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and once again I'd like to read in your hearing the parable of the wine Growers starting at starting at verse 1.
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parables a man planted a Vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower and rented it out to vine Growers and went on a
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journey and at the Harvest time he sent a slave to the vine growers in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine Growers and they took him and beat him
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and sent him away empty-handed and again he sent another slave and they wounded him in the head and treated him shamefully and he sent another and that one they killed and
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with so many others beating some and killing others killing others he had one more to send a beloved Son he sent him last of all to them
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saying they will respect my son but those Vine Growers said to one another this is the heir come let us kill him and The Inheritance will be
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ours and they took him and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard let us pray
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morning and yet the last line that we sang a love so amazing so divine demands my soul my life my all
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father as I listened to the prayers of my brothers and sister that seems to be what you have placed on our hearts this
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morning that you you have placed in our hearts a desire that we would live to you with all our heart soul mind and strength
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and we ask that you would do this that you even by Your Word this morning as you speak through the Holy Spirit you would cause us to appear before your throne and to be taught to be
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in awe and wonder of who you are and what you've done through our Lord Jesus Christ we ask that you would do these things in Christ's name amen
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the situation that Mark places Us in here with this Parable is is in the temple remember that Jesus has gone to the temple with his disciples he's had an encounter already
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with the Sanhedrin and then he speaks this parable this parable the the temple was that meeting place the place where God said this is where my name will dwell this is a place where
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my people will come and meet with me a holy God holy God meeting his sinful people it's a place of confession
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it's a place of sacrifice a place of atonement for sin is the represented by this Temple and here we see Jesus
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see Jesus coming in Jerusalem to the temple to that meeting place confronting sin confronting sin he's as I said already been tested by
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the Sanhedrin and as we go along through from chapter 11 27 through 40 verse 44 of chapter 12. we're going to see four
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encounters the not just they're questioning his right to Authority but but next we'll see that these two uh unlikely I would say an Unholy Alliance
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of Jewish factions get together they have no reason to like each other except that they join together in hating Jesus and they they try to trap him in their
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own dilemma that they present to him and then that group comes and they it's it's awful they they present to him this
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flippant illustration of the man who who died and then his his brothers you know who who would have this woman in in the resurrection
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and they they totally to me just desecrate the idea of immortality and the resurrection and then finally we
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have a young man who comes and asks him about the law what is the greatest commandment and and we see that that Jesus not only gives him the spirit of
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the law the law but I think in Illustrated throughout all of these encounters that that he is a prophet in Israel that that he is not
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he is the last prophet he is the last of all and there's great meaning in that phrase great meaning in in verse 6 where God says again through the parable but we
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know that the owner of the vineyard is God and those that he has sent or the prophets who have come to Israel
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and he says I have one more to send a beloved Son and he sent him last of all Jesus is in the line of the prophets he
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has a similar purpose to them the the the giving of the law we read in Deuteronomy 18 what was not
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um in the giving of the law we we have all the stipulations all of the the things that God said this is what the people will do this is what the priests will do
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this is how they will dress this is the the things that you will set up all the the very details of down to the carvings and the gold and how it would be
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presented and and yet God says to them when you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of
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those Nations those Nations see he's he's telling them that the law itself is not sufficient he says I am going to send you Prophets
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verse 15 of Deuteronomy 18. through Moses he says the Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you from your countrymen you
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shall listen to him see [Music] the Nations surrounding them we're doing what Moses calls here
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detestable things detestable things and they really are detestable they were making their children pass through a fire to Molech they were using divination they were
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practicing all kinds of Witchcraft they were interpreting Omens and when I understand the word augury is what what we would call it it's they would stand
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and look at the birds flying and say well the pattern of the birds flying says this is what you ought to do or not do they're employing Sorcerers they're casting spells they they employ mediums
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and and spiritus to to guide the people and God says no I will raise up prophets from among you
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and you are to listen to them and this one where God says I will raise up a prophet like Moses
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and you will listen to him we know that Jesus was to act as Moses did he would be a mediator between God and his people in Isaiah 49 again another one of those
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servant songs God says it is too small a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore
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the protected ones of Israel I will also make you a light to the Nations so that my salvation May reach to the end of the Earth see
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Earth see Jesus is more than a prophet he is that servant he is the one who suffer but as he proclaimed he would not just
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Proclaim to the tribes of Jacob but he would be a light to the Nations and what do we know about those prophets again following on in Deuteronomy 8 and
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then we see Peter's sermon in Acts 3 whoever did not hearken to the words of the Prophet who spoke in the name of the Lord would be visited with punishment
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for Disobedience listen to these words from Acts chapter 3 and it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from
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among the people but these men listening to Jesus in the temple on that day knew that Jesus was
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more than a prophet and he was more than the Messiah the Messiah in the first part of Mark chapter 1 verse 11.
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we hear the words that God used that Jesus baptism and there are testimony to what is true they heard the voice Thou Art my son my
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beloved Son in thee I am well pleased the the love of the father and the satisfaction that the father had
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rested Upon Jesus continually the relationship that Jesus had with the Father the kinship that he had was greater than any Prophet had
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Jesus says of himself in John 12 the one who rejects me and does not accept my teachings has one who judges him the word which I spoke that will judge him
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on the last day for I did not speak on my own but the father himself who sent me has given me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak and I know that
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his commandment his eternal life therefore the things I speak I speak just as the father has told me there there is a unique relationship here and
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I don't think these men missed it I don't think they're idiots I I think they understood that and what happened is because of their
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hatred it just made them they made them hate him more because they knew that the words he spoke were true even we read that in
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verse 12. for they understood he spoke the parable about them in John chapter 5 Jesus says do not think that I will accuse you before the
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Father the one who accuses you is Moses in whom you have put your hope for if you believed Moses you would believe me for he wrote about me but if you not believe his writings how will you
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believe my words Jesus was the son he was the beloved Son
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he was first of all the son of man we see him as the son of man because he's shown acting in judgment upon these people judgment either leads to condemnation and Punishment
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and Punishment or it can lead to Commendation and reward but that's according to the attitude of the heart of the soul of the one who is
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standing in the presence of the exercise of that judgment and again Mark tells us here they knew they knew that Jesus was judging them they knew that Jesus speaking of them
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and they were judged and they were condemned and they will be punished
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but Jesus is also the son of God he's showing by his authority he's showing that he has Authority on Earth not only to say these things but as we've seen
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we've seen in his Miracle working to forgive sins but by saying that Jesus is the son we're saying a lot he is pre-existent he he before the
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foundation of the world he was the son it's his preeminence because he is the son he is God's beloved Son
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and if he is a son he is an heir but he is not just an heir he is the heir of all things
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and so we see I think in this parable as we look at that verse six he had one more to send to them here's the ultimate appeal to man man sin man's hatred of God of God's son
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is on display here the children of Israel in spite of God's sending the prophet after Prophet after prophet in spite of God's patience
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in spite of God's long-suffering with them they're indicted by history second chronicles 36 we read these words
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and the Lord the god of their fathers sent word to them and here's right out of the parable again and again by his Messengers because he had compassion on his people
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and on his dwelling place but they continually mock The Messengers despise his words and scoffed At His prophets until the Wrath of the Lord
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arose against his people until there was no remedy no remedy not sound exactly what the parable is that's why I think J.C
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Royal is right it's a historical parable it tells what history has already taught them the human heart is desperately wicked and corrupt
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and corrupt even in the midst of a showering of God's blessings upon the people of Israel even in the presence of his own son
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Romans 8 says the Mind sat on the flesh is hostile toward God it is an you're an enemy of God setting your heart against him the scriptures remind us that this is
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not just for the Israelites but all people all people have this against them there is no good thing in them by Nature
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the people saw Jesus but in seeing Jesus they're seeing God In the Flesh and and what do they have against them
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they they saw that he did good they saw that he healed people they saw that he was harmless in a sense they saw that he was holy they saw that he was
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undefiled by the world and what did they do they mocked him they spit upon him they dragged him outside the city
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and they killed him but I think worst of all it may be that they recognized what they were doing and they did not deny it
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and yet they were obstinate in their sin and they perished because of it again and again and again he sent his
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Messengers and the prophets and again and again and again they rejected them even down to rejecting
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the beloved Son but the vineyard owner The Vineyard owner brought many servants to bear
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and even as the people became more and more hostile we talked about that they beat the first one all right that they wounded the second one they tortured the third one and then they repeated that over and over worse
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but again we see the long-suffering Master the owner of the vineyard God found that he must bring a mightier Force he must bring his beloved Son
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but this is the last this is the ultimate appeal to Israel but I think it's also the last and ultimate appeal to every person man woman and child
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but note the sacrifice note what he says in verse 6. he had one more to send a beloved Son he sent him last of all to them saying they will respect my son
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he sent his Dearest he sent his most beloved he sent his mightiest gift he sent his last and best representative He Sent His
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Highest gift that he could possibly send do you see the heart of the owner do you see the heart of God here
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in spite of all that they did to the prophets he said they will respect my son
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he is the last of all he is the highest he is the strongest he is the all-sufficient one I I could I could keep going on and on with verses of scripture but here are a
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few Peter in Acts 5 he is the one whom God exalted to his right hand as a prince and a savior to Grant repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins
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he is the exalted one the writer to the Hebrew says for it was fitting for us to have such a high priest holy innocent undefiled separated from Sinners and
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exalted above the heavens Peter again he says in the second chapter of his Second Epistle his divine power has granted to us everything
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pertaining to life and godliness he is eternal he is permanent the writer to the Hebrew says Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and
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forever the revelation the revelation exalts him exalts him Jesus said I I am the alpha I am the Omega I'm the first and the last
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the beginning and the end he's the last Adam we had the first adamant he sinned but now we have the last Adam
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he became a life-giving spirit he's the last high priest Hebrews 9. he entered the holy Place once for all there's not another coming
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after there's no need for that Temple there's no need to have the Altar and the red heifer and all that stuff that many people look to once for all he's the last
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the last we don't need another he's the mediator of a New Covenant the scripture is explained and it's a better Covenant why would we go back to the old Covenant he's the last one that we need
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the last mediator and he has the last word all others all others are but Echo
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of the man who is the word the word of God Hebrews 1 God after he spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many
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portions and in many ways in these last days he has spoken to us in a son in his son last he has the last word he is the final word
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I I don't know I don't have a good illustration but I just remember being kind of shaken in my shoes one day downstairs a woman comes in and all I can describe
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is she had her Entourage with her and then they were looking at our building wanting to to do some kind of rally a Revival or something she's she described herself as a prophetess
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saying I you know I want to have a a prophet night I have a word from the Lord and the only thing I could think to say is no
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is no I wish I had just said did you go to Hebrews 1 and read Jesus had the last words
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you don't have words he does he's last of all and and this is not God giving up and saying well I got one last resort no he's saying I have the last of all the
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mightiest the strongest the most powerful the Eternal one my beloved Son do you see God's hope you know we we sang the power of the
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cross but but it rests on Divine hope God's hope is never wearied they will respect my son
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he He sent Jesus to win Israel back to God and it was done in Earnest and it was done with extra special care I'm sending my own beloved Son
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but this Divine hope seemingly thwarted seemingly thwarted because they killed him and dragged him outside the vineyard to
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rot it does not exclude the Divine Purpose as Alexander McLaren wrote Christ crucified is more than Christ Miracle working
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Miracle working Christ crucified is what Paul said but I preached Christ and him crucified his death has a power to draw all men back to God it fulfills Jesus own
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prophecy of himself in John 12 and I if I am lifted up from the earth will draw all people to myself yes there is power in the blood
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again Hebrews 9. for if the blood of goats and Bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctifying for the cleansing of
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the flesh how much more with the blood of Christ through through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God cleanse your conscience from dead Works to serve the
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Living God how much more the last of all brought by the shedding of his blood and all of this
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all of this that we read all of this signifies the father's satisfaction if I could say it this way his his desire his design purpose will be
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Paul writes in Philippians chapter 2. God highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow
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will bow of those who are in heaven and on Earth and under the Earth and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father
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let us pray our heavenly father we do again rejoice
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again rejoice that what the scriptures are telling us is true is true that you did in your earnest desire and care and Divine Purpose you did send your only
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beloved Son beloved Son and yes they killed him but yes there is power in that blood that we might be cleansed that we might
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live that we might live in the power of Christ we might live and walk by the power of Christ's Holy Spirit and that we might honor you and give Glory
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to you to you we ask again that you would continue to bring these thoughts through our minds that we might honor you and that you will build your church
