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

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Welcome to good Chris Selfian
talks.

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I’m Levi.
I’m Chris.

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I’m Jason.
And I’m Brian, thank you for

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joining us this week.
On this podcast, we select one

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talk a week to help us get the
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Each week we post a talk that we
previewed from suggestions sent

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Then we record a short intro
beforehand as a personalized

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recommendation to you on why we
are sharing the talk.

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And now let’s talk more about
this week’s talk.

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Welcome to the good Chris
Adelphian Talks podcast.

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This is brother Brian.
This week’s talk is an exhort

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that was sent in by
recommendation, and it was given

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by a brother who’s been on our
prayer list for a recent health

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issue.
So Brother Jim Sullivan of the

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Boston or Stoughton Ecclesia
gave this exhort in April, just

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before a number of surgeries
have caused him to lose his

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voice due to tongue cancer.
This was a bit of a gut punch

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because Brother Jim is someone
that I grew up hearing countless

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times and someone I would think
of as being one of the voices of

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that particular lampstand.
I’m hearing that he is doing

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better now, but I would ask that
if you’re hearing this episode,

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please say a prayer for him.
Brother Jim draws an interesting

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comparison between the Jewish
practice of keeping the Passover

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and being enslaved to the
traditions versus the ability to

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be set free by an appreciation
of God’s grace when he

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instituted the sacrifice of the
Passover himself which pointed

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forward to Christ.
He then marries this idea to the

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mindset of the sending out of
the 70 in Luke 10 and their

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perspective upon return as
compared to the experience and

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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

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details of the how and why, but
to instead daily revel in the

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goodness of God.
So as always, we hope that this

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strengthens your faith and
brightens your day.

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Brother Jim Sullivan, revel in
the goodness of God.

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There are several reasons why I
wanted to speak to you this

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morning.
When Steve mentioned that they

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were looking for somebody to
step in, I reached out to Steve

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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

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everyone here, everyone online,
friends, family, Co workers.

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The they reach out to me and to
my family’s been unbelievable.

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I’m sure brother Peter, you know
what it feels like.

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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

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everything else was was
wonderful and I can’t tell you

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how how much strength it gives
us in our time of need.

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So let’s always keep that up,
brothers and sisters.

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It means a lot.
The second reason I wanted to

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speak to you this morning
because is because I don’t know

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when the next time will be.
It’ll come somewhere down the

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line.
Not, you know, forever, but a

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period of time.
I tomorrow I have some

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appointments that’ll give me the
update on what my procedures

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will be and when they’ll take
place and all that sort of

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stuff.
So I wanted to take the

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opportunity one more time to
speak to you because being up

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here is what I live for, talking
to you about the love of God and

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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

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sending out of the 70 and, and
compare and contrast it with the

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sending out of the 12 and maybe
we can learn some lessons about

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what it’s all about.
And, and in that Wednesday night

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class of Louis Vincent’s
Wednesday night class where I

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spoke for a few minutes, I
pointed out that I used to, in

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many of you already know this.
I used to work at a resort down

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on Cape Cod.
And we have this group that came

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in.
It was, it was a Jewish group,

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most many people from New York.
It was about 400 people, all

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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

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think it was eight to celebrate
the Passover.

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It was called pay sack, which is
the Jewish word, I think for for

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Passover.
And so they came for eight days

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to the resort to celebrate the
Passover to as close as they

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could come to the rules and
regulations and traditions of

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the Passover.
And so everything or most things

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that that happened in the
Passover is what they tried to

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do.
So for instance, we had to

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kosherize the kitchen because
the kitchen at this resort was

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not kosherized.
So you had to kosher the

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kitchen.
You had to use specific plates.

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They had to be water stations
throughout the facility for hand

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washing stations.
There were certain, you know,

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foods that you had to prepare.
They had to be prepared a

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certain way.
They had to be served a certain

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way.
There were certain wines that

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had to be served.
They had to be served a certain

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way.
Everything had to be done a very

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specific way so that they could
follow what they believe the

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Passover was in as many of rigid
form as they possibly could, the

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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

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Passover, it was also Sabbath’s.
So there were a couple Sabbaths

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in there as well.
And there are very specific

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rules to following the Sabbath.
And so I, I’ll tell you a couple

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interesting stories.
One of them I told on that on

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that Wednesday, but this one I
didn’t, I had a situation where

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I was, I was going by, where the
front desk is to check people

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in.
And there was an old, an older

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couple there and they were
arriving just as the Passover

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was about to begin.
And so they were stuck because

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there are certain things you
can’t do on the Passover.

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You can’t like carry a burden,
right?

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And so they were stuck checking
into the hotel, but they had

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luggage, but they couldn’t carry
the luggage because that would

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be bearing a burden.
So they asked me because I

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happened to be walking by, could
could you help them with their

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luggage and check them into
their room?

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And I said sure.
So I took their luggage and I

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brought them to their room.
And it’s those key card deals,

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you know, Well, they can’t use
those because it’s against the

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Sabbath.
So I had to, I had to use the

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key card, open the door for
them, go inside, turn on all the

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lights, open their luggage, and
leave the door to the hotel room

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open.
Otherwise they would get stuck

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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

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the end of the Sabbath.
And it’s not like they could

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call the hotel and say, could
you come and open the door

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because I can’t use the phone.
So, so they were very, very

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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

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flight of stairs that goes down
to where the meals are.

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And there was a a young couple
there with a baby and they were

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stuck.
And the reason that they were

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stuck was they could carry the
baby down the stairs to get to

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the meal, but they had a
stroller and they couldn’t move

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the stroller.
They couldn’t pick it up because

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that would be bearing a burden.
So they were basically stuck at

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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

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they couldn’t use the elevator.
So they’re standing there.

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There’s four couples standing
there at the top of the stairs

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saying, what do we do?
I mean, I suppose you could

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have, you know, kicked the
stroller down the stairs, but,

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you know, those things are
expensive.

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Well, at that moment I happened
to step by and they said, could

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you please carry the stroller
down the stairs.

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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

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could get to their meal.
So this is, this is the, the,

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the, the burden or the, the trap
that they had to follow these

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rules in order to, in order for
what they felt was the keeping

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of the Passover.
And I pointed out on that

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Wednesday night that there was
another gentleman there who was

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also Jewish, who was not keeping
the Passover the way that they

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were.
In fact, if you asked him, he’d

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probably say he wasn’t keeping
the Passover at all.

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But actually he was.
In actual fact, he was keeping

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the Passover closer to what the
Passover was supposed to be

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about than what they were doing
because he was there for only

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one reason, and that is that his
son was the guy who was running

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the group.
And so he came to the Passover

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to help his son.
And so while they were following

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all the rules of the Passover
and all the rules of the

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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

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easier.
And I realized about halfway

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through the week that he’s a guy
who’s closer to keeping the

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Passover than all these 400
people following all these

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rules.
And that’s actually where I went

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ended on Wednesday night.
And I immediately got a text

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from brother David Levin saying,
what are you talking about?

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He wasn’t rude by any stretch of
imagination.

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But I want to show you what I’m
talking about.

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And I want to show you by, if
you’ll turn with me, if you feel

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so inclined, to Exodus Chapter
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Look what it says in Exodus
chapter 12, and this is about

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the Passover.
And just to set the stage at the

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beginning of Exodus chapter 12,
it talks about taking a lamb one

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year old without spot or without
blemish and killing the lamb,

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right?
Sacrificing the lamb and then

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taking the blood, right, and and
rubbing the blood on the on on

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the doorposts, right.
That’s what they want to do to

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prepare for the Passover.
I I want to pick up something in

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verse 14 for us before we get to
the key, but look what it says

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in verse 14.
It says and this shall be on to

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you for a memorial and you shall
keep it a feast to the Lord

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throughout your generation.
You shall keep it a feast by an

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ordinance forever.
And what I want to point out

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here is that word keep.
That word keep there means to do

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right.
They saying this is what you

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need to do.
You are going to do this.

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That’s what that word keep
there.

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It’s a specific word.
That’s what that means.

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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.

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And when he seeth the blood upon
the lentil, and on the two side

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posts, the Lord will pass over
the door, and will not suffer

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the destroyer to come into your
houses and smite you.

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And you shall observe this thing
for an ordinance to the end, to

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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

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Lord give you, according to what
He has promised, that ye shall

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keep this service.
And it shall come to pass when

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children say unto you, What
meany by this service?

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You shall say, It is the
sacrifice of the Lord’s

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Passover, who passed over the
houses of the children of Egypt,

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when He smote the Egyptians,
passed over the children of

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Israel in Egypt when He smote
the Egyptians, and delivered our

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houses.
And the people bowed the head

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and worshipped.
Now you see that word keep, and

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when first of all pick them,
verse 24.

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And when ye shall observe this
thing for an ordinance to keep

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to thee and to thy sons forever,
it shall come to pass that when

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you come to the land which the
Lord shall give you, according

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as he hath problem promised, ye
shall keep this service.

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You know that’s a different
word.

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That’s not the same word as in
verse 14, because that’s not

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what this word means.
It means to keep it, you have to

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do it.
But it’s more than just doing

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it.
It’s understanding why you’re

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doing it.
You see that verse, that word in

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verse 24 that says you shall
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That’s the same word.
So you don’t just keep the

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Passover.
You don’t just do it.

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You have to understand why
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emphasis of it is in order to
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That’s what it’s saying right
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You need to keep it.
Notice what it says up above.

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And the Lord shall pass through
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This is verse 23.
And when you see it, the blood

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on the lentil on the two side
posts, the Lord will pass over

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the door.
The Lord will pass over the door

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and will not suffer the
destroyer to come into your

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houses to smite you.
You know what that’s saying,

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That’s saying you have every,
the destroyer has every right to

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smite you.
It’s what you were talking about

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on the Sunday school this
morning, every right to smite

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you.
The only reason he’s not going

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to smite you is the Lord’s not
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Otherwise the destroyer would
smite every one of the first

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born of, of Israel, just like
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Except the Lord says, no, it’s
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Do you see that?
It’s quite clear, but then look

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what it says a little bit
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Wait, oh, pick up in verse 26,
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it shall come to pass.
When your children say unto you,

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what is this about?
Why do we do this?

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What is this?
Ye shall say?

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It is the sacrifice of the
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You see that expression in the
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You know, if you go to the
Gospel of John, John talked,

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there’s three Passovers in the
Gospel of John, and in each one

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of them John calls it a Passover
of the Jews or the Jews

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Passover.
Why does he call it the Jews

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Passover?
Because it’s not the Lord’s

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Passover, it’s the Jews
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They’re not following the
Passover the way the Lord wants

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it to be followed.
They’re following it the way

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that they think this they should
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So he calls it the Jews
Passover, even the final

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Passover.
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because they didn’t recognize
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But this is the Lord’s Passover.
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Well, that’s what it says.
It is the sacrifice of the

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Lord’s Passover.
That’s what this is.

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So what’s the sacrifice?
Well, that that’s that’s the

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lamb that they killed.
You know, the doorpost on the

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lentil.
Oh, that was a sign that the

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sacrifice had taken place.
It was the sacrifice that saved

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them.
Now we know what the sacrifice

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is, because we know that Lord
Jesus Christ is the Passover

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sacrifice.
But if you didn’t know that, and

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this is all you knew, you ought
to know that it is about the

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Lord’s sacrifice.
I gave my only begotten Son,

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whatever that is, and not
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You know why?
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Who shall pass over the houses
of the children of Israel in

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Egypt?
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Egypt?
Obviously, they’re in Egypt when

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he smote the Egyptians.
Why does it specifically say in

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Egypt?
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children, make sure you
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when this took place.
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What does Egypt represent?
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very important things.
First of all, Egypt is the place

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of the flesh.
I point that out I don’t know

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how many times, right?
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It’s easy to know that Egypt
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because they got monuments to
the will of the flesh that have

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been there for 4000 years.
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But it’s more than that even.
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They had no freedom in Egypt.
They couldn’t do what they

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wanted.
They had rules they had to

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follow.
They had things they had to do.

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They had no choice in the
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It was not free will in Egypt.
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Now think about these poor
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Cave.
All they’ve done is replace the

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slavery in Egypt to the slavery
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You can’t go down a flight of
stairs.

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You can’t close a whole hotel
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You are just slaves to another,
another institution.

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That’s all you are.
Now think of the man that was

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there.
He wasn’t a slave to anything.

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He didn’t have to eat this meal
at this certain time.

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He didn’t have to do any of
those things as long as what he

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was doing was serving others.
That’s exactly what God does

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here.
By His grace, by His love, He

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brings them out of Egypt, not
because it was necessarily right

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on the sense of right, because
they were just as worthy of

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death as anybody else, but God
chose them by His grace to save

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them and bring them out of
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Boy, that should speak to us.
That should speak so deeply and

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so truly to Our Calling in Jesus
Christ because we are no worthy

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of this incredible hope that
carries us each and every day

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than a slave in Egypt.
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So that’s why he was celebrating
the Passover or keeping the

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Passover closer than they were.
He certainly wasn’t.

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He wasn’t Christian.
He didn’t understand what Jesus

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represented.
He didn’t know any of that

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stuff.
But he knew he loved his son and

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he knew he could be there and
help his son even if he wasn’t

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keeping all these rules and all
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So that’s why I, I made that
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Now I want to keep this in mind
as we turn over to Luke chapter

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10 and what goes on there
because there’s an important, I

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think contrast.
Actually, it’s a contrast that I

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think we’re directed to see
between the sending out of the

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70 and Luke 10 and the sending
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So let’s pick it up.
Just in the first verse.

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It says after these things, the
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Nate did a very nice job of
explaining it could be one of

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the other.
We’re not going to go down like

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we’re just going to call it the
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And if you have an issue with
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After these things, after what
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Well, I mean, it could be after
the very things at the very end

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of Luke Chapter 9.
It could be after Luke Chapter

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9.
It could be after the very

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beginning of the gospel for for
all we know, except that it

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tells us after what things,
because it says an appointed

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other 70 also.
So it tells us specifically what

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what these things are
representing.

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I sent out the 12 in Luke
Chapter 9.

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Now after that I’m going to send
out the 70 also.

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So we still so we know what what
the contrast, what the contrast

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is.
Now as as Nate pointed out, Luke

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10 is the only place where you
learn about the sending out of

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the 70.
It’s not in any of the other

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Gospels.
In fact, the sending out of the

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12, which is found in Matthew
and is found in Mac and is found

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in Luke’s, isn’t in John at all.
John doesn’t talk about the

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sending out of anybody, at least
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But but here’s the one place why
it talks about the sending out

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of the 70.
And the reason that Nate pointed

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out and he he is correct is
because the 12 represent one

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thing.
The 70 represents something

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else.
The 12 represents the children

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of Israel, right?
There are, there are 12 tribes,

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there are 12 disciples who are
going to be, you know,

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overseeing the 12 tribes of
Israel, judges of the 12 tribes

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of Israel.
We know the 12 represents the

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nation of Israel.
We understand that and that’s

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what the 12 represent.
But the 70 represent 70

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represents the nations. 70
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That’s what the 70 represents.
There were seventy nations at

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the time.
This is, again, Nate pointed out

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there were seventy nations that
went out after the time of no,

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no, we get the list of names.
You count the list of places,

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you count them up at 70.
Or as Nate pointed out, it could

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be 72.
So that’s what the 70

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represents, and he appointed 70
also.

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We never know what their names
are.

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We never told who these 70 are.
And one of the corollary

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accounts that is sending out of
the 12, the context specifically

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tells us who the 12 are.
It names the 12.

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Now, of course, we know the 12,
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I think it’s in Matthew, but it
might be Mark.

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He names the 12 and then he
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So it told specifically who the
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We’re never told who the 70 are.
And he sent them out two by two

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to every city and place, whether
he himself would come.

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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

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the he himself would come.
But the sending out of the 12,

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remember, was much, much more
specific right in the sending

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out of the 12.
And I think it was in, I forget

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which gospel it was in, but he’s
very specific that he says to

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him, you are not to go to the
Gentiles.

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You’re not to go to the
Samaritans.

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You are only to go to the lost
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You’re only to go to the Jews.
That’s what the the commandment

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of the 12, you only go to the
Jews.

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That’s not what it says here.
Sent them out two by two into

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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.

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If nothing else, we know we went
to Samaria.

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In fact, we know we went to
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So they must have gone to
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And in fact, we can even look at
this as a, as a bigger picture

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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

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whole world, right?
So in a bigger context, it’s

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really everywhere.
But in this context, we at least

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know they had to go to more than
just to, to just the Jews that

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right.
They went to the capitalists,

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they went to Korea, they went to
all these places where the

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gentiles were as well.
But but that’s not what the 12

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were told.
And then it goes through all

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these, you know, rules and
regulations as to what you

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should do, you know, go to a
house and stay in that house,

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eat what they give you if nobody
lets you in.

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Brushed off the dust.
All that stuff is really very

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much the same between the
sending out of the 12 and the

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sending sending out of the 70.
The rules and regulations are

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what they’re supposed to do and
how they’re supposed to do it.

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And preach the Kingdom of God
that there’s really no

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difference between those those
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Why, Why aren’t those things
different?

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Well, because preaching the
Kingdom is preaching the Kingdom

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doesn’t matter whether you’re
preaching it to the Jews or

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preaching it to the Gentiles.
Same with healing of the sick,

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right?
There’s no change, but there’s

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going to be a change.
And the change is the response

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to going out.
That’s what where the change

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really comes in.
Because go back to Luke Chapter

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9 and look what happens in Luke
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And again, I know I pointed this
out at on Nate’s class.

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So if you weren’t listening at
Nate’s class or you weren’t

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there, it doesn’t matter to you.
If you heard me say it before,

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well then just pretend you
didn’t.

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That’s all.
And it’s in Luke Chapter 9.

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I want to pick up.
I’ve actually lost the verse

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where they come back.
OK, verse Luke Chapter 9, verse

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6.
And this is about the sending

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out of the 12.
And they departed and went

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through the towns, preaching the
gospel and healing everywhere,

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picking up in verse 10.
And the apostles, when they

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returned, told him all that they
had done.

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And he took them and went aside
privately into a desert plate

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belonging to the city called
Bethsaida.

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00:27:23,800 –> 00:27:25,960
And then eventually, of course,
he crosses the Sea of Galilee

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00:27:26,560 –> 00:27:29,400
with him.
So they come back and they say,

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00:27:29,400 –> 00:27:31,280
this is everything we’ve done.
This is what this is what

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00:27:31,280 –> 00:27:33,080
happened.
Nothing, nothing really all that

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00:27:33,080 –> 00:27:34,480
wrong.
But that sounds perfectly fine.

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00:27:34,480 –> 00:27:36,760
That’s makes makes perfect
sense.

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00:27:38,240 –> 00:27:40,280
But then it says Jesus takes
them away privately.

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00:27:40,280 –> 00:27:42,880
Why?
Well, we’re told in another

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gospel why he sends them off
privately.

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And one of the corollary
accounts to the sending out at

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12.
And what that tells us is he

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00:27:50,800 –> 00:27:54,240
says, listen, I’m going to take
you privately because you need

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00:27:54,240 –> 00:27:57,560
to rest, because they were
exhausted.

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00:27:58,880 –> 00:28:02,000
From there, from there going
out, Jesus could see they were

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tired, they were worn out.
It was difficult work to go from

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city to city to do these things
and to heal the sick and to

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00:28:10,560 –> 00:28:12,960
preach the gospel.
They needed to get away.

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00:28:12,960 –> 00:28:16,240
They have some private time,
some quiet time.

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00:28:17,640 –> 00:28:19,840
And then what happens is he
tries to take them away.

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00:28:19,840 –> 00:28:22,000
Eventually they they, they, they
get on the boat to go to the

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other side of the Sea of
Galilee.

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When they get there, there’s the
5000, right?

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00:28:26,720 –> 00:28:29,800
So, so Jesus says he had
compassion upon them.

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And so they weren’t getting any
rest at all.

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They had to feed 5000.
And you remember in the story he

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says to the disciples, he will
feed them.

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00:28:38,960 –> 00:28:40,640
And they say, how, how can we
feed them?

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We don’t have food for 5000.
All we have is five loaves and

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00:28:44,520 –> 00:28:46,400
two fishes.
Well, they had just performed

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00:28:46,400 –> 00:28:50,960
all kinds of miracles and yet
they couldn’t look outside the

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00:28:50,960 –> 00:28:52,920
box and say, listen, it’s all
the same thing.

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00:28:53,640 –> 00:28:55,120
So that’s basically what Jesus
says to him.

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00:28:55,120 –> 00:28:56,840
He says it’s all really the same
thing.

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Bring me the five loaves and two
fishes and they feed them.

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00:29:01,280 –> 00:29:04,160
And then from there they go on
and they have the amount of

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00:29:04,160 –> 00:29:06,840
transfiguration right, this
marvelous event.

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00:29:07,640 –> 00:29:09,840
And Peter says let’s build 3
tabernacles.

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00:29:10,400 –> 00:29:13,760
And God comes down and says you
don’t need 3 tabernacles, all

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00:29:13,880 –> 00:29:18,680
you need is him.
Moses and Elijah are there for

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00:29:18,800 –> 00:29:19,800
Jesus, they’re not there for
you.

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00:29:19,800 –> 00:29:23,000
You don’t need them.
You got him, Listen to him.

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00:29:24,880 –> 00:29:27,000
And then from there they have
the situation when they come

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00:29:27,000 –> 00:29:29,360
back from coming down the
mountain where they meet the guy

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00:29:29,360 –> 00:29:34,760
who says, my son’s a lunatic,
he’s crazy.

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00:29:35,520 –> 00:29:39,120
And your disciples couldn’t help
them.

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00:29:40,760 –> 00:29:44,640
And Jesus says this evil and
perverse generation, what?

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00:29:45,240 –> 00:29:46,600
How long do I have to suffer
you?

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00:29:46,600 –> 00:29:50,480
And he says, bring the boy to me
and then bring the boy.

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00:29:50,480 –> 00:29:53,680
And he says to the Father, how
long has he been like this?

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00:29:55,160 –> 00:29:57,000
And the Father says, since his
youth.

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00:29:57,000 –> 00:30:00,080
Why does it tell us that?
Well, tells us that for this

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00:30:00,080 –> 00:30:06,000
reason, this isn’t about sin.
This boy has been doing this

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00:30:06,160 –> 00:30:09,960
since long before he would be
held responsible for his actions

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00:30:10,080 –> 00:30:16,480
since he was a youth.
This isn’t about sin, but mercy

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00:30:16,480 –> 00:30:19,600
is.
All the disciples understood, so

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00:30:19,600 –> 00:30:22,640
they couldn’t heal him because
just like, remember the

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00:30:22,640 –> 00:30:25,360
Canaanite woman, the Canaanite
woman comes to Jesus and he

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00:30:25,360 –> 00:30:29,800
says, Lord, thou son of David,
have mercy upon me.

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00:30:29,960 –> 00:30:31,640
And Jesus won’t talk to her.
Why not?

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00:30:31,640 –> 00:30:36,040
Because she’s a Canaanite.
It’s not mercy she needs, it’s

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00:30:36,040 –> 00:30:38,560
help she needs.
So she goes away.

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00:30:38,760 –> 00:30:41,560
And when she comes back, what
did she come back and say, Lord

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00:30:42,280 –> 00:30:46,880
help me now Jesus can help her.
It’s the same thing here.

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00:30:48,040 –> 00:30:52,760
Nobody needed to be forgiven for
this like the blind man.

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00:30:52,760 –> 00:30:55,120
Remember the blind man born
blind and they said who’s sin,

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00:30:55,120 –> 00:30:56,640
this man or his parents, that he
born blind.

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00:30:56,640 –> 00:30:58,920
Jesus says neither.
It’s not about sin.

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00:30:59,160 –> 00:31:03,560
This isn’t about sin either.
And so Jesus said, they say to

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00:31:03,560 –> 00:31:06,560
him, why couldn’t we heal him?
He said what you need is prayer

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00:31:06,560 –> 00:31:08,720
and fasting.
Why prayer and fasting?

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00:31:10,120 –> 00:31:13,360
Because prayer is about turning
to God.

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00:31:14,680 –> 00:31:20,280
Lord help me, Fasting is about
denying the flesh.

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00:31:21,280 –> 00:31:24,360
This is not about us, this is
about him.

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00:31:24,360 –> 00:31:25,760
That’s why they couldn’t heal
him.

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00:31:26,920 –> 00:31:31,280
But they didn’t understand that
the event that they had just

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00:31:31,280 –> 00:31:37,080
gone through didn’t teach them
that this tired, difficult

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00:31:37,080 –> 00:31:46,280
situation.
Now consider what happens with

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00:31:46,280 –> 00:31:51,160
the 70 verse 17 of of Luke
chapter 10.

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00:31:51,160 –> 00:31:54,200
Look at the difference.
We said the disciples came back

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00:31:54,200 –> 00:31:56,040
and they told them everything
that that they had done.

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00:31:56,240 –> 00:31:59,240
That’s OK.
But this is what happened when

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00:31:59,240 –> 00:32:08,840
the 70 came back verse 17, and
the 70 returned again with joy,

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00:32:10,840 –> 00:32:17,280
saying, Lord, even the devils
are subject on to us through Thy

519
00:32:17,280 –> 00:32:21,400
name.
They came back and said, this is

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00:32:21,400 –> 00:32:24,880
what we did.
The 70 came back and said, this

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00:32:24,880 –> 00:32:34,240
is what we can do in your name
and with joy and excitement.

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00:32:35,800 –> 00:32:39,080
This is what they said.
And you see that word devil

523
00:32:39,080 –> 00:32:41,840
there?
You know how the disciples

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00:32:41,840 –> 00:32:45,640
couldn’t cast out the devil out
of the boy?

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00:32:46,000 –> 00:32:51,080
Same word so the disciples
couldn’t cast the devil out of

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00:32:51,080 –> 00:32:55,000
the lunatic child and the 70
come back and say even the

527
00:32:55,000 –> 00:32:59,440
devils are subject on to us in
your name.

528
00:32:59,440 –> 00:33:03,640
You see the difference.
And in the case of the 12, Jesus

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00:33:03,640 –> 00:33:07,120
takes him out and takes him to
places to to get rest.

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00:33:07,320 –> 00:33:11,200
And this is what Jesus says to
the 70.

531
00:33:13,520 –> 00:33:21,720
He said on to them, verse 18 I
beheld and Satan as lightning

532
00:33:22,760 –> 00:33:30,400
falling from heaven.
How powerful is that Satan?

533
00:33:30,400 –> 00:33:35,640
Like lightning falling from
heaven, All the power of Satan

534
00:33:36,520 –> 00:33:40,880
to put in our hearts doubts and
fears and our need to follow

535
00:33:40,880 –> 00:33:43,360
regulations.
And I need to must do this.

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00:33:43,400 –> 00:33:48,000
All that stuff is struck away.
And a flash of lightning, you

537
00:33:48,000 –> 00:33:51,640
know what that represents?
The trials that we go through.

538
00:33:54,600 –> 00:33:57,160
And you can go through trials in
one of two ways.

539
00:33:58,440 –> 00:34:01,360
It can be like a flash of
lightning that hits you and you

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00:34:01,360 –> 00:34:04,720
take it and you get knocked down
for a minute and then you get

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00:34:04,720 –> 00:34:09,800
back up and you keep on going.
Or you can take it like Thunder

542
00:34:09,800 –> 00:34:15,120
that rumbles and rumbles and you
just live in fear and in doubt.

543
00:34:16,480 –> 00:34:20,000
What part are we?
Brothers and sisters both

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00:34:20,000 –> 00:34:24,120
individually, as a family, as a
community?

545
00:34:25,719 –> 00:34:29,520
Where do we stand when it comes
to the trials that we go

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00:34:29,520 –> 00:34:31,280
through?
Whatever those trials are, we

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00:34:31,320 –> 00:34:34,080
all have them.
I have had them, I’m having

548
00:34:34,080 –> 00:34:35,679
them.
I’ll have them in the future.

549
00:34:36,400 –> 00:34:43,120
You can’t touch my hope.
You can’t touch it, and nobody

550
00:34:43,120 –> 00:34:51,360
can touch yours either.
And then Jesus says this verse

551
00:34:51,360 –> 00:34:57,320
20 notwithstanding in this
rejoice now, but that the

552
00:34:57,320 –> 00:35:02,280
spirits are subject unto you,
but rather rejoice because your

553
00:35:02,280 –> 00:35:08,240
names are written in heaven.
What names?

554
00:35:10,800 –> 00:35:14,280
We don’t know the names, but
they’re written in heaven.

555
00:35:15,800 –> 00:35:16,720
What?
70?

556
00:35:17,840 –> 00:35:23,320
Who are the 70?
You and I, brothers and sisters,

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00:35:24,640 –> 00:35:28,040
we’re the 70.
That’s why we’re not told their

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00:35:28,040 –> 00:35:31,760
names.
We’re those that take in the

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00:35:31,760 –> 00:35:37,800
hope of Israel, take in this
bread and this wine, because

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00:35:37,800 –> 00:35:42,960
that’s what He’s done for us.
That’s our motivation every

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00:35:42,960 –> 00:35:46,400
single day.
It’s not about having everything

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00:35:46,400 –> 00:35:49,280
right.
It’s important to know what is

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00:35:49,280 –> 00:35:51,720
right.
It’s important to grow in your

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00:35:51,720 –> 00:35:56,200
faith and to do the right thing,
but it’s about the goodness of

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00:35:56,200 –> 00:36:00,760
God.
That’s what drives us every

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00:36:00,760 –> 00:36:03,960
single day.
And it it it comes to an end at

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00:36:03,960 –> 00:36:08,200
the end of chapter 10 and we’ll
finish with this because it’s so

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00:36:08,200 –> 00:36:12,680
powerful that we understand this
and the end of chapter 10, Jesus

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00:36:12,680 –> 00:36:17,000
has an encounter with Martha,
which she talks about Mary and

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00:36:17,000 –> 00:36:18,360
consider the difference between
them.

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00:36:18,360 –> 00:36:22,320
We understand it now it came to
pass in verse 38 that they went

572
00:36:22,960 –> 00:36:26,640
that as they went that he
entered into a certain village

573
00:36:26,840 –> 00:36:29,640
and a certain woman named Martha
received him into her house.

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00:36:30,440 –> 00:36:32,920
And she had a sister called
Mary, which also sat at Jesus

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00:36:32,920 –> 00:36:37,920
feet and heard his word.
But Martha was cumbered about

576
00:36:37,920 –> 00:36:43,360
much serving and came to him and
said, Lord, dost thou not care

577
00:36:43,360 –> 00:36:45,880
that my sister hath left me to
serve alone?

578
00:36:46,520 –> 00:36:48,840
Bid her therefore that she
helped me.

579
00:36:50,440 –> 00:36:58,440
And Jesus answer said, said unto
her, Martha, Martha now are

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00:36:58,440 –> 00:37:02,120
careful in troubled in many
things.

581
00:37:04,680 –> 00:37:07,720
Think of those Jews down those
Jewish families down The Cave,

582
00:37:08,480 –> 00:37:12,040
careful in trouble about so many
things.

583
00:37:12,640 –> 00:37:17,120
That’s what Martha represents.
I have to do this, I need to do

584
00:37:17,120 –> 00:37:18,800
that.
I better do this.

585
00:37:19,160 –> 00:37:28,680
I can’t do that.
But one thing is needful, and

586
00:37:28,680 –> 00:37:35,960
Mary hath chosen that good part
which shall not be taken away.

587
00:37:39,160 –> 00:37:41,120
While we yet sin, we’re yet
sins.

588
00:37:41,120 –> 00:37:48,400
Christ died for us.
We partake of this bread and

589
00:37:48,400 –> 00:37:55,320
this wine, the sacrifice of the
Lord’s Passover, because God so

590
00:37:55,320 –> 00:37:58,760
loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that

591
00:37:58,760 –> 00:38:01,960
whosoever believeth on him shall
not perish, but have everlasting

592
00:38:01,960 –> 00:38:07,360
life.
This is our hope and desire, and

593
00:38:07,360 –> 00:38:13,760
we, like the 70, should rejoice
with joy that we can do all

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00:38:13,760 –> 00:38:16,960
things through Christ who
strengthens us.

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00:38:30,770 –> 00:38:32,890
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