of the Lord
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when we get together with one another all of these times that pastor Mike or I we make these announcements that we’re gonna have a ladies meeting and we’re gonna have a men’s meeting and we’re gonna have a life group
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but we’re gonna have a prayer meeting
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Those are opportunities that we can fellowship around the Lord
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We can fellowship with one another And truly our fellowship as John says is with the father and with the son by the presence of this spirit And at that moment in time we can pray for one another and we can confess to one another and be healed As James says all kinds of things healing things streams of living water can be start flowing When we get together around the table of the Lord
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we have experienced that Mel and I and Wendy had had rather
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build people’s house and others have we just sit around the table and we eat some of the best food and then we just break the bread together and we eat fellowship and and the Lord ministers
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and you never know what he’s gonna do
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because you never know what the need is At the time
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Come to the table
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get to the table
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That’s where healing takes place That’s where friendship and fellowship is developed That’s where we can become honest and open with one another
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That’s where love
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freeze us
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Finally Jesus prays for them
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Have you all heard that song
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in Jesus name
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Listen to some of the words I sometimes a song will cap capture my heart
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And this one is this one in Jesus name It’s a prayer
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And this this young lady in the video there’s a video of it She’s out in front of this family’s home
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and this family is going through
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some rough places It looks like we don’t know exactly what it all is but it looks like mom and dad aren’t quite together and it’s affecting the Children And you know you don’t know what’s happening Are they are they are they on the brink of divorce Are they on the brink of losing their homes What’s happening
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What’s happening And she’s out there and she sings this prayer
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I speak the name of Jesus over you in your hurting in your sorrow I will ask my God to move I speak the name because it’s all that I can do
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in desperation I’ll seek heaven and pray this for you I pray for your healing That circumstances will change I pray that the fear inside will flee in Jesus name I pray that a breakthrough will happen today
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I pray miracles over your life in Jesus name in Jesus name
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I speak the name of all authority in the declaring blessings every promise that He is faithful to keep
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I speak the name No grave could ever hold He is greater He is stronger
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He’s the God If possible I pray for your healing
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That circumstances would change I pray the fear inside would flee in Jesus name I pray a breakthrough would happen today I pray miracles over your life in Jesus name Come believe it come receive it Oh the power of His spirit is now yours forever more
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Come believe it come receive it in the mighty name of Jesus All things are possible
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You never know what’s gonna happen
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when we gather together in jesus’ name
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He’s calling us I believe to the to the table he’s calling us
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to see and to hear what he has to say to us
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You know they finally prayed and Jesus prayed for them
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I did take some things out of that prayer that he prayed for them that they would know the father
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that they would be kept by the power of his name that they would be set apart for the truth
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that they would be one as the father and the son are one And that they would actually know the love of that that the father had for Jesus and that they would have that same love in themselves and for one another
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Amen
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And you know what they did then
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still at table
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they sang a hymn
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and they worshiped
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This looks like the early church doesn’t it
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They sat at the feet of Jesus and
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they heard him teach
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they already church
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They they committed and they were gathered around the the the apostles teaching
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They broke bread together
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they prayed together
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This looks like the early church
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I think that’s what he’s building in us This sense of community this sense of fellowship around
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one another and around the spirit as we gather in his name
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Well there was another meal
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and it happened after
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the resurrection
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and there was there was two disciples on the road to a mass
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And uh
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they encountered Jesus
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and they didn’t recognize him at first and I always wondered why they didn’t recognize him
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They had seen him and been with him and heard him teach and all of that But
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I it doesn’t say why but it does say that their hearts were hardened
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and cold
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with disappointment and discouragement
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and maybe they were just so overtaken with that disappointment that that their plans and their visions of things didn’t happen
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They didn’t recognize him anyway here’s what happened
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They’re on the road they’re talking together very intently Jesus approaches them and ask them what they are so intensely discussing They stop dead in their tracks as if and look at him as if
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he’s
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crazy
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Sorry
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And
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and they
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they they ask him are you the only visitor to Jerusalem that doesn’t know what is what things have taken place these days
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And he asked them what things
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and they
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they tell him
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the things that took place with Jesus
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He was a prophet mighty in word and deed
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before God and before all the people
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he was the messiah sent to Redeem Israel
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and the chief priests and the rulers of our people handed him over to the Romans and they crucified him
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and they’re just
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town cast
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Why why were they so torn up
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Here’s what here’s what the scripture says
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from their own mouths We were hoping that he would redeem Israel
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I put down here I e that really means
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we were hoping that he was going to establish an earthly political government overthrow the Romans
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and bring back the glory days of the monarchy
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Again
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the mind is so far off base about who Jesus was and what he intended to do
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It wasn’t about
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earthly government it was about a government set up and a kingdom ruling in the hearts of men
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and they didn’t get it And so he rebukes them for being so foolish and hardness of heart and slow to believe the scriptures you would think that they would know
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because the scriptures all pointed to him
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and to his suffering
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and to his death
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and to his resurrection
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they had their own view of things and rebukes them for being foolish heart of heart and slow to believe Sometimes that characterizes us doesn’t it Until we get with Jesus And he begins to open
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our hearts and our minds Here’s what it says Their hearts had grown cold with disappointment and discouragement when their Messiah was killed you see they have their own vision of things and plans on how things should be in their own lives And don’t we get that too
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We sometimes have to see our own visions die And before Jesus can set up his his government in us
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So on that road he began to revive and to restore their faith and hope in a Messiah who would be the savior and here’s the real need He would save them from the tyranny of the sins of their own hearts Amen And he was gonna set up his kingdom in their hearts
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I have I have a little drawing that I have often
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threatened to put it as a tattoo in my arm
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It’s
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it’s the cross
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on the hill
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and a little stick man
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kneeling with his hands raised
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and his big old heart in his hands
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You see because that’s what Jesus came for He came
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for your whole heart
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And I remember when I came back to the Lord my track record of failure was so great I could not believe anymore that I could give him my whole heart because my track record of failure testified against me
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But that’s what he came for
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And little by little I told the Lord that morning that I got up on May in May 5th in 2005 I told the Lord I can’t do it I know you want it all
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I’ve never been able to give it to you
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So I’ll make you a deal
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I’ll give you what I can And if you want the rest you’re gonna have to come and get it
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And he did
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I can tell you that he will take you at your word
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and he will pursue you to the ends of the earth until you give him your whole heart
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And then he begins to revive
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your believer
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You may not be able to believe all at once but if you’ll just take that little tiny step Faith comes
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as you hear him begin to download his words into your heart Faith comes by hearing and hearing his word just take that one little step toward him and he will rush to you
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and he will set up his kingdom in your heart
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and he will kick you off the throne and he will set it up and deliver you all you have to do is be willing
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and sometimes
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desperate
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desperate
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desperate desperation will help you take drastic action
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Amen Thank you Lord
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So they’re on the road
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to Emmaus and to their home
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Jesus began to open the scriptures to them and they said later didn’t our hearts burn within us
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Hallelujah For that Do you see what Jesus is doing He’s opening the scriptures to them
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And you know later it stated that all scripture is God breathed and it’s profitable for us It will teach us it will reprove us it will bring correction and all how we need to be willing to take correction
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If we are of a heart that is not willing to receive correction we will stay stunted
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we will stay stunted We will stay in a childlike place of immaturity
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But if we will receive the ungrafted word and let those words then it the words and the and the and the and and the word
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received brings enlightenment
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There’s a scripture there that I was searching for
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but it’s at the supper table while they were breaking bread
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their hearts burned but their eyes were opened
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when they
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recognize Jesus
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don’t our hearts burn within us when we encounter Jesus And he brings that revelation and he opens up our understanding
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Amen
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Get to a table find that fellowship that coin and
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that is fellowship Truly with the father and with his son and let the spirit of God minister through one another get to the table
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And then there was a last meal
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It was that breakfast
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besides the Lake of Galilee
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You know those disciples
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went back to the lake Jesus told him to go there
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And this is the best part
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They’re kind of like those two guys on the road to Emmaus They had the same sort of ideas about Jesus and about their own lives and what their future was going to be
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be careful with the plans that you make be careful with the ideas that you set up
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Their expectations were blown and they were disappointed in Jesus
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and they were disappointed in themselves They were they had a shame and guilt and they they’d all run and hid No not just Peter
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but they were led by Peter
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feeling like failures to go back to that old life You know it’s what they did best They were fishermen
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and sometimes we do the same thing
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when we feel like failures
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we blow it our hopes and dreams are dashed Sometimes we are tempted to go back to the old life
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and they did just that
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and they did they worked all night
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Let me tell you something
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The way of a transgressor is hard
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and you can go back to their old life and try to get life out of it And it’s just like knocking your head against the bricks
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knocking your head against the bricks the pricks of those
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things on the back of a plow
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that the uh
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that the oxen would kick when they wouldn’t when they refused they were stubborn they refused to go the way that the plowman was trying to get them to go
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They kicked against the pricks
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It hurts to be stubborn
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It’s it’s it’s life sapping
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to try to do things your own way
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But they did they tried and they worked all night for nothing but fatigue and futility
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and that just added to their despondency
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But at daybreak
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somebody who was on the shore and was yelling at him
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and he said
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hey
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Children cast your net on the other side
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I can imagine what went through their minds
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But I think what went through their minds
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was deja vu
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Do you know what I mean
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Because
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on that first day that Jesus met Peter and Andrew and James and John and called them
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the same thing happened They’ve been fishing all night they were up washing their their nets and probably disgust Jesus steps into the
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boat of Simon Peter
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And then after he’s done teaching he tells him to push out
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Yeah but we worked all night We didn’t catch a thing There ain’t anything out there
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Try it again Jesus said
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and they pushed out and they cast their nets and they caught so many that they couldn’t hardly drag them in The nets were broke breaking
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and Peter did the same thing He’s in the water
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It is broken
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because Jesus is exposing something in him
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Jesus is exposing his weaknesses Jesus is exposing his lack of belief in faith
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and Jesus is also
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making him a new man
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back then He said from now on you’re gonna be fishers of men
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Now his hopes and dreams are are are broken He he’s a failure He has denied the Lord
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and now he’s a failure again at fishing
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But Jesus
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he does it again
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I think just to remind him
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in the convent
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the gifts and the calling of God are without repentance and Jesus will never give up on you
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He just reminds them that you just can’t do it without me
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a little here
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So Jesus has the fire going
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another meal and he guides him to breakfast
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to that table
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and there he reinstates them
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He reaffirms them and he recommissions them
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Sorry I can’t read my notes through my tears
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Uh Yes especially Peter
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and he says Peter Yeah
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Satan really desired to sift you as wheat
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but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail
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And when you have turned again which he did
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and was doing and Jesus was leading him in the process
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Peter do you love me
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three times
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Just to make sure that he covered the three times that he denied him Peter I know Do you know that you love me
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Do you love me
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Do you love me
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Ok
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Feed my sheep
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You still got a job to do feed my sheep
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10 then
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go after them
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and Peter repented
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You know there’s always forgiveness at the table
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of the Lord
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and Jesus is still calling us to the table of the Lord
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in revelation He ends the whole book of scripture by saying behold I stand at the door and knock
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If anybody will hear my voice
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and open that door
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I’m gonna come right on in there
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You’re right on into the deepest places of your heart
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the places
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where you need freedom where you need forgiveness and where you need victory
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I’m gonna come right there
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and I’m gonna sup with you
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and you with me until you’re finally free
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That’s what the church is supposed to do
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That’s what the church is supposed to be to look like
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It’s his love that frees us
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when I was trying to find some takeaways
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this morning
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Jesus reminded me of
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First Corinthians chapter 13
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It’s love that’s supposed to characterize us people
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It’s not what we know
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It’s not what position we hold
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He calls us to be servants
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with love
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In fact
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after he talks about health
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he is the one who plants every one of us where we belong in the body
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and where and he distributes the gifts that we have
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and how we all have a place to belong
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But we all have different functions and gifts
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that he really is encouraging us to use
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and so be stewards of the grace that we have received
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and go ahead and do that
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and and desire to do that
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But then he says I wanna tell you the very best way I wanna show you the best way
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and here’s how he puts it
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The most excellent way is this I could speak with the tongues of men and angels
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But if I don’t have love
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I just make a lot of noise
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a resounding gong or a clanging symbol
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I don’t wanna do that I don’t wanna be that bunch of noise There’s there’s enough noise and pride in that invades our lives
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We need
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true love of Jesus to break through
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if I have the gift of prophecy and I can fathom all mysteries
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But I don’t Oh How about this If I know everything
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and believe me there are times when my wife will tell you that I think that I do know everything
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and some of you are in the same position
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There’s a guy at work
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that we all avoid
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because he’s a know it all
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And if you ask him one little question
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he’s gonna tell it all
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And don’t you dare interrupt him
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and years ago and I’ve worked with him for many years
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and I love him
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and I hate him
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because when I looked at him the Lord showed me that I’m looking in the mirror
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and he wanted to help me
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with my know it all
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Dave you don’t have to tell everything You know
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you appreciate this Mike
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Give the short version
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give the short version
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and sometimes just shut up
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That’s a ministry of the Spirit of God If we’re open to correction
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because I can know how I can have all knowledge
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and I can have faith to move mountains But if I don’t have love I’m nothing
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Even if I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames and I don’t have love
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I lose I gain nothing
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So I’m gonna leave us with this
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and
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and without going to Ephesians five
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where he
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where he he puts this in terms of relationships
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love in terms of relationships Hear this in terms of relationships
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Love is patient
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Love is kind
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It doesn’t envy and it doesn’t boast Don’t toot your own horn It’s not proud
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it’s not rude
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it’s not self seeking
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I don’t need somebody to you know
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it’s not easily angered
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and it doesn’t keep keep a list of wrongs
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Love doesn’t delight in evil but it rejoices with truth It always protects
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it always
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trusts it always hopes it always perseveres
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Here’s the way that I learned It
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loved
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believes all things
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hopes all things
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endures all things
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Are you still in terms of relationships with me
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Love never fails
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That’s what’s supposed to characterize us
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in our own families
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in the family of God
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And that’s what
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our neighbors are supposed to see
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Behold how they love one another
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how they love it
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Let’s pray
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Thank you Father
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Thank you Lord Jesus Thank you for your word The entrance of your word brings light
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and with that entrance it brings transformation
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Thank you for how much you have demonstrated to us that you love us not just back then but all the way that you have been with us and you have never given up on us We pray that corporately now too Lord that we would love one another and love you Let our love be be the glory and be that which characterizes our corporate
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character Lord to this community Thank you for what you are doing in our families and in our family at life Springs do more
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and we will thank you in Jesus your mighty name Amen Let stand for the blessing
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now to him who is able to keep you from falling
