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oh y'all are great

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y'all are great whoo

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wow

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what an introduction thank you

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what a

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yeah hell yeah

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Lindy and I were watching the movie

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wonder with the grandkids last night

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and little boy got a standing ovation

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it was kind of like everyone needs a standing ovation

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we all need a standing ovation

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well um I

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I did want to introduce um

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you know when two become one

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it's a new person so I guess I

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I don't know if that makes you a first time visitor

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if you've just got married

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but um

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uh Walter and Sandy Ice

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would y'all stand newlyweds

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first time back to church

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so we're gonna we're gonna talk about Palm Sunday and

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and we're just going to take a laser

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and circle some scriptures about Jesus

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and Palm Sunday and the humanity of Jesus

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the humility of Jesus

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and I believe he's gonna just continue doing a work

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like he already is this morning

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so I hope you brought a Bible

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or a Bible app or something to take notes with

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we're gonna we're gonna touch on some

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some familiar scriptures but also some of the deepest

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and most rich and beautiful

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scriptures my favorites in the Bible

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so let's jump in

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John 1 1 is a very in fact

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someone's talked about John 1 here lately

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but John 1 1 in the beginning was the word

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and the word was with god

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and the word was god he was in the beginning with god

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all things were made through him

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and without him nothing that was made was made

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and in him was life and the life was the light of men

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and the light

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shines in the darkness

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and the darkness did not comprehend it

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there was a man sent from god

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whose name was John this man came for a witness

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to bear witness to the light

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so as you all know

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the the word there is talking about Jesus

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the word was Jesus and so when you read it

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in the beginning was Jesus

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and Jesus was with god and Jesus was god

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he was in the beginning with god

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all things were made through him

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and it's never said and it's never

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no one believes it but some

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I don't want there ever to creep in

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that god was on the throne

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eating bomb bombs

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and he sent his son to do a really hard mission

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no one ever says that

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but it helps me to know that Jesus

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as god came to earth

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and Jesus as God God crawled up on a cross

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it's more powerful in the way he loves us

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and Hebrews 1 3 and other verses in Colossians

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Jesus was the exact representation of the father

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and and Jesus in John 14:19 said

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have you been with

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have I been with you for so long a time

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and you yet you have not known me Philip

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the one who sent me has seen the father

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so if you've seen me you've seen the father

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and Jesus was like Philip

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I've been with you so long

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haven't you gotten that yet

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so we're not polytheist worshipping more than one God

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it's a mystery we sing that hymn

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that when we get to heaven

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we'll find out it's much more complex than this

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that it's like one of us trying to tell

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if you deny the Trinity you could lose your soul

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but if you try to figure it out

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it's a mystery

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we're describing a god who's inconveniently invisible

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and lives in a timeless zone

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and he makes statements that are mind boggling

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he knew you

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that's right it's kind

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he just jumps into the timeless zone

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come on that's good

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but I think these things for me

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make the way he came even more meaningful

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and there's a lion in us and there's a lamb in us

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there's a roaring lamb in you

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so my purpose is to open the page of the Lamb in us

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the Lamb in Jesus

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and the lion in us and the lion in Jesus

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so let's talk about how he was humble

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in different ways he was humble

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his humility

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shows up in one of my favorite chapters of the Bible

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Isaiah 61 we talk about this a lot here

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but it starts out the spirit of the Lord

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God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me

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to preach good tidings to the poor

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he sent me to heal the broken hearted

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to proclaim liberty to the captives

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and the opening of the prison to those who are bound

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so god comes on the scene as a person as a man

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prophesied by Isaiah 600 years earlier

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and he opens he goes in

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he's reading his own mission statement

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and a prophecy written 600 years ago about him today

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I would pay a lot of money for that video

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I would pay a lot of money to be in the room

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and I can't read that scripture without emotion

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and I'm not an emotional guy

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but the fact that god opens up his address

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opens up his mission statement

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and says I'm coming from the broken

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I'm coming for the hurting

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I'm coming for the poor I'm coming for those bound

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I'm coming for those in prison

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I'm coming for you I just can't get past

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who's this one we have faith in

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who's the god that chose us before the foundation

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how blessed are we I can't get past it

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every other faith like

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you just gotta climb up to some unattainable thing

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that's right that's right

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this week I spoke with a man

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who was having to get out of his house

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the lease the lease was up

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you know it's hard to change houses

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bills were coming his business was imploding

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the shame of not being able to feed your family

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as a man and protect that

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that got a horrible diagnosis

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a young girl who's filed for divorce

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and a missionary who says she feels alone

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this is the human condition

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this is real this is life

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and our god came and said

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I came for those four people

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I came for you I came

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think of the time when you felt most down

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most hurt most betrayed most poor

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Palm Sunday is the day we remember his humility

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probably the most humbling thing he did

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where god just poured out

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and he god gave up his divine privileges and glory

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to take the form of a servant and become human

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staying god he walked

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he he voluntarily set aside the divine privileges

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to walk as a man that's right

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to limit self limit

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I'm gonna walk that's right

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the majestic god

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the king of Kings the Lord of Lords

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the one who sits on the throne

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the one with a word and the cosmos was created

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comes and humbles himself as one of us

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and opens the scroll and says

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I'm coming for the hurting

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it's too good

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and he didn't just come as a man he came as a baby

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he came totally dependent on his mama

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maybe we'll do it next year

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all of us having palm branches all the way down here

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and having John who was singing today on a cult

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but that would be a great video

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the palm trees were a sign of victory

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and people were throwing their

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their garments their coats

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their jackets on the ground throwing

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and our king came on a humble donkey

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if he came today I wonder what kind of car it would be

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I don't wanna offend anybody

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this is this is a troubling moment

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I used to own a Pinto

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a brown station wagon Pinto

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it's as bad as it gets

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or by or by hatchback VW

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either 1 2 college cars that were very poor

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when I was trying to impress her

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in my hatchback Volkswagen

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pulled up to the stop sign

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and the left wheel just fell off

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true story right

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I'm offended that Jesus was in a blue hatchback VW

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on Palm Sunday

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I want him on a black steed

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he was humble when he

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in the last supper washed the feet of the disciples

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he put a towel on his arm

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and his betrayer he's washing his feet

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God's even though he's a man

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God's given him a word of knowledge

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that this man's gonna betray him

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it was a

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it was a role for servants or slaves in that culture

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they walked on with sandals and sand and dirt

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and animals defecated in the road

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and they're walking amongst all the stuff

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and it was a hot sweaty

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not a fun job most people's feet aren't that pretty

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I just envision god willingly just got on a cross

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lived a perfect life and got on a cross for us

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by the time he got there I think I'd been so fed up

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you know the

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the whole Barabbas thing that was frustrating

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we have this horrible criminal and Jesus

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the perfect one and people are saying

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free Barabbas free Barabbas free Barabbas

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pick a guy if it was today

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Jeffrey Epstein Jesus

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it's no different

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how humbling how humiliating

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Pontius Pilate the proud one

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he didn't even open his mouth to defend himself

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you ever been in an argument

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when you think you're really right

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and kept your mouth shut I didn't think so

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I haven't either hardly

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I think by the time I got on the cross

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was probably why god didn't have me doing it

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I'd have sent down the angel armies

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and toasted everybody by this time

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turn with me to Isaiah 53

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another fabulous scripture

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in verse 3 he was despised and rejected by men

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a man of sorrows acquainted with grief

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and we hid it as it were our faces from him

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I imagine it the scene on the cross was so rough

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so harsh so terrible

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it's kind of like when we

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the closest thing maybe we've seen to that

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is watching The Passion of the Christ

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you know it's a movie you don't really watch twice

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right

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it's one of those I'm glad I saw it

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but I'm not rushing to watch it again

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cause we hit our faces from it was too hard to watch

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Shirley has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows

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we have esteemed him stricken

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smitten by god and afflicted

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he was wounded for our transgressions

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bruised for our iniquities

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the chastisement for our peace was upon him

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he even paid the price for your peace on the cross

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there's no peace without the Prince of peace

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he purchased your peace on the cross

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and by his stripes we were healed

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we didn't just get saved on the cross

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he purchased our healing on the cross

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we like sheep

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have gone astray can you say amen

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amen we've turned everyone to our own way

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and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all

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I can't imagine the sins of all mankind

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from beginning to today to the future laid on him

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my god my god why have you forsaken me

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my brain doesn't comprehend

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I want us to feel his humility

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a goal of mine I wanna feel it

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he wasn't a victim he willingly gave himself

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he could have called the angel armies down any moment

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there's no one like him

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this uh

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theme of being a lion and a lamb

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I've been thinking about for weeks and weeks

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and then a couple of weeks ago

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ran across Lafe Hetland's book

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the heart of roaring lambs

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isn't that a beautiful saying

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roaring lambs

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you're a roaring lamb

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have you ever read something so well

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and you're you're saying well

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I'd like to just reiterate that

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but you can't say it as well as he wrote it

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and so I don't like to read things to you

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but I can't say it better than he wrote it

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so I'm gonna read a page or two to you

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it's really powerful

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occasionally we see the lion calming storms

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casting out demons

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rebuking hypocritical religious leaders

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preaching powerful words to multitudes

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or overturning the tables of money changers

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but mostly we see the lamb

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that's the nature of the kenosis

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the emptying the humble service

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that LED Jesus to the altar of sacrifice

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as the lamb he was laid in a manger

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escaped the wrath of a vicious lion

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who slaughtered the babies of Bethlehem

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fled with his family as a refugee

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and was raised in the humble home of a craftsman

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as the Lamb he grew in wisdom and stature

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and in favor with god and man

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not by asserting his rights or displaying his deity

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but submitting to his parents and being full of Grace

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as a lamb he hungered

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thirsted got tired

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felt pain and wept as a human

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and after he wept as a lamb

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he raised the dead to life

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as a lion

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he wept for Lazarus and he raised Lazarus

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he was a LA he was a lamb he was a lion

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as a lamb he put on the garments of a servant

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and humbly washed the dirty feet of his disciples

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and then he stood up and taught

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with the authority of a lion

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as a lamb he offered prayers with loud crying and tears

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and he sweated drops of blood one agonizing night

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and he stood as determined and dignified as a lion

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before his accusers

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as a lamb he chose the Father's eternal will

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over his own immediate desires

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and in embracing the Father's will

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he laid down his life

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not because anyone took it from him

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but because he gave it willingly

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and not for any other motive

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than the greatest love anyone can have

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he chose to become a grain of wheat

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that falls into the ground and dies

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in order to produce a great harvest

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as the lamb he was despised and rejected

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a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief

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he carried our sorrows

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he was wounded for our transgressions

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and he was LED as a lamb to the slaughter

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and as a lamb

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he cried out from the cross in his pain and humility

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for god to forgive his tormentors

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promise life to a thief provide care for his mother

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express his thirst and his forgiveness

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and declare that his work was finished

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and commend his spirit into the hands of his father

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amen

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out of the ugliest most painful kind of death

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the lamb demonstrated the beauty and power of love

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and revealed the heart of god

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and then he rose from the dead like a lion

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to eternal kingship and glory

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that's the nature of the roaring lamb

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and for this as the scripture says

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god highly exalted him

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and gave him the name above all names

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to which every knee will bow

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and every tongue will confess he is Lord

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Jesus in you says yes and amen

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the Holy Spirit in you says

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that's my god

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that's the Lamb

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in John's vision in the book of revelation

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the roaring lamb is worthy of all worship

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and seated on the throne it's the lion who prevails

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to open the scroll with seven seals

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but it's the slain lamb at the center of the throne

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who comes and opens it

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multitudes gather around the throne to worship the Lamb

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and declare the self salvation he accomplished

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the Lamb overcomes evil kings

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because he is Lord of Lords and king of kings

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he welcomes his bride

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to the marriage supper of the Lamb

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and his glory illuminates the city of god forever

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that's why God's lions roar with the heart of a lamb

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we are orphans who inherit sonship

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we serve in order to become great

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we humble ourselves to be exalted

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we surrender ourselves to become free

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we die in order to live

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what a great god we serve

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he's worthy of our passionate worship every

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every week every day

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he's so good to us

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you know he rode in on a donkey

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but when he got to the temple

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he turned over the tables

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he was a lion when he turned the tables

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he was a lamb riding on the donkey

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when he wept he was a lamb

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and when he raised Lazarus he was a lion

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when he crawled on a cross

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he was a lamb

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on Easter next Sunday

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he was a lion

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you know there have been a lot of sermons preached

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and I tried to figure out

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how many sermons have been preached

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in the history of the world

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if you Google how many churches there are

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it says somewhere between 4 million and 37 million

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what kind of answer is that

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like how do you get paid for that job

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it's like I want that job

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it's like the weatherman it's a 50% chance of rain

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like you get paid for that

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that's a job

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but if there were 10 million churches

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and they only preached one sermon a week

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for 2,000 years

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we've had a trillion sermons

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that's a lot

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I'm feeling really insignificant right now

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but the greatest sermon was the sermon on the mount

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and it started out with words like

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blessed are the poor in spirit

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for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

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if you start to put on the lens of looking for

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the lion in the lamb

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it's like when my son bought a red Civic Honda

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all you see is red Civic Hondas

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you see what you're looking for

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and I've been looking for the lion

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and the lamb in the word lately

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and there it is blessed is poor in spirit

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Lamb

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for theirs is the kingdom

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they possess the kingdom of heaven that's a lion

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blessed are the peacemakers

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land they'll be called sons of god

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here's your lion

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it's everywhere

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but I think we're in a season just to close

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of

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one of my favorite verses is

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he gives Grace to the humble

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our movement is it

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has admittedly made a few mistakes

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and I love the way our leaders are owning it

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and are humble

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I would say there's humility flowing down right now

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there's a Grace

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and

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you know when Chris was here

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I saw another Grace gift happen in the prophetic

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under the ministry of a prophet

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which is talks about seeing

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I saw something I've never seen

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I saw something in myself that I had not seen

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under the ministry of a prophet

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that's not the kind of seeing I was used to

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I saw this

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and that was humbling wow

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and I was having a

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relational issue

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with a very important person in my life

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and in seeing and speaking with him for not very long

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I began to see where I was missing

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I saw where I was not seeing something before

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and I think it's fair to say

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that the other person had the similar experience

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and when we got together for breakfast

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we both decided to go in low

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we had been lions

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and

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he gives Grace to the humble

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00:31:10,266 --> 00:31:13,933
Grace is the operational power of God

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00:31:14,833 --> 00:31:16,666
Grace I

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00:31:16,666 --> 00:31:18,566
what helps me understand Grace is

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I think of it as a spiritual

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tangible thing

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when you read the epistles and Paul says

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Grace unto you it's like he's talking about a substance

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a spiritual substance that when it enters the room

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something can happen now

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00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,233
that could not have happened a moment ago

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00:31:38,233 --> 00:31:39,366
before it came

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00:31:40,500 --> 00:31:42,733
he gives Grace to the humble

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00:31:42,766 --> 00:31:49,066
this verse has moved from a concept that I talk about

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00:31:49,066 --> 00:31:51,133
or read or understand

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00:31:51,766 --> 00:31:57,266
to faith to even a deeper place knowing

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like I know he gives Grace to the humble

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and we've been given a

553
00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:18,700
a pattern of humility like no other in our Lord Jesus

554
00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:20,533
that's right yep

555
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,700
if he can live that way

556
00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:26,433
if he can humble himself that way

557
00:32:26,433 --> 00:32:29,400
if he can be that kind of god

558
00:32:29,866 --> 00:32:34,100
he can ask us to be humble and go low

559
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because I think it's the humility

560
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,666
the Grace that comes with humility

561
00:32:41,666 --> 00:32:46,000
that precedes the authority that comes with a lion

562
00:32:48,966 --> 00:32:54,166
he was both you are both I am both

563
00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:58,500
but I came out of that meeting

564
00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:01,566
feeling about 20 pounds lighter

565
00:33:02,566 --> 00:33:04,966
and I literally caught myself saying

566
00:33:04,966 --> 00:33:08,666
I'm free I'm free I'm free

567
00:33:12,866 --> 00:33:14,900
he gives Grace to the humble

568
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,200
so my invitation and ending it would be this

569
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is there any area of your life that's stuck

570
00:33:28,833 --> 00:33:32,600
a relationship stuck a financial thing that's stuck

571
00:33:35,366 --> 00:33:38,000
something in your world that's stuck

572
00:33:39,366 --> 00:33:41,100
it's just not moving

573
00:33:42,033 --> 00:33:43,966
I would say there's a Grace

574
00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:46,466
if you'll go lower go lower

575
00:33:46,466 --> 00:33:48,233
he gives Grace to the humble

576
00:33:48,233 --> 00:33:51,000
Grace is the operational power of god

577
00:33:51,833 --> 00:33:54,166
there's Grace

578
00:33:54,466 --> 00:33:59,233
and a wake for you to jump in and see something happen

579
00:33:59,233 --> 00:34:01,066
come on that's good

580
00:34:01,566 --> 00:34:04,700
I know it I feel it

581
00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:07,666
the verse has become real

582
00:34:08,666 --> 00:34:10,100
it's not a theory

583
00:34:15,166 --> 00:34:19,800
I've felt it just in the last few weeks

584
00:34:20,166 --> 00:34:22,266
he gives Grace to the humble

585
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,000
so Lord we

586
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,533
I want us to uh

587
00:34:32,300 --> 00:34:33,966
feel your humanity

588
00:34:34,700 --> 00:34:35,933
your humility

589
00:34:39,433 --> 00:34:45,766
I want us to be grateful for the lion and the lamb

590
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:52,766
but the lamb that rode on that donkey on Palm Sunday

591
00:34:56,366 --> 00:34:57,666
and humbled himself

592
00:34:59,433 --> 00:35:03,500
and now is exalted above all the name

593
00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:06,533
above all names the king of Kings

594
00:35:08,566 --> 00:35:11,466
that humble life is now being celebrated

595
00:35:11,466 --> 00:35:13,333
2,000 years later

596
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everywhere in millions of churches

597
00:35:17,366 --> 00:35:18,900
I don't know how many millions

598
00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:30,700
and the invitation is if there's something

599
00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:33,466
the Holy Spirit has pricked your heart and said

600
00:35:33,966 --> 00:35:37,500
I want you to go low lower

601
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,200
I want you to humble yourself

602
00:35:39,433 --> 00:35:42,200
I want you to get through this thing

603
00:35:43,366 --> 00:35:45,100
I just like you to stand

604
00:35:45,833 --> 00:35:49,666
if the Lord is speaking to you about that some area

605
00:36:02,766 --> 00:36:03,666
so Holy Spirit

606
00:36:03,666 --> 00:36:06,533
just speak to each of us

607
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,066
how amazing you can speak to each of us in a unique way

608
00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:19,366
about what humility looks like in this situation

609
00:36:20,066 --> 00:36:23,133
any area of my life that's not glistening

610
00:36:24,266 --> 00:36:26,566
is under the influence of a lie

611
00:36:28,766 --> 00:36:29,500
so Lord

612
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:31,100
I just say speak

613
00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:33,000
tell us

614
00:36:33,633 --> 00:36:36,666
what area needs do we need to go lower

615
00:36:37,633 --> 00:36:39,566
we open our heart Holy Spirit

616
00:36:39,566 --> 00:36:41,066
we open our hearts

617
00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:45,666
unlock places that you have said you can't go

618
00:36:46,766 --> 00:36:50,933
let the oil go to crevices that aren't going there

619
00:36:51,066 --> 00:36:53,366
let hard hearts be softened

620
00:36:54,433 --> 00:36:57,500
let us be conformed to the image of Christ

621
00:36:57,500 --> 00:37:01,166
to go glory to glory come

622
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,466
holy one

623
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,600
come holy one

624
00:37:06,033 --> 00:37:08,733
he gives Grace to the humble

625
00:37:09,066 --> 00:37:09,766
so Lord

626
00:37:09,766 --> 00:37:12,966
let your word do its work in us

627
00:37:12,966 --> 00:37:16,600
we pray and all the people said amen amen

628
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thank you for your participation