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Speaker 1: to heaven, what was his new role. His new role

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Speaker 1: was to talk about you. That was his new role.

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Speaker 1: So the Holy Spirit is speaking to you. So now

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Speaker 1: because of Jesus, humanity is now given the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit acts as now a conduit between Heaven

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Speaker 1: and Earth. And so now by the power of the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, you and I have an opportunity to experience

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Speaker 1: the presence of God. Not through not through another man,

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Speaker 1: not through a particular source, not through church, not through

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Speaker 1: a pastor, not through a priest, not through a rabbi.

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Speaker 1: We go through Jesus. So you have a mediator that's

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Speaker 1: available at all times. You don't have to do it

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Speaker 1: once a year, you don't have to do it once

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Speaker 1: a month. You have access to Jesus every single day,

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Speaker 1: all day, as often as you want to talk to him.

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Speaker 1: He is available by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Speaker 1: So now you have an opportunity to have access to God,

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Speaker 1: not annually but daily. Are you using that. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of people who have daily access to God and

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Speaker 1: only visit him annually. You're just You're no different than

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Speaker 1: that First Temple Israel Church You're no different than just

451
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Speaker 1: waiting once a year for a priest to do your

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Speaker 1: work for you. But in today's age, you have an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to go to God daily. And you and I

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Speaker 1: maybe visit God once a month, maybe we visit God

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Speaker 1: once a year, once every six months. When you and

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Speaker 1: I Jesus fought, Jesus bled, Jesus died, he resurrected so

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Speaker 1: that you every single day can experience the power and

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Speaker 1: the presence and the grace of Jesus. And we just

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Speaker 1: put it in the corner of our house like a

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Speaker 1: Christmas present that we didn't even really want, and we

461
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Speaker 1: go put it in the closet and hope to bring

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Speaker 1: it out when we remember it or when we need it.

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Speaker 1: That's not the Gospel. So we see that the role

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Speaker 1: of the high priest was to represent God to man

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Speaker 1: and to represent man to God. That was Jesus's role.

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Speaker 1: It was to represent God to man and man to God.

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Speaker 1: That's what Jesus does for us. Jesus represents us to

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Speaker 1: God and then God to us. So the next time

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Speaker 1: someone says, why do I need Jesus, Well, if you

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Speaker 1: want to get to God, you got to get to Jesus.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is God has been trying to get

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Speaker 1: to you because he's brought Jesus. So whenever someone says

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Speaker 1: I feel like God's not talking to me, I feel

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Speaker 1: like God's nowhere to be seen. I feel like God

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Speaker 1: isn't in my life. I feel like he's not answering

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Speaker 1: my prayers. How often have you gone to Jesus? How

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Speaker 1: often have you allowed Jesus to bring God to you.

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Speaker 1: That's the answer to that question. It's not as hard

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Speaker 1: as you think it is. It takes a lot of humility,

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Speaker 1: it takes a lot of faith, but it's not hard.

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Speaker 1: It's not hard. It means that we have to get

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Speaker 1: to a low place. Martin Luther said it like this,

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Speaker 1: and I love the way Luther says this. He says,

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Speaker 1: in his life, Christ an example, is an example showing

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Speaker 1: us how to live in his death. So in Jesus's

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Speaker 1: life he teaches us how we ought to live, how

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Speaker 1: he treated people, how he loved people, how he forgave people,

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Speaker 1: and then in his death he showed us a sacrifice

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Speaker 1: satisfying our sins. So when Jesus died, it was a

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Speaker 1: sufficient sacrifice for our sins because he was a perfect,

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Speaker 1: spotless lamb. And then he says, and in his resurrection

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Speaker 1: he is a conqueror. In his ascension he is a king.

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Speaker 1: So in Jesus's resurrection he conquers what sin and death,

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Speaker 1: he puts it in its place, he puts it in

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Speaker 1: its grave. And then what In his ascension he's a king.

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Speaker 1: So when Jesus ascended to heaven after his resurrection, he

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Speaker 1: shows us, like we see in the Book of Revelations,

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Speaker 1: he is the king of kings and he's the lord

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Speaker 1: of lords. But then I love this last part. Luther

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Speaker 1: tells us this is a king, and in his intercession

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Speaker 1: he is a high priest. So when you get to praying,

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Speaker 1: Jesus gets to working in heaven. So without you praying,

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Speaker 1: without you reading your Bible, Jesus does not intercede. So

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Speaker 1: this is an a poor part. We have experienced Jesus's

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Speaker 1: sacrifice in life. We see that Jesus has showed us

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Speaker 1: he's a perfect sacrifice. He's also taught us how we

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Speaker 1: ought to live in this life. He also has told

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Speaker 1: us that he is a conqueror in his resurrection, and

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Speaker 1: then he is also in his ascension. We know that

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Speaker 1: Jesus is the ruler of all things, He's king. But

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Speaker 1: do you know Jesus as your intercessor. We're quick to say, yeah, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: King of Kings, Lord of Laurance, I'm a prince, I'm

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Speaker 1: a child of God. I'm this, I'm that, I'm that.

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Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, How should I live? How should I forgive?

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Speaker 1: Oh Jesus? How should I sacrifice? Oh Jesus, how can

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Speaker 1: I conquer? We like that. We like to conquer things.

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Speaker 1: So it's like, God, the paycheck, let me conquer the family.

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Speaker 1: Everything like that. But do we know how to get

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Speaker 1: to a place? Because in order to let someone intercede

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Speaker 1: for you, it means you got to get your hand

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Speaker 1: off the wheel. It means you got to let someone

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Speaker 1: step in for you. That's when you and I start

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00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 1: getting finicky. That's when you and I start getting scared,

524
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: because in order for Jesus to intercede, it means I

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Speaker 1: got to get to praying, and then Jesus gets to moving.

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Speaker 1: And when Jesus gets to moving, I have to back

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Speaker 1: off of the steering wheel. You see in twenty twenty three,

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00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: we can go higher because at all times you have

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Speaker 1: someone interceding for you. When you pray, when you gather,

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Speaker 1: when you read your word by the power of the

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Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Jesus is looking to the Father and he's like,

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00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: you see him, You see him. Hey, Look there's Adam,

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00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: there's Joe, there's Jane. They're working, they're praying, they're reading

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Speaker 1: their word, they're come into church. I'm interceding for him. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's start breaking through some walls. Let me start sending

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Speaker 1: my angels to start to move. Let me go to

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Speaker 1: the Father and say, don't you see them moving and

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Speaker 1: working down there? And the Father says, yeah, release all

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Speaker 1: of my resources, release all of my blessings. Because they

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Speaker 1: have gotten to a place where they understand that the

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Speaker 1: high Priest is moving and shaking for you. That's what

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Speaker 1: you have. You have a high priest that moves heaven

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00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: when you start praying, when you start trusting God. So

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Speaker 1: how is Jesus a better high priest? Here's this. Jesus

545
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: is a better high priest because of these reasons. Jesus

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00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: is a better high priest than any human ever could be.

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Speaker 1: Because he is in heaven, he got direct access. So

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Speaker 1: Jesus doesn't have to write your prayer down, put it

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00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: and roll it up put in a little mailbox, call

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00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,840
Speaker 1: a carrier pigeon, send this up to God. And you

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Speaker 1: know if for Israel's time, it was once a year,

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Speaker 1: so once a year they would prepare the lamb, kill

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Speaker 1: the lamb. So you're way in. You're like, okay, six

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Speaker 1: months till the day, six months till the day, six

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Speaker 1: months till God can hear my prayer, six months till

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Speaker 1: we can commune with God. And then it's only one

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00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: God doing it for us, and we're going to celebrate him. Yes,

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00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: so thankful day. He got to experience God's presence. But no,

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00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: through Jesus, he's in proximity. He's right next to the Father.

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00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: So when you pray delivery instant you got mail, it

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00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: happens right there his proximity. He is what he's the

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Speaker 1: son of God, which means he's got access. Who's Jesus?

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Speaker 1: He's the son of God. What father doesn't hear from

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Speaker 1: his son? What father wouldn't hear from his son who

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00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: saved humanity? So Jesus has access. He doesn't have to

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Speaker 1: just knock on the door and be like, hey, are

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Speaker 1: you there? Are you available? Father? No, Jesus is able

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Speaker 1: to come in and come out to the Throne Room

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Speaker 1: of Grace, and he has access because of his position

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Speaker 1: as son of God. The next thing is he's without sin,

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Speaker 1: So every single year the priest himself would still have

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Speaker 1: to go through a purity ritual to make sure, because

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Speaker 1: if he's stepped into that room with any sin at all,

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Speaker 1: God's wrath would cover him and he would die. And

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Speaker 1: so it was often said through Jewish tradition and that

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Speaker 1: the high priests would often carry a rope around their waist,

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Speaker 1: and they knew how long the sacrifice would take. If

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00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 1: the sacrifice would take a minute longer than the sacrifice

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Speaker 1: ought to take, they more than likely knew that the

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Speaker 1: priests win in the Temple of the Holy of Holies

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Speaker 1: with sin, and that he died the wrath of God

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Speaker 1: came upon him, and so then they would have to

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Speaker 1: pull him out with the rome, because if anything anyone

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Speaker 1: else went to chase after him, they would die too.

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Speaker 1: So Jesus was without sin. Jesus doesn't have to, you know,

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Speaker 1: come into the throne room of Heaven and take his

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00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: shoes off, and wash his hands, and wash his feed

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00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: and kill an animal or do whatever. Jesus was without sin,

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Speaker 1: so he could come in and out to the Father

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Speaker 1: at any time that he pleases. So as often as

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Speaker 1: you're willing to pray, as often as you're willing to worship,

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Speaker 1: as often as you're willing to allow the Holy Spirit

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Speaker 1: to intercede for you and move for you and give

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Speaker 1: you groanings too deep for words they don't understand. As

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Speaker 1: often as you're willing to pray in the spirit, that's

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Speaker 1: as often as Jesus is going to the throne room

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Speaker 1: of grace, going to the throne room of grace because

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Speaker 1: he is without sin. And then the last one we

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00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: see is he provides us eternal access. There isn't an

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Speaker 1: end in sight. It's not like you got to re

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00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: up your contract. It's not like you joined a gym

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00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: and annually you gotta resign for the gym or anything

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00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: like that. Jesus is eternal. As long as you go

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00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 1: through Jesus, as long as you have a relationship with Jesus,

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Speaker 1: as long as you confess him as Lord and Savior,

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Speaker 1: your access is there, and it is eternal, even to

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00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: the point where you and I lay our head to rest.

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00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 1: Jesus is there and we have access. I want us

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Speaker 1: now to look at Verse sixteen that we read in

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Speaker 1: Hebrews Chapter four. Hebrews Chapter four, Verse sixteen says us,

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Speaker 1: then let us, let us then with confidence drawn near

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00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy

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00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: and we may find grace in the time of need.

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Speaker 1: So the apostle, or not the apostle, the book writer

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00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: of Hebrews were unsure who it was. We know more

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00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: than likely it was one of the apostles or someone

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00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: very close to Jesus. But what they tell us is

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00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,760
Speaker 1: is that since we know that Jesus is a high priest,

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Speaker 1: and we are able to step to God in confidence,

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Speaker 1: not in fear or in frail team. You see, when

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Speaker 1: we know Jesus is in the position in heaven as

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Speaker 1: the role of the high priest, it ought to give

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Speaker 1: us confidence in his grace because of Jesus's position. I

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Speaker 1: remember when I was younger, me and my brothers, we

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00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: used to play rock paper scissors on who was gonna

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00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: go ask my dad something because we are always scared.

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Speaker 1: So if he was taking a nap, you were really

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00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: scared to go wake my dad and ask him, Hey,

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Speaker 1: can we go play basketball? Can I go to my

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00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,879
Speaker 1: friend's house? We go to McDonald's for dinner. And so

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Speaker 1: what we'd often do, me and my two older brothers

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00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: is we play rock paper scissors to see whoever loses

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00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: has to go and ask my dad can we go

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00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: to McDonald's for dinner? Can we do this? Can we

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00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: do that? And then a lot of times if he

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00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: was nap being then we would get really scared because

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00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 1: when he would wake up from his nap, any fathers

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00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: to take naps, and there's just that like you think

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00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: a bomb went off in the house, jump up and

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00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: everything like that. So we play the loser would go

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00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:13,120
Speaker 1: up to my dad and we tap my dad. He

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00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: would jump up and what what? What's wrong? What's wrong?

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Speaker 1: It's just hey, dad, can I un? Can we not

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Speaker 1: have dinner at the house? Take? Can we do I

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Speaker 1: don't know? I don't know? Go ask your mom? You know,

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Speaker 1: like that's usually how the answer would be. And then

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Speaker 1: we'd be like mom told us that we need to

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Speaker 1: ask you. You know. It's like, but there was this

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Speaker 1: because the dad's a natural father, you would kind of

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Speaker 1: have this fear of like is he gonna say a yes?

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Speaker 1: Is he not? And a lot of us we take

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Speaker 1: the way it is with a natural Father, and we

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Speaker 1: view God that same way. And so and so when

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Speaker 1: we go to God, we go with this trepidation. We

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Speaker 1: go to God with this fear. We go to God.

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Speaker 1: Oh God, if if maybe if? And we have all

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Speaker 1: these fears that are that are feeling our head, that

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Speaker 1: are feeling our heart, that we don't realize that through Jesus,

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Speaker 1: there's this eternal access that the writer of Hebrews tells

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Speaker 1: us to step in confidence, that we're supposed to confidently

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Speaker 1: ask God. But oftentimes we're full and filled with fear.

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Speaker 1: So here are some fears that we often have when

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Speaker 1: it comes to our relationship with God or our approach

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Speaker 1: with God. It's this, here's some fears that we have.

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Speaker 1: It's I'm not worthy of God. I'm so sinful. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever just felt like you just are so full

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Speaker 1: of sin that like you don't even want to think

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Speaker 1: about God? I mean people all the time. It's like

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Speaker 1: whether it be our drug addiction, whether it be our

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Speaker 1: pornography addiction. But it's like we do it so much

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Speaker 1: that whether we step in church or whether we went

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Speaker 1: on prayer, the conviction is so much and the disgust

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Speaker 1: is so much that we think to ourselves like I'm

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Speaker 1: not worthy of God, I'm so sinful, and so we

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Speaker 1: get scared, as if God doesn't want to take that

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Speaker 1: from us, as if God doesn't want to step in

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Speaker 1: between and give us the strength to do it. But

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Speaker 1: we're not willing to release it. We're not willing to

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Speaker 1: let it go because why we think I'm just so gross,

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Speaker 1: I'm so sinful God, God does it want anything to

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Speaker 1: do it with me? There's more perfect people out there

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Speaker 1: than me. Why would he worry about me? And so

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Speaker 1: we think who am I to God? And why would

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Speaker 1: he even care about me? Is a billion people in

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Speaker 1: the world. Why would God care about me and care

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Speaker 1: about my prayers? Why mean, there's so many other people

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Speaker 1: he could be worried about. Will God forgive me or

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Speaker 1: love me? I just feel like I've done so much

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Speaker 1: wrong or I've fallen so much away that I don't

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Speaker 1: think God even wants to hear from me anymore, or

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Speaker 1: God even cares about me anymore? Does God care about

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Speaker 1: my future and my purpose? I feel like I'm not

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Speaker 1: getting answers. I feel like doors aren't opening, and so

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Speaker 1: therefore I'm scared. I'm afraid right now, I don't know

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Speaker 1: that God wants to be there for me in those areas.

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Speaker 1: Where is God in this pain? I've been so sick

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Speaker 1: for so long, or things with my family have been

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Speaker 1: so wrong so long that I don't know where God

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Speaker 1: is at in this? And then lastly, how can I

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Speaker 1: rest when life is so hard? These are often doubts

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Speaker 1: and fears, But I want to encourage you over the

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Speaker 1: next twenty one days as you spend time with God.

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Speaker 1: You have a high priest that's making intercession for you.

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Speaker 1: You have Jesus that as I'm broken as you are,

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Speaker 1: as fallen as you are, as prideful as you are,

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Speaker 1: you could go to God in a humble way and

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Speaker 1: you can access a higher vision, a higher dream, a

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Speaker 1: higher purpose, and a higher love that comes from Heaven.

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Speaker 1: And you have direct access by the power of the

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Speaker 1: grace of God. And so therefore let us go with

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Speaker 1: confidence to the throne room of Grace. I want to

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Speaker 1: share a couple of things with you today as we

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Speaker 1: have a few moments of time together still, and so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna run through these because we're running short of time.

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Speaker 1: I knew I had to intro the series, so it's

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Speaker 1: gonna eat some time up. But here's some things that

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Speaker 1: I want to show you. I want to give you

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Speaker 1: some homework first, okay, so here's some homework. As you're

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Speaker 1: doing this fast homework today, I want you to read

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Speaker 1: John seventeen this week for homework. Okay, read the whole chapter.

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Speaker 1: What this is is this is Jesus's prayer prior to

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Speaker 1: him being taken into custody before his death, and it

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Speaker 1: is called the pie priest prayer. So it's actually Jesus's

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Speaker 1: prayer for you and his church. So if you want

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Speaker 1: to discover what type of things is Jesus praying for

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Speaker 1: on your behalf in heaven, this prayer here on earth

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Speaker 1: that Jesus gives us is a high likelihood that you'll

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Speaker 1: be able to peel back the layer of what's going

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Speaker 1: on in heaven because we saw what Jesus was praying

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Speaker 1: here on earth. And there's a reason why. On the

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Speaker 1: top of your Bible it'll say the high priestly prayer.

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Speaker 1: It means that Jesus is making intercession for you. So

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Speaker 1: that's your homework. I want us to look at Hebrews

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Speaker 1: chapter five. The last few verses right here, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: read and we're gonna close out today. In the days

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Speaker 1: of his flesh, starting in verse seven, this is what

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Speaker 1: we read earlier. In the days of his flesh, Jesus

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Speaker 1: offered up prayers and supplication with loud cries and tears.

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Speaker 1: That's John seventeen. That's an example of it, to him

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Speaker 1: who was able to save him from death, speaking of

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Speaker 1: the Father, and he was heard because of his reverence.

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Speaker 1: Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what

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Speaker 1: he suffered, and being made perfect, he became the source

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Speaker 1: of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated

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Speaker 1: by God a high priest after the order of melchisedet.

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Speaker 1: So here's briefly with the last few moments that we

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Speaker 1: have that we're going to close with today. Here's three

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Speaker 1: things that Jesus is often interceding for for you and I.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things, but in John seventeen, if

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Speaker 1: I extract three important things, here's three important things that

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Speaker 1: Jesus is wanting to make intercession for you in heaven.

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Speaker 1: It's this. The first thing he wants to do is

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Speaker 1: he wanted to make intercession for your worship or who

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Speaker 1: you worship and what you worship. Jesus wants to intercede

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Speaker 1: on your behalf for what you worship. You see Jesus

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Speaker 1: praise in John seventeen that we may rely on God

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Speaker 1: in his word for strength and truth. In other words,

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Speaker 1: what he's saying is Jesus is saying. One of his

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Speaker 1: prayers in John seventeen is that our eyes would be

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Speaker 1: fixed on God, the Father, that we would rest on

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Speaker 1: his words and his great love for us, And that

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Speaker 1: we may worship the Father by resting our hope and

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Speaker 1: our faith on him. Not a career, not a girl,

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Speaker 1: not a guy, not a degree, not a bank account,

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Speaker 1: not a car, not a person, not a thing, but

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Speaker 1: that our eyes would be fixed on God, so that

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Speaker 1: God can see us as the ones who truly honor

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Speaker 1: and respect Him. Is very common. I have two sons,

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Speaker 1: one's almost five and ones almost two, Matthias and Thomas.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that I know that I do

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Speaker 1: as a father, this is me and them on the

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Speaker 1: sea of Galilee and Israel. One of the things that

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Speaker 1: I do is that whenever they're afraid, the first thing

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Speaker 1: that I want to do as a father is I

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Speaker 1: want to what I want to have them look at me.

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Speaker 1: That's what a father does. So when my boys get scared. Recently,

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Speaker 1: I forgot to bring it. I left it in my office.

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Speaker 1: Matthias for Christmas got a little robot spider. He's my

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Speaker 1: oldest son. He got this little robot spider and it's big,

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Speaker 1: and the spider crawls all over the house. Will Thomas,

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Speaker 1: our two year old, is scared to death of it.

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Speaker 1: And so when Thomas was scared running away from it,

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Speaker 1: one of the first things he'll do is he'll run

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Speaker 1: to dad. But I don't want him to say scared

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Speaker 1: of that spider. So what I'll do is I'll get

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Speaker 1: on Thomas's level and I'll say, look at Daddy, Look

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Speaker 1: at Daddy. Look, and I'll touch it. Daddy's not scared.

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Speaker 1: Daddy's not scared. If Daddy's not scared, you shouldn't be scared.

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Speaker 1: Come on, hold it with daddy. And I slowly start

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Speaker 1: to teach Thomas, you shouldn't be scared because your dad's

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Speaker 1: not scared. If your dad's not afraid, why should you

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Speaker 1: be afraid? And so if you look at me, then

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Speaker 1: you'll see that there's nothing to be afraid of. And

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Speaker 1: see Jesus prays for our worship so that we look

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Speaker 1: at our father in his eyes, so that we look

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Speaker 1: to God, and he's saying, what are you scared of?

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Speaker 1: What are you scared of? Look? I have sickness in

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Speaker 1: my hands. I have death in my hands. I have

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Speaker 1: money in my hands, I have access in my hands.

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Speaker 1: I have your future in my hands. If I'm touching it.

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Speaker 1: What are you afraid of? What are you scared of?

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Speaker 1: And so as we worship God and we fix our

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Speaker 1: eyes on God's he begins to teach us that there's

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Speaker 1: nothing to be afraid of. That's why Jesus's prayer is

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Speaker 1: that we may worship God. When you worship God, it's

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Speaker 1: hard to worship God with your hands up while you're

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Speaker 1: holding other things. And so when you worship God and

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Speaker 1: you lift up your hands and you go in prayer

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Speaker 1: and you read your word, it means I cannot hold

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Speaker 1: to everything else. You have to release it. And that

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Speaker 1: Jesus's prayer for us. The next thing we do is

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Speaker 1: we see that Jesus praise in John seventeen for our wholeness.

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Speaker 1: He wants you and I to be whole, not crumbling

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Speaker 1: in pieces, not broken, not anxious, not afraid. We see

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Speaker 1: that Jesus not only praise for our unity in John seventeen,

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Speaker 1: but also our ability to be made whole through Jesus's joy.

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Speaker 1: Jesus what Jesus says in John seventeen. He says, Father,

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Speaker 1: I pray that the joy that I have in you

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Speaker 1: may be fulfilled in them, that they may have the

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Speaker 1: joy that I have. And in the same way that

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Speaker 1: I have lived on this earth, may my people be

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Speaker 1: seen with fullness and joy. And then he also prays

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Speaker 1: for our sanctification. Jesus says to the Father, may they

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Speaker 1: be sanctified. Sanctified is another way of saying holy. Holy

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Speaker 1: is another way of saying wholeness, being made whole by God.

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Speaker 1: So Jesus don't want you broken this year. Jesus doesn't

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Speaker 1: want you in twenty twenty three walking around full of doubts,

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Speaker 1: full of anxiety, full of fear, full of afraid of

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Speaker 1: your own flesh, your own addictions. You can give those

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Speaker 1: things to God today. Why, because you have a high

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Speaker 1: priest in heaven who has experienced all the things that

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Speaker 1: you've experienced. The Bible says he's been tempted in every way,

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Speaker 1: but he did not sin, and so he can sympathize

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Speaker 1: with your weakness. So when you're in heaven. God's not like, well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it's like to be human, because

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Speaker 1: Jesus did, and he does know what it's like to

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Speaker 1: be human. He does know what it's like to be

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Speaker 1: tempted in every way, so he does know how to

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Speaker 1: make you whole and holy and sanctified in every way.

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Speaker 1: You see in Luke, chapter twenty two, verse thirty one.

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Speaker 1: I love that what this says. Right here, Jesus is

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Speaker 1: speaking to Peter Simon Peter, and he says this, Simon Simon,

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Speaker 1: behold Satan demanded to have you. Satan demanded to have you.

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Speaker 1: And then he says this that he might sift you

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Speaker 1: out like we. But I have prayed for you that

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Speaker 1: your faith may not fail and when you have turned

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Speaker 1: again strengthened your brothers. So Jesus tells Peter, say, in

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Speaker 1: is right now if you read the Book of Job

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Speaker 1: saying is in heaven demanding for your soul, demanding to

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Speaker 1: have you fail, demanding to strip you of everything. And

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Speaker 1: Jesus is at the right hand of the Father, interceding

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Speaker 1: for you on your behalf, saying no, you can't have

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Speaker 1: that one that one's mind, saying you can't touch that child.

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Speaker 1: That's a child of God. I have grafted them into Israel.

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Speaker 1: They are part of the Kingdom of God. So therefore,

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Speaker 1: when Satan went to demand Peter, Jesus says, I made

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Speaker 1: intercession for you. Peter. You don't even know that there's

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Speaker 1: going to come a time where you deny me three times.

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Speaker 1: But I know that that day's coming, And when that

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Speaker 1: day's coming, I've already started praying for you. And so

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Speaker 1: Jesus is the one. So I would say this, the

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Speaker 1: next time Satan knocks on your door, look at Satan

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Speaker 1: and say, give me a second. Go to the throne

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Speaker 1: room of Grace and say, Jesus the doors for you.

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Speaker 1: That's what you got to do. That's what you gotta do.

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Speaker 1: It ain't your fight, it ain't your battle, it ain't

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Speaker 1: your temptation. It is something that Jesus has already fought for.

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Speaker 1: It's something that Jesus already has victory for. All you

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Speaker 1: got to do is step away from the door and

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Speaker 1: let Jesus answer the door. When Satan comes knocking on

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Speaker 1: your door, you give that door to Jesus. When Satan

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Speaker 1: calls your phone, you give that phone to Jesus. When

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Speaker 1: Satan slides into your DMS, you know what Satan looks

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Speaker 1: like in your DMS. You give to DM to Jesus.

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Speaker 1: And here's the last thing that Jesus prays for and

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Speaker 1: will close is he prays for our world, your world,

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Speaker 1: your influence, your impact, your space. He prays that you

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Speaker 1: may leave an impact and an influence in this world

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Speaker 1: that brings people closer to Jesus. Jesus cares about your world,

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Speaker 1: He cares about your influence, and he cares about your impact.

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Speaker 1: And so today, as we launched this series today and

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Speaker 1: as we spend time very in a short period of time,

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Speaker 1: but this is just the start of it. Over this

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Speaker 1: whole month, we're gonna unpack deeper and deeper what it

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Speaker 1: means to go higher with God. But it all starts

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Speaker 1: with this that Jesus is interceding for us on our behalf.

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Speaker 1: And so today, as you leave this church and you

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Speaker 1: leave this place with us, whatever campus you're from, just

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Speaker 1: know that you have a high priest that is interceding

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Speaker 1: on your behalf, and he cares about your world. He

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Speaker 1: cares about your wholeness, and he cares about your sanctification.

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Speaker 1: And God loves you so much so that Jesus died

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Speaker 1: heaven through his death, burial and read direction because he's

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Speaker 1: the pure, spotless Lamb. So not only was Jesus the sacrifice,

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Speaker 1: not only is he our king, but he's also our priest.

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Speaker 1: And so you know that you have access to God

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Speaker 1: today through Jesus. And so let's pray this morning or

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Speaker 1: afternoon whenever you're watching us. God, we thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for this word, Lord. I just pray Lord that

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Speaker 1: it may minister to us, that it may impact us.

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Speaker 1: Father God, I pray that we leave here not the same.

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Speaker 1: But I pray today that you have challenged us to

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Speaker 1: challenged Peter to walk on water. Jesus told Peter, as

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Speaker 1: long as you fix your eyes on me and trust me,

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Speaker 1: you'll walk on this water. We only know that Jesus

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Speaker 1: that Peter started to drown when he broke his eye

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Speaker 1: And so God, may we stop looking down at the storm,

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Speaker 1: and may we continue to look up at Jesus, the

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Speaker 1: one who's unafraid of anything. And the one who has

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Speaker 1: experienced every temptation but is the only one who has

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Speaker 1: come out unscathed. We thank you, Lord that we not

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Speaker 1: only have a savior, but we also have a king

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Speaker 1: and a priest who understands what we go through. And

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Speaker 1: we thank you for interceding for us today in Jesus

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Speaker 1: name Amen. The podcast The Bible in a Year with

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Speaker 1: Jack Graham is a moving and inspiring Biblical audio experience

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Speaker 1: that will help you master wisdom from the world's greatest book.

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Speaker 1: In each episode, you'll learn to apply Biblical principles to

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