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 Mark chapter 1.

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 Let's go ahead and start reading at verse number 1 and we'll read down to verse number 8.

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 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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 As it is written in the prophets,

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 John did baptize in the wilderness and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins.

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 And there went out unto him all the land of Judea and they of Jerusalem

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 and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

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 And John was clothed with camel's hair and with a girdle of skin about his loins.

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 And he did eat locust and wild honey.

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 And preached, saying,

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 There cometh one mightier than I after me,

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 the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

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 I indeed have baptized you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.

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 Everything that we study in the gospel of Mark must be primarily viewed

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 through the lens of Mark's stated purpose in verse 1,

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 which reads,

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 This is the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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 Now Mark's goal in writing this collection of eyewitness accounts of the life of Jesus

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 was specifically to proclaim that Jesus of Nazareth is indeed the Messiah, the Son of God.

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 His desire here in this gospel is not to tell the story of Jesus.

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 His desire in this gospel is to make a definitive statement about Jesus.

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 So we do not understand the gospels to be biographies.

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 That's not what they are.

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 They are gospels.

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 They are proclamations of good news.

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 And the material contained within the pages that we'll study

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 is the evidence that Mark gives to support this purpose statement.

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 So in verse 1 he says,

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 Jesus is the Christ.

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 He's the Messiah.

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 He's the Son of God.

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 Everything that then follows after is the evidence that builds and supports Mark's case.

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 And so when we come to each and every passage, beginning with this one today,

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 we have to first start with this question.

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 How did Mark intend for this passage to point us to Jesus Christ

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 as the Messiah and the Son of God?

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 So that's where we begin.

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 Not only here, but really any particular passage that we would study in the Bible,

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 ask that question.

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 But as we view this book through the lens of Mark's gospel,

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 we ask how does he want us to see Christ here?

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 How is he proving to us in these verses that Jesus is indeed the Son of God?

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 I spoke at length last week about the significance of this term gospel,

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 the Greek equivalent being euangelion.

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 It's used in the first verse to describe exactly what Mark's doing.

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 Now both the ancient Jews and the Romans would have understood the reference here.

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 He's speaking specifically to a herald that would go from town to town announcing the arrival of a king

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 that has come to save his people.

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 In the scripture, it always refers to the message of salvation.

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 So Mark stated that his writing was such a proclamation,

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 and Jesus is that very king.

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 That's the significance of the term itself.

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 But as he begins to give evidence to the fact that Jesus is indeed the king,

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 that he is indeed the Messiah and Son of God,

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 if he's going to use this term gospel,

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 it only makes sense that there would be a literal herald that would go before this king,

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 that would go before this Messiah in order to announce his arrival,

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 to announce his coming, and to prepare the way.

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 And that's exactly what he does in these verses.

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 He builds his case by speaking to the significance of a man that we have come to know as John the Baptist,

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 or probably even better, John the Baptizer.

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 Look with me again at verse 2, the very first phrase there.

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 As it is written in the prophets, this is the beginning of Mark's proof.

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 He doesn't do his proof based on his own rationale or his own capabilities of reasoning.

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 Mark turns to the scriptures.

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 That's where we must always turn first.

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 If it's going to be our goal to share the gospel of Jesus with others,

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 to persuade and convince others that Jesus is indeed the Christ,

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 we must not start with our own reasoning.

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 We cannot start with our own rationale.

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 We must turn to the scriptures.

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 And that's exactly what Mark does.

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 Now it's important for us to acknowledge here

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 that John's ministry didn't happen by chance.

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 It wasn't that the gospel writers were noticing John

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 and noticing what was going on in this ministry prior to Jesus

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 and this wilderness fanatic, which is really what most people would have viewed him as.

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 It's not that they noticed this guy's life and thought,

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 you know what, this would make our story about Jesus so much spicier,

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 so much more significant.

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 Maybe we'll add this in there,

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 and maybe we'll get a few more copies and publications sold to make a little more money.

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 That's not what's happening here.

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 They're not including John's story here to make their story better.

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 This was a part of God's plan from before the foundation of the world,

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 as Ephesians 1 tells us.

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 We cannot separate the ministry of John the Baptist from the gospel of Jesus.

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 The true identity of who Jesus is cannot be understood fully

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 apart from the fulfillment of these prophecies to which Mark is referring

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 here in these first two verses.

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 And so we don't come to it thinking this was a really unique guy,

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 maybe this helps us understand the context.

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 No, there is a specific purpose that Mark has written about John.

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 It is the specific purpose of proclaiming who Jesus is,

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 and so that's the lens that we see.

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 All four gospel writers, even Jesus himself,

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 emphasizes the life, ministry, and preaching of John the Baptist.

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 John was a voice.

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 John was the voice.

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 The voice that was set aside hundreds of years before

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 to prepare the way for Jesus.

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 And to help us with our understanding today,

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 I've kind of grouped these verses into two categories.

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 We're looking at the voice in the wilderness.

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 First, we'll see the voice prophesied,

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 and then we're going to see the voice personified.

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 Let's first look at the voice prophesied in verses 2 and 3.

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 Would you read it with me again?

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 As it is written in the prophets,

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 Behold, I send my messenger before thy face,

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 which shall prepare thy way before thee.

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 The voice of one crying in the wilderness,

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 prepare ye the way of the Lord.

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 Make his paths straight.

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 Now, it's helpful for us here to be reminded of the fact,

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 and maybe even exult in the fact,

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 that God is a God who speaks.

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 He speaks.

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 It's by the very power of his word

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 that all of creation came to be.

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 God said, let there be light,

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 and there was light.

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 And we see that demonstrated through the creation story.

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 Really, all throughout the scriptures,

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 we see the power of God's word in creation.

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 We also find that as we study the scriptures,

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 that the scriptures themselves are the very words of God.

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 It is his way of speaking,

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 his revelation of himself,

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 the revelation of his plan of redemption.

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 He speaks that to us.

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 Now, take just a moment before we move any further

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 and contemplate how glorious of a truth that is.

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 That not only did God create you,

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 not only did he provide this life that you enjoy today,

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 not only does he know that your life can only be fulfilled

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 as it is related to a personal relationship with he and his son,

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 Jesus Christ,

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 but he has actually spoken to you through his word,

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 through creation,

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 in order that you may know him.

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 He is a God who speaks.

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 And as we come to this passage,

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 and we're looking to verify the identity of Jesus

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 through the identity of John the Baptist,

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 we see that it is God's grace that has spoken to us in this way.

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 He has spoken about John the Baptist,

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 and then he has spoken through John the Baptist.

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 But the most significant way in which God speaks

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 is through his son.

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 Hebrews chapter one,

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 and the whole book opens this way.

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 Long ago, at many times and in many ways,

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 God spoke to our fathers by the prophets.

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 But in these last days,

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 that is the days in which you and I live,

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 he has spoken through his son.

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 And he goes on, the writer of Hebrews,

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 to say that the son is the exact imprint

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 of the nature of God.

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 It's a wonderful revelation.

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 How do we know who God is?

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 We look at Jesus.

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 How do we understand God's love for us?

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 We look at Jesus.

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 How do we understand God's purpose for us?

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 We look at Jesus.

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 He has spoken to us,

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 not only through creation and through the prophets,

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 but in these last days,

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 through his son.

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 So now we understand that all true revelation

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 points us to Jesus Christ,

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 because that's the way in which God has now spoken.

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 Mark wasn't writing about John

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 because he was particularly impressed by him,

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 even though I'm sure that his ministry

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 would have impacted Mark in a unique way

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 as he was not alive during that time,

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 but at least as he recalled it and heard of it.

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 The ministry of John the baptizer

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 was only relevant to the gospel writers

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 in so far as it was connected to the person

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 and the work of Jesus.

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 So they only wrote of John the baptist

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 as it was in connection

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 with these Old Testament prophecies

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 about the herald of the coming Messiah.

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 That's why no other intertestamental preachers

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 are mentioned for us in the New Testament.

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 Why is it that John is singled out?

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 Because there was a specific purpose to John.

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 He wasn't just a preacher.

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 He was the voice,

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 the one that long ago had been said

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 would come and prepare the way for the Messiah.

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 So let's look at these two prophecies.

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 There's two of them that Mark actually quotes here,

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 Malachi chapter three and Isaiah chapter 40.

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 In fact, I think it would be helpful

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 for us to actually turn to them.

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 So if you would,

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 turn with me first to Malachi chapter three.

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 This is the passage that Mark is quoting

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 in verse number two.

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 Malachi chapter three, verse number one.

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 Behold, I will send my messenger

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 and he shall prepare the way before me

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 and the Lord whom you seek

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 shall suddenly come to his temple,

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 even the messenger of the covenant

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 whom you delight in.

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 Behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

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 Now keep your finger there

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 and flip over to Isaiah chapter 40.

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 This is the other one.

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 In verse number three,

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 Mark quotes Isaiah chapter 40,

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 this other prophecy.

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 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness,

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 prepare ye the way of the Lord.

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 Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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 These are the two scriptures that Mark quotes here.

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 It's how he opens his gospel.

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 He gives his stated purpose

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 and then he immediately goes to the scripture

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 and he says, here's what the scripture says.

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 Malachi 3, 1, Isaiah 40 and verse three.

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 And then he applies those scriptures

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 specifically to John the Baptist.

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 Now there's a couple of ways

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 that these scriptures speak about who John is.

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 Let's talk about what they say about John.

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 First, they say that he will prepare the way.

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 We just read it.

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 A voice of one crying in the wilderness, Isaiah says,

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 prepare ye the way of the Lord.

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 In Malachi chapter three,

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 I will send my messenger.

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 He shall prepare the way.

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 There's a cultural significance to this statement.

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 There was a custom of near Eastern kings

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 that as they would travel from place to place,

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 they would send a herald ahead of them.

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 And that herald had a specific job.

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 He was not only to proclaim the coming of the king,

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 that's a part of it, we'll get to that in just a second.

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 He was to prepare literally the way of the king,

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 the way that the king would travel.

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 That involved clearing obstacles out of the path.

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 It involved straightening crooked roads

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 or crooked valleys that the king

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 and his envoy would have to travel through.

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 It involved creating causeways over swampy areas

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 or areas that would have been difficult

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 to traverse on the ground.

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 It involved preparing the way quite literally.

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 And these Old Testament writers

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 take this cultural context and they say

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 that when the Messiah comes,

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 there will be one that goes before him

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 and he will prepare the way.

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 He will remove the obstacles.

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 He will not only announce the coming of the Messiah,

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 but he will make the way of the Messiah straight.

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 He will prepare the hearts of the people to receive him.

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 So what do these verses say about John?

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 He'll prepare the way.

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 Then they say that he will be a voice

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 and specifically that he will be a voice in the wilderness.

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 Both prophecies emphasize the fact

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 that the forerunning herald would be a voice

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 and a messenger.

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 Voice is the word used by Isaiah 43

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 and messenger by Malachi chapter three.

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 Speaking on behalf of God,

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 the preparations would be made for the Messiah

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 by this forerunner

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 and would be focused particularly on his preaching.

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 That's the significance of this herald.

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 How do we know that this was John?

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 Because this is what the scripture said he would do.

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 There's a focus on his preaching.

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 He would be noticed by the people specifically

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 because of the content of his message

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 and the way in which he would deliver it.

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 Isaiah says he will be a voice of one crying out

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 in the wilderness preparing the way of the Lord.

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 All four gospel writers take these two prophecies

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 and they apply them specifically to John the Baptist.

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 Matthew does it in chapter three of his gospel.

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 Here's what he says.

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 Now in the days,

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 in those days,

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 John the Baptist came

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 preaching in the wilderness of Judea

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 saying,

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 repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand

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 for this is the one referred to by Isaiah the prophet

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 when he said,

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 the voice of one crying in the wilderness,

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 make ready the way of the Lord,

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 make his paths straight.

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 Luke chapter three does the same thing.

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 And he came into all the district around the Jordan

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 preaching a baptism of repentance

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 for the forgiveness of sins

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 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah.

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 The prophet Luke writes,

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 the voice of one crying in the wilderness,

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 make ready the way of the Lord,

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 make his paths straight.

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 Every ravine will be filled.

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 Every mountain and hill will be brought low.

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 The crooked will become straight

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 and the rough road smooth

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 and all flesh will see the salvation of our God.

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 And then we get to the gospel of John

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 and his claim comes in a little bit of a different way.

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 This time it's John the Baptist himself

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 making this claim.

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 He says,

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 I am that one.

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 The gospel of John chapter one in verse 23.

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 He said,

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 I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness,

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 make straight the way of the Lord,

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 as Isaiah the prophet said.

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 And you may be here today and you may say,

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 well, it doesn't really matter to me very much

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 what John claimed himself to be.

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 And maybe those other gospel writers

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 were just getting together

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 and they were coming up with this story

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 in and of themselves.

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 But that's not the only claim

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 that we see in the scripture.

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 Jesus Christ himself in Luke chapter seven

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 and Matthew chapter 10

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 says this about John the Baptist.

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 Here's what he says in Luke seven.

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 But what did you go out to see?

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 That is in the wilderness.

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 A prophet?

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 And Jesus said,

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 yes, I say to you,

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 and one who is more than a prophet.

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 Why?

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 Because this is the one about whom is written,

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 behold, I send my messenger ahead of you

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 who will prepare your way before you.

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 The fact that these prophecies

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 were perfectly fulfilled by John the Baptist

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 give validation to the fact

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 that Jesus is indeed the Messiah,

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 the Son of God.

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 Because hundreds of years before,

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 it said there will be a herald.

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 This is what he will do.

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 This is how he will do it.

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 And he will go before preparing the way

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 for the Messiah.

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 And now we see John the Baptist

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 perfectly fulfilling that.

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 And so we say not only is John the Baptist

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 the voice in the wilderness,

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 but because of that,

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 Jesus is indeed the Messiah,

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 the Son of God.

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 So we see what these Old Testament passages

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 say about John.

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 Now let's look at what these two

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 Old Testament passages say about Jesus.

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 The prophecies of Isaiah and Malachi

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 are not only about John.

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 They are indeed,

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 first and foremost,

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 about Christ.

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 In fact,

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 if you'll allow me

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 just to take a side trip here

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 for just a second,

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 all of the Scripture

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 is ultimately

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 about Christ.

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 The entire book in your hand,

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 it doesn't matter where you turn

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 in one way or another,

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 it is there for the purpose

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 of directing you

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 towards the person

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 of Jesus Christ.

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 Jesus said this.

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 And we see the example of this

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 in the Gospels.

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 Remember after Jesus' resurrection,

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 a couple of the disciples

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 were discouraged

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 and they decided

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 that they were going to go home

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 to Emmaus.

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 And they begin walking the road

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 on Resurrection Day

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 to the town of Emmaus.

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 And Jesus shows up

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 and walks with them.

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 But he prevents them

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 from recognizing that it's him.

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 And what is it that Jesus did?

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 Luke tells us in chapter 24.

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 Then beginning with Moses,

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 that's the law,

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 the Pentateuch,

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 the first five books

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 of the Bible,

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 and with all the prophets,

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 that's the rest

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 of the Old Testament,

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 he explained to them

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 the things concerning himself

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 in all the Scriptures.

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 What was Jesus explaining to them?

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 The Bible is about me.

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 Everything you read

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 is meant to point you to me,

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 Jesus was telling those men.

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 But then Jesus makes the claim

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 expressly in John chapter 5.

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 He told some religious people

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 who are having a hard time

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 accepting him,

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 he said,

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 you search the Scriptures

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 because you think that in them

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 you have eternal life.

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 And then he says,

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 it is these that testify

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 of me.

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 And you are unwilling

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 to come to me

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 so that you may have life.

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 In other words,

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 he was meeting

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 with a bunch of religious people

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 that loved the Bible,

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 that studied faithfully

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 the Bible,

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 but they couldn't understand

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 that the Bible

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 was actually about him.

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 They went to the Scriptures

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 searching for eternal life

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 as if they could just

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 follow the rules

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 just the right way

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 and if they could just

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 conform to the religiosity

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 just the right way

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 that they would gain salvation.

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 But Jesus says,

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 you've missed the whole point.

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 If you study

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 and know every passage

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 of the Bible

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 but you've missed me

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 in the Bible,

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 then you've missed life

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 in the Bible.

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 All of the Scripture

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 is about Jesus.

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 So when we come

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 to these two prophecies,

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 it's not just indirectly

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 about Jesus,

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 it's actually specifically

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 about Jesus.

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 And it cannot be overlooked

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 by us today.

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 They're absolutely essential

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 to our understanding

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 of who Jesus is in nature.

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 Now let's look at them again.

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 Look at Malachi's prophecy first.

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 Malachi chapter three.

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 What is it that he says?

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 Behold, this is God speaking

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 through Malachi,

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 I will send my messenger

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 and he shall prepare the way

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 before, what's that next word?

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 Me.

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 Who's speaking?

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 God.

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 This is not Malachi

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 writing Malachi's word.

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 This is Malachi speaking

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 on behalf of God.

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 And God says,

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 behold, I will send

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 my messenger before me.

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 Look at the next phrase.

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 And the Lord,

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 God,

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 Yahweh,

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 whom you seek

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 shall suddenly come

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 to his temple.

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 what's the purpose

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 of this?

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 What does this tell us

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 about Jesus?

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 The messenger

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 to which God

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 is referring

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 is John the Baptist.

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 But the person

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 whose path

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 John would be preparing

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 is God

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 himself.

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 In other words,

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 the Messiah

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 would not be

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 merely

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 an extraordinarily

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 gifted man

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 that would lead

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 the nation.

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 No,

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 this would be

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 Yahweh himself

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 in the flesh.

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 Malachi's prophecy

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 insists

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 that the one

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 to suddenly come

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 would be

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 none other

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 than God

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 himself.

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 Now look with me

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 at Isaiah chapter 40.

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 We'll see it again.

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 Isaiah chapter 40

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 verse 3.

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 The voice

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 of him

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 that cries

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 in the wilderness

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 prepare ye

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 the way

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 of the

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 who?

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 Lord.

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 Whose way

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 is he preparing?

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 The Lord's way.

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 You notice

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 in your Bible

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 Lord has

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 four capital letters.

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 That's the covenant

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 name.

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 Yahweh.

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 Whose way

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 is the voice

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 in the wilderness

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 preparing?

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 Yahweh's way.

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 Make straight

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 in the desert

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 a highway

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 for our God.

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 And then he goes on.

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 Every valley

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 shall be exalted.

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 Every mountain

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 and hill

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 shall be made low.

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 The crooked

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 shall be made straight

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 and the rough places

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 made plain.

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 That is by John's

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 preaching

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 and John's ministry.

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 And the glory

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 of the Lord

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 shall be revealed.

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 And all flesh

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 shall see it together

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 for the mouth

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 of the Lord

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 hath spoken it.

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 The voice

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 said

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 cry.

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 And he said

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 what shall I cry?

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 All flesh

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 is grass

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 and all the

00:24:46.379 --> 00:24:47.399
 goodliness thereof

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 is of a flower

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 of the field.

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 The grass

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 withers

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 the flower

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 fades

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 but the spirit

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 of the Lord

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 bloweth upon it.

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 Surely the people

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 is grass.

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 The grass

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 withers

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 the flower

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 fades

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 but the word

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 of our God

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 shall stand

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 forever.

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 What word?

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 Isaiah's word

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 Malachi's word

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 John's word

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 what were all

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 three of them

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 testifying of?

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 That not only

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 is Jesus

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 the Messiah

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 but the Messiah

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 is God

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 himself.

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 Jesus was not

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 just a man.

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 He is God.

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 He is the only

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 one that could

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 ever provide

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 atonement for sin

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 not because he

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 was a superhuman

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 but because he

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 is God.

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 So Mark says

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 in verse number

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 one

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 my goal

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 in this book

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 is to proclaim

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 and evidence

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 that Jesus

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 Christ

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 is the Messiah

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 and then he

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 tacks on

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 that next phrase

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 and the Messiah

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 is the Son

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 of God

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 and the very

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 first thing

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 Mark does

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 is he says

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 let's look

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 at the scriptures.

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 Here's what

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 the scripture

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 says.

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 There's going

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 to be a man

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 that comes

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 and the way

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 that he prepares

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 is a way

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 for God

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 himself

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 and then

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 John himself

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 testifies

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 of this God

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 as he walks

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 up to the river

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 one day

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 and he says

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 behold

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 the Lamb

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 of God

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 who takes away

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 the sins

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 of the world.

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 What's the significance

00:26:09.459 --> 00:26:10.519
 of John's ministry

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 is because it points

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 us to Jesus

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 and what is significant

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 about these Old Testament

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 prophecies

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 that we find out

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 that long before

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 we ever got

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 to Philippians

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 chapter 2

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 that the Old Testament

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 said that the Messiah

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 would come

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 and the Messiah

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 would be God

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 in the flesh.

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 Who is Jesus?

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 He's God.

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 He's God.

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 How do we know?

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 Because the Bible

00:26:33.219 --> 00:26:34.359
 tells me so.

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 Where does it say it?

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 We can start

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 in Isaiah 43.

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 And Malachi 3.

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 And then we can

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 go to Mark 1.

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 And then we can

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 go to Philippians 2.

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 And then we can

00:26:43.619 --> 00:26:44.319
 go everywhere else

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 in the scripture

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 that you want to go

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 because it all

00:26:46.119 --> 00:26:47.039
 testifies of him.

00:26:48.019 --> 00:26:48.939
 What's the significance

00:26:48.939 --> 00:26:49.679
 of Mark writing

00:26:49.679 --> 00:26:50.299
 about John?

00:26:51.099 --> 00:26:51.919
 Nothing really

00:26:51.919 --> 00:26:52.659
 except for the fact

00:26:52.659 --> 00:26:53.159
 that he's writing

00:26:53.159 --> 00:26:53.759
 about Jesus.

00:26:56.139 --> 00:26:56.979
 Jesus made

00:26:56.979 --> 00:26:58.299
 these divine

00:26:58.299 --> 00:26:59.279
 claims himself

00:26:59.279 --> 00:26:59.979
 as being one

00:26:59.979 --> 00:27:00.679
 with the Father.

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 But it was not

00:27:02.719 --> 00:27:03.459
 a claim that was

00:27:03.459 --> 00:27:04.559
 unsubstantiated

00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:05.059
 in the rest

00:27:05.059 --> 00:27:05.579
 of the scripture.

00:27:05.579 --> 00:27:07.960
 These prophecies

00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:08.619
 about John

00:27:08.619 --> 00:27:09.039
 aren't really

00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:10.000
 about John at all.

00:27:11.419 --> 00:27:12.359
 The importance

00:27:12.359 --> 00:27:13.299
 of recognizing

00:27:13.299 --> 00:27:14.539
 that these prophecies

00:27:14.539 --> 00:27:15.399
 referred to John

00:27:15.399 --> 00:27:16.939
 cannot be overstated

00:27:16.939 --> 00:27:19.059
 as they clearly reveal

00:27:19.059 --> 00:27:21.299
 that Jesus of Nazareth

00:27:21.299 --> 00:27:22.740
 is indeed

00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:24.079
 God in the flesh

00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:25.579
 that has come

00:27:25.579 --> 00:27:26.319
 to save us

00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:27.259
 from our sins.

00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:29.000
 This is the gospel.

00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:31.019
 This is the gospel.

00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:33.720
 Listen this morning.

00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:36.640
 This is who Jesus is.

00:27:38.460 --> 00:27:39.400
 What are you going

00:27:39.400 --> 00:27:40.000
 to do with him?

00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:42.980
 What are you going

00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:43.579
 to do with him?

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:46.240
 You cannot look

00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:46.779
 at Jesus

00:27:46.779 --> 00:27:48.620
 and do nothing.

00:27:50.120 --> 00:27:51.120
 You cannot

00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:52.460
 just accept Jesus

00:27:52.460 --> 00:27:54.160
 as being this

00:27:54.160 --> 00:27:56.120
 really awesome

00:27:56.120 --> 00:27:58.079
 powerful preacher

00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:00.000
 of days gone by.

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:01.599
 You cannot come

00:28:01.599 --> 00:28:02.619
 to understand

00:28:02.619 --> 00:28:03.940
 what the Bible

00:28:03.940 --> 00:28:05.259
 says is the true

00:28:05.259 --> 00:28:06.400
 nature and purpose

00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:06.900
 of Jesus

00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:08.099
 and walk away

00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:08.700
 from that

00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:09.579
 indifferently.

00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:11.859
 You must either

00:28:11.859 --> 00:28:13.720
 believe him

00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:15.420
 and follow him

00:28:15.420 --> 00:28:15.980
 as Lord

00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:17.539
 or you must

00:28:17.539 --> 00:28:18.660
 deny him

00:28:18.660 --> 00:28:20.480
 and reject him

00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.599
 and follow

00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:22.359
 your own way.

00:28:23.420 --> 00:28:23.980
 And anything

00:28:23.980 --> 00:28:24.880
 indifferent

00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:26.339
 is really just

00:28:26.339 --> 00:28:26.900
 a choice

00:28:26.900 --> 00:28:28.259
 to follow yourself.

00:28:28.259 --> 00:28:30.940
 as you take

00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:31.440
 the word

00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:31.900
 to people

00:28:31.900 --> 00:28:32.640
 in your family

00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:34.019
 and you take

00:28:34.019 --> 00:28:34.640
 it to people

00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:36.400
 across this community

00:28:36.400 --> 00:28:37.440
 and across

00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:38.119
 this world

00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:39.759
 we introduce

00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:40.339
 them to who

00:28:40.339 --> 00:28:41.180
 Jesus is

00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:42.779
 but we cannot

00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:43.539
 introduce him

00:28:43.539 --> 00:28:43.940
 in a way

00:28:43.940 --> 00:28:44.379
 that leaves

00:28:44.379 --> 00:28:44.940
 them indifferent.

00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:46.720
 If Jesus

00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:47.599
 truly is the

00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:48.240
 son of God

00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:49.220
 as the Bible

00:28:49.220 --> 00:28:50.079
 insists

00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:50.619
 and attests

00:28:50.619 --> 00:28:50.839
 to

00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:52.799
 we must do

00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:53.680
 something with him.

00:28:54.379 --> 00:28:55.379
 We must either

00:28:55.379 --> 00:28:56.539
 fully embrace him

00:28:56.539 --> 00:28:58.119
 or we must

00:28:58.119 --> 00:28:59.200
 fully reject him

00:28:59.200 --> 00:28:59.779
 as a liar

00:28:59.779 --> 00:29:01.180
 or a lunatic

00:29:01.180 --> 00:29:02.519
 as C.S. Lewis

00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:02.899
 said.

00:29:03.159 --> 00:29:04.000
 He's either liar

00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:04.960
 lunatic

00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:05.859
 or Lord.

00:29:06.659 --> 00:29:07.599
 You cannot walk

00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:08.139
 out of this room

00:29:08.139 --> 00:29:08.500
 today

00:29:08.500 --> 00:29:09.680
 indifferent to that.

00:29:10.579 --> 00:29:11.359
 You walk out

00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:11.839
 of this room

00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:12.599
 either acknowledging

00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:13.220
 him as Lord

00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:14.619
 or as a liar

00:29:14.619 --> 00:29:15.480
 or a lunatic

00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:16.599
 one or the other.

00:29:16.599 --> 00:29:17.159
 Thank you for

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