Sermon
Hands- Pastor Kipp Penrod
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Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church.
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Good morning, good morning. Hey, pray for those children's workers, man. There are a herd of kids
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back there. So that's awesome. We love that. We love seeing that. I did want to take just a moment
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this morning and as the lead pastor here and just talk a little bit just about membership.
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We just recently had members come in and they're going to put their faces up there.
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All right, they're already up there and we always want to honor those who've come in
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and decided to go into membership. And if you don't know the process here at Life House,
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sometimes good just stop for a minute and talk about that. But we really try to take people
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from first-time guests and make a connection with them. We usually send out an email and then we do
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something called a connection lunch where we buy you some food. We get to sit down and talk together
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and then we do welcome to church and we try to get people involved in groups and teams following
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that. And a lot of times people are interested in membership and that's what these folks have done.
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And this is Carlos and Trini, Cintron, Justin and Katie Reeder and Dennis Frick all decided to
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become members of Life House. They're LHCers. We don't tattoo them or anything like that but
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we don't have an LHC tattoo or nothing going on except maybe those licking sticks. I might get
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some of those. But if you're interested in membership in the future, we'd love to sit and
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talk to you about that. We don't ask people to make that decision quickly or lightly but
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thank you to each one. Would you give them a hand? They joined in. Yep.
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I used to bring people up front and they and I had one person tell me if you ever do that,
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I will never become a member. So I stopped doing that. Yeah, I don't bring people up front. But
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this morning I'm excited to preach the Word of God. I always am. I love God's Word. I love
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what it speaks into our hearts and lives. And as I get ready to preach this morning, I want to ask
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you a question. Have you ever looked at something like a thousand times and maybe literally like a
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thousand times and all of a sudden the next time you looked at that something, you saw something
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that you never saw before? Now that thing didn't change. It was always the same way. But you walked
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by it a thousand times. You've gone, you stepped by it. You stood in the room where it was. That
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happened to me this week. This week we were in here at the church and we got temporary offices
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set up in the uptown room and the staff comes in and we're sitting there and we're in there for
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hours and hours and hours each week. Right. And I'm used to that room and everything. It's in that
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room and I spin it out of my chair and I look at a blind that's been hanging there for probably years
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and it was broke on the one side. First time I saw that and I'm like, what? You know, and his blind
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was broke and that's called familiarity blindness. You know what that is? Have you ever heard of that?
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Raise your hand if you ever heard of familiarity blinds. It's a thing. Okay. It's the thing. If you
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go into your house, right? You're so used to walking in your house. There could be a crack in
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the wall. There could be a dent in the door of your car. You don't notice it because you just gotten
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used to it. And that's what it was that I walked into, you know, up there and I spun around on my
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seat and I saw for the first time. I'm like, Hey, how long has it been broke? Did that break last
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week? And they're like, no, it's been like that for like months. And I'm like, really? You know,
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we got this conversation. It will be fixed by the way. Right. And if I'd have walked into an
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unfamiliar space, I would have picked up on that. And this morning I want you to look at something
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that you've probably looked at a thousand, maybe a hundred thousand times. And hopefully by the end
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of this message, you're going to see a little different. So I want you to do something. I want
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you to take your hands, lift them up right now in front of you. Okay. Just your hands. Look at the
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back of your hands. You probably very familiar with the back of your hands. Look at flip it over.
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Take a look at the palm of your hands. You're probably thinking there's nothing new there.
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Okay. I've seen that this morning. I saw it yesterday. I saw it the day before. Right. Well,
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hopefully by the end of this message, you're going to learn something different about your hands.
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You're going to, there's going to be a different spiritual aspect that's going to go along with
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their hands. And if you got your Bible, you can head to second Timothy chapter one, verse one,
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turn to somebody right now, why you're turning into your Bible and say, we're going to talk about
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hands today. We're going to talk about hands today. We're going to talk about hands. Second Timothy,
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one chapter one, all right, verse one. And just to give you a little background as we go there,
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second Timothy is a letter from the apostle Paul to Timothy, a young minister, a young protege of
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Paul's and Paul walked alongside of Timothy for some, so quite a bit of time. Timothy went along
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with him on multiple missionary journeys. As Paul went, the apostle Paul went to different cities.
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And at this point, what we're going to pick up in the, in the letter,
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Timothy's been at the city of Ephesus now for about four years. Paul is writing to Timothy
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from a dark, damp Roman prison cell. And just, this is taking place just before Paul is going to die.
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This is in AD 1967. Paul would soon be beheaded by the Roman emperor Nero. If you know anything
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about Nero and the Roman empire, Nero was what I would call certifiably crazy. Okay. He really was.
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And one of the things that Nero did, he would torture Christians. He kind of used them for
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scapegoats to complain about everything that was going on in their society. And he would literally
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torture them and kill them. And Paul ends up being one of those. So this letter is to Timothy,
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and he's writing it to Timothy right before he's going to die. And so second Timothy chapter one,
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verse one says this, Paul went a possible of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise
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of life, which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, a beloved son, grace, mercy, and peace from God the
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father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God in whom I serve with a pure conscience as my forefathers
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did. And as without ceasing, I remember you in my prayers night and day greatly desire to see you
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being mindful of your tears that I may be filled with joy when I call remembrance to genuine faith
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that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother, Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I am persuaded
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is in you. You can hear the personal nature of this letter that he's writing. He knows the family,
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right? And and he's talking to him in that way. Then it says this, therefore, in verse six, therefore,
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I remind you to stir up the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my what hands.
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Paul's writing to this young protege and encouraging him to stir up the gift of God in him,
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to stir up the gift of the Holy Spirit in him, to stir up the gift of preaching and teaching that
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was in Timothy. But he tagged something on the end of this, he said, which comes to you or through you
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by the laying on of my hands. These spiritual gifts became active in Timothy's life after
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Paul laid hands on Timothy. So what's Paul talking about here? What does he mean by the laying on of
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hands? Right? What is he referring to? Is this just kind of a metaphorical reference of some kind?
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You know, did he physically lay hands on Timothy? Did he shake the spirit of God into him? You know,
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the gift of God into him. Everyone shakes somebody a little bit. All right. You know,
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or did Paul's hands possess some kind of spiritual power that we're not aware of? What did he mean
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by this? Well, to fully understand what Paul was talking about here, we got to explore the whole
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counsel of God. How many of you got to look in God's word? You got to look for patterns,
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you got to look for places, you got to look for repetition, you got to find out, you confirm the
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word with the words. Good theology, by the way. So we're going to start and we're going to take a
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look in the Old Testament and the New Testament and try to pair a little a little bit today and
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talk about what hands have to do with scripture and hands and really the transfer something that
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takes place with our hands. So while you're turning, I'm going to go to Leviticus 1.1. I'm
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going to jump a lot in the Bible today. So if you got your Bible, you introduce some Bible flipping.
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If not, you can just look up at the screens and if you're online, you got the screens as well.
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They're going to have the scriptures up for you. Thank you for joining us online this morning.
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It's good to have you. But I want to make a statement. Things are transformed with our hands.
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Do you know that? Things are they're transferred by our hands. We can transfer something by our
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hands. Now I could go, I could walk down here. How many know it pays to sit in the front seat,
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right? And I can say, Dennis, you know, you're looking really good today and I love that you're
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here at church. I'm just going to give you my credit card today. All right. And I'm going to
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let you go shopping this afternoon. All right. No limit. And that's like, yes. Right. I transferred
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something right from my hand to his hand. Now, Dennis is going to transfer it back to me. Right.
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Right. Yeah. He's passing it around a car gauge. I'll get that later. All right. He's going to
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pass that around. There's a transfer that takes place. We can transfer something from our hands.
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And Dennis, I transferred over to him. Leviticus 1.1 says this. Let's go back into the Old Testament.
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It says, now the Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the tabernacle of meeting, saying,
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speak to the children of Israel and say to them, when any one of you brings an offering to the Lord,
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you shall bring your offering of livestock of the herd of the flock. If his offering is a burnt
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sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a meal without blemish. He shall offer it to his own free or at
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his own free will at the door of the tabernacle of meeting before the Lord. Then look what it says.
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Then he shall put his hand on his head of the burnt offering and it will be accepted on his
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behalf to make atonement for him. He shall kill the bull before the Lord and the priest.
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Aaron's sons shall bring the blood and sprinkle the blood all around the altar that is by the door
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of the tabernacle of meeting. What is happening here? There's a transfer taking place. There's
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a transfer from one hand right to the bull. In the Old Testament, the central worship location was
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the temple. This was before Jesus. This is before Jesus came and became the final sacrifice for our
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sin. So the only way for remission of sins, the only way for forgiveness of sins is they would
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bring an animal sacrifice. Blood had to be shed. The word of God tells us that anything that sin
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touches eventually dies. This is what took place. Instead of, if we had sin in our lives,
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we would bring a bull. We would take from the flock and we would bring an animal that was not
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blemished and we would come to the temple that was set up and they would go through the door of the
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temple. There was a brazen altar and when they got inside, what would take place is they would
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place their hand on the bull and so would the priest and he would lay his hand on it. There was
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a transference of sin. It was symbolic of sin being transferred over as they laid hands on that
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bull and then they would sacrifice that animal and the blood would be sprinkled on the brazen altar.
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There was a transfer that took place. You see it all through the Old Testament before Jesus came
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and became that final sacrifice. In Leviticus 3.1, when his offering, it says this, when his
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offering is a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offers it of the herd, whether male or female,
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he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord and he shall lay his hand on the head of his
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offering and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of meaning and Aaron's sons and the priest shall
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sprinkle the blood all around the altar. If the whole nation of Israel sinned, Leviticus 4.15 says
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then the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the Lord
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and the bull shall be slain before the Lord. Over and over again, this took place every day at the
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tabernacle where worship was taking place. Every day they would come in and there would be this
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transference that would take place and God did that for a reason. One, I believe, I don't know
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I'm going to confirm this one day when I get them, but I think God wanted people to see the hideousness
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of sin, right? How sin can lead to death and how there has to be a blood that was sacrificed and two,
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he wanted them to see this transference that takes place. It was symbolic of what Jesus would do when
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he come to this earth and he would be the final sacrifice for all the mankind, for the sins of
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mankind. Three, things are transferred by our hands. Now listen, it's not only a sin thing,
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aren't you glad it just didn't stop there, right? Wasn't just about our sin being transferred,
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it wasn't just that, but there are things that are transferred, there are spiritual aspects
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that accompany the laying on of your hands. Look at your hands again, come on,
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just keep looking at them this morning, all right? There's spiritual things that can happen with your
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hands. There's a transfer of authority that can take place. There's an authorization that can take
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place. There's a recognition of somebody's calling. There's a recognition of mission on someone's
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life, a commissioning. There's a recognition of God's gift and call on someone's life. There's
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an empowerment of that gift that comes. There's a setting aside of a large group of people or
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even a small group of people for an authorized work all by the laying on of hands. Numbers eight,
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five, we'll go into the Old Testament first. It says, then the Lord spoke to Moses saying,
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take the Levites. The Levites were one of the tribes of Israel. If you think about a nation,
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there were 12 tribes in the nation of Israel and God says, I want to set one tribe, the tribe of
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the Levites aside from among the children of Israel and cleanse them ceremony. Thus you shall do to them
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to cleanse them, sprinkle water purification on them, let them shave all their body, let them wash
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their clothes and so make themselves clean and let them take a young bull with its grain offering,
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a fine flour mixed with oil and you shall take another young bull as a sin offering and you shall
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bring the Levites before the tabernacle of meaning and you shall gather together the whole
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congregation of Israel, the children of Israel. You shall bring the Levites before the Lord and
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the children of Israel lay their hands on the Levites. They would pray over them. They would
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commission them. They would assign them. They would empower them. Moses was instructed to have
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the children of Israel lay their hands on the Levites, tens of thousands in this group and they
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would take care of the temple. They were set aside as a group of people to care for the things of the
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temple, to care for the holy things of God. There was an authorization that took place, right? We
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still practice this in ministry today. If we have young ministers who come up and get credentialed
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and do the study and do the work and they test and they get their ordination, what we do is we bring
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those ministers together. The bishops come together in the organization and they lay hands on them and
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they pray over them. They authorize them. They say, we see the gift of God. This happens in the church
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and should happen in the church. People in the church recognize the gift of God or the gifting
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in someone's life and we lay hands on them. We pray over them, right? We see this over and over.
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Numbers 27 and 18. Moses lays hands on Joshua who would be the next leader of Israel. So the Lord
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said to Moses, take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit and lay our hands on him.
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It's all through the Old Testament. We see it in the New Testament as well. In Acts chapter 6,
Acts 6 chapter mention
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the early church, in Acts chapter 6 verse 1 says, now in those days when the number of the disciples
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were multiplying, there arose a complaint. How many know a complaint happens? Okay, doesn't matter
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what century it's in, what year it's in. There was a complaint that took place and the Hebrews were
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upset or the Hellenists were upset with the Hebrews. And really what this boiled down to is it boiled
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down to a complaint that the disciples, the 12 disciples were not taking care of the widows
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and they needed something, something needed to happen in this. And they came, they brought the
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complaint and the disciples said, you know what? We can't walk away from the work we're doing. We're
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in the word, we're preaching the word, we're studying the word. So we need to set seven men
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aside. That's what they did. Stephen was one of the men. It says, full of faith in the Holy Spirit,
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Philip, Prochorus, Nacor, Timian, Parnithius, Nicholas, a proselyte from Antioch whom they
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set before the apostles. And what did they do? They prayed and they laid what on them? Hands on
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them. There was a transfer of authority. There was an assigning of God on them. There was an authorization
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by faith, right? By the Spirit laying on of hands. Look at your hands. You didn't know all that was
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in there, did you? Come on, let me show you another place. Acts chapter 13 verse one. It says,
Acts 13 chapter mention
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now in the church that was at Antioch, there were certain prophets and teachers, Barnabas,
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Simeon, who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manian, who was been brought up by the Herod,
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the Tetrarch and Saul. As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, now separate
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to me Barnabas and Saul, which would be Paul, for the work of which I have called them. Then having
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fasted and prayed, they laid hands on them and sent them away. Right? Whether you're a clergy,
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whether you're a lay person and working in the church, there's this idea of laying on hands and
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saying, we authorize you to do this, to do the work of God in this area. Paul tells Timothy in his
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first letter, this very thing. He says, let no one despise your youth. It's his first Timothy 412.
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Be an example to believers in word and conduct and love and spirit and faith and impurity.
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Till I come, give attention to the reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift
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that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of hands of the eldership.
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The elders recognize the call of God on Timothy's life and they laid hands. Don't underestimate
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the power of laying on of hands to authorize. There's a transfer that takes place. Right?
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When we did last week, we did a baby dedication. We brought the parents up and we did the dedication
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ceremony and at the end, the family came together. You all laid hands or raised hands out and we laid
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hands on that child and we dedicated that child back to the Lord. Right? It's the laying on of
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hands. It's the praying over people. It's the signing spiritual work and I want to do more of
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this here. We need to lay hands on one another and pray and right. Amen. It's true. We do that.
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Sometimes we come to the altar, we lay hands on shoulders and we pray. There's power in that. It's
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biblical. I don't know what it's going to look like one day when I go to heaven.
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Maybe you, I don't know if you've ever imagined heaven. I do sometimes like what's God's kingdom
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going to be like, you know, is it going to, I don't know, your picture is probably different than mine,
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but you know, as I walk into heaven one day, I know why I want the first words to be. I want to
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hear well done, the good and faithful servant enter into the joy of the Lord. That's the first thing
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I want to hear. But when we come into the kingdom, I wonder what it's going to be like, you know,
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because we're going to get authorized to do new things. Right? They do not need preachers in heaven.
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I'm going to be out of a job. Okay. They don't need preachers in heaven. So what's going to happen
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in heaven? You know, I don't know. I kind of imagine like a kingdom, you know, and in the kings,
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they used to night people, right? They, they'd lay the sword on the shoulder. They come and kneel and
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they were authorized to defend the king and they represented the king and were ambassadors for
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Christ. But what's going to happen in heaven? We're going to get authorized to do new things. Maybe
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the hosts of heaven will lay their hands on us and you're going to get a new assignment in heaven.
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I don't know. I can't confirm that, but I imagine in my mind, because you see it all through the
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word of God, there's a transfer of authority. Hands also can be, there's a transfer of the
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spiritual that takes place. Deuteronomy chapter 34 verse nine. Listen, I'm walking you down through
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scripture. I'm talking fast this morning, but I want you to see this through the old testament
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and the new testament. Now, Joshua, the son of nine was full of the spirit of wisdom for Moses had
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laid hands on him. There was a transfer. So the children of Israel heeded him as did also the Lord
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had commanded Moses. It's old testament, new testament, following Pentecost when there were
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120 individuals in the upper room at acts chapter two, and they're waiting on the promise of the
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Holy Spirit following this event. When they're baptized in the Holy Spirit, they go out into the
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community. They begin to speak God's word. They're speaking in the language of the people that are
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all around in the city of Jerusalem. And there's, and that continues. And in acts chapter eight,
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shortly after when the apostles were in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God,
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they sent Peter and John to them who when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive
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the Holy Spirit for as yet they had, for as yet he had not fallen on none of them. They only had been
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baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. They were only baptized in water. Then they laid
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hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. The apostles and disciples were going out. They got
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out beyond Jerusalem. They started going out into Samaria and they began to lay hands on these
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these individuals who came to Christ for salvation. And let me be clear here. I can't just pick
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somebody out at random and will and just come lay hands on you, right? And you're going to receive
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the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's not what it's saying. There's other factors that work. First
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of all, you got to have faith to receive anything from God, right? That's from salvation on. You
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got to have faith. There's got to be desire. You got to be seeking. All right. But the power of the
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Holy Spirit from the laying on of hands, we're just a conduit always for God. We're just the word of
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God goes through us. The spirit of God works in us. We're just a conduit, right? I'm just a message
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boy. I say that all the time. I'm just a vessel that God can use. I have no power in me. It's all
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God and it's all here. But there's a transfer that takes place. We don't possess the power within
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ourselves, but we know the one who does. Do you know that if you're a follower of Jesus Christ,
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you are an ambassador for Christ? Do you know that ambassadors are authorized, right? They represent
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the government. They represent a president. They are authorized. There is some power that goes behind
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that. And I could tell you the enemy doesn't want you to know this. He doesn't want you to realize,
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look at your hands again. He doesn't want you to realize there's anything there. He wants you to
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think that you got nothing. He wants you to think, well, hey, you're saved and you're on your way to
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heaven, but you got nothing else, right? Man, good thing God just got you through. He doesn't want
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you to know that there's power there. He wants you to, he doesn't want you to know that there's
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authority there. He doesn't want you to know that there's transfer that takes place.
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We need to understand what the word of God says. And this isn't a spooky thing. I know about the
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spiritual spooky stuff. I mean, how many know that you get into spiritually weird, right? That's not
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what I'm talking about here. I'm talking biblical laying on of hands is an act of faith. You can
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think of it in that manner. When you go pray for somebody, you lay hands on them. It's an act of
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faith. When I'm bold enough to lay hands and pray over somebody, that's me stepping out and God
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always meets faith. I got a friend who does that. He'll go into a restaurant, man. If he sees
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somebody that's got a crutches or they got her arm in a sling, he doesn't even know him. He
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don't care. He gets up, goes over, starts chatting with them, talking with him. Hey, how'd you get
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hurt? How'd you get injured? Can I pray for you? And he just quietly kneels down and he'll just put
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his hand right on, right? And he just prays. He's seen people, he'll in restaurants, flips them out,
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right? Like this, look, what, huh? You know, and it's working. Also, he's seen that happen,
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but it's because he steps out in faith and he lays hands. There's a transfer that takes place. And
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even if they're not healed, right? Even if you go pray for somebody and they're not healed,
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because I'd like to say every time I prayed for somebody, they got healed. Listen, I prayed for
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people in the hospital and they died. I'm just saying it happens sometimes, right? I'm just being
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honest. I can't tell you every time I pray for you, you're going to get healed. I've seen people get
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healed praying, but that doesn't always happen. But it's a very minimum. Do you know that a couple
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things are taking place? One, you're showing them the love of God. You're showing them the care of
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God for one, right? For two, they're sensing God's presence because God's presence dwells with you.
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You should know that as you lay hands on. And, you know, as we do this, if nothing else, there's a
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transfer of blessing that you can put on somebody's life. Do you know that? You can speak blessing.
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There can be a transfer of blessing with our hands. You can bring blessing over them. Joseph,
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in the Old Testament, the word of God shows us this idea of blessing. Jacob, his dad, who God
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renames Israel, is going to bless his grandsons. He's going to speak blessing over his grandchildren.
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Jacob's getting an elderly. He's getting ready to breathe his last soon. And Joseph, his son, brings
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his two boys to Jacob, and he wants Jacob to bless him. He wants to lay his hands. This was tradition.
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This was Jewish tradition. They would bless their children, right? Their grandchildren, and they
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would speak blessing over them. So Joseph brings the boys in, and, you know, dad's old, Jacob's old,
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and he thinks that his dad is confused because what Jacob begins to do is he begins to put his
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right hand, which was meant for the firstborn, by the way, right? In Jewish culture, the firstborn
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got a portion of the inheritance, and the right hand was supposed to bless the firstborn, and then
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the left the others. But when Jacob's grandsons come in, he switches it. He puts his right hand
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on the younger brother and his left hand on the older brother. And Joseph says this in 48, 70, he
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says that Joseph saw that his father had laid his right hand on Ephraim, and it displeased him. So
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he took the hold of his father's hand and removed it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. And
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Joseph said to his father, not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on
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his head. But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people,
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and he also shall be great. But truly his younger brother shall be greater than he,
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and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations. So he blessed him that day saying,
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be by you, Israel, will bless saying, may God make you as Ephraim and Manasseh. And thus he said,
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Ephraim, before Manasseh, you see blessing taking place by the laying on of hands. You can go to
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the gospel of Mark and actually in Matthew. And Jesus has the disciples all around him,
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and there's children trying to come in to see Jesus. And the disciples are shooing him away,
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kind of like the whole herd up here, right up here in the class. And Jesus, you know, the kids
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want to come to Jesus and the disciples going, no, no, go to uptown. All right, go to class,
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go over here. And Jesus says, ah, let him in, let him in, let him in. And what does Jesus do?
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He blesses them. He lays his hands on them and he blesses them. At a minimum, when you pray
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someone for someone, you can pray a blessing over them. You can speak blessing over them.
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It's Jesus plus our hands. It's the Holy Spirit plus our hands. It's our hands
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transferring God's love and his purpose and his power, right? It's a transfer. As I get ready
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to close, I'm going to ask if the worship team would come. Our hands can also transfer healing.
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All right. Jesus hands always transferred healing. In Luke chapter four, verse 40,
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when the sun was setting, all those who had had any that were sick with various diseases,
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brought them to Jesus. And he said, and he laid his hands on every one of them and they were healed.
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The demons also came out of many crying out and saying, you are the Christ, the son of God. I want
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you to picture this. Jesus is there and everyone who comes with diseases and sicknesses, he lays
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hands on all of them and all of them are healed. Those who have demonic influence in their life,
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and that was very common back in that culture, witchcraft that was going on, he would lay hands
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on them and they would be free. And you say, well, that was Jesus. And to that I say, you're right.
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OK, that was the son of God. But listen what Jesus says in Mark 16, 14, as he's getting ready to leave
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this earth, he's rose from the grave. He's speaking to his disciples. He's talking to those who are
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witnesses that he rose from the grave. And he says this in Mark 16, 14. Later, he appeared to the leaven
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as they sat at the table and he rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart because they did
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not believe those who had seen him after he had risen. And he said to them, go into all the world
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and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes in his baptized will be saved, but he who
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does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe. Say believe.
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These are believers, right? In my name, they will cast out demons. They will speak with new tongues.
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They will take up serpents. And if they drink any deadly thing, it will by no means hurt them.
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They will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. They will recover.
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I didn't say it. The word of God says it. Look at your hands. Do they look different this morning?
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Are you seeing something that wasn't there before? Or you maybe you've looked at your hand a thousand
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times. What are you seeing different? God has purpose for your hands, right? Along with your
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faith in him and his power. Listen again, we don't got anything in us. There's nothing special about
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my hands. All right. I kind of got small hands actually. All right. There's nothing particularly
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special about my hands, but my hands plus Jesus, my hands plus the Holy Spirit, my hands plus the
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power of God, my hands plus blessing, right? All those things, right? We use our hands.
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Our hands. I'm going to ask you to stay in the school.
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