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Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

There is a war going on between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness.

Today, we're going to continue through Paul's sermon series in the Book of Mark,

and in this message, Paul juxtaposes Jesus sending out the 12 disciples with the murder

of John the Baptist.

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Now, here's Paul with this message from the Gospel of Mark.

Well, if I had it to do again, I would retitle this message.

It's titled in your bulletin, I believe, conviction, anger, and death.

You know what you do when you prepare a series like this, do I seem loud to you?

When you prepare a series like this, you study the sweep of a portion of scripture until

you are comfortable with it. You divide it up into reasonable sections for sermons, and you choose titles for those sermons. You do that months before you actually preach them.

But the more you live in a passage of Scripture, the more you understand what it's about.

And if I had to, the opportunity, I would title this evening's message, The Collision.

Because I think in these two very different little historical vignettes, you really do get a picture of something that's much grander and much bigger

and much more significant than the size of this little passage.

What you really see is this collision between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world,

the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness. The kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world, the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness, the kingdom

of God and the kingdom of self. There's a real way in which that is the war of wars. That's the

war that takes place in every situation and every location and every circumstance

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