Oct. 12, 2024

The Significance of Jesus' First Words After Resurrection (First Words 01)

The Significance of Jesus' First Words After Resurrection (First Words 01)

Send us a text Have you ever wondered why Jesus' first words after His resurrection are so profoundly significant? Join us as we uncover the depth of Jesus' interaction with Mary Magdalene at the tomb. We explore the emotional scene where Jesus calls Mary by her name, transforming her sorrow into joy. This moment isn't just about reunion; it's about understanding the larger mission of His resurrection and His instruction to 'not cling' to Him, urging believers to embrace His divine purpose. ...

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Season 1

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Have you ever wondered why Jesus' first words after His resurrection are so profoundly significant? Join us as we uncover the depth of Jesus' interaction with Mary Magdalene at the tomb. We explore the emotional scene where Jesus calls Mary by her name, transforming her sorrow into joy. This moment isn't just about reunion; it's about understanding the larger mission of His resurrection and His instruction to 'not cling' to Him, urging believers to embrace His divine purpose.

Jesus' physical sacrifice and resurrection redefine our relationship with God. We delve into the theological implications of His ascension and how presenting His blood to the Father secures our eternal salvation. This discussion reveals how these truths reshape our identities as believers, transforming the way we approach prayer and grapple with guilt. We also examine the pivotal role of the body in faith, realizing that without standing in Jesus' body, we lack standing before God.

Finally, we highlight the empowering truth that through the Holy Spirit, believers can operate in God's authority and by Jesus' first words to His disciples, grants them the power to forgive sins and lays the foundation for the church's growth. As we revisit His teachings during the 40 days after His resurrection, we emphasize the importance of both His first and last words. These teachings continue to inspire the mission of spreading the gospel, reminding us that in this new creation, God always has the final word. 

00:00 - The Importance of Jesus' First Words

19:01 - Understanding Our Relationship With God

34:26 - The Significance of Jesus' First Words

49:50 - The Power of Revealed Truth

59:46 - The Power of First Words

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Well, glory to God, hallelujah, Praise Jesus.

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Thank you Lord.

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Thank you Lord.

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Thank you Lord.

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Glory be to God, praise the name of Jesus.

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I want you to turn to John morning about first words Amen.

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First words are important.

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First words are important.

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Matthew, mark Luke, john all record various elements about the resurrection about the women going, finding the stone rolled away, seeing the angels, the angels saying to them in the book of Matthew why seek ye the dead among the living?

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He's not here, he is risen.

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Indeed, hallelujah, praise God.

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And various other things that happened that day.

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About the guards being found like they had been fallen dead Amen.

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There's all sorts of stories in those three Gospels, but John did something that the other three did not and John recorded the first words that Jesus spoke to anyone Amen.

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I found that to be extremely unusual.

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I would have thought that that was something that Matthew, mark Luke would have done, but they didn't.

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John was the only one who recorded the words that Jesus spoke to Mary Magdalene, and you know the story in John, the 20th chapter.

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She went to the tomb and was there alone.

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She went in and looked at the grave clothes there in the tomb.

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Amen, praise God.

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Hang on just a minute.

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If I read from Acts, chapter 20, it just won't be the same.

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Probably a good passage of scripture there, but not quite what I want, hallelujah.

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So after Peter and James had run there and after the women had told them what that the tomb was empty and Peter and or James John ran to the tomb, saw that the tomb was empty, and then they left and went back to their own homes.

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But Mary Magdalene ran to the tomb, saw that the tomb was empty, and then they left and went back to their own homes.

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But Mary Magdalene stood outside the tomb weeping and as she wept she stooped down, looked into the tomb.

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I'm reading in verse 11.

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And she saw two angels in white sitting at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

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Notice that the body was not there.

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They said to her woman why are you weeping?

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She said because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have laid him.

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Now, when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know it was Jesus.

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Now, if anybody would know it was Jesus, it was her.

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So Jesus was in a.

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Either he was disguising himself to her, or he was in a different form.

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She said, sir, she thought he was the gardener.

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Now, the gardener is perhaps not the best translation.

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It was actually the caretaker of the garden where the tomb was.

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Okay, so not quite the guy that was cultivating the plants, he was the guy in charge.

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But anyway, that's neither here nor there.

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She thought he was somebody else and she said, sir, if you carried the body away, tell me where you've laid him and I will take him away.

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Jesus said to her Mary, he could disguise his form, but he won't disguise his voice.

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She turned to him and said Rabboni, which is to say Teacher.

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And this is where we'll start here today, in verse 17.

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The first words that Jesus said to her was do not cling to me.

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Do not cling to me.

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Now.

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You can just imagine that, as Mary beheld him and knew it was Jesus, the first thing she would have done was fall on her face and grab his feet.

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Remember the time that she washed his feet.

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She probably washed his feet numerous times.

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She would have fallen and just started to weep and grab his feet.

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Amen, it would have been a natural response.

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It wasn't anything fake, anything feigned, anything you know, like, oh, master, you know, she just felt, I mean overjoyed that he was alive.

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You can't imagine what she felt.

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You can't imagine what she felt.

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See, we are 2,000 years separated, we are 2,000 years of religion.

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Telling these stories like they, you know, like well, dummy, you should have known that one.

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You know that kind of attitude, and we don't get the magnitude of what was going on.

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The magnitude of what was going on, arguably, no one loved Jesus more than Mary Magdalene, with the exception of, maybe, his mother, no one.

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The Bible, he used her as example.

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A, simon, I have somewhat to say to thee.

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Say on, master, like I'm going to stump the pastor, you know, say on.

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And then he says tell me who is going to forgive more, the one who loves more, the one who has loved more, or the one who loves more, the one who is loved more or the one who loves and is loved little?

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He puffs out his chest and says well, I suppose that the one who is loved more is going to forgive more.

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Jesus said I've got something to tell you.

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He said I came in here, you didn't give me any oil for my head, you didn't wash my feet, you didn't give me a kiss.

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You didn't do any of these.

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But this woman who has sinned much.

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He didn't duck off of the fact that she was in a sinful condition.

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He said this woman has sinned much and yet she has not ceased to kiss my feet, to wash my feet with her tears and dry them with her hair.

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I'm telling you that she who has sinned much but loved much is forgiven much.

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And they told her go and sin no more.

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Nobody loved Jesus like that woman.

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Bible says that he out of her was cast seven devils praise God.

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I'm gonna let let you just meditate on that.

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One praise God.

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And she is falling at Jesus' feet and Jesus says don't cling to me.

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Well, you think that's an odd thing to say, but the fact of what he was saying was don't restrain me, don't restrain me, don't keep me from my mission.

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He would go on to explain why in just a minute, but I want you to get this thing.

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In the King James it says don't touch me.

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In the New King James it says don't cling to me.

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Both of those words are applicable.

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She had her hands wrapped around his feet.

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She was weeping on his feet.

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Now here's the point that you really want to hear Amen.

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He was telling her not to hold on to him or retain him.

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Restrain him with her love, with her worldly affection, with her worldly attachments, because, in essence, what he was trying to get across to is I can't be touched like that anymore.

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You're going to have to love me a different way.

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See, we want.

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We want to love jesus like we love our children or we love our parents, or we love, you know, somebody, and he will not be loved that way.

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He may have been loved that way when he was on the planet.

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His mother loved him like that until he, until he dealt with her a couple times and said you know, like woman, what have I got to do with you, woman?

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Why are you looking for me?

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Woman?

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You're not my family.

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These that are out here that believe in god, do his, do his will.

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They're my family.

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I mean, he had to break that off of her.

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He wasn't being cruel to her.

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He was just telling her that how you treated me when I was in your household is not the way you can treat me now, because I belong to somebody else.

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When I was in your house and I was serving you, I belong to you.

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Luke 2 tells us that that he went home and he served his parents.

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I belong to you.

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Luke 2 tells us that that he went home and he served his parents.

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But when I came out from among you and made myself separate unto God, you no longer have that claim to me.

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Amen.

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We still want to love Jesus like he's in our house.

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Some people want to treat God like he's their house pet.

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You know, they just want him to amuse them, and spirit people or spirit-filled people are just as bad.

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They want him to amuse them with signs and wonders and tricks and all this kind of stuff Prophecies and people go just to hear prophecies, just so they'll be amused.

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You go home and you can't even remember anything that was said.

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Glory to God.

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You can't hold Jesus with that kind of love.

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You can't wrap your arms around him and love him like that.

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He's not going to let it happen.

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You know what will happen He'll slip right through your grip and move someplace else, just like he slipped through the crowd at Nazareth, just like he slipped through other crowds.

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He'll slip through your grip and make you seek after him in a different way.

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I'm here to tell you, folks, that every syllable that Jesus spoke that first day is of utmost importance.

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Are you hearing me?

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You can't just gloss over this section.

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You'll never be able to read John 20 again the same way.

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You may have thought about this, but I kind of doubt it.

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But these are the first words that Jesus spoke after he came up out of the grave to any human being.

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Now I'm not vouching for resurrected saints.

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He may have had a conversation with Elijah.

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He may have had a conversation with Moses I don't know what he was doing in the wee hours of the morning when the Bible says that when he came up out of the grave, a whole bunch of folk came up out of the grave with him.

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So I'm not saying that he didn't have a conversation with John the Baptist or with David, or with Elijah or with Elijah.

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Well, elijah didn't come up out of a grave.

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Isaiah, jeremiah, I don't know.

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Bible doesn't say anything about it other than a whole bunch of folk came up and you've got to figure that they were in the group.

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Hello, you don't think Abraham came up out of that group, what he had to?

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Because he says I am the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob.

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I am NOT the God of the dead, I am the God of the living.

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So so when life came up, amen, he was going to bring them with him, don't you know?

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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But I do know this that of all the Bible accounts we got this that the first one he talked to that was still walking in the flesh was Mary.

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And the first thing he said to her was do not cling to me.

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And he goes on.

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He says for I have not yet ascended to the Father, to my Father.

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I have not yet ascended to my Father.

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Now, what does that mean?

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Well, in the 40 days between Jesus's resurrection and in His ascension, he came back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

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He didn't stay.

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He'd come one day, go fishing with the boys, come back another day, do something else, come back another day.

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The Bible said that he taught them for 40 days concerning the things pertaining to the kingdom of God, amen.

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The Bible also says that he taught them to stay in Jerusalem.

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He also taught them to tarry Wait until you have been endued with power from on high, amen.

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He prepared them for the outpouring of the Holy Ghost, but as yet, when he encountered Mary, he had not gone to heaven gone and ascended to his Father to do the single most important act of his resurrection, and that was he had not yet presented the blood to his father.

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Now you've heard about stories about, you know, samples of the blood being found and blood on the shroud of Turin and all that kind of stuff.

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I'm going to just give you a real help hint here.

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He probably took all that blood with him.

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You're probably not going to find it here Now some people have said they have found it, They've taken samples, they've had it analyzed.

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If they have, then God left some right there on purpose, amen.

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If they have, then God left some right there on purpose, amen.

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But if he left any of it here, 99.9% of it has already been poured out on the mercy seat before the throne of God, because Jesus, as the high priest, had to go and present the blood to God and God had to accept it Amen.

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In accepting it, he certified that the blood was still perfect, amen, that it was still speaking, that it was still holy, that it was without sin and without blemish.

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If you want to know what we were talking for the past two or three weeks, about the series of questions that Jesus was asked as the Lamb of God.

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The last question is is the blood still?

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Perfectly speaking, jesus presented the blood.

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The blood was accepted.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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He had not yet done this first one.

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He was talking to Mary, he hadn't done this first act as the new high priest and he hadn't had not yet made atonement with the blood on the mercy seat before the father and had the father say I accept it.

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Now listen in the, in the, in the years, in the, in the years of the, the Jewish obedience to the law, they had to go in on the day of atonement and present the blood.

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Amen.

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If that offering was not accepted, the high priest didn't make it out of the holy place.

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If he didn't do it right or if he didn't confess his own sins, hallelujah, amen.

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Jesus took that blood and ascended into heaven with it and presented it to the Father.

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That's why he couldn't be clung to.

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He had a job to do that was more important than anything.

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Can I preach just a little bit here?

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Sometimes we pray like we want Jesus to do something that he is not really committed to do and we want Him to treat us like we're somebody special in the body and we are, but we're only special in the context of the body.

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And we are, but we're only special in the context of the body.

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I'm only special to him if I'm special to you and you're special to me.

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I'm not special to him just because I'm me.

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I'm special to him because I have a context with you.

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Do you understand that there's nothing that happens to you that happens apart from the body?

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You only relate to God through the body.

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You go.

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Well, I never heard that.

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I thought I related to God by faith.

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Well, jesus is faith and Jesus is the body.

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It's Jesus' body.

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You don't get to do this in any other way.

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The price was too great.

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See, I can tell by the looks on your face you don't understand what I'm saying.

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But you don't have a standing with God if you're not standing in the body.

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You understand that.

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You just don't have a state.

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You just can't go up to God and say, hey, I've got a favor to ask you.

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Well, you know, don't you want to ask one for this guy over here and this guy over here and this guy over here and this one over here?

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Why do you want to stand out among all these that are here and not distribute my favor to all of them.

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See, god doesn't understand that.

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You know what happens when God doesn't understand he doesn't hear.

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You know what happens when God doesn't hear.

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That prayer can't possibly get answered.

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You can pray it all year long if you want to, and then you're going to get mad at God.

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Why didn't he hear my prayer?

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Well, you didn't pray right.

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You prayed like you were the only person before the throne.

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And listen, you get, you have to take a number.

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Glory to God.

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I know that's not true, but get the point.

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There's a lot of people before the throne.

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He can deal with them as though they're all individuals, but he doesn't do it for your sake.

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So you won't ever forget that you're part of this mass of who God has identified with and put Himself in them.

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Amen, praise God.

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Hard lesson to learn.

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Hard lesson to learn, but it'll change the way you pray glory to God.

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So we're going to get to that point.

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I'm telling you.

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First, words are important words.

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He had not ascended to his father because the most important thing he had to do amen, when he came up out of the grave, was assure your eternal salvation.

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And he did that by taking the blood and ascending into heaven and presenting it to the Father and hearing the Father say I accept it.

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The Father say I accept it.

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Sin is condemned in the flesh.

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Now, if you could get a picture of that in your spirit, amen, you would never wallow in remorse before God.

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Because that deal has already been dealt with.

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The high priest has already presented the blood.

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What are you going to do?

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That's going to top that.

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What can you possibly offer God?

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The only thing you can do is accept that Jesus did it.

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And when you accept it, when you really accept it, amen the guilt is gone, the shame is gone and the constant trying to act like you used to act, not in not doing sin, but wallowing in it.

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I'm just a sinner, I'm just a miserable world.

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Oh, god doesn't have it.

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I just don't wonder.

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Even I say no, it's just, you know, get off it.

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You know that is so counterproductive for the kingdom.

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And Jesus covers this today too.

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Amen, oh, hallelujah.

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Then he tells her but go to my brethren and say to them I am ascending to my father and your father, I am, I am, and to my God and your God.

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Now, that's an odd thing to say.

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Now that's an odd thing to say and because it's odd, it deserves some study.

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Amen.

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Why would Jesus say something like this?

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And I'm going to tell you the backside of it.

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First, because the disciples didn't know it.

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As far as they were concerned, this God was Jesus' God.

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They piggybacked on it because he chose to reveal him to him, but they still didn't have.

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When they said teach us to pray, like John taught us to pray, and Jesus said our Father, pray in this manner, our Father.

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I don't think they got that, just like they didn't get the rest of the stuff that Jesus said.

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They didn't catch what he was saying.

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But here he comes one more time.

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He said I'm going up to my Father and your Father, my God and your God.

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What does that mean?

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For one thing, when that hit their ears, when Mary told them and it hit their ears about Mary told them, and it hit their ears about a thousand conversations had to come back to them, because now they realize that not only that Jesus was no longer their master and no longer just their friend, but Jesus was their brother.

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And Jesus was their brother because they had a common father.

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Now see, we look at these things from the backside of Romans, and from the backside of Ephesians, and from the backside of Galatians and from the backside of Hebrews.

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We've got all of this revelation that Paul worked for years to get from the Lord and for the Lord to give to him so it could be written down.

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But the disciples didn't have that on day one.

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They had three and a half years with Jesus.

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But they're going to have to go through a time when the Holy Ghost brought back to remembrance all things that he had spoken to them.

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Well, here we go.

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Here's the first thing he brings back to their remembrance.

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Not only is he my God, peter, but he's your God.

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Not only is he my father, john, but he's your father.

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And since you now have a new father, you have a new brother, new father, you have a new brother.

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See, they never thought of Jesus as their brother.

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They thought of him as master, they thought of him as teacher, they thought of him as prophet.

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They thought of him as Messiah.

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They thought of him as king, they thought of him as the son of God, but they never considered that he was their brother.

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Amen, what does that mean?

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Well, obviously they didn't all come out of Mary.

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I mean, a bunch of them did, but none of these did.

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They didn't come out of Mary, they weren't brothers in the flesh, they were no longer.

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In other words, what Jesus was saying I'm going to my father and I'm going to your father because we're not any longer going to look at things according to the flesh.

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You may have been Simon bar Jonah, which means Simon son of Jonah, but now you are Simon son of God, and if you are Simon son of God, then you are my brother by birth.

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In the spirit, you are born of God, just as I am born of God.

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Are we getting any of this that you think okay?

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Well, we know all these things.

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They didn't, and neither do a lot of people who profess to be Christians.

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They don't understand this.

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They don't understand that they still think they're adopted, that their status with God as brothers and joint heirs with Jesus is because God has adopted us, but he has not adopted us.

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Amen.

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There was no adoption papers here on day one.

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This is a take off the blinders, take off the veil, because it's only seen for clarity when in Christ and Jesus was here to declare I have always been your brother, I have always been your near kinsman, I have always been related to you because I had created you in me.

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In him, we have this father that we share.

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If we share a father, we share a bloodline.

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Adopted children don't share a bloodline.

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I wish I could preach Amen.

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We share a bloodline.

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If we share a bloodline, we share a destiny.

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We share a history.

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We share a time when we were there together.

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All of these things are coming back like a flood to the disciples.

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You can't imagine what when Jesus the Bible is so understated.

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Jesus was on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, amen.

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Just like during the flood, just like when Moses was up on the mountain, just, you know.

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Just like when he was in the wilderness.

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You know, there's something about 40 days and 40 nights.

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He was up there.

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He was walked the earth for 40 days talking to them concerning things pertaining to the kingdom of God, amen.

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Well, what was he talking about?

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He was talking about things he had taught them for three and a half years, but they didn't get.

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We're no longer considered to be born of the flesh.

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When God looks at you, he doesn't look at you as a lump of clay.

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You know.

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If you think you're going to impress God by you know, he's not seeing any of this.

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They that worship Him must worship Him.

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In what?

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Nice clothes and good smell and perfume, in spirit and truth.

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Glory to God.

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Now I don't want you coming in here, you know, looking like yesterday's bad news, but you know that's just for my sake, that's not for God's sake.

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You know he's looking at you like you really are in the Spirit, because he says I'm your God, I'm your God, I'm your God in the Spirit.

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We are born of the Spirit, we are born of God.

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We are born in and of eternity.

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It is the my God, your God in me that does the works.

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If you have seen me, jesus said you have seen my God, your God, my God, your God will be in you, I in him, him in me, us in you, so that you can become one in us.

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That's the same, my God.

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We no longer belong to a God that is not known.

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The disciples had a knowledge of God Amen.

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But they didn't have a revelation yet.

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Every once in a while they'd catch it.

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Every once in a while, peter said Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living.

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God.

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Lord, to whom shall we go?

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You have the words of eternal life.

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We know and believe that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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Every once in a while the revelation would break through.

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Most of the time they were as dumb as rocks, but you can't help them.

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I mean, you know, one day they're fishing, you know, and Jesus says come, follow me.

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What would you do?

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I mean, are you?

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You know?

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Wait a minute, I need to go to Bible school and get a diploma before I can even understand this.

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Well, you'll probably get a diploma and understand none of it.

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Amen.

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They just started listening to what he had to say and the Bible says that he taught them the things that he didn't teach other people.

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He gave them revelation.

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They gave the other people parables.

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They still didn't get it.

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Hallelujah.

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But we belong to a God that Jesus knows and reveals, and we belong to a God that we now know and we know how to reveal.

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Are you hearing me me?

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Jesus changed everything.

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When Jesus rose from the dead, it changed everything, and I mean I don't think I don't mean to say it changed things a little bit, it just changed everything.

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They can, they can try all they want to to change the little symbols that follow the years.

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You know, like it's now 2024 CE instead of AD.

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You know that's in the Christian era instead of after the death of Jesus.

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That's what AD means.

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Hello In the year of our Lord is what it really means.

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Every time you would tell the year and you put an AD after it, you were confessing that Jesus is Lord.

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You're going to have a hard time telling God that the Constitution and Declaration of the United States were not made before him, because it says right at the bottom of them in the year of our Lord, jesus Christ, 1776.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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We belong to a God that we know and that we can be revealed in us and that we can be revealed in us.

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So the first things that Jesus said was don't cling to me.

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I've got a mission.

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I have to go present the blood to my Father and your Father See the blood does that for you.

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The blood makes it a blood covenant thing, that God.

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You now know that God is your father.

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What does that mean?

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Does that mean you're adopted?

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No, that means your spirit belonged to him before you ever got here, and you also know this.

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You know that you belong to a God that you can know, that you can know, not only can you know Him, but that he wants to reveal Himself through you in the same way that he revealed Himself through Jesus.

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Praise God.

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So let's go on.

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Verse 18,.

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Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples she had seen the Lord and he had spoken these things to her.

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The very first words of the risen Jesus that were communicated to the disciples were by Mary Magdalene.

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Mary Magdalene would go on and have the historical reputation of being the apostle to the apostles.

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James, the brother of Jesus, became the apostle to the church.

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He was the administrative and governmental apostle when Paul in Acts 15 came back to Jerusalem to discuss the kind of word that was going to be preached to the Gentiles.

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James was the presider over that, because you couldn't have a woman be the presider of that kind of stuff, not in Jewish customs in that day.

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But she was the apostle to the local apostles Because they respected the fact that Jesus spoke to her first and it was through her mouth that the first words that the risen Christ spoke to them were given.

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See, that's important.

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First words are important.

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Everybody say this.

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First words are important.

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Amen, amen, over to God.

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The first words that were spoken to the disciples is that they had a new and living relationship, revelation of the Living God.

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They had a new and living revelation of the Living God and they had an unknown brother and a new father.

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You get this.

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You see how this works.

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This is what they, this is what they heard.

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They heard this that there's something I need to know about this, this living God, and what I need to know today is I've got a new brother and I've got a new father.

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I am not who I was 30 seconds ago, and that's because of first words, verse 19.

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Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the week when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, jesus came, amen, he came and stood in their midst.

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Now, nobody, nobody was tending the door.

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The door was locked.

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Amen, jesus just came through the door and stood in their midst.

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Now, that's about as far as we get.

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You know when Jesus comes through the door, and a few other little things.

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But again, first words.

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What's the first thing?

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He?

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He says Peace to you.

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Now the more.

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How should I say this, lord?

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If you don't read this carefully, you'll think that Jesus is stuttering, but in fact he's saying two different things.

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He's saying peace with you and then he says back here he says peace to you Now.

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In John, the 14th chapter, this is one of these things where he immediately listen.

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He immediately comes in, walks through the door, shows up in their midst and immediately starts saying things that he has said to them before, because he's going to say things that he said before to bring them to his remembrance.

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In John oh glory to God.

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14, 27, he says peace, I leave with you.

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The first thing he says is peace with you.

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Then the second phrase my peace I give to you.

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Second thing he says is peace to you, peace with you, peace to you now.

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Listen to John 14, 27 peace I leave with you.

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My peace I give to you, not as the world gives.

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Give I to you, let not your heart be troubled.

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In other words, I'm here.

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You better get used to me showing up like this.

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Don't freak out when I show up.

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Don't wonder what's going on.

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I told you it was going to be like this.

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Why?

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Because listen to what he's what he told him.

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He told them this just four nights ago.

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He said you have heard me say to you I'm going away and coming back.

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He's already setting them up.

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He's's telling them this is going to happen.

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They didn't get it.

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So the first thing he did was say remember peace.

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I give you Peace, my peace to you, my peace with you, my peace to you Exactly what he said in John 14.

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What's the big deal with that?

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Because Jesus had to establish himself with them.

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They didn't know who this was.

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I've preached this many, many, many, many times all over the planet, because this is one of the most important things that Christians have to know.

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It, because this is one of the most important things that Christians have to know, is that nowhere after the resurrection did anyone recognize Jesus.

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He had to do things to establish the fact that he was Jesus.

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He had to speak to Mary.

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He had to break bread with the two on the road to Emmaus.

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He had to remind the disciples of something that he had said earlier Amen.

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He had to remind Paul that it was difficult for him to kick against the goads.

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In other words, it was difficult for him to work against his conscience, because the Holy Ghost was working on him.

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Amen.

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Every time Jesus showed up to somebody new.

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He had to establish who it was.

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Who are you, lord?

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I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest Because they didn't recognize him.

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It wasn't the same form that he had when he walked the sea.

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It wasn't walking the sea, jesus, it was the risen son of God, jesus.

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Hallelujah, glory to God.

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And when he said this, then he said okay, now you're ready.

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You've heard me say what I said before.

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Now look.

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And he showed them his hands, he showed them his side.

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And the Bible says the disciples were glad.

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You would be glad, you ought to be glad.

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I said you ought to be glad that this Jesus, whom the Jews took and the Romans agreed to it, nailed him to a cross, the most inglorious death you can ever imagine, whipped the flesh off of his bones, exposed his nerves, his bones, his marrow.

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My God, they just did what they would to him, but they couldn't kill him.

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Amen.

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He willingly gave up his debt into death for you and was raised for you and was justified in front of God for you.

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His blood was accepted for you.

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You would be glad, you should be glad.

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You should be exceedingly glad.

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You shouldn't have a bad day.

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There's nothing that the devil can do to you.

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Oh yeah, you might get sick, you might go to the hospital, you might do this, you might do that, you might even pass halfway through death.

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But you didn't quite make it all the way, because you don't belong to death, you don't belong to hell, you don't belong to the devil, you don't belong to Antichrist, you don't belong to any of that.

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They don't have that claim on you.

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They can't take you without God's permission, because you belong to God.

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Not only do you belong to God, you are in God, god is in you.

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Just try to kill God one of these days.

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They tried it.

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They didn't succeed.

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He came up out of the grave and because he came out of the grave, we can be exceedingly glad.

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We can be glad all the time.

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Amen.

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You may have bad days, we all have bad days.

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Jesus had bad days, but he doesn't have many more.

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He looked at his disciples.

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He said how long do I have to put up with these people?

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He had bad days In this life.

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You will suffer tribulation, but be of good cheer.

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Jesus said I've overcome the world.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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So when he said peace with you, peace to you, as here's one of the years, in my opinion, this is just about the most important thing that he said.

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He said as the Father has sent me, I also send you.

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Now you need to go back to John 5, 24 and find out how important this is.

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Jesus said this is eternal life.

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Amen, amen.

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Actually, this was in 7, he said this in verse 524, he also says it in 17.3.

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He says that eternal life is defined by believing the only true God and Jesus, whom he has sent.

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In John 5, it says that in order to have eternal life, you need to believe in this God and in the Jesus whom he sent.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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Listen, it's not enough to know that Jesus is your Savior.

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There's a reason why you're saved.

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There's a purpose in all this, and the purpose is all enveloped in the fact that Jesus was sent.

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He is sent by God.

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Now, the fact that he is sent is wrapped up in 1 Timothy 3.16, where it says Great is the mystery of godliness, how God was manifested in the flesh.

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That mystery is the greatest mystery of all.

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But in that mystery is the purpose of God for this second creation.

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Amen.

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We don't preach enough about the second creation.

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Amen.

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We don't preach enough about the second creation.

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We preach a lot about the first one and try to draw some inferences.

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Why don't we just get by that and go on?

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Because we're now 2,000 years into this creation Actually a whole lot longer than that, but we won't count.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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And Jesus has now, by His first words, included us in that sending.

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So, just as he has sent, we are sent, amen.

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Just as he was sent by the Father for a specific mission, we are sent by the Father for a specific mission.

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He didn't find us.

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And mission he didn't find us.

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And we certainly didn't find him.

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Amen, he didn't.

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He didn't just blindly find us in a dark alley and we were lost, without god and you know and all that.

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Well, that may have been, but that wasn't how god looked at.

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God wasn't looking for you, he knew where you were all the time and if you'd have been looking for God and trying to find him, you would have never found him had God not set it up.

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Amen.

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You don't just stumble into God, because if that was the case, you'd stumble into him all the time.

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He's everywhere.

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That just tells you.

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You don't know who God is when people talk about you know.

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Well, I just stumbled into this little church and I found God.

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Well, that sounds real good.

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Sounds like a country Western song.

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You could write about that, you know, put a little twang to it and, you know, probably sell a million copies and get on everybody's TV show.

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But that's not how it works, because if that were the case, you'd stumble into him all the time.

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Amen, he has always known you.

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He has always known where you are.

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Amen, he has always known every incident and thing surrounding your birth.

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You weren't born by accident on this planet and God just happened to be merciful and save you somewhere along the line.

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That doesn't even make any sense, not to an infinite, all-knowing God.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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I think it's amazing that in the way that Jesus was sent here, we are now included in that sending.

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So he just keeps on getting sent.

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Amen, praise God.

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Don't ever come to me and say well, I just don't know what God wants me to do, I don't know what God's will is for my life.

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You're a sent one, go be sent.

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I had a guy in South Africa one time.

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He could speak 11 languages and he said I just don't know what the will of God is for my life.

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I said try translating, you'll stumble into it.

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Glory to God If you can speak and write and read 11 languages.

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There are 11 tribal groups out here that need you Go be useful.

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I'm sending you.

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Did he do it?

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No, he never did it.

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He wanted to be some you know big shot.

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He didn't want to get down and do the dirty work of telling people about this great Jesus.

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Hallelujah, we are sent.

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Listen, if we are sent in the same sending, then we are sent in the same authority.

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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me it's right here in this one Because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, the recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to mend and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

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Amen.

00:48:53.539 --> 00:48:58.898
That same authority is on you, that same power is on you.

00:48:58.898 --> 00:49:00.054
Paul said this.

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He said this gospel didn't come to you in word only, but in the power of the Holy Ghost.

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Amen.

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It comes in righteousness, it comes in revelation.

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We weren't sent to tell stories.

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We were sent here to reveal God.

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Amen.

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So that other people, just like us, could hear about a real God, not some story, not some flannelgram Jesus, not some cartoon, comic book Jesus, but to hear about this real Jesus, to hear about this resurrected Jesus, to hear about this almighty God, to hear about the things that this God can do.

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Amen about the things that this God can do, amen.

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And then show it.

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Amen, just don't.

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Just don't tell people.

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Well, I know he helped me.

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I don't know if he's going to help you or not, but he might.

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You could pray, you know, if you just pray a little bit, who knows what God will do?

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Well, I know what God does Amen.

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Do you know what God does?

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I know you know what he does Amen.

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He raises the dead, heals the sick, cast out devils.

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Amen.

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This is the God we are and serve.

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Amen.

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And he has sent us forth to do the very same thing when it says in the book of Acts Lord, now give us boldness by stretching forth your hand to do mighty signs and wonders.

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He wasn't asking God to stretch forth his hand.

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He was asking us to be able to stretch forth signs and wonders.

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He wasn't asking God to stretch forth his hand, he was asking us to be able to stretch forth God's hand.

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I'm talking about.

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I'm talking about being sent Glory to God, paul was sent.

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Paul was sent to testify before Caesar.

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He knew that, but nobody coming from Ephesus down to Jerusalem knew that.

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So they were all telling Paul, paul, you're going to be in big trouble when you go to Jerusalem.

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We're seeing this.

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We're seeing this.

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We're seeing riots, we're seeing people laying hands on you.

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We're seeing people wanting to kill you.

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We're seeing horses, we're seeing spears, we're seeing crowds of people.

00:51:02.655 --> 00:51:03.717
We're seeing all this stuff.

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Paul says I'm not moved.

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These things don't move me.

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You know what moves me, caesar, I'm going to go see Caesar.

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Paul, you're an idiot.

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They're going to kill you in Jerusalem.

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They're not going to kill me in Jerusalem.

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Caesar is not in Jerusalem.

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If Caesar were in Jerusalem, I could testify there and then they could do whatever they wanted to with me.

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But God told me I'm going to go talk to Caesar.

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In fact, one of the governors says this he said if he hadn't appealed to Caesar, I'd have let him go.

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But since he's appealed to Caesar, I'd have let him go.

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But since he's appealed to Caesar, to Caesar he must go.

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Well, glory to God.

00:51:49.172 --> 00:51:50.376
He just put it in writing.

00:51:50.376 --> 00:52:03.215
Now he's got a letter from a provincial governor that says I must go to Caesar and all these people are going but Paul but Paul but Paul, and he got on a boat and the boat was going to crash.

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But Paul but Paul, but Paul but Paul, you know.

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But Paul, and he got on a boat and the boat was going to crash.

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But Paul but Paul, but Paul, but Paul, but Paul, and Paul said don't worry, I'm going to Rome, like the quarterbacks that get the MVP award in the Super Bowl, I'm going to Disneyland.

00:52:18.864 --> 00:52:21.175
Paul's going, I'm going to Rome.

00:52:21.175 --> 00:52:23.501
Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah.

00:52:25.170 --> 00:52:28.260
There's a power in revealed truth.

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When you see things in the gospel, amen and God gives you revelation, you don't have to live in parable land anymore.

00:52:37.137 --> 00:52:41.300
You can live in the reality of this revealed truth.

00:52:41.300 --> 00:52:51.478
So then, after he dropped that bombshell on him that just as I've been sent, you're sent, then he breathed on them.

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He said receive ye, the Holy Ghost.

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If you forgive the sins of any the church really trips up over this one they are forgiven them.

00:53:00.880 --> 00:53:03.237
If you retain the sins of any, they are retained.

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You know what that means.

00:53:04.532 --> 00:53:20.079
It means exactly what it says as a sign to them that Jesus was elevating this sorry bunch of guys up to his resurrection status.

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He gave them the power that even the Jews admitted was only reserved for God.

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Are you hearing me?

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Even the Jews?

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That you can look it back in.

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I believe it's in Mark, chapter 2, that the example of the guy with palsy.

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They dropped him through the roof and Jesus said your sins are forgiven.

00:53:42.516 --> 00:53:46.304
The Jew said that's blasphemy.

00:53:46.304 --> 00:53:48.054
Who can forgive sins?

00:53:48.054 --> 00:54:02.182
But God and Jesus said well, judge for yourself whether it's easy to say to the man of palsy be healed or be forgiven, but that the Son of man, that you know, that the Son of man has the authority on earth to forgive sins.

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I say to you rise up and walk and go to your house.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

00:54:08.134 --> 00:54:09.775
What does all that mean?

00:54:09.775 --> 00:54:17.731
That means that even common unbelievers knew that only God had the power to forgive sins.

00:54:17.731 --> 00:54:23.295
But here's Jesus giving it to his disciples on the basis of his first words.

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Hear me now.

00:54:28.260 --> 00:54:31.682
What Jesus spoke that day is still being spoken to you.

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He has given you the power of God to administer, but only by the Holy Ghost.

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He didn't speak those words until he had breathed on them and said Receive ye the Holy Ghost.

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He didn't speak those words until he had breathed on them and said receive ye the Holy Ghost.

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And they received the spirit of understanding so they could understand that God had just elevated them.

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You go, I don't understand this.

00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:02.733
They always taught me that we can't be God, we can't be like God.

00:55:02.733 --> 00:55:04.298
Jesus never said that.

00:55:04.298 --> 00:55:08.139
Jesus never said anything like that.

00:55:08.139 --> 00:55:12.599
In fact, he says just the opposite right here.

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The most sacred thing that God can do is forgive sins.

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That only belongs to the hand of the king.

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Only the king can pardon.

00:55:27.367 --> 00:55:34.851
You understand what I'm talking about, and Jesus just said here boys, I'm handing you the scepter.

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You go out in the power of the Holy Ghost, because he'll tell you what to do.

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And now you can forgive or you can retain.

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I would suggest to you that if it's at all possible to forgive, forgive If there's no other recourse but to retain, then do it boldly, but know this, it will weigh heavy on you.

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Then do it boldly, but know this, it will weigh heavy on you, but know this you don't get to do either one of them without the Holy Ghost or you'll mess it up.

00:56:11.539 --> 00:56:18.061
Glory to God, hallelujah.

00:56:18.061 --> 00:56:28.996
The only way that God's going to honor you sitting in His office to forgive and to retain is if you've done it by the Holy Ghost, otherwise he's going to regard it as presumption.

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Praise the Lord.

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If I were in the business of sales, I would tell you all to buy this tape or this CD or the access to my precious online system, or whatever you have to do to get you know, whatever they do to monetize.

00:56:46.072 --> 00:56:47.333
See, I even know the words.

00:56:47.333 --> 00:56:48.255
Glory to God.

00:56:48.255 --> 00:56:51.362
You need to listen to this one a few times.

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Praise God.

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First words are important.

00:56:53.293 --> 00:56:58.043
I said first words are important, just like last words.

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First words are important.

00:56:59.592 --> 00:57:14.681
They define First words of both covenants start the same way In the beginning, in the beginning, in the beginning.

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In doing that, they provide a dimension, a scope, they provide limits.

00:57:22.476 --> 00:57:26.710
In the beginning, god created the heavens.

00:57:26.710 --> 00:57:29.094
No, it doesn't say that.

00:57:29.094 --> 00:57:31.318
It says he created the heavens and the earth.

00:57:31.318 --> 00:57:33.943
Amen.

00:57:33.943 --> 00:57:37.155
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.

00:57:37.155 --> 00:57:47.643
The beginning of the law says that I am the Lord, thy God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage.

00:57:47.643 --> 00:57:53.001
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

00:57:53.001 --> 00:57:54.835
So there's the limit.

00:57:54.835 --> 00:57:56.755
God is God.

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There are no others that are allowed to even come close to his position.

00:58:02.697 --> 00:58:04.117
Amen.

00:58:04.117 --> 00:58:05.159
It puts a limit on him.

00:58:05.159 --> 00:58:06.681
It puts some dimension on it.

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First words Read these first words again Instead of being spoken to the disciples, have those words speak to 20 centuries of people who are in him and see how they prophesy.

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See how they prophesy and set forth potential and possibilities for the body of Christ.

00:58:34.717 --> 00:58:36.242
Amen.

00:58:36.242 --> 00:58:41.273
These disciples had had the benefits of walking with Him for three and a half years.

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Amen.

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You didn't have that necessarily when you came into becoming a believer, amen.

00:58:47.943 --> 00:59:02.755
But Jesus spoke those words as first words to set this thing in motion, that down through the centuries, these words would be available to all those who believe.

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Amen.

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These would be words.

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John was one of them.

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When Jesus prophesied to them in the upper room, he said this.

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He said, lord, I don't pray for these only, but for all those who will believe in me by their word.

00:59:18.579 --> 00:59:24.177
So John wrote these words down we're going to believe this about Jesus.

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Amen.

00:59:25.079 --> 00:59:31.619
We are there, coming out of that prayer that Jesus prayed and out of John's obedience to that prophecy.

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Amen.

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Now we can be an element of that prophecy as we go forth and we say things that God has spoken to us and people believe Amen.

00:59:46.269 --> 00:59:47.012
And so it goes, and so it goes.

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And all of that was in the mouth of Jesus when he came up out of his resurrection.

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Are you seeing this, hallelujah?

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He continued in this vein for 40 days and 40 nights.

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This is what he did.

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He didn't listen.

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Talking to him about the things of the kingdom of God was not how to organize a Sunday school class, not how to organize the men's choir, not how to organize, you know, the seven services that run during the day in the Catholic Church.

01:00:20.467 --> 01:00:22.856
I mean, that's not what they talked about.

01:00:22.856 --> 01:00:34.601
He talked about the things that they were going to have to remember how to obey the Holy Ghost and be led by Him so that this church could grow and multiply.

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These words, these first words, literally opened the doors of both the things that the disciples knew from Christ and the things that were completely unknown.

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First words are important.

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Amen, hallelujah.

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Why is this?

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Why do we take the time?

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Why do we take the time on Resurrection Day to look at this?

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Because this was the day that Jesus decided to say these things, and this is what he said, half of them he said to Mary.

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And then he stopped by and visited the disciples when they were all in one place and one accord, except for Thomas Amen.

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And he stopped in there and said a few things and then left Praise God.

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But these first words, see we are listen to me very carefully.

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A vast number of Christians can quote out of the 28th chapter of the book of Matthew All authority has been given unto me and I say to you go and make disciples of all nations, teaching all the things that I have commanded, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, and teaching all things that I have commanded you.

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And lo, I am with you always, even at the end of the age.

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A lot of people can quote that because those are last words, right?

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Well, what I'm saying today is the first words are just as important Because they make the last words possible.

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Amen, praise God.

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And you know what other thing In this new creation, god always gets the last word.

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Amen, praise God, hallelujah, let's stand.