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The Kingdom Invasion and reveals ten powerful clues that Jesus
is the Savior who isn't just like God, he is God.
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Even though Easter is a month away, I'm already getting
excited at thinking about all the people that we're going
to be able to share the Gospel with. And as
I've been preparing for Eastern as I've been seeking the
Lord what's been on my heart this whole time is Jesus,
because we're so excited when we get to share Jesus
with people who don't know Jesus.
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But one of the things that I find is even
in the Church.
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For those of us who know Jesus and who have
responded to Jesus to repentance and faith, oftentimes we get
cavalier with Jesus.
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We forget who Jesus.
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Is and how unique he is and how special he
is and what role he plays in our life. And
even for Christians, sometimes we can roll into this religious
kind of habit rather than this ongoing relationship with who
Jesus Christ is.
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And the reason is is I.
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Think the devil tries to get us to forget just
how unique and how special Jesus Christ is.
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And I believe that if.
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We're called to do everything that Jesus Christ commanded us
to do, then we better know what.
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Jesus Christ did.
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And if God calls us to share the Gospel with
people who don't know him, then we better understand what
that gospel is.
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And so now going into Easter, I want to do.
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A short series called The Kingdom Invasion, where we can
focus our eyes on Jesus, who he is, how unique
he is, how he did ministry, how he calls us
to do ministry, so that as we roll into Easter
and share the Gospel, it's not just an Easter Sunday.
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It's ongoing in our life for who we are.
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And when I talk about the kingdom, I'm talking about
our king, because it's impossible to have a kingdom without
a king, and Jesus Christ is the king of kings
and the Lord of lords, and everywhere he rules and
everywhere he reigns, there's a manifestation of what his kingdom
looks like.
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And so over the course of the next weeks.
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If there's anyone I want you to be excited about,
and it is true every single week, but especially in
this season, it's the Lord Jesus Christ. Many of you
have trusted him as your personal lord and savior, and
you get excited about who he is. But here's what
the devil does. He'll tell you, well, you already know Jesus.
Now just go try to be a good person and
live your life. That's not knowing Jesus. Knowing Jesus is ongoing,
exciting and thrilling to continue to walk with Him, and
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I want to whet your appetite for even more of Jesus.
So wherever you are in your walk with Him right now,
you can take a little further journey with Him. And
so to do that today, we're going to begin in
Mark chapter one. I just wanted you to open your
bibles to Mark chapter one, and what I want to
do today is I want to talk about Jesus christ
unique ministry, and I'm going to give you ten words
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through chapter one that mark his ministry. Every word ends
with tion. I just kind of gotten that phase as
I was going through, But I want you to see
what makes Jesus so unique and so special. And as
you grab hold each one of these words is so
unique and special that by the time we're done today,
you will know there is no other God except the
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Lord Jesus Christ, and you'll be.
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Excited about that.
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As the Gospel of Mark opens, here's what it says
and says the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah,
the prophet Behold, I send my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way. The voice of the one
crying in the wilderness. Make ready the way of the Lord,
make his pass straight. John, the baptist, who happened to
be Jesus's cousin, appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism
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of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the
country of Judea was going out to him, and all
the people of Jerusalem, and they were being baptized by
him in the Jordan River. Notice what they were doing,
confessing their sins. There was contrition of sin. John was
clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around
his waist, and his diet was locust.
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And wild honey.
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And he was preaching and saying, after me, one is
coming who is mightier than I, and I am not
fit to stoop down or untie the thong of his sandals.
I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit. Now there's four Gospels in our
New Testament. They all start out a little bit differently.
Matthew starts out with a genealogy to show that Jesus
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is indeed from the right human bloodline as well as deity,
that he's the king of kings, and the.
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Lord of Lords.
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Luke's Gospels starts out with the story of John the
Baptist coming into the world, of Jesus coming into the world,
and we get the Christmas story in Luke chapter two,
where there were angels and there were shepherds in a
field keeping watch over their flocks by night, and suddenly
an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the
Lord shown around them, and they were terrified, and so
on and so forth, and we see how Jesus was
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born into this world and was laid in the manger.
In John's gospel, we see in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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He was with God from the beginning.
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And in verse fourteen, see if you remember this from
last week, and the Word became flesh, and what tabernacled
among us, and you know the tabernacle now. But in
Marx Gospel, Marx Gospel goes faster than any other gospel.
It's the shortest gospel, and it flies and you see
the Word immediately about forty three different times. And it
starts with the ministry of John the Baptist. John the
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Baptist was Jesus' cousin he's six months older, and here's
his call in life to prepare the way for the
Lord to come.
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Now, I want to give you the first word.
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That makes Jesus Christ unique, and what makes this ministry unique.
That's what I want you to know is that the
uniqueness of Jesus christ ministry is marked by his incarnation.
His incarnation. Now we see John the Baptist. He's preaching
about Jesus, and I preach about Jesus. But up until
this time, Jesus had not stepped on planet Earth. Do
you know why I'm because up into this time, the Father,
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Son and the Holy Spirit dwell together in unity, and
God the Father, in this time sent his son to
be the savior of the world. And when he did,
Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, became incarnate flesh.
Listen to me, because if this doesn't blow you away,
you're not paying attention or you're too jaded in your
Christian understanding.
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God became a man.
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There's no other religion in the world that even comes
close to proclaiming that.
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So what was John the Baptist ministry to tell the
world that God has become a man and he's coming
to you.
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That's a tough ministry, right, And we know that he
was anointed by God because he was doing what the
scriptures were saying that he was going to do. He
was fulfilled the prophet Isaiah's prophecy that one would come
and say that God is coming.
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He was preparing the way of the Lord. And here's
how we know.
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It had nothing to do with John the Baptist's stature
in life.
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I mean, you read about him.
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It says in verse six he was clothed with camel's
hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and
his diet was locus and wild honey. Now why did
they put that in the Bible so you would know
there's nothing attractive about this guy. And yet people from
Jerusalem and all the surrounding areas in Judea, they're flocking
to him because they want to know if there's a
God that cares. I want to know who that God is,
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and I want to meet that God.
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Friends, I'm here to tell.
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You today that there's a God who cares, and there's
a God who loves, and there's a God, the Lord
Jesus Christ, and he's come to the world. And when
he came to this world. He was already eternally God,
but when he put on flesh, he became the god Man.
And he didn't just put on flesh for thirty three years.
He came as the god Man. He fulfilled the law
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as the god Man. He died as the god Man,
he wrote as the god Man. He ascended as the
god Man, and guess what, he's coming back as the
god Man.
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Now here's why that's important.
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If Jesus Christ ever ceased being God, then there's no
need for any talk here.
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We can't have relationship with him.
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If Jesus Christ ever cease being man, we have no
relationship to God because there's.
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One mediator between God and man, the man, Jesus Christ.
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The only way you can know God is through Jesus,
and that's because of his incarnation. God became a man.
That's revolutionary. Say, well, that's pretty similar to the other
religions in the world.
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It's not like anyone else.
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God loved his creation so much that he became like
his creation and came to his creation.
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That's the incarnation. John the Baptist was preaching and proclaiming.
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Get ready because God is coming, and he's coming in
the form of a man and then awesome study the
world religion's over. You will never find anybody claim like that.
Jesus Christ claimed he was God. Jesus Christ was crucified
because he claimed he was God. Why Because Jesus Christ
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is God. He's God in flesh. I mean, there's been
songs over the years where people write him like what if.
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God was one of us? He is.
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He's been tempted in every way you have, yet without sin.
He understands you. He understands your condition. He created you,
he formed you, and he loved you so much that
he humbled himself and came to earth and put on
flesh for all eternity so that you could have a
relationship with His Father.
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Ministry from the series The Kingdom Invasion, revealing ten powerful
clues that Jesus is the Savior who.
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Isn't just like God, he is God.
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He's been tempted in every way you have, yet without sin.
He understands you. He understands your condition. He created you,
informed you, and he loved you so much that he
humbled himself and came to earth and put on flesh
for all eternity so that you could have a relationship
with His Father. He's unique because of his incarnation and
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being by God, the son coming fully man.
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He's uniquely qualified to be our savior of the world.
He's uniquely qualified to be our Lord. There is no
one like our God because of the incarnation. Amen, let
me give you a second one.
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The uniqueness of Jesus Christ ministry is marked by his
identification his identification.
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Notice what happens next.
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It says, in those days Jesus came from Nazaarus and
Galilee and was baptized by John as John the Baptist
in the Jordan.
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Immediately coming up out.
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Of the water, he saw the heavens opened in the
spirit like a dove descending upon him, and a voice
came out of the heavens. You are my beloved son,
and you I am well pleased. Now why was Jesus baptized?
He wasn't baptized because he had to confess and repent
of sin and trust God as his father.
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He was already God. What was he doing.
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He was identifying and modeling what the rest of us
would do. He was identifying with his father. If you
study the person in life of Jesus, if there's one
sole focused it was intimacy with his dad from the
time he was twelve years old that we read about
when he was left in Jerusalem unbeknownst to his parents
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and they had to get a u turn on the
way back from Galilee and come back to Jerusalem, and
they find him in the temple. And what does he say,
did you not know I needed to be where in
my father's house.
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We're gonna read about early.
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In the morning, where he got up and went and
prayed in solitary places because he wanted to be with
his father before he.
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Picked the apostles out of all his disciples.
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He stayed up all night and prayed to his dad
after he fed the five thousand, before he walked in
the water. He's praying even in the garden, he's talking
to his dad. Even on the cross, he's talking to
his dad. Father, forgive them, for they know not what
they do.
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And even those scenes in the Bible that we say, well,
it doesn't sound I'm like to Jesus. I know where
he got mad.
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And was overturning tables in the temple and got a
cord of whips and was whipping people with him.
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So it doesn't sound like Jesus.
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Why because he said, my father's house is to be
called a house of prayer. But you've made it to
dni thieves, degrading what my father wants done.
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And it makes me mad.
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Why because all he cared about was his dad. He
was identifying with his father.
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Now here's why that's so important.
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When he came up out of the water, what did
he hear he heard these words, you are my beloved son,
and then you I am well pleased. Do you think
that was the first time Jesus ever heard those words.
I think he heard those words all the time. I
think Jesus knew those words all the time. I think
those words were the benefit of those who were there
listening and the benefit of us today to know what the.
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Father was speaking to him. Now here's why identity is so.
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Important, because if you don't know who you are and
you don't know how God.
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Sees you, you can't function the way God wants you to function.
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And for about the first five years of my Christian faith,
I couldn't make my Christian faith work. I went to church,
I repented of my sins, I trusted Jesus, I knew
I was going to heaven, and yet I couldn't make
it work. It was like I can't stop sinning what's
wrong with me? But I realized my identity was off.
And once then I've learned about my identity. And I
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learned that because Christ dwelled in me, and that God
saw me the way he saw his son, and that
I already was all the things that were true about Jesus,
not because of anything I'd done, but because of what
Jesus had done to me. My whole life changed. I
wasn't trying to be holy, I am holy. I wasn't
trying to be loved. I am loved. I wasn't trying
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to be chosen. I am chosen. I wasn't trying to
be forgiven. I am forgiven. If you don't understand who
you are in Christ, you will perform and you'll never
feel satisfied because in your mind's eye, you're always trying
to please your Father. I'm going to church, I'm reading
my Bible, I'm praying, I'm trying to get more.
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I can never do enough. But if you hear these
words in.
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Your heart, that the Father would speak to you for
those of you who have intrusted in Jesus, you.
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Are my beloved son. I'm so pleased with you. You
are my beloved daughter, so pleased with you.
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If you really understand that truth, then you understand that
at Calvary when you turn from your and trust Christ.
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Here's what's true.
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You can't make God love you anymore, no matter what
you do, and you can't make God love you any less,
no matter what you do so well, Yeah, No, God's
serious about holiness, Yes he is. But holiness is the
result of me understanding how loved God sees me and
how loved I am. Once that shifted in my life,
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I stopped performing for God. I started just resting in God.
And from that moment on, it was, well, God, if
you love me that much and there's nothing I can
do to like make you kick me out of the family,
why wouldn't I just want to give you everything?
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And that's when my life began to change. See Jesus model,
because he was already God's.
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Only son, it didn't need to turn from anything. The
relationship that they had. What Jesus heard his father speaking
over him all the time is how loved he was.
Some of us have the voice of the enemy. How
horrible we are, how treacherous we are, how bad we are,
how you're really not a good Christian, how you really
didn't do right things.
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That's the voice of the enemy. God's voice says, I
love you, I love you, I love you. Isn't it true?
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We want to spend time around the people that love us.
My wife loves me, I said in the first service.
My children loved me about ninety percent of the time,
to which my daughter corrected me, It's like, that's not true, Dad.
We love you one hundred percent of time, but we
only like you about seventy eight percent of the time.
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But I know this.
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As much as they love me, God loves me unconditionally.
And I don't know about you. But it used to
be in my life. When I was doing good in
my walk, I wanted to be around God. But when
I wasn't doing good, then I tried to distance myself
until I could clean myself up so I could come
back to God. But the more I understood how much
God loved me, even when I'm not having a good
day or not having a good week, I can run
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to God because He hasn't changed his opinion about me,
because Jesus Christ still dwells in me through his Holy Spirit.
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Do you have that identity? See, that's how.
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Your life in Christ will flourish as having that identity
rooted in who God.
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Says you are. And here's the truth.
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If you're a Christian, if you've turned from your sin
and trusted Christ, the same measure of love and the
same quality of love that God the Father had.
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For his son. That's how much He has for you.
Do you believe that that's biblical truth?
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Some of us have a hard time believing that. So
not me, because I know what I did this week.
It has nothing to do with your performance. Christ took
care of all of that on the cross. It's because
of your identity and who you are. Jesus's unique ministry
was marked by his incarnation, his identification. And how about
this third one, his preparation, his preparation notice verse twelve.
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Right after his.
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Baptism, immediately the spirit impelled him or cast him out
to go into the wilderness. And he was in the
wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan, and he was
with the wild beast, and the angels were ministering to him.
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What was he modeling here?
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He was modeling that whatever the Father shows the Spirit
to do, and however I'm led by.
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The Spirit, I will do whatever the Spirit says.
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That's what he was modeling. And that's how God prepares
us to grow in him too. When we hear the
truth of God's word, when the Word of God is
being proclaimed, when we read it, when we study, when
we meditate on it, Oftentimes the spirit of God wells
up inside and says, you need to take a step
of faith there. You need to trust me here. You
need to start doing this. You need to stop doing this,
you need to start doing this a little bit differently.
That's the spirit of God inside of you directing your path.
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And here's what we see in Jesus. The spirit of
God casts.
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Him into the wilderness for forty days and forty nine
with wild beasts. And we don't see Jesus saying I
don't want to be with the wild beasts and what
kind of food is out there, and what kind of
shelter's out there? And who's going to protect me out there?
And what's even the purpose of going out there?
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And I don't really understand.
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And if you don't send me a sheet explaining to
me all the reasons that we're going to do this,
I don't know that I'm going to go. Maybe I'll
talk to my small group about it this week and
we can pray about it.
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Now.
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When the Holy Spirit prompts him, he goes because he
doesn't need to know all the reasons why. And the
more that we mature in our faith, there's this false
miness conception to think the more mature I am, the
more I'll understand why God is doing what he's doing.
What I find is God still doesn't open our minds
up to everything that he's gonna do.
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He's just saying, will you trust me? Will you trust me?
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And he has a way of speaking to all of
us individually, he has a way of doing it to
us corporately, saying here's what I'm doing, and I'm wondering.
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Will you follow my lead? Right?
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And that's how he prepares us, little step by little step,
by little step by little step. And we always say
in his church, the hardest step of faith you will
ever take is what the next one like. We never
arrive in our faith. And Jesus was modeling all the
way from here, all the way.
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To the Cross, through the resurrection, to re.
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Ascension, and even when he returns it'll be at his
father's bidding to come and get us. He was modeling
how to be obedient, how to trust and obey. That's
who our God is. Have you seen God stretch you
for his purposes? Are there some things His spirit has
been prompting in your heart, showing you here's a step
of faith I'd like you to take. Where it makes
you a little uncomfort or says I don't know that
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I'm the person for that, I don't know that I'm.
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Ready for that. By God is saying, oh, yes you are,
because this is what I want you to do.
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And if you take a step of faith, that's when
we get to see God miraculously show up in supernatural ways.
Jesus was unique because of his incarnation, his identification, his preparation.
And how about this his invitation, his invitation. He invited
men and women into something that's different than what we
think about oftentimes in church. I was going to spend
our whole time in these verses, but notice them in
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verse fourteen.
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Now after John had.
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Been taken into custody, So here his cousin is arrested.
Who's going to be beheaded for simply claiming that Jesus
was God and was coming to rescue people from their sins.
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When he was taken into custody.
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Jesus came into Galilee, And what did he do preaching
the Gospel of God?
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What is the gospel? Gospel literally means.
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This good news just by show hands? How many need
to hear a little more good news?
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Right?
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Don't turn on your TV. We need more good news.
Good news is good news. Good news is what thrills
your heart. Good news is where you can't contain it.
Good news is I have.
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To share this.
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That's what good news is. So Jesus came sharing the
good news, and what does he say? And he was saying,
the time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is
at hand.
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Repent and believe in the Gospel. So what's the.
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Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is the rule
and reign of Jesus Christ. And he was saying, now
that I'm on the earth, and now that I'm here,
and now that your king has arrived, my kingdom is
being unleashed. My rule and reign is taking over.
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One day, Jesus is.
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Going to rule and reign over everywhere on the earth
and in the universe. He's ruling and reigning from on high.
But one day, when he disposes of sin, death from
the devil, then he's going to rule on un parallel.
And he's still ruling unparallel, just not everybody's listening to him.
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Amen.
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He was saying, the Kingdom of God is at hand.
And then what does he say about this good news?
He gives us two words. We don't like using one
of the two words, but Jesus uses them, so I'm
cool with it. Repent and believe. Repent means to from
your sin. Believe means to trust me with your life.
Both are equally important. That's how you experience the good news. Well,
what's the good news. The good news is that Jesus
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Christ is Lord and that you can be part of
his kingdom, that you can be an influencer for him
if you'll turn from your sinful life and you'll turn
to him.
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And when's the kingdom in hand?
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Right now? Because I'm here. That's what Jesus was telling
everybody during his earthly ministry. Now, what's the kingdom today?
The kingdom today is still Jesus Christ's rule and is
still Jesus Christ's reign. And you can get in theological
debates about this all the time. There are some that
say the kingdom is only future, meaning when Jesus Christ comes,
there'll be no more sickness, no more death, no more disease,
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no more dying, no more demons, and when that happens.
Until that happens, there's really no kingdom. It's just that's
when the Kingdom's gonna come, so just sit and wait
for it.
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Then there's other people that will say, no, no, no,
it's the realize king. Every single thing that Jesus did,
he'll do today.
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He heals, he to, he casts out deems all the
time with everybody, no matter what. And then there's a
position that I take, which is more of an already
not yet position, which is this, I believe that everything
just began to do and teach, he's still doing today,
and that one day the full measure of all that
is going to come and take place. That's what I believe,
and I believe there's a tension that we can hold,
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and we'll talk about that as we go through the
text today. But make no mistake about it, whether you
realize it or not, because sometimes in Christian circles we'll
say things like I want him to be my savior.
I just don't know that I'm ready to have him
be my lord. Yet he is Lord, whether you want
him to be or not.
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He is Lord. The question is how are you responding
to him as lord? Why do you call me lord?
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Lord?
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And do not do what I say? Right? So it's
his invitation here that he's going to have So what
does he do.
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He's not just telling people that I'm the King and
the Kingdom has come and repent and believe.
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What does he do Verse sixteen.
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As he was going along by the sea of Galley,
he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting
a net into the sea, for they were fishermen, and
Jesus said them, follow me, and I will make you
become fishers of men. Immediately they left their nets and
followed him.
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Even though Easter is a month away, I'm already getting
excited at thinking about all the people that we're going
to be able to share the Gospel with. And as
I've been preparing for Eastern as I've been seeking the
Lord what's been on my heart this whole time is Jesus,
because we're so excited when we get to share Jesus
with people who don't know Jesus.
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But one of the things that I find is even
in the Church.
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For those of us who know Jesus and who have
responded to Jesus to repentance and faith, oftentimes we get
cavalier with Jesus.
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We forget who Jesus.
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Is and how unique he is and how special he
is and what role he plays in our life. And
even for Christians, sometimes we can roll into this religious
kind of habit rather than this ongoing relationship with who
Jesus Christ is.
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And the reason is is I.
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Think the devil tries to get us to forget just
how unique and how special Jesus Christ is.
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And I believe that if.
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We're called to do everything that Jesus Christ commanded us
to do, then we better know what.
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Jesus Christ did.
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And if God calls us to share the Gospel with
people who don't know him, then we better understand what
that gospel is.
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And so now going into Easter, I want to do.
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A short series called The Kingdom Invasion, where we can
focus our eyes on Jesus, who he is, how unique
he is, how he did ministry, how he calls us
to do ministry, so that as we roll into Easter
and share the Gospel, it's not just an Easter Sunday.
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It's ongoing in our life for who we are.
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And when I talk about the kingdom, I'm talking about
our king, because it's impossible to have a kingdom without
a king, and Jesus Christ is the king of kings
and the Lord of lords, and everywhere he rules and
everywhere he reigns, there's a manifestation of what his kingdom
looks like.
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And so over the course of the next weeks.
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If there's anyone I want you to be excited about,
and it is true every single week, but especially in
this season, it's the Lord Jesus Christ. Many of you
have trusted him as your personal lord and savior, and
you get excited about who he is. But here's what
the devil does. He'll tell you, well, you already know Jesus.
Now just go try to be a good person and
live your life. That's not knowing Jesus. Knowing Jesus is ongoing,
exciting and thrilling to continue to walk with Him, and
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I want to whet your appetite for even more of Jesus.
So wherever you are in your walk with Him right now,
you can take a little further journey with Him. And
so to do that today, we're going to begin in
Mark chapter one. I just wanted you to open your
bibles to Mark chapter one, and what I want to
do today is I want to talk about Jesus christ
unique ministry, and I'm going to give you ten words
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through chapter one that mark his ministry. Every word ends
with tion. I just kind of gotten that phase as
I was going through, But I want you to see
what makes Jesus so unique and so special. And as
you grab hold each one of these words is so
unique and special that by the time we're done today,
you will know there is no other God except the
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Lord Jesus Christ, and you'll be.
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Excited about that.
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As the Gospel of Mark opens, here's what it says
and says the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah,
the prophet Behold, I send my messenger ahead of you,
who will prepare your way. The voice of the one
crying in the wilderness. Make ready the way of the Lord,
make his pass straight. John, the baptist, who happened to
be Jesus's cousin, appeared in the wilderness preaching a baptism
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of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the
country of Judea was going out to him, and all
the people of Jerusalem, and they were being baptized by
him in the Jordan River. Notice what they were doing,
confessing their sins. There was contrition of sin. John was
clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around
his waist, and his diet was locust.
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And wild honey.
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And he was preaching and saying, after me, one is
coming who is mightier than I, and I am not
fit to stoop down or untie the thong of his sandals.
I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you
with the Holy Spirit. Now there's four Gospels in our
New Testament. They all start out a little bit differently.
Matthew starts out with a genealogy to show that Jesus
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is indeed from the right human bloodline as well as deity,
that he's the king of kings, and the.
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Lord of Lords.
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Luke's Gospels starts out with the story of John the
Baptist coming into the world, of Jesus coming into the world,
and we get the Christmas story in Luke chapter two,
where there were angels and there were shepherds in a
field keeping watch over their flocks by night, and suddenly
an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the
Lord shown around them, and they were terrified, and so
on and so forth, and we see how Jesus was
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born into this world and was laid in the manger.
In John's gospel, we see in the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
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He was with God from the beginning.
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And in verse fourteen, see if you remember this from
last week, and the Word became flesh, and what tabernacled
among us, and you know the tabernacle now. But in
Marx Gospel, Marx Gospel goes faster than any other gospel.
It's the shortest gospel, and it flies and you see
the Word immediately about forty three different times. And it
starts with the ministry of John the Baptist. John the
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Baptist was Jesus' cousin he's six months older, and here's
his call in life to prepare the way for the
Lord to come.
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Now, I want to give you the first word.
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That makes Jesus Christ unique, and what makes this ministry unique.
That's what I want you to know is that the
uniqueness of Jesus christ ministry is marked by his incarnation.
His incarnation. Now we see John the Baptist. He's preaching
about Jesus, and I preach about Jesus. But up until
this time, Jesus had not stepped on planet Earth. Do
you know why I'm because up into this time, the Father,
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Son and the Holy Spirit dwell together in unity, and
God the Father, in this time sent his son to
be the savior of the world. And when he did,
Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, became incarnate flesh.
Listen to me, because if this doesn't blow you away,
you're not paying attention or you're too jaded in your
Christian understanding.
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God became a man.
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There's no other religion in the world that even comes
close to proclaiming that.
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So what was John the Baptist ministry to tell the
world that God has become a man and he's coming
to you.
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That's a tough ministry, right, And we know that he
was anointed by God because he was doing what the
scriptures were saying that he was going to do. He
was fulfilled the prophet Isaiah's prophecy that one would come
and say that God is coming.
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He was preparing the way of the Lord. And here's
how we know.
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It had nothing to do with John the Baptist's stature
in life.
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I mean, you read about him.
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It says in verse six he was clothed with camel's
hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and
his diet was locus and wild honey. Now why did
they put that in the Bible so you would know
there's nothing attractive about this guy. And yet people from
Jerusalem and all the surrounding areas in Judea, they're flocking
to him because they want to know if there's a
God that cares. I want to know who that God is,
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and I want to meet that God.
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Friends, I'm here to tell.
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You today that there's a God who cares, and there's
a God who loves, and there's a God, the Lord
Jesus Christ, and he's come to the world. And when
he came to this world. He was already eternally God,
but when he put on flesh, he became the god Man.
And he didn't just put on flesh for thirty three years.
He came as the god Man. He fulfilled the law
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as the god Man. He died as the god Man,
he wrote as the god Man. He ascended as the
god Man, and guess what, he's coming back as the
god Man.
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Now here's why that's important.
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If Jesus Christ ever ceased being God, then there's no
need for any talk here.
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We can't have relationship with him.
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If Jesus Christ ever cease being man, we have no
relationship to God because there's.
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One mediator between God and man, the man, Jesus Christ.
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The only way you can know God is through Jesus,
and that's because of his incarnation. God became a man.
That's revolutionary. Say, well, that's pretty similar to the other
religions in the world.
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It's not like anyone else.
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God loved his creation so much that he became like
his creation and came to his creation.
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That's the incarnation. John the Baptist was preaching and proclaiming.
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Get ready because God is coming, and he's coming in
the form of a man and then awesome study the
world religion's over. You will never find anybody claim like that.
Jesus Christ claimed he was God. Jesus Christ was crucified
because he claimed he was God. Why Because Jesus Christ
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is God. He's God in flesh. I mean, there's been
songs over the years where people write him like what if.
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God was one of us? He is.
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He's been tempted in every way you have, yet without sin.
He understands you. He understands your condition. He created you,
he formed you, and he loved you so much that
he humbled himself and came to earth and put on
flesh for all eternity so that you could have a
relationship with His Father.
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He's been tempted in every way you have, yet without sin.
He understands you. He understands your condition. He created you,
informed you, and he loved you so much that he
humbled himself and came to earth and put on flesh
for all eternity so that you could have a relationship
with His Father. He's unique because of his incarnation and
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being by God, the son coming fully man.
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He's uniquely qualified to be our savior of the world.
He's uniquely qualified to be our Lord. There is no
one like our God because of the incarnation. Amen, let
me give you a second one.
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The uniqueness of Jesus Christ ministry is marked by his
identification his identification.
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Notice what happens next.
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It says, in those days Jesus came from Nazaarus and
Galilee and was baptized by John as John the Baptist
in the Jordan.
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Immediately coming up out.
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Of the water, he saw the heavens opened in the
spirit like a dove descending upon him, and a voice
came out of the heavens. You are my beloved son,
and you I am well pleased. Now why was Jesus baptized?
He wasn't baptized because he had to confess and repent
of sin and trust God as his father.
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He was already God. What was he doing.
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He was identifying and modeling what the rest of us
would do. He was identifying with his father. If you
study the person in life of Jesus, if there's one
sole focused it was intimacy with his dad from the
time he was twelve years old that we read about
when he was left in Jerusalem unbeknownst to his parents
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and they had to get a u turn on the
way back from Galilee and come back to Jerusalem, and
they find him in the temple. And what does he say,
did you not know I needed to be where in
my father's house.
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We're gonna read about early.
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In the morning, where he got up and went and
prayed in solitary places because he wanted to be with
his father before he.
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Picked the apostles out of all his disciples.
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He stayed up all night and prayed to his dad
after he fed the five thousand, before he walked in
the water. He's praying even in the garden, he's talking
to his dad. Even on the cross, he's talking to
his dad. Father, forgive them, for they know not what
they do.
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And even those scenes in the Bible that we say, well,
it doesn't sound I'm like to Jesus. I know where
he got mad.
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And was overturning tables in the temple and got a
cord of whips and was whipping people with him.
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So it doesn't sound like Jesus.
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Why because he said, my father's house is to be
called a house of prayer. But you've made it to
dni thieves, degrading what my father wants done.
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And it makes me mad.
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Why because all he cared about was his dad. He
was identifying with his father.
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Now here's why that's so important.
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When he came up out of the water, what did
he hear he heard these words, you are my beloved son,
and then you I am well pleased. Do you think
that was the first time Jesus ever heard those words.
I think he heard those words all the time. I
think Jesus knew those words all the time. I think
those words were the benefit of those who were there
listening and the benefit of us today to know what the.
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Father was speaking to him. Now here's why identity is so.
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Important, because if you don't know who you are and
you don't know how God.
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Sees you, you can't function the way God wants you to function.
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And for about the first five years of my Christian faith,
I couldn't make my Christian faith work. I went to church,
I repented of my sins, I trusted Jesus, I knew
I was going to heaven, and yet I couldn't make
it work. It was like I can't stop sinning what's
wrong with me? But I realized my identity was off.
And once then I've learned about my identity. And I
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learned that because Christ dwelled in me, and that God
saw me the way he saw his son, and that
I already was all the things that were true about Jesus,
not because of anything I'd done, but because of what
Jesus had done to me. My whole life changed. I
wasn't trying to be holy, I am holy. I wasn't
trying to be loved. I am loved. I wasn't trying
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to be chosen. I am chosen. I wasn't trying to
be forgiven. I am forgiven. If you don't understand who
you are in Christ, you will perform and you'll never
feel satisfied because in your mind's eye, you're always trying
to please your Father. I'm going to church, I'm reading
my Bible, I'm praying, I'm trying to get more.
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I can never do enough. But if you hear these
words in.
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Your heart, that the Father would speak to you for
those of you who have intrusted in Jesus, you.
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Are my beloved son. I'm so pleased with you. You
are my beloved daughter, so pleased with you.
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If you really understand that truth, then you understand that
at Calvary when you turn from your and trust Christ.
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Here's what's true.
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You can't make God love you anymore, no matter what
you do, and you can't make God love you any less,
no matter what you do so well, Yeah, No, God's
serious about holiness, Yes he is. But holiness is the
result of me understanding how loved God sees me and
how loved I am. Once that shifted in my life,
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I stopped performing for God. I started just resting in God.
And from that moment on, it was, well, God, if
you love me that much and there's nothing I can
do to like make you kick me out of the family,
why wouldn't I just want to give you everything?
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And that's when my life began to change. See Jesus model,
because he was already God's.
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Only son, it didn't need to turn from anything. The
relationship that they had. What Jesus heard his father speaking
over him all the time is how loved he was.
Some of us have the voice of the enemy. How
horrible we are, how treacherous we are, how bad we are,
how you're really not a good Christian, how you really
didn't do right things.
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That's the voice of the enemy. God's voice says, I
love you, I love you, I love you. Isn't it true?
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We want to spend time around the people that love us.
My wife loves me, I said in the first service.
My children loved me about ninety percent of the time,
to which my daughter corrected me, It's like, that's not true, Dad.
We love you one hundred percent of time, but we
only like you about seventy eight percent of the time.
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But I know this.
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As much as they love me, God loves me unconditionally.
And I don't know about you. But it used to
be in my life. When I was doing good in
my walk, I wanted to be around God. But when
I wasn't doing good, then I tried to distance myself
until I could clean myself up so I could come
back to God. But the more I understood how much
God loved me, even when I'm not having a good
day or not having a good week, I can run
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to God because He hasn't changed his opinion about me,
because Jesus Christ still dwells in me through his Holy Spirit.
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Do you have that identity? See, that's how.
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Your life in Christ will flourish as having that identity
rooted in who God.
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Says you are. And here's the truth.
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If you're a Christian, if you've turned from your sin
and trusted Christ, the same measure of love and the
same quality of love that God the Father had.
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For his son. That's how much He has for you.
Do you believe that that's biblical truth?
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Some of us have a hard time believing that. So
not me, because I know what I did this week.
It has nothing to do with your performance. Christ took
care of all of that on the cross. It's because
of your identity and who you are. Jesus's unique ministry
was marked by his incarnation, his identification. And how about
this third one, his preparation, his preparation notice verse twelve.
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Right after his.
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Baptism, immediately the spirit impelled him or cast him out
to go into the wilderness. And he was in the
wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan, and he was
with the wild beast, and the angels were ministering to him.
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What was he modeling here?
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He was modeling that whatever the Father shows the Spirit
to do, and however I'm led by.
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The Spirit, I will do whatever the Spirit says.
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That's what he was modeling. And that's how God prepares
us to grow in him too. When we hear the
truth of God's word, when the Word of God is
being proclaimed, when we read it, when we study, when
we meditate on it, Oftentimes the spirit of God wells
up inside and says, you need to take a step
of faith there. You need to trust me here. You
need to start doing this. You need to stop doing this,
you need to start doing this a little bit differently.
That's the spirit of God inside of you directing your path.
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And here's what we see in Jesus. The spirit of
God casts.
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Him into the wilderness for forty days and forty nine
with wild beasts. And we don't see Jesus saying I
don't want to be with the wild beasts and what
kind of food is out there, and what kind of
shelter's out there? And who's going to protect me out there?
And what's even the purpose of going out there?
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And I don't really understand.
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And if you don't send me a sheet explaining to
me all the reasons that we're going to do this,
I don't know that I'm going to go. Maybe I'll
talk to my small group about it this week and
we can pray about it.
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Now.
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When the Holy Spirit prompts him, he goes because he
doesn't need to know all the reasons why. And the
more that we mature in our faith, there's this false
miness conception to think the more mature I am, the
more I'll understand why God is doing what he's doing.
What I find is God still doesn't open our minds
up to everything that he's gonna do.
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He's just saying, will you trust me? Will you trust me?
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And he has a way of speaking to all of
us individually, he has a way of doing it to
us corporately, saying here's what I'm doing, and I'm wondering.
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Will you follow my lead? Right?
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And that's how he prepares us, little step by little step,
by little step by little step. And we always say
in his church, the hardest step of faith you will
ever take is what the next one like. We never
arrive in our faith. And Jesus was modeling all the
way from here, all the way.
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To the Cross, through the resurrection, to re.
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Ascension, and even when he returns it'll be at his
father's bidding to come and get us. He was modeling
how to be obedient, how to trust and obey. That's
who our God is. Have you seen God stretch you
for his purposes? Are there some things His spirit has
been prompting in your heart, showing you here's a step
of faith I'd like you to take. Where it makes
you a little uncomfort or says I don't know that
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I'm the person for that, I don't know that I'm.
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Ready for that. By God is saying, oh, yes you are,
because this is what I want you to do.
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And if you take a step of faith, that's when
we get to see God miraculously show up in supernatural ways.
Jesus was unique because of his incarnation, his identification, his preparation.
And how about this his invitation, his invitation. He invited
men and women into something that's different than what we
think about oftentimes in church. I was going to spend
our whole time in these verses, but notice them in
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verse fourteen.
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Now after John had.
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Been taken into custody, So here his cousin is arrested.
Who's going to be beheaded for simply claiming that Jesus
was God and was coming to rescue people from their sins.
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When he was taken into custody.
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Jesus came into Galilee, And what did he do preaching
the Gospel of God?
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What is the gospel? Gospel literally means.
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This good news just by show hands? How many need
to hear a little more good news?
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Right?
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Don't turn on your TV. We need more good news.
Good news is good news. Good news is what thrills
your heart. Good news is where you can't contain it.
Good news is I have.
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To share this.
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That's what good news is. So Jesus came sharing the
good news, and what does he say? And he was saying,
the time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is
at hand.
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Repent and believe in the Gospel. So what's the.
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Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is the rule
and reign of Jesus Christ. And he was saying, now
that I'm on the earth, and now that I'm here,
and now that your king has arrived, my kingdom is
being unleashed. My rule and reign is taking over.
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One day, Jesus is.
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Going to rule and reign over everywhere on the earth
and in the universe. He's ruling and reigning from on high.
But one day, when he disposes of sin, death from
the devil, then he's going to rule on un parallel.
And he's still ruling unparallel, just not everybody's listening to him.
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Amen.
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He was saying, the Kingdom of God is at hand.
And then what does he say about this good news?
He gives us two words. We don't like using one
of the two words, but Jesus uses them, so I'm
cool with it. Repent and believe. Repent means to from
your sin. Believe means to trust me with your life.
Both are equally important. That's how you experience the good news. Well,
what's the good news. The good news is that Jesus
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Christ is Lord and that you can be part of
his kingdom, that you can be an influencer for him
if you'll turn from your sinful life and you'll turn
to him.
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And when's the kingdom in hand?
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Right now? Because I'm here. That's what Jesus was telling
everybody during his earthly ministry. Now, what's the kingdom today?
The kingdom today is still Jesus Christ's rule and is
still Jesus Christ's reign. And you can get in theological
debates about this all the time. There are some that
say the kingdom is only future, meaning when Jesus Christ comes,
there'll be no more sickness, no more death, no more disease,
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no more dying, no more demons, and when that happens.
Until that happens, there's really no kingdom. It's just that's
when the Kingdom's gonna come, so just sit and wait
for it.
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Then there's other people that will say, no, no, no,
it's the realize king. Every single thing that Jesus did,
he'll do today.
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He heals, he to, he casts out deems all the
time with everybody, no matter what. And then there's a
position that I take, which is more of an already
not yet position, which is this, I believe that everything
just began to do and teach, he's still doing today,
and that one day the full measure of all that
is going to come and take place. That's what I believe,
and I believe there's a tension that we can hold,
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and we'll talk about that as we go through the
text today. But make no mistake about it, whether you
realize it or not, because sometimes in Christian circles we'll
say things like I want him to be my savior.
I just don't know that I'm ready to have him
be my lord. Yet he is Lord, whether you want
him to be or not.
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He is Lord. The question is how are you responding
to him as lord? Why do you call me lord?
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Lord?
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And do not do what I say? Right? So it's
his invitation here that he's going to have So what
does he do.
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He's not just telling people that I'm the King and
the Kingdom has come and repent and believe.
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What does he do Verse sixteen.
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As he was going along by the sea of Galley,
he saw Simon and Andrew, the brother of Simon, casting
a net into the sea, for they were fishermen, and
Jesus said them, follow me, and I will make you
become fishers of men. Immediately they left their nets and
followed him.
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