239: Sam Mansfield – Exhortation: The Widows & Women Who Gave ALL

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Welcome to the good
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This is brother Brian.
This speaks talk is an

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excitation by Brother Sam.
Mansfield.

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That was Given back in 2020 at
the Hyde Park.

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Ecclesia, this was sent in by
recommendation a couple years

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ago, and expert is called the
widows and women who gave all

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it’s a great little snapshot
into the more prominent stories

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of sacrifice and salvation that
Elijah Elijah and Jesus

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encounter with these widows who
display Faith while in Dire

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Straits, The main takeaway is
that we are these women. we are

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disadvantaged by the
circumstances that we find

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ourselves in in our natural
life, we are facing a debt that

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cannot be paid and in need of
not just a little help but total

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support And in order to receive
that Absolution, we need to be

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willing to give up, even what
little we might have left, so to

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speak.
In order to be truly, set free

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from the burden of vanity,
possessions of entitlement.

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Brother Sam makes a great point
of highlighting, how little of

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each of these women had left to
give.

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Whether it’s their last two
mites ingredients for a last

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meal.
Having to face selling their

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sons into slavery.
In order to meet a debt And yet

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they’re still asked to give even
what little they can still

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control.
That is us.

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Ideally, we would like to be
able to give to God out of our

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abundance but it may be hardest
to sacrifice when we feel like

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we are at our most vulnerable.
I have so little to give But it

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is God who desires to give to us
out of his abundance and to fill

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our vessels completely, if we
are willing to give even what

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little we have to our Lord and
that’s our hearts.

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So as Paul rightly summarized,
from Philippians 3, he said I

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gave up all things.
All things that I might gain

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Christ because of the surpassing
worth of the knowledge of

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Christ.
Everything else feels like

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rubbish or trash, to me that I’m
willing to part with and wish

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that I never had it back.
That’s what knowing Christ was

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worth.
Everything else might as well be

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like loss.
So as always, we hope this

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strengthens your faith and
brightens your day.

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Brother, Sam Mansfield, the
widows and women, who gave all

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we want to look at for women
this morning.

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Starting with this certain poor
Widow that Jesus describes for

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us in Mark, chapter 12 and I was
going to call this the full

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widows exhort, but technically,
one of the women that we’re

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going to look at may not have
been a widow, so we’ll call it

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the lessons of life from the for
women.

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And I just want to highlight
some key terms that we saw there

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in Mark chapter 12.
In Jesus description of this

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particular we do and what she
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Have a look at verse 44 in his
description.

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And he says, they’re for all
they did cast in of their

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abundance, but she of her want
did cast in all that, she had

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even all her living.
So we’ve got abundance, we’ve

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got want, we’ve got all
mentioned there twice and we’ve

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got living Now, the word for
want in verse 44, there is the

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Greek word, who asterius and it
means a falling short to be

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deficient, and it’s really
contrast to their obviously,

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with the abundance of the rich
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They’ve got abundance and the
Widow has want and the idea of

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the word want is not so much
poverty but debt.

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It’s not that she doesn’t have
much but she has a negative

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amount.
She is in debt.

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Not a small net worth but a
negative net worth, she’s giving

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money when she owed money.
Now, as this sort of Jesus

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giving us a sort of invitation
to financial recklessness, is

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that what it’s about giving
money to others when you’re in

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debt yourself?
Well the root word of that word

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that word want is used in Romans
chapter 3 and verse 23 and

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words, you will know pretty
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I think for all have sinned and
come short of the glory of God.

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So come short in Romans 3 verse
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That’s the same word as our want
here in March.

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Mark chapter 12.
So Paul and Rome is this telling

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us when it comes to God’s glory,
we’re all in deficit.

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We’re all in want, says, Paul in
Romans because of sin, like the

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Widow, we’re all in debt to God.
And it’s here that we can begin

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to see the what Jesus is really
driving at here with the Widow

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and her two mites Jesus isn’t
sort of, Doling out Financial

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advice here to his disciples is
giving spiritual advice on this

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occasion.
Now, that last word in verse 44

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of Mark, chapter 12 is the word
living and we sort of use that

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word to talk about money as in
he or she makes a decent living,

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but the Greek word is just the
word.

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Add bios from which we get
obviously, biology, the study of

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living things that simply means
life.

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When Jesus is saying that this
woman cast in all that she had a

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means, literally that she had
less than nothing in terms of

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possessions.
She was in debt or what did she

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have?
What did she cast in all of?

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She gave all her life.
She had nothing else to give and

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life really is the key here.
The rich men cast in abundance

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of their possessions but she
cast in all her life because she

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had nothing else to give And
sometimes we think the lesson

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from this description by Jesus
is one of proportion over

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volume.
The rich man gave as a

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proportion of their wealth or
less than the poor Widow and

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that’s not wrong.
But What proportion did the

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Widow give A tithe of 10%, which
give 20% does?

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It does God want half?
The proportion the Widow gave

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was 100%.
She gave all her life.

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Now, when we talk about widows
your hopefully reminded of Two

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Old Testament, widows one was
visited by Elijah and the other

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one by Elijah.
And the fact that Jesus was

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talking about a widow, and these
two women in a larger, and

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washes time will also happen to
be widows, is only for the first

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of many parallels that I hope
will see have a look at first of

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Kings chapter 17. 1st Kings 17.
So here we’ve got Elijah and

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Elijah, and the whole nation of
Israel is suffering through this

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intense, drought as we probably
know, and God is going to

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sustain him through this
drought.

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So first is sent to the brook.
Cherith and is fed by the

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Ravens.
But in verse 7 of first of Kings

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17, the Brooke has dried up.
So where does God send him next?

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You might think that God might
send him to perhaps a wealthy

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landowner who had plenty of
storehouses of grain set.

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Odd for a period of drought that
would be the logical in human

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terms.
Thing to do wouldn’t know.

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But instead God in verse 9 sends
him to a woman in Zarephath, a

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gentile town.
And what does she have?

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Does she have store Houses full
of grain know we read what she

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has in verse 12 and she said as
Yahweh thy God liveth I have not

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a cake but I haven’t handful of
meal in a barrel and a little

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oil in a cruise and behold I’m
gathering two sticks which is a

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curiously specific number of
sixes and it to be gathering a

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bit like two mites in Mark 12.
I’m gathering to sticks that I

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might go in and dress it for me
and my son that we may eat it

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and die.
So what has she got?

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She’s got a handful of meal of
flour and a little oil, nothing

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else.
She’s got so little that she’s

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about to use what she has to
make one final meal for herself

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and her son which isn’t going to
be a huge feast because it’s

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she’s only got a handful of meal
to use and a little bit of oil.

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She going to make one final meal
and then die.

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The oil on the mule represent
her entire life because they’re

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the only thing separating her
and her son from death.

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The cake that a larger request
is probably just a simple flat

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bread made from from meal and
oil and bread of course today is

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still called the staff of life
and Moses pointed out that we

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don’t live by bread alone.
We don’t live by bread alone.

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So the flower and the oil
together making bread represents

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life for this woman and her son
and she didn’t have much of

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either.
There’s another important symbol

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in this story.
Note, the repetition of the

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different types of vessels in
this story.

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So in verse 10, we’re not going
to sort of go through the story

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in detail.
Hopefully, we know most of these

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stories of Elijah and Elisha
from Bible class, perhaps or

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Sunday school lesson.
So verse 10.

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Fetch me a water in a vessel
says a larger in verse 12.

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The woman had a handful of meal
in a barrel and a little oil in

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a cruise so vessel is of it’s
just a container Barrel is a

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type of vessel cruises.
Another type of vessel just a

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flash of vessel, the woman has
vessels but they’re almost

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empty, aren’t they?
So, what the vessels represent?

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All vessels represent bodies.
They represent people vessels

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represent us.
Second Corinthians chapter 4 and

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verse 6.
And 7, Paul says, for God who

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commanded the light to shine out
of Darkness, has shined in our

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hearts to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in

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the face of Jesus Christ.
But we have this treasure in

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Earthen vessels.
That the Excellency of the power

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may be of God and not of us.
Marson-knight, how pull in that

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verse parallels, the ideas, you
have a lot of God’s glory.

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God’s character has shined in
our hearts, but we have this

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knowledge.
There’s light in Earthen

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vessels.
We are those Earthen vessels

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that contain this knowledge of
God.

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So vessels represent people.
And this miracle is going to

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take place in the woman’s
vessels.

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So, note carefully, what Elijah
says?

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In verse 14, the barrel is not
going to waste and, again, in

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verse 14, the cruise shall not
fail.

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So a larger doesn’t say that the
meal will not go to waste, and

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the oil won’t fail.
It’s the crews and the barrel,

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the don’t fail as the vessels.
The don’t fail, not their

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contents, but the vessels
themselves in verse 16, the

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barrel wasted.
The crews didn’t fail.

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So the miracle takes place in
the vessels the Widow already

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has.
God isn’t going to replace the

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vessels with new ones, but he is
going to replace the contents.

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The miracle that God works takes
place inside the people that he

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is working with the vessels, go
from being, almost empty to

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becoming sources of oil and
flour.

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And what do the vessels contain
in our analogy?

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What two bodies contain, or they
contain life?

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Don’t they?
The vessels contain flour and

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oil and flour and oil represent
life and water represents life

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to as we’ll see a little bit
later, all these things,

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represent the life that they
sustained.

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So what does all larger task of
this Widow?

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Well it first in verse 10 he
just asked for some water and

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she responds, you know,
positively to that she goes to

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get him some water.
He begins by asking her for part

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of her life, just the water.
But then in verse 11, he asked

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for more, doesn’t he ask for
bread?

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What’s he asking for here?
Well, he’s asking for all that

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she has is literally asking her
for her whole life.

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If the handful of meal and the
little oil in the barrel is all

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that stands between her and
death.

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Then a larger is literally
asking for her whole life here.

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They’re not just her life but
that of her son too.

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In the terms of Mark, chapter 12
Elijah is asking this Widow for

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all of her living.
How does a larger drive this

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point home to this Widow.
How does he show her that God

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wants all of her life?
Not just part of it.

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We, you’ll notice a pattern in
Elijah’s instructions to this

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woman in first, two kings. 17
verse 10, he tells her fetch me

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a little water in First Kings.
17 verse 11, he tells her bring

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me a morsel.
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says bring it to me and in verse
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Elijah instructs.
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Give me bye son.
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as much as God had asked, she
thought she’d given everything

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to God water, flour oil, but God
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life.
And her life is bound up in her

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son’s life.
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And finally, God through Elijah
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son.
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our life?
Now, for most of us and natural

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life that God asks for us to
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My tiny amount of flour, a few
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want it all.
Love the Widow’s to meit’s a

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couple of pennies.
The Widow wasn’t under any

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delusions.
That are two pennies might have

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been worth anything like what
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the temple collection bags,
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scheme of things.
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wants us to give it all to him.
And a larger effectively makes

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this Widow confess that the
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She now has a little oil and a
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It’s only going to Stave off
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another couple of days.
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going to eat of it and then die.
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She has God wants all of our
life to all the meighan natural

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life that we have.
The life that we might have that

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might hold death off or what a
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Perhaps God wants it all and we
know that we will receive

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abundance in return and that’s
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But he still wants us to take
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giving him a natural life,
trusting in Him that he will

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respond and give us life.
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upon Him.
And Jesus says in Luke chapter

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14.
So likewise he be of you, the

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forsaketh, not all that.
He hath, he cannot be my

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disciple, forsake all that.
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In Luke 14 only once we have
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Only once we have given him all
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Can he feel our vessels our
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And in reality, of course, our
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especially now, with lockdowns
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It’s a good time.
Perhaps, to review our natural

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lives and see them for how Mega
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especially socially, I guess not
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financially perhaps as well.
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though, but sometimes we don’t
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Do we sometimes think about
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thing.
We might find satisfaction in

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this life where you might be in
money or possessions, but I

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might be in artistic creation
and might be in in family or

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social relationships.
We might be finding satisfaction

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in all those sort of areas.
And that might make our Natural

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Life, seem that it’s worth more
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Remember the excuses that were
made not to come to the wedding

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of the Feast of the wedding,
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In Luke chapter, 14 again, I’ve
brought some oxen, I’ve married

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a wife, I’ve bought a piece of
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All these excuses, the people
who value their natural lives,

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more than their relationship
with God, and what they could

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achieve in those natural lives.
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of course, realize that their
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worthless one meal away from
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And we need to come to that
realization to from a spiritual

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perspective, our natural life is
not valuable.

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It’s a life of debt.
We’re two mites at most and we

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need to recognize that.
What’s the result of this Widow

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giving her whole life?
All that she has?

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Well, a larger promises, her
life and return, doesn’t he?

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But it’s not just the temporary
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life eternal have a look at
verse 14, the oil and the flower

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would last until God sends rain
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A bit of a vision of the
Kingdom, perhaps verse 15.

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She ate of this many days, verse
16, the barrel wasted, not the

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crews didn’t fail.
It sounds almost as if they were

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endless like eternal life,
doesn’t it?

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Interestingly, that would fail
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lack or a want.
It means a debt and never fell

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into debt.
Just like the Widow and Mark,

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that same word penury or want
the oil would not fall into

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deficit, it would cover her
debt, it would cover her need so

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we give all our Natural Life to
God and we give it first to God.

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In verse 13.
Elijah says, make me their of a

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little cake first and bring it
unto me.

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Give it all to God.
Give it first to God.

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Many years later, Jesus, says,
seek ye first, the kingdom of

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God and his righteousness and
all these things shall be added

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unto you.
Luke 6:38 is says, give and it

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shall be given unto you good
measure pressed down and shaken

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together and running over.
Shall men give into your bosom

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give first two God says Jesus,
give it all to God and he will

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give abundance in return.
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And next, we do meets Elijah,
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chapter 4.
So turn over a few pages to

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Second and Kings for And this
woman strangely is not actually

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called a widow.
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she tells us in second Kings,
chapter 4, and verse one, that

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her husband is dead.
They cried a certain woman of

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the wires of the sons of the
Prophet unto.

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Elijah saying, thy servant my
husband is dead and now knowest

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that thy servant did fear the
lord and the Creditor has come

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to take unto him, my two sons to
be bomb.

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And so this woman like the woman
in in Mark 12 is a widow and

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she’s got creditors, the
creditors have come to take my

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two sons.
She says, so she is in deficit,

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she’s in wants, she’s in debt
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As verse 2 says, she has nothing
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a vessel with some oil in it,
but obviously not enough oil to

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pay her debt Now this woman has
two sons so there’s that.

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Number two again, two mites, two
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And the debt is large enough.
That both of them are going to

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be become slaves to pay it off.
Just one son would be

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insufficient.
Both sons have to be sold And

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the sons as who sees as her
Descendants, the literal

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extensions of her life, they
represent life to this woman,

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don’t they?
And this woman is surrounded by

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a loss of life, isn’t she?
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His sons are about to become
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She’s about to be reduced to
just one and natural life has

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become tiny.
So in verse 3, Elijah Elijah

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tells her to borrow empty
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fill them from her vessel.
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chapter 4, we’ve got this
treasure in Earthen vessels,

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vessels represent, bodies.
They represent people and this

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Widow and almost empty vessel
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Become surrounded by empty
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her neighbors, and her aim is to
fill these vessels with oil from

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her own vessel.
Empty lifeless, bodies become

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filled with life and they’re
filled with life from a vessel

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that was almost empty itself.
So again this miracle takes

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place in the Widow’s vessel, we
do that was bereft of life

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becomes a source of life.
And a couple of other things

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about this miracle first, the
Widow doesn’t actually know that

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she’s going to sell the oil
until verse 7 is not until she’s

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filled the vessels that Allah
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She has taught him.
All the vessels are full A-line

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shape, then tells her to sell
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Her neighbors vessels.
She’s not aware that she’s going

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to be able to convert all this
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She might well, have assumed
that she was filling up her

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neighbors vessels, just to give
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She may well have assumed that
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the beneficiaries of this
miracle not herself.

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In her mind, she become the
recipient oil of oil of life

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that she was giving to her
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And secondly notice what runs
out first in verse 6 of second

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Kings chapter four, the woman
says, bring me yet a vessel and

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he that’s her son says unto her.
There is not a vessel more and

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the oil stayed So what ran out
first was that the oil or the

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vessels, it was clearly the
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The oil didn’t stop flowing
until there were no more vessels

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to feel in symbol, the life
didn’t stop flowing.

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Until there were no more people
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Life from God is not limited by
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It’s only limited by demand.
There’s no shortage of spirit

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life God can give life to as
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Our as in Humanities desire, is
the only limiting factor to

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God’s gift.
The people that want life are

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going to run our world war for
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So instead of a debt instead of
a deficit of life, this Widow

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has become a source of life in
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Elijah says, sell the oil, pay
the debt and live, thou, and thy

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Children of the rest lives as
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Yes.
Elisha in this case, life, that

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is the point of this miracle,
isn’t it?

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The woman now has abundance of
life and her son’s live as well

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because of this miracle.
Cool.

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So, think about this in relation
to the new life that is within

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us now.
We don’t create that you life in

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us.
Do we screw it?

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Life is not ours.
We haven’t provided it.

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We haven’t labored for it.
It doesn’t come out of our store

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house that we have at all, is a
miracle.

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It’s Supernatural beyond our
doing Now launch is Widow would

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never have claimed that.
The the crew is produced in the

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oil or the or the barrel
produced in the flowers ever of

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her doing.
It was clearly a miracle.

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Elijah’s Widow would have
laughed at you if you’d

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suggested that supply of oil
from her Barrel was a product of

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her own powers and her own work.
It was clearly a miracle.

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And yet, sometimes we might be a
little bit tempted to think that

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some of the goodness that’s
within us comes out of us and

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it’s from our own creation, our
own effort our own works.

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It’s clearly not any
righteousness that we possess is

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as miraculous as the flower that
wasted not and the oil that

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didn’t fail.
So can we see the pattern?

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Here we are.
The Widow’s because of sin.

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We’re born into a debt that we
can never repay we live a poor

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meager vain Natural Life.
Only one man can save us and God

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says acknowledge your debt.
Acknowledge the poverty of your

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natural life.
Give it all to me to the point

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where there is nothing left for
you.

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And we give it to God, we empty
our own vessels of the tiny life

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that we once had and
immediately.

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God fills us up again.
Not with natural life now

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though, but with spiritual life
with life eternal, and not just

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us because that Spirit life,
pours, out of us into our

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families vessels into our
neighbors vessels, we become a

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source of life for other people
as well.

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Now there’s another woman who
was asked to give life.

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I need to receive it back in.
Abundance, come with me to John

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chapter 4.
And here’s the woman who’s

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perhaps, technically not a
widow.

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We don’t really know what
happened to the many husband.

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She had. and this time in John
chapter 4 life is not

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represented by a flower will buy
oil, but by water John chapter 4

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and verse 7.
Then cometh a woman of Samaria

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draw water.
And Jesus said to her, give me

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to drink.
So another woman not necessarily

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we do this time but but not
married either.

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As we, as we find out later
another woman with an empty

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vessel, she’s come to the well
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And in, we see in verse 28, that
she’s brought her own empty

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vessel to draw water with And
what does Jesus say to here in

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verse 7?
Give me to drink.

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Remember remember Elijah’s
words.

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Fetch me a little water.
Bring me a morsel of bread.

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Make me a little cake.
Give me thy son.

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Jesus, likewise says, here, give
me to drink to this woman before

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you draw water for yourself.
Give to me first.

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Is God’s request.
The symbology from Elijah and

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Elisha has widows flow through
to this one.

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We’re not left in any doubt, the
water represents life in this

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chapter, just as oil and flour
did in the Old Testament verse

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10.
Jesus talks about living water,

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in verse 14, a well of water
springing up into everlasting

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life, The woman herself is
represented by the empty vessel

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that she brought with her empty
of water needing to be filled.

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00:29:48,200 –> 00:29:51,700
Just as the empty vessels of the
prophets, widows neighbors

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represented, the neighbors
themselves.

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She was in want, she needed
water.

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She needed life, she needed
Spirit life.

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And that’s what Jesus promises.
Her verse 10.

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Give me to drink, says Jesus.
And I will give you living

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water.
Jesus Promised said more than

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just a drink of Living Water,
doesn’t he promises that sheep?

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He can become a source of water
herself just as he was Give me

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water and you’ll become not just
a vessel containing water, but

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you’ll become a water source.
Is Jesus verse 14, but

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whosoever, drinketh of the water
that I shall give him or her

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shall never thirst.
But the water that I shall give

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him shall be and note these
words especially in him a well

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of water springing up into
everlasting life.

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Just like Elijah’s would I give
me oil out of your Crews and the

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crews will become a source of
oil or Elijah’s Widow whose

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empty vessel became a source of
oil to feel all her neighbors

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vessels.
This woman of Samaria, with her

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empty vessel will become a, well
of water.

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Know what Jesus says in him
shall be a well of water.

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Again, the miracle is performed
in the vessel in US. an empty

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vessel with a lack of life,
becomes a source of life, this

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woman is no longer the sort of
the bucket that you lower into

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the well she is the well, And
you can see this in action in

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the woman of Samaria on what
sure that Jesus ever, sort of

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gets his little drink of water,
but in verse 28, the woman left,

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her water pot, so there’s a
water pot, she’s left it there,

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empty.
And again the vessel represents

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the person doesn’t if she leaves
her old empty life behind, she

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gives her entire Natural Life To
God In type, and then what

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00:31:50,900 –> 00:31:52,700
happened?
She went in her, she went her

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way into the City and
immediately starts preaching the

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gospel.
Well, verse 29 come.

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See a man is not this the
Christ.

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And verse 30, they went out of
the city and came unto him.

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So this woman and empty vessel
living a life of sin lacking and

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00:32:09,800 –> 00:32:14,200
water in life has become a
Fountain of Living Waters to

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her.
Entire City, verse 39, and many

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of the Samaritans of that City
believed on for the saying of

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the woman.
So she runs off and collects.

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All her neighbors.
Empty vessels.

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Just like Elijah’s Widow.
She doesn’t need her empty

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00:32:32,500 –> 00:32:36,800
vessel anymore because she is
now a well, she has become the

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00:32:36,800 –> 00:32:39,700
source of water.
She’s busy filling up, her

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neighbors, water pots with
Spirit life.

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00:32:45,700 –> 00:32:49,000
So, what do we learn from these
four women in summary?

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Come back to Mark, chapter 12,
where we started from?

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Mark chapter 12 and notice how
Jesus really just sums up these

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all these lessons that we’ve
seen in the other three separate

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women in this one, destitute
Widow verse 44 again she of her

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00:33:10,900 –> 00:33:13,300
want.
So from there we learned that we

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come to God with a deficit, a
debt, a spiritual deficit

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because of our sins and he wants
us to acknowledge that debt to

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admit that we have really
nothing.

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She of her want did cast in so,
despite her want her priority is

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00:33:31,200 –> 00:33:33,700
to give to God.
She’s clearly in need.

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00:33:34,200 –> 00:33:37,800
But she’s giving to God, before
she meets her own needs.

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00:33:38,500 –> 00:33:42,100
Despite the fact that we really
have nothing, God wants what we

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have.
He wants us to give him our

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00:33:45,400 –> 00:33:50,100
Natural Life first, not physical
possessions, but out alive the

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00:33:50,100 –> 00:33:54,000
desires of our life.
What else is this?

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00:33:54,000 –> 00:33:59,200
44 says she cast in all that she
had even with our deficit of

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00:33:59,200 –> 00:34:03,200
life, God wants all of our
natural life, all of it the

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00:34:03,200 –> 00:34:06,900
flower for oil, the water, the
two minds.

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00:34:06,900 –> 00:34:10,800
What we have?
We give it all to him first but

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we know of course that we’re
going to receive back life in

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abundance.
The natural life that we give to

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00:34:17,699 –> 00:34:22,199
God will become in us a source
of spirit life.

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00:34:22,800 –> 00:34:26,199
And that Spirit life will not
only make us live to God.

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Our neighbors will benefit as
well.

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00:34:29,100 –> 00:34:34,100
So abundant will, that life be
for not only our vessels, not

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00:34:34,100 –> 00:34:37,400
only ourselves but all of our
neighbors will be filled from

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00:34:37,400 –> 00:34:40,900
it.
Now this lesson about giving

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natural life to God to receive
abundance Spirit life in return

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00:34:45,400 –> 00:34:49,699
is all over the Bible but I just
want to look at one final

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example from Paul in
Philippians, have a look at

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Philippians chapter 3.
We’ll see that all brings up

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exactly the same principles
here.

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Philippians chapter 3 and verse
4.

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Here Paul lists out all the
things of his natural life and

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00:35:11,100 –> 00:35:13,400
wealth away.
Our is his no Widow with two

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00:35:13,400 –> 00:35:16,000
mites, he has an amazing Natural
Life.

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00:35:19,500 –> 00:35:22,100
Philippians chapter 3 and verse
4.

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And Paul says here though, I
might also have confidence in

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the flesh in my natural life.
If any other man thinketh that

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00:35:30,800 –> 00:35:33,600
he hath whereof, he might Trust
In the Flesh.

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00:35:34,100 –> 00:35:38,600
I’m or how.
So, poor verse 5 circumcised,

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The Eighth Day of the stock of
Israel of The Tribe of Benjamin,

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00:35:41,400 –> 00:35:43,200
a Hebrew of the Hebrews as
touching.

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00:35:43,200 –> 00:35:47,600
The law, a Pharisee concerning
Zeal, persecuting the Ecclesia

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00:35:47,800 –> 00:35:49,700
touching the right,
Righteousness, which is by the

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00:35:49,700 –> 00:35:54,700
law blameless with it.
What a rich Natural Life Paul

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00:35:54,700 –> 00:35:57,800
had before he came to the truth.
That’s an impressive lift list

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00:35:57,800 –> 00:36:01,400
of achievements, isn’t it way
more than a poor Widow with two

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00:36:01,400 –> 00:36:04,700
mites or what we might have
achieved in our natural lives?

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00:36:05,300 –> 00:36:10,000
He had a rich natural life
before the truth But how does

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00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:16,000
pause sunrise at all verse 7?
Or what things were gain to me

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00:36:16,600 –> 00:36:21,000
those, I counted loss for
Christ, he adds it all up all

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00:36:21,000 –> 00:36:24,800
that natural life that you had
before Christ and it amounts to

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00:36:25,000 –> 00:36:30,600
a loss.
A debt Besides guy doubtless and

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00:36:30,600 –> 00:36:35,500
I count all things but loss for
the Excellency of the knowledge

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00:36:35,500 –> 00:36:39,500
of Christ, Jesus, my Lord, for
whom I have suffered the loss of

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00:36:39,500 –> 00:36:43,800
all things and do count them.
But dung that I may win Christ.

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00:36:44,300 –> 00:36:46,900
But what’s the result of that?
What’s the result of giving all

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00:36:46,900 –> 00:36:52,400
of his Natural Life to God verse
9 and be found in him?

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00:36:52,900 –> 00:36:54,800
Not having mine.
Own righteousness, is not.

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00:36:54,800 –> 00:36:57,200
Mine says, Paul.
It’s a miracle that I have this.

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00:36:57,300 –> 00:36:59,700
Righteousness.
It’s not mine own righteousness,

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00:36:59,700 –> 00:37:01,600
which I thought, I might get by
the law.

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But that, which is through the
Faith of Christ, the

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00:37:05,700 –> 00:37:10,300
righteousness, which is of
myself, of course, not the

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00:37:10,300 –> 00:37:14,000
righteousness, which is of god
by faith.

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00:37:14,800 –> 00:37:18,000
It’s a miracle in Paul, it’s a
miracle in our sweet.

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00:37:18,000 –> 00:37:22,400
Give our life that we might
receive life, the life that we

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00:37:22,400 –> 00:37:26,400
receive is so much greater than
the life that we give the life

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00:37:26,400 –> 00:37:27,500
with that.
We give is me go.

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It’s a life of debt, it’s a life
of sin, we give that up.

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We give it all up.
And what life do we receive in

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00:37:33,900 –> 00:37:37,300
return?
We receive a far greater life in

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return, Spirit life, a life
imitating, the Son of God.

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A life that leads to Immortal
Life.

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00:37:45,200 –> 00:37:49,500
We receive the righteousness,
which is of god by faith.

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