Sermon
Great Conversations Week 3 - Pastor Kipp Penrod
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Thank you for listening to this message from Lifehouse Church.
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Good morning, good morning.
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It's good to have you at Lifehouse this morning.
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I think they're still, I think the coffee line has gone down.
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I was checking to see.
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But it's good to have you.
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If you're listening online, welcome.
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We always appreciate our online audience who is congregation who really joins us from all over the place.
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And East Shore this morning is they're worshiping at East Shore at our other campus north of Harrisburg.
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And it's good, man.
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There's a lot going on.
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We got picnics going on today.
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We got mission strips taking place.
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And I want to give you just one more opportunity.
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If you want to get engaged in something, you might be thinking, well, I can't go to Guatemala.
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Well, I got something a lot closer for you to get engaged in.
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And we have door holders, say door holders.
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We've got door holders.
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And what we ask you to do, we launched this campus last October up in north of Harrisburg.
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And we're still getting going up there.
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We're trying to get things rolling along even more.
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And we ask for support from this church.
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So what we do is we give you a chance to do a little minor missions trip.
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How many like a little missions trip, right?
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Thirty minutes out of the way.
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You can go up and serve on one Sunday and you can sign up or you can serve on two Sundays in a semester.
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But it's for you to get an opportunity to see the campus there just to engage and go up and serve for Sunday morning.
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Do a mini missions trip.
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Listen, a missions trip can be 30 minutes away, can be 300 miles, can be three thousand miles away.
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As long as you're going there to serve God is the important part.
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So there's going to be a sign up coming around.
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They're going to start that if you want to get engaged.
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You want to go up sometime this semester.
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Some of you have already done that.
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By the way, we've heard lots of awesome testimony about those of you who've gone up to serve and how important it's been.
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But if you want to go up and serve, please sign up this morning.
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That sign up there is for you to go and just be a part.
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You'd be a part.
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We want to give you lots of opportunities here at LifeHouse.
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Well, listen, for the last several weeks, we've been talking about talking.
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OK, we've been talking about conversation.
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We've been talking about what constitutes a great conversation.
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Say a great conversation and get you involved.
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All right.
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We've determined this that a great conversation includes a conversation that has new life and Jesus in the conversation.
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Right.
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New life and Jesus conversations that really will reach to the deepest level of who we are.
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And I don't know if you know this or not, but the deepest level of every person is their spirit.
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Right. It is your spirit person.
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It is the eternal part of you.
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And I want you to think of it in this maybe light that there's three parts to every person sitting in this room.
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There's three things that make you up as a person.
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There's this physical being.
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Right.
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Come on, just move your arms around a bit.
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You got this physical being pinch the person beside you.
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If you know him, go ahead, pinch him.
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Say that's your physical right there.
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Pinch him on the arm.
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Pinch him on the leg.
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That's the first part of you.
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And you can think of that as the outer circle part of you.
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That's the exterior part.
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But if you take a concentric circle and go inside of that, right, is your soul.
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It's your mind, your will and emotions.
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And if you pinch the person beside you hard enough, you just stirred up their soul.
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All right.
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You start up their emotions.
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And if you didn't just reach across and do it again.
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All right.
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You'll get to see their soul part of them coming out.
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Right.
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But on the inner circle of you, right, in the smallest of the core of you is your spirit.
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And it's these Jesus, new life in Jesus conversations that go beyond the body, go beyond even the
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soul, and they get to the spirit of who you are.
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And it's these defining conversations that you can have anytime, anywhere.
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And it moves the conversation from the natural to the supernatural.
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It goes out of this realm and it goes into the next realm.
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And these are the conversations that are biblical.
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These are conversations that Jesus showed us how to have.
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And they're supernatural in nature.
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They move from natural to supernatural.
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And today, once again, we've been doing this all month long.
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We're going to eavesdrop on one of Jesus conversations to find out what he has to say about a great
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conversation.
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So if you got your Bibles, you can begin to flip or turn to Matthew chapter seven.
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You might be looking it up on your electronic device.
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Pull that up.
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Matthew chapter seven.
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And as you turn, I'm going to pray, Father, we just give you this day.
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We thank you for all that we have been blessed with.
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But God, most of all, we come here, Lord, to worship you.
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We come to lift up your name.
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We thank you, God, for your son, Jesus.
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We thank you for the Holy Spirit.
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Father, I'm grateful as Lord and creator, God, that you walk with us.
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And Lord, I pray that today, God, your word would soak into our hearts, God, and it would
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change our minds.
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And God, it would begin to shift what we do.
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And Lord, we just give you praise and glory in Jesus' name.
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Everybody say it together.
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Amen.
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Amen.
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Matthew chapter seven.
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Just say amen.
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All right.
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Good, good.
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If you're online, just type it in the chat.
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Matthew seven, twenty-eight says this.
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And so it was when Jesus had ended these sayings that the people were astonished at his teachings,
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for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes.
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Right?
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And then he had when he and it says in verse chapter eight, verse one, when he had come
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down from the mountain.
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Now, when it's talking about Jesus there, Jesus was probably preaching and teaching
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in an elevated spot just outside of Capernaum.
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He's up on a hillside.
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He's on a high spot of some kind.
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And it says when he had come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.
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And behold, a leper came and worshiped him, saying, Lord, if you're willing, you can make
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me clean.
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And when Jesus put out his hand and touched him, saying, I am willing, be cleansed, immediately
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the leprosy was cleansed.
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And Jesus said to him, see that you tell no one, but go your way.
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Show yourself to the priest.
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This is what they did if they if they were healed of a disease and offer the gift that
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Moses commanded as a testimony to them.
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Jesus, now you got a picture of this.
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I want you to get this in your mind.
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When you read something in scripture, don't just gloss over it.
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Start to picture in your mind what this look like.
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Jesus is teaching and he's preaching.
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Right?
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And he's healing people on the side of a mountain somewhere on a high spot somewhere.
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Maybe it was a rolling hill of some kind, but he leaves this location.
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After he's done ministering, after he's done preaching and teaching, and he begins to descend
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off of this place, he begins to come down off of the hill.
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And as he's going down, the multitude, the word of God says, multitude follows him.
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So we don't know how many were there.
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We don't know if it was hundreds or thousands, but they're coming behind Jesus.
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Jesus and his disciples are descending right there heading down the hill.
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The multitudes coming with him.
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And then all of a sudden something unusual happens.
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Something takes place because there's somebody come in the opposite direction towards him,
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heading to where he's coming from.
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Right.
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And it's a leper.
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And you got to understand something about leprosy.
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This is unusual because back then, if you had leprosy, if you had this disease, you weren't allowed to approach people.
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You couldn't come forward and just walk up to somebody and get in their personal space.
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In fact, they say if you study this out a little bit, they say in some parts of that culture, they would have to actually yell out unclean as they came close.
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And and leprosy at this time was a contagious, uncurable, debilitating disease.
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And if you became infected with it, you were removed.
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You were quarantined from society.
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You were taken out of society.
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You were put into a leper colony.
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And that's where you stayed.
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You didn't go back to your family.
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You didn't go back to your job.
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You didn't go back to anything.
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You live and existed in a leper colony.
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And it was really a death sentence in more than just one way.
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If you had leprosy.
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So Jesus is coming off the hill.
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The crowd is following.
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And all of a sudden, a leper comes this direction.
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Now, I don't know.
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It doesn't say in God's word, but I'm thinking as Jesus heading down the hill, the crowds right behind him.
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And all of a sudden, they see a leper.
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Right.
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And I think the crowd started doing this.
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Right.
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I think they just stood still and Jesus just kept on moving.
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Right.
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And I think they just froze in place because they knew that this was a contagious disease.
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And the leopard, the word of God says that the leopard came worshipping Jesus.
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I don't know if he was singing.
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I don't know if he was praising.
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I don't know if he was just talking and saying glory, you know, to your name.
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I don't know what he was doing.
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But it says he came and he said and he made one statement.
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He said, Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.
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This was a faith statement, by the way.
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All right.
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He worships Jesus first and then he declares, Lord, if you're willing, you can make me clean.
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Lord, this isn't a matter of if you have enough power to do this.
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This is a matter of if you choose to do this.
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Right.
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Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.
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Right.
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It's not a matter of if I can be healed.
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It's a matter if you will heal me.
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And he comes and he's speaking faith.
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He has no doubt in his mind that Jesus has the power to heal him.
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That's not even up for question.
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He just wants to find out if Jesus is willing to.
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He says, Lord, if you will, you can do this.
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How many of us should always come to prayer like that?
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We should always come to prayer.
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And it's not we shouldn't come like, Lord, I hope you do this.
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I pray you do this.
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I think you can do this.
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Right.
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We should just come saying, Lord, I know you can do this.
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It's just a matter of whether it's your will or not.
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Right.
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Your kingdom come, your will be done.
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Lord, is this your will?
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Is this your purpose in my life?
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I'm coming in faith.
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I'm coming in believing.
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I know you can do it.
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I know you got the power.
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You've got all power.
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Right.
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You carry every bit of power on the face of the in the universe.
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Actually not in the face of the earth only you have it all.
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And I don't know if you've ever had that kind of conversation with someone.
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Sometimes we come into conversations like that.
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Right.
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I don't know if you ever approached somebody and asked them for something.
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And you knew they had the means to do it.
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You know, you knew that they had the ability to do it.
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Right.
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They do this all the time.
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They come to their parents.
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They know you have what they need or they want.
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Right.
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They'll come and ask for it.
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It's not a matter of if you can do it.
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It's a matter of will you do this.
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That's fake talk to Jesus.
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Lord, I know I know you can do this.
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I'm just asking if you will.
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And the leper zero doubt.
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Right.
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He just come to find out what God's will in that moment.
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And in this brief interaction that we can start to pick up on a couple of things that
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really help us in conversation that really moves the conversation from just good, bad,
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or ugly conversation to great conversation in Jesus.
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I'm going to give you three rapid fires.
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If you're taking notes, you can go ahead and write them down.
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Right.
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And I'm going to review them, by the way.
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OK.
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There was a willing.
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I'm going to preach all morning on them, actually.
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There was a willingness to get up close and personal.
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Right.
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If you're going to get into conversations, you've got to be up close and personal.
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Also, the conversation has to be filled with faith in Jesus.
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That's the second thing.
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And then the conversation that is faith filled, the conversation that is up close and personal
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can move towards healing.
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This is great conversation.
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This isn't me telling you.
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This is what Jesus showed us.
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And he does it is up close.
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Right.
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Faith filled, healing conversation.
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And not only do you see it in this particular portion of scripture, but if you read on,
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it goes to the next time that Jesus meets someone.
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It immediately goes to a different story in Matthew.
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And you see the same pattern.
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Just the next verse.
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Matthew 8.5 says this.
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Now, when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, pleading with him, saying, Lord,
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my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.
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And Jesus said to him, I will come and heal him.
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And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I'm not even worthy that you should come under
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my roof.
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But only speak a word and my servant will be healed.
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For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me.
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And I say to one, go.
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And he goes.
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And to another, come.
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And he comes.
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And to my servant, do this.
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And he does it.
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And when Jesus heard it, he marveled.
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And he said to those who followed, surely I say to you, I have not found such great
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faith, not in Israel.
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And I say to you that many will come from the east and the west and sit down with Abraham
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and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
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But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness, where there will be weeping
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and gnashing of teeth.
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Then Jesus said to the centurion, go your way.
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As you believe, so let it be done for you.
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And his servant was healed that same hour.
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Great conversation.
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Up close and personal.
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Filled with faith.
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Right?
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Faith filled.
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And it turns into a healing conversation.
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And you know, what does that tell me?
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What does that speak out?
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Let's unpack that just a little bit.
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Right?
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Let's talk about what it is to get up close and personal with somebody in a conversation.
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Slide a little closer to the person you came to church with right now.
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Right?
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Tell them, I got to get up close and personal.
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Just tell them right now.
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Preach to them.
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Come on.
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Tell them, just say, I got to get up close and personal.
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I'm going to get in your bubble.
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I'm going to get in your space.
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Right?
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Come on.
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Jesus was up close.
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Somebody like, you're getting in my space.
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Jesus was up close and personal guy with us.
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He really was.
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Not just like, and he didn't do just with people he liked.
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He didn't just pick out those people.
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Right?
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We do that.
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We just pick out the people we're going to get up close and personal with.
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And he wasn't just like that.
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He went to the lepers.
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Everybody else, the crowd probably stopped on the hillside.
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Maybe even his disciples backed up.
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But Jesus approached the leper as the leper approached him.
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Right?
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It didn't matter if it was a leper.
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It didn't matter if it was dangerous.
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It didn't matter if this person was disfigured, probably physically, maybe even emotionally.
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Right?
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Jesus was not afraid to get in the trenches.
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He was not afraid to get up close and personal with other people and have a faith filled
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healing conversation.
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Time and time again, you see this in scripture where Jesus gets up close and personal with
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people when everybody went literally when everybody else is backing off.
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Right?
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When it didn't really matter the condition.
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Right?
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Or the position of the person.
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It didn't matter if they were Jew or if they were Gentile.
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It didn't matter if they were military leaders like the Centurion servant or if they were
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civilian.
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It didn't.
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Jesus got up close and personal with other people and it didn't matter who it was.
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You can read it and I'm not going to go there.
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But in Matthew chapter eight, verse twenty eight, Jesus comes into a region of Gidera.
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Right?
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Ginnis Arat Gidera and he met two demon possessed people, two demon possessed men who were living
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on the hillside.
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And these men were so violent.
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They were so insane out of their minds that the word of God says that no one could pass
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that way.
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They were they were because of the demonic influence in these two men's lives.
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They were living out on the hillside and they were just violent.
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They were crazy.
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They were insane.
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And nobody went that way.
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Nobody went anywhere near them.
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But Jesus, full of faith, he gets up close and personal and he casts out those demons
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that were in these men.
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And the word of God says that when the city came out to see what was happening, they found
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these men in their right mind sitting completely full.
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Right?
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And their right minds.
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Another time you can look in scripture in John chapter eight.
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Now I'm going to read a portion of this, but another time the scribes and the Pharisees,
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they drag a woman into the temple when Jesus is teaching.
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This woman, she's caught in the act of adultery.
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According to the Mosaic law at that time, this woman should have been stoned and they
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bring her before Jesus.
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The scribes and Pharisees drag her in and put her throw her down at the feet of Jesus.
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And they're waiting for Jesus to condemn her.
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They're waiting for Jesus to be the first one to pick up a stone and cast it at her
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and stone her to death.
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And Jesus gets up close and personal and he actually, as this woman's laying there and
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as her accusers are all around her, he gets down and he starts to write in the dirt.
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He starts to write in the sand.
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In John chapter seven, verse seven, I'm going to read this for you.
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It says this, so when they continued asking him, he raised himself up and said to them,
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it's talking about Jesus, he who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her
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first.
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And again, he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
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Do you ever wonder what he was writing down there?
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I've heard this before and I kind of believe it.
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I think he was writing, all those people ready to throw stones and kill this woman, I think
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he was writing their sin out.
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Liar, cheater.
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I think he was just writing it out.
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I think he was.
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And it says, then those who heard it being convicted by their conscience went out one
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by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last.
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And Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst.
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And then when Jesus had raised himself up and saw no one but the woman, he said to her,
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woman, where are those accusers of yours?
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Has no one condemned you?
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She said, no one, Lord.
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And Jesus said to her, neither do I condemn you.
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Go and sin no more.
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Up close and personal.
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Faith-filled healing conversations.
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Confronting the sin with this woman.
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Right?
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But have a great compassion.
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Great compassion and healing.
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Jesus teaches us by example that if we're going to have faith-filled conversations,
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we got to get up close and personal.
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You cannot phone it in with this.
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All right?
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You cannot do this from a distance.
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You can't say, well, I've had good intentions of getting up close and personal.
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Right?
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But keeping people at arm's length at all times.
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Right?
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Never getting too close.
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And I'm not just talking physical in nature.
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How many know you can get somebody, you know you can get somebody up close and personal with you,
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but you can stiff arm them.
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You can keep them at a distance emotionally.
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You ever meet someone like that?
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Right?
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You can be standing right beside them, but they'll stiff arm you right in the face emotionally.
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Anybody ever have that happen to you?
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Right?
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You're in close proximity.
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You're up close and personal, but boom!
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They're stiff arming you verbally in the face.
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Even body language.
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You get the right body language.
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You ever burn a hole through somebody just with your body language?
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Anybody do it this morning anytime?
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All right, come on.
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You can do it.
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You can just burn a hole right through someone.
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You got to get up close.
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You got to feel their pain.
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You got to know what they're going through.
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You got to be able to sit beside them and empathize.
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You might not approve of what's going on in their life, and you got to speak truth to them,
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but you can sit with them, and you can hear where they're at,
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and what's going on in their lives, right?
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And experience that they're going through.
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Body, soul, and spirit.
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We got to get up close.
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We got to get up close.
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Can I give you a little practical advice?
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How many of you, when you hear preaching sometimes, you need some practical advice?
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Can I give you some practical advice in this?
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A way that might help you do this on a practical level?
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When we begin to look at people, and I don't know if you realize this or not,
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but when we look at people in general, how many of we got boxes we put them in, right?
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Immediately when you start to view somebody, you don't even, they don't have to talk to you.
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You don't have to have a relationship, and you might not even get very close to them,
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but you start putting people in boxes.
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You put it based on what they look like.
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You put it on based on how they're talking, what they're saying, whatever.
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And we start putting people in boxes.
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Can I get you to do something as believers and followers of Jesus?
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Just have two, all right?
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If you want to get up close and personal with people, just have two boxes.
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Don't put them in any other box, right?
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Just one of these two.
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And the first one is this, it's those who have hope in Jesus.
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Those who realize they are sinners saved by grace, and they have found Jesus,
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and they're following Jesus with everything within them, that's one of the boxes, right?
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That's one of the things, that we see them in one light, right?
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And the other one is those who don't have hope in Jesus.
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That's it, right?
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Somebody who's where you used to be.
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Somebody who doesn't know Christ as Lord and Savior yet.
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And there's two boxes, those who have hope in Jesus and those who don't have hope in Jesus.
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And if you tie it down, if you narrow it down to those two boxes,
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and you chuck the rest of your boxes, you'll start getting up close and personal with people, right?
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Jesus ate with public officials, and He ate with sinners and tax collectors
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who were hated during that time or that part of society.
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Come on, church, it's true, amen? It's true.
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You got up close and personal with people.
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Get up close and personal.
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Put them in one of the two boxes.
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Either way, you should get up close and personal.
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Second thing, say second thing.
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We should listen for faith in the conversation.
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Faith in the conversation.
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We want to hear faith, because everyone's got faith in something.
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In both of these stories in scriptures, the people that Jesus approached,
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the leper, right, and the centurion, it's easy.
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It's easy to pick out in these ones, because in these two, they came worshipping.
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They both came speaking statements of faith, right?
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When Jesus approached them or they approached Jesus,
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it wasn't hard to pick out that these people had already thought through this.
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They already had faith in Christ.
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They are not only declaring it, but they're worshipping.
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But not so much when Jesus came, right, ashore,
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and there were demon-possessed people in His presence.
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Who was carrying faith then, right?
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There was no faith statements from the two demon-possessed individuals.
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Even the woman who was caught in adultery, she didn't come up in the name of the word of God.
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It's not recorded anywhere where she spoke or where she made a statement of faith in Christ, right?
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But Jesus was right there.
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Where's the faith?
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Listen, who was carrying faith in that conversation?
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Jesus was, right?
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There's got to be somebody in the conversation that's carrying faith.
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Jesus had faith in the Holy Spirit who was guiding Him and directing Him.
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He had faith in His Father who was constantly speaking to Him
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and what He should do and what He was going on.
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Someone in the conversation, how many conversations between two people?
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Somebody in the conversation, someone's got to have faith in Jesus.
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And it might be the person that's coming, or it might be you,
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the person that's talking with somebody,
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but it's got to be the power of the Holy Spirit in the conversation.
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It's got to be us leaning in to what Jesus is doing, or saying,
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or how He wants us to move in this situation.
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We need to make sure that when we come into a conversation,
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that our faith is squarely fixed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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That we pursue a great conversation because we have faith in Him.
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Sometimes somebody's going to come up and you might hear them verbalize their position,
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and they might have faith in Christ, and it'll be an easy walkthrough to take them and say,
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hey, here's what Jesus can do for you, and this is what Jesus did for you.
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But there are other times you're going to be the one to carry the faith into the conversation.
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You're the only one of the two that is going to have faith in Christ.
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You're the one that's going to have to do the speaking,
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and drawing out, and bringing faith statements into the conversation. Amen? It's true.
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These kind of conversations change lives, and they change it down to the core, down to the spirit.
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Those are eternal things. They aren't temporary.
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How many of you know talking about the weather is temporary?
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How many of you talked about the weather this morning? It's beautiful out there.
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We're going to have 83 degrees, right? Next week, I'm getting older.
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I don't know what it is when you're older and you're a guy, you're always checking the weather.
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But you go next week, it's going to be in the 70s.
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How many of you know that conversation is going to change tomorrow because the weather is going to change tomorrow?
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When you start talking this stuff, this is eternal.
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It don't take you long. If you get into a conversation, it's not going to take you long
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to find out what somebody's got faith in. If you start talking out of the buttons of the heart,
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the mouth speaks. If you start talking, pretty soon you're going to find out,
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do they got their faith in financial security? Is there faith in money?
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Is there faith in pleasure? Is there faith in education?
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Is there faith maybe fixed in a relationship that currently they're very close to right now?
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Maybe not in a healthy manner? Is there faith in the ability of themselves to navigate this current world?
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A deep self-reliance? Is it rooted in their career?
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Is it maybe they're facing governmental change? They think at the next election,
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whatever happens at the next election, that's going to change it all.
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Listen, I'm not minimizing voting. You need to get out and vote. Amen?
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It's true. We should. But don't fix your faith there.
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Don't fix your faith there. You'll be disappointed.
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Come into a conversation. One of you or both of you have to come into the conversation
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speaking faith. Faith. Come on. God speak faith.
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While I'm on this subject, since I'm on this subject and I got the mic,
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let me go ahead and ask you a question this morning.
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What if somebody was listening in on your conversation over the last week?
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If they were listening to your conversations over the past week,
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would someone accuse you of having faith in Jesus?
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Just go ahead and say, hmm. Yeah.
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If somebody was eavesdropping on what you've been speaking about to other individuals,
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would somebody make the conclusion that this person has faith in Jesus Christ?
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That their faith is squarely. I know. This hits you right in the eyes.
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Yeah. Make you think. Great conversation.
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Would they accuse you of having faith in Jesus? Someone's got to come into the conversation
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with faith in Jesus. Last thing this morning. Say last thing.
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Come on. You know, I'm getting semi towards the end. All right.
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Up close and personal conversations that point to faith in Jesus will always heal someone.
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All right. Now, most of you might be thinking about a physical healing right now, and that's true.
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It could happen in this conversation. It often did with Jesus.
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But I understand something about healing, healing, a moment,
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a heartfelt moment where somebody begins to place their trust,
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begins to place their faith in Jesus Christ. Right. A healing begins to happen at the moment of faith,
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at the moment when they really realize that Jesus is Lord, that he really is Savior,
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that he can be Savior of my life, that he can make me whole, that he can make me clean,
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that he can secure my future right one day with him when somebody begins to come to faith,
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when they believe in their heart. That's what the word of God says.
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Healing automatically begins to happen because faith in Jesus,
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any time faith in Jesus is present, there's an automatic, you can hit an automatic button
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that healing is taking place. And that could be body. It could be soul. Right.
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Think about those circles again. It could be a bodily healing.
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We see that all through scripture when Jesus approached somebody.
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It could be you could go into the inner circle. It could be a soul healing.
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It could be your mind, your will and emotion. But I'm here to tell you,
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any time faith in Jesus begins, there's spirit healing. There's your spirit.
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When you begin to believe on Christ, your spirit goes from death to life. Right.
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How many know that's as good as it gets for as far as healing goes?
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If something's dead on the ground and it comes to life, right,
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that's as there is no greater healing that you're ever going to experience.
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And the moment somebody begins to step through and they begin to believe in faith,
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whatever was dead in their life, their spirit begins to come to new life. Right.
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Whatever was gone, whatever had no breath in it, in the core of who they are,
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begins to come to new life. There is healing. And sometimes that happens even from the inside out.
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Sometimes it begins there and it begins to go to their mind, their will and emotions.
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So I've seen God sweep through and just heal somebody like that in their emotional state.
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They're a wreck inside. They're a train wreck. And they come to faith in Christ.
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And all of a sudden, all things are new because that's what Jesus does.
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He makes things new. He doesn't patch them up. He doesn't stick a sticker on it. Right.
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He doesn't try to cover it over. He heals and they become new.
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And sometimes it even goes out to the physical.
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You've got to understand the spirit healing is the greatest healing of all.
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It is eternal. Right. It's the eternal part of you.
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And when that is healed, when Christ comes into your life and you go from death to life,
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it's an eternal healing. Any other kind of healing you experience is just temporary.
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I don't know if you know that or not. Right. Even if you're and I'm not minimizing it, man,
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if you're if your emotions are healed and your will is healed, your thinking is healed
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in some kind of way. You start talking to yourself. Right. You start talking to yourself
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like Jesus would talk to you instead of how you're always talking to yourself.
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That's putting you down and tearing you up. Right. That's an amazing thing.
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But one day that's going to stop. One day your mind is going to stop. My physical body.
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If you get healed in your physical body, that's an amazing thing. It's incredible.
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I've been healed physically. God's healed my body physically. It's incredible.
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But guess what? One day I'm going to die. It's going to happen. Right.
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The word of God says it's appointed once for man to die and then the judgment.
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So those are temporary. They're amazing. They're awesome. You should celebrate.
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If Jesus heals you in any one of those. Right. If it's a if it's a soul
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healing, if it's a physical healing of some kind. But I'm here to tell you it's the eternal
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healing. That's amazing because it translates from this life to the
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next life. If you're healed in Jesus and your spirit goes from death
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to life, it's going to be in this life. You're going to be brand new. And when you
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get to the next, it's going to get even better. Amen. For the Christian, this is
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as bad as it's going to get. Right. For the one who's lost, this is as good as it's
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going to get. It's an amazing thing.
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It's an amazing thing. Up close. Faith in Jesus
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conversation always leads to healing. I'm going to ask you to stand.
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