A Powerful Servant is Coming

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• Acts 832-34 (NKJV) - The place in the
  Scripture which he read was this He was led as
  a sheep to the slaughter And as a lamb before
  its shearer is silent, So He opened not His
  mouth. 33 In His humiliation His justice was
  taken away, And who will declare His generation?
  For His life is taken from the earth. 34 So the
  eunuch answered Philip and said, I ask you, of
  whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of
  some other man?

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• Israel needed comfort after Isaiah revealed the
  great judgment of God.

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• Israel needed comfort after Isaiah revealed the
  great judgment of God.
• Babylon would destroy Jerusalem and take them
  into captivity. (Isa 395-7)

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• Isaiah 395-7 (NKJV) - Then Isaiah said to
  Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts 6
  Behold, the days are coming when all that is in
  your house, and what your fathers have
  accumulated until this day, shall be carried to
  Babylon nothing shall be left, says the Lord. 7
  And they shall take away some of your sons who
  will descend from you, whom you will beget and
  they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king
  of Babylon.

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• Israels restoration was also spoken of through
  Cyrus. (Isa 4428)

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• Isaiah 4428 (NKJV) - Who says of Cyrus, He is
  My shepherd, And he shall perform all My
  pleasure, Saying to Jerusalem, You shall be
  built, And to the temple, Your foundation shall
  be laid.

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• These events while unparalleled in human history
  would pale in comparison to the coming servant.

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• These events while unparalleled in human history
  would pale in comparison to the coming servant.
• We need to see the incredible power of the word
  of God and how He works His ways. (Isa 446-8)

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• Isaiah 446-8 (NKJV) - Thus says the Lord, the
  King of Israel, And his Redeemer, the Lord of
  hosts I am the First and I am the Last Besides
  Me there is no God. 7 And who can proclaim as I
  do? Then let him declare it and set it in order
  for Me, Since I appointed the ancient people. And
  the things that are coming and shall come, Let
  them show these to them.

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• 8 Do not fear, nor be afraid Have I not told you
  from that time, and declared it? You are My
  witnesses. Is there a God besides Me? Indeed
  there is no other Rock I know not one.

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• I challenge the unbeliever and the believer alike
  to look into this powerful message.

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• I challenge the unbeliever and the believer alike
  to look into this powerful message.
• To the human eye that child born in a manager
  seemed less than insignificant.

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A Powerful Servant is Coming

• I challenge the unbeliever and the believer alike
  to look into this powerful message.
• To the human eye that child born in a manager
  seemed less than insignificant.
• You need to look again at what the servant of God
  can do.

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The Fullness of Time

• This servant was for a time in the shadow of
  Gods hand. (Isa 491-2)

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The Fullness of Time

• Isaiah 491-2 (NKJV) - Listen, O coastlands,
  to Me, And take heed, you peoples from afar! The
  Lord has called Me from the womb From the matrix
  of My mother He has made mention of My name.

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The Fullness of Time

• 2 And He has made My mouth like a sharp sword In
  the shadow of His hand He has hidden Me, And made
  Me a polished shaft In His quiver He has hidden
  Me.

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The Fullness of Time

• He was like a concealed weapon, hidden from the
  enemy until the right time.

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The Fullness of Time

• He was like a concealed weapon, hidden from the
  enemy until the right time.
• Satan was a willing tool in his own demise. What
  he thought was a victory was a defeat! (Heb 214
  1 Cor 27-8)

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The Fullness of Time

• Hebrews 214 (NKJV) - Inasmuch then as the
  children have partaken of flesh and blood, He
  Himself likewise shared in the same, that through
  death He might destroy him who had the power of
  death, that is, the devil,

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The Fullness of Time

• 1 Corinthians 27-8 (NKJV) - But we speak the
  wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom
  which God ordained before the ages for our glory,
  8 which none of the rulers of this age knew for
  had they known, they would not have crucified the
  Lord of glory.

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The Fullness of Time

• This is the significance of the mystery in
  Gods plan. (Eph 19-10)

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The Fullness of Time

• Ephesians 19-10 (NKJV) - having made known to us
  the mystery of His will, according to His good
  pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in
  the dispensation of the fullness of the times He
  might gather together in one all things in
  Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on
  earthin Him.

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The Fullness of Time

• Mystery- the content of that which has not been
  known before but which has been revealed to an
  in-group or restricted constituency

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The Fullness of Time

• Mystery- the content of that which has not been
  known before but which has been revealed to an
  in-group or restricted constituency
• This mystery has now been revealed!

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The Fullness of Time

• Mystery- the content of that which has not been
  known before but which has been revealed to an
  in-group or restricted constituency
• This mystery has now been revealed!
• Consider the power of reveling Jesus at this
  time. (Gal 44-5)

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The Fullness of Time

• Galatians 44-5 (NKJV) - But when the fullness of
  the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born
  of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those
  who were under the law, that we might receive the
  adoption as sons.

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The Fullness of Time

• The hypocrisy and ultimate destruction of Israel
  was obvious.

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The Fullness of Time

• From the earlier captivity Jews were scattered
  all over the world and would be a
  base for the spread of the gospel. (Rom 116-17)

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The Fullness of Time

• Romans 116-17 (NKJV) - For I am not ashamed of
  the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God
  to salvation for everyone who believes, for the
  Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it
  the righteousness of God is revealed from faith
  to faith as it is written, The just shall live
  by faith.

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The Fullness of Time

• The Roman government would provide a common
  government and language as well as
  a great transportation system. Paul used this to
  a great advantage.

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The Fullness of Time

• The roman government would provide a common
  government and language as well as
  a great transportation system. Paul used this to
  a great advantage.
• How did the world respond to this servant?

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The apparent failure

• The ministry of Christ appeared a failure. (Isa
  493-4)

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The apparent failure

• Isaiah 493-4 (NKJV) - And He said to me, You
  are My servant, O Israel, In whom I will be
  glorified. 4 Then I said, I have labored in
  vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and in
  vain Yet surely my just reward is with the Lord,
  And my work with my God.

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The apparent failure

• John summarized His reception among the people of
  God. (John 110)

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The apparent failure

• John 110 (NKJV) - He was in the world, and the
  world was made through Him, and the world did not
  know Him.

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The apparent failure

• Jesus could look out from the cross and see what
  appeared to be a failure. (Psa 221-2, 6-8)

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The apparent failure

• Psalm 221-2 (NKJV) - My God, My God, why have
  You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping
  Me, And from the words of My groaning? 2 O My
  God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear
  And in the night season, and am not silent.

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The apparent failure

• Psalm 226-8 (NKJV) - But I am a worm, and no
  man A reproach of men, and despised by the
  people. 7 All those who see Me ridicule Me They
  shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  8 He trusted in the Lord, let Him rescue Him
  Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!

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The apparent failure

• At any time men would have said that what they
  saw with their eyes would amount to nothing.
  Jesus own family struggled with this. (Jn 73-5)

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The apparent failure

• John 73-5 (NKJV) - His brothers therefore said
  to Him, Depart from here and go into Judea, that
  Your disciples also may see the works that You
  are doing. 4 For no one does anything in secret
  while he himself seeks to be known openly. If You
  do these things, show Yourself to the world. 5
  For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

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The apparent failure

• Jesus knew success would only come one way, in
  the glorification of God.

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The apparent failure

• Jesus knew success would only come one way, in
  the glorification of God.
• Jesus is called Israel in verse 2 because he was
  closely identified with that nation and would
  deliver that nation. (Isa 492, 5)

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The apparent failure

• Isaiah 492 (NKJV) - And He has made My mouth
  like a sharp sword In the shadow of His hand He
  has hidden Me, And made Me a polished shaft In
  His quiver He has hidden Me.

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The apparent failure

• Isaiah 495 (NKJV) - And now the Lord says, Who
  formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To
  bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is
  gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the
  eyes of the Lord, And My God shall be My
  strength),

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The apparent failure

• Jesus wanted only one thing, to glorify God.
  (John 718 850-51)

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The apparent failure

• John 718 (NKJV) - He who speaks from himself
  seeks his own glory but He who seeks the glory
  of the One who sent Him is true, and no
  unrighteousness is in Him.

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The apparent failure

• John 850-51 (NKJV) - And I do not seek My own
  glory there is One who seeks and judges. 51 Most
  assuredly, I say to you, if anyone keeps My word
  he shall never see death.

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The apparent failure

• How was Jesus able to face the cross? He wanted
  only one thing! (John 1227-33)

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The apparent failure

• John 1227-33 (NKJV) - Now My soul is troubled,
  and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this
  hour? But for this purpose I came to this hour.
  28 Father, glorify Your name. Then a voice came
  from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it
  and will glorify it again.

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The apparent failure

• 29 Therefore the people who stood by and heard it
  said that it had thundered. Others said, An
  angel has spoken to Him. 30 Jesus answered and
  said, This voice did not come because of Me, but
  for your sake.

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The apparent failure

• 31 Now is the judgment of this world now the
  ruler of this world will be cast out. 32 And I,
  if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all
  peoples to Myself. 33This He said, signifying by
  what death He would die.

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The apparent failure

• What could God do with us if we would have that
  mind?

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Jesus was to bring back and reunite Israel. (Isa
  495)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Isaiah 495 (NKJV) - And now the Lord says, Who
  formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, To
  bring Jacob back to Him, So that Israel is
  gathered to Him (For I shall be glorious in the
  eyes of the Lord, And My God shall be My
  strength),

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The rejected and despised castaways

• How could that be? Consider the Assyrian
  disaster, the Babylonian captivity and the soon
  to be destruction of Jerusalem?

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Jesus accomplished this in the establishment of
  the church. (Acts 1513-17)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Acts 1513-17 (NKJV) - And after they had
  become silent, James answered, saying, Men and
  brethren, listen to me 14 Simon has declared how
  God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out
  of them a people for His name. 15 And with this
  the words of the prophets agree, just as it is
  written

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The rejected and despised castaways

• 16 After this I will return And will rebuild the
  tabernacle of David, which has fallen down I
  will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up 17
  So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
  Even all the Gentiles who are called by My
  name, Says the Lord who does all these things.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• James is quoting this verse as fulfilled. (Amos
  911-12, 14)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Amos 911-12 (NKJV) - On that day I will raise
  up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen
  down, And repair its damages I will raise up its
  ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old 12
  That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And
  all the Gentiles who are called by My name, Says
  the Lord who does this thing.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Amos 914 (NKJV) - I will bring back the
  captives of My people Israel They shall build
  the waste cities and inhabit them They shall
  plant vineyards and drink wine from them They
  shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• This is the ultimate Israel, the spiritual
  kingdom of God.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Jesus would unite Jew and Gentile! (Isa 496)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Isaiah 496 (NKJV) - Indeed He says, It is too
  small a thing that You should be My Servant To
  raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the
  preserved ones of Israel I will also give You as
  a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My
  salvation to the ends of the earth.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• The first seemed utterly impossible. This verse
  tells us that is nothing compared
  to what God will do through His servant!

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The rejected and despised castaways

• The first seemed utterly impossible. This verse
  tells us that is nothing compared
  to what God will do through His servant!
• Consider the struggle of having Jew and Gentile
  together. (Gal 211-16)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Galatians 211-16 (NKJV) - Now when Peter had
  come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face,
  because he was to be blamed 12 for before
  certain men came from James, he would eat with
  the Gentiles but when they came, he withdrew and
  separated himself, fearing those who were of the
  circumcision.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• 13 And the rest of the Jews also played the
  hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was
  carried away with their hypocrisy. 14 But when I
  saw that they were not straightforward about the
  truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them
  all, If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of
  Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel
  Gentiles to live as Jews?

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The rejected and despised castaways

• 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of
  the Gentiles, 16 knowing that a man is not
  justified by the works of the law but by faith in
  Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ
  Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in
  Christ and not by the works of the law for by
  the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• The greatest display of the power of God is in
  the changing of mens hearts.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• The greatest display of the power of God is in
  the changing of mens hearts.
• Jesus was a hated reject of the world. (Isa 497)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Isaiah 497 (NKJV) - Thus says the Lord, The
  Redeemer of Israel, their Holy One, To Him whom
  man despises, To Him whom the nation abhors, To
  the Servant of rulers Kings shall see and
  arise, Princes also shall worship, Because of the
  Lord who is faithful, The Holy One of Israel And
  He has chosen You.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• This is no surprise to those who read the Bible.
  (1 Pt 27-8)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• 1 Peter 27-8 (NKJV) - Therefore, to you who
  believe, He is precious but to those who are
  disobedient, The stone which the builders
  rejected Has become the chief cornerstone, 8 and
  A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense.
  They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to
  which they also were appointed.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Jesus did not come in a way to impress men with
  their artificial standards.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Jesus did not come in a way to impress men with
  their artificial standards.
• Men were often offended in the presence of this
  servant.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Jesus did not come in a way to impress men with
  their artificial standards.
• Men were often offended in the presence of this
  servant.
• Even his enemies recognized that Jesus played no
  favorites. (Mk 1214)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Mark 1214 (NKJV) - When they had come, they said
  to Him, Teacher, we know that You are true, and
  care about no one for You do not regard the
  person of men, but teach the way of God in truth.
  Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

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The rejected and despised castaways

• His followers would also be hated rejects of the
  world. (Isa 498-9)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Isaiah 498-9 (NKJV) - Thus says the Lord In an
  acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day
  of salvation I have helped You I will preserve
  You and give You As a covenant to the people, To
  restore the earth, To cause them to inherit the
  desolate heritages

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The rejected and despised castaways

• 9 That You may say to the prisoners, Go forth,
  To those who are in darkness, Show yourselves.
  They shall feed along the roads, And their
  pastures shall be on all desolate heights.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• They would be in prison to sin and in darkness
  without hope.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• They would be in prison to sin and in darkness
  without hope.
• When they followed this servant they would be
  opposed and attacked. (Jn 1518-21)

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The rejected and despised castaways

• John 1518-21 (NKJV) - If the world hates you,
  you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19
  If you were of the world, the world would love
  its own. Yet because you are not of the world,
  but I chose you out of the world, therefore the
  world hates you.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• 20 Remember the word that I said to you, A
  servant is not greater than his master. If they
  persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If
  they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21
  But all these things they will do to you for My
  names sake, because they do not know Him who
  sent Me.

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The rejected and despised castaways

• Please do not try to impress the world. You will
  put out your light in the process and join with
  our enemies in destroying the work of God.

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The impossible highway

• People will come to God from places that were
  considered unreachable. (Isa 4911-13)

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The impossible highway

• Isaiah 4911-13 (NKJV) - I will make each of My
  mountains a road, And My highways shall be
  elevated. 12 Surely these shall come from afar
  Look! Those from the north and the west, And
  these from the land of Sinim. 13 Sing, O
  heavens! Be joyful, O earth! And break out in
  singing, O mountains! For the Lord has comforted
  His people, And will have mercy on His afflicted.

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The impossible highway

• Access to God for a sinful man seems impossible!

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The impossible highway

• Access to God for a sinful man seems impossible!
• Jesus built that bridge through His sacrificial
  death.

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The impossible highway

• Access to God for a sinful man seems impossible!
• Jesus built that bridge through His sacrificial
  death.
• The gospel makes it possible for people at
  anyplace and at any time to serve Him.
  (Mt 2818-20)

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The impossible highway

• Matthew 2818-20 (NKJV) - And Jesus came and
  spoke to them, saying, All authority has been
  given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go
  therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
  baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
  the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them
  to observe all things that I have commanded you
  and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of
  the age. Amen.

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The impossible highway

• Have you seen this servant?

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The impossible highway

• Have you seen this servant?
• What would a servant of this servant be like?

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The impossible highway

• Have you seen this servant?
• What would a servant of this servant be like?
• Is the glory of God our goal?