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well good morning again this is Pastor

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David from International Baptist Church

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in Stuttgart let me encourage you during

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this coronavirus shutdown of churches

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and many other things as well symphonies

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and drama presentations as well as many

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restaurants and other other forms of

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mass meetings let me encourage you in

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the faith that God is with us and he'll

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be with you and I pray that God would

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keep you safe and he will bless you

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don't forget to pray for national

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leaders whatever nation you're from I'm

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an American so I pray for America every

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day pray for its leaders they're great

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for the hospital staff as well all those

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are involved in the treatment but also

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pray for the leaders in Germany we're in

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baden-wuerttemberg here in Germany the

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state of baden-württemberg to pray for

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the whole nation and pray for the

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leaders both of the nations of Germany

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and about invertebrate also pray for and

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really maybe show your appreciation

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respect for those who are treating the

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patients at this time so this morning

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we're still getting ready for Easter

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Easter's is just a week away sunday this

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Sunday is Palm Sunday but we're going to

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do a devotional sir man on Christ our

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our sorrow bearer Christ is not only our

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sin bearer but Christ is also our sorrow

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bearer he's also the one who bears the

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burdens of our life I want to start in

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John chapter one and look at the the

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challenges that we are we see the gospel

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rings and the people's lives it's a

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crisis because the light shines and we

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must choose to believe or not to believe

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we should choose to believe but the

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presentation of the gospel always brings

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a crisis in John chapter one verse

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for we will look at this last week by

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the way

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but verses 4 & 5 says in him medicine

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Jesus was life and that life was the

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light of men the light shines in the

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darkness but the darkness has not

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understood it the word this translated

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understand means to ready to overthrow

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or to grasp are to two masters like the

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idea of mastering a topic but the world

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cannot master Jesus Christ him being the

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light of the world it's a divine light

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not one that we can reason with entirely

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something we must accept he is someone

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we must accept but he is the divine

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light of God read down in verse nine of

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the same chapter I says he is the true

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light that gives light to every man and

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that's what Christ does he and Moomins

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our hearts help us to see the truth of

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God in a way that would never have

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understood otherwise and we read also

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down in verse 14 it says that we have

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seen his glory the glory of Christ the

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glory of the one and only who came from

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the father full of grace and truth well

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Christ came to reveal the truth he came

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to die for our sins he came to save us

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from our sins he came to give us not

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just forgiveness but also a new life and

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in the new life he carries away our

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burdens who to talk to you about the

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burdens of your life and and how Christ

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carries these away now the most serious

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thing we have what keeps us from knowing

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God as our sin and Christ does take away

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our sin but we still have burdens in our

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life that we need Christ to carry as

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well and this is what he does whenever

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the gospel has preached crisis develops

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that we must choose whether to to

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believe to follow Christ or not in

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John's Gospel there are several

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different interesting statements about

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this in John 3:17 for example it says

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this for God did not send

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son into the world to condemn the world

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but to save the world through him so

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Christ did not come to condemn people

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later on there will be a judgment we

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must stand before him but he did not

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come to the world to condemn that is to

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pass judgment and say who's wrong who's

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who's right particularly took a dim us

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for our sins but in John chapter 9 it

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says this jesus said for judgment I have

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come into this world so that the blind

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will see and those who see will become

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blind that's John chapter 9 verse 39 and

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what he means is that anytime he is

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presented any he'd time he is presented

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in clarity and the Word of God is

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proclaimed the gospel is proclaimed it's

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a moment when we reveal who we are

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revealed what's really in our hearts and

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we can believe or not believe but at

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that moment we are bringing ourselves

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into judgment we are passing judgment on

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ourselves because we're revealing who we

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really are inside well some believe and

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some do not believe but after we trusted

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him we are to grow into faith and one of

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the areas of growth is letting him take

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away the burdens that we experience in

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life

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well our main text this morning is going

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to be in Isaiah chapter 53 and just look

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at a couple of verses verses 3 and 4 it

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says this this is a prophecy given

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hundreds of years before Jesus was born

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in Bethlehem and raised in Nazareth but

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it says this speaking about the Messiah

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says he was despised and rejected by men

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a man of sorrows and familiar with

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suffering like one from whom men hide

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their faces he was despised and we

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esteemed him not

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surely he took up our infirmities and

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carried our sorrows yet we considered

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him stricken by God smitten by him

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now that bursts for that says surely he

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took up our infirmities and carried our

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sorrows that refers to him taking a

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burden off of us now he did he died for

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our sin to take the guilt away from us

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but he also has come to take and bear

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our sorrows away let me ask you what

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type of sorrows do you have in your life

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my wife and I founded an anti-human

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trafficking ministry several years ago

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and many in our church volunteer in this

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ministry and and she works at at full

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time but anytime you're dealing with

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people that have been human trafficked

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into the sex trade

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you see they have certain wounds in

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their heart and their souls virtually

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all of them were abused and molested at

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a very young age virtually all of them

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carry this pain of betrayal and that

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disturbs their mind in so many ways and

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even after they get out of the

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enslavement they have been put into

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still there's the burden of the betrayal

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that they have well these are some of

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the burdens we have betrayals people we

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thought were our friends that rather

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than being friendly they have hurt us

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they have they have showed we cannot

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trust them and we carry these wounds

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deep within us we have this little

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saying we teach our children say in

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english-speaking nations that sticks and

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stones may break my bones but words will

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never hurt me

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the reality is that words often hurt us

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much more deeply than the six and stones

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that people may throw at us and we all

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experience this pain of life we all have

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sorrows and troubles so when it says

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surely he took up our infirmities and

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carried our sorrows it means that he

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takes those things off of us he carries

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them away and that we are free so this

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morning we're going to look at his own

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burdens the things that he he

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experienced how he endured betrayals I

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endured people who who hated him how he

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endeared people that he should have been

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able to

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depending upon but instead they betrayed

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him also or they did not stand up when

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they should have and now he went through

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all of these things even an apathetic

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public that did not seem to be very

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interested what was going on in him what

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this what this tells us though is that

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he can lift our burdens we do not need

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to go through all of life carrying these

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burdens first of all he want to look at

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the way the religious leaders hated

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Jesus now he experienced hatred they

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hated him because they were jealous of

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him when they brought him to Pilate the

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scripture says that Pilate knew that

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they were just envious of him now why

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did they hate him so there are many

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reasons but let me just mention for them

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first of all they hated him because he

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loved sinners Jesus reached out to

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people he said he came to seek and to

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save that which was lost but the

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religious leaders just sought to condemn

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them they did not love them but Jesus

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cared for them and his whole ministry

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was focused on seeking to bring them

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back to God well we see religious people

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all over the world that have troubled

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and understanding grace and and reaching

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out to people so they hated Jesus

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because of that they also hated Jesus

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because he healed on the Sabbath to them

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the Sabbath was a time that they wanted

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to enforce the the strict rules of the

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law not just the Old Testament but also

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the writings of the rabbis they wanted

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to they wanted to very forcefully and

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strictly say you can't do this you can't

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do that

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but Jesus healed on the Sabbath did the

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work of God to bring his people's lives

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on the Sabbath a third reason they hated

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him was because he redeemed sinners not

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only did he did he love them but they

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loved him in return

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they invited him to their homes all the

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time they invited him and they were glad

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he was there it was a remarkable thing

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to see how how free he was in

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association with people if you read the

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Gospels you never find a place for Jesus

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turned away an invitation to eat with

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someone and there's a picture of the

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warmth of his personality to sit down

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and talk with someone in fact the last

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word Jesus gives to the church is in

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Revelation the third chapter is this a

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letter to the church at Laodicea but he

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says this he says behold I stand at the

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door and knock if anyone would hear my

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voice and open the door I will come into

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him and sup with him and he with me

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simply means that he is going to have a

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close relationship and it's like we are

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sitting out the table and talking with

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him at the table is a place that we're

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going to be honest we're going to be

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more candid about our hurts and and our

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secrets and our pains and our hurts as

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well as our sins they are safe with

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Jesus and he is someone we can take all

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of these things to well another reason

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religious leaders hated him was because

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he only obeyed the Word of God

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the religious leaders had had other

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writings as well and they took the law

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of Moses or Old Testament especially the

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first several books of the law but then

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they wrote many many more books about

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how this was to be interpreted today we

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call this the Talmud and they had

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literally literally thousands and

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thousands of pages and the Talmud but

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Jesus dispensed with that it went right

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to the Bible and he simply obeyed the

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Bible and so these religious leaders

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hated him were jealous of him because of

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the the response that that he got from

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people and they wanted to get him out of

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the scene he seemed to steal the glory

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from them but actually he's the one to

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whom all glory belongs now we see in

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every church every Christian Fellowship

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we see people who love their positions

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more than they love people that need

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Jesus we see people that love the

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traditions more than they love the Word

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of God they want to stay within some

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little practice and they and they feel

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threatened buying simply going with the

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Bible's teach

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are reaching out to see people that are

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that are lost and bringing them to

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Christ ringing them to church churches

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ought to be places where people are

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welcome everyone is well it doesn't

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matter where you've come from what

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burdens you bring into the place this is

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a place of love and of grace we seek to

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do the will of God but we welcome people

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and that's why we should be in our

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hearts and our lives well Jesus knew

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what it was like to have enemies and

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friend if you have an enemy let me tell

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you have a friend in Jesus and whatever

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pain is being caused in your life

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because of this enemy Jesus understands

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and he can protect you you can also take

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that burden of your soul all for you

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now the second thing we see in the story

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of Jesus's life was the apathy of the

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crowds

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this is especially seen during the

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crucifixion you see the crowds did not

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care that he was being crucified just a

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few days before on Sunday this is Palm

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Sunday we celebrate the triumphal entry

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of Jesus into Jerusalem people lay down

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their cloaks and they and they took palm

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branches and they said blessed is he who

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comes in the name of the Lord before

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days later he was arrested and five days

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later he was crucified

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so this praise on that Palm Sunday some

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of it was sincere but much of it was

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simply empty meaningless it was about

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what they felt it was about maybe they

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hope that this this Messiah would help

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them and do something for them they were

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hopeful that their plans not God's plans

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but their plans would be fulfilled and

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that's the shallowness of praise if

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we're praising God to get something from

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him

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they were really not praising God

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praising ourselves because we think we

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know more than him if we want to praise

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God properly we praise Him simply

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because of who he is

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he is the creator of all he is the most

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wise the most beautiful being ever

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he created beauty and everything good

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that we can imagine lies in the heart of

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God even better than what we can imagine

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so we praise him because he is

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incredible he is he is beyond our

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imaginations and this is how praise

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should be not because of what we can get

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from him but because he is truly the

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most beautiful being ever job said this

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as he was dealing with his own struggles

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his own his own difficulties he said

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though God slay me yet I will hope in

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him well there is plenty of false praise

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and there has been plenty of people who

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look at the the cross and and go away

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apathetic uncaring and lamentations it

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describes the pain of Jerusalem as they

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experience the be rejection of God is

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because of their sin and the suffering

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and lamentations chapter 1 verse 12 it

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says this is it nothing to you all who

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passed by look around and see as my

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suffering is any suffering like my

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suffering well that is our word those

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are words we can also put in the mouth

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of Christ that while he was on the cross

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dying somber chanting crucify him but

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others who were just standing there

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unmoved apathetic uncaring and that's

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even a more difficult burden to bear but

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he was crucified Pilate had put above

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him Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews

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and he put in three different languages

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he put it in Hebrew that was the

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language of faith and he put it in Greek

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in Greek was the language of the arts

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and literature and of the sciences and

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then he put it in Latin and Latin was

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the language of government so no one

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could have an excuse for not knowing who

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he was but yet the world in its apathy

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just walked on by well this is a very

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painful thing to bear often we feel like

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we're nobody

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we're insignificant sometimes it's

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because of

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jexif sometimes is simply because we we

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feel that nobody cares and it's easy to

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feel cast aside by this world but Jesus

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understands that and he can carry that

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burden away and he knows who we are and

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every one of us you just like I am all

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of us are significant to him heard a

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story about a university class it was a

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smaller class and just a few students

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were there so the professor who happened

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to be a Christian I thought well let's

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start out getting to know one another so

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the first class he said I won't ever

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want to say something good about

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themselves something they like about

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themselves and there's something they

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don't like about themselves just as a

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way to for people to get to know one

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another well they went around the class

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and they came to one girl who had sat

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there with her head down and her hair

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covering her face I'm gonna came her

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turn she pulled away her hair from her

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face and she had a very very large

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birthmark across her face it was red in

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color and it showed a different type of

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look on her face and and she said well

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this test you what I don't like about

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myself and she was obviously it was

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something of a great pain to her

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emotional pain and the professor since

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the spirit but no I'm sorry to do this

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so he got up and sat down next to her

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and put his arm around her kissed her

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right on that birthmark and said God and

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I think you're beautiful

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in fact it broke her her composure she

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began to weep and cry I couldn't speak

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for several moments and then she said

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you know my own father would not even

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touch it and that describes that the

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sense of insignificance that some people

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go through in life as though I'm not I'm

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not accepted by this world but Christ

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understands this burden I know he

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doesn't remove it but he says to me

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you're important I made you and I care

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about you but also Christ experienced

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the rejection of those that should have

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been able to depend upon Judas betrayed

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him we're we're always curious about the

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motives of Jude

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because it's not clear doesn't say why

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he did it but he certainly did not have

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holding motives whatever reasons Judas

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had for betraying Christ he told them

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where to find Jesus when he was away

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from the crowd so they could take him

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and Judas was the one who after he

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betrayed Jesus he realized the wrong he

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had done he took his own life but he

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said he said I have sinned for I have

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betrayed innocent blood and they

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received Pilate Pilate should have been

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protective of Jesus he knew he was

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innocent he knew they had nothing on him

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and he tried to find how why am I going

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to execute this man there's no law that

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seems to be seems to be right to execute

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him so why am I doing this

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well the Jewish leaders threatened

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Pilate and they said if you do not

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execute him you are no friend of Caesar

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now that was a those are very sharp

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words and it really made beginning and

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he became protective of his own career

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see of all the places that Rome governed

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there were two types of provinces they

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were under Rome's authority there were

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some provinces that were peaceful and

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they were governed by the Senate but

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other provinces that were there were

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that had a lot of conflict and had a lot

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of warfare going on such as Judea and

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those were governed directly by Caesar

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because Caesar controlled the army so

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the province of Judea he was the

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procurator there Pilate was the

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procurator there and he owed his entire

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career to an appointment by Caesar so

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when they said you're no friend of

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Caesar he felt the professional and

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career-oriented threat that was in those

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words and he decided to do what was

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expedient to his career rather than what

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was right and just and he washed his

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hands literally brought that someone

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brings out something for him and washed

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his hands puppet Lea and said his blood

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is on you I am innocent but a quarter

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to tradition Biden spent the rest of his

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life trying to wash the blood of Jesus

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office ends were those were people that

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should have protected him and Jesus knew

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who must like to be let down by those

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that should not have done so he knew

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what it was like to be betrayed and even

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denied of course Peter denied Christ but

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it's interesting we see other people

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there that did put their faith and trust

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in him we see the thief on the cross

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next to him turned him in faith and he

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said remember me when you come into your

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kingdom and there was a man being

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crucified but nevertheless the light we

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spoke that God speaks about and John

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chapter 1 the light that lights every

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man had had showed us up in his heart

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God by a spirit had shone in his heart

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the light that Christ brought and he

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turned in faith this was an intuitive

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knowledge moment that this thief on the

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cross understood this Jesus of Nazareth

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was someone who had a kingdom he would

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enter into and death and he said

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remember me

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and Jesus said to him today you'll be

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with me in paradise

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we also see a statement by the Roman

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centurion who who we would assume would

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be the one in charge of the the

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crucifixion of Jesus it the story tells

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us how the soldiers in the street of

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Jesus but we assumed that the Centurion

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would have given that duty to his

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soldiers but at the end of it the

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cincher and himself speaks up

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that's the Centurions were charge of of

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roughly a hundred men that's why they

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had the name Centurion and without any

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exception all of them in Scripture are

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described as men of character it was the

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genius of the Roman army that the

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Centurions must lead from the front they

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had to put their life at risk so the two

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Centurions were men who were excellent

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warriors but also men of lead

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but men of character and when the

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Centurion there at the crucifixion saw

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how Jesus died and saw the miracles that

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happened as well

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associated with his death he said surely

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this is the Son of God and it was a

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statement of faith well Jesus brought

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about that that that faith in some and

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the rejection and others so I'm going to

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ask you two questions first of all have

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you put your faith and your trust in

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Christ are you simply following him as

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someone who is interested but not really

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committed what we must do is believe

542
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sincerity believe it's that step of

543
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faith to say Lord I take you as my

544
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Saviour it's nothing to pray to him and

545
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say Lord I know that I'm a sinner and I

546
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need your forgiveness I believe in you

547
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it's a matter of our faith we must say

548
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to him personally I believe in you and

549
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then we were also a call to follow him

550
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and obey Him and to speak for him we

551
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must say I am on Jesus side we must make

552
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a public profession of my faith so at

553
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least someone else and say I am now a

554
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follower of Jesus Christ but then also

555
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we need to let him do what he does in

556
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hearts we need to let him not only be

557
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our send bearer but also our burden

558
00:25:02,460 --> 00:25:07,380
bearer let me come back and talk to you

559
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about the burdens in your heart the

560
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burdens of betrayals and burdens of

561
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accusations that would fall sometimes

562
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maybe they were true but they were set

563
00:25:13,769 --> 00:25:21,569
in the wrong way burdens of rejection

564
00:25:17,450 --> 00:25:24,569
burdens of apathy where you feel

565
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insignificant all those things Christ

566
00:25:24,569 --> 00:25:31,529
came to carry away as well what we need

567
00:25:29,430 --> 00:25:33,660
to do is simply give it to Christ to

568
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pray through it and say Lord I want to

569
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give this burden to you if you have been

570
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hurt maybe by your your loved one don't

571
00:25:40,349 --> 00:25:43,949
carry that burden with you don't think

572
00:25:42,299 --> 00:25:46,409
you have to carry that burden

573
00:25:43,950 --> 00:25:48,750
with you you can give it to Jesus just

574
00:25:46,410 --> 00:25:51,750
as you give to Jesus all your sins so

575
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you can give him all your burdens and he

576
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can take away that pain and that shame

577
00:25:54,509 --> 00:26:00,329
and give you joy in his place I pray

578
00:25:58,769 --> 00:26:02,730
that God would bless you and I pray that

579
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you'll keep you safe I pray that it that

580
00:26:02,730 --> 00:26:09,210
during this time of being away from

581
00:26:06,839 --> 00:26:11,069
meeting that God but also ministered to

582
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your heart and a new in a fresh way

583
00:26:11,069 --> 00:26:15,269
we're not sure how long this is going to

584
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go on but you know that God is still

585
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with us and this is a time and we can

586
00:26:18,180 --> 00:26:23,759
take our faith very seriously and I pray

587
00:26:21,690 --> 00:26:25,710
that you would do that if you would like

588
00:26:23,759 --> 00:26:27,690
to share and thump anything with me

589
00:26:25,710 --> 00:26:32,430
whatsoever you can write to me and

590
00:26:27,690 --> 00:26:35,130
pastor at IBC Stuttgart D and I'll be

591
00:26:32,430 --> 00:26:37,860
glad to to contact you to pray with you

592
00:26:35,130 --> 00:26:39,660
or call you whatever we need to do to

593
00:26:37,859 --> 00:26:41,849
connect with one another let's pray

594
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father God we thank you for your grace

595
00:26:41,849 --> 00:26:44,730
in your love

596
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we thank you Lord that Jesus came not

597
00:26:44,730 --> 00:26:50,099
only to bear our sins but also to bear

598
00:26:47,549 --> 00:26:52,259
our burdens we pray that you would give

599
00:26:50,099 --> 00:26:54,719
us the freedom that you want to stand in

600
00:26:52,259 --> 00:26:57,869
Christ just as he knew what it was like

601
00:26:54,720 --> 00:27:00,630
to be hated to be rejected to be uncared

602
00:26:57,869 --> 00:27:05,579
about for the world to say you're

603
00:27:00,630 --> 00:27:07,980
nothing so Lord we experiment our hearts

604
00:27:05,579 --> 00:27:11,609
and our lives and give us the peace and

605
00:27:07,980 --> 00:27:14,039
the sense of your love that we need

606
00:27:11,609 --> 00:27:16,859
I pray draw that you to move our burdens

607
00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:21,980
in Christ if we pray this in Jesus name

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Amen thank you my god bless you