038: Bill Link – The Master’s Hands

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Welcome to the good Christian
talks podcast.

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I’m Levi and I’m Chris.
Thank you so much for joining us

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this week on this podcast.
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We post at the start of each
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With a short intro before hand
to kind of set the stage for the

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talk.
You’re about to hear and now

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let’s hear more about this
week’s talk.

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This class is one that was given
by Brother Phil Link at the 2017

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Iowa Bible School.
The entire series is called

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portraits of the master and the
in this 1st Class brother Bill

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is outlining the idea behind the
different portraits that he’s

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looking at basically the idea of
trying to make Jesus as real to

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us as possible.
He starts his class by talking

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about his father who had passed
away a few years before and

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talked about specifically the
hands of his father.

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His father was a Craftsman who
worked with With wood and in

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this first class he’s talking
about Jesus hand.

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So he’s using his kind of the
characteristics where he could

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picture his dad’s hands and
picture his father and knew him.

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So well that if he was to walk
up and you know, he was to know

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that the resurrection had
happened that he would he would

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immediately know it was his
father and the idea behind this

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series and the study that he’s
done in these classes and is to

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Developing ourselves that same
familiarity with Jesus so that

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you know, we can picture him and
picture what he did and how he

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lived his life and the
characteristics that he

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demonstrated that we’re all
trying to develop in ourselves.

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I remember hearing brother bills
class at Idlewild live and I

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remember it was probably my
think one of my favorites for

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that year if I remember
correctly and he was the third.

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Last which is always a little
bit of a challenge out of work

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since the last class before
lunch.

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So people are starting to get a
little tired and everybody.

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I remember really really
enjoying this one.

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So the the entire series is a
great.

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Listen.
This first one is just talking

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about the hands of Jesus and he
goes on to look at the Jesus

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voice and different
characteristics throughout all

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of it highly recommending will
be making sure to get the the

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entire series on the extended
podcast if you want to give the

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whole class to listen, I’d
encourage you to do so.

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So with that.
We’ll turn it over to our

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brother Bill link for his class
from the portraits of the master

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on the Masters hands.
Good morning brothers and

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sisters these classes. our about
knowing Jesus not just knowing

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about him, but knowing him
knowing him personally.

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It’s something that I’ve given
some thought to in recent years.

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I think maybe in avoiding
Evangelical excesses to donate

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the name that I might have
worshipped Around Jesus.

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Jesus might have been an
intellectual concept rather than

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a person.
And I’ve been thinking about it

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a lot.
And I want to know Jesus.

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I want to recognize him.
He said this is life eternal to

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Know Thee the only true God and
Jesus Christ whom thou Hast sent

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and you remember when he talks
about his sheep hear his voice

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and they know his voice and they
won’t follow someone else’s

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voice because they don’t
recognize him.

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We’ve got to recognize Jesus
voice and follow him.

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We want to know him that well.
I was thinking about that and

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knowing Jesus and I got to
thinking about my dad who dead

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that died eight years ago and I
knew my dad so well, I

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particular his hands.
He had the big thick hands of a

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Craftsman and I can still see
them.

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I wonder if that’s a way for you
with some of you may be lost

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your father or mother.
If you can still see their hands

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a guy at work told me that he
could still feel the weight of

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his father’s hand on his
shoulder.

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I remember as a kid sitting in
his workshop and he had a way of

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cutting wood that he’d push the
thing towards the blade and at

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the last minute he lifts his
thumbs up and his he had shaky

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hands and it used to always
scare the life out of me, but I

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can remember my dad’s hand.
So well, hey that was a simple

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man and and uncomplicated.
I don’t know if many of you

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would have known him.
He he was generally a man of few

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words, but he had a great way of
torturing sayings.

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When time after a business
meeting stepped outside mean he

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says that brother really gets
under my goat.

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Or he’d say that’s all would are
over the bridge.

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And at one time he had a pet
goldfish that they said was on

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its last legs and then my
favorite I think it was he said

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never look back never look a
gift horse in the eye and I

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don’t know what the danger that
is, but apparently you shouldn’t

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do that.
Like I said, I my dad always had

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a bit of a Tremor in his hands
too and I can I can still see

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that when I’m nervous speaking.
He would be nervous the Tremor

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got worse.
He said it started when he was a

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conscientious objector in World
War II and was given alternative

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service of working in a violent
word of a mental institution.

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Anyway, I had a dream about my
dad not too awful long ago.

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I was up front of the house in
my dream splitting wood and here

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comes my dad walking up the
driveway.

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And I said your back and he just
looked at me with that big

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gentle smile of his and he said
I’m back.

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And I woke up.
I could almost imagine that

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might be what it that could even
be what happens because it says

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that the Lord will send his
angels his Messengers and Paul

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tells us in Timothy the dead in
Christ shall rise first.

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So if my dad did come up walk up
the driveway, I would know the

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resurrection would happen and I
would recognize my dad and I’d

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recognize those great big gentle
hands of his.

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I want to know the Lord Jesus
that well.

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And I think we all do and it’s
not just knowing about him but

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having a sense of him as a real
person and not only a real

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person who lived.
Where we’ll live that as a man

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who is alive and aware and
active in our lives now.

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So my goal this week is to
encourage us to think about what

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it means to know Jesus and to
recognize his voice and to know

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what’s not his voice.
I want to encourage meditation

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on the person of the Lord Jesus
and will be guided by some

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portraits of the master that are
given in the gospels.

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So just a good starting point,
even though it’s familiar to us

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Philippians chapter 3.
Paul wrote Philippians from a

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Roman jail all of the events of
the book of Acts are behind him

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and it’s thought that second
Corinthians is behind him.

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So that that list of things we
mentioned in chapter 11 of

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second Corinthians where all he
had been through as an apostle.

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He come to Philippians chapter 3
and Paul talks about how

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earnestly he wants to know
Jesus.

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And you could think you could
think surely at this point in

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his life Paul could claim to
know Jesus.

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He’d seen Jesus that marvelous
vision.

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Right, but he said it was his
desire the thing he was pressing

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too hard. to know Jesus
Philippians chapter 3 he’s

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speaking about having confidence
in the flesh and it’s very

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intriguing to read what the
things he counts as confidence

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in the flesh are it’s not the
big bank account.

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You know, it’s not a big house
and all possessions and things

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like that that if we were saying
having confidence in the flesh

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that might be what we think
about.

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But instead the things that he
calls confidence in the flesh is

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sort of the religious trappings
that people would respect you

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for the outward show religion.
He says verse for though.

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I might also have confidence in
the flesh.

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If any other man think that he
hath whereof he might Trust In

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the Flesh.
I’m or circumcised The Eighth

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Day of the stock of Israel of
The Tribe of Benjamin an Hebrew

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of the Hebrews as touching the
law a Pharisee concerning Zeal

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persecuting the Ecclesia.
He could he had all the Bona

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fides that people could look at
Paul and say that is a very

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religious man.
He’s stripped.

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Sleep religious.
He’s a righteous man.

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And Paul says this is having
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Verse 7, but what things were
gain to me those I counted loss

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for Christ.
Yay doubtless and I count all

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things but loss for the
Excellency of the knowledge of

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Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I
have suffered the loss of all

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things and do count them, but
dung that I may win Christ and

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be found in him.
Not having mine own

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righteousness, which is of the
law.

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But that which is through the
Faith of Christ the

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righteousness, which is of god
by faith that I may know him and

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the power of his resurrection
and the fellowship of his

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sufferings being made
conformable unto his death, you

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know, we think about Romans
chapter 6 that we always have

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read at our baptisms and we
talked about a burial with

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Christ and a raising to New Life
that as Christ in his Direction

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was now free from sin the power
of his resurrection.

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Paul says I want to be made
conformable to his death and

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went to know him.
So that’s what we want to do.

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Now.
I started off with some

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Recollections of my dad that
were prompted by the the clarity

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of the mental image.
I have of my dad.

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My dad’s hands.
It’s interesting when we spent

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the other night that Jason
Richards house and they had

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pictures of oh brother Peggy
making nachi.

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They’re all is a collage of
pictures with his hands and I

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bet you a lot of you can
remember those hands.

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We don’t know what Jesus hands
looked like, but our attention

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is drawn to them repeatedly in
the gospels and interestingly.

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Most especially in the gospel of
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I’m going to point out some
passages today.

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We’re Matthew for some reason
particularly draws our attention

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to Jesus hands.
So let’s start off in Matthew

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chapter 8.
By the way to do many of you

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have the Eastward available to
you.

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I for Bible study marvelous
marvelous resource.

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It’s free electronic Bible that
you can put on your computer or

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your iPad.
If you have it, I really

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recommend it.
One of the nice things that has

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as a Harmony of the gospels that
you can you can open up and look

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at Harmony of the gospels and
when you lay them out side by

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side, it is remarkable to see
the differences.

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She go through a series of
events in the different gospels

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how they’re reported just
slightly differently.

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And like I said in preparing
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It really caught my eye that
it’s Matthew who says things

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about Jesus hands and they’re
kind of incidental things that

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maybe you wouldn’t need for the
story to be complete.

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So Matthew 8 vs 1 2 3.
Jesus is coming down from the

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from the sermon on the mountain
and great multitudes followed

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him.
And behold there came a leper

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and worshipped him saying Lord.
If thou wilt thou canst make me

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clean.
I’m going to talk more about

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this episode later on in the
week.

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But just to get the sense the
crowd of people so many times

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Jesus we see him in a crowd of
people and there’s a leper who

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doesn’t belong there.
He’s coming, you know, he’s

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supposed to be saying unclean
unclean covering his lip and

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staying away, but he has come to
Jesus and he says if you want.

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You can make me clean.
Lord if thou wilt thou canst

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make me clean and Jesus put
forth his hand and touched him

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saying I will I do want to Be
thou clean.

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And immediately his leprosy was
cleansed and he can’t help but

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think to yourself.
I wonder how long it had been

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since anybody of sound body had
touched this man with this

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horrible disfiguring disease and
Jesus touched him.

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And we you know, you might ask
yourself.

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So why is that detail included
but come over chapter 8 come

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down to verse 14 Peter’s mother
in law’s sick and it’s

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interesting.
If you look at the harmony of

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the gospels of different
accounts Luke, you know, Luke

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The Physician he says she had a
great fever the other gospels

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say she had a fear of Luke says
she had a great fever and so I

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guess in my mind’s eye.
I see Jesus approaching her and

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Luke says that he stood over
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Here’s a here’s what we have in
Matthew verse 8.

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I’m first 14 of chapter 8 when
Jesus was coming to Peter’s

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house.
He saw his wife’s mother laid

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and sick of a fever and he
touched her hand and the fever

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left her and she arose and
ministered unto them.

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And once again you say why did
he touch her head?

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And why is the detail included
remarkably in between these two

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healing?
Where Jesus reaches out and

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touches the person is the
Centurian with this with a

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servant who’s sick of the palsy
in verse 5 when Jesus was

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entered into Capernaum there
came unto him a centurion

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beseeching him and saying Lord
my servant life at home sick of

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the palsy grievously tormented
and Jesus says I will come and

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heal him and the synturion says
I’m not worthy for you to come

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into my house.
Yeah, I’m I’m a man under

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Authority.
I guess I use your commands and

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they’re taking care of.
Implication that being that he

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knew that Jesus word was enough
and Jesus says I haven’t seen

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such a incredible faith.
Verse 13 He says to the

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Centurion go thy way and as thou
Hast believed so be it done unto

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thee and his servant was healed
in the selfsame hour you imagine

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the synturion goes home and
there’s a servant he’s been he’s

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been paralyzed now.
He’s up and about looks fine.

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He’s not grievously tormented
and he and you can imagine

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saying so when did it happen?
And it said was about it was

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about two hours ago and he would
know it was right when Jesus had

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spoken the word.
That the man was healed now,

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isn’t it?
Interesting that that is

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sandwiched right in between
these two cases where Jesus

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touches the person who he’s
healing?

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It’s almost as though to say it
was not necessary for Jesus to

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touch that leper.
It wasn’t necessary for him to

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touch Peters mothers.
Peter’s wife mother sorry be

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careful with these relations.
They get me in trouble Peter’s

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mother-in-law.
It wasn’t it wasn’t necessary

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for him to for him to touch her
but both cases the hand of Jesus

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is involved and you ask why and
it’s not complicated.

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One measure.
I think it’s the touch of the

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Divine.
It’s come in contact with the

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Divine.
But there’s also something about

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Jesus compassion an interesting
that so many expressions of

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compassion have to do with being
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So we think of in Hebrews
chapter 4 when it talks about

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our compassionate high priest
who is touched with the things

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of our infirmities we don’t have
a high priest.

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The writer say you may not have
a high priest who’s so out there

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separate from us.
So perfect and unapproachable.

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We have one is touched with the
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November with me to Hebrews
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Seeing men Hebrews 4 verse 14
seeing then that we have a great

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high priest that is passed into
the heavens Jesus the son of

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God, let us hold fast our
profession for we have not an

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high priest which cannot be
touched with the feeling of our

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infirmities but was in all
points tempted like as we are

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yet without sin Let Us therefore
come boldly unto the throne of

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grace that we may obtain mercy
and find Grace to help in time

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of need.
The reality of our Lord Jesus is

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what’s being spoken of here.
And I you know, I know it’s it’s

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wonderful that we can have
passages like this that we can

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use to explain to people that
the doctrine of the Trinity is

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not a Biblical idea.
You know, we say look Jesus was

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tempted in all points.
Like as we are yet without sin.

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Jesus was tempted.
We know God can’t be centered so

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we know therefore that Jesus
isn’t God and we might even see

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this that might be the way we
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Than anything else?
But I’m not sure that that was

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what it was written for it was
written to tell us that when we

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feel tempted.
That we can go with confidence

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to the throne of grace.
When we’ve sinned we shouldn’t

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pray blankets in the blanket
prayers of forgive me of all my

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sins.
In fact verse 13 says that Did

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everything is naked and open
before the eyes of him?

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With whom we have to deal?
I mean Jesus knows.

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And when we feel defiled we feel
ashamed and yet we can come with

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confidence.
Because he’s a merciful and

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compassionate high priest.
And I think that’s what’s an

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Evidence in these healings where
he actually reaches out and

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touches the leper touches Peters
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Well, let’s come back to
Matthew.

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Matthew chapter 9 here we have
in verses 18 to 25 two episodes

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of folks coming in physical
contact with Jesus. start off

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with gyrus verses 18 and 19
Matthew 9 verse 18 while he

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spake these things unto them
behold.

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There came a certain ruler and
worshipped him saying my

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daughter is even now dead but
common lay thy hand upon her and

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she shall live and Jesus arose
and followed him and so did his

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disciples now, by the way, Jesus
didn’t say my way back.

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I haven’t you heard about that
Centurian.

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I don’t need to come to your
house, but where is your faith?

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You didn’t say that right
because he was a merciful and

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compassionate high priest and he
went he could have spared

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himself and the disciples A Long
Walk.

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He could have spared them the
mockery of the hired elementors

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when they got to the house and
they laughed Jesus to scorn when

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he said she’s just asleep.
He could have avoided all that

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just by healing from afar.
But instead verse 19 Jesus arose

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and followed him and so did his
disciples along the way a woman

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comes who’s had a terrible
disease and for 12 years has had

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an issue of blood. just like the
leper she’s crowded her way into

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a place that she probably isn’t
supposed to because she’s

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ritually unclean this poor woman
had been sick for all those

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years 12 years and and she would
have been ritually unclean.

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She was physically weakened by
it.

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She’d tried every remedy that
people could offer enter Chimes

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life in Times.
If you don’t have that one,

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that’s when a great book on the
life of Jesus.

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He’s not a Chris duffman and
he’s you know, we’ve all found

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some things but a great resource
about the times and The the work

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of the Lord Jesus he says that
one leaf of the talmud contains

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not less than 11 different
remedies for this ailment of

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which at most only six can
possibly be regarded as having

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any medical value while the rest
are merely the outcome of

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superstition to which Resort is
had in the absence of knowledge.

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So she’d been to all these
different Physicians and says

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she had suffered many things of
many Physicians.

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And the remedies they’d offered
it been expensive false hopes.

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She’d spent all that she had and
was nothing better, but rather

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got worse.
So having heard of Jesus healing

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power she desired the merest
contact, even if it was just his

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clothes even just the border of
His Garment.

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Come over with me to mark for
the the market caps a little bit

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more detailed than Matthew.
Mark 5 verse 28 She said if I

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may touch but his clothes I
shall be whole and straightway

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the Fountain of her blood was
dried up and she felt in her

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body that she was healed of that
plague.

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And Jesus immediately knowing in
himself that virtue had gone out

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of him turned him about in the
Preston said who touched my

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clothes.
What are we to make of this that

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Jesus perceived that power had
proceeded from him?

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And yet apparently didn’t know
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It’s intriguing that in previous
verse it says she felt in her

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body that she was healed of that
plague.

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It says there there was some
sensation in the woman’s body.

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And there was a corresponding
physical sensation some sense of

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energy drained.
Some feeling of depletion in the

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Lord and he had to ask the
question twice who touched me.

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and says that she came fearing
and trembling verse 33 knowing

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what was done in her and she
came and fell down before him

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and told him all the truth and
he said unto her daughter thy

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faith hath made thee whole go in
peace and be whole of thy plague

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such kindness that the Lord but
a kind man and that kindness is

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extended to us as well.
I was struck with something

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brother Phil said and first
class this morning about When we

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love Jesus and I’m paraphrasing,
but when we love Jesus, we love

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him so much that to disappoint
him to not Avail ourselves of

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opportunities that he’s
presented us with.

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Well, it’s a good motivation
love is we want to be motivated

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by the love of Christ the love
of Christ constrains us.

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Think of the compassion of Our
Lord now.

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Meanwhile all the all this is
going on you have gyrus there

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and gyrus is saying to himself
man my daughter.

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She’s at death’s door.
Let’s go.

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Maybe this woman wasn’t even
somebody who’d been in the

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synagogue and you know, she was
unclean Ruler of the synagogue

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was probably getting impatient.
And then just as Jesus finished

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addressing the woman word comes
that the little girls died.

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Verse 35 while he yet spake
there came from the ruler of the

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synagogue’s house certain, which
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Why trouble is though the master
any longer?

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But Luke’s account says that
when Jesus heard this he said

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fear not believe only and she’ll
be made whole and so the whole

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procession makes its way to
gyrus house and they’re they’re

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confronted by the tumult of the
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He comes to the house of the
ruler of the synagogue and see

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if the tumult and them that wept
and wailed greatly when he was

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coming.
He saith unto them.

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Why make you this Ado and weep
damsel is not dead but sleepeth

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and they laughed him to scorn.
But when he put them all out, he

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taketh the father and the mother
of the damsel and them that were

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with him and entereth in where
the damsel was laying and he

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took the damsel by the hand.
I wonder if at this point that

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lifeless hand had gotten cold.
He took the damsel by the hand

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and said unto her talath a coup.
My which is being interpreted

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damsel.
I say unto thee arise and

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straightway the damsel arose and
walked for she was of the age of

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12 years and they were
astonished with a great

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astonishment and charge them
straightly that no man should

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know it and this is the part.
I love he commanded them that

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something should be given her to
eat.

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Now what’s that in there for
what’s that in there for?

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What’s that detail on therefore?
I mean I can imagine that any of

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us who know what mothers are
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She would have been just so
eager to do something for this

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little girl and Commander to
give something to eat my mom,

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you know, and when Carol’s away,
my mom just loves to feed me and

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I’m a bad advertisement about
that.

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I can I can I like to eat but it
gives mom’s pleasure to do this.

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It’s as though Jesus was saying
here’s something you can do.

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It was an a further Act of
compassion. but a compassionate

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and gracious Lord we have well,
you know, we could go on there’s

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example you be a couple just
mentioned them Matthew 9 verses

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27 to 30, right the end of the
chapter here right after the

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raising of gyrus daughter
another example of the healing

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touch and it’s two Blind Men and
this episode is recorded only in

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Matthew and it’s the healing
touch Matthew 9 turning back

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there Matthews 9 verse 29 he
touched their eyes and said

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according to your faith be it
unto you Matthew chapter 20 a

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final Example The Healing Touch
another two Blind Men one of

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them blind Bartimaeus the
episodes recorded in Mark and

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Luke, but only Matthew records
the touch of the Master’s Hand

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and it’s not just in healings
that Matthew seems to be

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bringing our attention to the
hands of the Lord remember the

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time when Jesus was in Crowded
room and his family was

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beginning to think that he was
beside himself and said they

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came to take him away, you know,
maybe it’s time for him to have

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a little bit of away from all
this stuff and they say to him

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your mother and your brothers
are outside.

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And Matthew is recorded in the
other gospels of Matthew is the

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only one who has the detail that
hit with a wave of his hand.

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He says behold my mother and my
brethren it’s like as if we’re

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being drawn.
Our attention is drawn to the

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hand of the Lord another one
another one.

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When Peter and where I guess
we’re going to have this in our

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maybe it’s Wednesday’s class of
fill brother feels when Peter

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stepped out of the boat.
Right.

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I’ve always thrown a steal from
book brother Phil says but I’ve

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always thought it’s pretty
amazing that Peter I would have

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said yeah, it is ago something
in the boat.

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But Peter says if it be thou bid
me to come and Jesus it’s comedy

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comes and he steps out onto the
water and he fears and that’s

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described in all the gospels.
But only Matthew says that when

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he called the Lord that he
reached out his hand.

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And pulled him in the touch of
the Master’s Hand.

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Matthew is the only one who
mentions the hands dipping in

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the dish at the Last Supper.
And it’s only Matthew that

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mentions the cruelty of the
Roman soldiers who thrust to

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read into Jesus hand.
All these are interesting but

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there’s one particular special
occasion that I want to bring

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your attention to in Matthew 19
met the u-19 starting at verse

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13.
It’s an occasion when little

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children Matthew Mark say Luke
actually says infants are

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brought to Jesus with the hope
that he will touch them and pray

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for them Matthew 19 string of
verse 13.

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Then were there brought unto him
little children.

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That he should put his hands on
them and pray and the disciples

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rebuked them.
But Jesus said suffer little

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children and forbid them not to
come unto me for of such is the

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kingdom of heaven and he laid
his hands on them and departed

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thence.
Have a look at the same episode

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in Mark chapter 10. verse 13 and
notice the details notice the

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extra details that we have here.
They brought young children to

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him that he should touch them
and his disciples rebuked those

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that brought them.
But when Jesus saw it, he was

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much displeased and said unto
them suffer the little children

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to come unto me and forbid them
not for such as the kingdom of

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God verily I say unto you
whosoever shall not receive the

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kingdom of God as a little
child.

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He shall not enter therein and
he took them up in his arms and

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put his hands upon them and
blessed them and you notice the

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the there is the extended detail
about receiving the Celtic

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Kingdom like like little In
fact, it’s interesting.

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They contest he’s been dealing
with the Pharisees and they’re

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arguing about they’re splitting
hairs about under what

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circumstances it is allowable to
divorce one’s life.

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That’s the Pharisees that’s in
two of the gospels another one

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of the gospels.
The immediate contact with the

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Pharisees is Jesus talking about
the Pharisee who has been

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praying with himself and saying
all I thank you Lord that I’m

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not like other men, you know.
No, and and the contrast between

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these children and their parents
wanting to bring the children to

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Jesus and you can understand
maybe why the disciples were

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uneasy about this.
I mean, first of all, it was

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nothing wrong with the kids.
They they weren’t sick.

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They didn’t need to be healed.
Not only that Jesus was always

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being crowded and the disciples
probably felt crowded too.

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They probably were getting burnt
out with with with service.

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We do have to encourage
ourselves not to grow weary with

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well doing.
Must have been exhausting for

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the disciples.
Sometimes that’s why they were

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asleep in the garden.
I think they’ve got it was just

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they were overcome with it all
and so please don’t be bringing

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your children.
Yeah, I can might have been

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doing that saying that myself.
Interestingly, this is one of

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the few occasions.
Where anything is said about

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Jesus actual feelings at the
moment?

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It says he was much displeased.
They were really missing the

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point.
This was important bring those

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children.
Can you imagine little kid?

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These are picking them up.
stroke in their face asking for

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God’s blessings The Pharisees
Jesus had just been dealt with

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weren’t in the business of
giving kind touches.

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Whether to the needy or two
children, he was too busy being

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sanctimonious praying with
himself.

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But Matthew says he laid his
hands on them and Mark says he

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took them up in his arms.
You do wonder what prompted the

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parents to the spring their
children to Jesus.

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I guess that having seen things
like that woman who was healed

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from her issue of blood.
They saw contact with Jesus as

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contact with the Divine and it
makes you wonder whatever

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happened to those kids done it
you wonder if 60 70 80 years

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later they be saying to their
grandchildren.

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Did I ever tell you about the
time?

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And it’s a yeah, you told about
that time.

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And I sat on the Lord Jesus lap,
but he he blessed me.

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I wonder if these children grew
up to become disciples.

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What a contrast between those
children and the simple faith of

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their parents.
And the self-righteous Pharisees

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and so Jesus indignation with
his disciples of such is the

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kingdom of God.
Such a lesson.

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It was for the disciples.
And can imagine the parents

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pleasure.
I imagine it left an indelible

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oppression of the kindness and
gentleness of our Lord Jesus on

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these people.
They had a mental picture of the

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Lord and that mental picture was
life-altering and so it is for

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us and so it should be for us.
with knowing Jesus we call him

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Lord and teacher and we
acknowledge his presence.

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We know that he ever lives to
make intercession for us.

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I got to thinking about it one
time and you know, it’s good to

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ask yourself this kind of
questionable.

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What difference did it make that
Jesus was resurrected?

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I mean why couldn’t it have been
simply that you know Abraham is

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going to be raised in the last
day why couldn’t Jesus of just

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stayed in the grave and be
raised what difference does it

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make and then the first answer I
come up with is probably first

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answered Lottie come up with it
as well.

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The grave couldn’t hold him.
So the fact of Jesus

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resurrection was a seal of God’s
approval on what Jesus had done

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and it was a wonderful teaching
and preaching toll to say Jesus

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is risen, but then I say to
myself or wait a minute.

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What about if there had been
some other way that God could

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have demonstrated his approval
of Jesus and some single miracle

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00:40:08,500 –> 00:40:14,000
that could have absolutely
shown. me the Jesus was in fact,

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the Messiah wouldn’t why
wouldn’t that have been enough?

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And then the answer has to come
to us that he ever lives to make

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intercession for us.
He is the Gate of the Sheepfold.

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He’s the way we come in anybody
else could climb up and go in

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another way your thief and
Robber we don’t want to worship

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around Christ.
We don’t want Christ to be a

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hypothetical construct in our
mind a person who lived and

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about whom we can recite facts
and figures.

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We want them to be as real to
us.

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I want him to be as real to me
as my dad and that dream I had.

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Because if that happened to my
dadgum fuck up the driveway, I’m

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gonna drop that acts because I
know then and I want to know the

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Lord Jesus that well.
Also touched with the feeling of

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our infirmities tempted in all
points like us though.

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He never succumbed and in that
confidence we can come boldly to

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the throne of grace now.
We got just a few more minutes

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and I’m wondering complete break
with protocol here, but I’m

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wondering if we could sing A
Hymn to conclude because there’s

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one him that is just so very
appropriate for Matthews

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consideration.
It’s easy one and I can play it

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if you I’m sure you play a lot
better.

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It’s him 218 218 and it’s almost
you know, this is almost a him.

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That’s kind of a sunday-school
him very simple the words.

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Loving Shepherd of thy sheep.
Keep thy lambs and safety.

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Keep nothing.
Can my power withstand?

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None can pluck them from thine
hand loving savior thou didst

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give Vine own life that they may
live and the hands outstretched

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to bless bear the cruel Nails
impress.

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I’m 218.
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