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The Gospel For Busy People

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November 1, 2020

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Pastor and Evangelist Greg Laurie teaches the simple yet life changing message of the Gospel.

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♪ This is the day whenthe lost are found ♪
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♪ Oh can you hear allthe angels are singing ♪
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♪ This is the day
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♪ The day when life begins
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- We're startinga brand new series
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based on the gospel of Mark
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that I'm calling, thegospel for busy people.
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Another thing youcould call it is,
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the gospel for peoplewith ADD, right?
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People was shortattention spans.
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You see, Mark's gospelis a very fast pace
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series of truths laidout in this amazing book.
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He uses the wordimmediately, 42 times.
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Mark uses a historicalpresent tense, 150 times.
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In other words, Jesuscomes, Jesus heals,
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Jesus says, all in the presenttense, not the past tense.
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So, it's almostlike you are there.
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Mark almost reminds usof a breathless reporter
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giving us the events in realtime as they're unfolding.
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And I think this is a gospelwe can all relate to today,
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because it seemslike we collectively
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have a short attention span.
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Unique to Mark, ishe does not record
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all that many sermons of Jesus.
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In fact, Mark focusesmore on what Jesus did,
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than he does on what Jesus said.
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It's a record ofthe achievements ofJesus, if you will,
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and it's action packedfrom beginning to end.
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It's a short, concisebook of 16 chapters.
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And by the way, it'sprobably the first
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of the gospels that was written.
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So, who is this guy Mark?
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His full name is John Mark.
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He's the author of this gospel,
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and he is thenephew of Barnabas.
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You may remember Barnabasbecause he traveled with Paul.
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And let's just saythat John Mark,
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who was much youngerthan the others,
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got off to a weak start.
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He was given the opportunityto go on a missionary journey
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with his uncle Barnabasand the great apostle Paul.
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And I don't know what happened,
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but Mark got cold feetand wanted to go home.
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Maybe he was just homesickand he bailed on them.
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So when they went on theirnext missionary journey
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and Barnabas suggestedthey take Mark along,
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Paul was supposed to,
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and I don't wantto take him along,
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and because he didn't staywith us on the last journey.
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And so, this was asetback for Mark,
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but whatever had happened,
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he was able to repair hisrelationship with Paul,
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because later Paul writes ofMark in Second Timothy 4:11,
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"He's been helpfulto me in ministry."
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So think about thisguy, he's a kid.
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His uncle is Barnabas.
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He is a personal friendwith the apostle Paul,
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and then add to this, the fact
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that he was veryclose to Simon Peter.
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In fact, Peter refers to Mark
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as his son in First Peter 5:13.
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And in fact, many believethat the gospel of Mark
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was actually written byMark, but dictated by Peter.
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So, it is believed by many,
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and I happen to agree with them,
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that this is effectively thegospel according to Peter,
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but yet at the sametime, Mark was there.
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He was a young man,
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but he did witness theministering of Jesus.
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Later on in the book of Acts,
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we read that Peterwas put in prison.
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You remember thatstory in Acts 12?
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And they were praying for him,
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and Peter showed up at a houseas an answer to their prayer
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because God deliveredhim from the jail.
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What house was that?
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That was the house of John Mark,
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that he lived in withhis mother, Mary.
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I mean, so this guy wasright in the epicenter
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of so many biblical events
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that were soincredibly significant.
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So the backdrop ofthe gospel of Mark
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as the believers weresuffering in Rome.
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According to the Romanhistorian Tacitus Nero,
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the Caesar overRome at that time,
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had declared waron the Christians.
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He had a hand inburning Rome down,
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and then he blamed it on thefollowers of Jesus Christ,
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who had nothing to do with it.
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So the Christians were forced
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to flee to thecatacombs to survive.
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So Mark wanted to write a book
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that would encouragethese believers.
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He wanted to show Jesusin the present tense,
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able to deliver them duringtheir times of crisis.
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As the Bible says of God,
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"He is a present helpin times of trouble."
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So I hope, as youmight be going through
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your own difficulties,
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maybe you're beingharassed for your faith.
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Maybe you're being hassledfor what you believe.
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I pray that this newest series
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that we're doing inthe gospel of Mark
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will be a greatencouragement to you.
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So let's read some ofthis gospel together,
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grab your Bible or yourphone or your tablet,
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or wherever you have your Bible
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and read these wordswith me if you would.
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I'm in Mark chapter one,
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I'm gonna readverses one to eight.
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And by the way, this isthe New Living Translation.
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This is the goodnews about Jesus,
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the Messiah, the Son of God.
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It began just as theprophet Isaiah had written,
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"Look, I'm sending mymessenger ahead of you,
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"and he will prepare the way.
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"He is a voice shoutingin the wilderness,
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"'Prepare the way forthe Lord's coming,
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"'clear the road for him.'
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"This messenger wasJohn, the Baptist.
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"He was in thewilderness and preached
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"that people should be baptized
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"to show that they hadrepented of their sins
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"and turned to Godto be forgiven.
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"All of Judea, including allof the people of Jerusalem
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"came out to see and hear John.
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"They confessed their sins
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and he baptized themin the Jordan River.
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"His clothes were wovenfrom course camel hair,
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"and he wore a leatherbelt around his waist,
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"and for food, he atelocusts and wild honey.
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"John announced,someone is coming soon,
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"who is greater than I am,so much greater," says John,
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"I'm not even worthy tostoop down like a slave
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"and untie the strapsof his sandals.
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"I baptize you with water,
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but he will baptize youwith the Holy Spirit."
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Wow, well, we'll stop there.
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John the Baptist, theforerunner of Jesus Christ.
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He was a radical, hewas a revolutionary.
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He was like a rock star.
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Everybody wanted tosee and hear John.
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As Mark writes, "All of Judea,
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"including the peopleof Jerusalem, wentout to see John."
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You have to understand,
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that John was not justa prominent figure,
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he was super prominent.
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The ancient Jewishhistorian Josephus
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actually wrote more aboutthe life and ministry of John
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that he wrote aboutJesus Christ himself.
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And so John, what wasa significant figure?
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You ask well why?
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Well understand, Israelhad not heard from God
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for a long time.
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From the time of thelast Old Testament book,
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the book of Malachi, to theemergence of John was 400 years.
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Think about that, Israel,
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which was so used to prophetsand miracles and angels,
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hadn't heard fromGod for 400 years,
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and then seeminglyout of nowhere,
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but right on God's schedule,
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emerges this colorful, colorfulcharacter, John the Baptist.
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And he had a simple job to do,
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which was to preparethe way of the Lord.
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John was the last of theOld Testament prophets.
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The last of theMohicans, if you will.
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And not only was he the lastof the Old Testament prophets,
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he was the greatestof all of the prophets
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of the Old Testament.
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Jesus himself said in Luke 7:28,
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"I tell you, ofmen born of women,
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"there has never beena greater prophet
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"than John the Baptist."
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Now, you know, we read thestory of John and we think,
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well, I understand hewas a great prophet,
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but greater than Isaiah,greater than Jeremiah,
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greater than a Elijah theprophet who performed miracles.
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I mean, to the point,
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John never calledfire down from heaven.
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John never stoppedit from raining.
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John never raised aperson from the dead.
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John never wrote agreat Old Testament book
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like Isaiah and others.
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So, why was John the greatestof the Old Testament prophets?
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Here's the answer.
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John and John alonewas the direct herald
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and forerunner of Jesus.
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His greatness wasa direct result
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of his nearness andconnection to Christ.
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Now, he was dressedin an unusual way,
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because he was an unusual guy.
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Interesting, archeologistsrecently discovered
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an image of John, so we can seeexactly what he looked like.
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So here's what John looked like.
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No, that's actually PhilRobertson from Duck Dynasty,
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I'm just kidding, but itkind of gives you an idea
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of how John may have appearedto the people of that day.
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And despite this greatcalling on his life,
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despite this greatpopularity that he had,
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he was a really humble guy.
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Look at verse sevenof Mark chapter one.
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He said, "Someone is coming,who is greater than me.
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"So much greater,I'm not even worthy
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"to stoop down like a slave
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"and untie the strapsof His sandals."
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Let me update that.
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John is saying, I'm not evenworthy to tie his shoes.
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He's so great!
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But John understoodexactly what his role was.
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Even though he was a greatpublic figure and very popular,
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his mission was toget out of the way
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and prepare people for Jesus.
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That's amazing, and guess what?
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That's our mission as well.
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You might say thatJohn's motto was,
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I must decrease andHe must increase.
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Can you imagine if youput that on your mirror,
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and you saw it as you'regetting ready in the morning,
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I must decrease andHe must increase.
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Or if you put that onyour Instagram account,
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before you did a post, I mustdecrease and He must increase,
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but that was John, he wassetting the stage for Jesus.
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Now, Jesus enters the scene.
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Go back to Mark chapterone, look at verse nine.
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"It came to pass on those days,
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"that Jesus came fromNazareth of Galilee
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"and He was baptized by John,
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"and immediately comingout of the water."
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Notice the way that Markwrites, coming out of the water,
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not he came out of the water.
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Coming out of the water,
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we're there, Markputs us right there.
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And you know, he's this veryurgent kind of a writer,
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coming from the water.
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"He saw the heavens parting
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"and the Spirit descendingon Him like a dove.
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"Then a voice came from heaven,
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"which said, "Youare my beloved Son,
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"in whom I am well-pleased."
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Now look at this, "Immediately,
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"the Spirit drove Himinto the wilderness
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"where He was temptedby Satan for 40 days.
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"He was out amongthe wild animals,
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"and the angelstook care of Him."
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Have you heard of the Trinity?
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Did you know the Trinity,
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or at least the wordTrinity is not in the Bible,
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but the Trinity is in the Bible.
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And I don't know thatthere's a clearer verse
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in all of scripture than this,
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showing us theTrinity in action.
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We have Jesus theSon being baptized,
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we have the Holy Spiritcoming upon Him as a dove,
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and we have the voiceof the Father saying,
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"This is my beloved Son,in whom I am well pleased."
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Now, Mark does notgive us a full account
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of the temptation ofChrist as do Matthew.
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In Matthew chapter fourand Luke chapter four.
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But we'll start here,
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and then I'm gonnago over to Luke
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for a little more detail.
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But look at verse 12of Mark chapter one,
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"Immediately, the Spirit droveHim into the wilderness."
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The Spirit drove Himinto the wilderness.
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This is not suggestingJesus didn't wanna go.
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What it is saying is, thiswas something that was urgent
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that the Holy Spirit was doing,
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because this was somethingJesus had to go through.
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So, no time baskingin the glory of God,
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this was straight to work,
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and that's pretty muchthe painting of Mark.
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Jesus has a job to do,
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but it also shows ussomething very important.
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Often, trials ortestings or temptations
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come after momentsof great blessing.
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I mean, here is Jesusin the Jordan River,
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being baptized by John,having the Father say,
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"This is My beloved Son inwhom I am well pleased."
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And the Holy Spirit come uponHim in the form of a dove,
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and immediately, righton the heels of that,
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He goes into thewilderness to face Satan.
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After the dove came the devil.
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After the blessingcame the trial.
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Now, He faced three temptationsby the devil and in effect,
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you and I will face these samethree temptations in life.
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Here's the first one.
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Now I'm going overto Luke chapter four,
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who fills in some gaps for us
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that we don't havehere in Mark's gospel.
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In Luke chapterfour, verse three,
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Satan says to Jesus, "Ifyou are the Son of God,
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"tell this stone tobecome a loaf of bread."
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Now, by the way, inthe original language,
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a better translation wouldbe, since you are, not if.
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So Satan was not challengingthe deity of Christ,
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in a way he was affirming it.
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So what he was saying is,
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"Since you're theSon of God, Jesus,
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"and you've been fastingfor 40 days and 40 nights,
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"and obviously you're on thevery brink of starvation.
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"Why don't you tell that rock
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"to turn into a piece of bread?"
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Interesting.
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You know, it's worth noting
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that Jesus never did amiracle for His own benefit.
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You know, if Jesus had toget from point A to point B,
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He walked therelike anybody else.
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You know, if He had to walkfrom Galilee to Jerusalem,
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He could have airlifted Himselfover there if he wanted to,
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but He would walkwith his disciples,
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thus Jesus wastired like we are.
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Jesus was sleepy like we are.
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Jesus was hungry when we are.
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I mean, He could havedone whatever He wanted.
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He could have been eatingan In-N-Out burger,
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gone forward in time, grabbedthat thing, eating it,
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and the discipleswould say, "Lord,
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"what is it that you'reeating over there?"
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And He could havesaid something like,
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"It is not for youto know these things.
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"Just eat your fishand unleavened bread
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"and I'll get back to you."
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Or he could have justmet them in Jerusalem,
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and just poppedover there, but no,
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He put Himself under therestraints of human frailty.
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Now look, Jesus hada physical body.
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He was tempted and tested,
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but He did not have theinward vulnerability to fall.
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So he felt the presence oftemptation, but being God,
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He didn't reallyhave a sinful nature
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that would inclinehim to give into it.
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The Bible says, "He wasmade in the likeness
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"of sinful flesh."
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So yes, He had a body.
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Yes, He bled like any man,He had tears like any man,
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but He was God walking among us.
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Fully God and fully man.
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There has never been a man thatwalked the earth like Jesus.
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So, if this is the case,
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what is the pointof Him being tested?
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Here's the answer, ready for it?
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To show us how toface temptation.
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He's giving us a model.
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He's showing uswhat we should do
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when temptation comes our way.
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"Hey, Jesus," says Satan,
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"Why don't you turn a rockinto a piece of bread?"
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What does Christ say?
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He says, "It is written,
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"man shall not liveby bread alone,
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"but by every word thatproceeds from the mouth of God."
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Now look, we facethis all the time.
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Here is the essence of whatSatan was saying to Jesus.
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Put the physicalbefore the spiritual.
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He'll come to us and say,
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Hey look, man, you needto have a little fun.
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You know, you can playnow and pay later.
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Don't worry about therepercussions of sin.
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You'll be okay,you're the exception.
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God's okay with this, youcan trust me, Satan says.
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That was the kissing of asnake, in case you missed it.
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Listen, the Bible saysthe devil is a liar
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and he is the father of lies.
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And sometimes people gettheir lives out of whack.
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You know, they put physicalthings before spiritual things.
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Look, there's nothingwrong with eating food.
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God has given us food toenjoy and to eat together,
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but there's a difference between
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eating to liveand living to eat.
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Some people are obsessedby their appetite.
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They're obsessed by food.
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They're obsessed by things,
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they're obsessedby sensual things,
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and they let those thingsbecome more important to them
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than God Himself.
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So, just put God in Hisrightful place in your life.
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It's fine to have a career,
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but don't put yourcareer above God.
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It's great to havea relationship,
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but don't put arelationship above God.
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So by saying, "Man shallnot live by bread alone,
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"but by every word thatproceeds from God,"
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Jesus is simply pointing out,
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that we should have ourspiritual priorities in order
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and put God first.
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Here's another thing, andwe don't want to miss this.
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What did Jesus do when Hewas tempted by the devil?
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He quoted scripture.
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Now, remember, Jesus was God.
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And be God, he could havesaid, "Satan, be banished."
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And Satan would have left.
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He had that authorityand power over the devil.
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In fact, when He wouldencounter demons,
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the demons would say to Him,
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through the peoplethey were possessing.
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"Don't send us tojudgment before our time."
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They recognized the power andauthority that Christ had.
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But He didn't do this,He faced the devil
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as we should face the devil.
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You say, well, how?
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Well, first of all,we quote scripture.
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He's giving us a model.
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This is what you dowhen you're tempted,
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you quote the word of God.
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This is why you needto study the Bible.
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This is why you needto memorize the Bible.
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Over in Psalm 119verse nine, it says,
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"How can a youngman cleanse his way?
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"By taking heedaccording to Your Word."
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Psalm 119 verse 11 says,
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"Your Word have Ihid in my heart,
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"that I might notsin against You."
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Look, it's good to carrya Bible in your briefcase
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or in your purse, or havea Bible app on your phone,
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but the best place tocarry the Word of God
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is in your heart.
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So don't just getit in your mind,
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get in your heart,commit it to memory.
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And then when you are tempted,
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you can pull out theappropriate scriptures
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to defend yourself.
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So the devil realizes
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that this firsttemptation is not working.
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Now he does somethingreally strange,
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or it seems strangeto us perhaps.
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He's giving Jesus a hack,if you will, a shortcut.
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He's effectively sayingin this next temptation,
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"Look, Jesus, we bothknow why You're here.
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"You're here to purchase back
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"that which was lostin the garden of Eden.
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"And I'm gonna make You adeal You cannot refuse."
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Bad Godfather imitation.
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I'm gonna giveYou what You want.
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I'll give it to youon a silver platter,
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all you have to do isgive me the satisfaction
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of worshiping me for a moment.
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Look at Luke chapterfour, verse five.
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"The devil took Jesusto a high mountain
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"and showed Him all thekingdoms of the world
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"in a moment of time.
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"And the devil said to Him,
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"'All this authority I willgive to you and their glory,'"
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and it's been delivered tome and then the devil says,
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"And I can give itto whomever I wish.
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"Therefore, if youwill worship before me,
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"all of this will be Yours."
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Notice Jesus did not refute it.
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Notice Jesus did notsay you're wrong devil,
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you can't do that.
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And I'll tell you why Hedidn't say to the devil
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that he was wrong,because the devil
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was actually telling thetruth in this instance.
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The Bible says thatSatan, who by the way,
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is a fallen angel.
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A very powerfulfallen angelic being
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is the God of this world,
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the prince of thepower of the air.
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So, when our first parents,
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Adam and Eve sinnedin the Garden of Eden
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and fellowship withGod was cut off,
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a curse came upon the world.
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It's effectively underthe control of the devil.
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Jesus came from heaven on arescue operation to planet earth
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to buy back that whichwas lost in the garden.
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The devil saying, "Look,
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"I'm gonna make thiseasy for You Jesus,
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"no pain, no suffering,no crucifixion.
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"I'll give it to You ifYou'll just worship me."
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But here's what Jesus did,He refused this offer.
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Look at verse eightof Luke, chapter four,
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Jesus answered and said,"Get behind Me Satan,
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"for it is written, "You shallworship the Lord, your God
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"'and Him only shall you serve."
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I heard he story of a woman
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that was gonna godown to the mall
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and look at the new outfitsthat were coming out.
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And her husband said, "No,
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"I don't want youto go to the mall.
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"Every time you go,you buy something."
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She said, "No, I'mjust gonna browse.
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"I won't buy anything."
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"No, you always buy something.
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"I don't want you togo, we can't afford it."
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"I'm just gonna look."
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He said, "All right, look,but don't buy anything."
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She said, "Okay."
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So she comes home a few hourslater with a brand new outfit.
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He goes, "Well, I asked you
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"not to go buy anoutfit, what happened?"
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She says, "Well,I went into this,
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"I walked by this store,
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"there was this cute outfit inthe window on the mannequin,
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"and so I walked in andasked if I could try it on."
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He goes, "Ah, I can'tbelieve you did that.
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"Well, what happened?"
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She says the devilhimself appeared
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and he came and appeared inthe dressing room and said,
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"You look great in that outfit."
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And then the husband said,
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you should have said,"Get behind me Satan."
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She said, "I did."
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I said, "Get behind me, Satan."
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And then the devil said,
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"Hey, it looks goodfrom the back too."
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No, but seriously,
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when the devil tempts you, youdon't want to listen to him.
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You don't want to have extendedconversations with him.
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You want to put them behind you,
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and that's exactlywhat Jesus did.
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Now we come to the lasttemptation of Christ,
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at least in the wilderness.
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Luke chapter four, verse nine,
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"The devil broughtJesus to Jerusalem.
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"Set Him on the pinnacleof the peak of the temple,
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"and Satan said, 'IfYou are the Son of God,
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"'throw Yourselfdown from here.'"
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Notice, the devil thensays, "For it is written,
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"He will give hisangels charge over You,
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"to keep You, andin their hands,
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"they will bear You up,
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"lest You dash Yourfoot against a stone."
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Wow, the Devil'squoting the Bible.
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Did you know, the devilknows the Bible too?
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The story is told of the famouscomedic actor, WC Fields,
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who was known tobe an alcoholic.
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And one day someone wassurprised to see Fields
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actually reading from the Bible.
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It said, "I can'tbelieve the you,
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WC Fields are readingthe Bible, why?
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And Fields responded,"Looking for loopholes."
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And that's what the devil'sbeen doing for a long time.
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Reading it, quotingit out of context,
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misusing it, looking forloopholes, if you will.
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Closing thoughts,every Christian isgoing to be tempted,
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but listen, it's notthe bait that constitute
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temptation andsin, it's the bite.
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Just because the baitis dangled before you,
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doesn't mean you're sinning.
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By the way, it's nota sin to be tempted.
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As my friend ErwinLuther said, and I quote,
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"Temptation is not a sin, it'sa call to battle," end quote.
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You know, we may think ifwe're really spiritual,
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we'll never be tempted.
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Let me tell you thatthat is not true.
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The fact is, if youare really spiritual,
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if you are reallyliving a godly life,
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you will be tempted, why?
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Because the devil doesnot want you to succeed.
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He will oppose you.
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So if you are watchingthis right now,
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and you're saying, "Greg,I get tempted all the time.
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"What's wrong with me?"
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Maybe it's not what'swrong with you,
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maybe it's what'sright with you.
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Remember the storyin the book of Job,
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when God was bragging on hisservant, Job, and He said,
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"Have you consideredmy servant Job?
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"A perfect and upright man,
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"one that fears Godand shuns evil."
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And the devil heard Godsay this, what happened?
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A series of attacks cameagainst God's man named, Job.
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And sometimes theattacks we're facing
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are a result of living agodly, not an ungodly life.
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Hey, thanks forwatching our TV program.
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And I wonder if you yourselfhave accepted Jesus Christ.
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You know, a lot of times people
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tune into programs likethis who aren't believers
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and they're kindof checking it out.
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Maybe you're laughingat it at first.
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Maybe you think it's not real,
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but something has happened,
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and maybe in somethingthat's been said,
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you've suddenly discoveredyou need Jesus Christ.
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You know, the day I acceptedJesus, let me tell you,
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it was the last thingI planned on doing.
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I didn't plan on becominga Christian that day,
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but that was the day thatwas appointed in eternity
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for me to believe in Jesus.
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I wonder if this isnot that day for you.
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You've been eavesdropping,you've been checking it out,
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but now God's speakingright to your heart
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and you realize youneed Jesus Christ.
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Would you like to haveyour sin forgiven?
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Would you like asecond chance in life?
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Would you like to goto heaven when you die?
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Would you likeyour guilt removed?
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Listen, it can all happen,
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because Jesus Christwent to a cross
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and died for your sin and thenrose again three days later,
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and He'll come intoyour life right now
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and be your savior and your Lord
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and the best friendyou've ever had.
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Let's pray together.
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Pray this after me.
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Lord Jesus, I knowthat I'm a sinner,
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but I believe You diedon the cross for my sin,
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and I'm sorry for that sinand I turn from it now.
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And I ask You to come intomy life and be my savior
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and be my Lord and be myGod, and be my friend.
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I choose to follow youfrom this moment forward.
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In Jesus name I pray.
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Amen.
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If you just prayed that prayer,
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I want you to know on theauthority of God's Word,
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that Christ Himself hascome to live inside of you.
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The Bible says, "Thesethings we write to you
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"that believe in thename of the Son of God,
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"that you may know thatyou have eternal life."
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But let me say, God bless you,and welcome to God's family.
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♪ This is the day
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♪ That day when life begins
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