Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Spiritual Blindness, Part 1 (Mark 8:11-21) John MacArthur

Spiritual Blindness, Part 1 (Mark 8:11-21) John MacArthur

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plexus
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sold past
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the
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add the
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pad
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out
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that's often the bible to mark just very
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mark chapter eight so
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blessed to be back in
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mark
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in waiting
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with baited breath to pick up the story where we left off
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in chapter reversed and we now come to versus eleven to twenty one
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and the theme of this section from eleven to twenty one
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i have identified a spiritual blindness
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spiritual blindness
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there's actually only one reference in the whole tax for safety new the issue
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of being able to see an oxy
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but that one little phrase sort of kasa challa over the entire section
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and to understand this section is to really understand the issue of spiritual
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blindness
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by virtue of two illustrations
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the first is encounter between jesus and the leaders of israel the religious
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italy
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the second is an encounter between jesus and the disciples
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they illustrate to us two kinds of blindness
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prominent blindness
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and temporary
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blindness
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it has to be said at the very beginning before we look at the text itself that
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special blindness is a universal malady
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it is a universal human condition
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every human being born into this world since the fall of adam
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has been born spiritually blind
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and it is a it is not a superficial blindness it is a profound blindness
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it is a total blindness is a completely blindness
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is essentially living in the darkness with no
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light
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at all
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that is the biblical diagnosis of the universal human
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conditioned
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and i know that runs contrary to what
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people think
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while we are exposed to those who are
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self-proclaimed very spiritual people are we not
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i'm a very spiritual person
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you're here frequently
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as if they had some
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real insight into the spiritual realm
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there are even people who are professional
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spiritualists
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who can connect people with these spiritual dimension
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and there are those great spiritual leaders those transcendental gurus who
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have ah...
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then identified with them
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the eastern part of the world but there are many of them to come in many shapes
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and sizes that have found their way
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across the planet in very different carbs
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then just
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hinduism
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those people who think they concede into the spiritual realm
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who think they've ascended to some level of mastery of spiritual reality
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every religion on the planet every single religion claims to have
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the key to the door it to the spiritual world
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they all do
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ste what they cell
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they all live
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they all live
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no religion in the world
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apart from true christianity
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can give anybody site
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everybody in every religion except the true one is in the dark and it is a
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black darkness and it is a deep darkness
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and it is a profound blindness there are no
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transcendental masters there are no elevated souls there are no
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spiritualists
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all spiritual truth
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genuinely
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that doesn't come
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within the framework oven on altered human life
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this is the testimony of scripture turn to john chapter one
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john chapter one man verse five
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lord jesus is introduced here as the light verse four
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union was life in a life was a light of men
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jesus is called the light himself
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said he was the light john a twelve i in the light of the world
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whoever follows me will not walk in darkness that's the only way out of the
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darkness to follow christ there is no other way out of the darkness
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there are no elevated spiritual masters
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there are only people who follow christ and he alone leads out of the darkness
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he is the light
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the light shines in the darkness verse five says the darkness
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did not comprehend it
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this universal spiritual blindness has no capacity to comprehend
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true light came the darkness didn't comprehend it
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there came a man from
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from god sent by god whose name was john john the baptist the forerunner to
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christ he came as a witness to testify about the light
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that is to say
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the light came even before the light came a profit came to tell people the
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light was coming
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and uh...
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john did that he testified about the lights sold at all might believe through
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him
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he was not the light
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but he came to testify about the light there was the true light namely christ
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which coming into the world in lightens every man he was in the world the world
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was made to him
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and the world in knowing
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hinduism
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the jews
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those who were zone
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didn't perceive therein is the darkness
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this is the universal human condition
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when the light is at its brightest
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when the light is standing in front of you looking you in the eye
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when you can reach out and touch the light where you can hear the voice of
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the light when you can see the power of the light displayed in miracle after
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miracle day after day after day
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there is still no capacity in the darkness of the human heart too crass
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polite to comprehend the light
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to understand the way
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and this is a condition
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here described of israel
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who were believed it to be
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by themselves at least the most unlikely people on the planet they had the old
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testament scripture they have the law the profits
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they had the ordinances they had the covenants they had it all they had the
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complete revelation of god
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throughout
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the whole old testament as it had been revealed
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as we heard from tom at the beginning
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god spoke in many ways through many means
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in many portions
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and gave him the scripture and it gives them the light and they didn't
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understand it and they had an apostate religion
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framed out of that true revelation they deviated from an introverted to the
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degree that they had a prostate form of judaism at jesus
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time when he came to light was looking them in the face
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and they couldn't understand it that's how deep human blindness is
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in romans one
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the issue is spread abroad
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uh... in uh... john one arb john is talking about the jews primarily came in
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his own his own received in now
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here it's the gentiles the review in romans one
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god's wrath is revealed in verse eighteen against all on godliness annan
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rights is is a menace to press the truth in in righteousness
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this line is this darkness
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is so profound that even when exposed to the truth
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they suppress it
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this is talking about almond
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he goes on to say that which is known about god is evident within them
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it's inside of them
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and how is that
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realized to waste
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one
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reason human reason leads you to a cause for every a fact
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and human reason followed will lead you to the primary cause the element cause
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the first cause of all the facts
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you have to go there there has to be a first cause there has to be
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him in reason
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chapter two he says the law of god is written in their hearts that some moral
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on ethical law
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so god has displayed himself in the reason
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and in morality in every human being
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that's right
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that's light
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that's made evident to them
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beyond that
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the creation of the world displays verse twenty says his invisible attributes his
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eternal power and divine nature
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when we look at the creation not only s
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in effect from a first cause but looking at the affected south and taking it
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apart we learn a lot about god only
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we learn about it the facets of his mind
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the massive infinite power that he possesses
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that the attention to detail but he has given to the minutiae
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of the compound said
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atomic structure of the universe we learned so much about god's power
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about his attributes we also learn from human life in relationships
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that god has communicated to us attributes that are true love him now
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that we possess so we know about him in terms of his power we know about him in
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terms of his personality
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so the whole world has this march
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however even though they knew god verse twenty one they did not know him as god
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or give thanks they became
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empty in their speculations
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and therefore charla stark and what happened was the light they had
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they turn away
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from the light
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if the asian chapter four
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there's another description of this worthy of our
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consideration
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in the thesis for seventeen talks about the nations or the gentiles
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the f_ nice
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ethnic
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groups
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they walk it says in verse seventeen in the emptiness of their mind
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empty headed
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they can't make the conclusion the lighting them should lead them to make
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falling reason to god
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following
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moral law in the heart
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to a log giver
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to a standard of righteousness of god who is righteous
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in this empty minded existence versus eighteen says they have become darkened
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in their understanding excluded from the likes of god because of the ignorance
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that is in them because of the hardness of the heart heart of hearts
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in nine minds
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darkened
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under standing that's
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how all human beans are defined
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the summer's said in some eighty five
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people walking darkness
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the prophet said
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people have i'd spit can't see
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isaiah said that jeremiah said at the proper abs say the way of the wicked is
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darkness
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blindness
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and darkness characterized
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human
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nature
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if thats
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just part of being human light is their but the capacity to follow that light to
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a fuller light
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is not there
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and this blindness zina says not superficial once it is a profound
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blindness
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a profound blindness
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let me show you
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low further from the first chapter of john look at the third chapter of john
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john chapter three
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here are ward is talking about
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light
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verse nineteen
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this is the judgment
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that the light has come
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into the world
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now you have light
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not only the light
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of reason and the light of moral law
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and the light of
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creation
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but you have the light
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of price
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coming into the world
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and they love the darkness rather than a life
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for their deeds revolver everyone who does evil hates the light
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doesn't come to the light
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for fear that his deeds
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will be exposed
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hw practices the truth comes
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so these days maybe manifested that they have been rot and god
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the blind
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are profoundly blind
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by nature suman nature
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and there
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even more profoundly blind
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because they're not only centers but they love their sin and that is the sort
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of second degree of their blind as the first degree is it's their nature to be
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blind the second thing is
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they're saying is what they lower than that makes their blindness even more
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compelling
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more profound
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doesn't end there
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with its second corinthians
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check before the apostle paul is talking about the same issue exactly
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second corinthians four
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three and four
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he says that the gospel that he preaches concerning christ concerning a light
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is very old
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it is they'll to those who are perishing
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they can see it
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in his case dot god of this world
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meaning satan has blinded the minds
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of the unbelieving
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so they are blinded by nature
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their double-blind by sea and air triple blinded by satan
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so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory
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of price
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where again not talking about a superficial
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blindness but a deep and profound
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blinds blinded by nature
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blinded by sand and a lot of other blinded by satan
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and his power over
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the soul
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and there is another kind of blindness
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that shows
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the depth of this in the nineteen th chapter of
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luke
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we come across i suppose what you could call sovereign blindness
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jesus approach jerusalem inverse forty-one saw the city and wept over it
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they said if
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you had known in this day they knew the things which makes for peace
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if you only have known
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that i was here and the peace with god that i came to bring
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but no
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they have
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been hidden
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from you or are its
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or that's the saddest of all aspects appointments
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when the blindness
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can't be remedied
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it's now he can
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you had your moment
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you had your opportunity
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you had your time
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you didn't respond it's over from now on you can't see what u wouldn't see
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in the days will come when
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your enemies will throw up a barricade against you surround him you know
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riverside talking about the destruction of jerusalem
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level you to the ground your children within you not leave one stone on
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another because you didn't recognize the time of your visitation you didn't know
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who it was who visited you he didn't embrace the light because you love the
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darkness
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and judgment is going to come and you're going to die and your children are going
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to die
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and hundreds of thousands of jews of course died in that horrendous roman
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assault in seventy eight-b_
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and they were all catapulted who did not see the light of christ
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into hell
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and hell is described in the bible repeatedly as outer what
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darkness
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outer darkness
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this is profound
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blinds the blinds of nature human nature of the blinds us in the blindness and
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satan the blind as a judgment and the blindness of eternal punishment
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this is the condition
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of all people
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all of us
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are in that condition but we fall into two categories those who are permanently
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blind and those who were temporarily blind
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those who are permanently blind and those who are temporarily
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for some the blindness is forever
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for others the blindness is only for
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and urine either one or the other of those two groups
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the text before us is very instructive in regard to this issue it presents both
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permanent
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and temporary blindness
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and where to look at that
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this morning and next time you read the text to you
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back to mark
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chapter eight
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verse eleven
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let's meet the prominently blind
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pharisees came out
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began to argue with him
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seeking from him aside from having to test it
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sighing deeply in his spirit he said
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why does this generation c
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for a sign
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truly i say to you
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no sign of will beat given to use this generation
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leading them
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the again embarked on my way or the other side
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never got to take bread
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and didn't have more than one loaf in the boat with them
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and he was giving orders to them saying watch out
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beware of eleven of the pharisees in eleven inherit
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they begin to discuss that one of the fact that they had no bread
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and jesus aware of this said to them why do you discussed the fact that you had
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no bread
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do you not yet seen your understanding
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do you have a hardened heart having eyes do not see having years do you not here
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and do not remember when i broke the five lows for five thousand how many
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baskets full of broken pieces you picked up
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they said to him twelfth
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when i broke the seven for the four thousand how many large baskets full of
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broken pieces did you pick up and they said in the seven
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anne was saying to them
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do you not yet understanding
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and matthew as a footnote to that passage at the end of his
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parallel account he says
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and they didn't understand
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first group are left
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in darkness
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second grouper led to light
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pharisees permanent darkness
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the disciples
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temporary
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and for them
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picked expanding everyday
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they spent with jesus
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now you have to parallel
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this passage shedding its fullness with matthew sixteen
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if you're gonna study at massey sixteen one two twelve covers the same thing
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adds a few details here and that always and rich
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the gospel writer for the same events from two perspectives but the the uh...
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resolution comes in combining two counts as you know
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this encounter with the pharisees includes also the sexiest matthew
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sixteen says the cider season there as well
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this is our lord's final conflict with the leaders of israel indelibly memories
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galley ministries coming to its and he's going to go down to gear for the last
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months of his life and for your so the cross
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is wrapping up his extensive uh... more than a year that he has spent
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in a very small area of galilee
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this is the last encounter with the pharisees and the sad to see czar their
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as well
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it's a milestone
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it really is it's a milestone because it is the last time
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these leaders of israel
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will face their messiah and savior
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in that area
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this is it
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from here on
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whenever he relates to them he relates to them as a condemning judge
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but at this point there have been invitations extended to the leaders of
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israel to believe no more
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denunciation now
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but it's a milestone then for a second and
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corollary res
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since he is through with the leaders of israel history also with the people who
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follow the leaders of israel
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and from this point on our lord's instruction
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and his powered display
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are not four the leaders of israel not for the reject urs anymore what for
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those who believe
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so from here on
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everything that takes place
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is driven directly at the disciples
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for example if you look at chapter nine verse thirty
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he went out again
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a final sweep through gala lean
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but he didn't want anyone to know about it because he was teaching his disciples
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so from now on
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the disciples are the focus both of his miracle tower
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and his instruction
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he's preparing them for the future ministry
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and there are a critical point delayed a high point of the whole book of mark
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isn't
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chapter reversed
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twenty-nine where peter on behalf of all of the followers of jesus says you are
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the press
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you're the cries
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bday saw delight
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they recognize delight
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they got it
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that's the high point
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the midpoint of this
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gosport called the great confession
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of the followers of jesus
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understand it is at this point
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that jesus is a vilified
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he is discredited openly and publicly
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he has denounced by the leaders of israel
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he is rejected by the people who follow the leaders of israel
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all of them in the darkness to love the darkness and love their sins
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is rejected by all of them
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now all they want to do is kill him
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so they're on the hunt to kill him
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those who follow him there for
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know they're making a break with their former religion
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they're leaving their rabbis and their priests
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and their chief trees
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and their high priests
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and the pharisees and describes they're turning their back that on the apostate
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judy is embedded in their life
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there following
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the discredited despised hated scorned mocked
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blasting
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leader jesus
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because they're sure of one thing
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and they say it like here finally he's the cracks he is the messiah polite has
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broken on them
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the darkness
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has been to spell
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and the light will get brighter and brighter
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as he spends day
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after day with them right on the through
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the cross
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outside the other other side of the grave
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and for forty days in
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with them instructing them concerning the came in before the ascension and
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sending in the holy spirit when they are ready then to preach the gospel to the
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ends
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of the year
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this is a great milestone moment
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you wind up permanent blindness of the leaders of israel and those who followed
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them is six
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and when uh...
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temporary blindness
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but those who follow christ
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isn't it
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and the light begins
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to shine
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ever brighter
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we have to start this morning with the permanent blindness
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verses eleven thirteen
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again
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carl artist face-to-face with those who hate him
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they love their sin
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they love their self righteousness which was their chiefs in
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they love their hypocrisy
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they are naturally blind
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they are simply blind
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they're safe chemically blind and they are now about to be sovereign lee
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blinded and eight will be eternally in the darkness
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just to set the scene a little bit it's been a while
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at this point in jesus ministry has just come back from a tour of gentile areas
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remember back in chapter seven about burst twenty-four when it says that he
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left gallium went north up the trier inside nuts gentile territory
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and heat traversed through that for an extended period of time
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went way north
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of the sea of galilee
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and then swept down
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to the south east portion the southeast portion of the sea of galley to an area
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called the capitalists
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meaning ten cities
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they were gentile cities
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and in his ministry was among the gentiles he was teaching his disciples
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that this gospel is not just for the jews
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but it's for all
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they needed to see that they needed to learn
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and into camp a less you remember chapa rate begins with an amazing miracle that
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he did there did parallels america lead in galilee in delhi
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he said five five thousand-man force women and children in the capitalist
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the gentile area he feeds four thousand
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uh... men plus women and children at a very similar seating
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miracle
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that's where we end inverse
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after that miracle which happens on the south
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east side of the sea of galley he goes across in the boat
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to the northwest up like a turning into a place called on the news that you know
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certain
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or mag again is another name from that's area just near company in that was his
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headquarters
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so back egos
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jewish territory
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soon as she arrives verse eleven
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the pharisees came out and began
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to argue with him
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they're just relentless
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they are on the attack
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he never has to look for the may never has to find them
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they're there
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he's just arrived back
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on the other side
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dr their little boat at a place called al maneuver
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gotten off the boat not far from petroleum end somewhere
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and immediately on the on the path wherever it was from the short too
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attorney in which perhaps was the direction they were headed
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there are ready for him
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and as soon as the word goes that knees arrived
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he's been gone a long time
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weeks
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they're right there in his face wasting no time
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with their attack
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day
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hate the light
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they hate the message of repentance
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they hate me a message of faith in grace they'd love self-righteous and they love
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the sense of achieving their own redemption through their own morality in
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their own religious ceremony
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they're in love with that
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they hate
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the truth
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so they come out again they want to discredit him publicly there's always a
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crowd around him
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and so we
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we see in this justice will brief section eleven twelve thirteen
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three features that mark this virtually blind
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may come out very clearly
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number one when i got very honest
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there
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people or spirits are blinder comfortable
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well with others who are also blind
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even if their enemies
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it is amazing how
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universally the blind
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hate delight
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that is to say people of all false religions
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collectively
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even though they are antagonistic to reach other in their religions
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will agree to hate the truth
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the one thing the multiple false religions of the world will agree on is
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that they all resent christianity
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they all resent the gospel
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on that they agree
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even if they're mortal enemies
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the pharisees
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and matthew sixteen one ads
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and the sad to seize without not being repeated the pharisees and said he sees
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what article is a greek way of unifying then
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they couldn't be more antagonistic toward each other it would be impossible
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the pharisees hated the saddest season vice versa
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severe enemies
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our theological level
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and yet they become one
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and are united in a common hatred of the light that's characteristic of the
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darkness the darkness is comfortable with other people in the darkness
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the systems may vary
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the viewpoints made very but the common darkness ties them together
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you have the legal lists that would be the pharisees the ritual lists
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you have the saddest seas would be a liberal zola rational lists
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they are one
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in haiti
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the son of god
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said he sees aren't mention a lot in the new testament
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only a few times uh... they're seeing there witnessing the baptize in work of
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john the baptist
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uh... they appear testing jesus without the pharisees
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during his passion week
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they confront him and he confronts then
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and announces that
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and then you have this incident here recorded and matthew and
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in mark
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and our lord only refers to them in matthew sixteen
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because they weren't really dark theologians of the people they were the
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ones that were in the temple operation the people didn't like them because they
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extorted money out of them right
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basically ah... jacked up the prices of animals
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for sacrifice and they would examine the animals the people that brought an
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disqualify me animal from being sacrificed make them by one of their own
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animals at the sale in a temple grounded
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an exorbitant price they wouldn't accept the money that the people brought they
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would have to exchange their money and they would extort money out of them in
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the exchange they rang racket
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at the temple
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they didn't have a lot of convictions about moral issues because they were
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liberals that is it took a liberal approach they deny the existence of the
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resurrection they denied the existence of angels
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in effect they were skeptics regarding the supernatural
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on the other hand you had
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the pharisees seward fastidious legal lists
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who either read something spiritual made every tiny word
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of scripture
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they were children of the hasidic movement the house a deem meaning the
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pilots the saintly
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they were the jews who were
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first of all were committed to a lot of god and as a secondary
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reality today
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greek culture they hated greek culture they hated hellenistic things
31:38
and therefore they hear the presence of the romans who are hella nice
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group of paydays
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pharisees were separatists they hated the pagans they hated the romans eight
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of the heathen
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they separated themselves from public and since enters a separate themselves
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from the general jewish population
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they separate themselves from any kind of defile meant that they thought would
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make them ceremonial e unclean
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they were the literal us in the legal issues and the separatists
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said she's on the other hand
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they were in the separatists
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they were happy to romans were there they commiserated with the romans a made
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money off of it
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they were uh... compromises
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anything by hostile to greek culture
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they were attracted to greek culture and they were the aristocratic
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a rational estate skeptical materials there opportunists
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who denied scriptural death there
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and the
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got together with their enemies the pharisees
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if i can actually it is a account given where the sad the season for jews are at
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each others' throats
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they rejected tradition
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they rejected the profits of the old testament
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they were very very different than the pharisees
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the point is this
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they shouldn't have been together on a common cause
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they really wanted nothing to do with each other
33:06
but they had this
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common
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the light
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jesus correct
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and so they got together on that basis
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that is the way the darkness works if you're in the darkness you're
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comfortable with other people in the darkness
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however they define their darkness it's still darkness however they define their
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blindness it still
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blindness
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he'll company
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is better then
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righteous
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company
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even if the evil company
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is you're going to me
33:45
so that we can argue with them they just walk up and started
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a fight
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here's their approach this is a dispute the greek word argues dispute you wanted
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to discredit him before the people so that's what a
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desire they seek
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from him a sign from heaven to test it
34:02
as a test they wanted to do a sign from heaven
34:04
now there's a reason for this the jews had a superstition
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the superstition of the jews is that god
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do
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heavenly miracles the demons could only do earthly miracles
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that god could do heavily miracles but demons could you actually want to know i
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can uh... magicians imperils clark did when they mimic the
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miracles of god to moses and they did their false miracles this and ah...
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and perhaps the actual supernatural activities of demons
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through the centuries had created this kind of notion that demands could do
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of earthly miracles if you will but only god could do heavenly ones
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and so they come to jesus and they say
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look to assign from heaven literally out of heaven
34:53
a miracle in the sky stopped the sun joshua did
34:59
a fire down from heaven elijah didn't
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eclipse the moon
35:04
rearrange the constellation
35:07
start and stop a store in
35:11
needed to tempt him
35:13
they really wanted to discredit him and of course it's supposed to be a rock and
35:16
a hard place a p
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if he says i i i'm not going to do that in the people are gonna know we can't
35:24
and if you can use discredit
35:26
he's a fake
35:27
maybe he's doing what he does by the power of saint
35:30
which is what they had said all along
35:33
added he says i can and i well and they don't believe we can
35:38
failing
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stole your case this is uh... dilemma he can't for
35:45
he says he's not going to do it then the people can assume we can
35:50
and all i can do is swat
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satan does
35:53
and if he says he can't rise it he'll fail because he's not the messiah he's
35:57
not from god they were sure that
35:59
and he'll be discredited either way
36:03
didn't really need another sign
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and it wasn't as if they had signs that work from heaven do you remember the
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leading teacher he remember the name of the leading teacher among the pharisees
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name was nicotine is
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john three
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he came to jesus this is this stick
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don't reject that one
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we know
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we lose we naked in his retirement
36:25
we my group
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hoosier group
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thirsty
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we know
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that you have come from kada
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as a teacher
36:36
for no one can do these
36:38
signs that you do unless god is with him
36:44
they didn't need more signs more evidence says
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and planning
36:53
but there was after all you know the notion
36:56
that in the time of the messiahs arrival on the establishment of picking them and
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judgment in all of that there would be signs and have ended in georgia to in
37:05
the proper to say that
37:07
the son will be darkened
37:09
and the moon will turn to blood and there will be signs in the sky
37:14
i mean the proper did say that
37:17
and oh by the way that will happen
37:22
when jesus returns again to establish his kingdom and judge yen godly read it
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matthew twenty four
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where jesus himself as a sign in the sky
37:34
and also leave those women
37:36
read a book of revelation they'll come signs in dot sky
37:42
but this is so ridiculous
37:44
as if they needed
37:46
any proof
37:47
when their own later testifies that
37:50
we had to come from god because no one could do the sense that he did
37:54
this is how
37:56
deep the darkness
37:59
first thing you see about people in the darkness is they're comfortable though
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the people in the darkness
38:04
and the second is
38:06
darkness deepens
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they uh...
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they're comfortable with the people who are in the darkness
38:13
and their consigned to deeper darkness
38:18
the more adventure give them the deeper the government
38:26
that database
38:27
beget near the surface
38:29
and they wound
38:31
deep into the darkness
38:33
more light
38:37
creating food for a masses
38:40
creating eyes for blind people ears for deaf people vocal chords for people who
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couldn't speak
38:45
legs and arms and organs raising people from the dead
38:48
that's not enough
38:51
jesus said it was down five thirty six believe me for the work sake how can you
38:54
explain them when they could give us explain them you come from god nobody
38:57
can decide to do
38:59
unless he comes
39:01
from god
39:04
but they were no different than cerro your member after all the signs and
39:07
wonders that moses did it's a sterile harden his heart
39:12
that's that's the second reality itself tragic they're comfortable
39:17
with others in the darkness and their consigned to a deeper darkness of the
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moral lightly shannon and the deeper the darkness becomes
39:26
i remember reading years ago voltaire the french aviation
39:30
charges skeptical statements one of them
39:33
the stuck with me he said this even if they miracle should be rocked in the
39:37
open market place before a thousand sober witnesses
39:41
i would rather mistrust my senses and admit a miracle
39:45
we had a whole generation of all chairs
39:48
in israel
39:49
unbelievable always find a way to reject the truth and drive itself down deeper
39:54
into darkness
39:59
that tragic figure woody allen
40:05
once said that god would give me a clear sign
40:08
i would believe like making a large
40:11
deposit
40:12
in my name
40:13
at a swiss bank
40:16
and cool
40:19
blindness that will never see as that which looks
40:21
only to the darkness
40:23
forests fellowship
40:25
and plunges deeper
40:27
into
40:28
that darkness
40:30
when the light
40:31
appears
40:33
jesus alderson burst well
40:36
sighing deeply in his spirit
40:39
at such an interesting statement only
40:41
once using the new testament here's that verb compound form the simple form is
40:45
used in chapter seven thirty-four when he side it's a grief
40:49
expression he sighed uh...
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over
40:53
the physical suffering we read about in chapter seven
40:56
deafness
40:58
he side here it's compound
41:01
he sighing
41:02
dvd
41:03
stronger emotion over spiritual blindness and over physical suffering
41:07
it breaks his heart that's why he wept
41:10
when he entered a jerusalem
41:12
look nineteen john eleven you look at the grade the last year's we saw the
41:15
power of sin
41:17
impact us into produced pain
41:20
his grief is profound
41:22
over this hard-hearted obstinate on belief
41:26
in the face of massive evidence
41:28
message science
41:30
be laments his reject yours willful ignorance
41:34
and he said this
41:35
this is so look we really speaking to himself in
41:39
wisest generation seek for size
41:42
for what reason
41:43
what what else could possibly be done
41:47
and he seems to be on the pharisees this generation
41:51
this d_n_a_ and the people at this
41:54
they were just like their ancestors generally thirty two twenty
41:57
they're indicted there the jews there approve versus generation signs in
42:03
is no faithful mess
42:07
some ninety five
42:09
adds to that indictment of israel
42:13
truly i say you re says no sign
42:15
will be given to this generation i'm not doing a sign from heaven
42:18
i'm not doing another thing
42:22
strong resoluteness truly i say to you that phrase used herein in chapter three
42:26
verse twenty two by mark
42:28
and it's an an altar boy thing that is about to be said no sign will be given
42:32
to this generation
42:34
i wish i could show you the greek construction on that is uh... it's
42:37
conditional clause but it's a very unique conditional clause
42:41
but if you translate it accurately it would sound like this if idea of a peace
42:46
sign to this generation main i'd die
42:51
and some strong stead
42:55
i'm not given any more science
43:03
and this then is the third thing the first is the blind are comfortable with
43:06
the other blind and their consigned to deeper blindness and thirdly their
43:10
condemned to terminal blindness
43:13
their condemned a terminal one
43:17
no more
43:20
now if you were to compare matthew sixteen
43:23
you can read out on your own
43:25
jesus
43:26
says a few things that matthew records of mark doesn't jesus said to them
43:34
you can tell the weather
43:35
but you can't discern the signs of the times remember that statement
43:40
you know you're better meteorologists than you are theologians
43:43
and you're just pretty primitive it meteorology but you're really bad at the
43:47
ology
43:49
that's why i'm eddie fifteen fourteen he called the foresees blind leaders of the
43:53
blind
43:54
in ninety twenty three column blind guides fools and hypocrites he says you
43:59
can't discern the cairo us the seasons the epics you don't get it
44:03
you don't know what season this says this is the time
44:06
of the lords
44:08
salvation
44:10
then he says to them according to matthew sixteen you're a wicked and
44:14
adulterous and he doesn't just say group
44:17
generation
44:18
that means all u leaders and all of this nation that follow you
44:23
skiing
44:23
leaving
44:26
statement
44:28
you know i have one more sign according to matthew sixteen
44:31
jesus said on the same occasion
44:33
as a sign of joan and remember that
44:36
sana jonas given by our lord and matthew twelve thirty nine forty says as john
44:41
was in the wealth of three days of the great fish
44:43
i'm gonna be in a brown for three days
44:46
that's the only son you're going to begin
44:53
and when that sign came
44:55
and the word got back to the leaders of israel
44:58
that he had risen from the dead according to matthew twenty eight eleven
45:01
to fifteen
45:03
they called the soldiers in
45:06
who were guarding the team
45:07
and bribe them
45:09
to lie about the resurrection
45:14
that's sixth darkness
45:19
they would deny it
45:22
when they knew it happened
45:25
to be in the dark used to be comparable only with those who were in the dark
45:29
to be consigned deeper darkness
45:33
literally to be condemned
45:37
everlasting
45:38
darkness
45:40
wrist thirty
45:41
two words
45:43
will leave it there
45:45
leaving them
45:47
i wasn't
45:49
abandoned them like romans one gave him up gave them out
45:54
gave them my very symbolic action
45:57
last encounter with them in galilee
46:03
that's tragic isn't
46:06
the whole world is full of people like this
46:10
cruel isn't in the darkness so they may think they are spiritual and they have
46:15
transcended
46:17
and they are
46:18
mystical you wear your spiritual realm the truth is they are
46:23
into little
46:24
darkness
46:26
and their consigned
46:29
to even deeper darkness
46:33
and their condemned to permanent
46:35
eternal darkness
46:38
on the other hand
46:40
rather than the blind you will never see
46:44
but there are the blind who will
46:47
and we'll look at them next time that's our group
46:52
word again is so wonderful to dig into your word and its treasures are
46:58
eggs inexhaustible
47:00
another
47:02
another day another experience with her florida
47:06
make it a truth it contagious
47:08
that brings to us we cherish is we thank you for it
47:13
well we thank you that you have
47:15
promise that whoever comes to me will not walk in darkness and the light of
47:19
the world whoever comes to me will not be walking darkness but will have the
47:23
light of life
47:24
like his life to live latest truth
47:29
thank you more
47:31
but you still are pleading with us
47:34
there are people here who are in the darkness
47:37
but the darkness is not yet fixed
47:41
they may be
47:43
and being exposed
47:45
to light plunging into deeper darkness
47:48
and headed toward
47:50
everlasting darkness but lord we would pray that you'd be gracious to them
47:56
and made a turn and come to the light
48:00
the one who is light
48:02
the only one who lives out of the darkness
48:05
the lord jesus christ the light of the world
48:10
drawn into him now
48:12
young people
48:16
out of that darkness
48:19
rescue them from that
48:20
outer darkness that everlasting
48:23
darkness
48:25
we thank you lord for
48:27
doing that for so many here thank you that we were once darkness and now are
48:31
light
48:32
we had been delivered from the kingdom of darkness
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into the kingdom of your dear son
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thank you for that
48:41
thank you for that gift of grace and mercy
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and may we live lives of gratitude in what we do we pray in christ's name

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