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for our message this morning. So beginning in

verse 16, Jesus said, “Behold, I send you forth

as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore

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wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But

beware of men” — Now, here's the opposition,

the hostility, the hatred, and the persecution —

“for they will deliver you up to the councils” —

this is the religious crowd — “and they will

scourge you in their synagogues.” But notice

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now the civic crowd. He says, ”And ye shall

be brought before governors and kings for my

sake, for a testimony against them and the

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Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, take

no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it

shall be given you in that same hour what ye

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shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the

Spirit of your Father which speaketh in

you.” So all we've got to do is read the book of

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