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We are in Luke Chapter 12 versus 1 through 12 Jesus and Fear. What book of the Bible

have we been in? Luke, what book of the Bible are we in? Luke for the next 18 months when I asked

that question you can answer. Luke we're taking two and a half years going

through Luke because we like the Bible and we thought what the heck two and a half years looking at the life of Jesus

That's a good way to spend two and a half years. Some of you called it your freshman year

Two and a half years. This is a much better way to spend two and a half years. This is a much better way to spend two and a half years.

So I'll pray, we'll study the Bible together. Father God, you are great and you are helpful and you are holy and you are truthful. And as we open we open your word Lord God we want to come

under its authority we want to hear from you

we want to learn from Jesus

so holy spirit please come in illuminate the scriptures which you've inspired to be written and empower us to live a life patterned after Jesus by the grace that you give and his good name. Amen. All right let me set it up. Throughout the

course of Luke's telling of Jesus life one thing that is frequent are the series of conflicts between religious people and Jesus. It just keeps

happening and it's going to happen again this week. And so this week I want us to learn from Jesus' conflict with religious people how to deal with bullies.

And these are religious bullies that he is dealing with. They are called the Pharisees. We read of them in Luke

chapter 12 verse 1. In the meantime when so many thousands of the people had

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