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Let's go for a walk with Jesus to Emmaus -join for communion-Luke 24 30-35
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through the links below. So they wanted to take care of
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him. So the one of the students goes
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in the morning and says, brother, what would you like for
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breakfast? He said only light, very light
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breakfast. So he said, so still what do you
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want for light breakfast? What?
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What do you like to have? Something light?
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Just two dozen bananas, two dozen eggs and one dozen
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oranges. And you know, the list was going
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on. This fellow said, if this is
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only light, what are you going to eat in a heavy meal this
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morning? I want to preach very light,
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only light. So I was thinking about it and I
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said, God, what is the Scripture that you want me to speak about?
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You know, all scripture is God inspired, inspired by the Holy
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Spirit. But we need something that is in
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season because resurrection of Jesus Christ of Nazareth has
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happened 2000 years ago and it looks very, I mean very far back
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in time. What does it mean to us today?
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There has to be practical relevance today.
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What does it mean to me to celebrate the resurrection of
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Jesus? And basically, I did not want to
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do. Usually I refuse to do this
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apologetic part. You know why?
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We can believe that He rose again from the dead.
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But I thought, let me do it in a light way again, just three
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points #1 we can believe that Jesus rose again from the dead
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because there is something undeniable existing in Israel,
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an empty tomb. That empty tomb no one can deny.
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Whether you are a friend of Jesus or enemy of Jesus, you are
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going to acknowledge that the tomb is empty.
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That is something that we need to explain.
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And the only explanation is that heroes again from the dead.
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That is the only explanation. You cannot explain in any other
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way. So the empty tomb is undeniable
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and enemies of Jesus also accepted the empty tomb.
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They could not refute it but try to explain away.
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Even after he was crucified and buried, the high priest go to
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the pilot and say hey, when he was alive he said he's going to
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rise up again. So let's make sure that his
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disciples don't steal the body and spread the news that he rose
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again. So they asked for Roman God to
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be posted at the posted at the tomb and they put the Roman seal
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on it so that no human can ever go.
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And the Roman soldiers have very well known for their duty.
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If they fall asleep on duty, they head will go.
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That's very strict about it. So they have to guard the tomb
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with their life. And when that happened in the
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early morning of Sunday morning and there was an earthquake and
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there were Angel of God, he rolled away the stone and he sat
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upon it. The soldiers saw and they were
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shaking in their boots and then they were running for their life
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and then the body just disappears from there.
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And then they know that Jesus body is not in the tomb.
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So they go to the high priest and say hey, this is something
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happened. We cannot handle this.
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This is beyond our duty, beyond our explanation, beyond our
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power. How do we do it?
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They said, don't worry, take this money and say the disciples
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came and stole the body and whether when the news goes up to
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the governor, we will take care of you guys, protect you.
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So they tried to spread a false rumor that he his body was
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stolen. But it cannot be, it cannot hold
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hold in the sense it cannot be really be held with honesty,
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integrity, because those guys know that it is not stolen.
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And we look into the lives of the disciples, everyone of them
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was before the cross or during the crucifixion.
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They all ran away, most of them except John the disciple and a
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few women, most of them ran away for their life.
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So these people who are full of fear, insecure, and those kind
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of people, after the resurrection, they become very
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bold, so bold that they are able to preach in the same streets of
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Jerusalem. Jesus, this Jesus.
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Whom you crucified God. Raised from the dead Not long
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after they preached the same message on the day of Pentecost.
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Peter preached it 3000. People believed in this new good
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news and they were saved. If it was not true that Jesus
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rose again from the dead, they could have produced the body and
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the Christianity would die the same day.
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It would not have come to us today.
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They could not do it. They cannot do it.
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They could not do it because it is just not possible to do it,
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because he rose again from the dead and everyone of them died a
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martyr. They gave their life to this
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gospel to preserve it, to preach it, and to proclaim the power of
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the name of Jesus. That is the second proof.
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And Paul when was writing the letter to Corinthians, 1
1 Corinthians 15 chapter mention
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Corinthians chapter 15, he gives a list of people who have seen
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Jesus, list of people. And among them, one of the
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things he says is that at one time more than 500 people have
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seen the reason Jesus. How many people 500 Some people
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think you know, you can have hallucination.
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Hallucination is like if a if a woman has become a widow, the
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husband dies and she's sitting in a corner taking of the
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husband, taking of the love he showed, how much he sacrifice,
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how he lived for the family all the time.
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She's grieving and then suddenly she will see the husband walking
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in the corner of the room. That's called hallucination
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because she's been thinking and thinking and thinking and she
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can literally see the man walking there and she would say,
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oh, I see my husband is back again alive.
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That's called hallucination. Hallucination can happen to one
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person, but if two people are hallucinating, they will be
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hallucinating two different things, not the same thing.
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And here you have got 500 people seeing the reason Jesus, and
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that is not hallucination, it is revelation.
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It is encountering a living Jesus. 500 people and Paul says
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some of them are still alive out of the 500, some are still
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alive. You think this is something that
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you're being duped you're being deceived by a news that Jesus
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rose again from the dead. You can go and ask these people
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because they're still alive those three I stopped there much
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more to say about apologetics. I'm not a guy who's a big fan of
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apologetic, but I studied it and I know what what it is all
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about. And so I was thinking about the
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scripture portion that will be relevant to us.
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We now know that he rose again from the dead.
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We can have, we don't have to commit an intellectual suicide
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to believe that Jesus rose again from the dead.
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One of the first things that I ever was exposed to when I was
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taught the gospel of Jesus Christ is, is it reasonable to
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believe that Jesus rose again from the dead?
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Can we give any kind of a defense of the argument?
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And when I heard the defense of the arguments in favor of
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believing that Jesus rose, rose again from the dead, one truth
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that came into my heart is that Jesus is not just dead and gone,
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but is alive. As a Hindu boy, 15 year old,
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when I hear the gospel, the first thought that I came to my
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mind is to say I-1 evening I went and sat on a rock by myself
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and said to Jesus, I hear that you are a living God.
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If you are a living God, prove you're a living God.
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In my life, I don't even know what to what prayer is, but I
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said those words and you know Jesus heard those words of mine
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and he has been proving to me for the last 48 years that He is
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a living Christ. And what I am trying to say is
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that we all can experience this living Jesus.
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All that we need to do is to ask him.
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So many times when I speak to people who don't believe in
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Jesus, I tell them one simple thing.
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See, you don't have to believe what I'm saying to you.
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You sit down in a quiet place, calm down your mind and speak to
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this Jesus. This Ramana told me that you are
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a living Christ, can you prove yourself living God in my life?
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Same thing I did, I tell them to do, but I have not come across
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anyone guy saying yeah you told me.
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I have done it. I know he is a living one.
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No one has come back because people are not honest.
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They are not really seeking Christ.
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They are not really seeking truth.
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When they do, they will ask the same question I asked when I was
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a 15 year old guy. We need to have the hunger.
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You need to have the kind of a desire to know the truth because
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the truth will set you free. Many people are dishonest with
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themselves. So there is a reason why we
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don't see or meet Jesus in our lives.
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So one of the things that very much impressed me is we all will
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be going through lots of problems.
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And when Jesus was crucified, the atmosphere in Jerusalem was
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not a jubilant 1. There were these disciples who
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were fearful, hiding and when the news reached them that Jesus
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rose again from the dead, they could not believe it.
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It was just few women who visit the tomb and then this where
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they were wondering who is going to roll away the stone for us.
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And when they arrived there, the stone was already removed.
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And they go in and see there is no body, but there were two
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angels sitting, one at the place where Jesus head was laid at
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rest and one at his feet. They said, why are you looking
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for the one who is the living One among the dead?
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He has risen. Go and tell the disciples and
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tell them that he is going to meet them in Galilee.
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You know, when you read all those kind of things, it really
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challenges us. My question is how much do you
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believe that Jesus rose again from the dead?
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How much can you put a number on it?
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On a zero to 101, 100%? Be honest, if you believe Jesus
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rose again from 100%, If you believe with your heart, you
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will see science wonders and miracles because there is power
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in that belief. There is power and if there is,
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you do not see power. I would ask you to examine how
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much you really believe. This is greatest challenge for
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me. Every day I ask God help me to
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believe 100%. If there is only one person
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missing, I want you to do something to change it.
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Because I want to believe 100% with all my heart, with all my
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soul, with all my mind, with all my strength.
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I want to believe, I want to preach it, I want to experience
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it. That is my desire.
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And if you have the same desire this morning, I believe He is
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going to visit you this morning. So there were two people who are
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walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus and when they were walking they
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were talking about what happened in Jerusalem.
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And when you look into their psychological condition, it is
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very surprising. Enjoy.
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In Luke chapter 24, we see there were people, basically it was 7
Luke 24 chapter mention
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miles from MIS, was 7 miles from Jerusalem.
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It's a couple of hours of walk and these people were walking
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and talking about what happened in Jerusalem, how Jesus was
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crucified, how he was buried, all those things.
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They were talking and basically they were feeling very sad.
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And when they were having uncertainty, when they were
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having fear, when they are having doubts, when they are
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having kind of don't know what is life holding for us?
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This is something we expected. He's going to be the Messiah.
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We thought he is a savior. We thought he's going to restore
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Israel now and now he's dead and buried.
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What is going to happen to us? We thought we are following him.
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He is the worth following. We.
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We want to sell everything we have to follow him.
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We want to make him a master. And now he is.
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Dead and buried. Is there any hope Indiana their
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countenance? When you look into their face,
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do you see hope? Nothing.
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And when they were walking silently, Jesus joined them,
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they started he, they were walking two of them, and Jesus
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joined them and they were, he was walking along with them.
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Many times in our life, when we are in the lowest point, Jesus
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starts to walk with you and you don't know it.
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He joins your walk of faith and your doubt, your struggle, your
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pain, and he is stop walking with you.
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But you don't see that He is with you.
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And when this is happening to them, he asked them, what are
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you discussing together as you walk along?
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What are you guys talking, huh? Or is the only one in Jerusalem
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who is a visitor and you don't know what's happening here.
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And then they, they stood still first, their faces downcast.
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Now look at these people. There's no hope.
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Indiana them, they have no hope. They must have known Jesus for
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three years and the three years of listening to him, seeing the
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miracles, has not put any kind of faith in them.
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There is no faith. Their faces are downcast.
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One of them named Cleopas asked him, Are you only a visitor to
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Jerusalem and do not know the things that have happened there
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in these days? What things?
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He asked about Jesus of Nazareth, they replied.
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He was a prophet, powerful in Word and deed before God and all
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the people. The chief priests and our rulers
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handed him over to be sentenced to death, and they crucified
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him. But we had hoped that he was the
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one who was going to redeem Israel.
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And what is more, it is the third day since all this took
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place. In addition, some of our women
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amazed us. They surprised us.
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What did? Why?
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What did they do? They went to the tomb early this
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morning but didn't find his body.
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They came and told us that they had seen a vision of angels.
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Who said he was alive? Everybody say he is alive.
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Then some of our companions went to the tomb and found it, as the
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women had said. But him they did not see.
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There's a time you are walking in fear, uncertainty.
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He's walking with you and you don't see it.
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And these people ran to see him where they expected him to find
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him. They don't see him why he's not
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there. They're looking in the wrong
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place. Tomb is not the place to look
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for a living. Jesus is not the place.
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And they did not find him because that's not the place.
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He is going to be forever there. He rebuked them.
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He said to them, how foolish you are.
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I am telling you every time you read the word, it speaks to you
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and me, and so many times it rebukes me.
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How foolish am I? How foolish, how foolish.
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Why it is the such strong word did Jesus use?
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You are slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have
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spoken. The word of God is very
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powerful. Anyone single sentence can
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change your life. One sentence from the Bible, if
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you believe it, it is going to change your life.
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It has got that power. I can't hide it.
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I cannot hide it. How many times I have been
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heard, I have heard the voice of the Holy Spirit speaking the
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Scripture and all the oppression of the enemy just lifts like
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that in one second. I have experienced it and I tell
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you there is power in meditation of the scriptures.
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And if you go through this chapter, Luke 24, you see three
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times the word Scriptures is used there three times once you
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see in verse 27. And beginning with Moses and all
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the prophets, He explained to them what was said in all the
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scriptures concerning himself. What will you find in
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Scriptures? Jesus?
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Did they know the Scriptures? Did they have the Scriptures?
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They did. Did they find Jesus?
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No. So He had to teach them the
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Scriptures again, beginning from Moses, all the prophets and the
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Psalms. Oh, I tell you, yesterday I was
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thinking about it and the question popped up in my mind So
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many times these days in when you go into social media like
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YouTube, you see so many videos that talk about Book of Enoch,
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Book of Jubilees, Book of Estras and this and that Gospel of
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Thomas, Gospel of so many different kind of pseudo kind of
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things. The answer is in Luke 24.
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Say it answer is in Luke 24. What is the answer in Luke 24?
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Jesus explained the scriptures to them.
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From where? Beginning from Moses.
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That means the first five books and the prophets, all the
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prophets, major and minor prophets, and the Psalms.
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He explained to them about himself.
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Now this is the Canon accepted by the Jewish people of the 1st
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century. They accepted this 39 books that
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you hold in your Bible as a final revelation of God in the
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Old Testament, which they believe.
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And you may have other books like Enoch and things, but like
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they are not part of the Canon. They are not part of the Canon.
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When Jesus was approving those 39 books when he mentioned these
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things, I was wondering why should I have this 39 books are
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not other books. And when I was reading this Luke
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24 yesterday it struck me like a lightning.
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I do not need this extra books anymore.
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Why? Because Jesus said this is
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enough to know him. You do not need Enoch.
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You do not need Jubilees. You do not need one.
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Is the 2nd through address 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees None of
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these books that are in the Catholic Bible you need them or
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in the Ethiopian Bible. They have 82 books, not 66.
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You don't need them because Jesus did not approve them.
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Anybody with me? Can I see your hand?
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Amen. So in this end times, this
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everything to tickle your ear will come in in the social
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media, but you need to be grounded in the world, be
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grounded in the world, be unshakable in the world because
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this word that you have in your hands is enough to reveal Jesus.
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And Jesus did exactly that by talking to those two guys,
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explained about himself from the Scriptures.
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Prove that he is the Messiah. He should suffer and die and
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rise again from the dead. Don't you know these things are
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written already? Why are you slow of heart?
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Why are you so foolish? I tried to read those books.
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Basically I tried to read, you know, I tried to read other
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books. It did not make sense to me.
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I said, ah, we don't need them. You have this Bible with 66
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books is enough revelation for knowing God, knowing salvation
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and to have hope for the future and to reign with crush forever.
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That's enough. And another time, you see again
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in verse 32, they asked each other, were not our hearts
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burning within us while He talked with us on the road and
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opened the scriptures. That's the second time we the
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word Scriptures is used. And the third time you see again
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was 45. Then he opened their minds so
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they could understand the scriptures.
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What am I talking about here? You can be reading this Bible,
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but I tell you, you will not understand unless the Holy
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Spirit opens your mind. Unless it's the revelation of
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the Holy Spirit, you will only be reading the words in black
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and white but does not benefit your spirit.
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The ministry of Jesus is continued by the Holy Spirit
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now. So every time you open the
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Bible, every day, you got to ask this Holy Spirit and say Jesus,
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Holy Spirit, give me revelation, teach me your word, teach me
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your word, you know, in Omega. Why are we so focused on
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studying the word week after week in home groups?
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Because that's going to do something to you.
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It will change you, will impart life to you, put hope Indiana
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you and faith in you and to make you holy and so that you will
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become like Jesus one day. That's the purpose of the Home
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group, and some of us don't go there because they don't want to
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become like Jesus. I'm just too harsh force, but
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I'm just trying to exaggerate the situation.
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What I'm trying to say is go to some Home group where the Word
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is studied. Why?
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When you go to the Home group, you're giving an occasion, an
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opportunity for the Holy Spirit to speak to you and give you a
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revelation because that revelation is what is going to
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change your life. And now when they were all these
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things were happening, when the the approach the Emmaus, they
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wanted to stay for the night where they must be wanting to go
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somewhere else next day morning. And Jesus acted as if he's going
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farther. And they said, oh, please stay
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with us tonight. It's already late and you may
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not come back to another village for a few more hours.
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It's very, very dark already. Please come and join us.
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OK, Just sit down at the table. And he gives thanks to the
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bread, and he breaks the bread. And as they were watching the
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action of Jesus, their eyes were opened and they recognized that
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the guest who walked with them is Jesus himself.
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Jesus himself has walked with them for two hours.
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Because to explain about himself from the from Moses, through
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prophets, through the Psalms is going to take the two hours of
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time. And I think it is very, very
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short course. Three years of theology in
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modern day seminary may not, may not do anything compared to the
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two hours of walking with Jesus and hearing from Him.
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He did teach them and that changed their life.
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And when he broke the bread, when they saw his hands and the
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bread in his hand, their eyes were opened.
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Today, as we partake in the communion, I pray that the Holy
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Spirit will open your eyes. Open your eyes to see Jesus.
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I want the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to see Jesus.
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We it's not. You are eating a piece of bread,
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drinking a little bit of grape juice.
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That's not the purpose. The purpose is encounter Jesus
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through the communion. You are partaking.
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The bread stands for Jesus himself, His body.
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That's broken for us. And you learn to feed on the
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broken body of Jesus. You learn to feed on the death
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of Jesus. The effect of Jesus, the more
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you think about it, the more you mediate upon it, the more you
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feed upon it, the death of your flesh will occur, your flesh
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will die, and the Spirit will be imparted with life.
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It will be raised up with new life.
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Do you want that to happen today?
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So everything is symbolic then, full of deep meaning, because
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Jesus said I am the bread of life.
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And these Jewish people, they know that God Yahweh has fed
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their ancestors with manna from heaven.
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You neither sow nor reap, and you just have food.
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Every morning you go out and collect it and they were able to
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ferry it, bake it, cook it, boil it and eat it and never went
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bad. But anything they purposefully
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they leave it behind next day morning so rotting because they
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were told to collect only as much as they need for the day.
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And that manner rule has not changed.
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Has it changed? No, you read Bible today, not
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enough. That's only for today.
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You cannot survive tomorrow again on that, you need to read
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the Bible again tomorrow. Why?
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That is how God designed human beings to feed on Him every day
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and derive life from His word. Your design like that, It's like
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an aeroplane that cannot fly if there's no petrol in it.
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Oh, I filled the petrol. We have already were flying for
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the last 2000 kilometers and next 1000 kilometers it will not
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run. You have to fill it again.
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Same way we are designed to feed on the Word of God day daily,
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daily, daily. And then you derive your life,
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your strength, your hope, your everything, faith from that
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word. So then what happened?
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He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and began to give it
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to them. Then their eyes were opened and
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they recognized Him and He disappeared from their sight.
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They asked each other. Were not our hearts burning
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within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the
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scriptures? Has it happened to you anytime
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when you read the Bible? Did your heartburn anytime even
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once? It happens in your lifetime.
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That will change the way you read your Bible.
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Sometimes it's just a scripture flashes in your mind.
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I was reading a book by Martin Lloyd Jones.
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He was called Prince of Preachers.
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He was called Preaching on Fire, and he just quoted from Matthew
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4. Man shall not leave a bread
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alone in brackets, not in the main text, in the brackets.
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And I was reading it, and strangely my heart became warm
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and that warmth flushed through my body.
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Man shall not leave my bread alone, but by every word that
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proceeds from the mouth of God. We had to learn to feed on this
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Word because that is the only way you can feed on Jesus.
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The Word and Jesus synonymous in the beginning was the Word and
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the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and the Word
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became flesh and dwelt among us. We beheld His glory as of the
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only begotten Son, full of glory, with grace and truth,
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full of grace and truth. We have to learn to feed on this
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Word because when you read the Word, your fellowship with
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Jesus, when you believe the Word, you are believing in
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Jesus. And what trouble can stand
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before you when you carry Jesus in your heart?
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Like the priests of the Old Testament, when they were
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wanting to crossover the Jordan their their feet, they dipped
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into the water and stood there with the ark of the covenant
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held by them. And when the feet touched the
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water, the waters were cut off from a kilo mile or so more, and
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there was no drop of water flowing and more than 2 million
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people crossed on dry ground in shortest time possible.
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When you carry this presence of Jesus in your heart, when you
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carry the presence of Jesus in your heart, that River Jordan
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will stop. When you carry this presence of
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Jesus in your heart, that Red Sea is going to split open and
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give you the way. There will not be a trouble that
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will put you down. There is no ocean that is going
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to sink you down, and there is no trouble that is going to
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defeat you because you have God dwelling in you.
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And that's possible only by meditating on the Scripture,
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studying the Scriptures, believing it, obeying it.
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That is what God told. Joshua made it upon it day and
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night, not 5 minutes in the morning, not 5 minutes in the
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evening, day and night. So their hearts were burning
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because their eyes were open to Scripture.
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He opened the Scriptures and that brought that burning in the
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heart and they recognized Jesus. I tell you, this revelation has
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to come. And when the revelation comes,
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the life will be completely changed, completely changed.
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So I was just thinking about to tie it around, we need something
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because we are people who want something that we can feel,
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something we can imagine, something we can connect with,
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relate. So I was looking for a story
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that will help us remember these things.
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So the story is set in the Second World War.
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You know how Americans dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, Nagasaki,
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the hydrogen bomb and completely Japan was surrendered and had to
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surrender. And the war was called up after
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that. Basically it came to an end.
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And there is a man who is an American pilot, his name is
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Jacob de Schezer. And he was captured even though
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they won the war, he was captured and he was rotting in
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Japanese jail for many years. And he they would torture him
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every day, torture, torture, torture.
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And ultimately he was set free. But when he was in the jail
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being tortured, he was given opportunity to read this Bible
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for three weeks, only three weeks.
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And those three weeks he read the Bible.
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He was hungry man. Every word.
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He was reading it 3-3 weeks, day and night, he read the Bible and
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something changed in his heart. He forgave his captors.
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He forgave the people who were torturing him.
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He forgave everybody. And when he was afterwards set
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free, he went back to America and then did some theological
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core training and he got married and then went back to Japan to
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preach the gospel. The same people who tortured
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him, he went back with the gospel of Christ.
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And he wrote a small pamphlet thing, 11 sheet of paper about
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his testimony, why he is preaching the gospel now, and
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that is distributed widely. And there was another man, a
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Japanese, and this man's name is Mitsuo Fuchira.
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Mitsuo Fuchira. He was involved in bombing of
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the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. And then he had different
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assignments. He arrived into Hiroshima,
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Nagasaki, 2 days after the bombing.
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So many times in between he was close to death.
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He would escape it only by a very little chance, and he never
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understood what is the purpose of life.
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After the war he went back home completely disillusioned,
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depressed, had no hope and didn't know why he was living.
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I tell you, what can war do to man?
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Man is not made to live with violence.
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No, the more a man is indulging in violence, the more his soul
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dies inside. And why so many soldiers have to
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be counseled, put into psychiatry wars when they go
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into war, because it does something, it devastates them to
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kill another man, divestes the man.
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Even the people who are sitting behind somewhere, somewhere in
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America and they are trying to put, I mean, bomb a place in
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Iran, they may be sitting here and controlling through
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computers and they are not directly involved in killing
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anybody, but they are causing those things to happen.
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And sitting in America, that man needs psychological treatment
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because he cannot imagine that he can sit here and push a
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button and the people are dead there.
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Buildings are collapsing. Many, much of much of a
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devastation is happening. Why?
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Why is man so fragile? And this man, Mitsuo Fuchiro
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Fuchira, was also a fragile man. He was broken completely and one
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day he got to read Jacob Deshazes testimony.
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He read that and then he he wanted to buy a Bible and he
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went and bought the Bible. He was reading it very, very
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carefully. And as he was reading he was he
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came to Luke chapter 23 and he saw Jesus hanging up on the
Luke 23 chapter mention
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cross and he said those words. Father forgive them, for they
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don't know what they are doing when he read that.
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Words, I tell you, he heard the voice of God.
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He said this gospel is true. And he forgave the Americans
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because they came and bombed Japan.
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You cannot talk about these things without feeling.
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Emotional if I am dead. Inside I can read and not be
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affected. But I am a human being.
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I love people. I wanted to be saved and this
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man he met. Jacob D.
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In Japan they were enemies before the war, but now they are
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brothers in the Lord. They are preaching the gospel
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together. I want you to know that this
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Jesus is alive, the one who met Jacob Dsenger, the one who
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meets, meets you of Fuchida. He is the same one who wants to
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meet you today. And I want.
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Your eyes to be opened. When you eat that bread and
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drink that juice, I want your eyes to be opened.
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I want you to fellowship with this Jesus.
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I want you to know Him and His power of resurrection.
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My Friends, Life is incomplete if you don't know this Jesus in
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a dynamic way, if your heart is not burning, if your eyes are
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not being opened, you are eating a piece of bread and drinking a
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bit of juice. But I want you to do go beyond
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eating a piece of bread. I want you to partake in the
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living Jesus. I want you to feed upon the
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living Jesus. And I want you to fellowship
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with this Jesus. I want you to have walk in
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Revelation. I welcome you to walk with Jesus
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to MIS today. And in that, in where they
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stopped as he broke the bread, their eyes were open to
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recognize him. Today I want you to have that
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experience of meeting living Jesus.
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Not an idea, not a philosophy. It is a person who lived 2000
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years ago and allowed you and died for you.
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He rolls again from the dead. He's seated by the redhead of
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the Father, as he is there, you are there, not here, and he
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gives you power. To trounce down, to trample down
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snakes, carving all the power of the enemy and he.
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Wants to give you the. Power to open the eyes of the
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blind to make the deaf. Here don't speak lamb walk and
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then to raise the dead. Do you want to partner?
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And partake. In this Jesus, this.
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Morning we have two tables, feel free to pick up piece of bread
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and little bit of juice and come back to your seat and we will
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partake together. And you encounter Jesus as you
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eat his bread, as you eat his body and drink his blood.
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Can somebody play music when this is going on?
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Thank you, Jesus. Castre Barano, Mastakuroni,
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Shahastre Sarano, Rabasoni rehasse Karasandarano.
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Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
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Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
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Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus.
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I hear the Lord Jesus say now I have not held back, not even oh
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.001% on the cross. I didn't hold back myself.
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I had given myself to 100%. I have loved you 100% and I gave
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my life 100%. Not 99% receive that life.
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Let's give thanks for his broken body and the shed blood.
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Father, we thank you for your son Jesus.
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We thank you, Lord, for the broken body and the shed blood
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as we partake in this body and the bread of Jesus.
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Open our eyes to see Jesus, that we may recognize Him.
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That we may know Him, That we may fellowship with Him, That we
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may receive revelation of him. That we may encounter him from
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the Genesis to revelation as we read the Bible every day.
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That we may encounter him. That we may derive life from
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him. That we may feed upon him, be
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energized by him, be strengthened by Him being built
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on hope and faith To walk like Him, to love like him, to
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forgive like him. We thank you again for your Son
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Jesus, and the precious blood is shed as you partake in it.
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Make it a living encounter with Jesus through your Holy Spirit.
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Thank you Lord, for answering this prayer in Jesus mighty
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name, Amen. Let's partake together.
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Talk to him, talk to him, talk to Jesus, talk to him, talk to
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him. That He may open your eyes, that
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your hearts may burn when read the Word, that you may know Him
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and His power of resurrection in your daily life.
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The glory of His name. Father, we praise you again for
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feeding us with the body and the bread of Christ.
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Thank you for this experience today.
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We thank you Lord. May it not end today.
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We will continue every day to the glory of Your name.
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We worship your Father, we worship with Jesus, we worship
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you. Holy Ghost, thank you again for
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your word. Cause it to bear fruit to the
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glory of your name and Jesus Mighty name.
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We have asked and everybody says Amen.
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Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.
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