309: Jim Sullivan - Exhortation: Revel in the Goodness of God

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   Welcome to the good Chris Adelphian Talks podcast. This is brother Brian. This week’s talk is an exhort that was sent in by recommendation, and it was given by a brother who’s been on our prayer list for a recent health issue. So Brother Jim Sullivan of the Boston or Stoughton Ecclesia gave this exhort in April, just before a number of surgeries have caused him to lose his voice due to tongue cancer. This was a bit of a gut punch because Brother Jim is someone that I grew up hearing countless times and someone I would think of as being one of the voices of that particular lampstand. I’m hearing that he is doing better now, but I would ask that if you’re hearing this episode, please say a prayer for him. Brother Jim draws an interesting comparison between the Jewish practice of keeping the Passover and being enslaved to the traditions versus the ability to be set free by an appreciation of God’s grace when he instituted the sacrifice of the Passover himself which pointed forward to Christ. He then marries this idea to the mindset of the sending out of the 70 in Luke 10 and their perspective upon return as compared to the experience and perspective of the 12 disciples who were sent out just prior.

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   Essentially, his point is we need to not get caught up in the details of the how and why, but to instead daily revel in the goodness of God. So as always, we hope that this strengthens your faith and brightens your day. Brother Jim Sullivan, revel in the goodness of God. There are several reasons why I wanted to speak to you this morning. When Steve mentioned that they were looking for somebody to step in, I reached out to Steve as fast as I could and said please allow it to be me.

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   First and foremost, it’s to say thank you to you all, both everyone here, everyone online, friends, family, Co workers. The they reach out to me and to my family’s been unbelievable. I’m sure brother Peter, you know what it feels like. It’s remarkable how many cards, letters, texts, calls.

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   I thought Butchie right in the sky thing was a little much, but everything else was was wonderful and I can’t tell you how how much strength it gives us in our time of need. So let’s always keep that up, brothers and sisters. It means a lot. The second reason I wanted to speak to you this morning because is because I don’t know when the next time will be. It’ll come somewhere down the line. Not, you know, forever, but a period of time. I tomorrow I have some appointments that’ll give me the update on what my procedures will be and when they’ll take place and all that sort of stuff. So I wanted to take the opportunity one more time to speak to you because being up here is what I live for, talking to you about the love of God and all that he has done for us. So I wanted to be here for that.

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   And so, so I do want to talk about this morning about this sending out of the 70 and, and compare and contrast it with the sending out of the 12 and maybe we can learn some lessons about what it’s all about. And, and in that Wednesday night class of Louis Vincent’s Wednesday night class where I spoke for a few minutes, I pointed out that I used to, in many of you already know this. I used to work at a resort down on Cape Cod. And we have this group that came in. It was, it was a Jewish group, most many people from New York. It was about 400 people, all families and, and they came to the resort for eight days.

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   I think it was eight days. It might have been nine, but I think it was eight to celebrate the Passover. It was called pay sack, which is the Jewish word, I think for for Passover. And so they came for eight days to the resort to celebrate the Passover to as close as they could come to the rules and regulations and traditions of the Passover. And so everything or most things that that happened in the Passover is what they tried to do. So for instance, we had to kosherize the kitchen because the kitchen at this resort was not kosherized. So you had to kosher the kitchen. You had to use specific plates.

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   They had to be water stations throughout the facility for hand washing stations. There were certain, you know, foods that you had to prepare. They had to be prepared a certain way. They had to be served a certain way. There were certain wines that had to be served. They had to be served a certain way. Everything had to be done a very specific way so that they could follow what they believe the Passover was in as many of rigid form as they possibly could, the best that they felt like they could keep the Passover.

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    And I, I pointed out in this class that it wasn’t just a Passover, it was also Sabbath’s. So there were a couple Sabbaths in there as well. And there are very specific rules to following the Sabbath. And so I, I’ll tell you a couple interesting stories. One of them I told on that on that Wednesday, but this one I didn’t, I had a situation where I was, I was going by, where the front desk is to check people in. And there was an old, an older couple there and they were arriving just as the Passover was about to begin. And so they were stuck because there are certain things you can’t do on the Passover.

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    You can’t like carry a burden, right? And so they were stuck checking into the hotel, but they had luggage, but they couldn’t carry the luggage because that would be bearing a burden. So they asked me because I happened to be walking by, could could you help them with their luggage and check them into their room?

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    And I said sure. So I took their luggage and I brought them to their room. And it’s those key card deals, you know, Well, they can’t use those because it’s against the Sabbath. So I had to, I had to use the key card, open the door for them, go inside, turn on all the lights, open their luggage, and leave the door to the hotel room open. Otherwise they would get stuck in their room because they couldn’t open the door.

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    So if I was to close the door, they’d be stuck in there till the end of the Sabbath. And it’s not like they could call the hotel and say, could you come and open the door because I can’t use the phone. So, so they were very, very trapped within the laws of within the laws of the Sabbath.

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    And I told the other story, which was I was walking by this flight of stairs that goes down to where the meals are. And there was a a young couple there with a baby and they were stuck. And the reason that they were stuck was they could carry the baby down the stairs to get to the meal, but they had a stroller and they couldn’t move the stroller. They couldn’t pick it up because that would be bearing a burden. So they were basically stuck at the top of the stairs, not knowing what to do.

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    There was actually an elevator right there to the left, but they couldn’t use the elevator. So they’re standing there. There’s four couples standing there at the top of the stairs saying, what do we do? I mean, I suppose you could have, you know, kicked the stroller down the stairs, but, you know, those things are expensive.

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    Well, at that moment I happened to step by and they said, could you please carry the stroller down the stairs. And I said, sure, I was younger then.

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    So I had to carry the stroller down the stairs just so they could get to their meal. So this is, this is the, the, the, the burden or the, the trap that they had to follow these rules in order to, in order for what they felt was the keeping of the Passover. And I pointed out on that Wednesday night that there was another gentleman there who was also Jewish, who was not keeping the Passover the way that they were. In fact, if you asked him, he’d probably say he wasn’t keeping the Passover at all.

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    But actually he was. In actual fact, he was keeping the Passover closer to what the Passover was supposed to be about than what they were doing because he was there for only one reason, and that is that his son was the guy who was running the group. And so he came to the Passover to help his son. And so while they were following all the rules of the Passover and all the rules of the Sabbath, he was working. He wasn’t getting paid.

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    He was simply there to serve his son and make his son’s life easier. And I realized about halfway through the week that he’s a guy who’s closer to keeping the Passover than all these 400 people following all these rules. And that’s actually where I went ended on Wednesday night. And I immediately got a text from brother David Levin saying, what are you talking about?

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    He wasn’t rude by any stretch of imagination. But I want to show you what I’m talking about. And I want to show you by, if you’ll turn with me, if you feel so inclined, to Exodus Chapter 12. Look what it says in Exodus chapter 12, and this is about the Passover. And just to set the stage at the beginning of Exodus chapter 12, it talks about taking a lamb one year old without spot or without blemish and killing the lamb, right? Sacrificing the lamb and then taking the blood, right, and and rubbing the blood on the on on the doorposts, right. That’s what they want to do to prepare for the Passover. I I want to pick up something in verse 14 for us before we get to the key, but look what it says in verse 14. It says and this shall be on to you for a memorial and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generation. You shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever. And what I want to point out here is that word keep. That word keep there means to do right. They saying this is what you need to do. You are going to do this.

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    That’s what that word keep there. It’s a specific word. That’s what that means. Now I want to pick up in verse 23 and it says this.

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    It says, For the Lord shall pass through to smite the Egyptians. And when he seeth the blood upon the lentil, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and smite you. And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to the end, to ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever.

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    And it shall come to pass, when you come to the land which the Lord give you, according to what He has promised, that ye shall keep this service. And it shall come to pass when children say unto you, What meany by this service? You shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, passed over the children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped. Now you see that word keep, and when first of all pick them, verse 24.

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    And when ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to keep to thee and to thy sons forever, it shall come to pass that when you come to the land which the Lord shall give you, according as he hath problem promised, ye shall keep this service. You know that’s a different word. That’s not the same word as in verse 14, because that’s not what this word means. It means to keep it, you have to do it. But it’s more than just doing it. It’s understanding why you’re doing it. You see that verse, that word in verse 24 that says you shall observe this thing.

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    That’s the same word. So you don’t just keep the Passover. You don’t just do it. You have to understand why you’re doing it and what the emphasis of it is in order to keep it properly. That’s what it’s saying right there. You need to keep it. Notice what it says up above. And the Lord shall pass through to smite the Egyptians.

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    This is verse 23. And when you see it, the blood on the lentil on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door. The Lord will pass over the door and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you. You know what that’s saying, That’s saying you have every, the destroyer has every right to smite you. It’s what you were talking about on the Sunday school this morning, every right to smite you. The only reason he’s not going to smite you is the Lord’s not going to allow it to happen.

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    Otherwise the destroyer would smite every one of the first born of, of Israel, just like the first born of Egypt. Except the Lord says, no, it’s not you, it’s him. Do you see that? It’s quite clear, but then look what it says a little bit further on in verse 27. Wait, oh, pick up in verse 26, just, just just for clarity, and it shall come to pass. When your children say unto you, what is this about? Why do we do this?

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    What is this? Ye shall say? It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover. You see that expression in the Lord’s Passover. You know, if you go to the Gospel of John, John talked, there’s three Passovers in the Gospel of John, and in each one of them John calls it a Passover of the Jews or the Jews Passover. Why does he call it the Jews Passover? Because it’s not the Lord’s Passover, it’s the Jews Passover.

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    They’re not following the Passover the way the Lord wants it to be followed. They’re following it the way that they think this they should be following it. So he calls it the Jews Passover, even the final Passover. He calls the Jews Passover because they didn’t recognize the Lord Jesus Christ. But this is the Lord’s Passover. But it’s even more than that.

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    Well, that’s what it says. It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover. That’s what this is. So what’s the sacrifice? Well, that that’s that’s the lamb that they killed. You know, the doorpost on the lentil. Oh, that was a sign that the sacrifice had taken place. It was the sacrifice that saved them. Now we know what the sacrifice is, because we know that Lord Jesus Christ is the Passover sacrifice. But if you didn’t know that, and this is all you knew, you ought to know that it is about the Lord’s sacrifice. I gave my only begotten Son, whatever that is, and not themselves.

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    You know why? Because it says this. Who shall pass over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt? Well, why does it tell us in Egypt? Obviously, they’re in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians. Why does it specifically say in Egypt? When you explain to your children, make sure you emphasize that we were in Egypt when this took place. Why?

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    What does Egypt represent? Well, it actually represents 2 very important things. First of all, Egypt is the place of the flesh. I point that out I don’t know how many times, right? It’s the place. It’s easy to know that Egypt represents the will of the flesh because they got monuments to the will of the flesh that have been there for 4000 years. So you know what it’s about.

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    But it’s more than that even. They were slaves in Egypt. They had no freedom in Egypt. They couldn’t do what they wanted. They had rules they had to follow. They had things they had to do. They had no choice in the matter. It was not free will in Egypt. They were slaves.

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    Now think about these poor people at the Passover down The Cave. All they’ve done is replace the slavery in Egypt to the slavery of the law. You can’t go down a flight of stairs. You can’t close a whole hotel room door. You are just slaves to another, another institution. That’s all you are. Now think of the man that was there. He wasn’t a slave to anything.

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    He didn’t have to eat this meal at this certain time. He didn’t have to do any of those things as long as what he was doing was serving others. That’s exactly what God does here. By His grace, by His love, He brings them out of Egypt, not because it was necessarily right on the sense of right, because they were just as worthy of death as anybody else, but God chose them by His grace to save them and bring them out of Egypt.

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    Boy, that should speak to us. That should speak so deeply and so truly to Our Calling in Jesus Christ because we are no worthy of this incredible hope that carries us each and every day

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    than a slave in Egypt. But God has called us out. So that’s why he was celebrating the Passover or keeping the Passover closer than they were. He certainly wasn’t. He wasn’t Christian. He didn’t understand what Jesus represented. He didn’t know any of that stuff. But he knew he loved his son and he knew he could be there and help his son even if he wasn’t keeping all these rules and all these regulations.

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    So that’s why I, I made that point. Now I want to keep this in mind as we turn over to Luke chapter 10 and what goes on there because there’s an important, I think contrast. Actually, it’s a contrast that I think we’re directed to see between the sending out of the 70 and Luke 10 and the sending out of the 12 in Luke 9.

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    So let’s pick it up. Just in the first verse. It says after these things, the Lord appointed 70 also or 72. Nate did a very nice job of explaining it could be one of the other. We’re not going to go down like we’re just going to call it the 70. And if you have an issue with that, I don’t care.

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    After these things, after what things? Well, I mean, it could be after the very things at the very end of Luke Chapter 9. It could be after Luke Chapter 9. It could be after the very beginning of the gospel for for all we know, except that it tells us after what things, because it says an appointed other 70 also. So it tells us specifically what what these things are representing.

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    I sent out the 12 in Luke Chapter 9. Now after that I’m going to send out the 70 also. So we still so we know what what the contrast, what the contrast is. Now as as Nate pointed out, Luke 10 is the only place where you learn about the sending out of the 70. It’s not in any of the other Gospels. In fact, the sending out of the 12, which is found in Matthew and is found in Mac and is found in Luke’s, isn’t in John at all. John doesn’t talk about the sending out of anybody, at least not in this context.

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    But but here’s the one place why it talks about the sending out of the 70. And the reason that Nate pointed out and he he is correct is because the 12 represent one thing. The 70 represents something else. The 12 represents the children of Israel, right? There are, there are 12 tribes, there are 12 disciples who are going to be, you know, overseeing the 12 tribes of Israel, judges of the 12 tribes of Israel. We know the 12 represents the nation of Israel. We understand that and that’s what the 12 represent. But the 70 represent 70 represents the nations. 70 represents the Gentiles.

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    That’s what the 70 represents. There were seventy nations at the time. This is, again, Nate pointed out there were seventy nations that went out after the time of no, no, we get the list of names. You count the list of places, you count them up at 70. Or as Nate pointed out, it could be 72. So that’s what the 70 represents, and he appointed 70 also.

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    We never know what their names are. We never told who these 70 are. And one of the corollary accounts that is sending out of the 12, the context specifically tells us who the 12 are. It names the 12. Now, of course, we know the 12, but it names the 12. I think it’s in Matthew, but it might be Mark.

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    He names the 12 and then he sends out the 12. So it told specifically who the 12 are. We’re never told who the 70 are. And he sent them out two by two to every city and place, whether he himself would come. Well, that’s different than the sending out of the 12, right?

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    Because here it says two by two into every city and place where the he himself would come. But the sending out of the 12, remember, was much, much more specific right in the sending out of the 12. And I think it was in, I forget which gospel it was in, but he’s very specific that he says to him, you are not to go to the Gentiles.

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    You’re not to go to the Samaritans. You are only to go to the lost tribe of the children of Israel. You’re only to go to the Jews. That’s what the the commandment of the 12, you only go to the Jews. That’s not what it says here. Sent them out two by two into every city and place. Whether he himself would come.

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    Well, we know he went to more places than just to the Jews. If nothing else, we know we went to Samaria. In fact, we know we went to Samaria twice. So they must have gone to Samaria. And in fact, we can even look at this as a, as a bigger picture and say, well, in actual fact, if we don’t know who the 70 are,

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    every place in city where Jesus goes, well, that’s, that’s the whole world, right? So in a bigger context, it’s really everywhere. But in this context, we at least know they had to go to more than just to, to just the Jews that right. They went to the capitalists, they went to Korea, they went to all these places where the gentiles were as well. But but that’s not what the 12 were told. And then it goes through all these, you know, rules and regulations as to what you should do, you know, go to a house and stay in that house, eat what they give you if nobody lets you in.

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    Brushed off the dust. All that stuff is really very much the same between the sending out of the 12 and the sending sending out of the 70. The rules and regulations are what they’re supposed to do and how they’re supposed to do it. And preach the Kingdom of God that there’s really no difference between those those things the way it’s laid out.

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    Why, Why aren’t those things different? Well, because preaching the Kingdom is preaching the Kingdom doesn’t matter whether you’re preaching it to the Jews or preaching it to the Gentiles. Same with healing of the sick, right? There’s no change, but there’s going to be a change. And the change is the response to going out. That’s what where the change really comes in. Because go back to Luke Chapter 9 and look what happens in Luke Chapter 9.

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    And again, I know I pointed this out at on Nate’s class. So if you weren’t listening at Nate’s class or you weren’t there, it doesn’t matter to you. If you heard me say it before, well then just pretend you didn’t. That’s all. And it’s in Luke Chapter 9. I want to pick up. I’ve actually lost the verse where they come back. OK, verse Luke Chapter 9, verse 6. And this is about the sending out of the 12. And they departed and went through the towns, preaching the gospel and healing everywhere,

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    picking up in verse 10. And the apostles, when they returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them and went aside privately into a desert plate belonging to the city called Bethsaida. And then eventually, of course, he crosses the Sea of Galilee with him. So they come back and they say, this is everything we’ve done. This is what this is what happened. Nothing, nothing really all that wrong. But that sounds perfectly fine.

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    That’s makes makes perfect sense. But then it says Jesus takes them away privately. Why? Well, we’re told in another gospel why he sends them off privately. And one of the corollary accounts to the sending out at 12. And what that tells us is he says, listen, I’m going to take you privately because you need to rest, because they were exhausted.

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    From there, from there going out, Jesus could see they were tired, they were worn out. It was difficult work to go from city to city to do these things and to heal the sick and to preach the gospel. They needed to get away. They have some private time, some quiet time. And then what happens is he tries to take them away.

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    Eventually they they, they, they get on the boat to go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. When they get there, there’s the 5000, right? So, so Jesus says he had compassion upon them. And so they weren’t getting any rest at all. They had to feed 5000. And you remember in the story he says to the disciples, he will feed them.

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    And they say, how, how can we feed them? We don’t have food for 5000. All we have is five loaves and two fishes. Well, they had just performed all kinds of miracles and yet they couldn’t look outside the box and say, listen, it’s all the same thing. So that’s basically what Jesus says to him.

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    He says it’s all really the same thing. Bring me the five loaves and two fishes and they feed them. And then from there they go on and they have the amount of transfiguration right, this marvelous event. And Peter says let’s build 3 tabernacles. And God comes down and says you don’t need 3 tabernacles, all you need is him. Moses and Elijah are there for Jesus, they’re not there for you.

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    You don’t need them. You got him, Listen to him. And then from there they have the situation when they come back from coming down the mountain where they meet the guy who says, my son’s a lunatic, he’s crazy. And your disciples couldn’t help them. And Jesus says this evil and perverse generation, what?

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    How long do I have to suffer you? And he says, bring the boy to me and then bring the boy. And he says to the Father, how long has he been like this? And the Father says, since his youth. Why does it tell us that? Well, tells us that for this reason, this isn’t about sin. This boy has been doing this since long before he would be held responsible for his actions since he was a youth. This isn’t about sin, but mercy is. All the disciples understood, so they couldn’t heal him because just like, remember the Canaanite woman, the Canaanite woman comes to Jesus and he says, Lord, thou son of David, have mercy upon me.

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    And Jesus won’t talk to her. Why not? Because she’s a Canaanite. It’s not mercy she needs, it’s help she needs. So she goes away. And when she comes back, what did she come back and say, Lord help me now Jesus can help her. It’s the same thing here. Nobody needed to be forgiven for this like the blind man.

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    Remember the blind man born blind and they said who’s sin, this man or his parents, that he born blind. Jesus says neither. It’s not about sin. This isn’t about sin either. And so Jesus said, they say to him, why couldn’t we heal him? He said what you need is prayer and fasting. Why prayer and fasting?

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    Because prayer is about turning to God. Lord help me, Fasting is about denying the flesh. This is not about us, this is about him. That’s why they couldn’t heal him. But they didn’t understand that the event that they had just gone through didn’t teach them that this tired, difficult situation. Now consider what happens with the 70 verse 17 of of Luke chapter 10.

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    Look at the difference. We said the disciples came back and they told them everything that that they had done. That’s OK. But this is what happened when the 70 came back verse 17, and the 70 returned again with joy,

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    saying, Lord, even the devils are subject on to us through Thy name. They came back and said, this is what we did. The 70 came back and said, this is what we can do in your name and with joy and excitement. This is what they said. And you see that word devil there? You know how the disciples couldn’t cast out the devil out of the boy?

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    Same word so the disciples couldn’t cast the devil out of the lunatic child and the 70 come back and say even the devils are subject on to us in your name. You see the difference. And in the case of the 12, Jesus takes him out and takes him to places to to get rest.

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    And this is what Jesus says to the 70. He said on to them, verse 18 I beheld and Satan as lightning falling from heaven. How powerful is that Satan? Like lightning falling from heaven, All the power of Satan to put in our hearts doubts and fears and our need to follow regulations. And I need to must do this.

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    All that stuff is struck away. And a flash of lightning, you know what that represents? The trials that we go through. And you can go through trials in one of two ways. It can be like a flash of lightning that hits you and you take it and you get knocked down for a minute and then you get back up and you keep on going. Or you can take it like Thunder that rumbles and rumbles and you just live in fear and in doubt.

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    What part are we? Brothers and sisters both individually, as a family, as a community? Where do we stand when it comes to the trials that we go through? Whatever those trials are, we all have them. I have had them, I’m having them. I’ll have them in the future. You can’t touch my hope. You can’t touch it, and nobody can touch yours either. And then Jesus says this verse 20 notwithstanding in this rejoice now, but that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. What names?

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    We don’t know the names, but they’re written in heaven. What? 70? Who are the 70? You and I, brothers and sisters, we’re the 70. That’s why we’re not told their names. We’re those that take in the hope of Israel, take in this bread and this wine, because that’s what He’s done for us. That’s our motivation every single day. It’s not about having everything right. It’s important to know what is right. It’s important to grow in your faith and to do the right thing, but it’s about the goodness of God. That’s what drives us every single day. And it it it comes to an end at the end of chapter 10 and we’ll finish with this because it’s so powerful that we understand this and the end of chapter 10, Jesus has an encounter with Martha, which she talks about Mary and consider the difference between them.

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    We understand it now it came to pass in verse 38 that they went that as they went that he entered into a certain village and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus feet and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving and came to him and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?

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    Bid her therefore that she helped me. And Jesus answer said, said unto her, Martha, Martha now are careful in troubled in many things. Think of those Jews down those Jewish families down The Cave, careful in trouble about so many things. That’s what Martha represents. I have to do this, I need to do that. I better do this.

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    I can’t do that. But one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away. While we yet sin, we’re yet sins. Christ died for us. We partake of this bread and this wine, the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, because God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. This is our hope and desire, and we, like the 70, should rejoice with joy that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.

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