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The Old Testament

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is a story sighing for an ending.

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Psalm 90 stresses it as well as any other.

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All our days are spent under your wrath.l

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And we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

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Psalm 90 moans and groans like like Eeyore the donkey from his dark

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damp corner of the Hundred Acre Woods. Psalm 90 groans

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like a world weary of a global pandemic. Psalm 90 sighs

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and we sigh.

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Say it with me say these words from Psalm 90 verse 13.

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We we ended before we got there repeat after me: Return O Lord.

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How long O Lord?

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Have pity on your servants.

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Oh Lord.

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The New Testament is a response to this sigh.

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And the the New Testament writers they speak with a special

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spring in their step and among the most springy of them

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all is the Evangelist the biographer of Jesus, Mark. With his favorite

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adverb oha sus variously translated as sudden, immediately and my

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favorite from the King James straight way.

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You can feel Marks energy when you listen to his opening chapters.

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It's Psalm 90 moans and groans like Eeyore.

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.Mark with boundless breathless energy burst into the scene like Tigger.

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You listen to it you listen to the opening chapters of his good news

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about Jesus.

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I'll tell it for us this time, but I need your help.

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You got four lines that I need you to repeat after me and say in

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unison.

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I'll say and you repeat will practice line number one.

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What is this?

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Line number two. Everyone is looking for you.

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Line number 3.

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If you are willing you can make me clean.

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Line number four. We never saw anything like this.

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This is the beginning, just the beginning of the good news about Jesus

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the Messiah.

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The son of God.

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As it stands written in Isaiah the prophet.

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Look I am sending my messenger ahead of you who will prepare your way

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the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord

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make his paths straight.

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John came on the scene

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baptizing in the wilderness in proclaiming a baptism of repentance for

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the forgiveness of sins. And all the people of Judea and all the

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inhabitants of Jerusalem were coming out to be baptized by John in the

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River Jordan confessing their sins.

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Now John was wearing clothing of camels hair with a leather belt

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around his waist and he would preach saying the one who comes after me

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is stronger than I am.

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I'm not even worthy to stoop down and untie the strap of his sandal.

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I have baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy

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Spirit.

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And it cam to pass in those days, Jesus came.

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He came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the

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Jordan River. And straight away is he was coming up out of the water of the

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heavens being torn open in the spirit like a dove descending into him.

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And a voice came from Heaven saying, this is my beloved Son.

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You are my beloved Son.

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In you I am well pleased and straight away the spirit drives him into

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the Wilderness and he's in the wilderness 40 days being tempted by

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Satan and he's with the wild animals and the in the angels are

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ministering to him.

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And now after John was arrested Jesus came into Galilee proclaiming the good

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news of God saying the time is fulfilled the rule and reign of God is

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at hand repent now and believe the good news and going alongside the

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Sea of Galilee.

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He saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea, they were

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fisherman

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you know. And he called them and said follow me.

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And I will make you become people who fish for other people and

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straight away

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they left their nets and followed him. And going on a bit further

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he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother sitting in their

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boat tending mending their nets.

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And straight away

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he called them and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the

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hired servants and followed him. And going into Capernaum straight

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away on the sabbath going into the synagogue.

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He was teaching and everyone was astonished at his teaching because he

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was teaching them exuding authority. And straight away

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there was in there synagogue man in the power of an unclean spirit and

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he cried out in a loud voice.

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What are you meddling in our affairs, Jesus?

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Have you come to destroy us?

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I know who you are

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the Holy One of God. And Jesus rebuked

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the unclean spirit and said to him be muzzled and come out of him. And

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the unclean Spirit shook the man a lot crying out with a loud

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voice came out of him and so they were all thunderstruck and they

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started arguing among themselves saying you're lying.

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What is this?

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What is this?

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A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they

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obey him. And straightaway the report went out everywhere and all the

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surrounding regions of Galilee and straightaway

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Jesus left the synagogue and went into the house of Simon and Andrew

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James and John. Now Simon's mother brother-in-law was sick burning up

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with a fever and straight away

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they told him about her and he came and he took me by the hand and he

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lifted her up.

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The fever left her and she began to serve them and that evening at

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sundown

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they began to bring everyone who was sick and those who was being

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oppressed by demons. And the whole town was gathered together at the door and he

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was healing many who are sick with various diseases and driving out

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many demons. And he would not permit the demons speak because they knew

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him. And early in the morning while it was still dark and got up and went

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out to a desolate place and there

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he began to pray.

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Simon and those who were with him they hunted him down and they say

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to him everyone is looking for you. Everyone is looking for you.

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And Jesus said to them let's go.

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Let's go to the next town so that I may preach they're also because

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that is why I came out. And he began to go throughout all their towns

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preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons with leprosy a

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man with Leprosy came up to him and falling before him and kneeling before him and

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begging him.

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He said to him if you were willing you can make me clean.

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Jesus moved with compassion reached out his hand and touched the man

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with Leprosy and he said to him I am willing.

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Be clean.

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And straight away his leprosy left him.

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tAnd Jesus sent him away with a with a harrumph and send him away right

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away and said to him see you say nothing to anyone. Go show

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yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing the sacrifice that

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Moses commanded as a testimony to them. But he went out and began to

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talk freely about it and to broadcast the account with the results that

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Jesus could no longer openly enter into a town, but he was in the desolate

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places and people kept coming to him.

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They kept coming to him from everywhere and some days after he returned to

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Capernaum

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it was reported that he was at home and a great crowd gathered so that

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there was no longer any not even at the front door. And some people

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came carrying a paralyzed man carried by four of them.

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And when they saw the way they couldn't get near him because of the

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they remove the roof. They dug out the roof above him and laid and lowered the paralyzed

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man on the pallets that he was laying on. And Jesus when he saw

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their faith, he says that the paralyzed man child.

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Child your sins forgiven.

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Child your sins are now being forgiven.

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And there was some subscribe sitting there when they heard him say that they

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began questioning him in their hearts saying. Why does this man speak

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like this? He blaspheming. No one can forgive sins but God. And Jesus straight away perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned him in

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their heart says to them.

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Why do you question these things in your heart?

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Which is easier to say to the paralyzed man your sins are forgiven or

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to say rise pick up your pallet and walk? But so that you may know so

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that you may know the son of man has authority on Earth to forgive

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sins. He says to the paralyzed man.

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I say to you rise pick up your pallet and go home and he arose straight away. He went out before them all and 

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picked up his palette so that they were all amazed. And they glorified God saying,

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we never saw anything like this.

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We never saw anything like this.

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Would you pray with me?

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Jesus we never saw anything like you we never known anyone like you

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would never experienced

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anyone like you. We are weary.

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We are pressed down under the burdens of our sins and our sickness

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and so we need you to come Jesus.

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We need you to tear open the heavens.

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We need you to blow the roof off this place and come down and

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possess by your spirit and send us out and make us people who fish

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for other people.

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Because everyone is looking for you Jesus.

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Even if they don't know it yet.

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Everyone is looking for you.

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Because you who died are alive. You've conquered death and you rule and

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you reign and you are returning straight away

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to make all things new.

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It's in your name that we pray Jesus. And all God's people said