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Free At Last!
David Knight
Westview Bible Church August 25, 2019
Free At Last! David Knight Westview Bible Church August 25, 2019 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Free At Last! David Knight Westview Bible Church August 25, 2019 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Free At Last! David Knight Westview Bible Church August 25, 2019 "I Have A Dream ... August 28, 1963 Luke 13:10-17 One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, he saw a woman who had been crippled by a spirit of weakness.
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One Sabbath day as Jesus was teaching in a synagogue, he saw a woman who had been crippled by a spirit of weakness. She had been bent double for eighteen years and was unable to stand up straight.
Luke 13:10-17
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When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Dear woman, you are free from your affliction!” Then he put his hands on her, and instantly she stood straight up – and oh, how she praised God!
Luke 13:10-17
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But the leader in charge
- f the synagogue was indignant that
Jesus had healed her
- n the Sabbath day.
“There are six days of the week for working,” he said to the
- crowd. “Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.”
Luke 13:10-17
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But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox
- r your donkey from its stall
- n the Sabbath and lead it out for water?
This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?”
Luke 13:10-17
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But the Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox or your donkey from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water? This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?” This shamed his enemies, but all the people rejoiced at the wonderful things he did.
Luke 13:10-17
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... a woman crippled by a spirit of weakness bent double for 18 years completely unable to stand up straight.
Luke 13:10-17
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I cannot lift my head for I am full of shame; my spirit is broken.
Job 10:15
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Job 10:15 I cannot lift my head for I am full of shame; my spirit is broken. Psalm 34:18 The Lord is close to the broken-hearted; He rescues those whose spirits are crushed.
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Job 10:15 I cannot lift my head for I am full of shame; my spirit is broken. Psalm 34:18 The Lord is close to the broken-hearted; He rescues those whose spirits are crushed.
Free At Last!
“You are my Glory and the Lifter of my Head!”
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Immediately she straightened up and gave glory to God!
Luke 13:10-17
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Sabbath – to loosen the chains of injustice, to set the
- ppressed free, to untie the yoke of bondage! Isaiah 58
Free At Last!
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Brennan Manning 1934 - 2013
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“Genuine self-acceptance is an act
- f faith in the grace of God alone.”
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When healing is denied ...
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Our sufferings today can’t compare with the glory that awaits us. Romans 8:18
When healing is denied ...
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Our sufferings today can’t compare with the glory that awaits us. Romans 8:18 Offer your suffering to God as an act of worship. Philippians 2:17
When healing is denied ...
Joni Eareckson-Tada, age 64
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Our sufferings today can’t compare with the glory that awaits us.
Romans 8:18
Offer your suffering to God as an act of worship.
Philippians 2:17
God gives grace to endure painful suffering.
2 Corinthians 12:9
When healing is denied ...
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Our sufferings today can’t compare with the glory that awaits us. Romans 8:18 Offer your suffering to God as an act of worship. Philippians 2:17 God gives grace to endure painful suffering. 2 Corinthians 12:9 Persistent prayer strengthens the church family Revelation 8:3-4 God is patient and merciful even when we’re stuck.
Romans 7:15-25
When healing is denied ...
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