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 Father, we ask that you would pour out your Holy Spirit upon us and bring your word home to us at a very deep level.

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 And this we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen. Please be seated.

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 So, where I live, I'm near the part of the Cross Canada Trail, and I run on it when it's not covered in snow.

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 At least occasionally I run on it. And about a year or so ago, maybe a year and a half ago, I was on the trail going for a run.

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 And as I'm running down the trail, a woman starts waving at me. She's running the opposite way, and she starts to wave at me.

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 And as she gets close, she says, there's a really big snake on the path up ahead.

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 And there are two places along the path where there must be a nest of snakes or something, because you often see them.

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 Now, I hate snakes. I am a complete and utter wuss when it comes to snakes.

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 One of the, many of you don't know my oldest son, Tosh. He's really neat in lots of respects.

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 But one of the things which is about him and me, if we had both been together on that run, Tosh would have said to me,

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 Dad, if we hurry, we'll be able to see the snake.

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 And my reaction was, maybe I should go the other way, because I don't want to see the snake.

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 And I went, and I never, it must have kept on slithering into the grass.

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 And it was obviously just a garter snake, not some python that had escaped or something like that.

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 But I mention this because, this little while ago, I was in some email correspondence with a friend of mine who lives in Atlanta.

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 And just on the off, I just happened to mention, it was one of those days where I think when we woke up, it was minus 39.

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 So I said that to him when I woke up, it was minus 39.

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 He had a couple of comments about it. He can't even imagine that cold.

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 So I said to him via email, I said, well, on the bright side, it keeps the snakes and insects small and the poisonous snakes away.

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 And he almost instantly emailed back and he said, if you move to Hawaii, there's no poisonous snakes or poisonous spiders.

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 That sounds like a better option than living in Ottawa, to which I could only agree.

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 Anyway, at that particular time, anyway, I've never been to Hawaii.

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 Here's the thing. We're doing this, going through the Gospel of John.

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 And when we did this a couple of years ago, a similar thing with 2 Corinthians.

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 There's this church in Vancouver called St. John's Vancouver.

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 And they have this big church, the good staff, and they develop a study guide to go along with the sermons.

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 And in that church, what they do is they encourage people to read the study guide, either by themselves or with others, before the sermon.

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 And they didn't have one with Galatians, so we didn't do it.

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 But people who did this with 2 Corinthians, they found it very helpful.

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 And I thought we would do this with John, because I knew they had a study guide for John.

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 But the problem is, it means I have to sort of break up the book the same way that their pastor breaks the book up.

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 And he's a master at taking very big parts of the Bible and being able to preach through big chunks of the Bible.

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 And I'm not very good at that.

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 I confess that to you right now.

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 So today, in theory, I'm going to look at verses 19 to 51.

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 That's 43 verses.

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 I feel a little bit like a python that swallowed something way too big that's going to probably kill the snake.

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 That's where the snake analogy all came by this way.

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 I've swallowed some huge hippopotamus, and I can't really handle it.

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 So if you just bear with me.

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 Of course, it's a really, really, really rich text.

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 And so just let's begin this python process of trying to go through John 1.19 to the end of the chapter.

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 John 1.19, and we'll start reading in a moment.

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 And just in terms of placing how John's written the book,

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 John, in the first 18 verses, we looked at that over the Christmas season.

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 It's called the prologue.

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 It's very philosophical.

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 You know, the Word was made flesh, and Jesus is the exegesis of God.

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 It's very abstract, very powerful, very deep.

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 You can write big, fat, thick books just on those 18 verses.

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 And the interesting thing is that John goes from these very big philosophical ideas.

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 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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 He was with God in the beginning, and all things were made through him,

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 and without him was not anything made that was made.

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 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

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 And it's a very profound, simple, deep, just explanation of God.

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 You know, it's just, before we get into it, I finally watched the movie Wonder Woman on Friday night.

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 And I don't think there's any spoiler here with it, but at the end of the movie,

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 the Wonder Woman gives this, you know, short little speech about the importance of love.

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 And, you know, as a Christian, I can't disagree with it, but, you know, for non-Christians,

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 and for most people, they have this basic sense that love is, I mean, and it's a true sense,

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 that love is just something fundamental and deep.

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 But it's a sense that people have that just sort of hangs there in the air.

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 It's not really based on other things, other than that they have this just basic sense,

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 this basic longing, this basic understanding that love is just somehow basic and fundamental.

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 But in the Scriptures, that longing is given roots.

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 It's given a basis.

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 Because when John begins his Gospel,

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 in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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 He was in the beginning with God, as I talked about when I preached on it a couple of weeks ago.

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 So, it's relational language, it's love language, and the Bible begins by saying that love is deeper and older than creation.

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 Love is deeper and older than creation, because from all eternity, God the Father has loved the Son.

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 And from all eternity, God the Son has loved the Father.

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 And the Holy Spirit is in some ways almost as if He Himself is love as a person in this eternal procession between the Father and the Son.

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 And before there were planets, before there were galaxies, before there were human beings,

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 from all eternity, the Father loved the Son, and the Son loved the Father.

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 And so John, who's going to begin this Gospel and touch on many, many deep things,

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 he begins his Gospel by saying,

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 Listen, listen, the God who really does exist, the God who really does, did create all things,

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 the God who not only created all things, but sustains all things,

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 from all eternity, the Father loved the Son, and the Son loved the Father.

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 And John wants to say, whatever you see in the world,

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 and we have this basic sense that love is central and deep,

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 that in fact, that's a true intuition that human beings have.

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 That love itself really is deeper and older than creation itself.

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 And we were made for love.

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 So John, who wrote this Gospel, he begins with these big ideas,

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 and then in verse 19, and in the original language,

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 well, actually in my version, it says,

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 And all of a sudden, from these big, big ideas, he goes into history.

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 He enters us into history.

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 In fact, he's going to introduce John the Baptist,

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 and he's going to talk about Pharisees,

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 and he's going to talk about priests,

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 and he's going to talk about Levites.

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 And it's really, really interesting because,

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 I don't know how many of you know this,

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 but John the Baptist is a known historical figure outside of the Gospels.

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 There are non-Christian sources that talk about John the Baptist

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 and what he did and how important he was in his followers and his disciples.

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 And Pharisees are a known historical phenomenon in Jerusalem at this time,

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 as are priests and as are Levites.

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 And it's very interesting.

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 It's very interesting how God works,

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 that he's going to emphasize that the God who does exist isn't just a distant God,

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 a God far away,

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 but that this God,

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 John's going to talk about how God introduces himself to human beings

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 in space and time and in history.

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 And that's where we get with verse 19 of chapter 1.

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 And this is the testimony of John the Baptist,

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 when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,

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 who are you?

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 Now we're going to pause right here.

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 This phrase, the Jews,

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 it's a bit of a troubling phrase, isn't it?

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 I remember being at a Christian gathering

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 where somebody did a dramatic reading of a text in John's Gospel.

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 And if you've read John's Gospel, he uses the phrase,

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 the Jews, time and time and time again.

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 He uses it a lot.

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 And in the history of the world,

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 this phrase has often been part of the basis

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 by which people have justified the murder of Jewish people

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 and discrimination against Jewish people.

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 In other words, the phrase, the Jews,

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 has been part of how people who've heard the Bible

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 have used it to justify prejudice, hatred, discrimination,

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 and even murderous acts against the Jewish people.

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 And I remember being at this Christian gathering

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 where a fellow did a dramatic reading of the text.

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 But the thing which was so bothersome to me

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 is that there were several Jewish people

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 who were there in the room.

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 In fact, even with their,

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 I can't remember what it is right now,

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 the little head, more Orthodox Jews.

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 And I just thought to myself

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 that the person doing the reading,

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 he probably offended them.

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 They couldn't get past probably this troublesome text

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 and description.

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 And I'm going to probably say,

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 I'm going to say this several times throughout the John

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 because I know that there's not always the same people here

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 and people I don't expect.

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 If you remember 10% of what I say today,

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 that's pretty good.

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 But if you could put up the first point,

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 Andrew, here's what you need to understand

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 all the way through reading the Gospel of John.

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 The Jews, on one hand, it's, of course, literal.

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 But in a sense,

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 and as you're going to see,

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 all the way through John's Gospel,

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 he uses light, bread of life, shepherd.

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 He uses words that are like code

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 or a symbol maybe would be a better word.

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 It's a symbol to help you to enter into a bigger world,

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 to think more broadly.

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 And what John does,

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 because the writer of this Gospel is Jewish,

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 and Jesus is Jewish,

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 and all the apostles are Jewish.

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 And in fact,

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 John,

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 in his Gospel,

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 has Jesus saying one of the most significant phrases

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 in all of the New Testament,

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 salvation is from the Jews.

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 So, John is not being anti-Semitic.

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 The Jews is code,

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 or symbol might be a better word,

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 for the religious,

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 spiritual,

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 world of meaning,

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 and the moral world,

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 organized and established,

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 apart from faith in Jesus Christ crucified.

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 That's how he uses the term.

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 In other words,

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 when we read it,

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 if we think,

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 oh boy,

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 those Jewish people are so conniving,

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 and we've completely and utterly missed the point of the Scriptures.

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 What we should hear when we see this,

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 is we should hear the Anglican Church of Canada.

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 We should hear Christian churches,

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 that have lost their faith and confidence,

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 that Jesus is the Savior,

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 and Lord,

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 and basis of the church.

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 They should hear the faculty club,

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 at a major university.

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 They should hear the CBC.

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 They should hear the Green Party,

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 or the NDP caucus.

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 In other words,

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 the different ways that human beings organize themselves,

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 in spiritual ways,

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 in moral ways,

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 in religious ways,

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 in terms of meaning,

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 or in terms of morals,

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 that John is saying,

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 all the way through this,

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 if you trace it all the way through the book,

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 in every case,

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 he's not actually trying to say something,

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 something so we point our finger at somebody else,

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 he's trying to fashion a mirror,

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 so we can see ourselves.

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 That what happens,

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 when we try to organize the world of morals,

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 or the world of meaning,

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 or the world of religion,

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 or the world of spirituality,

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 and we try to establish it,

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 completely and utterly separate,

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 from God revealing himself,

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 in the person of Jesus,

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 and in the words and miracles of Jesus,

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 and in the death and resurrection of Jesus,

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 and to establish morality,

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 or meaning,

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 or religion,

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 or spirituality,

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 apart from that,

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 read the gospel of John,

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 and every time you see the word,

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 the Jews,

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 that's what we're to think of.

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 We're to think of our own efforts,

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 to establish morality,

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 and meaning,

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 and spirituality,

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 and religion,

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 apart from God,

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 breaking into human history,

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 in the person of his son.

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 You see,

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 when I read the Bible,

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 on one level,

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 it's not about me,

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 it's about Jesus,

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 but on the other level,

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 it's always about me.

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 It's never so that I can say,

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 gosh,

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 I wish my wife would learn more about this.

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 Then she'd treat me better.

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 My wife treats me fantastic,

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 by the way.

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 I have a wife beyond what I deserve.

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 But it's so that I'll see myself in the text.

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 That's always what's at work in God's word.

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 So,

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 the Bible here is definitely not encouraging anti-Semitism.

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 It's trying to see,

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 and it's going to show,

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 this is the very beginning of it,

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 is these,

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 as we're going to see in a moment,

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 as I read the next few things,

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 is that there's this phenomenon going on,

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 that John the Baptist,

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 is doing to Jewish people,

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 what Jewish people did to pagans.

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 And that part of the way that a pagan,

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 who would become,

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 on the path to becoming Jewish,

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 is that they'd be baptized.

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 And John the Baptist,

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 is having Jewish people be baptized.

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 And for some reason,

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 rather than offending everybody,

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 it's drawing people.

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 And so,

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 the establishment,

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 the establishment,

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 the religious establishment,

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 the spiritual establishment,

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 the moral establishment,

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 the establishment of meaning,

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 sends its representatives

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 to try to figure out

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 what's going on with John the Baptist.

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 They want to try to put them,

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 John and what he's doing,

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 within some type of category of their thought,

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 so that they can get a handle on it,

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 and manage it.

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 Well, let's continue.

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 Verse 19.

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 And this is the testimony of John the Baptist,

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 when the Jews sent priests,

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 and Levites from Jerusalem,

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 to ask him,

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 who are you?

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 He confessed,

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 and did not deny,

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 but confessed,

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 I am not the Christ.

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 And they asked him,

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 what then,

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 are you Elijah?

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 He said,

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 I am not.

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 Are you the prophet?

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 And he answered,

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 no.

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 So they said to him,

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 who are you?

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 We need to give an answer

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 to those who sent us.

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 What do you say about yourself?

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 And he said,

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 I am the voice.

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 I'm just a voice.

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 I'm God.

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 I'm the voice of one

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 crying out in the wilderness,

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 make straight the way of the Lord,

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 as the prophet Isaiah has said.

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 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

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 They asked John the Baptist,

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 and why are you baptizing

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 if you are neither the Christ

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 nor Elijah nor the prophet?

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 And John the Baptist answered them,

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 I baptize with water,

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 but among you stands one

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 you do not know.

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 Even he who comes after me,

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 the strap of whose sandal

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 I am not worthy to untie.

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 These things took place

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 in Bethany across the Jordan

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 where John the Baptist

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 was baptizing.

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 And you'll notice on one hand,

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 it's very,

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 I don't know if you caught it,

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 isn't it sort of curious

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 how John the Baptist speaks?

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 That he understands himself

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 as being so unworthy

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 that when they finally know

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 who it is who's present amongst them,

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 that the Lord,

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 because Isaiah is saying

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 about this day

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 when God himself

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 will come to earth.

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 and John the Baptist

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 on one hand says,

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 I'm just that voice

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 that Isaiah talked about

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 announcing that God himself

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 is about to walk among us.

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 And on one hand,

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 that can sound awfully proud,

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 although it isn't.

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 And he balances it

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 by saying,

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 I'm not even worthy

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 to touch his sandal.

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 Now just pause here.

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 This is,

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 over the next couple of weeks

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 when we look at the John the Baptist text,

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 in Protestant spirituality

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 and in fact

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 in classical Anglican spirituality,

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 John the Baptist

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 is very important

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 because he's seen as sort of

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 the different things

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 that he says about himself

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 are to be the model

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 for a minister.

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 And by minister,

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 I don't just mean ordained people.

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 I use the word minister

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 as servant.

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 It's to be the model

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 for Mike

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 who's a host at the door.

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 It's to be a model

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 for the Sunday school teachers.

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 It's to be a model

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 for the small group leaders,

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 for the women's ministry,

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 the men's ministry,

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 for our church,

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 our mission on campus,

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 for coffee,

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 for child care.

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 The word minister

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 just means an attempt,

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 a servant.

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 So if you could put up

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 the next point.

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 Here's just a,

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 pray that the ministers

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 of Messiah

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 will know

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 we are but witnesses

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 and in ourselves

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 we are unworthy

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 to touch the sandals

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 of Jesus' feet.

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 On Saturday

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 in the paper

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 there was a newspaper report

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 of a funeral

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 that took place

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 in Victoria

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 and it was a very,

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 very,

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 it was a very tragic situation

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 which I guess is why

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 even though it happened

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 in Victoria

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 it made it in a paper

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 that you could read

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 in Ottawa.

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 and,

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 but in the article

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 it's quoted

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 that the minister

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 at the church,

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 a mainline denomination,

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 she said,

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 I,

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 who am paid

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 to be wise,

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 can't make sense of this.

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 Now could you please pray

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 that I,

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 neither me,

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 nor Daniel,

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 nor Sean,

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 nor Jonathan,

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 nor your small group leader,

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 or anybody in the church

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 ever thinks

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 that to be a minister

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 is that you

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 are paying me

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 to be wise.

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 I'm not.

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 I'm not worthy

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 to touch the sandal

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 of Jesus

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 apart from grace.

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 and neither is Sean

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 and neither is Neil

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 and,

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 uh,

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 the day we start

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 to think

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 that we're paid

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 to be wise

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 is the day

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 we turn our backs

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 on the Bible.

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 And,

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 uh,

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 some of you

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 who lead small groups

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 and all,

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 you're not paid

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 to do that.

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 You just do it

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 out of the,

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 out of,

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 out of a calling

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 that God has given you.

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 But,

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 John,

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 we'll develop it

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 more over the coming weeks,

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 but John the Baptist

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 is seen as sort of

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 the,

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 a type of model

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 that every minister,

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 all we're doing

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 is to prepare

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 the way of the Lord,

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 is to point to Jesus

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 and to point to Jesus

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 unworthy as we are

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 knowing that apart

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 from grace

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 we're not even

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 worthy to touch

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 Jesus' sandal.

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 But thanks be to God

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 for grace.

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 So it's a bit of an aside

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 but it's,

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 it's a really important

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 principle to get there

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 and we'll keep going on it

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 as we look at the different

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 things about John the Baptist.

00:21:43.220 --> 00:21:43.440
 Now,

00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:45.019
 I just was reading

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 something about

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 Ricky Gervais.

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 You know,

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 he's the,

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 I don't know if I'm

00:21:48.019 --> 00:21:48.660
 pronouncing his name

00:21:48.660 --> 00:21:49.059
 correctly,

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 he's the,

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 the British comedian

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 who,

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 who,

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 who was at the

00:21:53.259 --> 00:21:54.079
 Star of The Office,

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 the original UK version

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 and he's done lots

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 of other comedy stuff

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 and he's a well-known

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 atheist.

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 And,

00:22:01.120 --> 00:22:02.319
 I might get the numbers

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 of this wrong

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 but in an interview

00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:05.640
 with the Wall Street Journal

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 a couple of years ago,

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 he says in that,

00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:08.740
 they ask him about his

00:22:08.740 --> 00:22:09.920
 atheism and,

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 and he jokes and says,

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 you know,

00:22:11.660 --> 00:22:12.720
 people give him a hard time

00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:13.539
 about being atheist

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 but most people

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 who are atheists,

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 they're really not

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 that different from them.

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 In fact,

00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:18.240
 he said,

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 the most devout Christian

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 is really not much

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 different than me.

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 And,

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 and the interviewer says,

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 well,

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 how is that,

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 Ricky?

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 And,

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 Ricky says,

00:22:25.120 --> 00:22:25.259
 well,

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 I'll just ask them

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 something like this.

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 You know,

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 in the Roman Empire

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 there were,

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 you know,

00:22:29.080 --> 00:22:29.299
 whatever,

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 3,000 gods

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 and goddesses.

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 And,

00:22:32.860 --> 00:22:34.420
 so I say to somebody,

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 do you still believe in Zeus?

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 Do you still believe

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 in Hercules?

00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:38.799
 Do you still believe

00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:39.620
 in Artemis?

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 Do you still believe

00:22:40.339 --> 00:22:40.839
 in Diana?

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 And,

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 of course,

00:22:41.579 --> 00:22:41.960
 he said,

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 my Christian friends

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 will all say,

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 no,

00:22:43.720 --> 00:22:43.880
 no,

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 no,

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 no,

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 no.

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 And,

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 I say to them,

00:22:46.180 --> 00:22:46.359
 well,

00:22:46.420 --> 00:22:47.120
 you don't believe

00:22:47.120 --> 00:22:49.539
 in 2,999 gods.

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 I've just gone one past you.

00:22:52.579 --> 00:22:53.000
 But,

00:22:53.059 --> 00:22:53.859
 we're all basically

00:22:53.859 --> 00:22:55.160
 on the same journey

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 of just disbelieving

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 in all of the gods.

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 And,

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 I mention that

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 because what's about

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 to happen,

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 what John is doing here

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 is John

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 in a world

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 with lots and lots

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 and lots of gods.

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 John

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 is being used

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 by God

00:23:15.580 --> 00:23:17.820
 to introduce himself

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 when he walks around.

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 And,

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 because there's so many gods,

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 and because

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 it's such a natural

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 human tendency

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 for us to extrapolate

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 from our experience,

00:23:32.860 --> 00:23:34.680
 our experience of love,

00:23:34.820 --> 00:23:36.220
 our experience of pain,

00:23:36.340 --> 00:23:37.580
 our experience of suffering,

00:23:37.720 --> 00:23:39.160
 our experience of institutions,

00:23:40.360 --> 00:23:42.120
 it's so natural

00:23:42.120 --> 00:23:43.500
 for us to extrapolate

00:23:43.500 --> 00:23:44.500
 from our experience

00:23:44.500 --> 00:23:45.360
 onto what God

00:23:45.360 --> 00:23:46.340
 must be like.

00:23:47.779 --> 00:23:49.380
 John wrote his gospel

00:23:49.380 --> 00:23:51.420
 to record

00:23:51.420 --> 00:23:53.380
 how God

00:23:53.380 --> 00:23:55.120
 introduces himself

00:23:55.120 --> 00:23:56.900
 so we don't

00:23:56.900 --> 00:23:57.680
 misunderstand

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 who God

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 really is.

00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:02.960
 And,

00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:03.800
 that's what's going on

00:24:03.800 --> 00:24:04.800
 here in John's gospel.

00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:05.680
 It goes on all the way

00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:06.000
 through it,

00:24:06.100 --> 00:24:07.279
 especially in the first half

00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:08.100
 of it before it gets

00:24:08.100 --> 00:24:09.180
 to the crucifixion.

00:24:10.100 --> 00:24:10.120
 But,

00:24:10.300 --> 00:24:11.720
 but look

00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:13.360
 at how God,

00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:15.060
 if you take that

00:24:15.060 --> 00:24:15.580
 as the idea,

00:24:15.620 --> 00:24:16.340
 and that's what John,

00:24:16.420 --> 00:24:17.259
 that's what John

00:24:17.259 --> 00:24:18.600
 is the claim he's making,

00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:19.300
 John the writer

00:24:19.300 --> 00:24:20.019
 of the gospel.

00:24:20.779 --> 00:24:20.880
 And,

00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:22.060
 if thinking about that,

00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:23.300
 it's very,

00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:24.160
 very interesting

00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:26.340
 how God

00:24:26.340 --> 00:24:26.940
 first

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 has himself

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 introduced.

00:24:31.420 --> 00:24:31.640
 Like,

00:24:31.660 --> 00:24:32.220
 just imagine

00:24:32.220 --> 00:24:32.860
 for a second

00:24:32.860 --> 00:24:33.340
 that you were

00:24:33.340 --> 00:24:34.520
 God's spin doctor,

00:24:34.660 --> 00:24:36.380
 his media consultant.

00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:38.300
 And,

00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:39.260
 and God

00:24:39.260 --> 00:24:39.960
 said to you,

00:24:40.060 --> 00:24:41.440
 I think I'm going

00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:41.720
 to go

00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:43.240
 send my son down

00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:43.760
 to earth

00:24:43.760 --> 00:24:45.260
 to introduce myself.

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 What do you think

00:24:47.300 --> 00:24:47.980
 I should do?

00:24:47.980 --> 00:24:48.980
 Well,

00:24:51.259 --> 00:24:51.839
 I don't know.

00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:53.160
 I know,

00:24:53.259 --> 00:24:53.420
 you know,

00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:53.700
 we're all

00:24:53.700 --> 00:24:54.420
 well-instructed

00:24:54.420 --> 00:24:54.779
 Christians,

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 and we'd say,

00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:55.480
 well,

00:24:55.500 --> 00:24:55.980
 you should send

00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:56.360
 them down

00:24:56.360 --> 00:24:56.839
 to be born

00:24:56.839 --> 00:24:58.160
 in a manger

00:24:58.160 --> 00:24:59.000
 and all that.

00:24:59.059 --> 00:24:59.279
 But no,

00:24:59.339 --> 00:25:00.319
 just for a second,

00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:00.579
 like,

00:25:00.620 --> 00:25:01.640
 just apart from that,

00:25:02.339 --> 00:25:02.559
 like,

00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:03.180
 how,

00:25:03.380 --> 00:25:04.839
 how would we,

00:25:05.220 --> 00:25:05.339
 well,

00:25:05.380 --> 00:25:06.220
 how do human beings

00:25:06.220 --> 00:25:07.180
 naturally want to

00:25:07.180 --> 00:25:07.759
 think of God?

00:25:07.860 --> 00:25:08.039
 Well,

00:25:08.140 --> 00:25:08.360
 you know,

00:25:08.360 --> 00:25:09.380
 we might think of God

00:25:09.380 --> 00:25:10.019
 as a mountain,

00:25:10.579 --> 00:25:11.519
 as an ocean,

00:25:12.220 --> 00:25:13.220
 as the sky.

00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:14.759
 We might like to

00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:15.259
 think of God

00:25:15.259 --> 00:25:16.140
 as being everything.

00:25:16.460 --> 00:25:17.100
 We might like to

00:25:17.100 --> 00:25:17.779
 think of God

00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:18.600
 as being something

00:25:18.600 --> 00:25:19.579
 like a force

00:25:19.579 --> 00:25:20.759
 or the force

00:25:20.759 --> 00:25:22.100
 or energy.

00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:23.660
 We might want

00:25:23.660 --> 00:25:24.240
 to try to,

00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:25.880
 we might want

00:25:25.880 --> 00:25:26.680
 to try to emphasize

00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:27.779
 that God

00:25:27.779 --> 00:25:28.799
 is very powerful,

00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:29.900
 so have him be

00:25:29.900 --> 00:25:30.880
 introduced to somebody

00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:31.839
 who's very powerful.

00:25:32.660 --> 00:25:33.420
 We might want

00:25:33.420 --> 00:25:34.140
 to have him be

00:25:34.140 --> 00:25:35.799
 introduced to somebody

00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:36.519
 who's unbelievably

00:25:36.519 --> 00:25:37.279
 beautiful,

00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:38.059
 that will be

00:25:38.059 --> 00:25:39.279
 attractive to us,

00:25:39.339 --> 00:25:40.940
 that it might be

00:25:40.940 --> 00:25:41.680
 something in terms

00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:42.340
 of melody,

00:25:42.580 --> 00:25:43.580
 that some beautiful

00:25:43.580 --> 00:25:45.560
 melody that will just,

00:25:45.840 --> 00:25:46.019
 you know,

00:25:46.100 --> 00:25:47.140
 because music can be

00:25:47.140 --> 00:25:48.320
 so good and just

00:25:48.320 --> 00:25:49.420
 draw our hearts

00:25:49.420 --> 00:25:50.160
 and our minds,

00:25:50.420 --> 00:25:51.400
 and so we might

00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:52.000
 want to have God

00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:52.779
 introduce himself

00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:53.519
 in that way.

00:25:55.420 --> 00:25:56.340
 But it's very,

00:25:56.480 --> 00:25:57.060
 very interesting

00:25:57.060 --> 00:26:00.019
 how God chooses

00:26:00.019 --> 00:26:02.320
 to have himself

00:26:02.320 --> 00:26:03.380
 introduced.

00:26:04.600 --> 00:26:06.019
 Look at verse 29.

00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:09.380
 The next day,

00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:11.259
 John the Baptist

00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:12.240
 saw Jesus

00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:13.420
 coming toward him

00:26:13.420 --> 00:26:15.140
 and said,

00:26:15.799 --> 00:26:16.859
 Behold the Lamb

00:26:16.859 --> 00:26:17.420
 of God

00:26:17.420 --> 00:26:18.480
 who takes away

00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:20.379
 the sin of the world.

00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:22.299
 Now just sort of

00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:22.700
 pause.

00:26:23.099 --> 00:26:24.879
 That's how God

00:26:24.879 --> 00:26:26.039
 chooses to first

00:26:26.039 --> 00:26:26.940
 have Jesus

00:26:26.940 --> 00:26:28.359
 introduced.

00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:31.079
 Not as a mountain,

00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:32.599
 not as a superhero,

00:26:33.180 --> 00:26:34.440
 not as wealthy,

00:26:34.579 --> 00:26:35.480
 not as powerful,

00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:37.259
 not as the ocean,

00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:38.079
 not as energy,

00:26:38.299 --> 00:26:39.119
 not as music,

00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:40.180
 not as an idea,

00:26:40.180 --> 00:26:41.140
 not as a principle,

00:26:41.320 --> 00:26:42.279
 not as an organization,

00:26:42.460 --> 00:26:43.299
 not as an institution,

00:26:43.460 --> 00:26:44.380
 not as a technique,

00:26:44.380 --> 00:26:47.500
 but God introduces himself

00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:48.160
 in the person.

00:26:48.340 --> 00:26:49.000
 Well, if you could

00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:49.920
 put up the first point,

00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:51.240
 and I had some grammar

00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:52.060
 issues with this.

00:26:52.120 --> 00:26:53.260
 If you smarter grammar

00:26:53.260 --> 00:26:55.000
 people want to help

00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:55.680
 me out later on,

00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:56.160
 I'd preach,

00:26:56.940 --> 00:26:57.600
 and that's going,

00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:58.100
 there we go.

00:26:58.780 --> 00:26:59.600
 The Trinity

00:26:59.600 --> 00:27:01.460
 introduces themselves.

00:27:02.740 --> 00:27:03.780
 Google doesn't like it

00:27:03.780 --> 00:27:04.660
 when you say that

00:27:04.660 --> 00:27:07.200
 because it should be

00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:07.800
 themselves,

00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:08.980
 but I don't know

00:27:08.980 --> 00:27:09.580
 how to introduce

00:27:09.580 --> 00:27:10.900
 the unity

00:27:10.900 --> 00:27:11.620
 and the Trinity,

00:27:11.620 --> 00:27:12.480
 you get my point.

00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:14.720
 So if you grammar

00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:15.800
 geniuses have a better

00:27:15.800 --> 00:27:16.360
 way to put it,

00:27:16.380 --> 00:27:17.220
 I'd love to hear it,

00:27:17.280 --> 00:27:18.080
 and you'll be better.

00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:18.440
 But anyway,

00:27:18.540 --> 00:27:19.720
 the Trinity introduces

00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:21.820
 themselves in Jesus

00:27:21.820 --> 00:27:22.620
 of Nazareth.

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:26.440
 That's what is going

00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:26.920
 on here.

00:27:27.400 --> 00:27:27.840
 In the beginning

00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:28.420
 was the Word,

00:27:28.460 --> 00:27:29.000
 and the Word was

00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:29.380
 with God,

00:27:29.420 --> 00:27:30.000
 and the Word was

00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:30.280
 God.

00:27:30.340 --> 00:27:30.940
 He was in the beginning

00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:31.580
 with God.

00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:32.400
 All things were made

00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:32.900
 through him,

00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:33.440
 and without him

00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:34.140
 nothing was made

00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:34.759
 that was made.

00:27:34.759 --> 00:27:38.500
 And John says

00:27:38.500 --> 00:27:39.079
 that there's been

00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:40.319
 these ancient prophecies

00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:41.519
 that someday God

00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:42.519
 himself will come

00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:43.440
 and walk among

00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:44.680
 his people.

00:27:46.539 --> 00:27:47.900
 And so John

00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:48.940
 is making the claim

00:27:48.940 --> 00:27:49.660
 that the Trinity

00:27:49.660 --> 00:27:51.119
 introduces themselves

00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:54.019
 in Jesus of Nazareth.

00:27:54.140 --> 00:27:54.579
 If you could put up

00:27:54.579 --> 00:27:55.279
 the next slide,

00:27:55.420 --> 00:27:55.720
 please.

00:27:56.940 --> 00:27:57.519
 And isn't it

00:27:57.519 --> 00:27:58.319
 interesting that God

00:27:58.319 --> 00:27:59.500
 introduces himself

00:27:59.500 --> 00:28:01.559
 as the Lamb of God

00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:02.299
 who takes away

00:28:02.299 --> 00:28:03.259
 the sin of the world?

00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:06.500
 That's how he

00:28:06.500 --> 00:28:07.440
 introduces himself.

00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:14.539
 This is a very,

00:28:14.700 --> 00:28:15.859
 very powerful phrase.

00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:16.519
 I was,

00:28:17.299 --> 00:28:19.200
 this week I bumped

00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:20.119
 into an old friend

00:28:20.119 --> 00:28:21.059
 of mine that I hadn't

00:28:21.059 --> 00:28:22.059
 seen in a long time.

00:28:22.619 --> 00:28:23.879
 I used to work for him

00:28:23.879 --> 00:28:25.240
 a long, long,

00:28:25.299 --> 00:28:26.339
 long, long time ago.

00:28:26.700 --> 00:28:27.559
 And he's a very,

00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:29.579
 very secular Jew.

00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:31.619
 Probably hasn't been

00:28:31.619 --> 00:28:32.119
 to synagogue

00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:33.700
 in decades.

00:28:33.700 --> 00:28:35.500
 Dabbles and a lot

00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:36.440
 of New Age stuff.

00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:37.960
 Really funny guy.

00:28:38.120 --> 00:28:38.740
 Great guy.

00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:41.220
 And he was just

00:28:41.220 --> 00:28:41.880
 telling me about

00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:42.660
 how he'd been

00:28:42.660 --> 00:28:43.580
 really struck

00:28:43.580 --> 00:28:45.000
 with Jordan Peterson's

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:45.900
 series of videos

00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:48.059
 not on gender stuff

00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:49.420
 but on God.

00:28:50.700 --> 00:28:51.920
 And it was very

00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:52.900
 interesting that he

00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:53.940
 was really struck

00:28:53.940 --> 00:28:54.779
 with this idea

00:28:54.779 --> 00:28:55.779
 of sacrifice.

00:28:57.460 --> 00:28:58.380
 Which Jordan,

00:28:58.680 --> 00:28:59.319
 according to him,

00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:00.059
 Jordan Peterson

00:29:00.059 --> 00:29:01.299
 sees as being central

00:29:01.299 --> 00:29:02.139
 to the idea

00:29:02.139 --> 00:29:03.279
 of a proper idea

00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:03.799
 of God.

00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:05.539
 And if you were

00:29:05.539 --> 00:29:06.619
 a Jewish person,

00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:07.659
 one of the most

00:29:07.659 --> 00:29:08.639
 important parts

00:29:08.639 --> 00:29:09.359
 of the entire

00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:10.099
 Old Testament

00:29:10.099 --> 00:29:11.399
 is Genesis 22.

00:29:12.460 --> 00:29:14.159
 And in Genesis 22,

00:29:14.859 --> 00:29:16.799
 God asks Abraham,

00:29:16.980 --> 00:29:18.200
 appears to ask Abraham,

00:29:18.299 --> 00:29:19.079
 or asks Abraham

00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:20.059
 to go and kill

00:29:20.059 --> 00:29:21.480
 his son Isaac.

00:29:21.480 --> 00:29:21.620
 Isaac.

00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:24.360
 And it's a very

00:29:24.360 --> 00:29:25.620
 important story

00:29:25.620 --> 00:29:26.700
 in Jewish thought

00:29:26.700 --> 00:29:28.620
 in Genesis 22.

00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:29.960
 And in that story,

00:29:31.120 --> 00:29:31.819
 and there's a bit

00:29:31.819 --> 00:29:32.480
 of debate about

00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:32.940
 the Hebrew,

00:29:33.220 --> 00:29:33.839
 whether in fact

00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:34.279
 God,

00:29:34.900 --> 00:29:35.519
 whether Abraham

00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:36.779
 actually kills

00:29:36.779 --> 00:29:37.279
 Isaac.

00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:38.860
 There's some ambiguity

00:29:38.860 --> 00:29:39.579
 in the history

00:29:39.579 --> 00:29:40.259
 in the Hebrew,

00:29:40.460 --> 00:29:41.620
 whether Abraham

00:29:41.620 --> 00:29:42.539
 actually kills

00:29:42.539 --> 00:29:43.400
 Isaac and then

00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:44.460
 God brings Isaac

00:29:44.460 --> 00:29:45.200
 back to life.

00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:47.039
 And Abraham's

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:48.059
 determined and he

00:29:48.059 --> 00:29:48.700
 goes to kill him

00:29:48.700 --> 00:29:49.460
 a second time

00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:50.079
 or whether he's

00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:50.640
 just about to

00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:51.059
 kill him the

00:29:51.059 --> 00:29:51.539
 first time.

00:29:51.700 --> 00:29:52.920
 But the main

00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:53.539
 thing is that

00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:54.759
 God stops him.

00:29:56.539 --> 00:29:57.240
 And in that

00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:58.059
 whole story,

00:29:58.180 --> 00:29:59.220
 there's a ram

00:29:59.220 --> 00:30:00.100
 that gets killed.

00:30:00.299 --> 00:30:01.880
 But God says,

00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:04.140
 reveals to Abraham

00:30:04.140 --> 00:30:06.160
 that he will

00:30:06.160 --> 00:30:07.840
 provide the lamb

00:30:07.840 --> 00:30:08.700
 for the sacrifice.

00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:11.759
 And it's interesting

00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:12.720
 because it's a ram

00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:13.380
 that's provided

00:30:13.380 --> 00:30:13.940
 right there.

00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:14.640
 And so Jewish

00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:15.680
 people have taken

00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:16.299
 that and ends

00:30:16.299 --> 00:30:17.039
 up becoming so

00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:18.579
 important with the

00:30:18.579 --> 00:30:19.440
 sacrifice of a

00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:19.980
 lamb being

00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:20.980
 somehow far more

00:30:20.980 --> 00:30:21.960
 significant in all

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:22.440
 of the whole

00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:23.539
 sacrificial system

00:30:23.539 --> 00:30:24.220
 of the Jews.

00:30:25.080 --> 00:30:26.360
 And the lamb

00:30:26.360 --> 00:30:27.480
 being slain in

00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:28.360
 the Passover.

00:30:29.820 --> 00:30:31.539
 And here,

00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:33.700
 Jesus is

00:30:33.700 --> 00:30:36.320
 introduced by

00:30:36.320 --> 00:30:36.980
 John.

00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:38.840
 God maneuvers

00:30:38.840 --> 00:30:40.220
 all of the

00:30:40.220 --> 00:30:41.059
 Old Testament,

00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:42.000
 the Tanakh,

00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:44.019
 to prepare people

00:30:44.019 --> 00:30:45.720
 so that when he

00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:46.519
 comes and walks

00:30:46.519 --> 00:30:47.180
 among them,

00:30:47.259 --> 00:30:47.820
 they can start

00:30:47.819 --> 00:30:48.759
 to understand

00:30:48.759 --> 00:30:49.980
 that all of

00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:50.599
 their notions

00:30:50.599 --> 00:30:51.299
 of God

00:30:51.299 --> 00:30:52.019
 are wrong.

00:30:54.819 --> 00:30:55.559
 And he's

00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:55.819
 going to

00:30:55.819 --> 00:30:56.939
 introduce himself.

00:30:58.359 --> 00:30:58.639
 And he

00:30:58.639 --> 00:31:00.839
 uses John

00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:01.399
 to begin

00:31:01.399 --> 00:31:02.299
 to introduce

00:31:02.299 --> 00:31:02.919
 himself.

00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:04.399
 And he

00:31:04.399 --> 00:31:05.379
 introduces himself

00:31:05.379 --> 00:31:06.200
 as the Lamb

00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:06.859
 of God

00:31:06.859 --> 00:31:08.099
 who takes

00:31:08.099 --> 00:31:08.980
 away the

00:31:08.980 --> 00:31:09.379
 sin of the

00:31:09.379 --> 00:31:09.599
 world.

00:31:09.740 --> 00:31:10.059
 If you could

00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:10.399
 put up the

00:31:10.399 --> 00:31:11.099
 next slide.

00:31:11.099 --> 00:31:13.799
 behind this

00:31:13.799 --> 00:31:15.319
 phrase of

00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:15.859
 the sin of

00:31:15.859 --> 00:31:16.439
 the world

00:31:16.439 --> 00:31:18.059
 is this

00:31:18.059 --> 00:31:18.899
 idea that

00:31:18.899 --> 00:31:19.519
 we human

00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:20.279
 beings,

00:31:20.639 --> 00:31:21.699
 by seeking

00:31:21.699 --> 00:31:22.259
 to become

00:31:22.259 --> 00:31:22.839
 like God

00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:23.659
 ourselves,

00:31:24.259 --> 00:31:25.559
 that we

00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:26.759
 have broken

00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:27.639
 and bent

00:31:27.639 --> 00:31:29.539
 ourselves in

00:31:29.539 --> 00:31:30.339
 terms of our

00:31:30.339 --> 00:31:31.199
 relationship to

00:31:31.199 --> 00:31:31.759
 ourself,

00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:32.579
 our relationship

00:31:32.579 --> 00:31:32.980
 to the

00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:33.759
 created order,

00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:35.459
 our relationship

00:31:35.459 --> 00:31:36.859
 socially,

00:31:36.859 --> 00:31:38.919
 our relationship

00:31:38.919 --> 00:31:39.740
 in things like

00:31:39.740 --> 00:31:40.479
 marriage and

00:31:40.479 --> 00:31:41.339
 family,

00:31:42.259 --> 00:31:42.919
 intellectually,

00:31:43.299 --> 00:31:43.879
 that everything

00:31:43.879 --> 00:31:44.699
 is slightly

00:31:44.699 --> 00:31:45.359
 bent.

00:31:46.699 --> 00:31:47.179
 And the

00:31:47.179 --> 00:31:47.939
 idea that

00:31:47.939 --> 00:31:48.299
 there is

00:31:48.299 --> 00:31:49.479
 this sin

00:31:49.479 --> 00:31:51.079
 that's present

00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:52.379
 in every

00:31:52.379 --> 00:31:53.199
 human being.

00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:55.059
 I mean,

00:31:55.099 --> 00:31:55.619
 the newspaper

00:31:55.619 --> 00:31:56.319
 bears that out

00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:56.799
 every day when

00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:57.279
 we read it,

00:31:57.299 --> 00:31:57.699
 doesn't it?

00:31:58.500 --> 00:31:59.359
 But part of the

00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:00.179
 implication of

00:32:00.179 --> 00:32:00.879
 that is that

00:32:00.879 --> 00:32:01.539
 because of

00:32:01.539 --> 00:32:02.319
 human sin,

00:32:02.459 --> 00:32:03.259
 no human

00:32:03.259 --> 00:32:04.799
 being can

00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:05.399
 correctly

00:32:05.399 --> 00:32:06.460
 extrapolate

00:32:06.460 --> 00:32:06.899
 from their

00:32:06.899 --> 00:32:07.919
 experience to

00:32:07.919 --> 00:32:08.299
 God.

00:32:10.399 --> 00:32:11.839
 No human

00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:12.399
 being,

00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:13.539
 not the

00:32:13.539 --> 00:32:14.119
 wisest,

00:32:14.259 --> 00:32:14.639
 not the

00:32:14.639 --> 00:32:15.059
 best,

00:32:15.180 --> 00:32:16.259
 can extrapolate

00:32:16.259 --> 00:32:17.079
 by themselves

00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:17.619
 from their

00:32:17.619 --> 00:32:18.680
 own experience

00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:19.440
 to God.

00:32:20.419 --> 00:32:21.419
 They'll always

00:32:21.419 --> 00:32:22.259
 be off.

00:32:23.419 --> 00:32:23.899
 They'll make

00:32:23.899 --> 00:32:25.299
 God too

00:32:25.299 --> 00:32:25.879
 passive.

00:32:26.139 --> 00:32:26.519
 They'll make

00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:27.039
 him too

00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:27.579
 active.

00:32:27.740 --> 00:32:28.139
 They'll make

00:32:28.139 --> 00:32:28.519
 him too

00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:29.319
 judgmental.

00:32:29.419 --> 00:32:29.799
 They'll make

00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:30.220
 him moral

00:32:30.220 --> 00:32:30.819
 about certain

00:32:30.819 --> 00:32:31.319
 things and

00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:32.000
 immoral about

00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:32.740
 other types

00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:33.159
 of things.

00:32:33.259 --> 00:32:33.599
 They'll make

00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:34.019
 him too

00:32:34.019 --> 00:32:35.319
 personal.

00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:35.799
 They'll make

00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:36.180
 him too

00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:36.940
 impersonal.

00:32:37.019 --> 00:32:37.359
 They'll make

00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:37.720
 him too

00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:38.160
 cuddly.

00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:38.599
 They'll make

00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:38.940
 him too

00:32:38.940 --> 00:32:39.460
 angular.

00:32:40.099 --> 00:32:40.779
 Not they,

00:32:41.039 --> 00:32:41.240
 we.

00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:42.180
 Not we,

00:32:42.500 --> 00:32:42.779
 me.

00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:44.680
 That I

00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:45.539
 can't do

00:32:45.539 --> 00:32:45.900
 that.

00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:46.539
 That I

00:32:46.539 --> 00:32:48.680
 need God

00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:50.079
 to reveal

00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:51.400
 himself to

00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:51.900
 me.

00:32:53.920 --> 00:32:54.960
 And unless

00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:56.279
 God reveals

00:32:56.279 --> 00:32:57.359
 himself to

00:32:57.359 --> 00:32:58.500
 me, I

00:32:58.500 --> 00:32:59.139
 can't really

00:32:59.139 --> 00:32:59.920
 know God.

00:33:00.500 --> 00:33:01.200
 I'll end up

00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:01.960
 thinking God's

00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:02.500
 a little bit

00:33:02.500 --> 00:33:03.039
 more like

00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:03.839
 Zeus or a

00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:04.240
 little bit

00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:04.720
 more like

00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:05.639
 Diana or

00:33:05.639 --> 00:33:06.299
 a little bit

00:33:06.299 --> 00:33:06.779
 more like

00:33:06.779 --> 00:33:07.799
 Artemis or

00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:09.699
 a little bit

00:33:09.699 --> 00:33:10.319
 more like the

00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:10.959
 force or a

00:33:10.959 --> 00:33:11.299
 little bit

00:33:11.299 --> 00:33:11.839
 more like the

00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:12.159
 ocean.

00:33:12.639 --> 00:33:13.159
 That I

00:33:13.159 --> 00:33:14.279
 need God

00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:15.279
 to reveal

00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:16.059
 himself to

00:33:16.059 --> 00:33:16.619
 me because

00:33:16.619 --> 00:33:17.480
 no human

00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:18.099
 being because

00:33:18.099 --> 00:33:19.619
 of sin can

00:33:19.619 --> 00:33:20.759
 extrapolate with

00:33:20.759 --> 00:33:21.819
 their mind or

00:33:21.819 --> 00:33:23.459
 their emotions or

00:33:23.459 --> 00:33:24.980
 their imagination or

00:33:24.980 --> 00:33:26.599
 their memories or

00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:28.159
 their will can

00:33:28.159 --> 00:33:29.699
 extrapolate to

00:33:29.699 --> 00:33:30.259
 know God.

00:33:30.259 --> 00:33:31.419
 God needs to

00:33:31.420 --> 00:33:31.759
 take the

00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:32.120
 initiative.

00:33:32.720 --> 00:33:32.980
 And the

00:33:32.980 --> 00:33:33.620
 gospel of

00:33:33.620 --> 00:33:34.320
 John, the

00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:34.900
 New Testament,

00:33:35.100 --> 00:33:35.740
 is the story

00:33:35.740 --> 00:33:37.360
 of God coming

00:33:37.360 --> 00:33:38.720
 among us to

00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:39.360
 make himself

00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:39.779
 known.

00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:41.060
 But here's the

00:33:41.060 --> 00:33:41.700
 other problem

00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:42.400
 with sin.

00:33:42.800 --> 00:33:43.460
 If you could

00:33:43.460 --> 00:33:43.880
 put up the

00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:44.560
 next slide.

00:33:45.420 --> 00:33:45.860
 This is

00:33:45.860 --> 00:33:46.740
 really, really

00:33:46.740 --> 00:33:47.300
 important.

00:33:48.060 --> 00:33:48.820
 True revelation

00:33:48.820 --> 00:33:51.380
 from God needs

00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:52.440
 to include

00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:53.259
 redemption.

00:33:53.259 --> 00:33:53.379
 revelation.

00:33:55.140 --> 00:33:56.000
 And true

00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:56.940
 redemption from

00:33:56.940 --> 00:33:58.980
 God needs to

00:33:58.980 --> 00:34:00.000
 include revelation

00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:00.740
 from God.

00:34:04.539 --> 00:34:05.539
 You see, because

00:34:05.539 --> 00:34:06.319
 that's the fact

00:34:06.319 --> 00:34:06.900
 of sin.

00:34:08.280 --> 00:34:08.960
 It's the fact

00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:10.139
 that, you see,

00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:10.960
 here's the thing

00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:11.320
 that John

00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:11.780
 understood.

00:34:12.019 --> 00:34:12.719
 When John said

00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:13.539
 that salvation is

00:34:13.539 --> 00:34:14.260
 from the Jews,

00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:15.460
 John understood

00:34:15.460 --> 00:34:17.079
 that the Jewish

00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:17.860
 people were the

00:34:17.860 --> 00:34:18.559
 only people

00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:19.280
 listening to

00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:20.199
 God's actual

00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:20.760
 revelation.

00:34:20.980 --> 00:34:21.420
 They were the

00:34:21.420 --> 00:34:21.619
 one.

00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:22.519
 Isaiah was

00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:23.079
 Jewish.

00:34:23.260 --> 00:34:26.460
 speaking to

00:34:26.460 --> 00:34:26.880
 the Jewish

00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:27.320
 people.

00:34:28.120 --> 00:34:28.660
 It's the

00:34:28.660 --> 00:34:29.420
 Jewish people

00:34:29.420 --> 00:34:30.300
 who understand

00:34:30.300 --> 00:34:30.780
 that God

00:34:30.780 --> 00:34:31.440
 created all

00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:32.780
 things out of

00:34:32.780 --> 00:34:33.060
 nothing.

00:34:33.180 --> 00:34:33.580
 It's the

00:34:33.580 --> 00:34:34.160
 Jewish people

00:34:34.160 --> 00:34:34.920
 who understand

00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:36.300
 the holiness

00:34:36.300 --> 00:34:36.920
 of God on

00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:37.120
 one hand.

00:34:37.180 --> 00:34:37.700
 Because God

00:34:37.700 --> 00:34:38.520
 reveals these

00:34:38.520 --> 00:34:39.020
 things to

00:34:39.020 --> 00:34:39.200
 them.

00:34:39.700 --> 00:34:40.100
 But even

00:34:40.100 --> 00:34:41.100
 though they've

00:34:41.100 --> 00:34:41.420
 heard it,

00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:41.960
 their hearts

00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:42.740
 are hard.

00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:43.400
 There's sin

00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:43.740
 in their

00:34:43.740 --> 00:34:44.140
 hearts.

00:34:44.260 --> 00:34:44.560
 They don't

00:34:44.560 --> 00:34:45.400
 get it right.

00:34:45.900 --> 00:34:46.140
 And they

00:34:46.140 --> 00:34:46.700
 take these

00:34:46.700 --> 00:34:47.200
 bits and

00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:47.800
 pieces of

00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:48.360
 the revelation

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:48.720
 and they

00:34:48.720 --> 00:34:49.220
 make it into

00:34:49.220 --> 00:34:49.680
 bits and

00:34:49.680 --> 00:34:50.160
 pieces and

00:34:50.160 --> 00:34:51.180
 they extrapolate

00:34:51.180 --> 00:34:51.600
 from the

00:34:51.600 --> 00:34:52.200
 sin of their

00:34:52.200 --> 00:34:53.240
 emotions.

00:34:53.239 --> 00:34:53.739
 and the

00:34:53.739 --> 00:34:54.059
 sin of

00:34:54.059 --> 00:34:54.599
 their will

00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:54.939
 and the

00:34:54.939 --> 00:34:55.259
 sin of

00:34:55.259 --> 00:34:55.979
 their mind

00:34:55.979 --> 00:34:57.399
 and the

00:34:57.399 --> 00:34:57.799
 sin of

00:34:57.799 --> 00:34:58.519
 their culture.

00:34:58.799 --> 00:34:59.339
 And they

00:34:59.339 --> 00:35:00.179
 extrapolate

00:35:00.179 --> 00:35:00.439
 and they

00:35:00.439 --> 00:35:00.899
 bend.

00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:02.899
 And so

00:35:02.899 --> 00:35:05.619
 if there is

00:35:05.619 --> 00:35:06.239
 to be

00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:07.919
 true revelation

00:35:07.919 --> 00:35:08.659
 from God

00:35:08.659 --> 00:35:09.359
 because of

00:35:09.359 --> 00:35:09.839
 sin,

00:35:09.979 --> 00:35:10.439
 if there is

00:35:10.439 --> 00:35:11.159
 to be true

00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:11.759
 revelation

00:35:11.759 --> 00:35:12.439
 from God,

00:35:12.439 --> 00:35:13.479
 there has

00:35:13.479 --> 00:35:14.199
 to be also

00:35:14.199 --> 00:35:14.979
 some means

00:35:14.979 --> 00:35:15.619
 from God

00:35:15.619 --> 00:35:16.299
 that takes

00:35:16.299 --> 00:35:16.979
 away the

00:35:16.979 --> 00:35:17.519
 sin of the

00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:17.839
 world.

00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:19.220
 God

00:35:19.220 --> 00:35:20.240
 and in

00:35:20.240 --> 00:35:20.700
 particular

00:35:20.700 --> 00:35:21.620
 takes away

00:35:21.620 --> 00:35:22.160
 the sin

00:35:22.160 --> 00:35:23.039
 of George

00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.200
 and the

00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:25.519
 sin of

00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:25.960
 Andrew

00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:26.240
 and the

00:35:26.240 --> 00:35:26.500
 sin of

00:35:26.500 --> 00:35:26.840
 Louise

00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:27.360
 and the

00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:27.700
 sin of

00:35:27.700 --> 00:35:28.200
 Diane

00:35:28.200 --> 00:35:28.539
 and the

00:35:28.539 --> 00:35:28.880
 sin of

00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:29.320
 Jason,

00:35:29.780 --> 00:35:33.780
 if God

00:35:33.780 --> 00:35:34.059
 is going

00:35:34.059 --> 00:35:34.620
 to reveal

00:35:34.620 --> 00:35:35.400
 himself,

00:35:36.300 --> 00:35:37.559
 unless that

00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:38.519
 sin part

00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:39.059
 is dealt

00:35:39.059 --> 00:35:39.300
 with,

00:35:39.340 --> 00:35:39.880
 he can't

00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:40.220
 reveal

00:35:40.220 --> 00:35:40.700
 himself.

00:35:40.699 --> 00:35:42.519
 And at

00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:42.879
 the same

00:35:42.879 --> 00:35:43.259
 time,

00:35:43.419 --> 00:35:43.839
 if God

00:35:43.839 --> 00:35:44.419
 is just

00:35:44.419 --> 00:35:45.039
 redeeming

00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:45.919
 us without

00:35:45.919 --> 00:35:46.439
 revealing

00:35:46.439 --> 00:35:46.899
 himself,

00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:48.139
 then are

00:35:48.139 --> 00:35:48.579
 we really

00:35:48.579 --> 00:35:49.419
 being redeemed

00:35:49.419 --> 00:35:50.179
 to return

00:35:50.179 --> 00:35:50.859
 to God

00:35:50.859 --> 00:35:52.059
 and to

00:35:52.059 --> 00:35:52.579
 know him?

00:35:53.579 --> 00:35:54.379
 Or are

00:35:54.379 --> 00:35:54.980
 we just

00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:56.399
 being lost

00:35:56.399 --> 00:35:56.919
 in some

00:35:56.919 --> 00:35:58.099
 fantasy of

00:35:58.099 --> 00:35:58.559
 our own

00:35:58.559 --> 00:35:59.359
 imagination,

00:35:59.559 --> 00:35:59.779
 of our

00:35:59.779 --> 00:36:01.219
 own fallen,

00:36:01.739 --> 00:36:02.519
 rebellious,

00:36:03.019 --> 00:36:03.480
 sinful,

00:36:03.819 --> 00:36:04.399
 willful

00:36:04.399 --> 00:36:05.480
 emotions

00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:07.239
 and mind

00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:08.299
 and will?

00:36:08.300 --> 00:36:10.700
 And all

00:36:10.700 --> 00:36:11.039
 of this

00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:11.660
 is captured

00:36:11.660 --> 00:36:12.039
 in this

00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:13.360
 spectacular,

00:36:13.680 --> 00:36:14.240
 it's so,

00:36:14.680 --> 00:36:14.840
 you know,

00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:15.160
 the thing

00:36:15.160 --> 00:36:15.800
 about John

00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:16.180
 is that

00:36:16.180 --> 00:36:16.740
 there's time

00:36:16.740 --> 00:36:17.180
 and time

00:36:17.180 --> 00:36:17.620
 and time

00:36:17.620 --> 00:36:18.019
 and time

00:36:18.019 --> 00:36:18.580
 again in

00:36:18.580 --> 00:36:18.940
 John,

00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:20.080
 such a

00:36:20.080 --> 00:36:21.220
 small number

00:36:21.220 --> 00:36:21.960
 of simple

00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:22.760
 words that

00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:23.960
 probably even

00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:25.039
 a three-year-old

00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:25.660
 could be taught,

00:36:25.700 --> 00:36:26.560
 a two-year-old

00:36:26.560 --> 00:36:27.280
 could be taught

00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:27.539
 them.

00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:29.080
 Behold the

00:36:29.080 --> 00:36:29.900
 Lamb of God

00:36:29.900 --> 00:36:30.519
 who takes

00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:31.160
 away the

00:36:31.160 --> 00:36:31.620
 sin of the

00:36:31.620 --> 00:36:31.900
 world.

00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:33.640
 So simple,

00:36:33.820 --> 00:36:34.340
 so brief.

00:36:34.560 --> 00:36:35.620
 Behold the

00:36:35.620 --> 00:36:36.420
 Lamb of God

00:36:36.420 --> 00:36:36.920
 who takes

00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:37.500
 away the

00:36:37.500 --> 00:36:37.900
 sin of the

00:36:37.900 --> 00:36:38.140
 world.

00:36:38.300 --> 00:36:38.920
 Why is

00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:39.300
 John the

00:36:39.300 --> 00:36:39.580
 greatest

00:36:39.580 --> 00:36:40.000
 prophet?

00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:41.039
 He sees

00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:42.060
 Jesus walking

00:36:42.060 --> 00:36:42.480
 and if

00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:43.100
 Jesus has

00:36:43.100 --> 00:36:43.700
 just had

00:36:43.700 --> 00:36:44.220
 a breakfast

00:36:44.220 --> 00:36:44.720
 of some

00:36:44.720 --> 00:36:45.560
 dried fish

00:36:45.560 --> 00:36:46.380
 and maybe

00:36:46.380 --> 00:36:46.960
 some pita

00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:47.900
 bread and

00:36:47.900 --> 00:36:48.640
 Jesus probably

00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:48.900
 would have

00:36:48.900 --> 00:36:49.420
 had a big,

00:36:49.560 --> 00:36:49.880
 long,

00:36:50.300 --> 00:36:51.100
 good Jewish

00:36:51.100 --> 00:36:52.000
 beard because

00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:52.940
 working class

00:36:52.940 --> 00:36:53.560
 Jewish people

00:36:53.560 --> 00:36:53.920
 wouldn't have

00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:54.460
 been shaving

00:36:54.460 --> 00:36:55.340
 themselves every

00:36:55.340 --> 00:36:55.600
 day,

00:36:55.660 --> 00:36:56.000
 they wouldn't

00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:56.300
 have spent

00:36:56.300 --> 00:36:56.780
 the time

00:36:56.780 --> 00:36:57.280
 on that.

00:36:58.060 --> 00:36:58.420
 And like

00:36:58.420 --> 00:36:59.000
 anybody with

00:36:59.000 --> 00:36:59.440
 a beard,

00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:00.260
 sorry you

00:37:00.260 --> 00:37:00.840
 folks with

00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:01.140
 beards,

00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:01.840
 there's probably

00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:02.660
 crumbs of

00:37:02.660 --> 00:37:03.180
 bread and

00:37:03.180 --> 00:37:03.940
 dried fish

00:37:03.940 --> 00:37:04.280
 in their

00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:04.700
 beards,

00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:05.080
 sorry,

00:37:05.180 --> 00:37:05.560
 I don't mean

00:37:05.560 --> 00:37:06.000
 to offend

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:06.140
 you,

00:37:06.200 --> 00:37:06.519
 I'm sure

00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:07.019
 you with

00:37:07.019 --> 00:37:07.400
 beards,

00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:08.119
 looked in

00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:08.420
 the mirror

00:37:08.420 --> 00:37:08.920
 before you

00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:09.360
 came here

00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:09.559
 or you

00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:09.800
 had a

00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:10.280
 wife or

00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:10.800
 somebody else

00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:10.960
 say,

00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:11.519
 you've got

00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:12.059
 stuff all

00:37:12.059 --> 00:37:12.539
 over here.

00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:14.320
 Jesus was

00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:14.639
 single,

00:37:14.720 --> 00:37:15.240
 he might very

00:37:15.240 --> 00:37:15.539
 well have

00:37:15.539 --> 00:37:15.980
 been walking

00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:16.559
 with stuff

00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:17.200
 in his beard

00:37:17.200 --> 00:37:18.079
 and it would

00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:18.340
 have been

00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:19.019
 dusty from

00:37:19.019 --> 00:37:19.579
 walking and

00:37:19.579 --> 00:37:19.820
 there would

00:37:19.820 --> 00:37:20.079
 have been

00:37:20.079 --> 00:37:20.820
 sand on

00:37:20.820 --> 00:37:22.079
 his feet

00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:22.300
 and on

00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:22.780
 his legs

00:37:22.780 --> 00:37:22.980
 and you

00:37:22.980 --> 00:37:23.160
 would have

00:37:23.160 --> 00:37:23.460
 seen the

00:37:23.460 --> 00:37:23.840
 sweat of

00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:24.400
 his brow

00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:26.079
 and Isaiah

00:37:26.079 --> 00:37:28.240
 had words

00:37:28.240 --> 00:37:28.960
 from God

00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:30.340
 and Ezekiel

00:37:30.340 --> 00:37:31.039
 had words

00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:31.720
 from God

00:37:31.720 --> 00:37:32.300
 and Moses

00:37:32.300 --> 00:37:33.160
 had words

00:37:33.160 --> 00:37:33.780
 from God

00:37:33.780 --> 00:37:34.760
 and people

00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:35.119
 had maybe

00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:35.820
 seen God's

00:37:35.820 --> 00:37:36.340
 back or

00:37:36.340 --> 00:37:36.900
 heard his

00:37:36.900 --> 00:37:37.300
 silence

00:37:37.300 --> 00:37:37.900
 but only

00:37:37.900 --> 00:37:38.400
 John the

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:38.780
 Baptist,

00:37:39.260 --> 00:37:39.980
 he is the

00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:40.599
 end and the

00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:41.340
 final of all

00:37:41.340 --> 00:37:41.559
 of the

00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:41.920
 prophets

00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:42.480
 and John

00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:43.300
 alone sees

00:37:43.300 --> 00:37:43.960
 this man

00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:44.519
 with dried

00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:45.360
 fish and

00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:46.200
 dried pita bread

00:37:46.200 --> 00:37:46.800
 in his beard

00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:47.820
 walking along

00:37:47.820 --> 00:37:48.460
 in the day

00:37:48.460 --> 00:37:49.599
 with the sweat

00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:50.360
 on his brow

00:37:50.360 --> 00:37:50.960
 and the dust

00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:51.460
 on his feet

00:37:51.460 --> 00:37:51.820
 and he says

00:37:51.820 --> 00:37:53.000
 behold the

00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:53.659
 lamb of

00:37:53.659 --> 00:37:54.519
 God who

00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:55.579
 takes away

00:37:55.579 --> 00:37:56.400
 the sin of

00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:56.800
 the world

00:37:56.800 --> 00:37:57.519
 and God

00:37:57.519 --> 00:37:58.099
 is introduced

00:37:58.099 --> 00:37:58.619
 not as

00:37:58.619 --> 00:37:59.000
 thunder,

00:37:59.179 --> 00:37:59.599
 not as

00:37:59.599 --> 00:37:59.980
 lightning,

00:38:00.179 --> 00:38:00.539
 not as

00:38:00.539 --> 00:38:00.920
 ocean,

00:38:01.380 --> 00:38:01.780
 not as

00:38:01.780 --> 00:38:02.220
 energy,

00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:03.000
 not as

00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:03.639
 a tyrant,

00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:04.059
 not as

00:38:04.059 --> 00:38:04.659
 a rich man,

00:38:04.720 --> 00:38:04.980
 not as

00:38:04.980 --> 00:38:05.720
 a superhero

00:38:05.720 --> 00:38:06.400
 but as

00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:07.039
 the lamb

00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:07.900
 who comes

00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:08.579
 from God

00:38:08.579 --> 00:38:09.119
 who will

00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:09.900
 take away

00:38:09.900 --> 00:38:10.539
 the sin

00:38:10.539 --> 00:38:10.760
 of the

00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:11.039
 world,

00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:11.940
 the one

00:38:11.940 --> 00:38:12.639
 who comes

00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:13.119
 to be

00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:13.579
 like a

00:38:13.579 --> 00:38:13.880
 lamb

00:38:13.880 --> 00:38:14.699
 by which

00:38:14.699 --> 00:38:15.400
 human beings

00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:15.659
 like

00:38:15.659 --> 00:38:16.179
 ourselves

00:38:16.179 --> 00:38:16.720
 can put

00:38:16.720 --> 00:38:17.300
 our hands

00:38:17.300 --> 00:38:17.900
 in his

00:38:17.900 --> 00:38:18.300
 hands,

00:38:18.579 --> 00:38:18.960
 in a sense

00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:19.380
 put our

00:38:19.380 --> 00:38:19.900
 hands on

00:38:19.900 --> 00:38:20.639
 his precious

00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:21.139
 face

00:38:21.139 --> 00:38:21.839
 and so

00:38:21.839 --> 00:38:22.219
 that when

00:38:22.219 --> 00:38:23.039
 he dies,

00:38:23.299 --> 00:38:23.960
 he dies

00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:24.460
 to take

00:38:24.460 --> 00:38:25.299
 my doom

00:38:25.299 --> 00:38:26.179
 and I

00:38:26.179 --> 00:38:27.239
 die to

00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:28.039
 take his

00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:29.199
 he gives

00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:29.659
 me his

00:38:29.659 --> 00:38:30.079
 purity

00:38:30.079 --> 00:38:30.900
 and I

00:38:30.900 --> 00:38:31.519
 give him

00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:32.379
 my doom,

00:38:32.539 --> 00:38:33.039
 I give him

00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:33.699
 my sin,

00:38:33.839 --> 00:38:34.500
 I give all

00:38:34.500 --> 00:38:34.859
 of those

00:38:34.859 --> 00:38:35.299
 things to

00:38:35.299 --> 00:38:36.000
 him and

00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:36.559
 he is

00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:37.299
 the one

00:38:37.299 --> 00:38:37.879
 who comes

00:38:37.879 --> 00:38:38.460
 from God

00:38:38.460 --> 00:38:38.879
 and the

00:38:38.879 --> 00:38:39.460
 fundamental

00:38:39.460 --> 00:38:39.879
 image,

00:38:39.980 --> 00:38:40.460
 the first

00:38:40.460 --> 00:38:41.199
 image is

00:38:41.199 --> 00:38:41.739
 the lamb

00:38:41.739 --> 00:38:42.319
 of God

00:38:42.319 --> 00:38:43.159
 who takes

00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:43.980
 away the

00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:44.239
 sin of

00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:44.519
 the world,

00:38:44.659 --> 00:38:45.079
 God is

00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:45.619
 revealing

00:38:45.619 --> 00:38:46.539
 and redeeming

00:38:46.539 --> 00:38:46.799
 at the

00:38:46.799 --> 00:38:47.319
 same time,

00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:48.359
 he redeems

00:38:48.359 --> 00:38:49.339
 and reveals

00:38:49.339 --> 00:38:50.199
 at the same

00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:50.599
 time,

00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:51.239
 if there

00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:51.539
 is in

00:38:51.539 --> 00:38:51.960
 fact the

00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:52.179
 sin of

00:38:52.179 --> 00:38:52.579
 the world,

00:38:52.739 --> 00:38:53.299
 it is the

00:38:53.299 --> 00:38:53.860
 only way

00:38:53.860 --> 00:38:54.199
 that the

00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:54.679
 true God

00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:55.119
 can make

00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:55.500
 himself

00:38:55.500 --> 00:38:55.900
 known,

00:38:56.699 --> 00:38:59.239
 is to

00:38:59.239 --> 00:38:59.759
 redeem and

00:38:59.759 --> 00:39:00.239
 reveal and

00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:00.719
 reveal and

00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:01.039
 redeem.

00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:08.819
 Let's just

00:39:08.819 --> 00:39:10.099
 wrap this

00:39:10.099 --> 00:39:10.420
 up.

00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:12.960
 Just

00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:15.839
 two more,

00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:16.500
 let's just

00:39:16.500 --> 00:39:16.880
 read a few

00:39:16.880 --> 00:39:17.400
 more verses

00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:17.860
 and then

00:39:17.860 --> 00:39:18.639
 we'll all

00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:19.219
 stand and

00:39:19.219 --> 00:39:19.400
 we're going

00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:19.719
 to spend

00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:20.179
 some time

00:39:20.179 --> 00:39:20.539
 praying.

00:39:21.959 --> 00:39:22.500
 Because you

00:39:22.500 --> 00:39:22.639
 see,

00:39:22.939 --> 00:39:24.419
 this story

00:39:24.419 --> 00:39:25.139
 involves you

00:39:25.139 --> 00:39:25.519
 and me

00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:26.759
 and I

00:39:26.759 --> 00:39:27.039
 don't have

00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:27.399
 time to

00:39:27.399 --> 00:39:27.639
 go into

00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:27.859
 it more

00:39:27.859 --> 00:39:28.179
 but I

00:39:28.179 --> 00:39:28.480
 want to

00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:28.739
 show you

00:39:28.739 --> 00:39:29.019
 how this

00:39:29.019 --> 00:39:29.599
 story all

00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:30.219
 involves you

00:39:30.219 --> 00:39:30.419
 and me

00:39:30.419 --> 00:39:30.899
 after this

00:39:30.899 --> 00:39:31.439
 profound

00:39:31.439 --> 00:39:32.079
 revelation

00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:32.639
 and he's

00:39:32.639 --> 00:39:32.819
 going to

00:39:32.819 --> 00:39:33.419
 reveal more.

00:39:33.980 --> 00:39:34.539
 Look how he

00:39:34.539 --> 00:39:35.139
 continues on

00:39:35.139 --> 00:39:35.480
 in verse

00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:35.879
 30.

00:39:36.879 --> 00:39:37.359
 This is he

00:39:37.359 --> 00:39:37.839
 of whom I

00:39:37.839 --> 00:39:38.299
 said,

00:39:38.500 --> 00:39:39.000
 after me

00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:39.439
 comes a

00:39:39.439 --> 00:39:39.819
 man who

00:39:39.819 --> 00:39:40.599
 ranks before

00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:41.259
 me because

00:39:41.259 --> 00:39:41.679
 he was

00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:42.359
 before me.

00:39:43.259 --> 00:39:44.219
 John is

00:39:44.219 --> 00:39:44.919
 here affirming

00:39:44.919 --> 00:39:45.939
 the preexistence

00:39:45.939 --> 00:39:46.399
 of God,

00:39:46.480 --> 00:39:46.899
 the son of

00:39:46.899 --> 00:39:47.239
 God.

00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:49.279
 I

00:39:49.279 --> 00:39:49.659
 myself

00:39:49.659 --> 00:39:50.099
 did not

00:39:50.099 --> 00:39:50.399
 know

00:39:50.399 --> 00:39:50.799
 him.

00:39:52.979 --> 00:39:53.559
 In other

00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:53.759
 words,

00:39:53.939 --> 00:39:54.379
 by my

00:39:54.379 --> 00:39:54.839
 natural

00:39:54.839 --> 00:39:55.199
 ability,

00:39:55.279 --> 00:39:55.500
 he would

00:39:55.500 --> 00:39:55.759
 have known

00:39:55.759 --> 00:39:56.199
 that Jesus

00:39:56.199 --> 00:39:57.039
 was related

00:39:57.039 --> 00:39:57.479
 to him

00:39:57.479 --> 00:39:57.799
 but he

00:39:57.799 --> 00:39:58.019
 didn't

00:39:58.019 --> 00:39:58.479
 know

00:39:58.479 --> 00:40:00.139
 who he

00:40:00.139 --> 00:40:00.339
 was.

00:40:00.419 --> 00:40:00.500
 It

00:40:00.500 --> 00:40:00.739
 wasn't

00:40:00.739 --> 00:40:01.019
 that his

00:40:01.019 --> 00:40:01.439
 mind

00:40:01.439 --> 00:40:01.839
 was able

00:40:01.839 --> 00:40:02.359
 to grasp

00:40:02.359 --> 00:40:02.899
 this

00:40:02.899 --> 00:40:04.699
 by itself.

00:40:05.539 --> 00:40:05.879
 But for

00:40:05.879 --> 00:40:06.439
 this purpose

00:40:06.439 --> 00:40:06.879
 I came

00:40:06.879 --> 00:40:07.459
 baptizing

00:40:07.459 --> 00:40:07.979
 with water

00:40:07.979 --> 00:40:08.699
 that he

00:40:08.699 --> 00:40:09.319
 might be

00:40:09.319 --> 00:40:09.679
 revealed

00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:10.299
 to Israel.

00:40:10.939 --> 00:40:11.259
 And John

00:40:11.259 --> 00:40:11.679
 the Baptist

00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:12.279
 bore witness,

00:40:12.439 --> 00:40:12.779
 I saw

00:40:12.779 --> 00:40:13.379
 the spirit

00:40:13.379 --> 00:40:13.799
 descend

00:40:13.799 --> 00:40:14.279
 from heaven

00:40:14.279 --> 00:40:14.679
 like a

00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:15.239
 dove and

00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:15.779
 it remained

00:40:15.780 --> 00:40:16.260
 on him.

00:40:16.380 --> 00:40:16.519
 I

00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:16.940
 myself

00:40:16.940 --> 00:40:17.320
 did not

00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:17.600
 know

00:40:17.600 --> 00:40:17.900
 him.

00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:18.920
 But he

00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:19.320
 who sent

00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:19.620
 me to

00:40:19.620 --> 00:40:20.120
 baptize

00:40:20.120 --> 00:40:20.640
 with water

00:40:20.640 --> 00:40:21.060
 said to

00:40:21.060 --> 00:40:21.240
 me,

00:40:21.600 --> 00:40:22.220
 he on

00:40:22.220 --> 00:40:22.720
 whom you

00:40:22.720 --> 00:40:23.200
 see the

00:40:23.200 --> 00:40:23.900
 Holy Spirit

00:40:23.900 --> 00:40:24.600
 descend and

00:40:24.600 --> 00:40:24.960
 remain,

00:40:25.220 --> 00:40:25.880
 this is

00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:27.140
 he who

00:40:27.140 --> 00:40:27.820
 baptizes

00:40:27.820 --> 00:40:28.240
 with the

00:40:28.240 --> 00:40:28.900
 Holy Spirit.

00:40:30.120 --> 00:40:30.620
 And I

00:40:30.620 --> 00:40:31.000
 have seen

00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:31.320
 and bore

00:40:31.320 --> 00:40:32.000
 witness that

00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:32.540
 this is

00:40:32.540 --> 00:40:32.860
 the Son

00:40:32.860 --> 00:40:33.260
 of God.

00:40:33.660 --> 00:40:34.460
 This image

00:40:34.460 --> 00:40:34.720
 of the

00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:35.300
 baptizing

00:40:35.300 --> 00:40:35.540
 of the

00:40:35.540 --> 00:40:36.120
 Holy Spirit

00:40:36.120 --> 00:40:36.640
 means that

00:40:36.640 --> 00:40:37.420
 Jesus is

00:40:37.420 --> 00:40:37.860
 the one,

00:40:38.560 --> 00:40:39.000
 the Holy

00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:39.440
 Spirit

00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:40.480
 will work

00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:40.940
 in and

00:40:40.940 --> 00:40:41.120
 through

00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:41.639
 Jesus

00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:43.679
 to wash

00:40:43.679 --> 00:40:44.079
 me.

00:40:46.759 --> 00:40:48.000
 Water can

00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:48.659
 wash my

00:40:48.659 --> 00:40:49.119
 skin,

00:40:49.339 --> 00:40:51.739
 but only

00:40:51.739 --> 00:40:52.440
 God can

00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:53.019
 go beneath

00:40:53.019 --> 00:40:53.799
 my skin

00:40:53.799 --> 00:40:54.819
 and have

00:40:54.819 --> 00:40:55.319
 the Holy

00:40:55.319 --> 00:40:56.139
 Spirit start

00:40:56.139 --> 00:40:56.880
 to wash

00:40:56.880 --> 00:40:58.559
 and penetrate

00:40:58.559 --> 00:40:59.579
 my mind

00:40:59.579 --> 00:41:00.839
 and my

00:41:00.839 --> 00:41:01.739
 emotions and

00:41:01.739 --> 00:41:02.900
 my affections

00:41:02.900 --> 00:41:03.319
 and my

00:41:03.319 --> 00:41:04.299
 will and

00:41:04.299 --> 00:41:05.079
 my memory

00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:06.239
 and my

00:41:06.239 --> 00:41:07.019
 fears,

00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:10.719
 my shame.

00:41:13.179 --> 00:41:14.059
 Only God

00:41:14.059 --> 00:41:14.440
 can do

00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:14.780
 that.

00:41:18.820 --> 00:41:19.559
 The next

00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:19.840
 day,

00:41:19.940 --> 00:41:21.340
 verse 35,

00:41:21.820 --> 00:41:22.579
 John the

00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:23.159
 Baptist was

00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:23.679
 standing with

00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:24.139
 two of his

00:41:24.139 --> 00:41:24.800
 disciples and

00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:25.300
 he looked at

00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:25.900
 Jesus as

00:41:25.900 --> 00:41:26.579
 Jesus walked

00:41:26.579 --> 00:41:27.380
 by and

00:41:27.380 --> 00:41:28.400
 John again

00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:28.599
 says,

00:41:28.699 --> 00:41:29.059
 Behold the

00:41:29.059 --> 00:41:29.340
 Lamb of

00:41:29.340 --> 00:41:29.519
 God.

00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:29.860
 The two

00:41:29.860 --> 00:41:30.960
 disciples heard

00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:31.360
 him say

00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:31.719
 this and

00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:32.239
 they followed

00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:32.699
 Jesus.

00:41:33.759 --> 00:41:34.579
 Jesus turned

00:41:34.579 --> 00:41:35.199
 and saw them

00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:36.000
 following and

00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:36.380
 said to

00:41:36.380 --> 00:41:36.599
 them,

00:41:37.019 --> 00:41:37.800
 Now here

00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:38.179
 folks,

00:41:38.420 --> 00:41:38.900
 if you have

00:41:38.900 --> 00:41:39.759
 this version

00:41:39.759 --> 00:41:40.059
 of the Bible

00:41:40.059 --> 00:41:40.440
 I have is

00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:40.820
 called a

00:41:40.820 --> 00:41:41.199
 red letter

00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:41.960
 Bible and

00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:43.079
 it has this

00:41:43.079 --> 00:41:43.500
 idea that

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:44.119
 whenever Jesus

00:41:44.119 --> 00:41:44.639
 speaks you

00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:44.960
 put the

00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:45.340
 writing in

00:41:45.340 --> 00:41:45.539
 red,

00:41:45.619 --> 00:41:45.920
 whether it's

00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:46.280
 a good idea

00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:46.539
 or not,

00:41:46.940 --> 00:41:47.340
 it's a

00:41:47.340 --> 00:41:47.679
 separate

00:41:47.679 --> 00:41:48.199
 discussion.

00:41:49.019 --> 00:41:49.639
 But what

00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:50.259
 you'll notice

00:41:50.259 --> 00:41:50.940
 is it's

00:41:50.940 --> 00:41:51.759
 so cool,

00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:53.300
 the first

00:41:53.300 --> 00:41:54.019
 words of

00:41:54.019 --> 00:41:54.380
 Jesus

00:41:54.380 --> 00:41:55.119
 recorded

00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:56.179
 aren't,

00:41:58.139 --> 00:41:58.880
 gosh,

00:41:58.980 --> 00:41:59.259
 you're a

00:41:59.259 --> 00:41:59.599
 terrible

00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:00.239
 person,

00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:01.239
 get down

00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:01.559
 on your

00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:02.000
 knees and

00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:02.400
 repent,

00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:03.480
 or give

00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:03.880
 me some

00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:04.179
 money,

00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:05.539
 or don't

00:42:05.539 --> 00:42:05.900
 you think

00:42:05.900 --> 00:42:06.519
 I'm great,

00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:07.780
 or don't

00:42:07.780 --> 00:42:08.059
 you think

00:42:08.059 --> 00:42:08.239
 I'm

00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:08.599
 beautiful?

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:09.000
 No,

00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:09.159
 what are

00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:09.480
 the first

00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:09.880
 words of

00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:10.119
 Jesus?

00:42:10.259 --> 00:42:10.539
 It's a

00:42:10.539 --> 00:42:11.000
 question.

00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:11.840
 What are

00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:12.340
 you seeking?

00:42:15.179 --> 00:42:15.739
 What are

00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:16.219
 you seeking?

00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:17.360
 That's a

00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:17.880
 question for

00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:18.179
 the rest

00:42:18.179 --> 00:42:18.460
 of your

00:42:18.460 --> 00:42:18.820
 life.

00:42:20.420 --> 00:42:21.099
 Like in a

00:42:21.099 --> 00:42:21.320
 sense,

00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:21.619
 if you're

00:42:21.619 --> 00:42:22.179
 having some

00:42:22.179 --> 00:42:22.519
 marital

00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:23.039
 problems,

00:42:23.139 --> 00:42:23.380
 you can

00:42:23.380 --> 00:42:24.079
 almost ask

00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:24.699
 each person,

00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:25.360
 okay,

00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:25.659
 you're having

00:42:25.659 --> 00:42:26.059
 problems,

00:42:26.320 --> 00:42:26.800
 like what are

00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:27.300
 you seeking?

00:42:28.019 --> 00:42:28.320
 What are

00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:28.739
 you seeking?

00:42:28.739 --> 00:42:32.459
 like what's

00:42:32.459 --> 00:42:32.899
 going on in

00:42:32.899 --> 00:42:33.339
 your life?

00:42:33.459 --> 00:42:33.699
 What are

00:42:33.699 --> 00:42:34.319
 you seeking

00:42:34.319 --> 00:42:35.519
 that's helping

00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:36.039
 to cause

00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:36.879
 this discord?

00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:38.500
 In terms

00:42:38.500 --> 00:42:39.459
 of career,

00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:39.919
 like it's

00:42:39.919 --> 00:42:40.219
 such a

00:42:40.219 --> 00:42:40.719
 profound,

00:42:40.919 --> 00:42:41.619
 open-ended

00:42:41.619 --> 00:42:42.459
 question for

00:42:42.459 --> 00:42:42.839
 the rest

00:42:42.839 --> 00:42:43.179
 of your

00:42:43.179 --> 00:42:43.599
 life.

00:42:44.659 --> 00:42:45.259
 And Jesus'

00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:46.339
 first words

00:42:46.339 --> 00:42:46.819
 are a

00:42:46.819 --> 00:42:47.399
 profound,

00:42:47.659 --> 00:42:48.439
 open-ended

00:42:48.439 --> 00:42:49.099
 question,

00:42:49.279 --> 00:42:49.599
 what are

00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:50.159
 you seeking?

00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:52.759
 They don't

00:42:52.759 --> 00:42:53.159
 know how to

00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:53.559
 answer.

00:42:53.959 --> 00:42:54.579
 They said,

00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:55.859
 Rabbi,

00:42:56.419 --> 00:42:57.219
 where are

00:42:57.219 --> 00:42:58.019
 you staying?

00:42:58.019 --> 00:43:00.019
 like,

00:43:00.179 --> 00:43:00.659
 I think

00:43:00.659 --> 00:43:01.199
 this is so

00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:01.599
 brilliant,

00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:02.619
 because,

00:43:03.199 --> 00:43:03.579
 you know,

00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:04.320
 if we were

00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:05.119
 just inventing

00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:05.460
 this,

00:43:06.059 --> 00:43:06.500
 we'd say,

00:43:06.659 --> 00:43:07.079
 we'd give

00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:07.500
 them some

00:43:07.500 --> 00:43:08.199
 deep thing

00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:08.719
 to say,

00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:09.920
 but instead,

00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:10.960
 they're just

00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:11.759
 working-class

00:43:11.759 --> 00:43:12.360
 guys.

00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:13.079
 They go,

00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:14.639
 um,

00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:16.619
 um,

00:43:17.340 --> 00:43:17.980
 where are

00:43:17.980 --> 00:43:18.460
 you staying

00:43:18.460 --> 00:43:18.960
 tonight?

00:43:21.079 --> 00:43:21.739
 I mean,

00:43:22.300 --> 00:43:22.900
 like that

00:43:22.900 --> 00:43:23.500
 has to be

00:43:23.500 --> 00:43:24.139
 historical,

00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:24.800
 because it

00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:25.360
 just,

00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:26.119
 where are

00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:26.579
 you staying?

00:43:26.579 --> 00:43:27.679
 like,

00:43:27.739 --> 00:43:28.139
 it's not

00:43:28.139 --> 00:43:28.759
 profound,

00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:29.179
 where are

00:43:29.179 --> 00:43:29.840
 you staying?

00:43:30.699 --> 00:43:31.299
 And then

00:43:31.299 --> 00:43:32.000
 Jesus says,

00:43:32.319 --> 00:43:32.679
 come and

00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:32.980
 you will

00:43:32.980 --> 00:43:33.279
 see,

00:43:34.219 --> 00:43:35.299
 which is

00:43:35.299 --> 00:43:36.119
 loaded with

00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:36.599
 all this

00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:37.179
 other meaning.

00:43:38.539 --> 00:43:38.759
 And then

00:43:38.759 --> 00:43:39.679
 later on,

00:43:40.219 --> 00:43:40.579
 and you see,

00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:41.119
 and here's,

00:43:41.179 --> 00:43:41.659
 here's part of

00:43:41.659 --> 00:43:41.860
 the thing,

00:43:41.920 --> 00:43:42.239
 is Jesus

00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:42.819
 doesn't want

00:43:42.819 --> 00:43:43.400
 us to trail

00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:44.019
 after him,

00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:44.380
 he wants

00:43:44.380 --> 00:43:44.699
 us to

00:43:44.699 --> 00:43:45.239
 follow him.

00:43:47.799 --> 00:43:48.460
 And if we

00:43:48.460 --> 00:43:48.860
 want to know

00:43:48.860 --> 00:43:49.219
 what we're

00:43:49.219 --> 00:43:49.619
 seeking,

00:43:50.380 --> 00:43:50.980
 we've got to

00:43:50.980 --> 00:43:51.719
 follow Jesus,

00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:52.940
 and he will

00:43:52.940 --> 00:43:53.380
 start to

00:43:53.380 --> 00:43:53.799
 reveal

00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:57.220
 how so

00:43:57.220 --> 00:43:58.039
 often much

00:43:58.039 --> 00:43:58.380
 of my

00:43:58.380 --> 00:43:59.420
 unhappiness

00:43:59.420 --> 00:44:00.180
 and so

00:44:00.180 --> 00:44:00.620
 much of

00:44:00.620 --> 00:44:01.240
 my pain

00:44:01.240 --> 00:44:01.580
 and so

00:44:01.580 --> 00:44:01.880
 much of

00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:02.340
 my trouble

00:44:02.340 --> 00:44:02.880
 comes from

00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:03.260
 what I'm

00:44:03.260 --> 00:44:03.680
 seeking,

00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:06.280
 and why I

00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:07.000
 need Jesus

00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:07.539
 who is the

00:44:07.539 --> 00:44:07.900
 Lamb of

00:44:07.900 --> 00:44:08.340
 God who

00:44:08.340 --> 00:44:08.880
 takes away

00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:09.200
 the sin

00:44:09.200 --> 00:44:09.400
 of the

00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:09.720
 world,

00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:12.960
 and who

00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:13.740
 can baptize

00:44:13.740 --> 00:44:14.160
 me with the

00:44:14.160 --> 00:44:14.620
 Holy Spirit

00:44:14.620 --> 00:44:15.160
 and begin to

00:44:15.160 --> 00:44:15.560
 write his

00:44:15.560 --> 00:44:17.519
 word on

00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:18.019
 the inside

00:44:18.019 --> 00:44:18.440
 of who I

00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:18.680
 am.

00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:20.900
 And he

00:44:20.900 --> 00:44:21.140
 can do

00:44:21.140 --> 00:44:21.519
 that for

00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:21.760
 you.

00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:23.460
 Let's

00:44:23.460 --> 00:44:23.800
 stand.

00:44:37.380 --> 00:44:37.860
 Father,

00:44:37.940 --> 00:44:38.300
 we ask

00:44:38.300 --> 00:44:38.860
 that your

00:44:38.860 --> 00:44:39.500
 Holy Spirit

00:44:39.500 --> 00:44:40.000
 would do a

00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:40.580
 deep work

00:44:40.580 --> 00:44:40.900
 in our

00:44:40.900 --> 00:44:41.580
 hearts and

00:44:41.580 --> 00:44:42.860
 have our

00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:43.360
 hearts not

00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:44.080
 be hardened.

00:44:44.340 --> 00:44:44.560
 Father,

00:44:44.700 --> 00:44:45.040
 may your

00:44:45.040 --> 00:44:45.740
 Holy Spirit

00:44:45.740 --> 00:44:46.560
 soften our

00:44:46.560 --> 00:44:47.040
 hearts,

00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:49.960
 that we

00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:51.260
 might hear

00:44:51.260 --> 00:44:51.540
 you,

00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:52.080
 introduce

00:44:52.080 --> 00:44:52.780
 yourself,

00:44:53.020 --> 00:44:53.600
 and we

00:44:53.600 --> 00:44:54.160
 might meet

00:44:54.160 --> 00:44:54.980
 you afresh

00:44:54.980 --> 00:44:55.740
 or meet

00:44:55.740 --> 00:44:56.140
 you even

00:44:56.140 --> 00:44:56.780
 more deeply.

00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:59.880
 And thank

00:44:59.880 --> 00:45:00.040
 you,

00:45:00.140 --> 00:45:00.300
 Father,

00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:00.960
 for Jesus.

00:45:01.340 --> 00:45:01.740
 Thank you

00:45:01.740 --> 00:45:02.160
 that he

00:45:02.160 --> 00:45:02.540
 is the

00:45:02.540 --> 00:45:02.940
 Lamb of

00:45:02.940 --> 00:45:03.380
 God who

00:45:03.380 --> 00:45:03.960
 takes away

00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:04.300
 the sin

00:45:04.300 --> 00:45:04.500
 of the

00:45:04.500 --> 00:45:04.760
 world.

00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:05.120
 Father,

00:45:05.220 --> 00:45:05.600
 thank you

00:45:05.600 --> 00:45:06.040
 that this

00:45:06.040 --> 00:45:07.500
 is shown

00:45:07.500 --> 00:45:08.840
 and vindicated

00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:09.720
 by his

00:45:09.720 --> 00:45:10.920
 resurrection

00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:11.660
 from the

00:45:11.660 --> 00:45:12.000
 dead.

00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:13.760
 Father,

00:45:14.600 --> 00:45:16.140
 make us

00:45:16.140 --> 00:45:16.960
 disciples of

00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:17.520
 Jesus who

00:45:17.520 --> 00:45:18.120
 are gripped

00:45:18.120 --> 00:45:18.880
 with who he

00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:19.440
 is and what

00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:19.840
 he's done

00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:20.460
 for us.

00:45:21.700 --> 00:45:22.280
 And make

00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:22.900
 us disciples

00:45:22.900 --> 00:45:23.460
 of Jesus

00:45:23.460 --> 00:45:24.260
 who follow

00:45:24.260 --> 00:45:24.660
 him,

00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:25.120
 Father,

00:45:25.640 --> 00:45:26.300
 throughout our

00:45:26.300 --> 00:45:27.100
 day to

00:45:27.100 --> 00:45:27.680
 learn from

00:45:27.680 --> 00:45:27.940
 him,

00:45:28.579 --> 00:45:29.500
 to be

00:45:29.500 --> 00:45:30.300
 clarified about

00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:30.760
 what we're

00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:31.140
 seeking,

00:45:31.860 --> 00:45:32.920
 and to

00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:33.380
 learn to

00:45:33.380 --> 00:45:33.840
 live in a

00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:35.380
 way redeemed

00:45:35.380 --> 00:45:36.000
 in him

00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:37.519
 that is

00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:38.079
 filled with

00:45:38.079 --> 00:45:38.680
 grace and

00:45:38.680 --> 00:45:40.140
 mercy and

00:45:40.140 --> 00:45:40.740
 bears witness

00:45:40.740 --> 00:45:41.180
 to you

00:45:41.180 --> 00:45:41.600
 truly.

00:45:43.579 --> 00:45:43.960
 So,

00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:44.280
 Father,

00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:44.940
 may your

00:45:44.940 --> 00:45:45.500
 Holy Spirit

00:45:45.500 --> 00:45:45.980
 move and

00:45:45.980 --> 00:45:46.680
 work deep

00:45:46.680 --> 00:45:47.280
 within us.

00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:49.960
 and if

00:45:49.960 --> 00:45:50.180
 there are

00:45:50.180 --> 00:45:50.519
 any here,

00:45:50.600 --> 00:45:50.820
 Father,

00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:51.160
 who have

00:45:51.160 --> 00:45:51.560
 not yet

00:45:51.560 --> 00:45:51.980
 given their

00:45:51.980 --> 00:45:52.460
 lives to

00:45:52.460 --> 00:45:52.760
 Jesus,

00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:53.280
 may your

00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:53.940
 Holy Spirit

00:45:53.940 --> 00:45:54.440
 help them

00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:54.860
 to take

00:45:54.860 --> 00:45:55.560
 that step

00:45:55.560 --> 00:45:56.480
 over the

00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:56.920
 threshold.

00:45:57.140 --> 00:45:57.560
 Father,

00:45:57.720 --> 00:45:58.240
 help them

00:45:58.240 --> 00:45:59.260
 to even

00:45:59.260 --> 00:46:00.000
 now open

00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:00.500
 the door

00:46:00.500 --> 00:46:01.240
 as your

00:46:01.240 --> 00:46:01.940
 son knocks

00:46:01.940 --> 00:46:02.220
 on the

00:46:02.220 --> 00:46:02.540
 door of

00:46:02.540 --> 00:46:02.920
 their heart,

00:46:03.019 --> 00:46:03.340
 to open

00:46:03.340 --> 00:46:03.720
 the door

00:46:03.720 --> 00:46:04.019
 and to

00:46:04.019 --> 00:46:04.519
 let Jesus

00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:05.060
 come into

00:46:05.060 --> 00:46:05.620
 their lives.

00:46:05.820 --> 00:46:05.960
 Father,

00:46:06.040 --> 00:46:06.440
 may that

00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:07.960
 happen this

00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:08.580
 morning if

00:46:08.580 --> 00:46:09.180
 there are

00:46:09.180 --> 00:46:09.680
 those here

00:46:09.680 --> 00:46:10.040
 who need

00:46:10.040 --> 00:46:10.180
 it.

00:46:10.260 --> 00:46:10.580
 But for

00:46:10.580 --> 00:46:10.920
 all of

00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:11.140
 us,

00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:11.500
 Father,

00:46:12.240 --> 00:46:12.980
 make us

00:46:12.980 --> 00:46:13.780
 disciples of

00:46:13.780 --> 00:46:14.080
 Jesus,

00:46:14.260 --> 00:46:14.680
 gripped by

00:46:14.680 --> 00:46:15.340
 the gospel,

00:46:16.220 --> 00:46:16.740
 learning to

00:46:16.739 --> 00:46:17.819
 live for

00:46:17.819 --> 00:46:18.359
 your glory.

00:46:18.639 --> 00:46:18.879
 And we

00:46:18.879 --> 00:46:19.479
 ask this in

00:46:19.479 --> 00:46:20.319
 Jesus' name.

00:46:20.579 --> 00:46:20.899
 Amen.