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- I don't know where David stopped. I don't know that he knows.
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- Well, I had prepared from verse 8. Who's speaking in this section?
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- Bill? Yes, that's right.
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- He's speaking to the 70. Now, Virge, this whatsoever city that you enter, was that news to God?
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- So he knew where they were going. Each one of them?
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- Well, verse 8 says, and into whatsoever city you enter. Now, the whatsoever belongs to Luke 10.
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- Now, and into whatsoever city you enter, the whatsoever, not knowing, belong to who?
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- God or man? David? That's man's viewpoint.
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- And they receive you. Eat such things as are set before you.
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- I would have a problem. But he admonishes us to not ask questions.
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- Eat whatever is put before you. My wife's been trying ever since we got married.
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- Some things she's just about to give up on. But, Virge, why shouldn't you question what's put before you?
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- All right. Russell, how much of this trip had he prepared for one of the disciples?
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- Yes. All of it. Why can't I get that through my head?
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- Everything is prepared ahead of time. Well, and heal the sick that were therein, and say unto them, the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
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- David, what did he mean, the kingdom of God? This is disciples speaking. They might what?
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- Now, aren't you glad that's all over and done with today? No, it's not over.
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- But into whatsoever city you enter, and they receive you not,
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- Bill, go your ways out into the streets of the same city, and say, even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you.
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- Notwithstanding, be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
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- Now, even the very dust of the city, why the dust?
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- What's he referring to? Was that a command of God?
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- Was that a command of the Lord? The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you, and you won't receive it.
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- But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day of Sodom than for that city.
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- Now, Bill, why? Well, why would it be more tolerable for Sodom than for them?
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- Where's the difference? Alright.
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- Well, what difference does that make? Well, that's true.
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- David? Alright, would it be more tolerable for us than it was for them?
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- I mean, more tolerable for them than it is for us. If we'd reject.
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- That's the key. The Sodom and Gomorrah, they were not told but so much.
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- These people were told so much. We've been told more. And the more you're told, the more responsibility you have.
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- And the greater is your guilt. Woe unto thee,
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- Chosan, woe unto thee, Bethsaida, for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
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- Well, that just reinforces what we've said. These cities in Galilee, Chosan and Bethsaida, and Capernaum, having been the places where Christ preached and wrought his miracles, they have a woe denounced here against them for their contempt of Christ.
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- But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, well,
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- I can't stop, at the judgment then for you.
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- And thou, Capernaum, which are exalted to heaven, shall be thrust down to hell, the netherworld, the realm of the dead.
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- Hades is not Gehenna, the desolation of the whole neighborhood and the difficulty of identifying even the sites of these towns.
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- It's impossible today. He that heareth you, heareth me.
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- Now, Christ is sending them out, and if you choose to hear this man, you're hearing
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- Christ. Is that true today, Virg?
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- Yes. Did we hear Christ speak to us this morning through David?
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- Yes. Absolutely. And he that despises you, despiseth me, and he that despises me, despises him who sent me.
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- Who is that? God the Father. Now, to understand the wisdom of God concerning these few verses, we're going to have to wait for that great day of discovery.
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- Suffice to say this, he is very selective to whom he gives his grace.
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- If you're ready for 17, 10 -17,
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- He's very selective in whom he gives his grace.
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- Is that true, Bill? Is God, through Jesus, very selective to whom he gives his grace?
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- Yes. He selects the individual. And the 70 returned again with joy.
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- Now, here they come. They've never experienced anything like this.
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- And they come back saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
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- The 70 disciples return to give Christ an account of the success of their expedition.
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- They return as victors with joy and triumph. Lord, even the demons are subject unto us through thy name.
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- The weapons of their warfare were not carnal, but spiritual. Now, can you discern between spiritual and carnal weapons today,
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- David? The powers of darkness cannot stand.
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- It's true. But must fall before the power of Christ. That's true.
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- The devil is no match for Christ. That's true. The devil is a created being.
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- 18. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
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- Now, he did not say falling from heaven. What would be the difference if he had said that,
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- David? Well, that's true.
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- But it's past tense. That's right.
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- That's right. Satan falls quick as lightning before the gospel of Christ.
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- Yes. Oh. Well, I think at the time that Satan fell, that if you cast out him, and that he and his people were there, but they went out,
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- I think we're talking about before the Garden of Eden. That's right.
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- It refers to that. He's already down.
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- Jesus is telling this group, I saw you and what you did in your absence.
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- Now, he had the ability to do that. My mind's eye was with you, and I saw the results.
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- Where do you think he was glad they come back with the report that they did? That's right.
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- Behold, I give unto you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all of the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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- Now, the word power, dunamis, the inherent power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exhorts and puts forth, of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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- When we experience success in our work, it is not our work, it's his.
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- What do I mean by that, Russell? That's right.
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- So it's his success. Notwithstanding, in this, rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you, but rather rejoice.
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- Why? Because your names are written in heaven.
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- Now, we should be glad if someone is saved, or if they overcome an obstacle.
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- But look at what the Lord says.
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- Rejoice because your names are written in heaven. Now, we must remember at all times that God had to condescend and lower himself to speak to man, fallen man, in a sinful state.
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- And because your names are written in heaven is a way that he has of telling us the truth.
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- I don't think there's a book up there and he writes our name in it. But this is something that we understand.
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- I cannot imagine what it will be like. The very conversation will be changed.
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- Words that we learn here won't apply there. 21.
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- Remember, those whose names are written in his Lamb's book in heaven shall never perish.
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- Saving graces are more to be rejoiced in than spiritual gifts. 21. 21.
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- In that hour, Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank thee,
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- O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes even so.
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- Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. Now, for what did he rejoice?
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- Russell, there's no way that I can explain to any of you the thrill that rushes through my body when you understand the truth.
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- And Bill, I'm sure it's that way in teaching anything. The thrill of a student learning something, seeing something, understanding something is tremendous.
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- He rejoiced not in the destruction of the wise and prudent, but in the display of the riches of God's grace to others in such a manner as is reserved to him the entire glory of our salvation and hides pride from man.
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- How can man understand God? David, how can man understand
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- God? He has a mind, but he does not understand his own mind with which he endeavors to understand
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- God. What makes man think that he understands
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- God? All things are delivered to me of my
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- Father, and no man knoweth who the Son is but the
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- Father, and who the Father is but the Son, and he to whom the
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- Son will reveal him. That's where we'll stop.
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- All things are delivered unto me of whose Father? My Father.
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- Yes, yes.
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- To think that I have been in God as long as he is in is a long time.
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- It goes beyond my memory frontwards and backwards.
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- Okay, is there anything else? Russell dismisses, please.
