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It is the truth of His being, the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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And it is that doctrine of the deity of Jesus Christ that we have been looking at on some

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Sunday evenings here recently, and tonight we're going to continue that for the minutes

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that we have left in our service time tonight.

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I invite you to turn with me to Mark chapter 1.

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How do we know that Jesus Christ is God?

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If He is not God, then our faith is in vain, however sincere our faith may be.

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However large our anchor may be, if Jesus Christ is not God, He is unable to save us.

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For our Savior must be God as well as man.

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Of course, the truth that the Bible teaches us that He is both God and man.

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How do we know He's God?

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Well, we've looked at some of the claims of Christ.

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We've talked about His character, and we've just begun speaking about the works of our

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Lord that show that He is God.

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We've talked about His forgiving sin.

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Only God can forgive sin because sin primarily is against God, not against others.

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Now, it is against others indirectly.

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And what it impacts others, obviously there are some consequences of that.

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Sinfulness can be broken.

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We need to be reconciled.

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There needs to be forgiveness.

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But the basic direction of sin is against God, and only God can forgive it ultimately.

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The Lord Jesus Christ said that He forgave the sin of people.

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The apostles never did that because they could not forgive sin.

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But Jesus did forgive sin, and He proved that He forgave sin by then performing miracles

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to back up His claim that He could forgive.

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He said it's easy to forgive sin or to say that, but it's not so easy to tell those who

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are lame to take up their bed and walk.

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And to the one whose sins He had forgiven, He said, take up your bed and walk, and the

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man did it.

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Now we want to look again in the Gospel of Mark in the first chapter.

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And I want you to notice that not only did He forgive sin, but we see here that He had

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power over demons.

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Look in verse 21.

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They went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath He entered the synagogue and

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began to teach.

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And they were amazed at His teaching, for He was teaching them as one having authority

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and not as the scribes.

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And just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried

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out saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth?

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Have you come to destroy us?

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I know who you are, the Holy One of God.

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And Jesus rebuked him saying, Be quiet and come out of him.

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And throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came

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out of him.

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And they were all amazed, so that they debated among themselves saying, What is this?

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A new teaching with authority.

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He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him.

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Our Lord Jesus Christ has authority over demonic powers, here called unclean spirits.

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Here is a man who was in a synagogue, he was undoubtedly a religious man, that's probably

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why he was there.

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But he was a man who was possessed, he was demonized.

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Spirits of darkness, the powers of Satan had overcome him, so much so that they controlled

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his personality, his expressions, etc.

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And notice that they cried out, they initiated this confrontation by recognizing him not

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only as Jesus of Nazareth, but calling him the Holy One of God.

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These spirits said, We know who you are, the Holy One of God.

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That is not an accidental title, that is a purpose title, an understood title among those

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people in that day in particular, comes directly out of the Old Testament, it was a name for

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Jehovah God.

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Those spirits said to him, We know who you are, the Holy One of God.

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That was premature for that to be announced, Jesus said to them, Be quiet.

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And then He said, Come out of him.

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And they had no choice but to obey Him, because of who He was, He was their Creator.

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Their Creator, He created them righteous, but they fell with Satan.

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And so now, unrighteous, unclean, unholy spirits, they perform wicked acts through the body

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of this man.

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And Jesus says to them, and there was apparently a group of them, not just one, He said, Come

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out of him, and with convulsive signs and a scream, the spirits departed from the man.

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Of course, those who were there recognized this was something unusual.

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This didn't happen every day in the synagogue.

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You could go to a lot of Sabbath meetings and never see something like this, because

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God is there, you see.

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Jesus Christ is there, He delivers a man.

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He has power over demons.

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Now that is repeated a number of times in the Gospels.

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I point out one example of it.

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We see other examples of that, but another step, beginning in verse 29, where we see

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He has power over disease.

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Immediately after they had come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon

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and Andrew with James and John.

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This Simon, of course, is Simon Peter and Andrew, his brother, who led him to Christ.

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And James and John, another set of brothers, were there.

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Now Simon's mother-in-law, what does that tell you about Simon?

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It may tell you a lot, but it tells you one thing.

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He's married.

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It says Simon's mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever, and immediately they spoke

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to him about her.

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And he came to her and raised her up, taking her by the hand, and the fever left her, and

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she waited on them.

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And when evening had come, after the sun had set, they began bringing to him all who were

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ill and those who were demon-possessed.

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And the whole city had gathered at the door, and he healed many who were ill with various

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diseases and cast out many demons.

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So here we see that our Lord not only has power over demons, because He is their Creator,

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He has power over disease.

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He is able to deliver from disease.

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Jesus did not heal every sick person in that day.

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He did not do that.

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He does not heal every sick person today.

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But He can heal, and He does heal, yet today, because He has power over disease.

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Disease is present in the world because of mankind's sin.

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Our fallenness in sin has produced disease as part of it, part of the curse, the judgment

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upon sin.

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God has the power to deliver from that judgment, from disease.

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And He does it here, and of course, many other examples of it as well.

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But not only disease, He has power as well over death.

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Turn over to chapter 5.

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Look in verse 22, and one of the synagogue officials named Jairus came up, and upon seeing

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him fell at his feet and entreated him earnestly, saying, My little daughter is at the point

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of death.

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Please come and lay your hands on her, that she may get well and live.

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And he went off with him.

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And then they were interrupted.

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We won't take time to read that, but there was a woman who trusted for a healing.

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As she touched with the hem of his garment, she was healed.

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And then it says in verse 38, And they came to the house of the synagogue official, ultimately,

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and he beheld a commotion and people loudly weeping and wailing, which was a typical external

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means of indicating sorrow and grief.

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And they began laughing, and entering in, he said to them, Why make a commotion and

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weep?

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The child has not died, but is asleep.

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And they began laughing at him.

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But putting them all out, he took along the child's father and mother and his own companions

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and entered the room where the child was.

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You say, Well, was she really asleep?

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Well, as far as our Lord was concerned, yes.

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As far as the medical facts were concerned, she was dead.

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But in our Lord's presence, death cannot exist really as death, can it?

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And so he uses a picture or a metaphor of death.

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He calls her but asleep.

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And taking the child by the hand, verse 41, he said to her, Talatha koum, which translated

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means little girl, I say to you arise.

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And immediately the girl rose and began to walk, for she was twelve years old.

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And immediately they were completely astounded.

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Suppose you had been there.

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Wouldn't it have been thrilling to have been in that room?

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And to see Jesus take that little girl's hand and speak to her in a very loving and tender

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way, little girl, I say to you get up.

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There are a few things that get to me as deeply and as quickly as the death of a child.

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I remember several years ago when I was serving as a police chaplain on a volunteer basis

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down in Kentucky.

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I received a call that there was a family that was in the emergency room at Booth Hospital.

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And there was a need for my presence immediately.

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And so I went down to the hospital and the nurses explained to me that a little girl,

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eight years old, had fallen into the Ohio River and had drowned.

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And they had been able to get her out of the water.

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They brought her to the hospital.

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They attempted to revive her but she died.

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And they said her body is in the next room and beyond that in another room is her family

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and they need comforting.

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So I walked through the first room and as I did there was this little eight year old

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girl laying there on the table.

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Beautiful blonde little girl who was dead.

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And I tell you as I walked past her body how I wished that it would have been possible

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to take her by the hand and say little girl get up.

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I want to take you into your family.

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But of course I couldn't do that.

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What a thrill it would have been to have been there in that day with that little girl who

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was dead too, twelve years old, was there in the room.

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Everybody knew she was dead.

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They were mourning.

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And Jesus entered in and He manifested His power over death.

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Now He did that several times in His life.

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There were many people who died in that day.

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He did not choose to resuscitate them to bring them back to life.

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He only did that on a few occasions.

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But He did it to manifest His power over death.

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My friend, only God has that power.

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Only God can do that.

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The devil cannot do that.

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Man cannot do that.

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When the door of death slams shut it stays shut.

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It's sealed to man.

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You say, what happened in Columbus, Ohio the other day with that man who was seventy-some

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years old and was dead thirty minutes and hiccuped.

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And they decided that maybe he wasn't dead after all and began to work on him again.

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I don't understand that.

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I don't know all the details surrounding that.

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But this much I know that if the door of death had shut on him, he would not have hiccuped.

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And he would not be alive today.

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But this little girl was dead.

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Jesus raised her from the dead.

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He's God, my friend.

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Only God can raise the dead.

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He has power over disease.

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He has power over demons.

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He has power over death.

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He has power over nature.

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Just turn back a page to chapter four and look at this familiar story of Jesus being

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out there in the boat with his disciples on the Sea of Galilee.

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And the storm comes up and the boat is filling up with water.

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They're afraid it's going to sink.

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Jesus was asleep in the stern of the boat.

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And they went to him and awakened him and said, teacher, do you not care that we're

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perishing?

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And verse thirty-nine says, I'm being aroused.

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Can you imagine being asleep in that storm?

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If I'm out fishing and there's a little wave that starts hitting the boat, I'm practically

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at the side of the boat.

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And I'm ready for some calmness.

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I do not like to be on rough water.

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Here is Jesus in the middle of a storm that's filling up the boat.

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He's asleep in the stern.

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It shows what complete confidence that he had in the providential sovereign care of

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God.

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And he said, hush.

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By the way, that's the very same word that he used earlier to the demon.

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Hush.

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Be quiet.

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Be silent.

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And he says, be still.

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Literally the word there is be muzzled.

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This suggests to us, the language that he uses that is, that this storm was not a mere

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storm but that it was a storm that was whipped up and aroused by demonic powers.

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And so in speaking to the storm, he spoke just as he did to the demons earlier.

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Hush.

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Be still.

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And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.

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And he said to them, why are you so timid?

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How is it that you have no faith?

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And they became very much afraid and said to one another, who then is this that even

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the wind and the sea obey him?

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Of course the answer is he is God.

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He has power over nature.

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We've only looked at a few examples.

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John tells us in his gospel that the whole world itself could not contain the books that

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could be written of the miracles that Jesus did in his ministry.

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But these are written for us that we might believe that he is the son of God, that he

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is deity come in flesh.

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Then we notice also that he is God because he prophesied events that literally took place.

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Let me suggest a couple to you and we'll look at one just briefly and then we'll be on our

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One of them is the coming of the Holy Spirit.

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Jesus said on that night before he was crucified, I am going away but I will send to you the

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Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit.

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Forty days later the Holy Spirit came.

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On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came in fulfillment of Jesus' word.

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He prophesied something that literally took place.

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He also spoke in his ministry about the destruction of Jerusalem.

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We don't have time to look at the language Jesus used but it was language like this,

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there will not be one stone left upon another.

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He said there will be armies surrounding this city.

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That literally took place some forty years later when Titus attacked Jerusalem.

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His armies surrounded the city, laid siege to it.

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When they ultimately conquered it, they destroyed the city, pulling down the stones so that

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not even one stone stood upon another.

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What he foretold literally came to pass.

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But surely the most significant one of all is the prophecy of his own death and resurrection.

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I invite you to look back with me at Matthew 16 as we look at one of the examples of Jesus'

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prophecy regarding his own death.

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He says in Matthew 16, verse 21, from that time Jesus Christ began to show his disciples

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that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and

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scribes and be killed and be raised up on the third day.

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But Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him saying, God forbid it Lord, this has never

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happened to you.

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He turned and said to Peter, get behind me Satan, you're a stumbling block to me.

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You are not setting your mind on God's interest but man's.

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Jesus here tells of his own suffering, his death and resurrection.

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Notice the details that Jesus reveals to them.

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He says it's going to happen in Jerusalem.

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He says he is going to suffer many things and from whom?

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The religious leaders, the elders, the chief priests, the scribes.

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Not only is he going to suffer, he predicts he will be killed.

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But he also says he will be raised up from the dead.

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And he tells when?

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On the third day.

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Notice the specifics about this.

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And as we know, each detail was fulfilled.

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So Lord Jesus Christ prophesied events that literally took place.

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He is God my friend.

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This is the greatest of all, the crowning proofs of his deity, his resurrection from

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the dead.

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He said in John, destroy this temple, speaking about his body, and in three days I will raise

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it up.

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They thought he was talking about the temple in Jerusalem.

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But they came later to understand he was talking about his own physical body to be destroyed

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by death, but which would be raised from the dead.

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Henry Morris said the fact of his resurrection is the most important event of history and

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therefore appropriately is one of the most certain facts in all of history.

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You say well there are people who deny that he rose from the dead.

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Of course there are.

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Because if it is true that he rose from the dead, then the way that they're living will

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be judged.

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The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof that he was who

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he claimed to be.

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Josh McDowell said if God became man, then you would expect him to one, have an unusual

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entrance into life.

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Two, be without sin.

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Three, manifest the supernatural in the form of miracles.

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Four, have an acute sense of difference.

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Five, speak the greatest words ever spoken.

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Six, have a lasting and universal influence.

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Number seven, satisfy the spiritual hunger in man.

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And number eight, exercise power over death.

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In every respect, he showed that he was God come in humanity.

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He claimed to be deity and he proved it.

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The point of application is what difference does that make in our lives?

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What difference does it make in your life tonight that he is God and not merely an imposter

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or a good moral teacher only or an example to be followed merely?

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But the fact that he is God, how should that impact you in what you believe and how you

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live your lifestyle?

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You see this is not a doctrine that is just for theologians.

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It's not a doctrine of Christology, be stuck away in a theology book somewhere.

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We are talking about the heart, we are talking about the essence and the basics of Christianity

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in the deity of Jesus Christ.

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And we're talking about the rock, the foundation of the Christian life.

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Because if he is who he claimed to be, then he has the right not only to save us from

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our sin, but the right to demand lordship in our lives.

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Let's bow together in prayer.

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Sing with me the chorus.

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He is Lord, he is Lord.

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He is risen from the dead and he is Lord.

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Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

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My friend, if he is in fact Lord as we have sung, as the Bible proclaims, I may ask you

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if your faith is in him for the saving of your soul.

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Remember the words of this one who is God, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

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No one comes to the Father but through me.

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We don't do it through our good works, we don't do it through the church, we don't

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do it through baptism, we do it through Jesus Christ.

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That's how we come to the Father.

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He claimed exclusive right to the title of Savior.

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We can't save ourselves.

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Would you tonight acknowledge your need of him and trust in him within your heart?

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Would you at this moment, recognizing who he is, receive him and trust in him to save

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your soul from sin?

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Whatever you've trusted in before you lay aside, but tonight your faith is in Jesus

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Christ, if so, tell him right now, right where you're seated.

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He hears your prayer.

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He's God.

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Those of us who've done that, let us remember who it is that we serve and the rights that

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he has because who he is.

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Our Lord, tonight we hail the power of your name, a name at which disease is healed, a

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name at which the ocean waves are stilled, a name that causes the dead to come back to

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life, a name that causes demons to scream and flee.

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We acknowledge you as Jesus Christ the Lord and we worship you.

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We worship you as the eternal Son of God.

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We give ourselves afresh to you.

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Thank you for showing us who you are and calling us to yourself for giving us the privilege

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of walking with you.

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Lord, this week, strengthen us, teach us, draw us after yourself that we may come to

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know you more intimately and personally and see your power expressed in our lives as we

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represent you as your ambassadors here on this earth.

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Bless I pray the families, bless those who will be working tomorrow in difficult places,

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the students who will be going to school.

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May we represent you well at our assigned places.

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This we pray in your blessed name, the name of which every knee shall bow.

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Amen.