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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2017.11.23</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Introduction </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I hope that each of you is having a good
day……. We<b> have so much to be Thankful for…. Family…. Friends….. health…… </b>When
things are good it´s pretty easy to be thankful….. <b>Today we´ve gathered here
to worship and thank the LORD for his goodness to us….</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Bible </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">is full of good solid advice
about what we should do…….. When we have good times and when we have bad
times…. We are told to give thanks…. To be thankful in all circumstances……1
Thess 5:16- 18….. Let´s remind ourselves of a verse that we all know very
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all
circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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5:16-18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">16 Seid immer
fröhlich.17 Hört nicht auf zu beten.18 Was immer auch geschieht, seid dankbar,
denn das ist Gottes Wille für euch, die ihr Christus Jesus gehört. </span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Verse 18 is clear….. in the greek it says…. All circumstances….. all
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Some of us who are here today are going thru very hard times……. Even for
believers …. Life sometimes doesn´t make sense……. We don´t understand what has
happened…… Will We find ourselves…… Why Lord? Where are you Lord? We can feel
totally abandoned by God…… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It´s
difficult…… We as believers are<b> sometimes very disappointed in the way the
LORD is handling our lives…. We suffer loss and doubt we lose loved ones….. or
we get cancer…… Give thanks for all things…… in everything…… How?</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Or can we be like Job of the OT…. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">After losing everything in this world….. He wept and he worshipped
saying……<b> The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name of
the LORD."</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">20 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to
the ground and worshiped.</span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">21 And he said: "Naked I came from my mother's womb, And naked
shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; Blessed be
the name of the LORD."</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">20 Da stand
Hiob auf und zerriß sein Gewand und schor sein Haupt; und er warf sich auf die
Erde nieder und betete an.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">21 Und er
sprach: Nackt bin ich aus dem Leib meiner Mutter gekommen; nackt werde ich
wieder dahingehen. Der Herr hat gegeben, der Herr hat genommen; der Name des
Herrn sei gelobt!</span></b></div>
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alledem sündigte Hiob nicht und verhielt sich nicht ungebührlich gegen Gott.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We are here in the Body of Christ so that we
can bear each others burdens….. We have His Word…. Which is full of His
promises and shows us over and over<b> His HESED….. His unfailing love….. We
have the work of the Holy Spirit in our hearts reminding us of all that He has
said in His Word….. reminding us of all that the Lord has already done for us……
Jesus…… said ….. </b>man ought always to pray and not give up…… But I know that
some of you want to give up…….. We´re hanging on to Jesus but we are losing our
grip…….<b> Jesus words ring down thru the centuries….. Don´t give up….. Don´t
lose heart……</b></span></div>
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ihnen aber auch ein Gleichnis, um ihnen zu zeigen, daß es nötig ist, allezeit
zu beten und nicht nachlässig zu werden;</span></b></div>
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the<b> first two Thanksgivings in America…….</b>But I want to tell you about
them this morning…. </span></div>
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their Christianity based only upon the Bible...... They went to Holland to live
in religious freedom….. But life was very hard there…….. They thought that the
Mennonites were too liberal with their children…… As time went on they asked the
King to allow them to go to America and found a colony……. </span></div>
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Christians…….. They were full of Deep and lasting faith…… They trusted and in
God´s mercy and unfailing love…… They kept their eyes on Jesus……… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They stood firmly on the word of God!!!</b></span></div>
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even agreed to finance the trip to America....... In July, 1620, Brewster led a
group of Separatists (Puritans) back to England……. After 3 years of planning
and preparations…… And many problems…..Then in September, 1620, they set sail
for America in the Mayflower..... </span></div>
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including women and children........ It was a very rough journey of 65 days…….They
had expected to land somewhere within the limits of the original grant of the
Virginia Company…….. but error in navigation led them to the New England
region......... Adverse winds and shoals off Cape Cod forced the Mayflower to
stay north......... They dropped anchor in what is now Provincetown Harbor,
Massachusetts on November 21, 1620.</span></div>
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were in an area without a charter....... They also knew they would need
discipline among themselves......The problem was that They were not all Christians....
the group that gave them the money and supplies to go to America wanted them to
take skilled adventurers along.....<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
solve these problems….. the 41 men aboard met and wrote and signed the
Mayflower Compact….. the first agreement for self-government in America...... </span></div>
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Compact was the birth of popular constitutional liberty...... In the cabin of
the Mayflower……. humanity proclaimed its rights and instituted government on
the basis of "just and equal laws for the general good……… all for the
glory of God…….. and the advancement of the Christian faith."</span></div>
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making safe harbor on the desolate shore of Cape Cod..... <b>"Fell upon
their knees and blessed ye God of heaven, who had brought them over ye vast and
furious ocean." </b></span></div>
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they thought of themselves as strangers and Pilgrims..... coming to a new land
of religious freedom and opportunity....</span></div>
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soon……They were forced to take refuge on an island in Plymouth Harbor during a
blinding snowstorm......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then on December 21 1620, they landed at Plymouth....... There they
found a stream with clear pure water...... They found some cleared land…… and a
high hill that could be fortified...... Cleared land.... but no
inhabitants.....The Puritans decided this would be their new home.......there
wasn´t time to build homes before winter...so they spent the winter on board
the Ship....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The first year in the new land was extremely difficult for the
Puritans...... Poor and inadequate food, strenuous work, and changeable weather
made the settlers susceptible to sickness...... ......<b>Bradford called these
times the dying times...... It was a terrible and difficult time….. so bad that
only three adult married women survived.....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The cold, snow and sleet was exceptionally heavy…. interfering with the
workers as they tried to construct their settlement...... March brought warmer
weather and the health of the Pilgrims improved……. but many had died during the
long winter........ Of the 110 Pilgrims and crew who left England, less that 50
survived the first winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Pilgrims’ daily existence was a life-or-death battle to overcome
constant hunger and sickness……. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Every meal was portioned out meticulously...... The number of dead men
and women rose steadily....... At one point only five men were well enough to
care for the sick......They were also sick..... each day the one who was the
least sick..... took care of the worst... and buried the Dead.......at sea.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite their very difficult lives..... the Pilgrims thanked the Lord
every day..... begging Him for help……..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">On an early spring Sunday morning in 1621...... during an ordinary
Sunday worship service.........an Indian walked into the little village and
introduced himself to the startled people as Samoset...... an Algonquin Indian
chief...... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Lord had sent proof that He had heard their prayers....... God had
sent help…. An Indian who spoke English!!.....<b> Samoset didn´t know much
English…… But he knew how to ask for something…… He first words were…… Do you
have beer….</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Samoset<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">was das about their hopeless situation and returned 2 weeks later with
another Indian<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>named <b>Squanto</b>........
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Pilgrims, who had warred with Indians before and lived with a
continuous fear of being attacked by them...... were astonished by their new
friends’ eagerness to provide much-needed assistance.....<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God had taught these two Indians to speak English.... and sent them to
help the Pilgrims..... </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Squanto told the Pilgrims of his voyages across the ocean and his visits
to England and Spain....... It was in England where he had learned English.....
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">God had prepared Squanto for a very special mission..... Just like
Joseph was sent to Egypt to save the Children of Israel.... Squanto was taken
to Europe twice as a slave…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did not
know that it was to prepare him to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">rescue
the Pilgrims</b>..... As a slave He was been separated from his entire family……
He suffered greatly…. And when he returned to his village …. It was empty
totally wiped out be disease….. But <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">finally
now he was beginning to understand God´s gracious hand at work</b>….. He had
become a believer….. He was now able to help…. The Pilgrims…. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Squanto's importance to the Pilgrims was enormous…. it can be said that
they would not have survived without his help....... It was Squanto who taught
the Pilgrims how to make maple syrup….. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He taught them which plants were poisonous and
which had medicinal powers...... He taught them how to plant the Indian corn by
heaping the earth into low mounds with several seeds and fish in each
mound...... The decaying fish fertilized the corn....... He also taught them to
plant other crops with the corn. .....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">These two Indians introduced the Puritans to Massasoit……. the chief of
the Wampanoag tribe that controlled all southeastern Massachusetts at that
time......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Governor Carver and the chief exchanged gifts and arranged a treaty of
peace..... Shortly afterward, the Mayflower and its crew sailed back to
England…….. leaving the Puritans on their own……….. Then Governor Carver died,
and William Bradford became governor of the colony……</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That summer of 1621 was beautiful……. Much work went into the building of
new dwellings…… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and that fall's harvest provided more than
enough corn to see them through their second winter…….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The pilgrims were brimming over with gratitude…… not only to Squanto and
the Wampanoags who had been so friendly…… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">but
to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God…….. In Him they had trusted…… and He had
honored their obedience beyond their dreams……. </b>So, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Governor Bradford declared a day of public Thanksgiving</b>, to be held
in October……</span></div>
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feed such a crowd would cut deeply into the food supply that was supposed to
get them through the winter…….</span></div>
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circumstances….</b></span></div>
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even in the hard times…… As it turned out, the Indians were not arriving
empty-handed…… Massasoit had commanded his braves to hunt for the occasion……
and they arrived with no less than five dressed deer….. and more than a dozen
fat wild turkeys! And they helped cook too….. teaching the Pilgrim women how to
make hoecakes and a delicious pudding out of cornmeal and maple syrup......... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Finally, the Indians showed the Pilgrims a special delicacy: how to
roast corn kernels in an earthen pot until they popped, fluffy and white - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">POPCORN!........</b></span></div>
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Indians had dried and introduced them to the likes of blueberry, apple, and
cherry pie.........</span></div>
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joyous occasion for all! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Between meals, the pilgrims and Indians happily competed in shooting
contests with gun and bow...... The Indians were especially delighted that John
Alden and some of the younger men of the plantation were eager to join them in
foot races and wrestling....... There were even military drills staged by
Captain Standish.......</span></div>
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Thanksgiving Day was extended for three days..........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">One month later……. in November……. a full year after their arrival……. the
first ship from home dropped anchor in the harbor bringing thirty-five more
colonists……. In the air of celebration that followed……. no one stopped to think
that these newcomers had brought nothing with them….. not one bit of equipment
with them-no food, no clothing, no tools, no bedding........</span></div>
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going to use up their food…….. and a grim decision was reached…… they would all
have to go on half-rations through the winter……. to ensure enough food to see
them into the summer season, when fish and game would be plentiful.........</span></div>
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reduced to a daily ration of Five Kernels of corn a piece........</span></b></div>
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to despair...... the people of Plymouth turned to Christ…….. and not one of
them died of starvation.......</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When spring finally arrived (1623), They were well aware that they
needed at least twice as much corn as their first harvest……. The first planting
would be for common use while the second planting would be for private use…….</span></div>
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week drought…… The crops withered - along with the hopes of the pilgrims......</span></div>
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himself was their only hope….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the next morning distilled
such soft, sweet, and moderate showers of rain, continuing some fourteen days
[!] and mixed with such seasonable weather, as it was hard to say whether our
withered corn or drooping affections were most quickened or revived, such was
the bounty and goodness of our God!" .......</span></div>
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surplus of corn....... which they were able to use in trading that winter with
northern Indians…. who had not had a good growing season......</span></div>
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was again the guest of honor…… and this time he brought his principal wife……
three other sachems( Indian chiefs) and 120 braves!..... Fortunately he again
brought venison and turkey, as well........</span></div>
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in a letter to his brother:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had about twelve tasty
venisons…… besides others, pieces of roasted venison and other such good cheer
in such quantities that I wish you some of our share....... For here we have
the best grapes that ever you saw, and the biggest, and divers sorts of plums
and nuts ... six goats, about fifty hogs and pigs, also divers hens ... A
better country was never seen nor heard of……. for here are a multitude of God's
blessing." ........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What Altham neglected to mention was the first course that was served…….
on an <b>empty plate in front of each person were five kernels of corn </b>...
lest anyone should forget.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Pilgrims’ humble response to their affliction is evidenced by their
many writings which expressed deeply thankful hearts...... <b>We can learn
countless lessons about sincere thankfulness from their example......</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I Thes. 5:16-18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">16 Always be joyful. 17 Never stop praying. 18 Be thankful in all
circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">I Thes.
5:16-18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">16 Seid immer
fröhlich.17 Hört nicht auf zu beten.18 Was immer auch geschieht, seid dankbar,
denn das ist Gottes Wille für euch, die ihr Christus Jesus gehört. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1) Being thankful in all circumstances……. motivates us to look for His
purpose……. We look to the LORD when we have bad times…..</span></b></div>
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times….. It affects every area of our lives......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When we consider the Pilgrims’ story, we can see God’s hand directing
their course all the way from England to the New World. We can see how He
strengthened them and enabled them to settle a new land. If we’re perceptive
and truly thankful we can see His guiding hand shaping our own lives in the
same manner.......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It changes our attitude toward life. When the Pilgrims thanked the Lord
regardless of their destitution and entreated Him to supply their needs, they
were able to respond positively to daunting situations and overcome great
obstacles. When we thank Him for everything, big and small, we begin to realize
that there is nothing we possess that we have not been given.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When the Pilgrims set sail for America, they couldn’t see the new land.
They had to trust The Mayflower’s compass implicitly...... Likewise, when they
arrived at Plymouth Rock they had no foreknowledge of what would sustain their
lives from then on...... They had to trust God for everything from food and
shelter to a secure future for their families..... When we’re thankful for His
constant provision, trusting Him with our lives becomes easier......</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>15 All of this is for your
benefit. And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great
thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">16 That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our
spirits are being renewed every day. 17 For our present troubles are small and
won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs
them and will last forever! 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now;
rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see
now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">2 Cor.
4:15-18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">15 Das alles
ist zu eurem Besten. Und wenn Gottes Gnade immer mehr Menschen zu Christus
führt, wird auch der Chor derer, die ihm danken, immer lauter, und Gott wird
immer mehr Ehre erwiesen. </span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">16 Deshalb
geben wir nie auf. Unser Körper mag sterben, doch unser Geist wird jeden Tag
erneuert.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">17 Denn
unsere jetzigen Sorgen und Schwierigkeiten sind nur gering und von kurzer
Dauer, doch sie bewirken in uns eine unermesslich große Herrlichkeit, die ewig
andauern wird!</span></b></div>
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wir nicht auf das Schwere fixiert, das wir jetzt sehen, sondern blicken nach
vorn auf das, was wir noch nicht gesehen haben. Denn die Sorgen, die wir jetzt
vor uns sehen, werden bald vorüber sein, aber die Freude, die wir noch nicht
gesehen haben, wird ewig dauern.</span></b></div>
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I am ready to give up.....but time and again.....sometimes at the last
minute......God steps in to our circumstances and pours grace out on our
lives......He often uses the believers to bless and care for each other.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">v17.....For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long.....<b>glory
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fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon
be gone,<b> but the things we cannot see will last forever.......</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Pilgrims lived out these verses in a real living trial of death and
loss.....Like Joseph In Egypt….. God sent a special servant to them Squanto....
Thru him….. God showed them <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His grace
and Mercy....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">God demonstrated His <b>CHESED</b>..... His unfailing love....time and
again.... He does the same for us too.....The question is do we see it..... We
have to pray and not lose heart……. When we hang on to Jesus in the hard
times……. He helps us thru them…. And He prepares <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">us</b> for service…….. Strengthening us and teaching us….. and
comforting us…… Deut 8….. 2 Cor 1……<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Pilgrims had many reasons to fear for their lives...... <b><u>Thanking
God in good times and in bad times……. helped them to celebrate His faithfulness
to them…</u></b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He filled their hearts with peace.... the peace that passes understanding....
turn with me to Philippians 4……</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God
what you need, and thank him for all he has done.</span></b></div>
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6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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um nichts, sondern betet um alles. Sagt Gott, was ihr braucht, und dankt ihm.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We must learn to thank God for all that He has done for us…… even when
we don´t understand what is happening….. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">By teaching our children to have
grateful hearts…… we can prepare them to respond in faith and trust in the
middle of life’s trials…… instead of fear and anger…….</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When we focus our attention on God’s provision for us........ His
blessing and protection..... We begin to see the world through Jesus´ eyes….........
It helps us to accept whatever the LORD puts into our lives........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thanksgiving — the word only has meaning when we can attach it to
behavior demonstrated in real life...... The Pilgrims gave us their blessed
holiday so we could remember how God answered their prayers with rich
abundance...... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But we can experience
the benefits of true thankfulness for ourselves as we trust in God´s unfailing
love and mercy….. no matter what happens in our lives….......</b> When we
meditate on God’s wondrous provision for us..... We can be thankful…… It is He who
gives us every breath......</span></div>
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throughout life, we can……. like the Pilgrims, be thankful for even the most
simple things......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The great King David knew hard times…..and he knew the sorrows of sin
and rebellion….. He cried out to God in his need…….. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And the Lord rescued him time and again…..</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he
is good!</span></b></div>
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enemies.</span></b></div>
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lands, from east and west, from north and south.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4 Some wandered in the
wilderness, lost and homeless.</span></b></div>
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for them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Ps 107<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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Dankt dem Herrn, denn er ist gut und seine Gnade bleibt ewig bestehen.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">2 Alle sollen es bezeugen, die der Herr
gerettet hat, die er aus der Hand ihrer Feinde befreit hat.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">3 Er hat sie aus vielen Ländern gesammelt,
aus Ost und West, aus Nord und Süd.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">4 Manche irrten auf einsamem Weg durch die
Wüste und sie fanden keine Stadt, in der sie wohnen konnten.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">5 Sie waren hungrig und durstig und wären
beinahe gestorben.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">6 Da schrien sie zum Herrn in ihrer Not und
er rettete sie aus ihrer Verzweiflung.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">7 Er führte sie den richtigen Weg, sodass sie
in eine Stadt kamen, in der sie wohnen konnten.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">8 Sie sollen dem Herrn für seine Gnade danken
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1 knowing the Lord Jesus as LORD
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2 knowing the Word of God..... He
always keeps His promises….</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3 Hiding His word in our hearts……</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All true happiness is based on
the knowledge and application of the Word of God</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">..... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to our lives</b>…… It has
nothing to do with our circumstances…….. circumstances change……… The Lord our
God does not change…… he is always faithful……. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We need to make a greater effort than we ever have before........ to be
consistent in our <b>learning of the Word of God....... in our reading of the
Word of God...... and in our application of the Word of God to our own
lives....... It will help us thru the worst of times….as we remember all that
the LORD has already done for us…… </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We´ve been forgiven….. We ´ve been transferred into His kingdom….</span></b></div>
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and true contentment in this life..... we must learn to be thankful in all
things..... trusting God to take care of us..... to help us........ and to
bring all things together for our good and His Glory......</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Galatians 6:1- 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1 Dear brothers and sisters, if
another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and
humbly help that person back onto the right path. And be careful not to fall
into the same temptation yourself. 2 Share each other’s burdens, and in this
way obey the law of Christ. 3 If you think you are too important to help
someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4 Pay careful attention to your
own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you
won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. 5 For we are each responsible
for our own conduct.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6 Those who are taught the word
of God should provide for their teachers, sharing all good things with them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7 Don’t be misled—you cannot mock
the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8 Those who live
only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that
sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting
life from the Spirit. 9 So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just
the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. 10
Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to
everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">Galatians 6:1 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b><span lang="DE"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">1 Liebe Freunde1, wenn ein Mensch einer Sünde
erlegen ist, dann solltet ihr, deren Leben vom Geist Gottes bestimmt ist,
diesem Menschen liebevoll und in aller Demut helfen, wieder auf den rechten Weg
zurückzufinden. Und pass auf, dass du nicht in dieselbe Gefahr gerätst.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">2 Helft euch gegenseitig bei euren
Schwierigkeiten und Problemen, so erfüllt ihr das Gesetz, das wir von Christus
haben.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">3 Wer sich für wichtiger hält als die
anderen, betrügt sich selbst.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">4 Jeder achte genau auf sein eigenes Leben
und Handeln, ohne sich mit anderen zu vergleichen.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">5 Schließlich ist jeder für sein eigenes
Verhalten verantwortlich.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">6 Wenn ihr Lehrer habt, die euch das Wort
Gottes lehren, dann solltet ihr sie darin unterstützen, indem ihr sie bezahlt.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">7 Täuscht euch nicht! Macht euch klar, dass
ihr Gott nicht einfach missachten könnt, ohne die Folgen zu tragen.2 Denn was
ein Mensch sät, wird er auch ernten.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">8 Wer nur nach seinen sündigen Neigungen
lebt, wird sich damit selbst zu Grunde richten und schließlich den Tod ernten.
Aber wer lebt, um dem Geist zu gefallen, wird vom Geist das ewige Leben
erhalten.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">9 Deshalb werdet nicht müde zu tun, was gut
ist. Lasst euch nicht entmutigen und gebt nie auf, denn zur gegebenen Zeit
werden wir auch den entsprechenden Segen ernten.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">10 Lasst uns jede Gelegenheit nutzen, allen
Menschen Gutes zu tun, besonders aber unseren Brüdern und Schwestern im
Glauben.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1 Cor 11:23- 26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT</span></b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">23 For I pass on to you what I
received from the Lord himself. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord
Jesus took some bread 24 and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in
pieces and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember
me.” 25 In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, “This
cup is the new covenant between God and his people—an agreement confirmed with
my blood. Do this to remember me as often as you drink it.” 26 For every time
you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death
until he comes again.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">1 Cor 11:23- 26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">23 Das Folgende hat der Herr selbst gesagt,
und ich gebe es euch so weiter, wie ich es empfangen habe: In der Nacht, als er
verraten wurde, nahm Jesus, der Herr, einen Laib Brot,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">24 und nachdem er Dank gesagt hatte, brach er
ihn und sprach: »Das ist mein Leib, der für euch hingegeben wird6. Tut das zur
Erinnerung an mich.«</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">25 Ebenso nahm er nach dem Abendmahl den
Weinkelch und sprach: »Dieser Kelch ist der neue Bund zwischen Gott und euch,
besiegelt durch mein Blut. Wann immer ihr daraus trinkt, tut es zur Erinnerung
an mich.«</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt;">26 Denn jedes Mal, wenn ihr dieses Brot esst
und aus diesem Kelch trinkt, verkündet ihr den Tod des Herrn, bis er
wiederkommt.</span></b><span lang="DE"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.10.29<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romans and Ephesians</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 500th Anniversary of the
Reformation</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Practical Theology and the Five Solas</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus as we study the Word of God…
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
continues to Transform hearts and minds… by the Power of His Holy Spirit
working in and through the Word of God… </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are going to hit pause in our teaching through the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Gospel of John… This morning we are going
to Celebrate the life and ministry of Martin Luther… It is the 500<sup>th</sup>
Anniversary </b>of the day that<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Martin
Luther </b>put his famous <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">95 theses </b>on
the church door in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Wittenburg Germany… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Martin
Luther loved the Word of God… He understood the life changing… Transforming Power
of the Gospel…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
transforming power </b>of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Word of
God </b>is the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> real reason </b>that we
are<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Celebrating the 500<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of the Reformation… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Luther
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">was
certain that<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> The Word of God </b>can and
will<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> transform the hearts and lives of
all people… Just as it had transformed him… Luther </b>spent his life trying to
be good… He was dedicated to being the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
best monk that ever lived… He fasted and beat himself bloody in his attempt to
drive sin out of his heart and mind… </b>Even after He became a monk and a
priest… He had never studied the Bible itself… He did not know that it was
possible to study all four of the Gospels… He was filled with doubts and was uncertain
of his salvation… The head monk recognized his need and his genius… Brother Von
Staupitz told him that he <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">must</b> study
the Bible and teach… He had already studied law… Brother Von Staupitz sent
Luther back to University to become a professor of Bible... He told him that he
would never find peace until he studied and taught the bible… In 1507 Luther
was ordained as a priest in Erfurt… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he
started studying Theology at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">University
of Erfurt</b>… He came into contact with the ideas of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Humanists</b>… They taught that everything must be questioned…. They
insisted that they must go back to the original materials where ever possible… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To the sources! Was their cry… </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For Luther this meant the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">study of the Bible in its original Hebrew and Greek... One famous
humanist had recently translated the Greek New testament… This became Luther´s
passion… </b>He mastered greek and Hebrew… He studied night and day this new
and wonderful material…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He received his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Doctorate
in Theology in 1512… Luther immediately took a position as Theology Professor
at the Wittenberg University… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He taught the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalms
for two years… 1514-15… Then he taught Romans… Galatians and the Hebrews…
1516-18… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He classes were filled with thrilled Students… They were
amazed at the clear teaching of the Word of God… They wrote down almost every
word that came out of his mouth because they had never heard such wonderful
teaching… Luther was a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Calvary type
preacher</b>… He taught the Bible verse by verse… But he did something
different at the same time… He translated every verse from the Greek as he
prepared to teach… That fresh clear translation and explanation of the text… Was
alive to him and his students… And Luther immersed himself in the Word… He
memorized the Psalms and Romans and… Well basically almost all of the NT and
much of the OT as well… The Word of God did it´s work on him… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Luther himself found himself <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">transformed and born again by the Holy Spirit…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Holy Spirit</b> working in and through
the Word of God… He said that he finally understood <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Salvation and God´s Grace</b> as he studied <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans</b>… He said that the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good
News</b> he found in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 1</b> was
the light that burst into his life…. Look with me at it… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 1… v16,17</b>…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Romans
1: 16,17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues
Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">16
For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at
work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile. 17 This
Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished
from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that
a righteous person has life.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">In v17… Paul quotes Hab
2:4… </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The just shall live by
faith!</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the GOOD News…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Luther said that every <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christian</b> needs to study and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">memorize
the Book of Romans</b>…. Because it is the purest and clearest explanation of
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good news of the Gospel…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luther</b> tried with all of his ability to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">please God and win his Salvation</b>… He
could not…. He even went so far as to say that he was the best monk who ever
lived… Yet it was worthless and pointless… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like Luther…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We
cannot earn our Salvation</b>… The law shows us our sin and hopelessness… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 3:20 and Romans ch7…</b> The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News</b> is that we have been <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">redeemed by the death and resurrection of
the Lord Jesus Christ… </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul wrote to
the Ephesians… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We are saved by grace
through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ… Eph 2: 8,9…</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Through the writings of Martin Luther… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God</b> Became Clear and
understandable to an entire generation… He and the other reformers… Began a
Reformation that shook the World… It all started with gathering and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">translation of the Greek New Testament</b>…
The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God</b> was once again
shining brightly… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
would like for us to examine Luther´s teachings by looking at His famous five
sola statements…. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><img height="289" src="file:///C:\Users\RONHOS~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg" width="574" /></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sola
Scriptura: The Scripture Alone is the Standard</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The foundation of the Reformation... Is the Great truth
that the Bible alone is the ultimate authority for life and practice… What we
do and how we live… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Solas are rooted and grounded in this book…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1521 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Luther was
called to the Diet of Worms</b>… He was commanded to renounce all that He had written…
He refused… Even though He believed it would cost him his life… He expected to
be tortured and ultimately die for standing against the Pope… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He declared his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">conscience
to be captive to the Word of God…</b> He said…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
consider myself convicted by the testimony of Holy Scripture, which is my
basis; my conscience is captive to the Word of God. Thus I cannot and will not
recant, because acting against one's conscience is neither safe nor sound. Here
I stand. I see no other way. God help me. Amen.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">“Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Luther was determined to stay faithful to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God…</b> He knew it´s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">life transforming power</b>… Paul did too… look
with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Tim. 3:14-17</b>…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
Timothy 3: 14-17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">14
But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they
are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you. 15 You have been
taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom
to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus. 16 All
Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make
us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and
teaches us to do what is right. 17 God uses it to prepare and equip his people
to do every good work.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have often talked about these verses…. Luther applied
them every day to his own very dangerous circumstances… Luther said that he
wanted every disciple to be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a true
Theologian</b>…. Using the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God</b>
as a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">mirror </b>to show us our hearts..
To Correct us… And to equip us to do the work of the Ministry… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>let´s look at the next<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Sola… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soli
Deo Gloria! For the Glory of God Alone</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our lives are to be lived for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory of God</b>… The Bible teaches this over and over… Luther wrote
Catechisms to teach believers… He was determined to teach and disciple the
people… Even if they could not read…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
would learn the Catechism´s Q and A´s by heart… These contain solid Biblical
Theology… Essential<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>truths for every
believer… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A Catechism asks questions… Then the answer follows… Here
is an example from the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Westminster
Shorter Catechism… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"What is the
chief end of man? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him
forever." </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To Glorify and enjoy God forever… This great purpose was
emphasized by Luther… He sought to reform the church according to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God...</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reformers understood that all of life is to
be lived under the Lordship of Christ... Every activity of the Christian is to
be dedicated to the glory of God… Look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1Peter 4: 11… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Peter 4: 10,11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT
Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">10
God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use
them well to serve one another. 11 Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak
as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of
helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then
everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and
power to him forever and ever! Amen. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When we look at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Jesus </b>we see the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> perfect reflection </b>of
our<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Heavenly Father… Jesus has redeemed
us with His own Precious sacrifice… He is our Savior… Amen… </b>Let´s look at
the next<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Sola… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Solus
Christos! By Christ's Work Alone are We Saved</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Luther and the other reformers called the church back to
faith in Christ… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is clear in the
scriptures that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus </b>is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sole
Mediator between God and man... </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is our Savoir and Redeemer… We do not look
to saints or Mary or to the church… We look to Christ alone…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As the Scripture says,</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Timothy 2: 5,6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5
For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ
Jesus, 6 who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">5 Denn es ist ein Gott und ein Mittler zwischen Gott und
den Menschen, der Mensch Christus Jesus, 6 der sich selbst als Lösegeld für
alle gegeben hat. [Das ist] das Zeugnis zur rechten Zeit,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God</b> and
one <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mediator</b> between man and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God</b>… Look at Col 1…v13,14… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Colossians
1: 13,14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">13
He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom
of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus Christ
alone… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>We have redemption through<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> His blood, the forgiveness of sins…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>That fact that<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus died in our place… That <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He died to redeem us… </b>That is the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> perfect picture </b>of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> unfailing love and Grace of God… </b>let´s
look at the next<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Sola… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sola
Gratia: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our Salvation is by Grace Alone</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Martin
Luther</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> experienced God´s grace as he studied the Word of God…He
finally understood God´s gracious plan of redemption… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He discovered that our righteous standing
before God…. It not something that we can earn…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is given to us by grace… As we
repent of our sins… And trust in the redeeming work of Christ Jesus our Lord…
He saw this clearly in Romans and Galatians and Ephesians… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look with me at Ephesians ch1… v 3-8…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ephesians
1: 3-6 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with
Christ. 4 Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to
be holy and without fault in his eyes. 5 God decided in advance to adopt us
into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is
what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. 6 So we praise God for
the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Jesus redeemed us… He brought Great Glory for
Himself and for the Father… God Delights to show mercy… To Pour out His grace
on us… Let´s also look at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Eph Ch 2… v1-10…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ephesians
2: 1-10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. 2 You used
to live in sin, just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil—the
commander of the powers in the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in the
hearts of those who refuse to obey God. 3 All of us used to live that way,
following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. By our
very nature we were subject to God’s anger, just like everyone else. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5 that even though we
were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the
dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!) 6 For he raised us
from the dead along with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms
because we are united with Christ Jesus. 7 So God can point to us in all future
ages as examples of the incredible wealth of his grace and kindness toward us,
as shown in all he has done for us who are united with Christ Jesus. 8 God
saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this;
it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have
done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has
created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us
long ago.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here we see the big picture…. The awesome plan of
redemption unfolding… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v1… we were dead
in sin… </b>Hopelessly lost…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> v4… But
God… He revealed His plan of redemption…. He gave us life through His son… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v8…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit
for this; it is a gift from God. </b>We are<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
saved by Grace </b>through faith… It is all grace…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This text leads us wonderfully to our<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Final Sola… </b>Because it clearly shows the connection between <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Grace and faith…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sola
Fide: Justification by Faith Alone</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Central
Principle of the Reformation is Justification by Faith alone… Faith which works…
works by love… Galatians 5:6….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at Gal 3… v6-11… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Galatians
3: 6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Neues Leben<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6 In
the same way, “Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous because
of his faith.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Paul
is quoting Genesis 15:6…. And pointing to Habakuk as well… The Just shall live
by faith…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martin Luther often talked
about the difference between <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Law and
The Gospel…</b> It is a subject on which he still has important things to say
to the entire church… The distinction between The law and The Good News of the
Gospel is a very practical matter… It is about knowing and loving God… and
living in this world as genuine believers… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was
determined to truly disciple the people… He said that He wanted the Word of God
to be 1 Available to them in their language 2 Afforadble enough to be in their
hands… 3 Hidden deep In their hearts… Just a David so often prayed in the
Psalms… So that they understand the Christian life… He said living in the world
with it´s trials and temptations… And at the same time walking in the grace of
Salvation…. Is like walking between Heaven and Earth… We are not yet in Heaven…
But we no longer belong to this world… Our eyes are fixed on our certain
Redemption… It affects everything we do on this earth…. That is True practical theology…
And that is all Grace…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five Solas…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Amen… Let´s pray… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This morning we are going to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">celebrate Communion</b> together… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God´s</b>
people have been doing this for almost 2000 years… Since the night that Jesus
celebrated the Passover with His disciples for the last time… Why do we
celebrate His death and resurrection like this? It reminds us of Jesus´
promises to us… He will come again…. Then we will be with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Him</b> forever… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Promise of
Communion</b> with Him Forever is sealed by the death and resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Promise
of Communion</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Our sorrow is turned into Joy…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 He
is finishing the work that He has begun in us…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
The Lord will come again and take to Himself Forever…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Communion</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Danger
caution!!!! We want to once again welcome all of our guests and visitors this
morning…. We are very glad that you are here…. We are going to celebrate
communion this morning as a church family…. If you have given your heart to
Jesus… And if you are willing to let the Lord Jesus search your heart…. And
willing to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Confess any sin that is in
your life…. You are welcome to participate with us…. In 1 Corinthians… Paul
exhorts us….</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Examine
your hearts… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That is what we need to do this morning as we
prepare to take<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> communion together… </b>The
worship team will come forward and as they lead us to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">throne of grace…. Let´s examine our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>hearts…. </b>The elements will be passed out…. Please hold them and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> we will take communion together when I
come back up here… Song…. </b></span></div>
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our hands<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a reminder that we have been
redeemed…. And that we belong to each other…. We are members of another… Jesus
has saved us and made us one family in Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Corinthians 11: 23-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">23
For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night when
he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread 24 and gave thanks to God for
it. Then he broke it in pieces and said, “This is my body, which is given for
you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, he took the cup of wine
after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his
people—an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this in remembrance of me as
often as you drink it.” 26 For every time you eat this bread and drink this
cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes again.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">1 Corinthians 11: 23-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">23 Das Folgende hat der Herr selbst gesagt, und ich gebe
es euch so weiter, wie ich es empfangen habe: In der Nacht, als er verraten
wurde, nahm Jesus, der Herr, einen Laib Brot,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">24 und nachdem er Dank gesagt hatte, brach er ihn und
sprach: »Das ist mein Leib, der für euch hingegeben wird. Tut das zur
Erinnerung an mich.«</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">25 Ebenso nahm er nach dem Abendmahl den Weinkelch und
sprach: »Dieser Kelch ist der neue Bund zwischen Gott und euch, besiegelt durch
mein Blut. Wann immer ihr daraus trinkt, tut es zur Erinnerung an mich.«</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">26 Denn jedes Mal, wenn ihr dieses Brot esst und aus
diesem Kelch trinkt, verkündet ihr den Tod des Herrn, bis er wiederkommt.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Let´s pray…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.09.24<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 16: 16-22</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your Joy will no one take away</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good
Morning…. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am glad to be with you this morning… I have<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Good News for You! His name is Jesus… </b>We
are on a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> great adventure… We are Experiencing
the Life and ministry </b>of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Lord Jesus…
Jesus continues to Transform hearts and minds… by the Power of His Holy Spirit
working in and through the Word of God… We are studying a very important section
of the Word of God… The last two sermons in John 16… Have been about the
Ministry of the Holy Spirit… </b>The disciples are<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> freaking out… Jesus </b>has said that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He is going to die… He is comforting them and preparing them…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God
is the God of all comfort… 2 Cor 1: 3-5… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Just
like the Father… It is Jesus desire and purpose to comfort His own… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And when He told the disciples that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was going… He promised to send the Holy
Spirit </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">who is the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Comforter… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is the God of all comfort…
Now in the church age…. the Holy Spirit is The Comforter…. and The Lord Jesus Christ
is our sympathetic, compassionate High Priest</b>… Sometimes we see this<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>clearly in the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Gospel </b>record…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Like
when we<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> study the life of Christ here in
John… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the case in our text this
morning… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>starting in John 16:16… We see
our sympathetic… compassionate High Priest… Jesus… He is the One who carries
our burdens and our understands our weaknesses… He is the One who comforts us… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He </b>gives us<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> His peace… And He Himself… </b>Becomes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">our joy and rejoicing… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is
His passionate desire to replace our fear and sorrow with His comfort and joy…
The Lord Jesus </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">seeks the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
comfort and joy of His people</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
is what flows out of this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">wonderful
section</b>… The disciples are suffering…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
And so He is offering </b>them the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ultimate
Hope… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Hope of the Resurrection… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We
all need hope…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Feelings of Hopelessness </b>add
greatly to any time of suffering…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> And we
all suffer </b>sometimes... We<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> all
experience disappointment and sorrow… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Often <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">life is just
not turning out </b>like we<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> hoped… Well
the disciples could hardly imagine a more desperate time... </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After
3 plus years of following Jesus…. He says that He is going </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and
they cannot follow… They are as<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>close
to<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> hopelessness </b>as one could be…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Everything they hoped for and believed is
hanging in the balance… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They are<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
struggling to comprehend it all… As they see only loss and sorrow…. Jesus
continues to comfort them and offer them Hope… </b>Let´s read our text for this
morning… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
16: 16-22<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">16
“A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you
will see Me, because I go to the Father.” 17 Then some of His disciples said
among themselves, “What is this that He says to us, ‘A little while, and you
will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’; and, ‘because
I go to the Father’?” 18 They said therefore, “What is this that He says, ‘A
little while’? We do not know what He is saying.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">19
Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, “Are you
inquiring among yourselves about what I said, ‘A little while, and you will not
see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me’? 20 Most assuredly, I
say to you that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you
will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 21 A woman, when
she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has
given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a
human being has been born into the world. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">22
Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will
rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v16,17…
A little while, and you will not see Me… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was finally
sinking in that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus </b>was going to<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> die soon…. </b>But the disciples still didn’t
quite understand that the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">arrest of
Jesus </b>was only an hour or two away… and then the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> very next day… He will be crucified… Yet because He <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>goes to the Father… they will see Him again… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will rise from the dead… This was a puzzle
for them… Death is to permanent</b> for them to really understand…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They were filled with<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
sorrow </b>to hear<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus </b>talk about
his death… They could not stand the thought of being left alone…. That is
exactly why <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> is spending so
much of this last night comforting and encouraging them… And That is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">why</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He promised the Holy Spirit</b>… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He
knew that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>between His death on the
cross… And His miraculous resurrection… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The disciples world would
fall apart… Their<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> faith </b>would be<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> shaken to the core…. </b>I am sure that
they said to themselves… Maybe it was<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
all an illusion… When they could no longer see him with their eyes… Their spiritual
vision was temporarily blinded… </b>They were so used to walking and talking
with Jesus… They spent three years watching<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Jesus… Now He says that he is going away… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Naturally
their hearts are filled with sorrow… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today… There is special and profound blessing for those
of us who<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> see Jesus with our ears… We
see Jesus </b>with the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> eyes of faith…
Jesus comes alive as we study this Book… </b>One of the disciples… Thomas said
after the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> resurrection… </b>That he
would not believe unless he<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> saw Jesus </b>like
the other<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> disciples</b>…. Look with me
at what<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus said to him… John 20… v… 29…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
20: 29<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">29
Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed.
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even though<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> we
have never seen Jesus with our eyes… </b>We have<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> seen Jesus with our ears as we have heard the Good News of the Gospel
proclaimed… And as we study the Word of God… The Holy Spirit uses it to
persuade us of our sin and pride… To bring us to repentance and to transform
our hearts and minds… 2 Tim 3:15-17…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Back
to John 16… v18…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v18…
They said therefore… We do not know what He is saying… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[they said] (elegon)… Can be translated… `They
kept asking`</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> They were asking each other… Whatttt?</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What does he mean… I don´t
get it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>scroll down to v19…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v19… Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They
were embarrassed to ask again<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… What do
you mean? </b>Now we see you and now we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">don´t…
</b>Is this<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> hide and seek? We don´t get
it… Jesus words did not fit with their belief that He </b>would now take the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Kingdom from the Romans… </b>Instead they
faced a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> crisis of unbelief…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">understood
that<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> they needed their hearts and minds
prepared to endure the coming crisis… He </b>has been preparing them for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">shattering reality of His death on the
cross…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v20…
You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">knew they would be plunged into
deep and dark sorrow in the next few hours... </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Filled
with Sorrow</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 Sorrow
at the loss of relationship </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
Sorrow at the humiliation of their Master and Messiah </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
Sorrow at the seeming victory of His enemies </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
Sorrow because all they hoped for was taken away </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They will see the cross as failure and tragedy… But The<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> cross </b>was<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> not a tragedy… </b>It was<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> not
an obstacle to overcome… </b>It was<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
God´s plan of redemption from the beginning… That Jesus would suffer in our
place… That He would pay for our sins… And He then give us His Righteousness…
His right standing with God… He knew that their deep sorrow would be
transformed…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
knew that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God would… Because of His
grace and unfailing love… turn their deep sorrow </b>into<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> wonderful joy... He knew that He would rise from the dead in victory…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God’s
plan was not to give joy instead of sorrow… God does not prevent pain and
sorrow in the lives of Believers… That is not what the Bible teaches…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But to heal and transform their real sorrow…
into a deep and lasting JOY… Joy that no one can take away…. Because it is
deep… And rooted in God´s wonderful Redeemer… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He
often does this in our lives… Childbirth is a great example… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sorrow of watching Jesus
suffer and die…. Will be directly connected to their coming joy<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> in the Resurrection… </b>Just like the
sorrow of a woman in childbirth… Is directly connected to her<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> joy that her child has been born… </b>That
is the example that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus uses here… Moms</b>
I know that you can <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">relate</b>…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> scroll down to v21and 22…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v21…
A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as
soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish,
for joy that a human being has been born into the world…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What a perfect picture of pain and sorrow turning to joy
in an instant… What heavenly joy floods the heart of a mother at the birth of
her child… now comes Jesus´ promise… v22… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v22a…
I will see you again and your heart will rejoice… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When
we really<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> see Jesus for who He is…. </b>Our
hearts do rejoice…. Our <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hearts leap for
Joy at knowing that our sins are forgiven… Jesus is promising His resurrection </b>in
this verse…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> He is </b>telling them<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>that their <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sorrow is only temporary</b>… That is always true for genuine
believers… When it is all said and done… </span></div>
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is guaranteed and sealed by Jesus Himself</b>… The presence of the Holy Spirit in
us is like a certificate of authenticity… Proof that we are genuine believers… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His work in our hearts</b> means that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> has begun the process of transforming
us…. And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b> promised to finish what
he has begun in us…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phil 1: 6…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The terrible temporary pain of their loss is nothing when
compared to their joy-filled testimony after the resurrection... It was
testimony so sure that they shook the world… And most of them endured death for
Jesus sake… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v22b…
</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Your
joy no one will take from you…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is a wonderful verse to
begin and</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">end
our study this morning…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> God is
Sovereign…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> God is
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beginning…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus </b>said to the disciples
who were about to lose <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Him in death… And
then get him back at His Resurrection… v22…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">22… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you have sorrow now, but I will see you again,
and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No
one will ever take your joy away… The Joy that Jesus gave us at the
Resurrection is invincible… His joy is Eternal… When we have God as our
exceeding Great joy… He will see us through every disaster in our lives… As I
said… Jesus has promised to continue the work that he has begun in us… He
cannot fail… to redeem us and take us to Himself forever…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This morning we are going to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">celebrate Communion</b> together… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God´s</b>
people have been doing this for almost 2000 years… Since the night that Jesus
celebrated the Passover with His disciples for the last time… Why do we
celebrate His death and resurrection like this? It reminds us of Jesus´
promises to us… He will come again…. Then we will be with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Him</b> forever… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Promise of
Communion</b> with Him Forever is sealed by the death and resurrection of the
Lord Jesus Christ</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Promise
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 He
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3 The
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Communion</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Danger
caution!!!! We want to once again welcome all of our guests and visitors this
morning…. We are very glad that you are here…. We are going to celebrate
communion this morning as a church family…. If you have given your heart to
Jesus… And if you are willing to let the Lord Jesus search your heart…. And
willing to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Confess any sin that is in
your life…. You are welcome to participate with us…. In 1 Corinthians… Paul
exhorts us….</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Examine
your hearts… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That is what we need to do this morning as we
prepare to take<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> communion together… </b>The
worship team will come forward and as they lead us to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">throne of grace…. Let´s examine our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>hearts…. </b>The elements will be passed out…. Please hold them and<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> we will take communion together when I
come back up here… Song…. </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Communion
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our hands<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a reminder that we have been
redeemed…. And that we belong to each other…. We are members of another… Jesus
has saved us and made us one family in Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">23
For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night when
he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread 24 and gave thanks to God for
it. Then he broke it in pieces and said, “This is my body, which is given for
you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, he took the cup of wine
after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his
people—an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this in remembrance of me as
often as you drink it.” 26 For every time you eat this bread and drink this
cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes again.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">1 Corinthians 11: 23-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">23 Das Folgende hat der Herr selbst gesagt, und ich gebe
es euch so weiter, wie ich es empfangen habe: In der Nacht, als er verraten
wurde, nahm Jesus, der Herr, einen Laib Brot,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">24 und nachdem er Dank gesagt hatte, brach er ihn und
sprach: »Das ist mein Leib, der für euch hingegeben wird. Tut das zur
Erinnerung an mich.«</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">25 Ebenso nahm er nach dem Abendmahl den Weinkelch und
sprach: »Dieser Kelch ist der neue Bund zwischen Gott und euch, besiegelt durch
mein Blut. Wann immer ihr daraus trinkt, tut es zur Erinnerung an mich.«</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">26 Denn jedes Mal, wenn ihr dieses Brot esst und aus
diesem Kelch trinkt, verkündet ihr den Tod des Herrn, bis er wiederkommt.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Let´s pray…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.09.03<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John
16: 1-15</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ministry of the Holy
Spirit</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good
Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I have Good News for You! His
name is Jesus… We are on a great adventure… We are Experiencing the Life and
ministry of Jesus… Jesus continues to Transform hearts and minds… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by
the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Power of His Holy Spirit working in
and through </b>the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God… </b>We
are studying a very important section of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Word of God…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus has told
them that He will send the Spirit of Truth… The Holy Spirit will continue
Jesus´ work </b>on the earth<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> through the
disciples… </b>There is a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> lot of
confusion about The Holy Spirit… That is why this section is very important
today… Because Jesus Himself teaches us the truth about the work and Ministry
of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Holy Spirit… </b></span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Look with me at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
John 16… v1-4…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">John 16: 1-4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
“These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be made to stumble. 2
They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever
kills you will think that he offers God service. 3 And these things they will
do to you because they have not known the Father nor Me. 4 But these things I
have told you, that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you of
them. And these things I did not say to you at the beginning, because I was
with you.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v1… that
you should not be made to stumble…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the Greek… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">skandalethron</b> was a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crooked stick that when bumped would cause the
trap to catch you… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v2a…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They will put you out of the synagogues…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Jesus warned His disciples of coming opposition because He did not want them to
be surprised by it… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b> knew that
they would be forced out of the Synagogues because of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Him</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v2b… The time is coming that whoever kills
you will think that he offers God service…</b> That time happened right away as
Paul the Pharisee was a fervent hater of and persecutor of Christians before he
met Jesus on the road to Damascus… Acts 8:1-3… Since then there have been many
who persecute and kill genuine because they think God is pleased…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v4…
When the time comes, you may remember that I told you of them…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Jesus warned them to prepare them for the very hard times that were coming…. He
would not be there to take the hatred on Himself… So it would all be poured out
on His disciples…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let´s look at the
next section… John 16… v5-7….</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
16: 5-7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV slt 2000</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5
“But now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for
if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will
send Him to you.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v6…
But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
filled with sorrow at the moment… And in the next few days it would get much
worse…. but their future was bright and secure… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus’ departure was an essential step in
their growth as disciples…. The Holy Spirit would take the lead in the birth
and ministry of the church…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v7a…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless is one of the great words of the
Bible… meaning despite all of this trouble… There is good news… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v7b…
I tell you the truth…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Jesus says…. Listen trust me… It seems like
the end of the world… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v7c…
It is to your advantage that I go away… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">advantage…. A Good thing </b>for us<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">…
Nooo… </b>This is a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Disaster for us…..
How</b> will we go on… Jesus spends a great deal of time comforting them…
Earlier that evening… He told them… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I
will not abandon you as orphans… I will come to you… John 14: 15-18…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
14: 15-18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">15
“If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He
will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit
of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows
Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not
leave you orphans; I will come to you. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Heavy
theology here… I am going away… But I will send the Spirit of truth…. The HS… He
is with you already… Because I am here… And when I depart…. He </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">will
be<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> in you… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v18… I will not leave you orphans; I will come
to you…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Awesome…. Let´s go Back to<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John 16… V7… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v7d…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For if I do not go away, the Helper will
not come to you…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Jesus had a plan… but they couldn’t
understand it… <span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v7e…
I will send Him to you…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit
to His disciples when He departed… This is what would make it to their
advantage that He departed from them… Jesus meant that the presence and work of
the Holy Spirit would actually be better for believers than His physical bodily
presence…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Better
in these ways</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 It
was better because Jesus can be with every believer all the time...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Jesus promised, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For where two or three
are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them… Matthew
18:20…</b> That was not a promise He could keep while he was living here… But now
He can… and He is with everyone of us all the time… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 It
was better because now we can understand Jesus better...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> We
have the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy Spirit</b> living in us to
remind us of what <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus </b>said…. And
to help us understand and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">want to obey
Him… Phil 1:6…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3 It
was better because now we can have a more trusting relationship with God...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> We
have a stronger walk of faith because we are trusting in Jesus… Even tough we
can not see Him with our eyes… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We walk
by faith and not by sight… 2 Corinthians 5: 7… </b>If Jesus were here with us bodily…
We would be <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tempted to walk by sight…
and not by faith… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4 It
was better because Jesus’ work is better understood as He is enthroned in the
heavens…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Jesus total victory is clear when we remember that Jesus
is now in heaven… He is seated at the right Hand of God Almighty… He finished
His work of Salvation on the cross… Now He is our faithful High Priest and advocate
in heaven… Interceding for us with the Father… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5 Better
because</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When the Holy Spirit came to live in
them and empower them… they were wise and bold and giving... Before Jesus went
to the Father… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the disciples were
confused and fearful and selfish… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s go to the next
section… v8-11…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
16: 8-11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">8
And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness,
and of judgment: 9 of sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 of
righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; 11 of
judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v8… And when He has come, He will convict
the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment… </b>This is a
statement of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">eternal truth… </b>Sin is
the truth about man… righteousness is the truth about God… judgment is the
inevitable combination of these two truths…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v8a…
He will convict… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The ancient Greek work translated convict can
be translated… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>expose… to refute, and to
convince… This is the work of the Holy Spirit in the world and in individual
hearts… to convince and convict humanity of our hopeless sinful condition… and
Persuade us of our desperate <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">need for a
Savior</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That is why it is a serious thing to resist and reject
this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">convicting work of the Holy Spirit</b>…
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“The Holy Spirit Spirit is the ‘advocate’
or helper of all who believe in Jesus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
is our Anwalt who defends us before God…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for unbelievers who refuse to
repent… He acts as lawyer for the prosecution…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy
Spirit</b> showed me the sin and pride and rebellion that was in my heart…. I
found myself flat on the ground… I was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Genuinely
slain in the Spirit… Sorrow repentance weeping and crying to the Lord for mercy
and forgiveness...</b> There are a few Biblical accounts of people on their
face before the Lord… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Daniel 8: 17,18…
Acts 9: 3,4… Rev 1: 17… None of them have any holy laughter or barking or
anything like what you see on youtube… Instead these accounts are marked by
fear and a genuine sense of sinfulness and a willingness to listen to and obey
God…</b> There is no showing off…. No pride… no look at me…. I am under the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> power… </b>There are some<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> genuine reports of people being slain in
the spirit in times of revival… These genuine events were always marked by
tears of repentance and conversion… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8b… Of sin,
because they do not believe in Me…</b> It is unbelief… the rejection of Jesus…
which ultimately proves one to be guilty…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v8c…
Of righteousness, because I go to My Father… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus ascension to
heaven demonstrated that He had perfectly fulfilled the Father’s will… And that
He had proven Himself to be the righteous one… The only Redeemer of humanity… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Holy Spirit shows the world not only the
righteousness of Jesus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It clearly shows
us our own ungodliness and sinfulness… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8d… Of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged… Jesus is
declaring the defeat of Satan… He is proclaiming the death of death in His
death and resurrection… Every prophet that has ever lived has had the same
message…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judgement is certain… Repent…
the kingdom of heaven is at hand… </b>The judgment of Satan himself… means that
there will be a final judgment for all who refuse to repent… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Holy Spirit warns the world of this coming
judgment…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s look at the last section for today… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 16: 12-15…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
16: 12-15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">12
“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all
truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He
will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He
will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father
has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v12…
I still have many things to say to you…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus said that His own teaching</b> was incomplete… There is much more
for you to learn… He is pointing to the writing of the New Testament… He is
declaring that the disciples themselves will be taught by the Holy Spirit and
that when they write down what they have seen and heard…. They will increase
the understanding of the things of God for generations of new believers…. The
entire Church will benefit from their ministry… Paul and all of the other New
Testament writers taught us the many things that Jesus said and did… As the
Holy Spirit helped them to remember and as He applied those truths to their
ministries and lives… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For example… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they
didn’t know that some of the customs and commands in the OT would be fulfilled
by the person and work of Jesus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
would no longer be binding under the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">New
Covenant</b>… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They didn’t know that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God would bring Gentiles into the New Covenant community as equals</b>…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>without have to first become Jews… That
was unheard of… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v13a…
He will guide you into all truth…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greek phrase here… means ‘all the truth’</b>… Complete and sufficient
truth about the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ... In one sense… this phrase…
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">All the Truth…</b> was fulfilled when
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">New Testament</b> was completed… In
another sense the Holy Spirit continues today to personally lead us into truth…
He opens our hearts and minds to the things of God… We learn to compare
scripture with scripture… We use the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word
of God as a mirror</b>… It shows us what is wrong with our lives…. It corrects
us… It equips us to do the work of the ministry… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Timothy 3: 15-17</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember….
There is no such thing as a new revelation that contradicts the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God… No prophesy</b> can ever be <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in opposition to the Scripture… This <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Book is God’s</b> supreme and perfect revelation…
There is no new scripture being written… Do not waste your time with someone
who says they have a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">new word from God</b>…
There is an old saying in The study of the Bible… If it is new… It is not true…
If it is true… It is not new… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Those people who claim to have new revelation… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joseph Smith (Mormons)… Mary Baker Eddy
(Christian Scientists)… The Jehovah´s witnesses… Benny Hinn… </b>The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy Spirit </b>did not tell Benny Hinn
that the trinity is really 9 persons not 3… They are all false teachers who
make those claims… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know because <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Holy Spirit</b> has a very specific
task… next part of this verse… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v13b…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will not speak on His own authority</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… He
will glorify Me… He will take of what is Mine and reveal it to you… The Holy
Spirit’s ministry is revealing Jesus to us… He has been sent <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to bear <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">testimony
</b>of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus (John 15:26)…</b> The holy
Spirits purpose is always the same… to reveal Jesus as Savior… redeemer and
judge…. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Many people speak of dreams and visions… Of incredible
experiences… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revelations like 9 foot
tall Angels standing next to them… They proclaim <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that they came from the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy Spirit…</b> They magnify themselves As great men of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God</b> because of these experiences… But
many of those <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">supposed revelations of
the Spirit</b> say nothing or almost nothing about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus Himself</b>…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v13c…
He will tell you things to come… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This refers to the birth of
the church and the last days… This Christian dispensation… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most importantly… We will learn more about
Jesus and His wonderful plan of Salvation for a lost and dying world…. We will
come to understand why He poured His grace and mercy out on us… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v14-15…</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will glorify Me, for He will take of what
is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine.
Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v14…</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He
will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Holy Spirit </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">never
points to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Himself…. The Holy Spirit
never glorifies Himself…. </b>Just as<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Jesus points </b>to the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Father…. The
Holy Spirit points to the Lord Jesus… And Jesus says…. As the Holy Spirit
points to Me… We </b>are both pointing to the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Father…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v15…
All things that the Father has are Mine. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is proof that Jesus is equal with God… I
and the Father are one… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Close</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As we study this last night that Jesus spent with the
Disciples… Jesus is warning and comforting them… He is telling them that they
will not survive without Him… And that is why He will send them the Holy Spirit
to help them… He will abide with them forever… They… We… have no chance of
living this Christian life without the Holy Spirit´s help and abiding presence
in us… It is part of His plan to finish the work that He has begun in us… Phil
1: 6… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul wrote about it to every
church… I would like to close by looking at what Paul wrote to the Galatians
about the need of the Holy spirit… Look with me at Galatians 5… v16-26…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Galatians
5: 16-22<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">16 I
say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that
you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">19
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies,
outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,
drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I
also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not
inherit the kingdom of God. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no
law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions
and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look at the contrasts
between the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Works of the flesh and the
Fruit of the Spirit in these verses…</b> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The active work of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy Spirit</b> continues to mould and shape our hearts… To help us run
from sin and temptation… To form us into His image day by day… We need to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Walk in the Spirit</b>… moment by moment…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Let´s pray…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.08.27<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 15: 17-27</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are my Friends<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part 2</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… Jesus continues to
Transform hearts and minds… by the Power of His Holy Spirit working in and
through the Word of God…</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are studying a
very important section of the Word of God… The Gospel of John… John ch 13-17 </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">all
take place on the l<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ast evening that
Jesus </b>had with His<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> disciples…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is communicating His Unfailing love for
them… His has told them that He will send the Spirit of Truth… The Holy Spirit…
He has been with them…</b> He will live <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">in
them when He goes away… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>I want to remind us of how this section
began…. Look with me<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 15… v17…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 15: 17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">17
These things I command you, that you love one another.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">17 Das gebiete ich euch, dass ihr
einander liebt. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus´ Friends</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
They love each other… John 15v12,13,17</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
They Obey Him… v 14</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
They know Divine truth… v 15</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
They have been chosen by God… v 16</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5
They are hated by the World… v 18-25</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at v17…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
THE FRIENDS OF JESUS LOVE EACH OTHER</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v17…
love one another… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This evening has been<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> full of God´s grace and unfailing love… Jesus has been loving His own…
To the very end… </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now for the third time this same evening…. Jesus
said…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">love one another… John13:34, John 15:12, and here in John 15:17</b>… His
loving example is the theme of this evening… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus´ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>love</b> flowing out of us to others… Is the
proof that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we belong to Him</b>… And
that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He </b>has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">transformed</b> our lives… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>
promises the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">comfort and help of the
Holy Spirit</b>… But <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> is also <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">warning the Disciples… Because you are my
friends…. The world will hate you… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember that this day started out as an evening of
loving encouragement… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 13, verse 1…
“Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the max.”</b> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
loves them infinitely as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">only God can
love</b>... And for many hours now… The emphasis is on the gifts and the
promises that Jesus´ love generates… Jesus pours His love out on His own by
making promises that are staggering… He promises to take away their fear and
anxiety and replace it with His peace…. He promised to turn their sorrow that
he is going away into a lasting… Deep joy that no man can take away… These
promises…. And in fact everything that the Lord does for us and in us… Is through
the work of the Holy Spirit… This is new to them…. And He promises to send the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spirit of truth… The Holy Spirit</b> to
help them in His absence…. He promised that the Holy Spirit would be with them
forever…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
is spending a lot of time explain that the 3rd member of the trinity will now
take the leading role in helping them… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last
week <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He said Yes I am Lord and Master….</b>
Yes you are my slaves…. Bond servants…. But <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">you are also my friends</b>… Because I tell you everything that the Father
has told me… I love you totally… and you must love each other… Now as Jesus
continues to tell them everything…. He warns them of the reaction of the World…
Look at v18-25…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
15: 18-25<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">18
“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If
you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of
the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20
Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his
master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My
word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you
for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22 If I had not come
and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for
their sin. 23 He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 If I had not done among
them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have
seen and also hated both Me and My Father. 25 But this happened that the word
might be fulfilled which is written in their law, ‘They hated Me without a
cause.’</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v18….
If the world hates you</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">…. This could be translated… Since the
world hates you… Jesus said… You are in the World…. But you are not <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">of the World</b>… As Christians… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We live in two worlds… We live in the world…
And because of Jesus… We are also part <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of God’s heavenly kingdom… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are loved infinitely by God… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the
same time that we are loved by God… We are hated by the world… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We are hated because they refuse to repent
and turn to the Lord Jesus Christ… Romans ch1… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus says… I am warning you about hostility and
persecution that you will face… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today there are approx. 100 million Christians living in
lands that persecute Believers… Communism, Islam and Hinduism are all very
hostile to Christians… More people have been killed for their faith in the last
100 years than in the 200 centuries that came before… The world hates anything
or anyone who stands for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">truth of
God´s Word… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sadly most of the people in the world are blind and spiritually
dead… They are lost in their sin and pride… They are without hope…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t seek after <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God…</b> They can’t understand <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Divine
truth</b>… Their hearts are stone… and their minds are blinded… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And… they hate us… Then truth of the Gospel
shines into their hearts as the Holy Spirit begins His transforming work… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Life transforming power of God</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>breaks through that hatred… He turns hearts
of stone into living flesh and He puts His Spirit in them…. Ezekiel 36… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the work of the Holy Spirit to use the
Word of God to teach and transform broken hearts and lives... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The disciples were already very upset… And Now Jesus
says…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The world will hate you because
they hate me…</b> They are very sad… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But all is not lost…. There is help and hope… Let´s
look ahead at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John chapter 16… v6, 7…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
16: 6,7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6
But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for
if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will
send Him to you.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">sorrow has filled your heart because I am going away… But
it is going to be ok… The Helper… The comforter… I will send the Holy Spirit to
you… let’s look at the last three verses in this chapter… verse 25-27… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
15: 25-27<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">25
But this happened that the word might be fulfilled which is written in their
law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’ 26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I
shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the
Father, He will testify of Me. 27 And you also will bear witness, because you
have been with Me from the beginning.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v25…
Jesus says You will be hated without a cause…. v26… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">says, I am going away… Yes
the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> world will hate you… But </b>when
the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Helper… The Spirit of truth comes… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v26…
He will testify of me…. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And you will <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">also bear witness</b>… T<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">estify</b>
of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Me</b> to this lost and dying world…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Not only do we learn the Truth from
the Holy Spirit... The power for our gospel witness comes from the Holy Spirit<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
is saying…. Even though the world hates you because of Me… I am sending you
out… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
says…. I will send the Holy Spirit</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> to you… It is the Holy
Spirit that I will use to finish the work that I have begun in you… How will we
be able to reach the persecuting world with the gospel? This is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Supernatural work of the Holy Spirit…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything that God gives to us… Everything that is revealed
to us… The power to stand against evil and to be His witnesses…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It all comes from the Holy Spirit…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our Christian witness is to this hostile <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christ-rejecting… Christian-hating… Godless
world... That is the subject of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus´</b>
encouragement here…. They Hate Him…. They hate us…. But the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">help of the Holy Spirit</b>… We will <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>respond to them like <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus Himself… We will proclaim the Gospel… Grace and truth</b> will
also flow out of our lives… We will fulfill the great Commission… After the
resurrection... Jesus says those well-known words about our mission… This is why
we are still here… To <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">testify of the
unfailing love and mercy of God for a lost and dying world</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Matt 28: 18-20</b>…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Matt
28: 18-20<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">18
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me
in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am
with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Knowing that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
has sent us</b>…. And because we have the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy
Spirit at work in us</b>… We answer hatred with love… We are not afraid because
the Holy Spirit gives us the strength to proclaim the Good News… We testify to
the grace and mercy that Jesus has poured out on our lives…. We tell them the
great joy that comes from knowing that our sins are forgiven…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This promise that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">despite
their hatred…. We will be His witnesses… </b>Is placed right in the middle of
even more warnings about their hostility... John 15: 18-25…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus tells us about hatred and
persecution…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we are told that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Holy Spirit will remind us of His words
of life…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and with the Holy Spirits´
help… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will testify of Jesus… Knowing that he is
their only hope… We will <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">speak by the
Power of the Holy Spirit… … And the Holy Spirit will prepare hearts… He will
transform hearts and minds as we proclaim the Word of God…</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> talks
about coming persecution and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>martyrdom… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 16: 1-3</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As we know… The disciples did testify of Jesus in the
face of persecution… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all but one of them became <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Martyrs for the sake of the Gospel…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We show <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus´s
love</b> to the world… Sometimes we even lay down our lives… Our love will
sometimes be repaid with suffering and death… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
because the world has been deceived by the evil one… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They hate us…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we are not
afraid… We know that our sufferings are only temporary… We understand that we
have been called to go into all the world and preach the gospel… Our eyes are
on our heavenly Home… We have forsaken the world… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul and Silas… Acts 16: 16-40… </b>You know the story<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… A </b>desperate and terrible situation
was<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> used by God to Save lost souls…. </b>But
it<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> started out really bad </b>for them…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>They <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">delivered a girl from demons… They were beaten and thrown into prison
for helping her… In their suffering… They worshipped the Lord in the prison…
The walls were shaken by an earthquake… They showed grace and mercy to the
prison master…. He and his family were converted because the Holy Spirit
grabbed hold of their hearts… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are aliens in this world… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heaven is our home… Paul had a single minded
view of life with the Lord Jesus … Look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Philippians 3: 8-14…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Philippians
3: 8-14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slt 2000</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">8
Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of
Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and
count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having
my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in
Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him
and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being
conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection
from the dead. 12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected;
but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also
laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but
one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward
to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of
the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We under the leading of the Holy Spirit…. Do what every
Man and woman of God has always done… We speak of sin and judgment to the world….
We call for genuine repentance from the heart… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Will the world retaliate in anger? Yes some will… But
some will believe and repent… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We proclaim the Gospel… </b>And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>God
does the saving through the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">power of the
Holy Spirit</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Christian witness is to the world of the Savoir…. The
Lord Jesus Christ… The Son of God…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world’s hatred is focused on Christ… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
our message... “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They hated Him without a
cause… John 15: 25… </b>This<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is a quote
from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm 69: 4… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They reject the gospel because they love their sin… they
love the darkness… They suppress the truth… They keep it from their own hearts…
They want the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gospel to be stamped out… Psalm
2 </b>says that the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> heathen rage in hatred
against the Lord… The Psalms </b>are great<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
for your own quiet time </b>with the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Lord… We are studying the Psalms on Tuesday nights! Come and be blessed…</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy Spirit</b>
has placed in our hands the truth… He has given us His Word of Life… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the
Savior of the world… We proclaim the Good News of the Gospel to the world… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we know that the Spirit of God is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>working in and through us…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This
is our calling… When we repent of our sins and come to the cross…. Our
transformation is just beginning… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
life in Christ is a life of faithful witness… We bring the Good News to a lost
and dying world… Let´s pray… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Communion</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Danger
caution!!!! </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We want to once again welcome all of our
guests and visitors this morning…. We are very glad that you are here…. We are
going to celebrate communion this morning as a church family…. If you have
given your heart to Jesus… And if you are willing to let the Lord Jesus search
your heart…. And willing to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Confess any
sin that is in your life…. You are welcome to participate with us…. In 1
Corinthians… Paul exhorts us….</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Examine
your hearts… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That is what we need to do this morning as we
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prepare to take communion together… </b>The
worship team will come forward and as they lead us to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">throne of grace…. Let´s examine our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>hearts…. </b>The elements will be passed out…. Please hold them and we
will take communion together when I come back up here…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Communion is a picture of the fact that we are all in
Christ…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time we take communion…
we take into our hands<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a reminder that
we have been redeemed…. And that we belong to each other…. We are members of
another… Jesus has saved us and made us one family in Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Corinthians 11: 23-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">23
For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night when
he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread 24 and gave thanks to God for
it. Then he broke it in pieces and said, “This is my body, which is given for
you.[ Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way, he took the cup of
wine after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his
people—an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this in remembrance of me as
often as you drink it.” 26 For every time you eat this bread and drink this
cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes again.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">1 Corinthians 11: 23-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">23 Das Folgende hat der Herr selbst gesagt, und ich gebe
es euch so weiter, wie ich es empfangen habe: In der Nacht, als er verraten wurde,
nahm Jesus, der Herr, einen Laib Brot,</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">24 und nachdem er Dank gesagt hatte, brach er ihn und
sprach: »Das ist mein Leib, der für euch hingegeben wird6. Tut das zur
Erinnerung an mich.«</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">25 Ebenso nahm er nach dem Abendmahl den Weinkelch und
sprach: »Dieser Kelch ist der neue Bund zwischen Gott und euch, besiegelt durch
mein Blut. Wann immer ihr daraus trinkt, tut es zur Erinnerung an mich.«</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">26 Denn jedes Mal, wenn ihr dieses Brot esst und aus
diesem Kelch trinkt, verkündet ihr den Tod des Herrn, bis er wiederkommt.</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Let´s pray</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.08.20<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>John 15: 12-17</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are my Friends</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… Jesus continues to
Transform hearts and minds… by the Power of His Holy Spirit working in and
through the Word of God…</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are studying a
very important section of the Word of God… The Gospel of John… John ch 13-17
all take place on the last evening that Jesus had with His disciples…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is communicating His Unfailing love for
them… His has told them that He will send the Spirit of Truth… The Holy Spirit has
been <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with them…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> To
live <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">in them when He goes away… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>I
want to remind us of how this section began…. Look with me<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 13… v1…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
13: 1<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 Now
before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that
He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were
in the world, He loved them to the end.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He loved them to the highest… To the max… He laid down
His life for them… And we Know…. For us as well… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We can put the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Title… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus´ Love for His own… O</b>ver
this entire section… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love of God… Is Perfectly reflected in
Jesus´ sacrificial love for us… We are reminded that Jesus is our Lord and
Master… And this morning we learn that because He loves us so much… </b>We are
also<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> His friends… How do we respond to
such love and friendship..?</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We
can and should rejoice in Him… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John 15… </b>I will begin with the last
verse from last week…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John 15:11-17…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
15: 11-17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">11
“These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that
your joy may be full. 12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I
have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s
life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his
master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard
from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose
you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit
should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17
These things I command you, that you love one another.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Bible describes those who know and love the Lord
Jesus Christ in many ways… It is a long list… You can get this list and the
scripture references from the sermon notes… I post the notes on the blog….
Normally on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sunday afternoon… I will
give you a few… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">believers</b>…
Acts 5:14; 1 Thess. 1:7; 2:10… We are called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the beloved of God</b>… Rom. 1:7… We are often called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Children</b>… The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">children
of God</b>… John 1:12; 11:52; Phil. 2:15; 1 John 3:1–2… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">children of promise</b>… Gal. 4:28… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">children of light</b>… Eph. 5:8; cf. 1
Thess. 5:5…. We are called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sons… Sons of
the resurrection</b>… Luke 20:36… In the NT church we are called the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">people of the way</b>…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Or simply Christians</b>… Christians… Acts
11:26; 1 Peter 4:16… We are called<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Disciples
(</b>Acts 6:1–2; 11:26)… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">elect</b>… Matt.
24:22, 24, 31; Luke 18:7; Rom. 8:33…We are called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the godly</b>… 2 Peter 2:9… We are called Heirs… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">heirs of God</b> (Rom. 8:17; Gal. 4:7; cf.
James 2:5; 1 Peter 3:7….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heirs of the promise</b>… Gal. 3:29; Heb.
6:17….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heirs of salvation</b>… Heb. 1:14 KJV… We are called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the righteous because of our faith</b>… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hab. 2:4</b>; Matt. 13:43; 25:46; Luke
14:14; Rom. 1:17; Heb. 12:23… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are
called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Salt and light in the world… Matt
5:13</b> ; Phil. 2:15; cf. Matt. 5:14... We are called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the people of God</b>… Heb. 11:25; 1 Peter 2:10… We are called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people
for God’s own possession</b>… 1 Peter 2:9… We are called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">slaves of Christ</b>… 1 Cor. 7:22<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">;
Bond servants</b>… Eph. 6:6… And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Slaves
of righteousness</b>… Rom. 6:18… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And surprise…
We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">called Saints</b>… Acts 9:13;
Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2; Col. 1:12… As we saw last week…. That is our position
because we are in Christ… Our Righteousness…. Is Jesus work from beginning to
end… He will complete the work that He has begun in us… Phil 1: 6… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And in our text today <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus calls us friends</b>… The word “friend” captures a unique aspect
of our relationship with the Lord… I want us to focus on that today… What does
it mean to be a friend…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does it
mean to be Jesus´ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>friend… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>passage shows four characteristics of Jesus’
friends… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus´
Friends</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
They love each other… John 15: 12,13,17</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
They Obey Him… John 15: 14</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
They know Divine truth… John 15: 15</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
They have been chosen by God… John 15: 16</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at the first 3 verses…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
THE FRIENDS OF JESUS LOVE EACH OTHER</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v11…
that My joy may remain in you… and that your joy may be full… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
evening has been<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> full of grace… Jesus
has been loving His own… To the very end… </b>Even though their<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> World </b>is going to be torn apart…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> He has promised them peace and comfort and
joy… He has promised to send the Holy Spirit… He is with them already…. He </b>will
be<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> in them forever… And as we saw last
week… Jesus said… Abide in me… </b>Keep your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">close connection to me… </b>There is much more that He will say to them
this night…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> look at v12…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v12…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>love one another… just as I have loved
you… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For the second time this same evening…. Jesus said…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">love
one another… John13:34</b>… His loving example is the theme of this evening… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus´ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>love</b> flowing out of us to others… Will be
the proof that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we belong to Him</b>… And
that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He </b>has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">transformed</b> our lives… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul said that God´s love flowing from a transformed heart
is the fulfillment of the law… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at
Romans 13: 8-10 with me… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Romans
13: 8-10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">8
Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled
the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall
not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You
shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in
this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does
no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Only genuine believers who abide in Him… Have the ability
to love as Jesus loves… This all begins when we are born again… When we were
born again…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>began the process of transforming us into His
image… Phil 1:6… Paul also wrote to the Romans about this character forming
transformation… It begins with Jesus… As we repent of our sins and turn to Him
in genuine faith… look at Romans 5: 1-5 with me…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Romans
5: 1-5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1Therefore,
having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we
stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only that, but we
also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4
and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not
disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy
Spirit who was given to us.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v1,2… We have been Justified by Faith… We have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">peace with God through the Lord Jesus</b>… We
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">stand in grace…</b> We <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">rejoice in hope</b>… No matter what is
happening in our lives… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v3-5… Tribulations will come… They are part of the
pruning and cleansing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that happens as we
abide in the vine…God´s grace helps us endure hard times… It forms our
character and gives us hope… We can clearly see this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">transformation</b> is happening <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">because
of His Love…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His love</b> has been
poured into our lives…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I would also like to look at what Paul wrote to the
Thessalonians… 1 Thess 4:9…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Thessalonians 4: 9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">9
But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for
you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul
says that we are taught by God to love one another… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
is true of all genuine believers… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God
Himself teaches us to love…</b> It is Jesus at work in us… And we learn to love
each other…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back to John ch 15… look at
v13…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v13…
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We learn to love each other… Even to sacrificially love
each other… Because of Jesus´ example… It is perfectly reflected in Jesus life
and ministry… And as we know… Jesus loved us to the max… by laying down His
life for us… Look at the end of the verse… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus says you are my <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">friends</b>… I gladly lay down my life for you… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This standard of laying down our lives for each other is
impossible in the flesh… We cannot do that in and of ourselves… We need the
love of God flowing through us… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We need the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">transforming
power of the Holy Spirit</b> working in us… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">love
each other</b> as the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord Jesus Christ
loves us… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clearly… Love for other believers characterizes the
redeemed…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John writes a lot about this
in 1 John… Home work!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That does not mean that believers can love perfectly… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
just as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus loved sacrificially</b>… so
also we must seek to walk in love… That is how Paul put it… “Look at Ephesians
ch 5… v 1,2…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ephesians
5: 1,2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 Therefore
be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has
loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a
sweet-smelling aroma.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The love that we as genuine believers show each other…
Should be marked by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">selfless devotion</b>
to meeting one another’s needs… Not the Selfishness that the world so dearly loves…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our selfless love for each other is the
most powerful proof to the unbelieving world that we belong to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus… John 13:35</b>... </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1
John ch 3 v16… John points to Jesus as our great example of sacrificial love… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">wrote this…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
John 3: 16-18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">16
By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought
to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has this world’s goods,
and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the
love of God abide in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in
tongue, but in deed and in truth. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We should be willing to lay down our lives for each other…
John expresses the practical implications of that truth… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are dear friends…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Friends of the Lord Jesus…</b> Friends of each other as well… My stuff
is your stuff… Remember the early church held all things in common… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">friends of Jesus Christ</b> show their love
for one another by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">humbly meeting</b>
each other’s needs... let´s go to the next point… scroll down for John 15…. V 14,15…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 THE
FRIENDS OF JESUS OBEY HIM</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v14,15…
You are My friends if you do what I command you… No longer do I call you
servants… The Greek word (Doulos) is often translated as slaves… Jesus is our
Lord and Master… Masters have servants… really they are His slaves… We totally
belong to our Lord and Savior… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But we are<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> more than slaves and bondservants…. </b>We
are<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> His friends… </b>Here again is the
idea that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">as we grow in our love for
Jesus… We will also obey Him </b>out of a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
transformed and thankful heart… Not slave-like obedience to the Master… Rather
we love and obey Him… </b>Because of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
grace and mercy that He has given </b>to us<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All through the Bible… Obedience and faith are closely
linked… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look with me at Romans ch 6… v
17-19… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 6: 15-19<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">15
Well then, since God’s grace has set us free from the law, does that mean we
can go on sinning? Of course not! 16 Don’t you realize that you become the
slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to
death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living. 17 Thank
God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching
we have given you. 18 Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have
become slaves to righteous living.19 Because of the weakness of your human
nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this.
Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led
ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous
living so that you will become holy.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I think of Bob Dylan everytime I study this passage… Do
you know the song….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You´re gonna have to
serve somebody… Now It may be the Devil or it may be the Lord…. But you are
gonna have to serve somebody… Paul uses the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">word picture of slavery to illustrate our possible relationships…</b>
We are either slaves to sin and unrighteousness…. Or We have repented of our
sins and turned to Jesus as our Lord and Savior… Then we as believers become <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Slaves of righteousness</b>… Genuine Conversion
happens when we who <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“were slaves of sin”
become “obedient to God from the heart… Slaves to righteousness and godly
living… That is what it means to Have Jesus as Lord in our lives… We grow in
grace… We grow in our love for Him… And we begin to obey Him from our
transformed thankful hearts… back to John ch 15…v15…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3 THE
FRIENDS OF JESUS KNOW DIVINE TRUTH </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v15…
No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is
doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My
Father I have made known to you…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus is their Lord and Savior… They called Him Master</b>… They…
We<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His Slaves…</b> Most translations substitute the word Servant or Bond
servant… It sounds better than slave… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But in the ancient world…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">the term slave was not such a terrible
idea…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, some of the most important people in
the Old Testament were described as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">slaves
of God</b>… Including <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Moses</b>… Num.
12:7… And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joshua</b>… Josh. 24:29…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> David</b>… 2 Sam. 7:5… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
even the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messiah</b>… Isa. 42:1... Jesus
is the Suffering Servant of the Lord in Isaiah 52,53…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">In the New Testament <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Paul</b> (Rom. 1:1), J<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ames</b>
(James 1:1), Peter (2 Peter 1:1), Jude (Jude 1), and John (Rev. 1:1) also
called themselves slaves (Doulos) of Jesus Christ…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Slaves
lived in total submission to the will of his master… Why am I telling you all
of this…? Because the reality of slavery and the connection of Jesus as Lord…
Believers as His servants… really as His Slaves… Make Jesus words so very
important… Now I call you friends and I tell you everything that I and the
Father are doing… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Slaves would normally not know what his
master was doing…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While it is true that the followers of Jesus are also
designated as slaves… As we saw in the various descriptions of our relationship
with Him… We are also called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sons and
heirs</b>… for example… And now we are also called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His friends</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Old Testament only Abraham had the
privilege of being named the friend of God… 2 Chron. 20:7; Isa. 41:8; James
2:23… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because
we are His friends</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>
has promised to share with believers all things that He had heard from the
Father... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our ability to understand the spiritual truths
Jesus reveals…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sets His friends apart
from the unredeemed… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have the Holy
Spirit…. The Spirit of truth living in us… look with me at 1 Cor 2…v12,13...</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Corinthians 2: 12,13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">12
And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the
wonderful things God has freely given us.13 When we tell you these things, we
do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to
us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is only because of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">presence of the Holy Spirit in our hearts and minds</b>… that we can
truly understand Jesus as we study the Word of God… Let´s look at the last
point of our outline… Back to John ch 15… v16,17… scroll down… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">4 THE FRIENDS OF JESUS HAVE BEEN SPECIALLY
CHOSEN BY HIM </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v16…
You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and
bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the
Father in My name He may give to you…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I chose you… the disciples did not choose Jesus… He chose
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special about me… Or any of us… We have nothing to be proud about…. We are all
sinners saved by grace… If we are saved at all… There was no hope for me or any
of us… We had no chance to redeem ourselves… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of my favorite chapters in the Bible is
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And
you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once
walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among
whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling
the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
just as the others. 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love
with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive
together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up
together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7
that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest
anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for
good works, which God</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">prepared beforehand that we
should walk in them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Having chosen and trained
the disciples, Jesus commanded them to go into the world, proclaim the good
news about Him…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because we are <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
Friends of Jesus Christ… We have responsibilities… The Bible commands us to
“fervently love one another from the heart… 1 Peter 1:22... We know divine
truth… And we are exhorted to study it diligently… 2 Tim. 2:15… Paul wrote that
we who have been granted the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>privilege of
being the friends of Jesus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">must “walk in a manner worthy of the
calling with which [they] have been called… Eph. 4:1</b>… Let´s Pray…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">2017.08.13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 15:
1-11</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abide in Me</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is Jesus</b>…
We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing
the Life and ministry of Jesus… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus continues to
Transform hearts and minds… by the Power of His Holy Spirit working in and
through the Word of God… Jesus </span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">has been warning the
Disciples of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">very difficult hard
times that are coming...</b></span><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus is spending His</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> last evening… With <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His disciples… </b>It is a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> very intense time… </b></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus is speaking to the hearts of the disciples…</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Jesus is Warning them… He has told them over and over that he is
going to the cross… They will be scattered…. They will run away… Peter will
even deny Him… </span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">2 Jesus is calling them to follow His example… He is calling them
to loving obedience…</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">3 Jesus is comforting Them… He is promising the Holy Spirit to come
along side of them to help and comfort them moment by moment and day by day… He
is saying… I will never leave you and I will never forsake you…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are learning about the work and ministry of
the HS in these verses…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His Word and His promises… Are used by the
Holy Spirit to comfort and encourage us… No matter what happens in our lives… </span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus </span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">and the disciples
have finished their<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Passover meal… </b>In
the last verse of Ch 14… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
says…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>let´s go… They are going to the
Mount of Olives and the garden of Gethsemane… He </b>continues to talk to the
disciples as they go… He wants them to understand that although He is going
away… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spirit of truth… The Holy
Spirit</b> will come and dwell in them… Forever… As we pick up ch 15… Jesus
calls on them to maintain their close connection to Him… He uses the very
well-known symbol of the grape vine… Look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John</b> Ch15…v1…</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">John 15: 1-11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every
branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that
bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean
because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As
the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can
you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who
abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do
nothing. 6 If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is
withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are
burned. 7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you
desire, and it shall be done for you. 8 By this My Father is glorified, that
you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. 9 “As the Father loved Me, I
also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 If you keep My commandments, you will
abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His
love.11 “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and
that your joy may be full.</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 Ich bin der wahre Weinstock, und mein Vater
ist der Weingärtner. 2 Jede Rebe an mir, die keine Frucht bringt, nimmt er weg;
jede aber, die Frucht bringt, reinigt er, damit sie mehr Frucht bringt. 3 Ihr
seid schon rein um des Wortes willen, das ich zu euch geredet habe. 4 Bleibt in
mir, und ich [bleibe] in euch! Gleichwie die Rebe nicht von sich selbst aus
Frucht bringen kann, wenn sie nicht am Weinstock bleibt, so auch ihr nicht,
wenn ihr nicht in mir bleibt. 5 Ich bin der Weinstock, ihr seid die Reben. Wer
in mir bleibt und ich in ihm, der bringt viel Frucht; denn getrennt von mir
könnt ihr nichts tun. 6 Wenn jemand nicht in mir bleibt, so wird er weggeworfen
wie die Rebe und verdorrt; und solche sammelt man und wirft sie ins Feuer, und
sie brennen. 7 Wenn ihr in mir bleibt und meine Worte in euch bleiben, so
werdet ihr bitten, was ihr wollt, und es wird euch zuteilwerden. 8 Dadurch wird
mein Vater verherrlicht, dass ihr viel Frucht bringt und meine Jünger werdet. 9
Gleichwie mich der Vater liebt, so liebe ich euch; bleibt in meiner Liebe! 10
Wenn ihr meine Gebote haltet, so bleibt ihr in meiner Liebe, gleichwie ich die
Gebote meines Vaters gehalten habe und in seiner Liebe geblieben bin. 11 Dies
habe ich zu euch geredet, damit meine Freude in euch bleibe und eure Freude
völlig werde.</span></b><br />
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Look with me at the
first 4 verses… scroll down…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
says, "I am the true vine….</b> He is pointing to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Himself as the Messiah</b>…. The vine was often used to represent the
Children of Israel… They failed to Love God with their whole hearts… They were
often disciplined for their faithlessness… The OT represents this as being cut
down and thrown into the fire… The imagery of the vineyard is often associated
with failure and Judgement… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">However (aber) as I
said… the vine also was used to represent the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messiah Himself</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus says,
"I am the true vine…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News from Jesus</b>… He says… You have
all failed to love and serve God from your hearts... But I will do this work in
you... Last week we talked about Philippians ch1... Paul rejoiced in what The
Lord was doing in the lives of the Philippian believers… It fits perfectly with
the teaching in John 15… Jesus says… Abide in the vine… Abide in me… And you
will produce fruit…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at Phil ch1 with
me... v3-11…</span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Philippians 1: 3-11 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slt 2000</span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, 4 always in every
prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, 5 for your fellowship in
the gospel from the first day until now, 6 being confident of this very thing,
that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of
Jesus Christ; 7 just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I
have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and
confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace. 8 For God
is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus
Christ. 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in
knowledge and all discernment, 10 that you may approve the things that are
excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ,
11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to
the glory and praise of God.</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Look at v6… Paul
rejoiced as he remembered all that the Lord was doing in their lives… He
expressed great confidence in the fact that the people of God would continue to
grow and mature into the very image of Jesus… In v9-11 Paul tells us what that
growing into the image of Christ Jesus will look like… look at v9-11…</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">v9-11…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">What a list… The
scriptures show us exactly how this transformation will happen… Remember… This
section of scripture is all 1 long evening… The last evening that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> has with His disciples… This very
night He will be arrested and in the morning He will be crucified… list… It
happens as we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Abide in the Lord Jesus…</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Abiding in Christ</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">1 The Spirit of
Truth will teach us…</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> John 14:16-18
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 Timothy 2: 15-17</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Holy Spirit will
use the Word of God to show what is wrong in our lives… He will correct us… He
will equip us for the work of the Ministry…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">2 Jesus will
continue the work that He has begun in us…</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> Phil 1:3-11</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">3 He will produce
the fruit of Righteousness in us… day by day and step by step… Phil 1: 9-11 </span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">All of these things
are connected to 1 thread… We become more and more like<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus… </b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">4 He will prune and
cleanse us as we abide in the Vine…</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> John 15:2… Pruning and cleansing… That does not sound pleasant… It
sounds painful…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Back to John 15…
v1-4…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">v1…</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> is saying… "I am doing what
you cannot do… and I am being what you have not been able to be… But <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will send the Holy Spirit to help you… </b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This very night they
will all fail Him… And He says…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"I've got this… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Abide in me</b>…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have not been fruitful until now...
But <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I've got you… I am the true vine</b>…
</span></div>
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<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">What does this mean
for us…? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Since Jesus is the
Vine</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> is what we cannot be... We need
to hang on to Jesus… He is our righteousness… We started to talk about this
already… </span></div>
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">I tried to be a good
boy… I have been trying to be a good boy for decades… many decades… I have
failed… I cannot do it… I fail the Lord every day… No matter how hard we try….
No matter how hard we work at this Christian life… We fail to be good people… We
fall short of God´s perfection over and over again… That is the story of my
life… It is all of our life stories… Jesus is comforting the disciples on the
eve of their worst failure… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is
saying… Just abide in Me… I will finish the miracle that I have begun in you…
So we say Awesome… We can celebrate God´s goodness to us!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yes we can and should… It is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">truly all grace</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">What's next then? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What happens as we abide in Him…. It is it all
glory… Not exactly… look at the second part of v1…</span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">v1b… My Father is the vinedresser</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">… We continue to see the perfect unity in the Trinity… The Father
is active in the process at every step… What does the vineyard keeper do?</span><br />
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Since <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus is the true vine… since Jesus</b> is
doing for us what we could not do for ourselves… We can expect this pruning… look
at v2…</span><br />
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">v2… He will care for…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And prune the vines… </span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The same Greek Word
used here for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prune is also often
translated as cleanse… </b>We get pruned…. Cleansed…. Pruning and cleansing can
be painful and difficult… At least temporarily…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Look at v2:
"Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <b>every branch
that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">To be a Christian is
to bear fruit... If there is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no fruit</b>…
there is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no genuine saving faith</b>
being demonstrated in your life… </span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus is not talking
about external outward obedience to the law and rules… He is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not talking about being a super Christian….
He is not looking for better Pharisees</b>…. Not at all… That is just hypocrisy
to be outwardly religious and outwardly righteous… That's not how Jesus defines
fruit… We just read about the Fruit of the Spirit in Phil ch 1… That is what
Jesus means by fruit… In this text Jesus is saying… If you don't bear any fruit
at all… If there is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no growing in grace</b>…
Then you are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not a genuine believer</b>…
You do not belong to the vine… You are not in Christ and you get cut off… On
the other hand… Genuine believers get pruned… Cleansed for our Gown good and so
that we will produce fruit… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Lord prunes us…
So that we would bear more fruit… </span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Paul gives us another list in his letter to the Galatians… Look
with me at Gal 5: 22,23…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Galatians 5:
22,23<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV slt 2000</span></b></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such
there is no law.</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span><br />
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice in this text
that's not the fruits of the Spirit… It is fruit… <b>it's singular… These
things are all connected to each other… They all come from the Work of the Holy
Spirit in us… The fruit of the Spirit is the Righteousness of the Lord Jesus
Christ…. It is being produced in us by the Holy Spirit…. Day by day… </b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus says because</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> he is what we could
not be… he is pruning us so we can become more like Him… He will produce the
same qualities that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">HE IS</b>… In us… We
all need to grow in these areas... Therefore, the Lord in his kindness prunes us…
And it hurts… so that we can grow in these areas…</span></div>
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Now somehow along
the way... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We begin to believe that to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">follow the Lord Jesus is just one great day
followed by another awesome day</b>… This idea of a perfect life in Christ on
earth is not true… It's nowhere in the Bible… Sadly, Our wrong theology leaves
us<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>no room for difficulties… No
suffering… No pain and No doubts...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not
my experience… I have experienced all of them… How about you?.. No… The
Christian life is not always easy…</span><br />
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Lord Jesus prunes
us… and we grow in love and understanding…The Lord cleanses us and we grow in
grace… We also tend to think in terms of our salvation and Sanctification as a
single moment in time… </span><br />
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">It is in fact a
lifelong journey of transformation into the image of Jesus… Day by day…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We wrestle with doubt and fear… We cry out to
the Lord and cling to the cross… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">We are slowly being
transformed into the image of Jesus… The Lord prunes us…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">slowly
we grow in grace</b> and in the knowledge of Him… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus says,
"I am what you could not be… but I am going to transform you in who I am… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am perfect
love… I am perfect joy... I am perfect peace... I am perfect kindness... I am
perfect goodness... I am perfect faithfulness… And I have perfect self-control…
I'm going to grow you in these areas… How? I'm going to prune you so you can produce
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more of me in your lives…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Although no one
volunteers to be pruned and cleansed… It is actually encouraging to know that
the Lord is working in us… It means that He is continuing the process of our transformation
into His image… He is doing exactly what He promised… look at the last part of
v 23…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v23…</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Against such things there
is no law</b>… The fruit of the Holy Spirit… Which is the perfect reflection of
the Character of Jesus… Transcends all of the law because it fulfills the law
from the heart perfectly… As Jesus continues to do this work in us… We discover
the joyful ability to obey Him from the heart… It is not a matter of you must
obey… We begin to want to obey and He makes us able to do it… He is doing it
through us… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Here is question for
you…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are you in a season of life now
where you feel this pruning… Are you wrestling with doubt or struggling with
conflicts at work… or in your marriage… Are you going through <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a lot of fear and anxiety?.. Hard times right
now?..</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">It doesn't mean
you've done anything wrong… And it doesn't mean you're being punished… It does
not mean that you are an inadequate disciple… Failing to have the perfect
Christian life… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have to get rid of
this notion… It's absurd... God in His grace and unfailing love is disciplining
us… He is pruning and cleansing us… It is not proof that we have failed the
Lord… He has promised to finish the work that he has begun in us… he will not
fail to complete the work that He has begun in us… Even if it seems that our
pruning is killing us…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will not die…
But we will be transformed into His image… Take comfort…. Count it all
joy…James 1: 2-8…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">It is good news… We
need not worry… We need only to abide in Him… That is the safest place to be.. Back
to John 15...</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Let´s look then at our
position is in his presence... This is an outrageous text... Look at verse 3...
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">v3… you are Already clean
because of the word that I have spoken to you."</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> This is great
truth… You are already clean… He says to his disciples… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you are
clean… and you're clean because you've believed my word… I have spoken to you,
and you believed…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I am the
Messiah… I'm the only one who can save you from your sins… and they have
believed...</span><br />
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Notice only it is because
they believed… not because they did anything... Remember… These disciples are just
hours away from betraying and denying Christ outright… Here is a lesson for all
of us… We need to learn to be more gracious to ourselves… They are all going to
run away from Him… Peter is going to say… "I do not know this man…. Leave
me alone… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't even know him… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet knowing all of this Jesus says… You're
clean because you believed in my word… This is what Jesus told Peter in John ch
13… Remember… It was on this same night that Jesus said… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He said I must wash your feet… Or you have no part in me… John 13:8</b>…
We come </span><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">again to the text in
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phil ch1….</b> I have started the work
in you…. I will complete it… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phil 1:
3-11…</b> </span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">If we have not
failed Jesus yet today… We can be thankful… But the day is not over and we may
still fail him today… But listen… If we do fail Him…. He is not surprised… He
has started the work in us and He will complete it in us…. No matter how much
pain and pruning we need… It is for our good and His Glory…. He will finish the
Work of transforming us into His Glorious image… </span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Look with me at
v4…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">"v4… Abide in
me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides
in the</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <b>vine, neither
can you, unless you abide in me.</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Abide in Me… I will
do the transformation… </span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Now scroll down for v5… look at the
second part of the verse… </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">v5b… apart from me
you can do nothing…. </span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">That is the end me thinking that I have anything to do with what happens
in ministry…. Everything that happens that is good and eternal…. Is only
because we are abiding in<b> Him… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">One of the great Theological
teachings of what it means to be a Christian… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is pictured in this idea of union with Christ…
That we are in Him and he is in us… That works in mainly <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in how
God sees us… As genuine believers… When God sees us… He does not see our
failures…</span><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">He sees the perfect obedience
of Christ… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">v7… If you abide in
me, and my words</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <b>abide in you,
ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you."</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Does this mean that
if I Abide in Christ… I now have the power to ask for anything? No… That is
what many teach…. But that is not true… We do not have A heavenly Visa card… We
cannot speak to our wallets… We are not promised perfect health…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>wealth… Jesus says seek me… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But
seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness</b>… Matt 6:33…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">is </b>saying… Abide in me… Keep your close
connection to me… I will give you my righteousness… I will transform you into
my image…. Then you will want what I want… You will be in perfect harmony with
the Plan of the Father… v8…</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">v8… By this my
Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. </span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></div>
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">This is great… We
abide in Christ… We are transformed… We take on the righteousness of Christ…
Our Character becomes more like Jesus… Our wants and desires become Christ
like… And The Father is Glorified in our Transformation… Let´s look at the last
few verses for today… John 15… v9-11…</span><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">John 15: 9-11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">9 “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
10 If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept
My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.11 “These things I have spoken
to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">v9… Abide in my
love…</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Jesus says, "If
you abide in my love, then you'll obey my commandments…. Because He will
continue the work that He has begun in us…. He will complete it… He will not
fail to transform us into His image… </span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">What we are called
to…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is to grow in our love for Jesus… That
in turn will affect our obedience…</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">For Christians this
means that we want to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fill our lives
with things that point us to Jesus… We abide in Christ...</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">We <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Study the Word of God</b>… We hide it our
hearts…. WE serve… We seek <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">good edifying
fellowship</b>… We commit ourselves to the Word of God and prayer… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Look at verse 11...</span></b><span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These things I have spoken to you..."<b>.
"...that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why Jesus is teaching this…</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">The Lord is serious
about our joy… Not surface happiness because everything is going well today…
Rather our deeply rooted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>confidence In
Him… Remember this… No matter what Happens…. Jesus has your back… He is for
us…. He will make a way for us through whatever disaster strikes… He will
finish the work in us… Christ has done for us what we could never do for
ourselves… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #bfbfbf; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BFBFBF; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: background1; mso-themecolor: background1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Let's pray.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.07.02<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JOHN 14:
12-18</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will not leave you Orphans</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Promise of the Holy Spirit</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
continues to Transform hearts and minds… by the Power of His Holy Spirit
working in and through the Word of God… Jesus </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">has
been warning the Disciples of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">very
difficult hard times that are coming...</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
is spending His last day…. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His last evening… With <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His disciples… </b>It is a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> very intense time… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is
going on here<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">? </b>This is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the last time</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">that Jesus is with the disciples before being arrested and going to the
cross… Jesus is speaking to the hearts of the disciples… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
preparing and comforting them… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Their
world is going to be shaken apart… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">are down to the wire now<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… Because of His unfailing love… Jesus </b>is
warning the disciples of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> desperate
hard times that will burst into their lives </b>in just a few hours now…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> He </b>is offering the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> disciples comfort from their fear and anxiety… </b>look with me at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John 14… beginning at v12…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
14: 12-14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">12
“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have
done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. 13 You
can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, so that the Son can bring
glory to the Father. 14 Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These words of Jesus tell us that all genuine believers
will carry on His work… And in some ways… We will do things even greater than
the works of Jesus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s a promise to all believers… This is not only for
these <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">12 Apostles… </b>It is not only <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for missionaries or highly gifted
Christians... No… Jesus says…</b> whoever believes in me… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In other words, this is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">normal Christianity</b>… This is what it means to be a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christian</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>
promises all believers will do his works… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are making problems for ourselves if we think…
Miracle!… I am going to do miracles!... Especially if we focus on Jesus’ most
amazing miracles… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has recently </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">raised
Lazarus from the dead… As we read the Word of God… The incredible miracles
stagger the mind… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did Jesus mean that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">every Christian would do all</b> of these
things?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I don´t think that is what Jesus is saying… In the New
Testament we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">do </b>see <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">some miracles</b>… For example in the
record of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">early church</b>… The Book
of Acts for example… Now when we study the letters <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the churches… Miracles are mentioned… They
are shown as gifts of the Spirit… But Gifts that only some Christians have…
Look with me at 1 Cor 12… v7-11…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Corinthians 12: 7-11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">7 A
spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. 8 To one
person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same
Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. 9 The same Spirit gives great
faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing.
10 He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability
to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is
from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given
the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability
to interpret what is being said. 11 It is the one and only Spirit who distributes
all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look at verse 11…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v11…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">11 It is the one and only Spirit who
distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should
have...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, if Jesus doesn’t mean that all believers will do
miracles like his… what does he mean when he says… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do”?</b> He is
pointing to something far greater than raising someone from the dead… He is
pointing the Mission that He has given us…. To go into all the World and
proclaim the Gospel to every creature… He is pointing to the presence of the
Holy Spirit living inside of us… And By the Holy Spirit in flowing through us…
The greatest Miracles are what we will do…. The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">miracle of Salvation</b> is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">greatest
miracle… Transformed hearts and minds</b>… think about it<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Millions
upon Millions upon millions have come to Christ… Part of this Miracle is the
Love of God which is shed abroad in our hearts… God´s love broadcast out from
us to a lost and dying world… The Holy Spirit working miracles… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Leading
many to Christ… Jesus is saying… Here is the Miracle…. You will survive this terrible
time that is coming upon you… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> World will see my Love flowing out of you to a lost and dying world…
That miracle will draw People to me… </b>let´s continue on in John 14…v15…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
14: 15-18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">15
“If you love me, obey my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he
will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy
Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it
isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him, because he
lives with you now and later will be in you.18 No, I will not abandon you as
orphans—I will come to you.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember that all of these words… Chapters 13-18 were all
spoken just hours before the greatest act of love in history… Jesus will be
arrested in just a few hours…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the morning He will be Crucified for our Sins… He will
Rise from the dead to secure our forever by His side… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I would like for us to notice a few things from this
section…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Jesus expects us to love and obey Him… v15</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 He
promises the Holy Spirit… v16</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
The Holy Spirit will come to you to help you… v16</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
The Father will give you another Advocate… v16</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5
The Holy Spirit will lead the World to Truth… v17</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6 I
will not abandon you as Orphans… v18</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Jesus expects us to love and obey Him… v15</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">verse 15</b>…
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> expects that we… As genuine
believers… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Will Love and Obey Him… </b>On
another occasion…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
said… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Why do you call me Lord and not do
what I tell you?… Luke 6:46</b>… Real Christians love the Lord Jesus and try to
obey Him…. With the help of the Holy Spirit… How?... look at v16,17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 He
promises the Holy Spirit… v16… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Through the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy Spirit</b> dwelling in us…. The Holy
Spirit will cause these things to happen in our hearts…This is exactly what we
see in the Jahres losung verse for this year… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A new Spirit and a new heart…</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ezekiel 36:26…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Promise of God… The new birth</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is the greatest miracle… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
The Holy Spirit will come to you to help you… v16 We cannot love God… We cannot
love each other unless the Holy Spirit is working in and through us… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4 The
Father will give you another Advocate… v16… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Greek here means
“another just like me”… Just as Jesus said…. I am the way and the Truth and the
Life… The work of the Holy Spirit is to testify to the truth…. John describes
Jesus when he appeared as being <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">full of
Grace and truth… John 1: 14… Now because the Holy Spirit is living in us… We
miraculously reflect Jesus Love to the world… We Graciously and loving proclaim
the Good News… There is hope… His name is Jesus…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will a a sense be the WAY The truth and
the Life that the world sees now… Because He is going away… </b>That leads us
to v18… next side please… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
is sending His disciples to represent Him to the World… He is comforting them…
He is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>preparing them</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> for
the coming hard times… Soon comes The arrest… The Cross… His death…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And His Resurrection….</b> But He is also
preparing us for difficult times in this world… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Right now they are afraid… They will all abandon Him… But
beginning on the day of Pentecost… They will shake the world with His Love and
His words of life flowing out from the church to the world… They will go to the
ends of the earth… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Power of the Holy
Spirit… But for now he has a powerful word of comfort too… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6 I
will not abandon you as Orphans… v18</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
greek word here is exactly what you would expect… “Orphanos”… Orphans…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These Disciples are very confused and afraid… They need
comfort and encouragement because <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
is going away… Jesus message here in this text to them…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And also to us… Is comforting… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After His death and resurrection… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are all comforted to know that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He and the Father and the Holy Spirit will come to us… </b>They will be
with us forever… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus says I am going
away… But I will not leave you as orphans… Jesus says… Love me and obey me… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Practical
Questions</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What does it mean <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to
love Jesus?</b> And what are we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">promised</b>
if we do? First…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
What does it mean to love Jesus?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">look at John 14 again… v15,16… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
14: 15,16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">15
“If you love me, obey my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will
give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look
at the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>second question…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
What are we promised if we love and obey Him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>v16… another advocate… The Holy Spirit </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">who
will be with you forever… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What does <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
promise His disciples… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus</b> promises
all genuine believers… Yes I am going away but after the Resurrection… The
Father, the Holy Spirit, and I will be with you forever... We will never leave
you… We will<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>never forsake you… Never no matter what
happens…. No matter where you are… This is what Jesus is saying to comfort and
strengthen the disciples… These words of life are also for us… To help us
handle the disasters in our tomorrows… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus tells us this in a special way… Look at
v16 again… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v16…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And I will ask the Father, and he will give
you another Advocate, who will never leave you…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When he calls him “another Advocate… he means that this Advocate…
this Comforter… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is not the Father and He
is not me… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>because I am the first Advocate…
The first Comforter… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This second Helper
is the Holy Spirit…. We will see that next time in John 14… verse 26… He Is
saying… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Jesus returns to heaven…
the Father will give us the Holy Spirit… Another Advocate… To come along side…
Another Comforter… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He promises… scroll
down to v17…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v17…
He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him,
because it isn’t looking for him and doesn’t recognize him. But you know him,
because he lives with you now and later will be in you…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Advocate is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy
Spirit… He</b> is the Spirit of Truth… He is with you now as you are here in my
presence… And he will be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">in you</b>… In
you in a new and powerful way when I pour him out after the day of Pentecost…
This is why we read…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v18…
No, I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you… Jesus made this
wonderful promise to </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">these freaked out and frightened Disciples…
They Where are you going…. We do not know the way….<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Show us the Father… Jesus said You have seen me… You have seen the
Father… Don´t be afraid… I will send an Advocate… A comforter to come along
side you… And he will never leave you… Then in a few more verses He says
something that points to the perfect unity and purpose of the Trinity… We will
come to you and make our home with you… </b>Not only will the Holy Spirit come…
Jesus will also come to us with the Father…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he will give us what <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>every orphan needs… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Comfort</b> and protection and provision and guidance… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> will do all that and more… Earthly
Fathers… My Dad… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But He has not Left us without help… What Good
News… We love and Obey Jesus… We follow His example…. Like <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus… We are Humble servants leaders…</b> We are a sweet aroma to the
lost and dying world… We are salt and light… At least we should be… Here are
the last three questions for this morning…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
How does loving Jesus like this affect the way we live our lives… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
How does loving Jesus affect the way I work… </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5 How
does loving Jesus affect the way I treat others…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You know sometimes we tend to lose focus on the now of
our relationship with the Lord Jesus… Yes we have been forgiven…. Yes we have
been redeemed… Yes we will be with the Lord forever when He comes again… But
what about right now? How do I love and obey Him today..? How do I be the salt
and light that we have been called to be..? Jesus died for us… He also died for
everything that we face today in this fallen world… We should ask ourselves
what is the present out working of Jesus in my life for my parenting? For my
work life… Do the people that I meet day by day see even a trace of Jesus in
me? Am I being that salt and light that Points others to our great and loving
God and Savior the Lord Jesus Christ… Do they see a gracious and loving
representative of the Lord… Am I patient and kind to my children… To my wife… To
the people at work… To strangers? If not why not? In Closing… Let´s listen to
Paul´s exhortation to the church at Ephesus… He spent more time there than at
any other church… His words are filled with solid practical advice… look with
me please at Eph ch4… v1…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ephesians
4:1-6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of
your calling, for you have been called by God. 2 Always be humble and gentle.
Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of
your love. 3 Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding
yourselves together with peace. 4 For there is one body and one Spirit, just as
you have been called to one glorious hope for the future. 5 There is one Lord,
one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, in all,
and living through all.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">1 Als ein Gefangener für den Herrn fordere ich euch
deshalb auf, ein Leben zu führen, das eurer Berufung würdig ist, denn ihr seid
ja von Gott berufen worden. 2 Seid freundlich und demütig, geduldig im Umgang
miteinander. Ertragt einander voller Liebe. 3 Bemüht euch, im Geist eins zu
sein, indem ihr untereinander Frieden haltet. 4 Ihr sollt alle gemeinsam ein
Leib sein und einen Geist haben, weil ihr alle zu einer Hoffnung berufen seid.
5 Es gibt nur einen Herrn, einen Glauben, eine Taufe, 6 und es gibt auch nur
einen Gott und Vater, der über allen steht und durch alle lebt und in uns allen
ist.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is my pride and self-righteousness preventing others from
wanting the transformed Life that Jesus has given me..?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can they even see it? Or does my
representation of Jesus stink to them… Not salty and not shining with the Love
of Jesus… That is the big question for us today…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Will
others see Jesus in us… Will others see Jesus in Me?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s
pray…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.08.06<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JOHN 14: 15- 31</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will not leave you Orphans</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Promise of the Holy Spirit</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part 2</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
continues to Transform hearts and minds… by the Power of His Holy Spirit
working in and through the Word of God… Jesus </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">has
been warning the Disciples of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">very
difficult hard times that are coming...</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
is spending His last day…. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His last evening… With <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His disciples… </b>It is a<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> very intense time… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is
going on here<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">? </b>This is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the last time</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">that Jesus is with the disciples before being arrested and going to the
cross… Jesus is speaking to the hearts of the disciples… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
preparing and comforting them… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Their
world is going to be shaken apart… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">are down to the wire now<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… Because of His unfailing love… Jesus </b>is
warning the disciples of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> desperate
hard times that will burst into their lives </b>in just a few hours now…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> He </b>is offering the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> disciples comfort from their fear and anxiety… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
is speaking to the hearts of the disciples…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Jesus is Warning them… He has told them over and over that he is going to the
cross… They will be scattered…. They will run away… Peter will even deny Him… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
Jesus is calling them to follow His example… He is calling them to loving obedience…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
Jesus is comforting Them… He is promising the Holy Spirit to come along side of
them to help and comfort them moment by moment and day by day… He is saying… I
will never leave you and I will never forsake you… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>section is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">very
Theological… </b>We are learning about the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">work
and ministry of the HS in </b>these verses…. But it is<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> also very practical… Because His Word and His promises… </b>Will be
used by the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Holy Spirit to comfort and
encourage us… No matter what happens in our lives…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">look with me at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John
14… beginning at v15…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
14: 15- 24<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">15
“If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and He
will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 17 the Spirit
of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows
Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not
leave you orphans; I will come to you.19 Soon the world will no longer see me,
but you will see me. Since I live, you also will live. 20 When I am raised to
life again, you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am
in you. 21 Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love
me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them
and reveal myself to each of them.”22 Judas (not Judas Iscariot, but the other
disciple with that name) said to him, “Lord, why are you going to reveal
yourself only to us and not to the world at large?”23 Jesus replied, “All who
love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make
our home with each of them.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">24 Anyone who doesn’t
love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am
telling you is from the Father who sent me.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v15…
If you love me… Keep my Commandments</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v16…
another helper… He will be with you forever… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v17…
The Spirit of truth… you know Him… He is with you and He will be in you…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v18…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> These
Disciples are very confused and afraid… They need comfort and encouragement
because Jesus is going away… He promises that He will not abandon them as if
they were orphans… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v19…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Soon The world will see me no more… But you will!... I will rise from the dead…
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v20…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Then you will know… After my Resurrection… You will be totally assured of all
that I have told you… And because of my death and resurrection… You will live
also… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v21…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Then again in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus says… Love me and
obey me…</b> In fact 4 times in this chapter… Jesus says… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Love and Obey me… v15,v21,v23,v24… Now Jesus knows t</b>hat every one
of them is going to fail to love and obey him this very night… What does this
mean? I think it means at least two things… But First let me talk about what it
does not mean… It does not mean that our Love for Jesus will be measured by the
level of our obedience… Jesus is saying that our obedience should flow out of
our love for him… It is not that we loved God…. But that He first loved us… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 John 4:10-19… He is also saying that
without the active work of the HS we will fail to love and obey Him… After the
Resurrection of Jesus…. The HS which has been with us…. Will be in us as a
continuous and abiding presence… Transforming us day by day… </b>This is the
fulfillment of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Ezekiel 36: 27… It is the
promise of the new birth… We would never Love or obey God unless He had begun
this work in us…. And </b>In fact… We will never love or Obey Jesus perfectly
until our transformation into His image is complete… That will be when we see
Jesus face to face… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Cor 13:11,12</b>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is what I believe he is saying… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 Jesus
is saying that our obedience will flow out of grateful and thankful hearts as
we grow in grace and in the knowledge of Him… Since we cannot do this for
ourselves…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
The Holy Spirit will continue the transformation that began when we were born
again by the Spirit of God at our conversion…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul wrote wonderfully about this miracle of growing in
grace… In his letter to the Philippians he said…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He who began a good work in you… ch 1v6…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the Sanctification process that
he has already began in us… It will produce growing trust and love for the Lord
Jesus… Which will produce increasing knowledge and discernment… And we will be
filled with the fruits of Righteousness… All to and for the Glory and Praise of
God… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phil 1: 3-11…</b> That is the
summary… We will read it later if we have time… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">look with me at v23,24…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v24… Remember everything that I tell you comes from the
Father… They are not merely my words… We see echos of the Trinity in these
verses as the Holy Spirit is promised… next section… v25-31…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
14: 25-31<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">25
“These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. 26 But the
Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach
you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I
give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 28 You
have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you
loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My
Father is greater than I. 29 “And now I have told you before it comes, that
when it does come to pass, you may believe. 30 I will no longer talk much with
you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. 31 But
that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me
commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">look with me at v26… This is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very important… Jesus is going away…. He has
promised that He will not abandon them as orphans… He is promising the Holy
Spirit… He is being sent by the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Father
in place of Jesus… The greek word is “Paraclete” </b>It can be translated as<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> advocate… as counselor and as comforter… The
Holy Spirit is The advocate… The Comforter… He </b>is saying… You guys are works
in progress… You will all abandon me tonight…. But I will not abandon you… Until
now…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> I have been your teacher… </b>I am
going away and The<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Father </b>is sending<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> the Holy Spirit in my place… </b>Jesus is
beginning to teach them about the ministry of the Holy Spirit… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look
at v26a… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v26a…
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will
teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to
you.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v26a… He will teach you all things… The
HS </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">will
continue to teach you and help you…Through the coming active work of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy Spirit in their lives… Jesus Himself
is promising to continue to be there for them… He is comforting them by sending
“The Comforter” to them to take His Place as Teacher… </b>That is the first
thing…. Then<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… </b>Look at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v26b… scroll down…</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v26b…
and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here… Jesus is not only promising that they will <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">understand through the Ministry of the HS</b>…
He is also promising them the Inspiration and direction of the HS as they
recall and record all that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus Began
to say and do…</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In this<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> promise </b>we
understand that<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus Himself promised
the inspiration of the New Testament… It will be accomplished by the Holy
Spirit´s work in their hearts and minds… 2 Timothy 3: 15-17… Paul and all of
the Apostles </b>understood this… Look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 Corinthians 2:12,13…</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Corinthians 2: 12,13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from
God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13
These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which
the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">12 Wir aber haben nicht den Geist der Welt empfangen,
sondern den Geist, der aus Gott ist, sodass wir wissen können, was uns von Gott
geschenkt ist; 13 und davon reden wir auch, nicht in Worten, die von
menschlicher Weisheit gelehrt sind, sondern in solchen, die vom Heiligen Geist
gelehrt sind, indem wir Geistliches geistlich erklären.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul in this ch is saying these things that we teach are
from the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Holy Spirit… Through the Holy
Spirit… We have the mind of Christ…v16</b>… That’s what Jesus promised… The
Father will send the Holy Spirit… He will bring to your memory what he wants
the church to know… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were eyewitnesses… He will help them to
remember and record everything that God wants them to… back to John 14 Ch
14…v26… scroll down please…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v26a…
He will teach you all things”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> What things?... Everything necessary
to give a true account of what Jesus said and did… And to reveal exactly who He
is…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is exactly what is happening in John´s Gospel… Years
later John is remembering and recording the Words of Life and the miracles that
Jesus did… He is teaching new generations of Genuine believers... And he is
doing it so that we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">will believe that
Jesus is the Christ</b>…. And so that believing… we will have Life through
Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 20:31…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now look with me at verses 27–29… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus is not only promising the Holy Spirit… He is giving them powerful
words of encouragement… </b>He is promising to replace their fear and anxiety
with His peace… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b> is promising to
replace their <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">growing sorrow</b> with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His Joy</b>… And of course… The goal is to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">replace their faithlessness with a strong
and deeply rooted faith and trust and hope in Him…</b> verse 27… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v27…
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I
give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus is saying I got this… It will be very hard for you…
But there will be no disasters tonight…. I lay down my life so that I can take
it up again… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 10:18</b>… Jesus is
not focused on Himself and the terrible pain that awaits Him… He has the
deepest needs of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">our hearts</b> in view…
He wants his disciples and all of us… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
be free from fear and anxiety… No matter what happens to us or our loved ones…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at the middle
of verse 27… “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Not as the world gives do
I give to you.” </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His
peace</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not</b> based
on our circumstances… Look ahead with me at John 16: 33…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
16: 33<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">33
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world
you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">33 Dies habe ich zu euch geredet, damit ihr in mir
Frieden habt. In der Welt habt ihr Bedrängnis; aber seid getrost, ich habe die
Welt überwunden!</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus is saying…. Look I know that it will not be easy…You
will indeed have tribulation…. But don´t be afraid… I have overcome the world… Our
peace in the middle of disaster will make no sense to the world... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look with me at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Philippians
4: 6,7…</b> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Philippians
4: 6,7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV slt 2000</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6 Be
anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God,
which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through
Christ Jesus.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">6 Sorgt euch um nichts; sondern in allem lasst durch
Gebet und Flehen mit Danksagung eure Anliegen vor Gott kundwerden. 7 Und der
Friede Gottes, der allen Verstand übersteigt, wird eure Herzen und eure
Gedanken bewahren in Christus Jesus!</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul says… Don´t worry about anything… Pray about
everything… Then the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding… We
protect and keep your hearts and minds… Human understanding cannot produce it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God’s peace</b>… It is ours because <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we are in Christ</b>… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back to John 14… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v 27… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v27a:
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.” </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am
sharing with you my peace… I am not afraid…. I do not want you to be afraid at
all… I am bringing you into my peace… They are about to kill Him… What kind of
peace Does He have? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perfect peace… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The peace of God the Father Himself… He says… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tomorrow I will go to the cross… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will
purchase your forgiveness… and I will provide your righteousness… And I will
bring you into the very peace that I enjoy with my Father… look with at verse
28… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Verse
28: “You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you
loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father, for the
Father is greater than I.”</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now He says…. If you really love me you will rejoice with
Me… I am going back to the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Father…! </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">V28…
“If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to the Father”… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So
our joy is not the joy of the world…. It is rooted in the Lord Jesus Christ and
in His relationship with the Father… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God
give his people joy… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not as the world
gives… He is faithful and full of unfailing… Never going to stop loving you
love… Our joy has infinite roots… It is Rooted in the very nature of God…. He
is by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nature a Savoir… 1 Timothy 4:10…</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look with me at John 14…v29…</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v29…
“And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you
may believe.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">has
given many prophesies about the events that would occur during His Ministry and
arrest and betrayal… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> is
pointing to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sovereign plan of God</b>
in every event that unfolds… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus is
making clear who is in control of every event...</b> It isn’t Pilate… It isn’t
Herod... It is not the Jews… It isn’t the soldiers… It isn’t even Satan… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My Father is in charge… Acts 4:27-28...</b>
And by his command, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am in charge… John
3:35; 13:3...</b> Nobody takes my life from me… I lay it down… John 10:18...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus says…. It is going to get crazy tonight… Trust me… Believe
in me… The Father and I are in control… Do not be afraid… Evil does not have
the upper hand… My unfailing love will see you through… I will not abandon you
as orphans… The holy Spirit will teach you in my place… The work that I have
began in you will be completed… You will survive this disastrous night… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And since that was true at history’s darkest
hour… It will be true in our darkest hours as well… If we just trust in Him… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lord Jesus gave the disciples many
promises during this last night with the disciples… We will see more as we
continue in Ch 15 and 16…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today we saw the Promise of His continued presence with
them in the Promise of the Holy Spirit… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Questions?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Are we… Am I demonstrating the Peace and joy and trust
that the Holy Spirit offers me…? Am I hanging on to Jesus in every storm?...
Does the world see the transformed life that Knowing Jesus brings? No so much…
Why not… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Is my pride and self-righteousness preventing others from
wanting the transformed Life that Jesus has given me..?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can they even see it? Or does my
representation of Jesus stink to them… Not salty and not shining with the Love
of Jesus… That is the big question for us today…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Will
others see God´s Love and grace in us and flowing out of us… Will others see
Jesus in us… Will others see Jesus in Me? Speaking for myself…. Not </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">much
to see most days…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> We need to hide His
Word in our hearts… We need to love and care for each other… We need to Abide
in Him… </b>That is what we will look at next week…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John 15… </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Good news </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is that we have an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amazing
Savior</b>… And we have received a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">great
salvation</b>… We have been born again by the Spirit of God… And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He is continuing the work that He has began
in us… </b>We can all take great comfort in this truth… He started the work and
He will finish it in us…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s
pray…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.06.11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John
13: 21-38</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Having loved His own… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part 3</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
continues to Transform hearts and minds… by the Power of His Holy Spirit
working in and through the Word of God… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once
again </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">this morning we<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
are studying the Gospel of John… look with me at John 13… beginning at v17…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">18
“I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the
Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel
against Me.’ 19 Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass,
you may believe that I am He. 20 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives
whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v17…
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them… Jesus </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">has
washed the disciples feet… It is a powerful example of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">loving<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>servant leadership… Jesus
is saying… I </b>have set this example for you to follow… Love and serve each
other…. Do not be proud and stubborn… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v18b…</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He
who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me… Jesus is quoting
Psalm 41... </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">look at v19…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v19…
"'Now I tell you it before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you
may believe that I am He. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus knew who would betray Him… The
disciples are going to freak out when Judas betrays Him… But Jesus is steadfast
and not at all surprised…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is all part
of God´s sovereign plan… He quotes this scripture<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to show them, That He is in control of this
whole event… Now it is time…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the
plan…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v20…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he who receives, whomever I send, receives me…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is sending them to complete the work that He
has begun… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And they <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">will </b>take the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Good news of the Gospel </b>to the ends of the earth…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">21
When Jesus had said these things, He was troubled in spirit, and testified and
said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.” 22 Then the
disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom He spoke. 23 Now there
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v21…
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The disciples were now receiving another shock…. One of
them would betray Jesus...? Impossible to imagine… But there was more… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus knew that Peter was going to deny him… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He predicted it to his face… But even though
he had been warned… When to time came Peter denied Jesus… three times…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did
Jesus know that Judas was going to betray him…? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, he did because He knows everything… He is
the Living Word of God… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Jesus often spoke directly to their unspoken
thoughts and intentions… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus Knew every event that was going to happen… He knew
who will betray and deny him… But that knowlege did not soften the impact of
the events… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v21… says his heart was
troubled…</b> It's a strong word in the Greek… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">[?
Torosso ?]</b>… It means to be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">agitated
deeply…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So even though He knew… It bothered him… As God in Human
flesh…. Jesus knew pain and sadness just like us…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He relates to our pain and sadness and
temptations… This makes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Him our perfect
High Priest… Hebrews ch 5 and ch 7… Jesus</b> knew who the betrayer was… The disciples
wanted to know… According to Matt24… They asked one by one… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Is it I Lord…</b> Judas had fooled them
all… Peter wants to know…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v23…"there
was leaning on Jesus' bosom, one of his disciples whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter
therefore motioned to him to ask who it was of whom he spoke."</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Now
the disciple Jesus loved is John… the writer of the gospel… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John is leaning on Jesus… Peter</b>
whispers to him… Find out who it is… V24-30… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
13: 24-30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">24
Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask who it was of whom He spoke. 25
Then, leaning back on Jesus’ breast, he said to Him, “Lord, who is it?”26 Jesus
answered, “It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped
it.” And having dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of
Simon. 27 Now after the piece of bread, Satan entered him. Then Jesus said to
him, “What you do, do quickly.” 28 But no one at the table knew for what reason
He said this to him. 29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that
Jesus had said to him, “Buy those things we need for the feast,” or that he
should give something to the poor. 30 Having received the piece of bread, he
then went out immediately. And it was night.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was tradition for the Host to give a morsel of bread
dipped in Hummus or whatever it was to the guests… Jesus used it to identify
Judas as the rat… The betrayer… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now </b>John and Peter know that Judas is the
betrayer… But the rest of the disciples still had no clue… Even when Judas gets
up and leaves… They do not suspect anything wrong… They just thought that he
was doing his duty… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Immediately He went
out… Satan</b> had entered His heart… Look at the last part of v30… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And it was night</b>… I think that is
significant in this text… Because in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John's
Gospel… light and darkness are often used symbolically by John… Judas´ heart
was now totally black</b>… next section… v31-35…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
13: 31-35<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">31
So, when he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God
is glorified in Him. 32 If God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him
in Himself, and glorify Him immediately. 33 Little children, I shall be with
you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where
I am going, you cannot come,’ so now I say to you. 34 A new commandment I give
to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one
another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love
for one another.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v31…
And when he had gone out, Jesus said, "'now the Son of Man is glorified…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And God is glorified in him,</b>' Jesus is speaking
of the cross… It is the Divine and perfect plan of redemption… They are both
receiving Glory in this miracle of redemption… And God will glorify him
immediately… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v33…
Little children, I shall be with you a little longer. You will seek me. As I
said to the Jews, where I am going you cannot come… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here
is another shock for the disciples… They still do not quite understand that in
just hours now they will be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Temporarily
separated</b> from the Lord because of the cross… And while they are trying to
process this… He calls them to a higher deeper love for each other…v34,35…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v34,35…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And now I say to you a new commandment. I
give to you that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love
one another… By this, all will know that you are my disciples if you have love
for one another.'" </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The greek word <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>
used for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">new</b> here can be translated <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">renewed… It means fresh…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>
took a commandment they were very familiar with… He says… I am giving you a
refreshed more alive commandment…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
there's a new standard of love… Love people like I love Them… Like I have loved
you… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Love in humility and in gentleness… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Love without expecting something in return… Unconditionally… This</b>
is the way I have loved you…. You do the same… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Demonstrate my love to this lost and dying world… </b>You saw me serve…
you serve…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well,
how did Jesus love? Sacrificially… Unconditionally… </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I imagine that almost all of us know <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">verse 35...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this, by our
love, all men will know that you are My disciples if you have love for one
another…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are to be known by our
love…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are to be marked by our love…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I think that’s true of genuine Christians…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is really critical… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
says… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I'm giving you a renewed commandment… Love others as I
have loved you… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God´s Love flowing through us to a lost and
dying world… Jesus</b> is saying this is the sign that you belong to me… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God´s love in us… It flows out of a
forgiven and thankful heart… A heart that has been transformed… </b>What marks
a true believer is this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">transformed
heart…</b> A Genuine believer has been born again…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Translated out of the kingdom of sin and
darkness into the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kingdom of God´s dear
Son… Transformed</b> from the inside…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And if we ask the question… What identifies that transformation?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we’re getting to the evidence of who is
a true believer…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Genuine believers</b> are known by our character… by our <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">love of the things of God</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a word… we are known by our love... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last week was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pentecost… The Holy Spirit</b> is at work in us day by day… Maybe the
simplest explanation of how to identify a Christian comes from the Holy
Spirit´s work in us… Look with me at Galatians 5: 23-26….</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Galatians
5: 22-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no
law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions
and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul describes the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fruit
of the Spirit here… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v22… But the fruit of the Spirit is love… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This
is the evidence of the Spirit’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">presence
in our lives…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proof of our
transformation and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>conversion… This is
exactly what we see In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God´s promise</b>
in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ezekiel ch 36: 25-27…</b> And here
Paul says… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fruit of the Spirit is
love…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And out of that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">love
flows joy… peace… gentleness… long suffering… self-control</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These all flow out of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God´s love working in us in us…. And flowing out of us to others</b>…
It is our love that supports and motivates all those other things…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus told Judas to go and finish the
betrayal…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And he did... Jesus is now
with the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">true disciples…</b> And the
first thing He does is have a deep and important conversation with them… He
speaks directly to the evidence and reality of their salvation…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember all of this flows out of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John ch 13 verse 1… That is where we began
this chapter… verse 1 says… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He
loved them eis telos… to the limit… to the fullness of divine capacity…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God´s
Love is a love that knows no limits</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved His own who were in the world as
much as it was possible for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eternal
God to love</b>...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His love is
unfailing…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This chapter is one of the
most wonderful… unconditional and limitless statements about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His love in all of Scripture</b>... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This O.T. commandment to Love God… Was now made stronger
than in the law… Because they had seen an example of it that was new…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Love
had come to another level with Jesus…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Son of God</b> washing feet took love to another level…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is offering His life as sacrifice for
sin… and that is love at the ultimate… Later this very night… As <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> talks about the need to Abide in
His Love… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b> will repeat this
renewed Higher commandment… And He will say… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greater love has no man than this…. That He
lay down His life for His friends… John 15: 13…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Listen If we are going to help each other do life… If we
are going to wash each others feet…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
must do it gently… After all… We all sin… We all go through hard times… We have
fears and doubts... we need to counsel and pray each other… We are called to
help each other… To provoke one another to love and good works… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hebrews 10: 23-25…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What characterizes our Lord´s interactions with His
disciples on this final night before the cross… is His love… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>
expects from us… And all of His promises to us…. Everything flows from Divine
love… From the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Father and from the Son</b>…
Love at work… In us and through us by the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Promised
Holy Spirit…</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John summed it up in his epistle…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We
love Him because He first loved us… 1 John 4:19… Amen and amen…</b> back to
John 13… look at the last section v36-38…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
13: 36-38<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>36 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, where are
You going?”Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow Me now, but
you shall follow Me afterward.” 37 Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not
follow You now? I will lay down my life for Your sake.” 38 Jesus answered him,
“Will you lay down your life for My sake? Most assuredly, I say to you, the
rooster shall not crow till you have denied Me three times.v36… "Simon
Peter said to him, 'Lord, where are you going?' Jesus said, 'where I am going
you cannot follow me now. But you will follow me afterward</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The disciples were very upset to hear Jesus saying that
he is being betrayed…. Now <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He </b>says
that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b> is going away…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are afraid of what will happen to them
when He is gone… They still hope that He will establish His Eternal Kingdom… This
is a very difficult night for them…. And soon it will get a lot more difficult
in the Garden of Gethsemane… Peter says… '<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord</b>,
why can I not follow you now?'" This is Peter... Jesus says you cannot
follow me now…. Peter says why not…? He seems to be coming to grips with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus going to the cross</b> and he thinks
that he is strong enough to fight for Him…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v37…
Peter said to Him, “Lord, why can I not follow You now? I will lay down my life
for Your sake.” </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peter says… I am with you Lord to the end… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v38…
Jesus answered, 'will you lay down your life for my sake? Most assuredly, I say
to you, the rooster shall not crow till you have denied me three times.'"</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus knew Peter was going to fail him… He was not
shocked by Peter´s weaknesses… And He is not shocked by our weaknesses and failures
either… He knows that like Peter… We will also be restored… Our sin and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>failures draw to the Throne of grace… We ask
the Lord to forgive us…. And He does… The Love of Jesus is demonstrated in His
continuing grace in our lives… As far as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peter</b>
is concerned… We have a bit more detail… In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Luke's gospel</b>… Look with me at Luke 22 v31-34… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Luke
22: 31-34<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">31
And the Lord said, “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may
sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith should not
fail; and when you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.” 33 But he
said to Him, “Lord, I am ready to go with You, both to prison and to death.” 34
Then He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster shall not crow this day before
you will deny three times that you know Me.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here we see<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus </b>interceding
for<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Peter… </b>Just as He intercedes for
us to this day… Peter declares that He is strong… And that he will go with Him
to prison and death… And we know that after he repents… He serves the Lord for
the rest of His life… He boldly stood up in the temple and Gave that first
Incredible sermon on the day of Pentecost… Acts 2: 22…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His fear of man
was completely gone… He said you killed Him…. But God raised Him from the dead…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And thousands were saved that day… And
according to historical sources… Many years later… He did go to prison and he
was martyred for the name of Jesus… As genuine believers… We are commanded to
love others like The Lord Jesus Christ loved us… And we can do it… </span></div>
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know that God is using them to continue the process of transforming us in the
very image of Jesus… Loving and serving people… That means… when we run out of
love and patience for the people in our lives… The Holy Spirit is ready to pour
in more of God´s love… And with that Godly love…. We receive all of the Fruits
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caring for all the people that the Lord puts in our lives… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And watch how transforming it becomes for you
and me… And this kind of Love will transform this Church and this community.. .
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Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once
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We see the Father perfectly reflected in the Son… In perfect Loving obedience
to the Father… Jesus laid down His life for us… As we saw last week… Jesus
demonstrated Humble Servant Leadership as He washed the disciples feet… Jesus'
public ministry is complete... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has nothing more to say directly to the
world… But he has a lot more to say to his disciples… Jesus is going to teach and
prepare them for the very difficult days ahead… As he teaches them... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He serves them… A living sermon</b> and an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">awesome example</b>…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are going to pickup at
Chapter 13 Verse 1 again…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
13: 1-5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1Now
before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that
He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were
in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil
having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray
Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and
that He had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper and laid
aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5 After that, He poured
water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with
the towel with which He was girded</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look at the last part of v1…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v1b…
Having loved His own who were in the world</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… As We saw last
week… The phrase… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His own… </b>is
from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Greek<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> tous idious</b>… It can be translated as… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Near and dear</b>… those who belong to Him… It is a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">very personal expression</b>... He is
thinking about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His own</b> who are in
the world… next phrase… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v1b…He loved them to the end…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is another <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">great
</b>phrase in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greek</b>… it means to
perfection… to the consummation… to the infinite capacity of divine love... You
might translate this…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He loved them fully and forever... </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He
loved them with all the love with which God can love… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And His love and protection continues on into
Eternity… Forever…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We focused on these verses last week… In them we see a
clear picture of the depth and fullness of Jesus Love for His own... You can
listen to it on line if you missed it… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v2…</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">the
devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot… to betray Him…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This betrayal by Judas is part of the Sovereign Plan of
God… Matthew 26… Judas Iscariot has already received the money… 30 pieces of
silver… The price of a slave by the way… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He has arraigned to give Jesus over to the Chief Priests
on this very night…. Jesus knows it… Judah thinks that he is executing his
plan… But He is only following The Fathers… Because the time had come… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
what is that time? His hour… Tomorrow <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
will lay down His life</b> for them and us… look with me at v5-8…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
13: 5-8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5
After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet,
and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6 Then He came to
Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?” 7 Jesus
answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you
will know after this.” 8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus
answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Last week I said that the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Disciples were going to freak out when Jesus is arrested and crucified</b>…
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peter</b> really starts to freak out
right here is these verses… Let me set some context here…. First remember it is
only a few days since <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the huge crowds
hailed Jesus as the great King Messiah… Peter</b> and the others were certain
that finally <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus was ready to seize
His Kingdom and destroy the Roman rule</b> over them… This even though He has
told them several times that He was going to die on the cross… They somehow
deleted that from their <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Whattsapp
accounts without really comprehending it…</b> When He is betrayed they will
freak… But even now <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Peter</b> sees that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus behavior is not that of a conquering
King</b>… Rather a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">common slave</b>… He
does not yet understand the concept of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prophesied
suffering servant of the Lord… </b>Also… They had just been arguing with themselves
over who would be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the greatest in the
kingdom…Luke 22… </b>They are not thinking about serving at all... They are
thinking about being served proudly as Jesus´ right hand man… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>washes their feet to demonstrate to them
what it means to be a servant of the Lord</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… Not proud and
arguing… But In humility loving and serving... Teaching them that Putting
others first… Is true Godliness…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As Jesus takes out the towel and begins to wash feet…
Astonishment is on every face in the room… Look with at Peter´s reaction… v6-8…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v6…
Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>my</u></i> feet?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peter
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">cannot
quite believe it…. He knows that He should be the one<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> serving Jesus… </b>He knows he does not deserve to be served by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Him… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v7… What
I am doing you do not understand now… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But you will later…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What Jesus did that night was more than just a simple
example of humility… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Philippians
Ch 2</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tell us that He emptied himself… He laid
aside his garments of glory… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He laid aside the heavenly garments… And took
on garment of flesh... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v8… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peter
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">says
no way…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> v8…</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You
shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have
no part with Me… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This washing of feet is wonderful symbolism… When
we look at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God…</b> We see
two very important ideas describing washing or cleansing… Blood and water… Here
Jesus uses water to wash the disciples feet… He is using the idea of washing
away the defilement of sin and the wicked influences of the world… Soon He will
use His shed blood to wash away our sins forever… Isaiah ch1… Let´s look at the
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">next section… v9- 12… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
13: 9-12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">9
Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my
head!” 10 Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but
is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” 11 For He knew who
would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.” 12 So when He had
washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do
you know what I have done to you? </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord not only my feet, but also my hands and
my head." </b>Jesus said to him, "calm down Peter… You are already
clean except for the betrayer… You just need your feet washed…. Jesus is clearly
talking about their hearts and not their external bodies… v12…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v12…</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do
you know what I have done to you? Jesus is </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">going to make<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> His point very clear…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I believe that when Jesus began… There was a quiet astonishment
that fell over the disciples… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
begins to wash... And Peter protests... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He says, no way, Lord...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And then Jesus said… Then you'll have no part with
me."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then Peter swings the pendulum to the other side and says…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then not only my feet, but also my
hands, and my head… wash everything Lord I so want to be a part of you… That´s
good…. But It is spoken too soon… Because this is a teaching moment and Peter
is missing the lesson… Jesus said, "he who is-- now watch this word--
bathed." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's the Greek word <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">louo... louo</b> means a complete washing...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He who is completely bathed... louo… needs only to wash…
A different Greek different word… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">nipto</b>
his feet… This word means to wash a part… You've already been louoed, Peter… But
you need to be made totally clean…. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus is giving a picture of the daily process of being
transformed by the Word of God… The process of being made holy… We would use
the theological term” “Sanctification” When we repent and believe the Good News
of the Gospel… We are washed completely… In a moment in time we are declared to
be righteous… Free from sin… This is instant perfection… But we know that even
as believers…. We are not perfect… So In the Word of God… We also see the
continuing process of sanctification… It continues all through our lives as we
grow in grace and in the knowledge of him… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2
Peter 3:18… Paul describes this transformation… This growing in grace in
Ephesians ch 5… look at it with me… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ephesians
5: 25,26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">25
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave
Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of
water by the word,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here we see Jesus… Giving Himself for the church….
Sanctifying her and making her holy… The washing of Water by the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word</b>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here is the spiritual analogy… As genuine believers… We
don't get unsaved…. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That is impossible Romans ch 8 and many many other
scriptures… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we do get defiled and
dirt clings to us because Jesus is still transforming us day by day… We are
saved, but we do walk in this world… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And all Along the way… we pick up a little dirt… We pick
it up in conversations and media trash… You pick it up driving... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These things all tempt us to give in to our
pride and selfishness and lust… We need to keep our feet clean… How… By being
quick to repent and confess our sins… We should do that the moment that we
realize that we have sinned… Every time we take communion I try to remember to
encourage of us to search our hearts and confess our sins… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Bible says… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">If we confess our sins, he is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness</b>… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 John 1:9</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John is saying that to believers who are
already [? luoed. ?] They're already bathed… They're already born again... They
are <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>already clean… But they need to be
niptoed… next section…. v13-17…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
13: 13-17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">13
You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your
Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s
feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to
you. 16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master;
nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these
things, blessed are you if you do them.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">look at v13,14…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Think about Jesus example… One of the great needs of the
church is to have feet washed… What <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an
example of servant-hood… Serve each other…. Stop trying to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">lord over</b> your brothers and sisters…Be a servant to them… Love
them…. Love the people that the Lord has put in your lives... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Encourage each other... Mature and Train
people… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forgive each other… Talk and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pray with and for each other… That is how you
Wash their feet…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v15v…
For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you... </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Follow
me…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Don´t be proud and stubborn… Humble
yourselves and Serve each other…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v17…
If you know these things, blessed are if you do them...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Please note that… He said… you want to be really blessed or happy… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do it…
The key to happiness is humility… You want to be blessed, you want to be truly
happy? Then do what it says... Joy will follow when you learn to serve each
other and put others first… It is true in Marriage… It is true in the church<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
must help and encourage each other… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Close</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We all get a little dirt on our feet… There is no room
for arrogance and pride… In closing I would like to look at Paul strong
encouragement to the Church in Galatia… Galatians 6: 1-</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Galatians
6: 1- 5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1Dear
brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are
godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. And
be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself. 2 Share each other’s
burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. 3 If you think you are too
important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that
important. 4 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the
satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to
anyone else. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">5 For we are each responsible for our own conduct.</span></b></div>
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dann solltet ihr, deren Leben vom Geist Gottes bestimmt ist, diesem Menschen liebevoll
und in aller Demut helfen, wieder auf den rechten Weg zurückzufinden. Und pass
auf, dass du nicht in dieselbe Gefahr gerätst.</span></b></div>
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Problemen, so erfüllt ihr das Gesetz, das wir von Christus haben.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">3 Wer sich für wichtiger hält als die anderen, betrügt
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">5 Schließlich ist jeder für sein eigenes Verhalten
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you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right
path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v2…</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Share
each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Bear one another´s burdens…. Carry each other… Wash each other´s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>feet…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grab
the basin of the Word of God… Grab the towel and wipe away the tears… Ideally
from your eyes and from their eyes… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do
it gently…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We need to correct and encourage with an attitude of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">humility</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
don't do it… I'm better than you… or I'm wiser than you… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Listen If we are going to help each other do life… If we
are going to wash each others feet…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
must do it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">gently… After all… We all
sin… We all go through hard times…</b> We have fears and doubts... we need to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">counsel and pray</b> each other… We are
called to help each other… To Provoke one another to love and good works… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hebrews 10: 23-25</b>…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">18
“I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the
Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel
against Me.’ 19 Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass,
you may believe that I am He. 20 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives
whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v17… If you know these things, blessed are you
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you to follow… Love and serve each other…. Do not be proud and stubborn… I
think you know the famous Childre´s song…. The wise man built his house upon
the rock… It is in Luke 6… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus said… Why do you call me Lord, Lord
and not do what I tell you… Luke 6:46,47… The wise man builds his house on the
rock… </b></span></div>
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who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me… Jesus is quoting
Psalm 41... </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">look at v19…</span></div>
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"'Now I tell you it before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you
may believe that I am He. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus knew who would betray Him… The
disciples are going to freak out when Judas betrays Him… But Jesus is steadfast
and not at all surprised…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is all part
of God´s sovereign plan… He quotes this scripture<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to show them, That He is in control of this
whole event… Now it is time…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the
plan…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v20…
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives, whomever I send, receives me.
And he who receives me, receives him who sent me.'</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
is explaining the Mission that they are receiving… He </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">wants
them to carry on the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Work that He has
began… He is sending them… We will see this in John 17… When Jesus is
interceding for them in the Garden of Gethsemane… </b>And they <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">will </b>take the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Good news of the Gospel </b>to the ends of the earth… This morning we
are celebrating Pentecost… That is the day that the Holy Spirit was poured out
on them in great power… So that they could be His witnesses…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s
pray… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.05.07<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 12: 27-36</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five days to the Cross</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Father speaks from Heaven </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… Once again </b>this
morning we<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> are studying the Gospel of
John… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Open your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bible to
John’s gospel chapter 12</b>… We have come to the last week of His life in
Jerusalem… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> is headed for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cross on Friday</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John
12</b>… v27-36…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
12 : 27-36<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">§27
“Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this
hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name.”
Then a voice came from heaven, saying, “I have both glorified it and will
glorify it again.” 29 Therefore the people who stood by and heard it said that
it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to Him.” 30 Jesus answered
and said, “This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">§31
Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast
out. 32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to
Myself.” 33 This He said, signifying by what death He would die. 34 The people
answered Him, “We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever; and
how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?” </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">§35
Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer the light is with you. Walk
while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness
does not know where he is going. 36 While you have the light, believe in the
light, that you may become sons of light.” These things Jesus spoke, and departed,
and was hidden from them.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Many times Jesus said that He was going to lay down His
life… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
passage looks at the cross… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it´s impact…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and its power… God´s wonderful plan of
Redemption… Jesus Suffering in our place… And for our sins…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is why <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b>
came…So that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">through His death</b>… many
could find <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">life</b>... He knew He was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God’s chosen sacrifice</b>… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Son of Man has come to seek and to save the
lost... By giving His life a ransom for many… </b>It was the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> perfect plan of God the Father…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Revelation
13:8 says, “He was the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cross and the Resurrection
of Jesus from the dead… Is the great theme of Scripture… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His
death </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is the reason for the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
incarnation...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shadow of the Cross </b>was
already over the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> manger in Bethlehem…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the book of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hebrews</b>… we have a wonderful picture of
the purpose of the Incarnation and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ… It
begins with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God´s self revelation…</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He </b>revealed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Himself in creation</b>…. He spoke to first to Adam… And some of the prophets…
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">NOW He Has spoken to and through His Son</b>…
His <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">self-revelation</b> is perfect and
complete in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord Jesus Christ </b>Himself…
look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hebrews 1: 1,2… </b><span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hebrews
1: 1,2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 God,
who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by
the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has
appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">1 Nachdem Gott in vergangenen Zeiten vielfältig und auf
vielerlei Weise zu den Vätern geredet hat durch die Propheten, 2 hat er in
diesen letzten Tagen zu uns geredet durch den Sohn. Ihn hat er eingesetzt zum
Erben von allem, durch ihn hat er auch die Welten geschaffen;</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Father points to Jesus… The theme of the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cross
and Redemption</b> dominate the wonderful <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>book of Hebrews… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
becomes the source of Eternal Salvation… He tasted death for <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">who would<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> repent and cry out to Him for Salvation… </b>That
is<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Hebrews 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v9…</b> look with me at<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hebrews
5 v 9...</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hebrews
5: 8,9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">8
though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.
9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all
who obey Him,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">8 Und obwohl er Sohn war, hat er doch an dem, was er
litt, den Gehorsam gelernt; 9 und nachdem er zur Vollendung gelangt ist, ist er
allen, die ihm gehorchen, der Urheber ewigen Heils geworden,</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The New Testament writers look at the cross… And describe
its meaning and its significance in Glorious detail… Then over and over again….
The cross is applied to our lives… If we are genuine believers…. It will affect
the way we live… If He died for us, how can we not <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">live for Him</b>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus Himself</b> applied <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His coming sacrifice</b> on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cross</b> to our lives too… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Deny yourself… take up your cross and
follow me… Luke 9…v23…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everywhere we
look … We are confronted with the cross and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">implications of the death of Christ</b>… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus died to give us new life</b>… So that that we might live to His
honor and His glory… Beginning in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">verse
27</b>… We see Jesus deeply troubled… scroll down for the list…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
looks at the Cross</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
The Son’s troubled soul… v27 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
The Fathers Answer from Heaven… v28 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
The Cross as victory… v32</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scroll down for<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
John 12…v27-30…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Point
1 Jesus is troubled…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v27…
Now My soul has become troubled and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from
this hour?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for this purpose I came
to this hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Father, glorify Your
name.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His soul is troubled?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can His soul be troubled?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is God…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How is it that the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Son
of God, the incarnate God</b> is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>troubled?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well we know that it was possible for Jesus to be
troubled… He has been troubled before… in John ch11… v 33… when He arrived at
the tomb of Lazarus… it says <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He was
deeply moved in His Spirit and was troubled</b>… He was troubled when He faced
the consequences of sin in the death of Lazarus… What does the word “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">troubled” mean?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a Greek word tarassō…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It literally means <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“to shake or to stir up.”</b> In a figurative sense, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">it could be translated anguish</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was deeply disturbed…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It can be translated terrified or horrified... How can He
be so distressed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This isn’t being horrified at the thought that He will be
flogged and hung on a cross…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew everything that was to come…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That wasn’t what tormented Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His trouble came <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from anticipating the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Divine wrath of God for our sin</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was troubled by the prospect of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">divine wrath</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">separation</b> from His eternal Father…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, in His trouble, He asks, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“What shall I say?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shall I say,
‘Father, save Me from his hour?’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No… I
came for this purpose…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He is totally willing to suffer for us… Remember He said…
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I lay down my life</b>… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 10:17… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nevertheless… The spiritual battle is profound…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good
News… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus wins the battle</b>… And the
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cross points us to our Heavenly Father…</b>
We learn about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God</b> by looking at the
cross… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus´ suffering</b> on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cross</b> shows <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His love</b> for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Father</b>…
And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His perfect obedience will glorify
the Father</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How</b> does the cross glorify the Father?… I made another <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>list… scroll down for the next slide…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
cross points us to the Father</span></b><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
God´s love</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
His righteousness</span></b></div>
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His Mercy</span></b></div>
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His Grace</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5 His
Judgment</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6
His divine Wisdom</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It displays many of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God’s
qualities and attributes</b>...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God is glorified</b> when we understand the
greatness of who He is...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the cross… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We see God´s love</b>… He sent His beloved
son…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We see <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">both His
righteousness and His mercy</b>… We see <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God’s
grace in action</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also see <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His judgment and His wrath… He demands Justice… </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in the cross we see His divine wisdom too…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see prophecy being fulfilled...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His
Word is confirmed…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What grace and
unfailing love… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of
this is on the cross...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
is totally obedient</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… even though <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He is in anguish...</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a
tremendous struggle… We will see more in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">garden of Gethsemane</b>… But <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
showed perfect, willing, loving obedience…</b> The cross results in the f<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">orgiveness of sin</b>… the establishment of
the kingdom of heaven… It produces a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">new
heart and mind</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New life for all who
repent and believe the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of this was dependent on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus being obedient to death even death on
the cross… Phil 2:8… </b>by the way… That is part of one of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">early creeds of the church</b>… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Phil 2: 6-11</b>… And so Jesus obeyed… Even
though sin bearing was totally alien to Him… It troubled Him deeply… scroll
down to again at that first list… It is a kind of three point outline for today…
let´s look at point 2… scroll down for the list…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
The Fathers Answer from Heaven…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">scroll
down for v27-30…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v28a…
“Father, glorify Your name..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason Jesus<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>came for was to glorify the Father… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v28b…
I have both Glorified it and will glorify it again… And so The Father speaks
again from heaven… He puts His divine stamp of approval </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">on<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus </b>every step of the way<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v30…
Jesus answered and said, ‘This voice has not come for My sake, but for your
sakes.’”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, the Father did speak to Jesus from heaven a couple
of other times… The Lord Jesus is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">affirmed
</b>by the Father at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">beginning of
His ministry… At His baptism… Matthew 3:17…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And at His transfiguration… Matthew 17… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now in our text today… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God speaks out of heaven to affirm the cross…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So when the Father says in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">verse 28… “I have both glorified it…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He means throughout your whole ministry I have
put My power and glory on display through You…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“And I will glorify it again</b>,”
The Father is saying… I will glorify My name through your death too...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v30…
Jesus </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is telling the disciples and others who were there… This voice
from <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Heaven</b> is for you… So that you
can Believe… I am going to die… You need to know that it is the plan of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Father… He will be Glorified in it… This is
the divine heavenly affirmation of the Substitutionary Atonement of Christ... </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus died to glorify God… and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God will glorify Himself</b> through <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His death</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God has spoken… God has validated and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>affirmed the coming death of His Son next
point…scroll down for point 3…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3 the
cross as victory</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… scroll down to v31-34…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What began as anguish and even terror for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>turns
to joyful anticipation</b>…. As <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
hears His Father’s voice He is reminded of certain Victory</b>… The Father has
strengthened Him… He has reminded Him that glory is coming through His death… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory is coming to the Father…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and to Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></b>Now Jesus focuses on the salvation of lost sinners… He looks forward
to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Miracle of the Cross… The miracle
of the cross </b>includes three massive far-reaching realities… scroll down…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Miracle of the Cross</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
The judgment is on the world… v31</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
The ruler of this world will be cast out… v31 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
The Son will draw all men to Himself… v32</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world was judged...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world is doomed by the rejection and murder
of the Son<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">... scroll down for v31-34</b>…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v31…</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now
is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Think about this… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The cross would judge and condemn all who reject the Lord
Jesus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The purpose is redemption… The
horrible consequence of refusing to repent is condemnation… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The verdict is in… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The question is simple… Are we in Christ…
Have repented from our sins and cried out to the Lord Jesus to forgive us and
save us… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">look with me at John 3… v14</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 3: v14… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
3: 14-19<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">14
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of
Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the
world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned;
but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed
in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation,
that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than
light, because their deeds were evil.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This text is clear… Redemption is freely offered… The
second part of the Miracle<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Point 2… </b>scroll
down…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 The
ruler of this world will be cast out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Who
is that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that this is Satan…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan was dethroned at Calvary…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
looked like Satan triumphed… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan thought he had conquered Christ at
Calvary… but in reality… Christ had crushed his head… The cross dealt Satan the
death blow…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has nothing on us…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Satan is totally defeated by Christ at the
cross…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hebrews 2:14,15…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hebrews
2: 14,15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">14
Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also
became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by dying
could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. 15 Only in
this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to the fear
of dying.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s look at the last section… scroll down for John
12…v35,36… John 12: 35,36…</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">35 Then Jesus said to them, “A little while
longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness
overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. 36
While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of
light.” These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus is prophesying His death and warning of Judgment…
Then we have this positive note of triumph… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Walk in the Light… Believe in the light…. I am the light of the World…</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
8:12…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We know that The Glorious light of the
Gospel shines out from the Cross</b>…. Down through the centuries and into our
hearts…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What does the Cross mean for us?
Well… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as genuine believers… We can walk
in the light…. Walk in the light of His love and grace and mercy…. We can shine
as lights in this lost and dying world… We can deny ourselves and pickup our
cross daily…. We see that we really have nothing to fear… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Death is dead… Jesus has the victory…</b> We are no longer slaves to
sin… We are no longer fear death…. Because our forever is secure… Our sins are
forgiven forever…washed away… Jesus paid it all… It also means that we are free
to Live for the Lord Jesus… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v36…
“Believe in the Light so that you may become sons of Light.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
</b>was right there with them for a little while longer… He says… The Light is
here...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is time to believe…<span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He is a gracious and compassionate God… but He has limits...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus was warning Israel… and through this book…
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God is warning</b> you… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>warning anyone who hears… Do not test the
limits of God’s patience...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your
heart is still at all sensitive to the gospel… if you are feeling the pull of
God to believe in Jesus Christ, confess Him as Lord… turn from your sin… repent
of your sin… and follow Him… Now for believers… Paul gives us some very
practical advice… Look at 2 Cor 6… v1…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 2
Corinthians 6:2</b>…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
Corinthians 6: 1-10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 As
God’s partners, we beg you not to accept this marvelous gift of God’s kindness
and then ignore it. 2 For God says,“At just the right time, I heard you. On the
day of salvation, I helped you.”Indeed, the “right time” is now. Today is the
day of salvation. 3 We live in such a way that no one will stumble because of
us, and no one will find fault with our ministry. 4 In everything we do, we
show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and
hardships and calamities of every kind. 5 We have been beaten, been put in
prison, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and
gone without food. 6 We prove ourselves by our purity, our understanding, our
patience, our kindness, by the Holy Spirit within us, and by our sincere love.
7 We faithfully preach the truth. God’s power is working in us. We use the
weapons of righteousness in the right hand for attack and the left hand for
defense. 8 We serve God whether people honor us or despise us, whether they
slander us or praise us. We are honest, but they call us impostors. 9 We are
ignored, even though we are well known. We live close to death, but we are
still alive. We have been beaten, but we have not been killed. 10 Our hearts
ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to
others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s pray…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.04.30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 12: 12-
26</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Five days to the Cross </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… Once again </b>this
morning we<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> are studying the Gospel of
John… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are very close to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cross of Christ</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Open your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bible
to John’s gospel chapter 12</b>… We have come to the last week of His life in
Jerusalem… Jesus is headed for the cross on Friday…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have already begun this twelfth chapter… Last
week… We looked at the supper that Jesus had with Mary and Martha and Lazarus
at the home of “Simon the former Leper”… Clearly Jesus had cleansed him… No one
had ever heard of healing a Leper…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He had a wonderful time on that Saturday spending
time with those He loved… They showed that they were genuine disciples… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Martha served… Mary worshipped at Jesus
feet… and Lazarus had great fellowship</b> with the one who had raised him from
the dead…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There was huge crowd already gathered in Bethany…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had come to see Him… There was also a
massive crowd of perhaps hundreds of thousands in the city of Jerusalem… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were getting ready for the many events
leading up to Passover...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
year is A.D. 30…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is Jesus final
Passover…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the time that God has planned
for Him to die…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will be killed as the
Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world… All of the sacrifices that
died through those years could not take away sin...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They pictured Jesus´ death on the cross… He
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His
sacrifice that allows God’s mercy, compassion, loving-kindness</b>, and grace
to reach the sinner and provide eternal life…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Two weeks ago… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">On
Palm Sunday…. We looked looked at the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem</b>… This
morning we will revisit the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">triumphal
entry of Jesus into Jerusalem…</b> That is fine because… It is one of the most
important events in all of human History… It was prophesied by Daniel 500 years
before Jesus was born… So looking back at the Triumphal entry… Let´s read
John´s account… look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John
12:12…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
12: 12-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">12
The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that
Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took branches of palm trees and went out to
meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the
Lord!’ The King of Israel!”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">14
Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written:</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">15
“Fear not, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King is coming, Sitting on a donkey’s
colt.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">16
His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was
glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and
that they had done these things to Him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">17
Therefore the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of his tomb
and raised him from the dead, bore witness. 18 For this reason the people also
met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign. 19 The Pharisees
therefore said among themselves, “You see that you are accomplishing nothing.
Look, the world has gone after Him!”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">20
Now there were certain Greeks among those who came up to worship at the feast.
21 Then they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him,
saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">22
Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip told Jesus.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">23
But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son of Man should
be glorified. 24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls
into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much
grain. 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this
world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me;
and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My
Father will honor.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The raising of Lazarus has put an exclamation point on
His three years of impossible miracles… Incredible… He raised Lazarus from the
dead… It is His last great public miracle…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When He comes into the city of Jerusalem… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Word was spreading everywhere… The crowds
heard about raising Lazarus from the dead… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This could be the Messiah…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He arrives to their, “Hosannas, hail the Son
of David,” This is a Messianic title….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are thrilled...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are
hopeful… Many believed in Him… At least on the surface… Many of them were only
fans of Jesus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By the time Jesus comes to the end of His earthly ministry…
He had ministered to hundreds of thousands of people all over Galilee… Here at
this Triumphal >Entry…. There are huge crowds that have now <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hailed Him as King Messiah…</b> And yet
when we get to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">early church</b> in
the Book of Acts…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">120 believers in Jerusalem and 500 in
Galilee…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Perhaps a few more… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">But a very few in comparison to the many
who had heard His words of Life</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now we all know how they responded His entry that day… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">scroll down to v12-15…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">verse 13… He</b>
was greeted with cries of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Hosanna.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>By the way…. The triumphal Entry is
recorded in all of the Gospels… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a
Glorious day…. Finally Jesus has allowed Himself to be proclaimed for Who His….
The Great King Messiah… <span style="color: #558ed5; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">And yet by Friday… Some of this crowd will be
screaming… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Crucify Him!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crucify Him!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t want this man to reign over us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We have no king but Caesar.” John 19:14–15…</b>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They did not understand the big picture… We had a street
outreach yesterday… Thank you everyone who helped… It was awesome… It is always
an eye opener to talk to people about Jesus… I received a fresh reminder of the
very narrow way people look at Jesus… They do not want to be told about the
need to repent and turn from sin… Culture has almost totally rejected the fact
that Man is sinful by nature… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I witnessed to a man yesterday who was very upset to hear
that the wages of Sin is death… He said… I don´t like that… I don´t want to
hear that… That is offensive to me… You people should not be talking like this…
I grew up Evangelical… That is not the Jesus I learned about…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">People want a Jesus who is
warm and loving… He like many “Christians” do not understand the Gospel… He
like many in the crowd with Jesus that day… Are either unwilling to repent… Or
they have not counted the cost of following Jesus yet…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at the Ambassadors for Christ passage… in 2
Corinthians 5… Paul said we Christians are not crazy to warn you… read the
whole chapter when you can… for the sake of time let´s begin at v14…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
Corinthians 5: 14-21<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">14
Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for
all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for
everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for
themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for
them. 16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At
one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How
differently we know him now! 17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ
has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 18 And all
of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And
God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in
Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins
against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we
are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for
Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21 For God made Christ, who never
sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God
through Christ.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like Paul… We are not crazy to warn others… It is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">love of God</b> that moves us… He moves us
to reach out to this lost and dying world with the Good News…. There is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">mercy and forgiveness to be found… </b>It
is at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">foot of the cross</b>… That is
why we plead with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">people to repent and receive
the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord</b>… That is why we ask every week
that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> would <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">fill our mouths with His words of life… And
as Jesus… said… “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and
take up his cross daily, and follow Me… Luke 9:23…</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Wenn einer von euch mit mir gehen
will, muss er sich selbst verleugnen, jeden Tag aufs Neue sein Kreuz auf sich
nehmen und mir nachfolgen.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Back to Jo<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">hn 12…
verses 16-19…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The scriptures were all being fulfilled in every detail…
Some of these things did not make sense to them at the time…. But v16… after it
is all over then … They said…. Now we understand… I know that this is true in
our own lives… Often we have no idea why the things that we are going through
could ever be part of God´s good and grace filled plan… But they are… That is
what we see all through the scriptures… Well on this day… They were ready to
crown Him King Messiah and put a real royal crown on His head… But sadly…
Instead in just a few days…. They will put a crown of thorns on Him instead... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They were ready to lift Him up on His forever kingdom <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>throne…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They ended up lifting Him upon a cruel Roman cross… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From “Hosanna to the King… To “Crucify Him!” </span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When
Jesus entered Jerusalem that day…. He was giving them one last chance to repent
and turn from their sin…</span></b><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Israel was given a final offer…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The leaders made a final rejection…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Verse 17</b> tells us the people were
talking about the resurrection of Lazarus...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people who had been with Him
when He called Lazarus out of the tomb… They spread the word…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This had a tremendous effect… Many came to
Him… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">verse 18…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Were people attracted to Him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Absolutely… Were they stunned by Him?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course they were…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had they ever seen anything like it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not at all… A man who raises dead people… a
man who heals everyone who came to Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was never a person like this… This is
the most attractive human being that ever drew a crowd on the planet, but in
the end… For most them… their interest was only superficial… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s look ahead at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John
chapter 12, verse 42… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
12: 42,43<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">42
Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but because of the
Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the
synagogue; 43 for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even some of the religious leaders believed… But their
position and power was far more important to them… They loved the approval of
men more than the approval of God… And like many others… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They believe in Jesus in some sense...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they will not commit to Him...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That is because they were unwilling to commit their lives
to Him… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had a superficial interest
in Jesus… But it never turned into repentance from the heart… It did not become
genuine saving faith… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Back to John
12…v19… scroll down… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v19…</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">you
are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after Him!” </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They did not know what to do about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>… Nothing was working… And now <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He is being proclaimed King And Messiah… </b><span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By now all of the leaders were trying to stop Jesus…<span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But they could not stop the plan of God...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter what they did…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They tried to arrest Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They couldn’t do it… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>they rejected Jesus…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God will
move through their rejection to take the gospel to the world… He will move in
the hearts of the Gentiles… He will bring bring the world to Christ…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not yet true… But soon the whole world
will hear about Jesus…. And will come to Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Notice what happens immediately in verse 20...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">scroll
down for v20-26</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v20…
Now there were some Greeks </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There were some Gentiles... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It means all non-Jews…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were some Gentiles among those who were
going up to worship at the feast, proselytes…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were called God-fearers... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Did God know Israel would reject their Messiah…?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of
course…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why God prophesied the
time would come when He would call a new people who were not His people… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 9 and Hosea 2…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you remember what happened in John 4… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus first revealed Himself as the Messiah
to a Samaritan woman</b>… She was not Jewish… In John 10 when He was talking
about being the Good Shepherd, He said, “I have sheep of another fold,” He was
talking about the Gentiles…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So here in verse 20… Right after the final rejection of
Jesus by the Jewish leaders… Jesus greets these gentiles… Jesus begins to
reveal Himself as the Savoir of the World… Showing that He saves everyone who
cries out to him… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now we have a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">new day</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the dawning of a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">new era</b>… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gentiles seeking
Jesus</b>… v21…</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v21… Sir, we wish to see Jesus</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whatever they had already heard about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus…</b> they wanted to learn more about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Him…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe they knew <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Haggai 2:7...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know what that
verse speaks of?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
Messianic...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Messiah comes… He
will be the desire of all nations...</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
was about to become known as the Savior of the Gentiles</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The world is beginning to come to Him… and
here are some non-Jews who demonstrate it…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the beginning of the church… It is made up of
Jews and Gentiles… These Greeks become the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">symbolic
first fruits of the global harvest</b> to come… v23… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v23…“And
Jesus answered them saying, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be
glorified.’”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Son
of Man” is a Messianic term found in Daniel 7...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Daniel ch 7 says… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Son of Man will be glorified in His
kingdom and establish it forever and ever… Jesus again goes on the prophesy His
coming death… …</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v24…
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and
dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is finally time to establish my Kingdom…
But there will not be a kingdom unless I die first...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
will be glorified in His substitutionary death in our place...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #558ed5; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #558ED5; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: "lumm=60000 lumo=40000"; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text2; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">That’s why in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Luke
24: 25-27</b>… He told those disciples on the Road to Emmaus, the Messiah must
suffer and die… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He puts our sin away by the sacrifice of
Himself… </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is why the cross is so Important…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">stumbling block to those who refuse to
repent… </b>Most people will not even admit that man is sinful… But it is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the truth and Jesus says it…. You cannot
save yourself…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I must die…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the wonderful power of Calvary’s
cross…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The harvest comes only through His death and
resurrection…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was the joy that was
set before Him and why <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He endured the
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a wide open <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>invitation… but it is an invitation to
die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is an invitation to die…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you love your life… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
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you lose your life forever...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you
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for Me… You will receive eternal life...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It isn’t simply believing that Jesus is… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It is
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6:46…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is why there are so many false converts…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They love the life they have in this world…
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at one last scripture… Luke 9:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">23
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himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. 24 For whoever desires to
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Sondern?) </b>people who turn from their sin… repent and call out to God to forgive
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said… Count the cost…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It involves
hating your life in this world… giving up your life… and following the Lord
Jesus Christ… verse 26… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">benefits of
genuine repentance include peace and Joy and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>life eternal…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
one more thing… If we serve the Lord Jesus… Then<span style="display: none; mso-hide: all;">Im… </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Father will
honor us… That is way better than the praise of men… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Follow the Lord Jesus Christ… deny yourself…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some… We may even face death for the sake
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Pharisees were right… The world has begun to go after
Him…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about you… Today is the day…
Tomorrow is promised to no man… Repent and cry out to Him… He will forgive you
and wash your sins away… Let´s pray…</span></div>
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45-57</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am the resurrection and the
Life<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lazarus <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part 2</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… Once again </b>this
morning we<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> are studying the Gospel of
John… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We just <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Celebrated
the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus</b> last week… We also finished a series on
the Resurrection… You can catch up by listening on line at the website… It was
a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">big picture</b> look at the events
leading up to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cross and the
resurrection… </b>Beginning this morning we will pick up where we left off in
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gospel of John… </b>We are going to
take a closer look now at the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> last days
of Jesus earthly ministry… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Turn in your <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bible
to John</b> chapter 11… You will remember that In John <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">chapter 11… Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead…</b> Many people had
witnessed the resurrection of Lazarus… This is Jesus´ final public miracle… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The news of the raising of Lazarus from the dead will
spread like wildfire through the crowds as they go up to Jerusalem… Everybody
will hear what Jesus did… this morning we will read from John 11… v45… Jesus
has just raised Lazarus from the dead! Incredible miracle…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
11: 45-57<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">45
Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did,
believed in Him. 46 But some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them
the things Jesus did. 47 Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a
council and said, “What shall we do? For this Man works many signs. 48 If we
let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come
and take away both our place and nation.” 49 And one of them, Caiaphas, being
high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you
consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people,
and not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 Now this he did not say on his
own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would
die for the nation, 52 and not for that nation only, but also that He would
gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad. 53 Then,
from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death. 54 Therefore Jesus no
longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near
the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there remained with His
disciples. 55 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went from the
country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves. 56 Then they
sought Jesus, and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, “What do
you think—that He will not come to the feast?” 57 Now both the chief priests
and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone knew where He was, he
should report it, that they might seize Him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lazarus
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">has
been raised from the dead by the Spoken word of Jesus in John 11:44… scroll
down… v45-48…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Many people are witnesses of this miracle… and they
believed in Jesus…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v45… But… Sadly some <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>did not believe… They ran to tell the
Pharisees what he had done… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v46…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Verses 47,48…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The “Council” is the Sanhedrin, the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Supreme Court of the Jewish nation…</b> So the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus issue is huge now...</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leaders of
Israel</b> are fed up with the growing fame of Jesus… They had been trying to
shut Him up for a while now… Now they are becoming afraid… The goal of this
council is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not to find truth</b>... They
do not want to discover the truth…. They are determined to stop this man who
said… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am the Resurrection and the Life</b>…
They refuse to repent and so they refuse to believe… The goal of this council
is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">survival…</b> They are determined to
keep their power… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More and more people
are becoming excited that perhaps <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
is the long promised Messiah</b>… They are afraid that this will encourage the
Zealots to claim sovereignty for the state of Israel… The religious rulers are
afraid that a religious rebellion may cause the Roman Empire to come crashing
down on them… Then the little bit of freedom and autonomy that Israel has… Will
disappear… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and The Romans may even destroy
the temple and the nation… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So Jesus is now not just a blasphemer who needs to be
stoned… John 10:33, 36… They see Jesus as a threat to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
existence of the very nation of Israel itself… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In response to this threat <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Caiaphas… the high priest</b>… has a word from God… Because of his
position… He has great authority and God will use him to prophesy to the
people… look with me at v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> 49-53…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You
know nothing…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> In other words… he rebukes them and then
says… Here’s the solution… We kill him... Better that one die so the nation can
survive… We kill him so that the Romans won’t kill us… He suggests the use of Jesus
as a Substitute…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> His life </b>for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">nation</b>… Caiaphas is being murderous and
practical in his suggestion…. He is finally saying out loud exactly what he
thinks is at stake… He wants to encourage unity in Killing Jesus… look at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> v51,52… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Here John<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>explains<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Caiaphas’s words... It is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prophesy put in his mouth by God</b>… It is
the clear prophesy of the scriptures… Genuine substitution… It is not only for
the Jewish people… But also for the gentiles… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God gathering all believers into the</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">church… v53</b>… So now more than ever they are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">determined to Kill Jesus</b>… look at v54-57… Jesus leaves His enemies
and goes to an area on the edge of the wilderness… There are now standing
orders to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">seize Jesus</b>…. They will <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">kill Him</b> as soon as they get the
chance… We can learn about God in this text… It is filled with soild truth… Let´s
apply these truths to our lives… scroll down for the listlist…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
God is Sovereign… John 11: 50,51</span></b></div>
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God has provided a Substitute… John 11: 50,51</span></b></div>
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God saves us because of His Grace… John 11: 50,51</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4 The
proper response Is Worship… John 12…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Application</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
God is Sovereign…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John
11: 50,51… </b>In these short verses we see the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sovereign plan of God to provide a substitute for our sin and pride and
rebellion… The cross was not a mistake… God´s plan did not do wrong…. The cross
was God´s plan from before the creation of the world… </b>It is<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> the ultimate expression of His grace and
mercy… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So
be strong</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in the face of hard times… No matter how bad it looks..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because God is not simply watching and waiting to turn it
all for good… He is involved in all of the events of our lives… He is active in
our lives…. He is in them from the beginning… He has promised to use everything
that happens for your good...</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">From
the outside, the words of Caiaphas simply looked like a hostile human plan that
would kill Jesus…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> But John shows us that the very words that
called for Jesus´ execution were not just the words of Caiaphas, but God’s
words…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He prophesied… And
God had a Sovereign plan for these events… And so it will be in your life… I
think of the many times in the Bible where this proved true… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joseph… David</b>… and of course… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lazarus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus</b> said that his tragic death was for
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory of God</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 11:4…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Inside every disaster in our lives… God is at work…
Working in us and through us for our good and His eternal Glory…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything will be
turned for our good… for your good…. I know that you don´t see it yet…. But The
Word of God rings true… Look with me at Romans 8:18…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Romans
8: 18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be
compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">18 Denn ich bin überzeugt, dass dieser Zeit Leiden nicht
ins Gewicht fallen gegenüber der Herrlichkeit, die an uns offenbart werden
soll.</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Don’t get freaked out and judge by appearances… Trust the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Sovereign plan of God… God has turned many
apparent defeats into awesome victories through …</b></span></div>
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God has provided a Substitute</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the face of our own ongoing sinfulness… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes even as believers we
still battle our sin and pride… In fact…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you are at all like me… Every day…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Good news is that our Salvation does not depend upon us at all… We should
take<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> great comfort that the very heart
of Christianity is substitution... The Substitutionary Atonement of the Lord
Jesus Christ </b>is the main string in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Scarlett
thread of redemption… It is woven all through the Scriptures… </b>so to
paraphrase John 11: 50-52… look at it again please…. Scroll down… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
11: 49- 52</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Caiaphas </b>said
these words… He meant… We<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> will kill
Jesus… so the Romans won’t kill us… But God meant… In my Sovereignity… I have
provided the substitute… The lamb of God who takes away the sins of the entire
world.. John 1: 29… I will kill my Son so I don’t have to kill you… 1 Peter
2:24 and 1 Peter 3:18…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His Sovereign plan</b> sent <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus to substitute Himself for our sins…
He paid the price of our sin and rebellion…</b> This<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Sovereign </b>plan… This<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Substitutionary Atonement </b>is the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
content of the Grace and Mercy </b>that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b>
has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">poured out</b> on our lives… scroll
down for the list…</span></div>
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God saves us because of His Grace… </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We can take comfort in this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">very important truth</b>… The end result for us is unfailing love and
mercy… Grace to people who did not deserve it… People like <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">me </b>and maybe some of you… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul talks a lot about this in his letter to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans… Romans 8…v1 </b>says… There is no
Condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus… None… This is so important for
our daily lives… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We have been redeemed</b>…
We can have rock- solid confidence in the total success of the cross… The cross…
And the redemption that Jesus purchased for us… Cannot fail to save us… Because
It is not dependent on us at all… Of course we do need to ask ourselves this
question…. Are we truly in Christ… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have
we seen Jesus with our ears… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have we</b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">repented of our sins and cried out to
Him to forgive us and wash us clean</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If so… We have nothing to fear… What <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Grace</b>… He who has begun a good work in us… The Father through the
Lord Jesus…. He will be faithful to complete it… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Philippians 1:16…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is something else for us in this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">redemption</b>… If you have trusted Christ
as Savior and Lord… He has promised that He will never leave us…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b> will <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">never forsake us</b>… It is all <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus…
He</b> chose you… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b> bought you…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> He continues to transform us</b> into the
image of His dear son… also in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Romans 8…
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Memorize</b> it for you own good…. It
begins with…. No condemnation and ends with the promise of no separation… How
wonderful is that… That leads us to the final point in our list… </span></div>
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The proper response Is Worship… John 12…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember there were no chapter breaks in the original
texts… John 12..1-11…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
12: 1-11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Then,
six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been
dead, whom He had raised from the dead. 2 There they made Him a supper; and
Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him. 3
Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of
Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the
fragrance of the oil. 4 But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son,
who would betray Him, said, 5 “Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three
hundred denarii and given to the poor?” 6 This he said, not that he cared for
the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to
take what was put in it.</span></b></div>
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But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial. 8
For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”9 Now a
great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’
sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the
dead. 10 But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also, 11 because
on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As we begin this chapter… we
are entering the last week of Jesus´ earthly ministry… It is full of detail and
we see Jesus clearly… Loving His own till the very end…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at John 12:1-3…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v2a…
There they made Him a supper…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Less than a week before His crucifixion… Jesus
attended a dinner with His friends… Martha, Lazarus, and Mary were also there…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v2b…
Martha served… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Without complaining this time…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>She was<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> joyfully serving Her Lord…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v2c…
Lazarus sat at table… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You could say that he was communing with<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus </b>around a meal…. This is the
picture of every <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Communion service… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fellowship and communion </b>with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v3...
Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus…
Then </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary Worshipped <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Him</b>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have in these <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">three
siblings a great picture of Ministry</b>… Service… Communion… Fellowship and
worship from the heart…. Generous and open for the world to see… Mary's gift
was very humble… When a guest entered the home… Normally a servant washed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the guest's feet<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with water… And the guest's head was anointed
with a dab of oil or perfume... Here, Mary served Jesus… She used this precious
ointment and anointed <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus´<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>feet… Her gift was extravagant... She used a large
amount very expensive oil of spikenard… Spices and ointments were often used as
an investment because they were portable… and were easy to sell if needed… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mary's worship was done without thought of her audience…
She also wiped His feet with her hair… This means that she let down her hair in
public… That is something a Jewish woman would not do…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Last night we had a wonderful Praise and worship evening…
The worship time was awesome… Robin brought the Word… It was awesome… What you
missed it… Oh mannn… next time you need to come… You will be Blessed…. One of
the texts that Robin used last night is a perfect summary of the points for
today… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1
Peter 1: 3-8…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Peter 1: 3-8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great
mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the
dead. Now we live with great expectation, 4 and we have a priceless
inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled,
beyond the reach of change and decay. 5 And through your faith, God is
protecting you by his power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to
be revealed on the last day for all to see. 6 So be truly glad. There is
wonderful joy ahead, even though you must endure many trials for a little
while. 7 These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested
as fire tests and purifies gold—though your faith is far more precious than
mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring
you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to
the whole world.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">8 You love him even though you have
never seen him. Though you do not see him now, you trust him; and you rejoice
with a glorious, inexpressible joy.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">3 Gelobt sei der Gott und Vater unseres Herrn Jesus
Christus, denn er hat uns in seiner großen Barmherzigkeit das Vorrecht
geschenkt, wiedergeboren zu werden. Jetzt haben wir eine lebendige Hoffnung,
weil Jesus Christus von den Toten auferstanden ist. 4 Denn Gott hat für seine
Kinder ein unvergängliches Erbe, das rein und unversehrt im Himmel für euch
aufbewahrt wird. 5 Und in seiner großen Macht wird er euch durch den Glauben
beschützen, bis ihr das ewige Leben empfangt. Es wird am Ende der Zeit für alle
sichtbar offenbart werden. 6 Freut euch deshalb von Herzen! Vor euch liegt eine
große Freude, auch wenn ihr für eine Weile viel erdulden müsst. 7 Dies dient
nur dazu, euren Glauben zu prüfen, damit sich zeigt, ob er wirklich stark und
rein ist. Er wird erprobt, so wie Gold im Feuer geprüft und geläutert wird -
und euer Glaube ist Gott sehr viel kostbarer als bloßes Gold. Wenn euer Glaube
also stark bleibt, nachdem er durch große Schwierigkeiten geprüft wurde, wird
er euch viel Lob und Herrlichkeit und Ehre einbringen an dem Tag, an dem Jesus
Christus der ganzen Welt offenbart werden wird. 8 Ihn liebt ihr, obwohl ihr ihn
nie gesehen habt. Obwohl ihr ihn nicht seht, glaubt ihr an ihn; und schon jetzt
seid ihr erfüllt von herrlicher, unaussprechlicher Freude.</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Inexpressible joy… Mary´s life is a study of devotion to
Jesus... Look at the next section… 4-8…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v4…
Judas Iscariot … who would betray Him…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> He is not happy about this
very generous display of love and worship… <span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">In a short time Judas would betray
Jesus, and his betrayal is so much darker when contrasted with the light of
Mary's devotion to Jesus. No doubt, Judas objected to Mary's gift because he
was convicted by her simple and powerful display of love. David Guzik… </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Learning
from Judas sin and rebellion…</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Judas teaches us that outward appearances can be
deceptive… Many people use a religious mask to prevent others from seeing the
truth…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judas hid his secret sin from
everyone except Jesus… The Lord Jesus always knows… </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v5…
Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred, denarii…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Judas had a sharp sense of financial values, but no appreciation of what God
valued. He thought this was too much love and devotion to show to Jesus.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Judas criticized generous giving… He saw it as wasteful…
Because he was greedy… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Question… Are we
like Mary… extravagant in our love for Jesus…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or are we like Judas… criticizing others who are?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v7…
She has done this for the day of My burial…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary knew that Jesus was going to die… and so
she knew that this might be her last chance to give this kind of gift of
devotion to Jesus… I think that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary had
more insight than the other disciples… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe
because she often spent time at Jesus´feet... v9-11…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v10… The chief priests plotted to put
Lazarus to death also…</b> The chief priests were mostly Sadducees… and the
Sadducees didn't believe in the resurrection... </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v11…</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">because
on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lazarus was a living example of life after
death… and having him around was an embarrassment to their theological system...
And as we see…. Many People believed on Jesus because of this miracle… For them,
there was only one solution… to put Lazarus to death also…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lazarus is living proof that<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus is who He said he is… </b>Look with me at<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John 11… v25,26…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
11: 25,26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me,
though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall
never die. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Do you believe this?“ </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">25 Jesus spricht zu ihr: Ich bin die Auferstehung und das
Leben. Wer an mich glaubt, wird leben, auch wenn er stirbt;</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">26 und jeder, der lebt und an mich glaubt, wird in
Ewigkeit nicht sterben. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Glaubst
du das?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am
the Resurrection and the Life… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
whoever believes in me will never die… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We will be focused like a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000;">Laser</span></b>
on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">last week of Jesus earthly
ministry</b> as we move to the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> most
important event of all time the Resurrection of Jesus… </b>let´s review the
list<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> of the Promises found in the
resurrection…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
promise of the Resurrection</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 It
is the death of death</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 It
is for our benefit</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3 It
produces thanksgiving</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4 it
is why we never give up</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5 It
is for the Glory<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of God</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s pray…</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">He is Risen!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2017.04.16 </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Road to Emmaus<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luke 24: 13- 35</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Good morning!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">He is risen…
He is Risen Indeed! Thanks for coming this glorious morning… </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Is
the resurrection of Jesus from the dead… true?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The Answer of the Word of God is YES!!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The Answer of secular History is also YES! He is
risen… </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">There is<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> no other explanation of the facts of these
last 2000 years… Jesus is Risen Indeed!</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It´s all true…
Jesus is Alive…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And our salvation is
certain… When Paul </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">was writing
the letters to the churches… He testified to the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> truth of the Resurrection… </b>He reminded the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Corinthians </b>that hundreds of people saw the risen Christ… He
wanted to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">assure them that their faith
in Christ was real… Look with me at 1 Cor 15…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">1 Corinthians 15: 1-8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">1 Let me now remind you, dear brothers and sisters, of
the Good News I preached to you before. You welcomed it then, and you still
stand firm in it. 2 It is this Good News that saves you if you continue to
believe the message I told you—unless, of course, you believed something that
was never true in the first place.3 I passed on to you what was most important
and what had also been passed on to me. Christ died for our sins, just as the
Scriptures said. 4 He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third
day, just as the Scriptures said. 5 He was seen by Peter and then by the
Twelve. 6 After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time,
most of whom are still alive, though some have died. 7 Then he was seen by
James and later by all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as though I had been born
at the wrong time, I also saw him.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Paul says
and I also saw Him… The one who tried to wipe Christianity out in its beginning
days… Yes It is all true… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus is Risen
from the dead…</b> More than 500 saw him at I time…. The apostles gave their
lives testifying of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">truth of the
word of God</b>…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">And the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">truth of the resurrection…. </b>Most of us have also seen Him… We have
seen Him with our ears as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we have heard
the Good news of the Gospel and believed the Good news…. Jesus died in our
place</b>…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He suffered for us…</b> He
was crucified on a Roman cross… And on the third day… He rose from the dead!...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">This is the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">most important reality in the world… It is
God’s truth... When anyone repents and believes the Gospel… I</b>t becomes very
real and very personal… Then they discover that the death and Resurrection Of
Jesus from the dead is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The most
important truth of all… The truth that sets us free…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">There’s only one place this truth is found and that is
in the Scriptures, the Word of God, the Bible…… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Only those who understand the Bible
can know the truth about salvation and be saved from hell….. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Only those who know the truth of the Bible
can live fulfilled, obedient, blessed, effective, joyful lives….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Therefore the greatest thing that we can
ever do for anyone is to explain to them the meaning of the Bible… Scroll down
please</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">SCRIPTURE</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">1. need for understanding </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">We are lost
and ignorant about the most important things of life… Finding Meaning in death
and suffering for example…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">2. the source of understanding</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God</b> produces understanding<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… </b>It helps us understand the World
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">3. response to understanding…… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">we repent </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">of our sins… we<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> believe the Gospel… we find joy…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The knowledge of Scripture produces
joy…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">To
understand Scripture is to understand everything from God’s perspective… Only when
we dig into the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God… believing
that it is true… can we can understand <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His universe<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and His plan…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faith and careful
study helps to understand the meaning of Scripture… It´s a lifelong task</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(aufgabe)…</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">As we study
the Word of God this morning…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would like
you to travel back with me in time this morning… It is the day of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Resurrection…</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very best thing that you can do for anyone is
to teach them and help <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">them understand The
Word of God… It transforms lives…</b> It gives true freedom and great hope even
in the midst of disaster… We have a powerful illustration of the power of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gospel in Luke 24 this morning… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">It is the
day of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Resurrection…</b> The
disciples have heard that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus is Risen!</b>
A few have already seen him… But most have not… And they are uncertain… As we
pick up the events of that day we join 2 disciples on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Road to Emmaus</b>… They are discouraged and confused… Is Jesus
alive?... Where is he then… What is happening… What is the truth…?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Jesus gives
them a clear understanding of Scripture…… He opens the Scripture and shatters
the darkness and confusion with the light of truth… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">How I wish
we were there! Can you imagine? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their
hearts were on fire! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord Jesus using the Word of God took them
from despair to Joy!…..</b> The disciples believed that all their hopes and dreams
were destroyed at the foot of the cross…. Gone <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>because Jesus had been crucified……. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Can you
imagine their disappointment…… Can you imagine their great Joy as Jesus
explained the Word to them…… They went from the lowest despair to the highest
joy…… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Their hearts
were on fire…… Lighted into flame by the Word of God!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">There are 2 important Emmaus Road lessons
for us to learn today… Scroll down please… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">1. Jesus is Alive…</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Jesus truly rose from the dead… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Both His death and resurrection had been prophesied
many times in great detail in the Old Testament…… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Knowing that
Christ is alive is the first great lesson…… The second great lesson is knowing
that </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">2. Scripture is alive</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">….. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The Word of God is what the Holy
Spirit uses to transform hearts and lives</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">…. It is how people born in this generation can see
Jesus… They hear the Gospel… They see Jesus with their ears… Those are the
lessons that we want to learn as we look at this tremendous event on the road
to Emmaus……</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">In a wonderful act of love we meet
Jesus on the road to Emmaus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Jesus
is still teaching at every opportunity</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our Lord
makes this glorious appearance and teaches this incredible lesson on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Messiah <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the OT… And I love this… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did it for 2 ordinary people…… <span style="color: #c00000;"><br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ is the most important event that has ever happened in the history
of the world</b>….. His death and His resurrection are the events that seal redemption
and forgiveness… If He doesn’t die and rise from the dead… there’s no salvation
for anyone… the whole human race is damned to hell…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Because the death and resurrection
of the Lord Jesus Christ are the most important events in Human history…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"> They are predicted in Scripture… <b><span style="color: red;"></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Jesus said… Come…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">You should have known it… It is not
the fault of the Scripture if you do not understand… It is clear… The Bible has
been given to us so that we <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">can</b>
understand… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The sadness
and the confusion of these two on the road to Emmaus is because they didn’t
understand the Scripture which they possessed…… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">notice this…</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">It wasn’t
that they didn’t believe the Scripture…… They did….. It wasn’t that they didn’t
think God wrote the Scripture….. They did…. It was because they had a very limited
understanding of Scripture……They had been taught about the Glory and triumphant
kingdom of the Messiah…They had heard these things from their youth… But they
had not been taught the whole story… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Their
sadness and disappointment…… their confusion and their grief……. was related to
the fact that they didn’t understand all that the prophets have spoken……. It´s
often the same with us…. We are often confused and disappointed when we don´t
understand what´s happening in our lives….. </b>Sometimes we lose our faith and
trust in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LORD </b>because we do not
have His Word hidden in our hearts… Or like these 2 disciples….. because what
is happening to us doesn´t line up with our expectations… It doesn´t fit with
our understanding of The Word….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">When <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> instead of establishing the
Kingdom immediately… was crucified… They were wiped out… There was just no
place in their understanding of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messianic
theology</b> for a dying <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messiah</b>…
They expected that the Messiah would come and He would His Glorious Eternal
Kingdom… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">That part
they believed… Unfortunately they were <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">literally
blinded to the suffering and the death part……. <br />
And it wasn’t that Jesus didn’t tell them…… He had told them many times…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The Old
Testament said it in detail<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They wanted to join His Forever Kingdom… The</b>y
really <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">didn’t want to die with Him… </b>That’s
why they were so upset <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He said, “I’m going to go to Jerusalem… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">When Jesus was crucified</span></b><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">…They forsook Him and ran to hide… Only John stayed
around at the cross… They thought it was over… And they were scratching their
heads about how they could have been so wrong… Then came the news that Jesus´
tomb was empty… Angels had been seen…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The disciples were confused… had Jesus been raised from the dead… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">So here two of them are walking home…
Their hopes are gone… It’s over… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Luke 24: 13-16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">13 Now behold, two of them were
traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from
Jerusalem. 14 And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
15 So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near
and went with them. 16 But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not
know Him.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></div>
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way it was in every case after His resurrection... They don’t know who it is…
He just joins them and walks along with them… look at v17,18…</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">17 And He
said to them, “What kind of conversation is this that you have with one another
as you walk and are sad?”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">18 Then the
one whose name was Cleopas answered and said to Him, “Are You the only stranger
in Jerusalem, and have You not known the things which happened there in these
days?”</span></b></div>
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says… What are you the only one who doesn´t know?... Haven´t you heard about
everything that´s been going on?.. v19…</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">19 And He
said to them, “What things?”So they said to Him, “The things concerning Jesus
of Nazareth, who was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the
people, 20 and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to be
condemned to death, and crucified Him. 21 But we were hoping that it was He who
was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, today is the third day
since these things happened. 22 Yes, and certain women of our company, who
arrived at the tomb early, astonished us. 23 When they did not find His body,
they came saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said He was
alive. 24 And certain of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it
just as the women had said; but Him they did not see.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Naturally <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus knows all of this….. He just wants to
hear from them… They’re confused about how this could happen… He is going to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">shine the light of scripture on their
hearts…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The whole
thing is too bizarre….. If He is alive and if He’s been alive since morning,
since six o’clock this morning, ten hours ago, maybe, where is He? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">So they’re
totally confused… They didn´t understand… They didn´t understand because they
didn’t know the Scripture… Then Jesus tells them the whole story of redemption…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Luke 24: 25-27<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">25 Then He
said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the
prophets have spoken! 26 Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and
to enter into His glory?” 27 And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He
expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">They are confused because they have
a limited view of the Messiah… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">They were right to expect the
Messiah to reign and rule…… But that was only part of it….. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">He calls them dull…</span><span style="color: #548dd4; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"> </span><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Greek… (anoetos)….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He says that they are slow of heart… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t blame the Scripture… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He doesn’t say, “Well, the Old Testament is a
really hard book…The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">problem is not the Word</b>…...
Jesus simply says… Have you not read the Scriptures? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">v 27… Jesus says… Wasn’t it necessary</span></b><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">? Why did Jesus say that?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">Because there are many <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">passages in the Old Testament</b> that
speak of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messiah suffering</b>…….. And
so<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beginning with Moses….. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Jesus explained the Scriptures… It´s all about Him and
His redemption…<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The Old
Testament is clear about the need for a substitute… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The Day of Atonement is a powerful
picture of the need for the shedding of blood and for a substitute to bear our
sins… It was celebrated every year… </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">There were daily
sin and guilt offerings? And of course as was fresh in their minds… The
Passover… A perfect symbol of substitution and sacrifice… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">They knew
that sin caused death… and that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God
would accept the death of a substitute… </b>But they also knew that no animal
ever offered satisfied God completely… Because they had to offer another animal
and another one day after day… year after year… Those daily sacrifices did not
and could not cleanse their hearts… They needed to be finally and permanently
redeemed… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Everyone of
them knew that sin brings death… The soul that sins, it shall die, said the
prophet… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">All of the
sacrifices in the Levitical system were pictures of that final substitute that
would come… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we see in verse 27…
Jesus… opens it all up to them…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">He gives
them a solid biblical understanding of the Messiah’s suffering… I wish there
was more here, don’t you? I wish I knew all that He said…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">We know what
the Old Testament says about the suffering of Messiah…… So let me give you a
little survey of what the lesson might have been like, okay?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The first Bible text about the
Messiah…. According to the ancient rabbinical texts is Gen 1:2…… They taught
that the Spirit of God moving across the face of the waters……. was the Spirit
of the King Messiah!...</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">It was the ancient <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rabbis who first taught that the Whole
scripture is about the Messiah! I can imagine Him beginning with the
beginning…. Genesis…</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">He
might have started in </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Genesis%203.15" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Genesis
3:15</span></b></a></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">…</span></b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"> He might have told them,
“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do you not know that I am the wounded
seed of the woman who crushes the serpent’s head?”</b> He might have stayed in
Genesis for awhile….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Probably He
went to Genesis 6 through 8 and recounted the history of the Flood… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">And as Peter does… Calling Jesus the Ark of
safety…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">I’m sure He
stopped at Genesis 22 and reminded them of the story of Isaac……. There Abraham
was prepared to offer up His only son…… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but a ram caught in a thicket was used in
Isaac’s place which is a true picture of Christ, the substitute…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">I’m sure He
must have gone to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Exodus 12</b> talked
about the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Passover</b> that they had<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> just celebrated with Jesus</b>… “Don’t you
remember the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Passover lamb</b>… the
Passover lamb had to be without blemish and without spot… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if his blood was shed and splattered on
the doorpost and the side beams, the angel of death would pass by that house…..
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am the true Passover Lamb who protects
the sinner from divine judgment….. I will the blood to their hearts and they
will be clean…</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">I
think He probably went to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Exodus 16</b>
told them that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He was the true manna
from heaven….</b>. He said that to them before… in John 6…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">I think He went in to
Leviticus… and explained that all of the OT sacrifices are about the need for a
substitute for sin… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Hebrews makes it clear that He is
the true offering, the final permanent sacrifice… the perfect substitute…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">All through <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">First five books of Moses… every reference
to the Day of Atonement pictured Him… and I´m sure that He made it clear that
He was not only the sacrifice on the altar… but He was also the scapegoat who
took away sin…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">It´s a powerful picture of
substitution…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">I´m sure
that He told lots of things from the Psalms… There are many Messianic Psalms…
beginning in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm 2</b>… The Messianic Psalms
are A great place for your personal quiet times…</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Surely
He spent some time in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm 22</b>…… Jesus
is the one the psalmist hears when the Psalm begins, “My God, My God, why have
You forsaken Me?” The very words He spoke on the cross…… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm 22</b> says, “He will be a reproach….. He will be sneered at….
His bones will be out of joint. His strength will be gone….. His hands and feet
will be pierced….. His clothes will be divided up by lots as He dies…..All of
these Crucifixion <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Details are found in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm 22……</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Maybe
He went to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm 40 verse 7</b> which
says, “Behold, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I come in the scroll of
the book, it is written of Me, I delight to do Your will, O God, Your law is
within My heart… Hebrews says this text applies <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the Messiah…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">I´m sure
that Jesus took them to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah…</b> to
the suffering servant passages that we talked about last week…</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Isaiah makes it clear… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Suffering
servant of the Lord is the King Messiah… and He is the permanent final
substitute for our sins…</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">JESUS is the
final substitute</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">… This is a picture of Messiah… It’s unmistakable…The
lesson must have been stunning and staggering… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Now that brings us to the 3rd point
in our outline…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>knowledge of Scripture
produces joy.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Remember….. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t know who He is yet……. They still
don’t know this is Jesus…… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What fires
their hearts is a better understanding of the Scriptures</b>…. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone who explains accurately the Scripture
can expect to see that kind of response… Understanding the truth fulfills the
true believer’s deepest longings… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The more we
understand the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more sense we can make of our lives… And
even when we do not understand what or why… Our faith is anchored in reality… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Knowing the truth produces profound joy
even in hard times… To understand the Scripture is to know God… and to know the
things are the way the Scripture says they are… and that God’s plan is
unfolding… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We understand that God is
sovereign and His purpose is being accomplished… </b>This is Awesome truth…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Here on the
road on this first Easter day…These 2 men <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">so
excited… They are on fire on the inside… </b>Here’s their response… v28,29…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Luke 24: 28,29<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">28 Then they drew near to the
village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone
farther. 29 But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward
evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">v29…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Don´t go… stay with us…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Why did they
invite Him in? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The Word of
God was coming alive… This is about more teaching…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It thrilled them… They still don´t know that
they are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">with Jesus…</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">They only
know that their fear and confusion is leaving them… as they see the scriptures
clearer…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Then</b>… when he broke the
bread… v30,31… </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Luke 24: 30,
31<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Schlachter 2000</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">30 Now it
came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and
broke it, and gave it to them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew
Him; and He vanished from their sight. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Their eyes
were opened….. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Now they see that it is Jesus</b>……
In an instant going from the depths of despair to the transcendent heights of
joy, they recognized Him… And He vanished out of their sight… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">They had
hoped He would be their Redeemer… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">and
turns out He was… And now all the Scriptures made sense…</b> They saw the big
picture… Look at verse 32… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Luke 24: 32<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV Schlachter 2000 </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">32 And they
said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us
on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?” </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Their hearts
were on fire with the deepest joy… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Scripture
was true… This was the Messiah…It was all part of the plan… He is alive…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">verse 33…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Luke 24: 33-35<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">33 So they
rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and
those who were with them gathered together, 34 saying, “The Lord is risen
indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” 35 And they told about the things that had
happened on the road, and how He was known to them in the breaking of bread. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Their hearts
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Remember that what lit their hearts
on fire was an understanding of Scriptures… They still did not know it was
Jesus…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The Word of God is Alive… Down
through the centuries… IT is still setting hearts on fire…. It is still being
used by the Holy Spirit to transform hearts and lives…<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The most
important thing that we could ever do is explain and teach the Word of God to a
lost and dying generation… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">It produces
a burning heart… It transforms lives….. It comforts the faithful….</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Jesus is alive… and the Scripture is
alive… Their flaming hearts came from Him explaining <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Scriptures… And it turned in to zeal to
preach the message… proclaim the Good News… What we’re talking about here is
joy and testimony… </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Two things
that flow out of this, when your heart's on fire because you understand the
Scripture… you have an internal joy because you know it’s the truth… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Close</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Resurrection of Jesus from the Dead is
Historical fact… He Lives</b>…. And He still changes lives… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">first Word of the Gospel is repent…. Repent</b>
and believe the gospel… What a tragedy if one of you here this morning is
almost a Christian… I am calling on you today…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Repent and believe the Good news of the G<span style="text-transform: uppercase;">ospel</span>…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Now I know
that sometimes even we who are believers find our world shaken by the things
that happen in our lives… we don´t understand… Where is the Lord? How could
this have happened… We find ourselves on the rough road of our life… Where do
we go…?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">We go to the
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God</b>… Jesus is in our hearts…
He is ready and able… More than able to open up the scriptures to us… It will
set our hearts on fire…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we will
understand… The Word of God will teach and comfort and strengthen us… Look with
me at… Hebrews 10… v35,36…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Hebrews 10: 35,36<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">35"So do not throw away this
confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you! 36 Patient
endurance is what you need now so that you will continue to do God's will. Then
you will receive all that He promised. "</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Great verses…
v35… Confident trust… v36… Patient endurance… And finally… we receive
everything that he has promised… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">45 years ago… I bought a bible… Because a long haired hippie on TV said
that God was real… That Jesus was a Savoir… that the Bible was true… He said that
if I would read it for myself… I could find Jesus…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">I sat down and read the bible… I began at Matthew 1… I read it nonstop… By
the time I had spent a few days reading it…The Holy Spirit had used this book… to
take out my heart of stone and give me a new heart of flesh… My eyes were
opened to see Jesus… My heart was burning within me… It was all true… There was
hope… </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">The Resurrection of Jesus turned a disaster into
Glory! Jesus sacrifice has once for all time made it possible for every disaster
in our lives to be turned into Glory! It´s Good News!</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">There is hope! It´s all true… He is
Risen! We have a Savior… His Name is Jesus!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">Matthew 12: 21<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schlachter 2000</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">21 And his name will
be the hope of all the world.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: DE;">He is Risen….. He is Risen Indeed! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">2017.04.13<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
in the Passover<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Welcome and opening
prayer</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Good evening everyone, Thanks for coming....</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Lighting of the
candle</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Lighting of the
Candle.... done by the hostess of the feast...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Song <b>Ki
Godal</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The first Passover ...
a short review... Exodus 12... </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For more than 3500
years the <b>Pesah</b>.... the <b>Passover</b> has been celebrated.... That´s
longer than any religious celebration in history.... It is a call.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A call for the people
of God to remember.... to remember that they had been slaves..... in bondage in
Egypt for 430 years.... they were powerless to free themselves from
Pharaoh...... they needed a saviour.... a redeemer.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Each year when they
celebrated passover they were to remind themselves of the bitterness of slavery.....
and the greatness of their redemption...... they.... we have received grace and
mercy...... to remember that the LORD had done great miracles..... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">that <b>He</b> ....
the <b>LORD GOD</b>.... led them to freedom.... and into the promised land....
to remember that in EGYPT….. they had been rescued from death because of their
faith and obedience.... because they trusted in the <b>Lamb´s sacrifice</b>....
and in the <b>blood of the Lamb</b>.... that they painted the doorposts as sign
of their faith and obedience…..</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus is the
Messiah...... He is also the Suffering servant…… That´s how Isaiah described
HIM….. The King Messiah is also the Suffering Servant of the Lord </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We looked at them
last Sunday….. these things help us to understand the last week of Jesus
earthly ministry.... they help us to understand the Last Supper...... and
communion……</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Passover is to be
a very personal experience.....We can see this in the words that The LORD used
in the instructions that He gave to the children of Israel in Exodus 12....
let´s turn there…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Exodus 12: 1- 14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt, 2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be
the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel
that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to
their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is
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congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it
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shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and
bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in
water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And you
shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the
morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt
fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall
eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover. 12 For I will pass through the
land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute
judgments: I am the LORD. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the
houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague
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you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a
statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">each one of us must
take <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Jesus to be our personal
redeemer</u>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The passover is also
to be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an experience that is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shared with others.... first in the
family.... GOD has commanded us to teach our children…..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why remember and
celebrate the Passover?.....we have been commanded to.... Slide…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">celebrating the Passover is to produce a desire in our
children .... to know more about the LORD and his dealings with us.....to help
them understand the wonderful grace....... and mercy that He has poured out
into our lives......</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The excitement and preparations at the time of Jesus</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">aliyah... to go up...</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">pilgrim songs....
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I would like for us
to remember three things about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this
passover season........</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>time of <b>celebration and worship</b>....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Come let us go up to
the house of the LORD.... They sang the Psalms……</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ps 42, 84, PS 113-118
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are known as "The Egyptian <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hallel" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ps 122, 133, 134....
136 and others...</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Psalm 136: 1-3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1 Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for <i>He is</i>
good!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">2 </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oh, give thanks to
the God of gods!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">3 </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Oh, give thanks to
the Lord of lords!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">PS 136 is called
"the Great Hallel" It is recited at the Passover meal after the
"Lesser Hallel". It repeats the chorus Phrase that reminds us that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God's lovingkindness is everlasting……. His
mercy endures forever….</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">2.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> it was a time of <b>anticipation.....
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">new sights and sounds
and smells..... new people..... maybe a wife ... a daughter of Jerusalem..... a
new Husband.... a Scholar or a young man descended from the priestly
families...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">3. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">it was a time of <b>preparation.....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The <b>tombs
were<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>painted white</b>.... to protect
pilgrims from defilement.... If they got too close to a grave .... they would
not be able to celebrate the Passover.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">everything was
carefully cleaned.... and baptised (immersed )in boiling water.... to purify
them for the Seder meal..... Everything .... must be cleansed...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The night before the
Passover.... the house must be <b>cleansed of every trace of Leaven</b>....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">the father would take
a candle..... and a wooden spoon or a feather.....look for any trace of leaven
and remove it.... this symbolism is seen in the scriptures....</span></div>
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that he would search out the <b>leaven of sin and destroy it....</b></span></div>
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which they always find and through it into bonfires in the middle of the
street..... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">to show everyone that they
have cleansed their house of the leaven of sin....</b></span></div>
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picture to speak about the <b>sinful leaven of pride</b>...in 1 Cor 5....</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">6 Stop being proud!
Don't you know how a little yeast can spread through the whole batch of dough?
7 Get rid of the old yeast! Then you will be like fresh bread made without
yeast, and that is what you are. Our Passover lamb is Christ, who has already
been sacrificed. 8 So don't celebrate the festival by being evil and sinful,
which is like serving bread made with yeast. Be pure and truthful and celebrate
by using bread made without yeast. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our Passover Lamb is
Christ.... last Sunday.... the 10th of Nissan.... is the day that the Passover
lambs were selected........they were taken to be examined for the next four
days....Just like Jesus presented himself in the Temple to be examined by the
people and the priests......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Finally <b>after
weeks of preparations.... it was time for Jesus to celebrate His last Passover
with the disciples..... </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">turn with
me please to Luke 22...</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>14 When the time came, Jesus and the apostles
sat down together at the table. 15 Jesus said, “I have been very eager to eat
this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins. 16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For I tell you now that I won’t eat this meal
again until its meaning is fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.”</span></b></div>
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celebrated....</span></b></div>
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Jesus.... the Passover celebration had a <b>Seder.... </b>an order or plan for
the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>service...We can see it in the
Gospels.... Luke 22: 17....</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">LUKE 22: 17-18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE;"> Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">17 Then he took a cup
of wine and gave thanks to God for it. Then he said, “Take this and share it
among yourselves. 18 For I will not drink wine again until the Kingdom of God
has come.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus poured the
first cup and then.....</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The first cup<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Blessed are you O Lord Our God</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">King of the Universe… <span style="color: #c00000;">ULI
prays…</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus prayed like
this..... Blessed are you "Oh LORD our God .... King of the
Universe"....who has given us the fruit of the vine.... and commanded us
to remember our deliverance from bondage...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">There are 4 cups in
the Seder Service…. Each <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of the
first<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>four cups....... point to the four
promises that the LORD made in Exodus 6: 6- 8....</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">First cup-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First promise</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I will free you from your
burdens and oppression</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">first ceremonial washing</b>.... Instead of
washing only himself.... he demonstrated<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>servant leadership..... he taught the disciples every day he was with
them to love and serve each other…… Every day Jesus ministered to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the lost and dying.... As you know on this
Passover evening Jesus <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>washed the
disciples feet...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then the food was
brought in....</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus dipped bitter herbs in salt water.... and they all
ate some....</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then the food was
removed.... the 4 ritual questions were asked...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1 How is this night
different from all other nights</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">2 Why on this night
do we only eat Matzoh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then the Story of the
children of Israel was told..... beginning with Abraham all the way up to the
Exodus and the first Passover.... the plagues were named one by one.... and a
few drops of wine were dropped.... onto a plate after each plague was said...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">By the way..... in
your own times of personal Bible study..... Take a look at Steven´s sermon in
the book of Acts...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Steven used this kind
of telling....telling of the history of redemption...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to preach the Gospel... that day when he was
stoned to death....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Tonight…. Let´s
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">SONG</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
Christ Alone</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then the food was
brought back in ..... and the symbolism of the food to be eaten was
explained.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">first... the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>three required foods </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1.The Lamb..... </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">perfect and
spotless.... <b>Just like Jesus</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">no broken bones....<b>Just
like Jesus</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">roasted with
fire..... <b>pure...refined...Just like Jesus</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">bitterness of
bondage.....for us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">the bitterness of sin
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">3.The unleavened
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">prepared in haste....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">no trace of
defilement..... corruption..... souring...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">then at the time of
Jesus two more had been added by tradition....</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">bitter tears..... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">preservation from
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Haroseth....</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">a mixture of dates
and apples and nuts and spices...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">to resemble the mud
and straw.... used to make the bricks for Pharaoh....</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Second Cup<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second promise</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I will rescue you
from slavery....</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">for us .... we are
not only forgiven.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">we are set free from
bondage to sin.... it no longer has control of our lives....Paul pointed to the
same symbolism in Romans ....</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Romans 6:6......we
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We drink the second cup.... second washing of the
hands..... Then Jesus<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>broke the bread
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>blessed it....</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-fareast-language: DE;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
second cup and washing</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bread broken and thanked for<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">ULI prays…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The eating of the
break dipped in bitter herbs and charoseth </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The eating of the
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Blessed are you
"OH LORD Our GOD "</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> who has brought forth bread from the
Earth....</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Blessed are you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"OH LORD Our GOD "</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> who has <span style="color: #c00000;">commanded us to eat unleavened bread....</span> which
also they did for eight days after the Passover....celebrating one great
feast.....<span style="color: #c00000;"></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus is the bread of life…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> John 6….</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">3 pieces of bread</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In later years <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">after the destruction of the temple</b>…. 3
pieces of unleavened bread were used…. The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2 outer represent the double portion of Manna that the children of
Israel were to gather on the 6<sup>th</sup> day in preparation for the Sabbath…..
The middle one represents the bread of affliction…. The middle piece was broken
and half of it Hidden until the end of the Sabbath…. It became called the
affikomen…. Dessert…. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It represented the
Passover lamb after the temple was destroyed…..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The dipping of the
sop is recorded in John 13.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus put bitter
herbs and the sweet mixture both on a piece of bread….. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is ..... a bitter sandwich…. Take unbread
and horseradish and haroseth and make a sandwich….. It should be strong enough
to make you cry….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Notice that Jesus
served each disciple..... It reminds me again of JESUS` favorite phrase.... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The son of man..... Serving his own ….
Loving His own to the end…..</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now the main meal was
eaten..... after the meal the Third cup was poured.....</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Third Cup<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>third promise</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I will redeem you... <span style="color: red;">Uli prays</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This cup is called
the <b>cup of blessing</b>.... or the <b>cup of redemption</b>....We believe
that this is the very cup<b>.... That Jesus turned into a remembering of the
great Passover Lamb.... the LAMB OF GOD..... </b>Please notice this
parallel.....<b> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord God
instituted the Passover as a way of remembering his deliverance from Egypt... before
he delivered them..... Door Slide…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Jesus instituted the
Lords Supper as a way of remembering and honoring him...... before he died on
the cross.....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Lord Jesus used
The powerful symbolism of the Passover to institute Communion…. At this time…..
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I would like for us
to celebrate Communion together tonight…..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Turn with me to 1 Cor
11: 23-26....</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">1 Cor 11: 23-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>23 For I pass on to you what I received from
the Lord himself. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some
bread 24 and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and said,
“This is my body, which is given for you. Do this to remember me.” 25 In the
same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, “This cup is the new
covenant between God and his people—an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do
this to remember me as often as you drink it.” 26 For every time you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes
again.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE;">1 Cor 11: 23-26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE;">23 Das Folgende hat der Herr selbst gesagt, und ich gebe es euch so weiter,
wie ich es empfangen habe: In der Nacht, als er verraten wurde, nahm Jesus, der
Herr, einen Laib Brot,</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE;">24 und nachdem er Dank gesagt hatte, brach er ihn und sprach: »Das ist mein
Leib, der für euch hingegeben wird6. Tut das zur Erinnerung an mich.</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE;">25 Ebenso nahm er nach dem Abendmahl den Weinkelch und sprach: »Dieser Kelch
ist der neue Bund zwischen Gott und euch, besiegelt durch mein Blut. Wann immer
ihr daraus trinkt, tut es zur Erinnerung an mich.«</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE;">26 Denn jedes Mal, wenn ihr dieses Brot esst und aus diesem Kelch trinkt,
verkündet ihr den Tod des Herrn, bis er wiederkommt. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Communion
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">How
Deep the Fathers love for us</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Review 3<sup>rd</sup>
cup as we take Communion together…</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ron prays during
Communion</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">4th cup<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fourth promise</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I will take you to
myself<b>.....</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">5th cup<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the cup of Elijah</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">check the door for
Elijah.....because he is the forerunner of the messiah…. second coming of Jesus
the Christ</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Closing prayer and
Worship</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Praise
Adonai</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ki
Gadol Elohim (How great is our God)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Palm Sunday</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Good Morning! Today we are going to look again at the last week of <b>Jesus´
earthly ministry</b>.... I want to set the scene for us a little.....We need to
read the accounts from all four of the Gospels to get the full picture.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I want to look at four things....</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jesus last week of Earthly
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. the People who were there</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4. the responses of worship and faith</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1. the times and seasons… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Spring time.....
Warmer weather..... flowers.... love....daughters of Jerusalem..... receiving
guests...... news from exotic places</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">far away.... The streets filled
with joy and news things to look and experience</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2. the people who were there… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Adulterers......murderers.....
Pharisees.......<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>zealots........</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">everyone who came to <b>JESUS</b> was healed.... They were and this is
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rejoicing........... These genuine believers were filled with joy because of
the Grace of God that flowed into their broken lives........ </span></div>
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Hosanna……</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Lazarus and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary and Martha..... were
there… All of Jerusalem had heard about the death of Lazarus... </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">JESUS had raised Lazarus from the
dead</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">dead</b>... <b>only God</b> can do
that...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary Magdalene was in the crowd...
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was once possessed by demons...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simon the Leper was there...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem to allow himself to be declared Messiah
and King</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">... <b>Jesus is going to his death</b>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And on the way to Jerusalem... <b>JESUS </b>continues to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>teach
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">proclaim the Good News</b>… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">To teach the Word of God </b>and to heal...
In Luke 19... he teaches about the Kingdom... remember... the people wanted the
<b>Messiah the King to free them from Roman rule</b>..... But It was not time
for his earthly Eternal Kingdom..... let´s look at Luke 19: 11...</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">11 The crowd was listening to everything Jesus said. And because he was
nearing Jerusalem, he told them a story to correct the impression that the
Kingdom of God would begin right away. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">11 Die Menge
hörte Jesus zu. Und er erzählte ihnen ein Gleichnis; denn da er nahe bei
Jerusalem war, glaubten sie, dass das Reich Gottes nun anbrechen würde.</span></b></div>
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blind and lepers.... they were under the wrath of God....<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at least that´s what the religious leaders
thought... When they repented and cried out for mercy…… The Lord Jesus healed
and delivered them…. Jesus forgave the most undeserving members of society....
prostitutes.... tax collectors......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why did he waste his time with them?..... The Pharisees didn´t
understand….. These were hopeless sinners…… They didn´t deserve God´s love and
mercy…… The truth is…. Neither do we… Why does he waste his time with us?......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why has <b>God himself </b>decided to <b>forgive </b>and <b>heal</b>.....
<b>to show mercy and grace</b>...to the very people who don´t deserve Mercy....
they.....we ..... are the ones who receive it.....Why....? let´s back up one
verse.... Luke 19: 10....</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Luke19: 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10 For the Son of Man<u> </u>came to seek and save those who are lost.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">10 Der Menschensohn
ist gekommen, um Verlorene zu suchen und zu retten.</span></b></div>
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he blesses and heals and forgives... he heals a blind man..... blind
Bartimeus... <b>Mark 10</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">outcast… rejected by God... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He received
mercy even though he didn´t deserve it... <b>then...</b></span></div>
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publicans ...... the hated tax collectors... they were traitors.... allies of
Rome.... oppressing their own people because of their greed....you know the
story.....<b> Zacchaeus</b>... right here in the first part of this chapter... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Zacchaeus....... hated by the people..... despised..... He wants to see
Jesus……. Despite his enormous wealth….. he knows there is more to life…… He
wants to see this Messiah…… he climbs a tree…… and Jesus tells him…… Zacchaeus
come down….. I´m going to your house today…… He will never be the same after he
meets Jesus...... </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8 Then Zacchaeus stood and
said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I
have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">8 Zachäus aber trat hin und sprach zu
dem Herrn: Siehe, Herr, die Hälfte meiner Güter gebe ich den Armen, und wenn
ich jemand betrogen habe, so gebe ich es vierfältig zurück! </span></b></div>
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response to mercy and grace.... Jesus is on the way to the Cross</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">....and as he goes... he blesses and heals and forgives..... Lives are
transformed……</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus
was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead. 2 There they made Him
a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table
with Him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9 Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came,
not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had
raised from the dead. 10 But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death
also, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in
Jesus.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">12 The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they
heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took branches of palm trees and
went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna!</span></b></div>
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written: 15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King is coming, Sitting
on a donkey’s colt.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">16 His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when
Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about
Him and that they had done these things to Him.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">17 Therefore the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of
his tomb and raised him from the dead, bore witness. 18 For this reason the
people also met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign.</span></b></div>
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accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after Him!”</span></b></div>
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Matthew </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">records that the <b>whole
city was moved…. They </b>flood out of the city and<b> welcome Jesus as the
long awaited Messiah…. The crowd is fulfilling prophesy here… </b></span></div>
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thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Zech 9:9… more Prophesy fulfilled… </b>That
brings us to our third point in our outline today…</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <b>the Prophecies that were fulfilled... The Rabbis
taught that the Messiah would work miracles like Moses… </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">There were many prophesies fulfilled in this <b>Passion
week… 28 on the day that He was crucified alone… </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">All the miracles Jesus did pointed to Him as Israel's Messiah…. </span></div>
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and compassion</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">…. His purpose was also to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">prove His claim to the Kingdom</b>…..
Jesus´ many miracles showed that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He had
all authority and power</b> on earth…. but He never let the miracles become the
focus of His ministry… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus came to
seek and to save the lost… </b>Look with me at Mark 2…v9…</span></div>
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</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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you,’ or to say, ‘Arise, take up your bed and walk’? 10 But that you may know
that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—He said to the
paralytic, 11 “I say to you, arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” 12
Immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went out in the presence of them
all, so that all were amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything
like this!”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></div>
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and is His first priority…. But Jesus also performed many incredible
miracles….. I´m not talking about the stuff that you see on TV…. He did Miracles
that had never been done by any prophet….. Before or since… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000 </span></b></div>
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Him and healed them all.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> </span></div>
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but when push came to shove… everyone abandoned Him… </span></div>
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amplified above his message… He came to seek and to save the lost… </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Rabbis </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">listed specific miracles
that only the<b> Messiah could do as signs of Messiahship… </b>Some of them are
found in <b>Isaiah… Turn with me to Isaiah 35…v4…</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Isaiah 35: 4- 8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4 Say to those who are fearful-hearted,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, With
the recompense of God;</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He will come and save you.” </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">6 Then the lame shall leap like a deer,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And the tongue of the dumb sing.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">For waters shall burst forth in the wilderness,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And streams in the desert.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">7 The parched ground shall become a pool,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And the thirsty land springs of water;</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">8 A highway shall be there, and a road,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The unclean shall not pass over it, But it shall be for others. Whoever
walks the road, although a fool, Shall not go astray.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Scroll down and look at the list from these
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Miracles that prove that Jesus is the Messiah! </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1 v5a…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the eyes of the blind
shall be opened…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Many Miracles can be included in the <b>proofs
of Jesus Messiahship </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They include the healing of the crippled… Matt15… The healing of
lepers…. Etc…</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But there was 1 very important one…. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The Resurrection of Lazarus……</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jesus </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Himself said that raising
someone from the dead was proof that He is the<b> Messiah…. </b>Turn with me to<b>
Matthew 11…v4…. </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Matthew 11: 4-6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4 Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which
you hear and see: 5 The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed
and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached
to them. 6 And blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Here in this text we see more proofs…. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5 v5… the lepers are cleansed</span></b></div>
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poor have the Gospel preached to them… Jesus said that is also <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">proof that He is the Messiah</b>…These are
found in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 61</b>… Jesus read these
words to begin His Earthly ministry in Nazareth when he stood up in the
synagogue…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of course…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus came to seek
and to save the lost….</b> </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1. the times and the seasons</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3. the prophecies that were fulfilled</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">4. the responses of worship and faith</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As I told you last week… Jesus presents himself as
King on the very day prophesied by Daniel…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><b>one of the most amazing prophesies ever...</b></span><b><span style="color: #548dd4; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> There is a book
about this…</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">THE COMING PRINCE<br />
BY<br />
SIR ROBERT ANDERSON<br />
1841-1918<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It´s available for free
online</span></b><span style="color: #548dd4; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">SIR ROBERT ANDERSON was a
lawyer and an Expert on terrorism He wrote a book on these prophesies….. <b>Daniel´s
prophesies tell us the exact day of the coming prince…. The Messiah<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>presented Himself as the Lamb of God on The
10th of Nissan… That is the exact day that Daniel prophesied…</b></span><span style="color: #548dd4; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jesus fulfilled many more prophesies…
turn to Zechariah…. </span></div>
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greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King
is coming to you; He <i>is</i> just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a
donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.</span></b></div>
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sehr, du Tochter Zion; jauchze, du Tochter Jerusalem! Siehe, dein König kommt
zu dir; ein Gerechter und ein Retter4 ist er, demütig und reitend auf einem
Esel, und zwar auf einem Füllen, einem Jungen der Eselin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="color: #548dd4; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey..... on a colt.... Just as the
scriptures said… Zechariah 9:9…</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Finally… T</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">he Messiah is openly
proclaimed…. And Jesus is Receiving the Worship He deserves.... Although many
have believed because of Lazarus…. Many others are just pretending…. They are
just fans of Jesus…. They have not really repented of their sins… </span></div>
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Psalms 113- 118….. Called the Egyptian Hallel……. The great Hallelujah! These
were sung at the great feasts….. they were sung by pilgrims travelling to
Jerusalem for the feasts……</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">24 </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Cambria Math","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Cambria Math";"></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This <i>is</i> the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in
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pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity.</span></b></div>
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blessed you from the house of the LORD.</span></b></div>
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with cords to the horns of the altar.</span></b></div>
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will exalt You.</span></b></div>
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thanks to the LORD, for <i>He is</i> good!</span></b></div>
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that repents and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trusts in the
Messiah... They are the ones who find mercy and grace... </span></div>
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forgiveness... they so desperately need... is here… in their Savior... Jesus…
the lamb of God… </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Others <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">refused to repent and
believe the Gospel… In a few days they would join another crowd……. A crowd
crying…… Crucify Him……. Crucify Him… </b>All through the scriptures we see Jesus
calling for genuine repentance… He like every prophet that ever lived…. Called
on all men everywhere to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>believe the
Good News of the Gospel… He is at long last allowing Himself to be proclaimed
King Messiah… But He appearance causes everyone to make a choice… Look with me
at Luke 19:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially
in this your day, the things that make for your peace! </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But now they are hidden from your eyes. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">41 Und als er näher kam und die Stadt sah,
weinte er über sie 42 und sprach: Wenn doch auch du erkannt hättest, wenigstens
noch an diesem deinem Tag, was zu deinem Frieden dient! Nun aber ist es vor
deinen Augen verborgen.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Again as He heads to the cross Jesus weeps… This time he is weeping for
all of those who have seen and heard <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Him</b>…
Those who still refuse to repent and turn to Him… He offers them Mercy and
forgiveness…. He says choose <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Life…</b> The Phrase </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">"THIS YOUR
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is… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A DAY OF DELIVERANCE… Forgiveness
and mercy... </b>back to<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John 12… v23…</b></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">23 But Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come that the Son
of Man should be glorified. 24 Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a
grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it
dies, it produces much grain. 25 He who loves his life will lose it, and
he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If
anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be
also. If anyone serves Me, him <i>My</i> Father will honor.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Those who repent and believe the Good News
receive eternal life…<b> and the joy and blessing of serving the LORD Jesus… KING
OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS… </b>As we close our time this morning… Jesus
prophesies His death and resurrection again…</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">John 12:32- 41<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">32 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all <i>peoples</i>
to Myself.” 33 This He said, signifying by what death He would die.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">34 The people answered Him, “We have heard from the law that the
Christ remains forever; and how <i>can</i> You say, ‘The Son of Man must be
lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">35 Then Jesus said to them, “A little while longer the light is
with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who
walks in darkness does not know where he is going. 36 While you have the
light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” These things
Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">37 But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not
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which he spoke:</span></b></div>
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they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">41 These things Isaiah said when<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>he saw His glory and spoke of Him.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Jesus knows that some in this crowd will still refuse
to believe…. Because they refuse to repent… Even the miracles were not enough
for some because they were hardening their hearts against their only hope… Look
at v37... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>miracles do not cause believing
faith to spring up... As it says in Romans 1... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people sometimes refuse to believe... because
they refuse to repent... For some others... The phrase… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"THIS YOUR DAY"…</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Is a day of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
JUDGEMENT… Because when we refuse to see with our ears… When we refuse to
repent at the proclamation of the Truth of God´s Word… We are denying the truth
about our own sin and rebellion… We are condemning ourselves… We stand in the
crowd of unrepentant rebels and cry Crucify Him…. Crucify Him… </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">How
about you...</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #548dd4; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> which crowd are you in today?</span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Let´s pray….</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.04.02<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luke 18: 31- 34</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus Predicts The Cross</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… Once again </b>this
morning we<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> are studying the Gospel of
John… </b>You will remember that as we studied ch11 last week we looked at the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">resurrection of Lazarus</b> from the dead…
Many people saw the miracle and they believed in Him there… These same people
will form the huge crowd that will soon proclaim him as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">King Messiah</b>… Jesus gave another of His I am statements… He said… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I am the resurrection and the life…. Let´s
read it again… John 11…</b> v25,26…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
11: 25,26<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me,
though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall
never die. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Do you believe this?”</span></b></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">25
Jesus spricht zu ihr: Ich bin die Auferstehung und das Leben. Wer an mich
glaubt, wird leben, auch wenn er stirbt; 26 und jeder, der lebt und an mich
glaubt, wird in Ewigkeit nicht sterben. </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Glaubst
du das?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are approaching <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Resurrection
Sunday</b>… And so we will focus on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Promise
of the Resurrection</b> for the next few weeks… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Promise of the
Resurrection</b> is so important to our Christian walk… Last week I showed you
a few of the very important points contained in the Promise… Look at it with me</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">again… </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The promise of the Resurrection</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 It is the death of death</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 It is for our benefit</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3 It produces<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>thanksgiving</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4 it is why we never give up</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5 It is for the Glory<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of God</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I want to take this opportunity to look at the last week
of Jesus earthly ministry… From the very beginning… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">shadow of the cross was over the manger…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus….
Immanuel… God incarnate… He came to save us from our sins</b>… by offering the
full and final and perfect sacrifice for sin… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus´ ministry has always been about the cross… </b>Look with me at
Luke 9: 22-25</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Luke
9 : 22-25<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">22
saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders
and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.” 23
Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny
himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. 24 For whoever desires to
save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save
it. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is
himself destroyed or lost?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">22 indem er sprach: Der Sohn des Menschen muss viel
leiden und verworfen werden von den Ältesten und den obersten Priestern und
Schriftgelehrten und getötet werden und am dritten Tag auferweckt werden. 23 Er
sprach aber zu allen: Wenn jemand mir nachkommen will, so verleugne er sich
selbst und nehme sein Kreuz auf sich täglich und folge mir nach. 24 Denn wer
sein Leben retten will, der wird es verlieren; wer aber sein Leben verliert um
meinetwillen, der wird es retten. 25 Denn was hilft es einem Menschen, wenn er
die ganze Welt gewinnt, aber sich selbst verliert oder schädigt?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v23…</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If
anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross
daily, and follow Me…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
this text Jesus predicts The cross and His resurrection from the dead…. He is
preparing the Disciples for the very difficult events that will happen in the
next 10 days… As we look at this final week in Jesus´ earthly ministry…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to ask us all a question… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What does it really mean to deny ourselves…
and take up our cross daily and follow Jesus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>What does that mean for<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> us today… </b>here In Wiesbaden? We will
begin our study of the last week of Jesus´earthly ministry… by looking at Luke
ch 18 as Jesus predicts his <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">death and resurrection</b>…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is a parallel text to John 11 from last week… Jesus
has been ministering in Galilee and Perea… And now as we saw last week… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus set His face toward Jerusalem…
The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cross moved Him in that
direction…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cross</b> is the purpose
for which He came… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He looks ahead now…
to Calvary and to the resurrection…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is the Passover season… Jesus has raised Lazarus from the dead…. And many have
believed in Him… It is only about 10 days to the cross…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have finally come to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">great climax of the earthy ministry of the Lord Jesus</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soon we will witness the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">agony of His death on the cross</b>….. and the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory</b> that awaits Him in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His
Resurrection from the dead</b>… And we will see <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His great and final victory over sin and death…</b> The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>disciples are the main focus of His ministry as
He approaches the final events… He wants them to know that… This <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">death on the cross… Is the plan</b>… He
speaks clearly of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His suffering</b>…
Several times Jesus warned them about the future… He wants them to know the
facts… So that they will not be surprised… look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Luke 18: 31-34</b>… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Luke
18: 31-34<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">31
Then He took the twelve aside and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to
Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son
of Man will be accomplished. 32 For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and
will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. 33 They will scourge Him and kill
Him. And the third day He will rise again.”34 But they understood none of these
things; this saying was hidden from them, and they did not know the things
which were spoken. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">31 Er nahm aber die Zwölf zu sich und sprach zu ihnen:
Siehe, wir ziehen hinauf nach Jerusalem, und es wird alles erfüllt werden, was
durch die Propheten über den Sohn des Menschen geschrieben ist; 32 denn er wird
den Heiden ausgeliefert und verspottet und mißhandelt und angespuckt werden; 33
und sie werden ihn geißeln und töten, und am dritten Tag wird er wieder
auferstehen. 34 Und sie verstanden nichts davon, und dieses Wort war ihnen zu
geheimnisvoll, und sie begriffen das Gesagte nicht.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First let´s look at the plan of suffering, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">verse 31…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v31a…
He took the Twelve aside</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… pulling them apart from the large
crowd following Him… He is accompanied not only by the Twelve but by a very
large crowd… The crowd following <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>
is even larger than normal… because this is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Passover</b>… and they are all headed to Jerusalem for the Passover… The
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They still think He's going to go to Jerusalem to
establish His Kingdom… and it looks impossible… The leaders of Judaism are
trying to kill Him… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so the 12 Follow
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus reluctantly</b>… They <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">are fearful… But Please</b> notice that there's
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">no hesitation in Jesus words</b>……<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He tells them…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">31b…</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">all
things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be
accomplished…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
points to the cross and says It is all in God´s plan… It is God who is the
primary cause of the sufferings of Christ… The Jewish leaders and the Romans
did the work… but they were following God´s plan… He says it to them privately…
They need to understand this… They need to know that this is all part of God´s
plan…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He warned them to prepare them…
Because all things need to be fulfilled…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> was
not a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">victim</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things did not go wrong… It was <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">all planned by God</b>… Everything was
prophesied and pictured clearly in the Old Testament… </span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All of the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">examples
found in the Festivals and the Old Testament sacrifices provide</b> details… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Passover and the Day of Atonement… Point to
the final complete Sacrifice… </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They need to understand this… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Because they will be His first apostles and
evangelists…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and they need to know
that these things were planned and fulfilled exactly…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the reasons they need to know it… Is
because it will be so hard for them to grasp the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">truth that Jesus the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Messiah must
die</b>… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus understands that they are afraid</span></b><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were confused… Because
they knew that Jesus was walking right in to the arms of His enemies…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, Jesus
pulls them aside and says… Listen don´t freak out… I know it's a shock… but
we're going up to Jerusalem… This is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God's
plan and Jesus knew it</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew
exactly that it meant <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His death on the
cross…</b> In fact that is why He went…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He says we're going so that the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Son of Man</b> can claim <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His
Kingdom… This event, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the cross… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is the high point of Scripture…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is the main focus of biblical history…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As we think about the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cross in the Scriptures</b>… We are talking about the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of them happened on the Day of Atonement…
Leviticus 16… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can go to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word of God…</b> and think about the many daily
sacrifices for sin that are pictured… In the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Passover celebration… we learn that the sacrificial lamb must to be
without spot or blemish… and that The blood of the lamb protects all that are
sheltered in the house… The blood of the lamb saves them from death and
produces life…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>And all this prepares
us for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one sacrifice which ends all
sacrifices</b>… All these things were temporary… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And they <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">all</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">pointed to the cross</b>… They pointed to
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lamb of God who takes away the sins
of the World... The final permanent sacrifice…. Offered by God's chosen
substitute… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lamb of God who takes
away the sins of the World… The perfect lamb </b>without blemish and without
spot…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> He provides for us the only way to
God… and the only covering for the guilt of sin……</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
is Jesus the Messiah… The perfect sacrifice… He redeems us from our sin and
rebellion…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gives us eternal life… Jesus
is the Suffering Servant of the Lord God… Isaiah 52-53… slide…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
sufferings as the Lamb of God</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Jesus is Fulfilling every Prophesy…. Both of Suffering and Glory</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
Jesus is accomplishing God´s plan from eternity past</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
Jesus will willingly lay down his life</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There were many <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Old
Testament prophecies</b> about the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Suffering
Servant….. The Messiah……</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm not
going to go through all of them…. There are at least 365 of them…. One for
every day of the year… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Let´s look for a moment at a few of the passages about
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Suffering Servant of the Lord</b>… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lamb of God… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 52 and 53…
We have an awesome Messianic passage… We read about the Atonement… We see a
perfect substitute… The Lord Jesus… He</b> would die in our place…..for sin…
The perfect and final sacrifice… Look with me at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 53</b>… Starting at verse 4… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Isaiah
53: 4- 11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him
stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our
peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have
gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the Lord has laid
on Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He
opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep
before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 8 He was taken from
prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off
from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was
stricken. 9 And they made His grave with the wicked— But with the rich at His
death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth 10 Yet
it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His
soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And
the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor
of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall
justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">4 Fürwahr, er hat unsere Krankheit getragen und unsere
Schmerzen auf sich geladen; wir aber hielten ihn für bestraft, von Gott
geschlagen und niedergebeugt. 5 Doch er wurde um unserer Übertretungen willen
durchbohrt, wegen unserer Missetaten zerschlagen; die Strafe lag auf ihm, damit
wir Frieden hätten, und durch seine Wunden sind wir geheilt worden. 6 Wir alle gingen
in die Irre wie Schafe, jeder wandte sich auf seinen Weg; aber der Herr warf
unser aller Schuld auf ihn. 7 Er wurde mißhandelt, aber er beugte sich und tat
seinen Mund nicht auf, wie ein Lamm, das zur Schlachtbank geführt wird, und wie
ein Schaf, das verstummt vor seinem Scherer und seinen Mund nicht auftut. 8
Infolge von Drangsal und Gericht wurde er weggenommen; wer will aber sein
Geschlecht beschreiben? Denn er wurde aus dem Land der Lebendigen weggerissen;
wegen der Übertretung meines Volkes hat ihn Strafe4 getroffen. 9 Und man
bestimmte sein Grab bei Gottlosen, aber bei einem Reichen [war er] in seinem
Tod, weil er kein Unrecht getan hatte und kein Betrug in seinem Mund gewesen
war. 10 Aber dem Herrn gefiel es, ihn zu zerschlagen; er ließ ihn leiden. Wenn
er sein Leben zum Schuldopfer gegeben hat, so wird er Nachkommen sehen und
seine Tage verlängern; und das Vorhaben des Herrn wird in seiner Hand gelingen.
11 Nachdem seine Seele Mühsal erlitten hat, wird er seine Lust sehen und die
Fülle haben; durch seine Erkenntnis wird mein Knecht, der Gerechte, viele
gerecht machen, und ihre Sünden wird er tragen.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">verse 10 says<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> He
would be a guilt offering…</b>Then it says that God<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was pleased to crush Him… He will prolong His
days… This points to the resurrection… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as a result, verse <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">11, "Of the anguish of His soul will see it and be satisfied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And by His knowledge, the Righteous One, My
servant, will justify the many."</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He will provide the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sacrifice
that produces the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>justification of
everyone who repents of their sins and cries out to Him…</b> and after
suffering a terrible <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">death on the Cross…
He will rise from the dead and see the redemption of sinners…</b> and be
satisfied…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will receive a portion
with the great because He poured out Himself to death and bore the sin of many…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Zechariah tells us about the cross too…… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Zechariah 12: 10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>NKJV</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants
of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me
whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son,
and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">10 Aber über das Haus David und über die
Einwohner von Jerusalem will ich den Geist der Gnade und des Gebets ausgießen,
und sie werden auf mich sehen, den sie durchstochen haben, ja, sie werden um
ihn klagen, wie man klagt um den eingeborenen [Sohn], und sie werden bitterlich
über ihn Leid tragen, wie man bitterlich Leid trägt über den Erstgeborenen.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Remember… The Jews didn't crucify people… They
stoned them to death… That is what the scribes and Pharisees wanted to do… They
were prevented from killing Jesus in this way… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The death of Christ on the cross was not
an<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>accident…… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
the fulfillment of the very plan and purpose of God……<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #548dd4; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He knew the kind of death He would die… Because
it was all part of God´s divine plan…..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Peter wrote about the fact that the prophets themselves
wanted to understand what they were writing about… Especially when they wrote
about the Suffering´s of the Messiah… turn to… 1 Peter 1: 10…. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Peter 1: 10,11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Schlachter 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">10
Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who
prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 11 searching what, or what
manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He
testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would
follow.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">10 Wegen dieser Errettung haben die Propheten gesucht und
nachgeforscht, die von der euch zuteil gewordenen Gnade geweissagt haben. 11
Sie haben nachgeforscht, auf welche und was für eine Zeit der Geist des Christus
in ihnen hindeutete, der die für Christus bestimmten Leiden und die darauf
folgenden Herrlichkeiten zuvor bezeugte.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v11…
the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> When
we study Messianic Prophesy… There are these 2 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>categories that the prophets wrote about.......
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">#1suffering and #2 glory……</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can go through the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Old Testament</b> and find lots about the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messiah´s Glory… The Messiah King and His Kingdom…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It's</b> in here… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah and many other
places speak of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Glory of the Messiah…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Sufferings are here too…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nevertheless… Generally speaking the Jews had
a hard time with the suffering parts… They could <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">not understand them</b>… Even though the entire OT system of sacrifice
pointed to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">final atonement of Christ</b>…
</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
was not the kingdom or the Cross… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kingdom
through</b>… or by way of… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the cross…
His entry into Jerusalem is described in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Zechariah
9…</b> even down to the colt that He would ride on… The rage and hatred of His
enemies is described in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm 2…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His desertion by His friends is in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Zechariah 13:7…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"When the Shepherd is smitten, the sheep
are scattered… Zechariah</b> is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>talking
about how the disciples will all flee… Judas betrayal of Jesus for 30 pieces of
silver is oprophesied in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Zechariah 11:12…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Exodus 12:46 and Psalm 34:20 says,
"Not a bone of His body would be broken,"</b> and we know that was
fulfilled…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn't break His legs…
which they usually did to speed up death, because He was already dead…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm
22:18</b> said they would cast lots for His garments…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm
69:21 says they would give Him vinegar to drink…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Psalm 22:1</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"My
God, My God, why have You forsaken Me,"</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Were words that
Jesus said from the cross… They indicate His cry of pain and suffering…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All these things are laid out in the scriptures…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, the OT also prophesies that He
would rise from the dead… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Psalm 16:10,
"Thou would not allow Thy Holy One to see corruption, but will show Him
the path of life…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And it was clear to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus
that He was the Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So that's the plan… The Son of man will suffer and die…
Back to Luke 18… We will look again at Jesus prophesy of his suffering and
death… And resurrection… look at verses 32 and 33…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Luke
18: 32, 33<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Schlachter
2000</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">32
For He will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and
spit upon. 33 They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will
rise again.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">32 denn er wird den Heiden ausgeliefert und verspottet
und mißhandelt und angespuckt werden; 33 und sie werden ihn geißeln und töten,
und am dritten Tag wird er wieder auferstehen.</span></b></div>
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Gentiles and will be mocked and mistreated and spit upon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After they have scourged Him, they will kill
Him and the third day He will rise again."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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and followed Him… Many of them suffered and died for the sake of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gospel… Heaven</b> is full of great men and
women of God who gave everything for Him… turn with me to Hebrews in closing
today…</span></div>
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with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the
cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of
God. 3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against
Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">1 Da wir nun eine solche Wolke von Zeugen um uns haben,
so laßt uns jede Last ablegen und die Sünde, die uns so leicht umstrickt, und
laßt uns mit Ausdauer laufen in dem Kampf, der vor uns liegt, 2 indem wir
hinschauen auf Jesus, den Anfänger und Vollender des Glaubens, der um der vor
ihm liegenden Freude willen das Kreuz erduldete und dabei die Schande für
nichts achtete, und der sich zur Rechten des Thrones Gottes gesetzt hat. 3
Achtet doch auf ihn, der solchen Widerspruch von den Sündern gegen sich erduldet
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Life… Lay sin in all of it´s forms aside too… Let´s run with endurance with our
eyes on Jesus… He is our great example… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let´s
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lazarus</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… Once again </b>this
morning we<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> are studying the Gospel of
John… </b>You will remember that as we finished ch10 Last week… The religious
leaders tried again to kill Jesus…. They were determined to Shut Him up…. But
It was not yet time… And so <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>
walked safely through their midst… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus left Jerusalem </b>and spent time beyond
the Jordan ministering to the people in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Galilee…
</b>Many people believed in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Him </b>there…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Turn in your<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Bible to John chapter 11…</b> We are going to witness a powerful
miracle… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is Jesus´ final public miracle… This miracle occurs
near the end of Jesus earthly ministry… In a few weeks now… Jesus will go to
the cross… He will lay down His life for our sins… He will be killed at
Passover… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He will travel to the house of
Mary and Martha and Lazarus… They live in Bethany…. It is two miles east of
Jerusalem on the road to Jericho… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
will be filled with pilgrims heading to the Passover celebrations… The news of
the raising of Lazarus from the dead will spread like wildfire through the
crowds as they go up to Jerusalem… Everybody will hear what Jesus did… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus will raise Lazarus from the dead
shortly before He goes to the cross…</b> This raising of Lazarus will have
several very important effects… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1 It
will strengthen the faith of the disciples…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was not enough to fill them completely with faith in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord's resurrection</b>… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it must have helped them to increase their
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">faith in Jesus…</b> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 The
resurrection of Lazarus was a preview of the resurrection of Christ</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus had told them many times that he would lay down his
life and that He would take it up again… John 10:18... Now they had seen His
resurrection power in the raising of Lazarus... </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3 The
resurrection of Lazarus <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was powerful widespread
evidence of His deity…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
entire city heard of it… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
The public well known resurrection of Lazarus was the last straw</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">…The
resurrection of Lazarus was so important… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so well-known that it forced the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leaders
of Judaism to press the issue of the execution of Jesus… They must shut Jesus
up…. No matter what it took…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole chapter is about this miracle… The
most important theme in the universe is the glory of God… It is the foundation
of all of God’s works… Beginning with the creation of the world… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Including the redemption of fallen sinners… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the judgment of unbelievers… It all
results in the manifestation of His greatness… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His Glory for all eternity… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God’s
glory is a basic part of who He is… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Bible refers to Him as the God of glory… Ps. 29:3; Acts 7:2… The Glory of
Israel…1 Sam. 15:29…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The King of glory… Ps.
24:7–10… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God’s
glory is uniquely His… and He will not share it with anyone else… Isa. 42:8;
48:11… God the Father is </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">called the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Father of glory… Eph. 1:17; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus Christ </b>is called <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Lord of glory…1 Cor. 2:8... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Holy </b>Spirit is called<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> the Spirit of glory… 1 Peter 4:14… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God’s
glory </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is also seen in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
redemption… He Saves us… And we give Him the <span style="text-transform: uppercase;">Glory…</span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
Corinthians 4: 4,15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">called
the message of salvation<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> “the gospel of
the glory of Christ… Paul also said that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>saving
“grace which is spreading to more and more people will]cause the giving of thanks
to abound to the glory of God… 2 Cor 4:15…</b> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapter
11 </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">records
the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> last and most powerful </b>of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> seven miraculous signs </b>in the gospel
of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John (cf. 2:1–11; 4:46–54; 5:1–17;
6:1–14; 6:15–21; 9:1–41), the resurrection of Lazarus four days after he died…</b>
The miracle’s primary purpose… Was not to restore him to life… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
raised Lazarus from the dead so that He and the Father would be glorified… The
glory of Jesus Christ blazes in this passage against a dark backdrop of
rejection and hatred on the part of the Jewish leaders... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at ch11… beginning with v1…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;"></span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
11: 1,2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister
Martha. 2 It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with fragrant oil and wiped
His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. </span></b></div>
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Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is
sick.”4 When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but
for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”5 Now
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when He heard that he was
sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was. 7 Then after this He
said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples said to Him,
“Rabbi, lately the Jews sought to stone You, and are You going there again?” 9
Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the
day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if
one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">11
These things He said, and after that He said to them, “Our friend Lazarus
sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up.”12 Then His disciples said, “Lord, if
he sleeps he will get well.” 13 However, Jesus spoke of his death, but they
thought that He was speaking about taking rest in sleep. 14 Then Jesus said to
them plainly, “Lazarus is dead. 15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not
there, that you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him.” 16 Then Thomas,
who is called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, that we
may die with Him.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">17 So when Jesus came, He found that he
had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem,
about two miles away. 19 And many of the Jews had joined the women around
Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">20
Now Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but
Mary was sitting in the house. 21 Now Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had
been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever
You ask of God, God will give You.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will
rise again.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he
will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” 25 Jesus said to her, “I
am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he
shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you
believe this?” 27 She said to Him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the
Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">28
And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary
her sister, saying, “The Teacher has come and is calling for you.” 29 As soon
as she heard that, she arose quickly and came to Him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet
come into the town, but was in the place where Martha met Him. 31 Then the Jews
who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary
rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb
to weep there.” 32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell
down at His feet, saying to Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would
not have died.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her
weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and
was troubled. 34 And He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to Him,
“Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, “See how He loved
him!”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">37 And some of them said, “Could not
this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from
dying?” 38 Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a
cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.”Martha,
the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a
stench, for he has been dead four days.” 40 Jesus said to her, “Did I not say
to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">41
Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And
Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are
standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 Now when
He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44
And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his
face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
45 Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus
did, believed in Him.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This was already a very well-known miracle in the early
church…During His earthly ministry… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus had raised others from the dead… </b>But
this was a very public miracle… It is connected to the huge crowds that were
present when Jesus entered Jerusalem on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Palm
Sunday</b> to be openly proclaimed the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messiah</b>…
It occurred just a few days before Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem… Many
believed in Him because they witnessed this miracle… The early Christians had
heard of this powerful miracle… But… Lazarus is not the main focus of the
story... The main point is that Jesus and the Father would be glorified through
his resurrection... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Through the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">resurrection
of Lazarus… Jesus and the Father receive glory…</b> The sisters were deeply worried
about their brother…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lazarus was going
to die without a miracle… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus </b>was across the Jordan in Perea… a
messenger from Bethany would have needed at least a day to reach Him... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lazarus
may have even died the very day after the messenger started to go to Jesus… He
had already been dead for four days when Jesus arrived in Bethany… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The messenger’s journey to Jesus would have accounted for
one day, the Lord then delayed two days (v. 6) before taking one more day to
travel to Lazarus’ home. That brings the total number of days to four… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">T</b>hey<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> did not <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>specifically ask the Lord </b>to do anything… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They realized that it would be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">extremely dangerous for Him to travel to
Jerusalem </b>at this time… scroll down…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v4…
This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God
may be glorified through it…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The Lord did not mean that
Lazarus was not going to die… but rather that death would not be the ultimate
outcome... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Like the blind man from ch9… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lazarus illness and death… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were
all for the glory of God…</b> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v5…
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John reminds us that the Lord’s delay did not reflect
a lack of love and compassion… The delay made it clear that Lazarus was dead beyond
all hope… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Rabbis <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>taught that after 4 days the soul departed the
body and could never be reunited… It made the miracle even more powerful to
them… Look with me at the next section… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
11:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7-16<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After the two-day delay was over, Jesus said to the
disciples</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v7… Let
us go to Judea again…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Astonished and afraid… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the disciples said… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">8… Rabbi, lately
the Jews sought to stone You, and are You going there again?...</b> Why… You said
that Lazarus was not going to die (v. 4)… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if Jesus did need to heal Lazarus… why not
do it from a distance like He had done before… John 4:46–53? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Lord replied with this proverb… v9,10… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then He said… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v11…
Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep; but I go, so that I may awaken him out of
sleep…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Sleep is often used in the Bible as a way to talk about
death… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus was saying that He would raise Lazarus
from the dead…. But they did not get it… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus ended their confusion… He said to them plainly…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v14…
Lazarus is dead…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Here is an unmistakable indication of the
Lord’s omniscience… Remember that the messenger had only said that Lazarus was
sick… Then we see why… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">15… I am glad for
your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe…</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lazarus’ resurrection from the dead would do far more to
strengthen the disciples’ faith than a healing alone would have done… Jesus’ earthly
ministry earth was rapidly nearing its end… In about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 weeks Jesus will be betrayed</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Crucified…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v16…
Let us also go, that we may die with Him…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Seeing that Jesus
was determined to return to Judea… Thomas… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>said to
his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him… This is the
same Thomas who <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is known as “Doubting
Thomas”…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is much more to him
than that…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His words here reflect love and courage… in
spite of his pessimism… He believed he would die if they went to Jerusalem… On
the other hand, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">his love for Jesus was
so strong</b> that he was willing to die with Him… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thomas was sincere</b>… Yet at the crucial moment in Gethsemane... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his faith failed and Jesus was left alone… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matt.
26:56… next section please…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
11: 17-19<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">17
So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. 18
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. 19 And many of the Jews
had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their
brother.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Many of the Jews who had come to Martha and Mary came
from Jerusalem… The fact that so many Jews from the capital came to console
them… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shows us that the family was
prominent… and probably wealthy… From the human perspective… the many mourners
were there to comfort the sisters in their loss… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But God made <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>certain that there would be many witnesses to Jesus’
stunning miracle… The raising of Lazarus would be done in public before
numerous onlookers… Some of whom were even hostile to the Lord… As a result,
not even Jesus’ enemies would be able to deny what He had done… John 11:47…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first seven days of mourning were the most intense… and
many of the mourners would remain with the family for that entire week… next
section please… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 11: 20-27<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v21…
Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. …</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Martha saw Him… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the disturbing thought that had filled her
sorrow came pouring out… She was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>obviously heartbroken… But she was not
rebuking the Lord for failing to prevent Lazarus’s death... Humanly speaking …
The sisters’ message had arrived too late... Martha’s words were simply an
expression of grief mingled with faith... </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v22…
Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>confident in her Savoir even though she
did not totally understand what Jesus says next… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v23…
Your brother will rise again…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Jesus <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>meant that Lazarus was going to be resurrected
immediately… but Martha missed the point… She assumed that Jesus… was
comforting her by pointing out that Lazarus would rise again at the end of the
age… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus then makes this very
important I am Statement… v 25…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v25…
I am the resurrection and the life… </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since the fall in the Garden…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Death has ruled over humanity… What Good
news… This means that as genuine Believers… We do not need to be afraid of
death anymore…<span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">This is not the land of the living, but the land of the dying.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v26…
whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this? </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Jesus said <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Martha… “Do you believe this?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Lord was calling her to understand the magnitude of
His Sovereign power… He wants her to know and believe that He alone was the
source of resurrection power and eternal life… Jesus pointed her to the only
source of spiritual life and well-being—Himself."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Look with me at Hebrews 2… v.14,15…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hebrews
2: 14,15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">14
Because God’s children are human beings—made of flesh and blood—the Son also
became flesh and blood. For only as a human being could he die, and only by
dying could he break the power of the devil, who had the power of death. 15
Only in this way could he set free all who have lived their lives as slaves to
the fear of dying.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">14 Da Gottes Kinder Menschen aus Fleisch und Blut sind,
wurde auch Jesus als Mensch geboren. Denn nur so konnte er durch seinen Tod die
Macht des Teufels brechen, der Macht über den Tod hatte. 15 Nur so konnte er
die befreien, die ihr Leben lang Sklaven ihrer Angst vor dem Tod waren.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="DE" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Death is dead… The great
Puritan theologian</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
Owen wrote a book in 1647… It has an awesome<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>title… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Death of Death in the
Death of Christ</b>… It is free online… This is very practical theology for
Angst Hase…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have nothing to fear because Jesus is the Resurrection
and we will never die… Next section please… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 11: 28-36<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Having affirmed her faith in Jesus, Martha went away and
called Mary her sister, saying secretly, “The Teacher is here and is calling
for you…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Mary heard that Jesus was coming… she got up quickly
and went out to meet Jesus… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">31… She is going
to the tomb to weep…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Assuming she was going to weep at the tomb… They felt it
was their duty as her comforters to go with her… Once again… God sovereignly
orchestrated the circumstances to fit His purposes… He made sure that Jesus’
miracle would be witnessed by the whole group… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When she came where Jesus was, she saw Him, and fell at
His feet. She said to Him what they had surely discussed, since Martha had said
it earlier: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">32… Lord, if You
had been here, my brother would not have died…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary was
not scolding Jesus… She was just expressing her sorrow and grief… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a time of intense sorrow and pain…
next section please…v33-36…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v33…
He groaned in the spirit and was troubled… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a powerful
verb<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> embrimaomai… </b>deeply upset and
moved to almost an angry frustration…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">34… Where have you laid him?” They said to
Him, Lord, come and see…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v35…
Jesus wept…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus wept… But not like the others,... Here the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Greek </b>verb is not <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“klaio”</b> which translates as loud wailing… 33… but “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">dakruo”…</b> a rare word used only here in
the New Testament… The verb <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">dakruo</b>
has the idea of bursting into tears… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This verse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>is full of with meaning… It emphasizes Jesus’ humanity… He was a “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief”
(Isa. 53:3)</b>… He is truly our compassionate Savior… He knows what you are
going through today… And Jesus shares our sorrows too…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">36…</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">See
how He loved him!...</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Jews were correct in seeing Jesus sorrow as evidence
that He loved Lazarus… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
stage was now set for the Lord to demonstrate The Great Truth…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He
is the Resurrection and the Life… </b>In the next section He will demonstrate
His total power over death by restoring Lazarus to life… v37-45…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
11:37–45<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">37
And some of them said, “Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind,
also have kept this man from dying?” 38 Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself,
came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said,
“Take away the stone.”Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him,
“Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.” 40
Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would
see the glory of God?” </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">41
Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. And
Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are
standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me.” 43 Now when
He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth!” 44
And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his
face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">45
Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did,
believed in Him.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v45…
Then many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen the things Jesus did,
believed in Him.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dead 4 days… Laid in his grave…. Jesus raises Him from
the dead…. Impossible… Yet there is the living proof… of course many believed… During
His earthly ministry… the Lord Jesus Christ made many astonishing claims about
Himself… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He gave powerful and convincing evidence… through the
miraculous signs He performed… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When His enemies demanded to know whether or not He was
the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messiah… Jesus</b> pointed to those
very signs as proof of His authority… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah prophesied that the Messiah would do
specific miracles as proof that he was the Messiah… Isaiah 35… Isaiah 61… The
suffering and resurrection of Jesus for our Salvation</b> is clearly portrayed
in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Isaiah 52,53…</b> These were
miraculous signs… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messianic Miracles</b>…
Jesus did every one of them and many many more… So many That John said in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 20: 30 And truly Jesus did many other
signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31
but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
God, and that believing you may have life in His name.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The reason for John´s Gospel is that we would believe the
signs and be converted… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus Himself… Not
Lazarus…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> is the primary focus of this passage… Raising Lazarus from
the dead puts an <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">exclamation point on
Jesus´ I am statements… In</b> Every one of them Jesus was saying<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… I am God come in the flesh… Immanuel… I
am the resurrection and the life…</b> Lazarus come forth…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as we see in verse 45….. Many Believed….
The healing of the man born blind in Jerusalem just a few months before was powerful….
No one had ever heard of the healing of a man born blind…. He is the messiah….
And with this miracle the stage is set for Jesus triumphal entry in just a few
days…. He will at long last allow Himself to be proclaimed the King Messiah… We
are going to take communion together this morning…. But to finish the sermon… I
want to read a few verses from Paul… He connects this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">great promise of our resurrection</b> from the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">dead</b> with the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good news and
the Glory of God</b>… This whole chapter is dynamite… but for sake of time.. 2
Cor 4… v14-17</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
Corinthians 4: 14-17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">14
We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and
present us to himself together with you. 15 All of this is for your benefit.
And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great
thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory. 16 That is why we never
give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day.
17 For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they
produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">14 Wir wissen, dass derselbe Gott, der Jesus, unseren
Herrn, auferweckt hat, auch uns mit Jesus auferwecken wird und uns zusammen mit
euch vor sich hintreten lassen wird. 15 Das alles ist zu eurem Besten. Und wenn
Gottes Gnade immer mehr Menschen zu Christus führt, wird auch der Chor derer,
die ihm danken, immer lauter, und Gott wird immer mehr Ehre erwiesen. 16
Deshalb geben wir nie auf. Unser Körper mag sterben, doch unser Geist wird
jeden Tag erneuert. 17 Denn unsere jetzigen Sorgen und Schwierigkeiten sind nur
gering und von kurzer Dauer, doch sie bewirken in uns eine unermesslich große
Herrlichkeit, die ewig andauern wird!</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everyone in the crowd would see the miracle that day… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but only genuine believers would perceive its
real significance… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The promise of the Resurrection</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 It is the death of death</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 It is for our benefit</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3 It produces<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>thanksgiving</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4 it is why we never give up</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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Jesus</b>… We are on a great adventure… We are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Experiencing the Life and ministry of Jesus… Once again this morning we
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus is still trying to shake the religious leaders…. He
wants them to see the truth… Repent and come to Him… They are false Shepherds…
They are blind… They are failing to point the people to Jesus… let´s dig in…
John 10… v22…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
10: 22-42<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">22
Now it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem, and it was winter. 23 And
Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. 24 Then the Jews surrounded Him
and said to Him, “How long do You keep us in doubt? If You are the Christ, tell
us plainly.”25 Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The
works that I do in My Father’s name, they bear witness of Me. 26 But you do not
believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. 27 My sheep hear My
voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life,
and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able
to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and My Father are one.”31 Then the
Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “Many good
works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone
Me?”33 The Jews answered Him, saying, “For a good work we do not stone You, but
for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God.” 34 Jesus
answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”’? 35 If
He called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be
broken), 36 do you say of Him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the
world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I do
not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do, though you do
not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the
Father is in Me, and I in Him.” 39 Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but
He escaped out of their hand. 40 And He went away again beyond the Jordan to
the place where John was baptizing at first, and there He stayed. 41 Then many
came to Him and said, “John performed no sign, but all the things that John
spoke about this Man were true.” </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">42 And many believed in Him there.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">22 Es fand aber in Jerusalem das Fest der Tempelweihe
statt; und es war Winter.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">23 Und Jesus ging im Tempel in der Halle Salomos6 umher.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">24 Da umringten ihn die Juden und sprachen zu ihm: Wie
lange hältst du unsere Seele im Zweifel? Bist du der Christus, so sage es uns
frei heraus!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">25 Jesus antwortete ihnen: Ich habe es euch gesagt, und
ihr glaubt nicht. Die Werke, die ich tue im Namen meines Vaters, diese geben
Zeugnis von mir;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">26 aber ihr glaubt nicht, denn ihr seid nicht von meinen
Schafen, wie ich euch gesagt habe.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">27 Meine Schafe hören meine Stimme, und ich kenne sie,
und sie folgen mir nach;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">28 und ich gebe ihnen ewiges Leben, und sie werden in
Ewigkeit nicht verlorengehen, und niemand wird sie aus meiner Hand reißen.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">29 Mein Vater, der sie mir gegeben hat, ist größer als
alle, und niemand kann sie aus der Hand meines Vaters reißen.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">30 Ich und der Vater sind eins.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">31 Da hoben die Juden wiederum Steine auf, um ihn zu
steinigen.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">32 Jesus antwortete ihnen: Viele gute Werke habe ich euch
gezeigt von meinem Vater; um welches dieser Werke willen wollt ihr mich
steinigen?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">33 Die Juden antworteten ihm und sprachen: Nicht wegen
eines guten Werkes wollen wir dich steinigen, sondern wegen Gotteslästerung,
und zwar weil du, der du ein Mensch bist, dich selbst zu Gott machst!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">34 Jesus antwortete ihnen: Steht nicht in eurem Gesetz
geschrieben: »Ich habe gesagt: Ihr seid Götter«?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">35 Wenn es diejenigen Götter nennt, an die das Wort
Gottes erging — und die Schrift kann doch nicht außer Kraft gesetzt werden —,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">36 wieso sagt ihr dann zu dem, den der Vater geheiligt
und in die Welt gesandt hat: Du lästerst!, weil ich gesagt habe: Ich bin Gottes
Sohn?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">37 Wenn ich nicht die Werke meines Vaters tue, so glaubt
mir nicht!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">38 Tue ich sie aber, so glaubt doch den Werken, wenn ihr
auch mir nicht glaubt, damit ihr erkennt und glaubt, daß der Vater in mir ist
und ich in ihm!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">39 Da suchten sie ihn wiederum zu ergreifen; doch er
entging ihren Händen.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">40 Und er zog wieder jenseits des Jordan an den Ort, wo
Johannes zuerst getauft hatte, und blieb dort.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">41 Und viele kamen zu ihm und sprachen: Johannes hat zwar
kein Zeichen getan; aber alles, was Johannes von diesem gesagt hat, ist wahr!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">42 Und es glaubten dort viele an ihn.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v22…
It was the Feast of Dedication and it was winter… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A
few weeks have passed between v 21 and v22…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b>We have moved from Tabernacles and the fall feasts to winter… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Feast of Dedication…</b> This feast is also
known as Hanukkah… Hanukkah Celebrated the cleansing and re-dedication of the
temple after three years of defilement by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Antiochus
Epiphanes…. The pagan king of Syria</b>… This was the historical time of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maccabees164 B.C…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Again <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b> is
walking in the Temple during the feast…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v24...
‘How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ … tell us plainly…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Are
you the Messiah?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus answers them way beyond what they expected… They
are on the brink of killing him for blasphemy…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus offers them one more
invitation to repent and believe… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scroll
down to the next section…v 25-30…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They say at the end of verse 24, “If you are the Christ
[the Messiah], tell us plainly.” And </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b>25a … I told you, and you do not believe. </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
continues His Word picture of Himself as the true and Good Shepherd</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When I said I am <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The
door… The good shepherd</b>… I am showing myself to be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Messiah</b>… The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one</b> who
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">lays down his life… Isaiah 53</b>… Look
at the miracles that I have done… I have the power to take back my own life
from death… I am the one who is gathering a people to live forever… you ask… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Am I the Messiah? Yes</b>…. It is just like
I told you... <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">25b… The works that I do in My Father’s name,
they bear witness of Me</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Jesus
answers (verse 25): “I told you.” </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not only have I told you... I have shown you… Jesus<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Words of life…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the Miracles should <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>make his messiahship clear... But I will spell
it out for you…. Not only am I the Messiah… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">scroll down Verses 26–30…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v26…
But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">goes
back to the example of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Good Shepherd
and his sheep… </b>slide</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Good Shepherd and His Sheep</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1
All genuine believers are His sheep… v26</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jews and Gentiles… We are all one flock… It is the duty
of the Good Shepherd to protect His flock… ”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus will not lose any of His sheep… He promises
resurrection from death and eternal life for every one of His true sheep…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus leads and feeds His sheep… He binds up
our wounds… He comforts us in our sorrows…. He will never leave us…. He will
never forsake us… He protects them forever…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
Christ’s sheep hear only His voice and follow only Him… v27</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Since they will not listen to or follow a stranger John 10:5… they could not
possibly wander away from Him and become lost… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3
Christ’s sheep have eternal life… v28a</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> We are talking forever…
Joyful in the presence of our Redeemer… To speak of eternal life ending is a
contradiction in terms… To insist that a true Christian can somehow be lost is
to deny the truth of that statement… It is also to defame the character of the
Lord Jesus Christ—making Him out to be an incompetent shepherd… unable to hold
on to those entrusted to Him by the Father…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4
Christ gives eternal life to His sheep… v28a </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus Himself </b>who gives this gift to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His sheep</b>…<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Since they did nothing to earn it… they can do nothing to lose it…
</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">5
Christ promised that His sheep will never perish… v28a</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Were even one to do so, it would make Him a liar. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6 No
one is able to snatch them out of My hand… v28b</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">no
one… not false shepherds… Not false prophets… No not even the Devil himself… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">is
powerful enough to snatch the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lord’s
sheep out of His hand…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">7 no
one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand, who is greater than all…
v29</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus says and not only I hold on to my sheep… But so
does the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Father</b>…. And no one is able
to snatch them out of the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Fathers Hand… </b>That
means that we are<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Infinitely secure</b>.. Paul reminds us that
the believer’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“life is hidden with
Christ in God” Col. 3:3...</b> The Father and the Son together guarantee the
eternal security of believers… Perfect oneness and perfect unity… That is why Jesus
declared, “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I and the Father are one”</b>
John 10: 30… scroll down…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Notice even though the Father has put them into the Son’s
hand… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they are still also in the
Father’s hand… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus explains this with the words of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v30… “I and the Father are one</b>… His
final answer about his identity is way beyond <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Messiahship... It is His perfect Oneness with God the Father…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When you are in my hands… you are in his hands… and when
you are in his hands… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you are in my hands…
We together provide for your eternal Salvation… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus is showing how this Oneness serves our salvation…
The perfect oneness between Jesus and the Father promises our eternal salvation
and joy... <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Father and I are one… No
one can take you from me… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And no one
can take you from my Father… </b>This is heavy truth…. It explains so much
about their unbelief… It also shows them their pride in thinking that they are
earning God´s blessings…. They are Certain that God is pleased with them… But
they are refusing to repent… Blind shepherds who refuse to see the truth… And
in their blindness they are blocking the only path the Life… Because of His
unfailing love and grace… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
takes His enemies to the mountain top of doctrinal truth about himself... He is
one with the Father… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This reminds of the Beginning of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> John´s Gospel… “In the beginning was the
word and the word was with God and the word was God. . . . And the Word became
flesh” (John 1:1, 14).</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus shows us the practical applications for our lives… You
are my sheep… I chose you… The Father has you…. I have you…. No one can take
you from us… Eternal Security is revealed in these verses…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
deep theological truths have direct application to our lives… The more we learn
about our Good Shepherd…. The better we are prepared to face real life…. We
know that we are safe In His hands… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
will never leave us… He will never forsake us… scroll down…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So Jesus’ answer to the question in <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v24 is yes… I told you…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v
27… My sheep hear my voice…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> “I am the Messiah and infinitely more…
We see Jesus love and patience in the offer that He makes to his enemies… We
also see very important truths in these verses… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And all of this is important for our lives and
salvation… </span></div>
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understood v 30…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v 30…</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
and My Father are one.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Remember they have refused to repent
and believe the gospel… Perhaps some have finally understood Jesus this time…
Maybe they saw with their ears the powerful truth from Jesus own lips…. But
sadly some did not… Scroll down for the next section… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">v31-33</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v31…
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Again their reaction to Jesus loving attempt to lead them to repentance is
hatred and anger… They are determined to shut Him up…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v32…
Many good works I have shown you from My Father… For which of those works do
you stone Me? </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v33…
Blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God…</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You are not equal with God… You are a liar… Blasphemy… Stone
Him to death…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus was telling them That He is indeed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God come in the flesh… God with men…
Immanuel… </b>This is the Scarlett thread of Redemption that runs through the
Word of God… This is the Good News… God has revealed Himself… Now He has shown
Himself to us in the Lord Jesus Christ… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The whole context of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gospel of John Proclaims that Jesus is the Messiah</b> and therefore <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">God in the flesh</b>… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
1:1, 14: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. . . . And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scroll down to the next section… v 34-39…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus
is quoting <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Psalm 82… Verse 6 says that
God</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
uses the term <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“gods”</b> to refer to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Judges</b> who stand as representatives of
God to the people… They were in this position in Israel… He is saying you guys
are judges in Israel and in some sense “gods”… scroll down to the next section…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They are <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ready to
seize him v39…</b> but he gives one more pleafor them to see with their ears
and repent… Think about this… Since there was still a chance for them… there is
a chance for you today… It is not to late for any of you…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v37…
If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v38…
but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that
you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What mercy and grace… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you refuse to believe my words… then at least believe
my deeds… Why? Because He is their only hope… This was Jesus’ last public offer
to these leaders... </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v39…
Therefore they sought again to seize Him, but He escaped out of their hand.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was not yet His time… And He escaped from their hands…
The Jerusalem account ends with anger and unbelief… And so Jesus last public
ministry ends with opposition and unbelief… It now only a few weeks before the
cross… Scroll down please…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John could have stopped here and gone directly to the
miracle of the Resurrection of Lazarus… Instead he gives us an account of Jesus
last few weeks ministering His <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Words of
Life</b> in the countryside beyond the Jordan… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v40…
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing
at first, and there he remained.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v41…
And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that
John said about this man was true.” </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v42…
And many believed in him there</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Despite the power and influence
of the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pharisees who were blind John 9… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and were false shepherds… John 10… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Many people <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">still came to Jesus… They saw Him… They saw His miracles… They saw His
Words of Life with their ears… </b>They came to<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the Good Shepherd…
He is the one who said…. I will never leave you… And I will never forsake you…
God </b>said this in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Deuteronomy 31… </b>and
it is quoted of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Jesus in Hebrews 13:
5,6… </b>In that text…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we are being
given a life application… Homework if you want it… I want to close by reading
from Romans ch8… We will unpack them another day… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for now I will just read them<span style="color: #c00000;">… ( home group Danny story)(CITA First Pastors)</span>They
are a simple application and encouragement from Paul to the persecuted Church
in Rome…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Romans
8: 26-39<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">26
And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what
God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that
cannot be expressed in words. 27 And the Father who knows all hearts knows what
the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with
God’s own will. 28 And we know that God causes everything to work together[m]
for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for
them. 29 For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like
his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn[n] among many brothers and
sisters. 30 And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having
called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them
right standing, he gave them his glory.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">31
What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who
can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him
up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us
whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right
standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus
died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of
honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">35
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer
loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or
destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say,
“For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”)
37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ,
who loved us. 38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from
God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our
fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can
separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth
below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the
love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">26 Der Heilige Geist hilft uns in unserer Schwäche. Denn
wir wissen ja nicht einmal, worum oder wie wir beten sollen. Doch der Heilige
Geist betet für uns mit einem Seufzen, das sich nicht in Worte fassen lässt.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">27 Und der Vater, der alle Herzen kennt, weiß, was der
Geist sagt, denn der Geist bittet für die, die zu Gott gehören, wie es dem
Willen Gottes entspricht.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">28 Und wir wissen, dass für die, die Gott lieben und nach
seinem Willen zu ihm gehören, alles zum Guten führt6.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">29 Denn Gott hat sie schon vor Beginn der Zeit auserwählt
und hat sie vorbestimmt, seinem Sohn gleich zu werden, damit sein Sohn der
Erstgeborene unter vielen Geschwistern werde.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">30 Und da er sie erwählt hat, hat er sie auch berufen, zu
ihm zu kommen. Er hat sie gerecht gesprochen und hat ihnen Anteil an seiner
Herrlichkeit gegeben.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">31 Was kann man dazu noch sagen? Wenn Gott für uns ist,
wer kann da noch gegen uns sein?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">32 Gott hat nicht einmal seinen eigenen Sohn verschont,
sondern hat ihn für uns alle gegeben. Und wenn Gott uns Christus gab, wird er
uns mit ihm dann nicht auch alles andere schenken?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">33 Wer wagt es, gegen die Anklage zu erheben, die von
Gott auserwählt wurden? Gott selbst ist ja der, der sie gerecht spricht.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">34 Wer sollte uns verurteilen? Christus Jesus selbst ist
ja für uns gestorben. Mehr noch, er ist der Auferstandene. Er sitzt auf dem
Ehrenplatz zur rechten Seite Gottes und tritt für uns ein.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">35 Kann uns noch irgendetwas von der Liebe Christi
trennen? Wenn wir vielleicht in Not oder Angst geraten, verfolgt werden,
hungern, frieren, in Gefahr sind oder sogar vom Tod bedroht werden?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">36 Schon in der Schrift heißt es: »Weil wir an dir
festhalten, werden wir jeden Tag getötet, wir werden geschlachtet wie Schafe.«</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">37 Aber trotz all dem tragen wir einen überwältigenden
Sieg davon durch Christus, der uns geliebt hat.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">38 Ich bin überzeugt: Nichts kann uns von seiner Liebe
trennen. Weder Tod noch Leben, weder Engel noch Mächte, weder unsere Ängste in
der Gegenwart noch unsere Sorgen um die Zukunft, ja nicht einmal die Mächte der
Hölle können uns von der Liebe Gottes trennen.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">39 Und wären wir hoch über dem Himmel oder befänden uns
in den tiefsten Tiefen des Ozeans9, nichts und niemand in der ganzen Schöpfung
kann uns von der Liebe Gottes trennen, die in Christus Jesus, unserem Herrn,
erschienen ist.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Would you like the key to the joyful Christian life? Listen
to the Good Shepherd… See Jesus with your ears… Memorize Romans 8 and hide the
Word of God in your hearts… Let´s pray…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2017.03.12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John 10: 1-21</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am the Good Shepherd</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Good Morning…. I am glad to be with you this morning… I
have <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Good News for You! His name is
Jesus…</b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are on a great adventure… We are Experiencing
the Life and ministry of Jesus…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Once again this morning we
are studying the Gospel of John… Turn in your Bible to John chapter 10…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we begin today… Jesus is still in the
Temple area… It is still the same conversation that ended ch 9… Jesus is still
trying to shake the religious leaders…. He wants them to see the truth and
repent and come to Him… They are false Shepherds… They are blind and they are
failing to point the people to Jesus… As we continue… We will be looking at Jesus…
He is the true Shepherd… let´s dig in… John 10… v1…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
10: 1-21<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 “I
tell you the truth, anyone who sneaks over the wall of a sheepfold, rather than
going through the gate, must surely be a thief and a robber! 2 But the one who
enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens
the gate for him, and the sheep recognize his voice and come to him. He calls
his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 After he has gathered his own
flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.
5 They won’t follow a stranger; they will run from him because they don’t know
his voice.”</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">6
Those who heard Jesus use this illustration didn’t understand what he meant, 7
so he explained it to them: “I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.
8 All who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not
listen to them. 9 Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be
saved. They will come and go freely and will find good pastures. 10 The thief’s
purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and
satisfying life.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">11
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep.
12 A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep
because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf
attacks them and scatters the flock. 13 The hired hand runs away because he’s
working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep. 14 “I am
the good shepherd; I know my own sheep, and they know me, 15 just as my Father
knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep. 16 I have
other sheep, too, that are not in this sheepfold. I must bring them also. They
will listen to my voice, and there will be one flock with one shepherd.17 “The
Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again. 18 No one
can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority
to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my
Father has commanded.”19 When he said these things, the people were again
divided in their opinions about him. 20 Some said, “He’s demon possessed and
out of his mind. Why listen to a man like that?” 21 Others said, “This doesn’t
sound like a man possessed by a demon! </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Can a demon open the eyes of the
blind?”</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">1 »Ich versichere euch: Wer sich über die Mauer in den
Schafpferch schleicht, statt durchs Tor hineinzugehen, ist ein Dieb und ein
Räuber! 2 Denn ein Hirte tritt durch das Tor ein. 3 Der Torhüter öffnet ihm,
und die Schafe hören seine Stimme und kommen zu ihm. Er ruft seine Schafe, die
ihm gehören, beim Namen und führt sie hinaus. 4 Wenn er seine Herde versammelt
hat, geht er vor ihnen her, und die Schafe folgen ihm, weil sie seine Stimme
kennen. 5 Einem Fremden aber folgen sie nicht, sondern laufen vor ihm weg, weil
sie seine Stimme nicht kennen.« 6 Die Zuhörer wussten nicht, was Jesus mit
diesem Bild meinte, 7 deshalb erklärte er es ihnen. »Ich versichere euch: Ich
bin das Tor zu den Schafen«, sagte er. 8 »Alle, die vor mir kamen, waren Diebe
und Räuber. Doch die Schafe hörten nicht auf sie. 9 Ja, ich bin das Tor. Wer
durch mich hineingeht, wird gerettet werden. Wo er auch hinkommt, wird er grüne
Weiden finden. 10 Ein Dieb will rauben, morden und zerstören. Ich aber bin
gekommen, um ihnen das Leben in ganzer Fülle zu schenken. 11 Ich bin der gute
Hirte. Der gute Hirte opfert sein Leben für die Schafe. 12 Ein Schäfer, der nur
für Lohn arbeitet, läuft davon, wenn er einen Wolf kommen sieht. Er wird die
Schafe im Stich lassen, weil sie ihm nicht gehören und er nicht ihr Hirte ist.
Und so greift der Wolf sie an und zerstreut die Herde. 13 Der bezahlte Arbeiter
läuft davon, weil er nur angeworben wurde und die Schafe ihm nicht wirklich am
Herzen liegen.14 Ich bin der gute Hirte; ich kenne meine Schafe und sie kennen
mich,15 so wie mein Vater mich kennt und ich den Vater. Ich gebe mein Leben für
die Schafe. 16 Ich habe auch noch andere Schafe, die nicht in diesem Pferch
sind. Auch sie muss ich herführen, und sie werden auf meine Stimme hören; und
alle werden eine Herde mit einem Hirten sein. 17 Der Vater liebt mich, weil ich
mein Leben hingebe, um es wiederzuerlangen. 18 Niemand kann es mir nehmen. Ich
gebe es freiwillig hin. Ich habe die Macht, es hinzugeben, und ich habe die
Macht, es wieder zu nehmen. Denn mein Vater hat mir diesen Auftrag gegeben.« 19
Wegen dieser Worte waren die Menschen1 wieder geteilter Meinung über ihn. 20
Manche meinten: »Er hat einen Dämon und ist verrückt. Warum hört ihr auf einen
solchen Mann?« 21 Andere dagegen sagten: »Das klingt nicht nach einem Mann, der
von einem Dämon besessen ist! Oder kann ein Dämon etwa den Blinden die Augen
öffnen?</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">the<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Good Shepherd…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is one of the most beautiful word pictures in all of
the Scriptures…</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It
is an illustration of God’s care for His own people… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There were many famous shepherds in the Old Testament…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abraham was a shepherd…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaac was a shepherd…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jacob was a shepherd…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moses was a shepherd…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David was a shepherd… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But the most well-known Shepherd in the Old Testament <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">was God Himself…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Psalm
23 says, “The Lord is – ” what?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“ - my
Shepherd.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Psalm 77:20, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Psalm 79:13, Psalm 80:1, Psalm 95 says… He is
our God, and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">These are all great texts… We do not have time for the
many places that we find God illustrated as a Shepherd… But I want to look at
one… Look with me at Ezekiel ch 34…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ezekiel
34: 2-5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy and say to
them, ‘Thus says the Lord God to the shepherds: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel
who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flocks? 3 You eat the
fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do
not feed the flock.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">4 The weak you have not strengthened,
nor have you healed those who were sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought
back what was driven away, nor sought what was lost; but with force and cruelty
you have ruled them. 5 So they were scattered because there was no shepherd;
and they became food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">2 Menschensohn, weissage gegen die Hirten Israels,
weissage und sprich zu ihnen, den Hirten: So spricht Gott, der Herr: Wehe den
Hirten Israels, die sich selbst weiden! Sollen die Hirten nicht die Herde
weiden? 3 Das Fette verzehrt ihr, mit der Wolle bekleidet ihr euch, und das
Gemästete schlachtet ihr, aber die Herde weidet ihr nicht!</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">4 Das
Schwache stärkt ihr nicht, das Kranke heilt ihr nicht, das Verwundete verbindet
ihr nicht, das Verscheuchte holt ihr nicht zurück, und das Verlorene sucht ihr
nicht, sondern mit Gewalt und Härte herrscht ihr über sie! 5 Und so haben sie
sich zerstreut, weil sie ohne Hirten waren, und sind allen wilden Tieren des
Feldes zum Fraß geworden und haben sich zerstreut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v2a…
Son of man… This is a title of the Messiah…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v2b…
prophesy against the shepherds of Israel...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this prophesy…. God Rebukes the false
shepherds and says that He will seek and protect the flock…v11,12…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ezekiel
34: 11,12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">11
‘For thus says the Lord God: “Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep and seek
them out. 12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock on the day he is among his
scattered sheep, so will I seek out My sheep and deliver them from all the
places where they were scattered on a cloudy and dark day.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">11 Denn so spricht Gott, der Herr: Siehe, ich selbst will
nach meinen Schafen suchen und mich ihrer annehmen! 12 Wie ein Hirte seine
Herde zusammensucht an dem Tag, da er mitten unter seinen zerstreuten Schafen
ist, so will ich mich meiner Schafe annehmen und sie aus allen Orten erretten,
wohin sie zerstreut wurden an dem Tag des Gewölks und des Wolkendunkels.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v11…
I Myself will search for My sheep and seek them out...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> God
says…. I will shepherd and gather my sheep… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">look at verse 23... Then He points to the Messiah as the
true shepherd to come… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">He</b> says… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I will</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ezekiel
34: 23,24<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NKJV<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slt 2000</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">23 I
will establish one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them—My servant David.
He shall feed them and be their shepherd. 24 And I, the Lord, will be their
God, and My servant David a prince among them; I, the Lord, have spoken..</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">23 Ich will ihnen einen einzigen
Hirten erwecken, der sie weiden soll, nämlich meinen Knecht David; der soll sie
weiden, und der soll ihr Hirte sein. 24 Und ich, der Herr, will ihr Gott sein,
und mein Knecht David soll Fürst sein in ihrer Mitte; ich, der Herr, habe es
gesagt!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v23…
My servant David…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David
lived long before… Who is He talking about?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He’s talking about the Son of David… The Messiah… He will become the true
Shepherd who will gather His people… not only from Israel… but from all the
nations… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This prophecy in<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
Ezekiel 34 is fulfilled by Jesus…</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
is that one true Shepherd…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John 10 … v1,2… scroll down…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v1… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A
thief and a robber</span>…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The Pharisees have shown that they are
ungodly leaders… False shepherds of Israel… Proved <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by their rejection of Jesus<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">… the Messiah and the only hope of
humanity… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v2… <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He who enters by the door is the shepherd of
the sheep</span>…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #548dd4; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themetint: 153;">As we see in these texts… <b>Shepherds</b> were <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>common Old Testament pictures of the leaders
of God's people… The good shepherds fed and protected the sheep…</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scroll
down… </span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John
10: 3-6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v3a…
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To him the doorkeeper opens</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… In
towns, sheep from many flocks were kept for the night in a common sheepfold… They
were overseen by one "<b>doorkeeper</b>…. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v3b…
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He calls his own sheep by name and
leads them out</span>…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The shepherd calls the <b>sheep by name</b>…
The shepherd has a personal connection with the sheep…. They knew His voice…
The shepherd <b>leads them out</b>… Here, Jesus speaks of calling his own sheep
from the fold of Judaism… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v4… he
walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice... </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the common sheepfolds of ancient times… the shepherd merely gave his
distinctive call and his sheep came out from the others… following him out of
the sheepfold… Sheep are experts at discerning their shepherd's <b>voice</b>… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scroll
down… John 10: 7-10… </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v7…
I am the gate for the sheep</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… Jesus is <b>the gate… the only way
into the fold of God´s people… </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Jesus speaks of the <b>door</b> in this
passage… He refers to a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>type of sheepfold that was used out in the
fields… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was an enclosure for sheep with only one entrance...
It might be a cave… Or a stone or mud-brick structure with walls to protect the
sheep… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The shepherd actually laid his body across the entrance…
to keep the sheep in and to keep out the wolves… The shepherd was in fact the gate
or <b>door..</b>. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Foto…</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v8… <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">All who ever came before Me are thieves and
robbers</span>…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Jesus is pointing to the false shepherds…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">9… I am the gate…Those
who come in through me will be saved… They will come and go freely and will
find good pastures… Jesus </b>shows the choice and the contrast between<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Himself and the False shepherds who claim
to speak for God…. </b>They are deceived and they lead many astray… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>v10… the thief… kill and destroy… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There
is great danger for every believer... False teachers… They have poisoned their
own hearts by filling themselves with pride…. They are Hypocrites…. They are
like robbers and thieves… They are after us… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How do we stay safe…? We follow Jesus…</b> We must not loose sight of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus…</b> Even as believers… We are in
danger of a form of temporary Blindness… Let´s call it <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Beam in the eye syndrome… Matt ch7…</b> We are quick to hit someone
over the head with our Bible… We apply the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Word
of God</b> to others…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without first searching
our own hearts… We make 2 big mistakes….</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Avoiding
temporary Blindness</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 We
compare ourselves with others instead of with the Word of God</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">…
That Scripture is for brother so and so… oh man… Sister blah blah needs to read
this… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 We
do not let the scriptures shape us…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> We read and even memorize
the Bible… But we don´t let it sink into our own Hearts and minds… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">3 We
do not let the Word of God move us to repentance… </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">They
become mere texts that we say we believe… We Call Jesus Lord…. But we do not do
what he Says… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Luke 6:46…</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">How do we avoid the same pride and hypocrisy that
poisoned the Scribes and Pharisees?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 We
apply the Word of God to our hearts first…. Then we can see well enough to
humbly help our brothers and sisters… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
we all learn obedience and thankfulness</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">2 We
listen to His voice…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The voice of our Good Shepherd… We see with
our ears as we study the Word of god and apply it to our own hearts first… Then
and only then… Can<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we truly follow him… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Scroll
down to John 10: 11-15…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v11…
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The good shepherd gives His life for
the sheep</span>…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The bad shepherd thinks the flock exists for
his benefit, but the <b>good shepherd</b> lives for… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">and even lays down His life for the sheep…</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Good Shepherd and His Sheep</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
good shepherd sacrifices for the sheep </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
good shepherd knows his sheep </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
good shepherd is known by the sheep</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The faithful pastor is an under-shepherd… Shepherd´s
assistant… He will with the Lord´s help… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>display the same characteristics as the Good
Shepherd… He will sacrifice for the sheep… know the sheep… and be known by
them…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The title <i>pastor</i> translates
the same ancient Greek word used here for <b>shepherd… </b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">poimēn(greek)</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scroll down to v16-18… </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v16…
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I must bring them also... They will
listen to my voice… and there will be one flock with one shepherd.</span>…
These</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> "other sheep" are Gentile believers… It
includes the nations of the world… not just the fold of Israel... There is <b>one
flock</b> and <b>one shepherd</b>…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
calls out His sheep from more than one <b>fold... He makes them into one flock…
The redeemed… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v17…
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Therefore My Father loves Me</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">because I lay down My life that I may take
it again...</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone can lay down his
life… only Jesus can take His life up again… Because Jesus has the power to
take up His own life… it is proof that He is God… And proof of His unique
relationship with The <b>Father</b>. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v18a…
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">That I may take it again … I have power
to take it again</span>…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> In this sense, we can say that Jesus
"raised Himself" from the dead… He had the power to lay down His
life, and He had the power to take it up again… This is very important truth… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v18b...
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This command I have received from My
Father</span>…</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> The death of Jesus was the plan of God… It
was pictured in every OT sacrifice… Jesus willingly submitted to death on the
cross... He knew that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then He would rise
from the dead in victory over death and the grave… That was the <b>command Jesus
received from</b> God the Father…. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let´s
look at the last section…19-21… </b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v19…
the people were again divided…</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v20…
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">He’s demon possessed and out of his
mind…</span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Jesus made such radical claims about Himself
that people divided over Him… Some believed that anyone who claimed to be God… Must
either have a <b>demon</b> or be <b>mad..</b>. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">v21…</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This doesn’t sound
like a man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?...</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of
these people Repented and believed the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">good
News of the gospel…</b> They believed He was who He said He was... They saw the
miracle with their eyes…. They saw the truth with their ears… <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Listened
to His voice… They were moved to follow the Good Shepherd</b>… They followed <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jesus</b>… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Many of us have seen the truth of who Jesus is with our
ears…. We read and learn about Jesus as we study the Bible… The Holy Spirit
uses this book to show what is in our hearts and minds…And then to correct us
and to transform us step by step into the very image of Jesus… We become more
like Jesus day by day… We follow our good shepherd and he blesses and
transforms us to be like Him… That affects every relationship that we have… look
with me at Colossians 3 v12-17…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Colossians
3: 12-17<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NLT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neues Leben</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">12
Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves
with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 Make
allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you.
Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. 14 Above all,
clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">15
And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of
one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful.16 Let the
message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel
each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual
songs to God with thankful hearts. 17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a
representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">12 Da Gott euch erwählt hat, zu seinen Heiligen und
Geliebten zu gehören, seid voll Mitleid und Erbarmen, Freundlichkeit, Demut,
Sanftheit und Geduld. 13 Seid nachsichtig mit den Fehlern der anderen und
vergebt denen, die euch gekränkt haben. Vergesst nicht, dass der Herr euch
vergeben hat und dass ihr deshalb auch anderen vergeben müsst. 14 Das
Wichtigste aber ist die Liebe. Sie ist das Band, das uns alle in vollkommener
Einheit verbindet.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">15 Euren Herzen wünschen wir den Frieden, der von
Christus kommt. Denn als Glieder des einen Leibes seid ihr alle berufen, im
Frieden miteinander zu leben. Und seid immer dankbar! 16 Gebt den Worten von
Christus viel Raum3 in euren Herzen. Gebraucht seine Worte weise, um einander
zu lehren und zu ermahnen. Singt Gott aus ganzem Herzen Psalmen, Lobgesänge und
geistliche Lieder. 17 Doch alles, was auch immer ihr tut oder sagt, soll im
Namen von Jesus, dem Herrn, geschehen, durch den ihr Gott, dem Vater, danken
sollt! </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When we see Jesus with our ears… When we let the Word of
God soak into our lives… We are daily transformed to become more like Jesus…
And others see Jesus in us… That is why we are here… To love and encourage each
other…. And to show Jesus to this lost and dying world… Let´s pray…</span></div>
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