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We're gonna have a wild Bible study today. I believe the supernatural is real. And I'm a really cerebral guy. I mean, you ever see my vast labyrinth of books that I read? But the Lord always reminds me that it's the supernatural that really makes the difference. And God gives us wisdom and grace to be able to discover different things. Now, my wife Annabel has some of these amazing people she meets and she takes on as projects. I mean, she went in to get her eyes examined and there's a woman crying there. And she says, I'm crying because my son needs a liver and his body's all swollen up. And right away Annabel gets compassion for him. Well, the next thing that happens is Keith is the guy's name. He's, he's. Annabelle takes him on and says, he's at my house. I find him in my home. All that. Want you to meet Keith. So Annabelle's taking him as a prayer project. She gets him lined up with level 10 matrix, and the next thing you know, the swelling is going down and he's. 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And I believe, as you understand a bit more about the design with this booklet on stem Cells Made simple, you realize that there's something here in the design that if we tap into it, it recreates, restores and revitalizes so you can regenerate your health, your strength, your well being. I'm watching it happen all the time. Go to level10matrix.com. For some of you, this is gonna be a key that'll transform your life. 800-361-2270 or you might be like me. I'm a practitioner and a recipient of level 10 matrix myself because I want that in my life so that I can last longer, be stronger, and finish the call that God's got on my Life. Go to 800-361-2270 or level10matrix.com and you'll see why I am an enthusiast. And now, got your Bible ready? Grab it. We're gonna go to the Gospel of Mark and take a look at what God put into here that'll transform and regenerate your life. It's that time, ladies and gentlemen. You say what time is that? It's always time for the spirit of God to come down and give you a fresh empowerment to do what you're called to do. The last days, which I would say we're kind of in, is a, is a period that the Bible describes the time of great stress. Now, I got to admit that for those of us that have gone from 2020, when we saw the election debacle and then the January 6th period of the Dresden bombing, of our movement from the deep state, the President saying goodbye, getting on the plane, taking off to Mar a Lago, a number of my die hard friends continued vehemently believing he was coming back any moment. I knew as of January 20th that he wasn't coming back and that I would have to submit to this strange experience that all of you did, which is God somehow is in the chaos. And it's true, the Lord was in it. You could say that Donald Trump could not have done in those four years for 20 to 24 what he is able to do now. He had time to build not only a tenacity to deal with the darkness, but a game plan and a deeper bench. So I'm not going to focus on the natural flow of history I've got. We do that every day of the week with the current latest iteration of who the new Pope is, what the Supreme Court's doing, what's happening with China, what's the de dollarization of the dollar doing, what's BRICS doing? There's something behind that, a bigger realm, and it has to do with this book. I had a friend of mine who's a leading investor in Europe who would start his meetings by saying, I begin each day with two documents. One is the Bible and the other one is the Financial Times. I leave it to your imagination to imagine which one I go to first. But he made it clear the Bible was his primary plumb line for. What does the Bible talk about specifically? Every issue we talk about? No, but it talks about it thematically because there's an architecture, even in the architecture of Donald Trump. The original Star wars, then the Revenge of the Sith, then the Return of the Jedi. We have three chapters in American history. Our burden is to see that this last chapter is not just a miniseries, but it has more episodes that goes on for another four years. And we're going to come into the midterm battle that's going to be a huge part of it. And all of this is the intersection of faith and end times events with what the Bible teaches in the word of God and current events. I'm one of the few people that has been talking ad infinitum about the fact that Donald Trump represents a Cyrus ruler. And I got a lot of pushback from that, but I don't care because I'm right that there are leaders that are being raised up. You see it with Bukele in El Salvador, in Melee in Argentina. You see it in Hungary with Viktor Orban. What I'm talking about is that somehow there's a way in which the Earth produces its leaders that are aligned in such a way with this book, so that whether they are professing believers or whether they are like a Churchill or a Lincoln, so in a sense predestined to leadership with the code of right and wrong burned into their being as a compass that God provides the leadership that you need. I want to therefore go to the foundations, the infrastructure, the hidden DNA behind our movement. That is the spiritual foundation that is going to survive all the vicissitudes of these battles. I'm gonna go to the Gospel of Mark and let's start with the reading of this Bible and let's look at it. And I guarantee you're going to find the application to your life. And out of that you're going to see the application to the age in which you live. The Gospel according to Mark, the shortest of the Gospels was the first one that was recorded. It's variously dated at 60 AD to 70 AD. And what's interesting about Mark is he was not an eyewitness. He wasn't claiming to be a Matthew or a John, but for some reason his documentation becomes even more relevant because he actually was in the entourage of the apostle Paul and, and Peter. And so he heard from Peter firsthand everything Peter taught in Rome, everything he instructed. The foundation of the first century church. He got it firsthand but he was also, if you check it out, it was John Mark who was in the house. In Acts, chapter 12, verse 12, when Peter was released supernaturally from prison, when Herod sought to take him out and kill him. And he was delivered from four soldiers, hands and feet bound to these guys. And the angel came in, evidently knocked them out, the guards out, and hit Peter in the side and said, get up. Put your tunic on. Put your sandals on, like, step by step. Peter thought he was in a vision, so he was acting kind of goofy. He's acting like he's in a spiritual experience here, which tells you something for all of us that are so far removed from the supernatural. They walked in that when you're operating in this vision, as Peter thought he was in, you're physically in a place where everything looks as real as if you were transported into a theater and you're acting things out. He thought he was seeing something symbolic happen. Angel whacks him. Come on, do this, do this. Get your tunic on. Get your shoes on. Go, go. And so he goes. And it didn't occur to him that what was happening was real till the gate opened of its own accord. It's kind of like the. Like you have those electronic gates now, right? Well, this would just open up. An angel opened it up and said, let's go. He runs to Mark's house. And so what? You can read it there. Go to Acts, chapter 12, because I want to give you the background of who writes the Gospel of Mark. Most people don't know this stuff. And these. This little trivia is so interesting once you get it. Mark, chapter 12. And I believe it's verses 12 through 14. Haven't checked it out yet. Let's see what it says here. And so this is where Peter, he comes to himself in verse 11, and he, like, shakes himself, goes, wait a second. Now I know for sure. The Lord sent forth his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting. And when he realized this, when he realized it wasn't a vision, he runs to the house of Mary, the mother of John, who was also called Mark. So there's this lady Mary, who has a. The mother of John is also called Mark or John Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying. He knocked at the door of the gate. A servant girl named Rhoda came to answer. She recognized his voice. And. And it's kind of a bit of Bible comedy there, because he's knocking desperately, saying, let me get off the street here. Before they realize that I'm on the loose. But because of her enthusiasm and joy over Peter getting released, she left him out there knocking on the door. And she runs in and announces, peter's there. He's standing at the gate. So they said, you're out of your mind. Why do you think we're having a prayer meeting? He's locked up in prison. If he wasn't, if he was out, then we wouldn't be here praying, would we? And so they're having their discussion about her delusion. And Peter continues knocking. It's like, you know, the Cheech and Chong routine with it's, you know, Dave's not here for those of you that are over 50. But Peter continued knocking. And when they opened the door, they were amazed, but motioned to them with his hand to be silent. He described to them how the Lord had led him out of prison. And he said, report these things to James and the Brethren. And he left and went to another location. So he took off from there. Boom, gave his report to the prayer meeting. And wouldn't it be great to have prayer meetings that actually are going on like that, where angels are active and prison breaks are happening? But it's fascinating first century stuff. But the part that I'm saying here goes to verse nine. You know, the angel says, wrap your coat, follow me. And when he went out, he continued to follow. And what he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real. He thought he was seeing a vision. That tells you something. He thought he was seeing a vision. Then it occurs to him. Wait a second. That's actually happening. Fascinating. Oh, may God give to you and to me visions like this, where we step into a realm that is so real, we can't tell whether it's happening or not happening. So let me go back and say that John, Mark is the writer. So Mark was a companion of Peter. He heard him in Rome. So his gospel, which is very short, is quoted extensively by Luke. Why? Because Luke mentions Mark's gospel more than anyone else. Matter of fact, he quotes Mark directly because Mark was authoritative and Luke added to it his addition. But Luke and Mark were compatriots. They knew each other. They could accurately evaluate everything that happened. And Peter was with Mark. We know that. Cause one Peter, chapter five. Let's go there. Get your Bible, by the way, nothing worse than having a Bible study. Just stop the tape. If you're watching this on a device, go get your Bible. Don't be lazy. Get your Bible and get a pen. By the way, When I say Bible, I mean, you know, paper. Why do I say that? Because that way you can write, you can underline, you can make notation. I know someone's gonna say I can highlight in my Bible. It's something about being able to record, write, underline, so that when you go back you can see the trace of where the Spirit of God has been talking to you. Anyway. 1 Peter, chapter 5, verse 13. I was surprised to see this. Peter says he's going through the list of who's with him. He says, she who is in Babylon chosen together with you, sends you greetings and so does my son Mark. So does my son Mark. I'm taking a little time on Mark because I'm going to go into the Mark gospel. Now here's an interesting concept. Mark actually started off with Paul. But Mark was immature and he is the nephew of Barnabas. They're all tight knit little Jewish community there in the first century. They all knew each other right in Jerusalem. And Barnabas is nephew, his sister's son Mark, he brings him with him on the first trip that him and Paul do. Well they have a lot of adversity there. And Mark gets a little, I guess freaked out by it and takes off. And Peter never, Paul didn't forgive him for not going to the work, not rolling up his sleeves and getting into the work they had to do and he went back home. So Mark was a point of contention and him, Paul and Barnabas, when it was time to get back with the great apostolic team that God put together, Paul said, I'm not going if he goes. And Barnabas says if he doesn't go, I don't go. And the Bible says that it became really noised, abrupt, meaning it was a big church split and so Mark was out of favor for a while. And then later on Paul lamented and said, hey, hey, hey, go get him. He's useful. But I'm telling you the background of the author of the gospel of St. Mark. We're going to come into that when we get back. What if you could live younger and stronger for longer? Is it possible to reactivate your body's internal repair system the way God designed it? Are you or someone you love struggling with body degeneration and in search of some kind of an effective olution? At Level 10 Matrix, we believe that the power that created you can heal, heal you. And that healing and regeneration are already encoded right inside your DNA. 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But he got on his feet. And he really shows that he finished very strongly as a disciple, very close to Peter. So it's believed that Peter gave him the account. And Peter, not being one, you don't have any. We got two letters from Peter. Paul wrote copiously. Luke wrote extensively. Mark gives a short summary of the essence of what Peter saw and experienced. Which is why I want to go there, because what you have is Peter speaking to Mark. And therefore you've got eyewitness perspective. Mark rehearsing the slant that he gives is going to be Peter's take on what was happening. That's why it's so interesting from an evidentiary, journalistic point of view. He's interviewing the eyewitness. And so his perception, his use of angles on stuff reveals what was going on in the inner circle with the apostles. First thing you're going to notice is we'll go to verse nine. In those days, chapter one. Jesus came from Nazareth right in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. I'm reading the American Standard today. It could be any version. They'll all be the new American Standard. Why? Because this one was the one I grabbed today to study. And in those days, John, John the Baptist came out, and Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan. Now, Jesus was the cousin of John. It's another thing that's interesting. They knew each other growing up, but John at no point suspected, you know, my cousin's a little bit unusual. I wonder if he's the Messiah. Never. He literally needed God to show him who was the Messiah. And you can imagine his surprise when it's like, my cousin. And then he thinks, yeah, you know, come to think of it, he was different. So he sees the heavens open. That's how John knew who it was. He literally sees the heavens open. So John is a visionary prophet. You don't see him doing the demonstrations of miracles like Elijah, but he's said to be greater than Elijah coming in the spirit and power of Elijah. But his was all revelatory gifting. It wasn't, you know, he wasn't calling fire down from heaven. He wasn't multiplying, you know, raven food or something like that. But immediately he saw the heavens open, the Spirit like a dove descending upon Jesus. And a voice came out of heavens, you are my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And of course, you probably heard many sermons about this. Jesus is well pleasing to the Father and hasn't done any acts yet, because he's well pleasing. Because even before he goes into ministry, he was pleasing the Father because the way he thought and the way he walked and the way he talked and the way he felt was all in perfect alignment with the Father. So he was one with the Father, and he never deviated from that affectionate circle of the Father's will in all of his life. But I want you to see the word in verse 10. Immediately he came up out of the water and saw the word immediately. I'm pointing out because for some reason Mark uses this immediately, immediately, immediately. There's a lot of in this short gospel, drive, drive, drive. There's a sense of sequential urgency and importance in everything he's doing and everything Jesus does. And so you see that immediately he comes out of the water. And then verse 12, immediately the Spirit impelled him to go into the wilderness. So the Holy Spirit now joined up with Jesus, with the voice of the Father, the Trinity operating now in convergence together for the ministry of Jesus. The first thing the Spirit does is compels Jesus to get away from everybody, to go into the wilderness. And he's in the wilderness for 40 days to be tempted by Satan, and he's with wild beasts and the angels were ministering to him. There's a kind of interesting compressed story there. In other words, while Jesus is wandering around, you could say, you know, getting leaner from the fasting. He's been driven into a place of isolation to overcome the tempter. And this is I want you to think about, because everything that happens with Jesus has a parallel in some way to the journey of A believer, because Jesus was not doing this as God. He was doing this as man, obedient to the Father. He was the second Adam. And so he could not employ any of his divine attributes, any of his secret strength, any of his advantages as a part of the Godhead. He had to become a substitute of such credibility that he could live life as a man, a prophet obeying the Father, doing only what the Father wanted to do, so that when he died, he died as a perfect man, so that his performance could be credited to the account of any imperfect man. Because the mathematics of it is the perfect man dies having never sinned. Therefore, in the arithmetic of God, it's accounted to you, and it's an accounting term. It's accounted to you for righteousness because he scored perfect SAT scores and you're flunking out. And so the Lord passes his sats over you and says, here, just submit mine. It's legal. And boom, you've got perfect score. That's righteousness by faith because of his performance. So he could not do anything as God. He had to do so when he's hungry. Satan, of course, is tempting him out of that submission, saying, look, man, you're God. What are you? You're hungry to just use your power. And had Jesus done so, he would have disqualified himself because he would have been using his agency as God to create something for him as God. And you can't. So if the Father wasn't doing it, Jesus was content not to do it. Interesting, huh? So, and for important reasons, he was substituting for you. And so wild beasts. So there's lions that are in the wilderness, there's scorpions, there's snakes, there's predators, there's bears. And you can imagine Jesus ran into them while he's out there in the wild. But angels ministered to him. And no doubt angels similar to Daniel, they shut the lion's mouth. He had to live in the circle of divine protection while he's dealing with the devil for 40 days. And then the angels ministered to him, probably giving him the strength at the end of his 40 days, after he surmounts his three temptations, which I don't believe are. They aren't referred to by Mark. They're in the Gospel of Luke and Matthew. You have to read those there. But he comes out of the wilderness empowered with angelic strength to begin his ministry. Now, after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel and saying, the time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe The Gospel. So his ministry begins and immediately as he's preaching, he starts to gather the 12. He starts to pick the disciples. This is really important because everything he's gonna do is going to be, is going to depend on the fidelity of those he gave his words to. He mentored the 12. One of those we know is Judas. He failed. There were 70 others that were in the entourage, but these 12 in particular were chosen by him, and they were chosen by him, as we'll find out, in order to be with him, so that he might send them. Says in chapter three, we won't jump around a lot, but I'll do it now. Mark 3, 13, Jesus went up on the mountain and summoned those whom he himself wanted, and they came to him. And he appointed 12 so that they would be with him and that he would send them out to preach and to give them authority to cast out demons. Now you'll read in Mark's greater, more copious writing in Luke, you'll read where Jesus spent the night in prayer. In other words, he was recording the 12 words of knowledge and he had a multitude of people there, but there were 12 that were going to be his government, his apostolic entourage, and he was going to train them. And he got their names after an all night prayer meeting with the Father. And he summoned to him those he himself wanted. And I often wonder if you feel the call to pray and you nudge that aside, the nudge to read the Bible and you nudge it aside. I want you to think about this. If that is coming to you. The devil's not inviting you to pray, that's for sure. The devil's not inviting you to read the Word or listen to a broadcast like this. So this is how he summons to himself those that he wants. It's the most beautiful compliment in the world that God is putting his finger upon you to say, come aside, spend some time with me. Imagine how foolish it is to let the press of distractions in daily life on a soccer game and something else, you know, keep crowding your life so that when the summons comes to be with him, you withdraw. Because that's what the apostles got. The disciples were called to be with him so that they could hang out with him, so that he could put himself into them, so that he could send them to replicate what he was doing. If you want to have the secret to doing anything that I'm reading here, it's being with him sufficiently so that he can send you to do what he teaches you. So anyway, so they went to Capernaum and immediately on the Sabbath he starts gathering his disciples there and does the miracle with the catches. Well, let's just do it. Verse 19. Going a little farther, he saw James and John the son, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets. And immediately he called them. And they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and went away to follow him. Hired servants, boats. This is called small business. Jesus could have chose rabbinic scholars. He could have chose like those who were following Gamaliel, like the apostle Paul, great promising Hebrew students. But you might know the story that basically if you didn't make the cut to be a follower of the rabbis, then you did a profession and, and you became a working class guy. And in the Hebrew school they separated the best out to the schools of the rabbis. And these guys didn't make the cut. So Jesus picked the small business owner. This is like, and I'm not going to call him blue collar because but they would be the equivalent of the guy that's got the car wash or owns a couple of gas stations. And these guys have a couple of fishing boats and this is their business. And they got hired service, which means it was a family business. So you got family businessmen is what Jesus chose to teach. They went up to Capernaum and immediately there's that immediately again he began to teach. And they were amazed at his teaching because he started casting out demons. Now you're gonna see in Mark's gospel something interesting. He talks a lot about the supernatural and casting out demons is a big part of what this means. All right, you're gonna have to come back tomorrow for part two. Cause I only have these 25 minute segments here. 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