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 I remember very clearly the first time I heard my wife's voice.

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 Some of you might know how I'd seen my wife from a distance and for two years I was trying

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 to figure out some way that I could meet her or get to know, well meet her.

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 First you meet, then you try to get to know, right?

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 To try to meet her because I just thought she was so lovely and so beautiful from a distance.

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 And finally I screwed up the courage to just walk up to her cold and introduce myself.

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 And I remember very clearly the first time I actually heard her voice and heard her speak

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 and I just thought it was such a wonderful voice.

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 So beautiful to go with a lady that I thought and still think was so lovely.

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 I've been thinking about voices a lot this week, not because I'm hearing voices in my

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 head or anything.

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 But actually you've probably all had the experience.

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 Isn't it so odd that when you hear your voice played back it almost doesn't sound like your

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 voice?

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 Isn't that really odd, eh?

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 That, you know, it's not the same as you hear it in your...

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 Anyway, that's a whole other topic.

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 Not only because it's in...

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 John the Baptist in our gospel text compares himself to just being a mere voice.

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 But it's really about something which I didn't touch on last week, but I want to talk about

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 for a few minutes today about one of the ways to understand who Jesus is.

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 And that is that Jesus is described as being the narrator of God.

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 And it's just such a wonderful description.

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 And part of what makes a good narrator a good narrator is the voice.

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 So if you open your Bibles and turn to page 918, we're going to look at John 1, 18, which

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 is what we read last week.

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 But last week I really was focusing on verse 14.

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 I was really trying to get us just to meditate upon verse 14 and think about it when the Bible

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 says, And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of

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 the only begotten, the Father full of grace and truth.

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 And if I could just give that few-word summary of my attempt at a sermon last week, it was

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 that simple phrase, The Word became flesh, which we see the Bible is teaching us.

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 It means that God became flesh, that God, the Son of God, became flesh, that the Son of

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 God who was in the beginning with God the Father, that he became flesh, that the beginning

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 became flesh.

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 And I just didn't have time to talk about verse 18, so just very briefly.

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 It's this wonderful sort of the end of the prologue.

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 It says, No one has seen God at any time.

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 The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

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 And in Greek, the word which is translated as declared, it means narration.

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 It's really saying that Jesus is the one who narrates God.

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 Jesus is the one who narrates God.

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 And, you know, today I'm going to really be looking at, I mean, not only giving information,

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 but trying to bring before us, before our eyes and our hearts and our minds, four different

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 titles or images of who Jesus is, so that we not only have that information, but we have

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 that image of who Jesus is, and that we can, our mind can try to process what that means,

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 and that the eyes of our heart and the eyes of our soul can imagine and enter into it imaginatively

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 who this person Jesus is.

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 And here we have this image that Jesus is one, the one who narrates God.

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 I don't know how many of you have seen the film The March of the Penguins.

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 How many people have seen the film The March of the Penguins?

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 Okay, a good number of you have seen it.

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 One of the things which makes that movie such a good movie is Morgan Freeman.

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 I mean, his voice.

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 I mean, it's deep.

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 It sounds authoritative.

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 It sounds wise.

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 It sounds believable.

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 It sounds beautiful.

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 It just carries you through a movie all about penguins walking.

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 You know, you think about it.

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 And millions of people go to see basically a National Geographic-type documentary.

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 But Morgan Freeman's voice and the beauty of the photography just carries us through.

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 If somebody with a high, irritating, squeaky voice had been the narrator,

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 then the film director, the narrator, and their five best friends

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 would have been the only people on the planet who'd seen the movie.

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 But Morgan Freeman, with his voice that communicates authority and clarity and wisdom,

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 helped to make that documentary such a huge hit.

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 So a good narrator is one who sounds authoritative.

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 They are clear.

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 They make connections.

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 They explain.

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 And they allow us to see and know.

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 And what verse 18 of chapter 1 is saying is that God chose his son and said,

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 My son will become flesh, and my son will be the one who narrates me.

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 Jesus is the one who narrates God.

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 So as we come to know Jesus and as we hear the words of Jesus,

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 we are hearing the one who narrates what God is and who God is

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 and makes connection and grants us wisdom and insight.

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 But here today, there were two images,

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 two of the images in the text of Scripture today which we have before us,

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 are really, you know, that if we really are, in a sense,

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 meditate upon them and listen to them,

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 at first we have to be prepared to be offended

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 because the very two of the first images about God

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 are ones which are offensive to our modern age and to ourselves.

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 Look, we're going to begin reading at verse 26,

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 this really important delegation of Pharisees.

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 It's in a sense, imagine that the political elite,

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 the cultural elite, the academic elite,

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 the newspaper elite, the fashion elite,

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 you just imagine any type of important elite

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 and you imagine that all of those elites got together

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 and sends a delegation down to see somebody,

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 you know, the money elite.

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 And so you're talking to some really important people

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 and they come to see this wild guy out in the desert

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 by the name of John the Baptist

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 who everybody is starting to think is a prophet.

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 And not only a prophet, but they're starting to wonder

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 if he is the prophet

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 who will indicate that the end of the ages is coming

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 and the Messiah is about to arrive.

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 And so they ask him, you know,

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 they try to put him into these messianic categories

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 and in verse 23 we'll begin,

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 John the Baptist says,

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 I'm not any of these big fancy people,

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 I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,

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 make straight the way of the Lord,

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 as the prophet Isaiah said.

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 Now those who were sent included Pharisees

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 and they asked him, why then do you baptize

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 if you are not the Christ nor Elijah nor the prophet?

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 John answered them saying, I baptize with water.

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 But there stands one among you whom you do not know.

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 It is he who coming after me

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 is preferred before me,

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 and here's the offensive line,

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 whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.

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 Whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.

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 If Jesus is the one who is the narrator of God,

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 the narration of God,

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 Jesus is here painted as the one whose sandals

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 you and I are unworthy to untie.

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 You know, if you look at it,

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 John the Baptist was not mentally ill,

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 sort of thing a mentally ill person would maybe say,

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 although mentally ill people are more likely to say

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 that you're not worthy to untie their shoelaces

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 because they often have, you know,

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 these profound senses of how great they are.

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 But, you know,

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 John the Baptist is not the type of mentally ill person

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 or a person who's so unbelievably lacking in self-esteem

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 that he would say something like this.

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 In fact, in his life,

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 he showed profound courage.

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 Those of you who are familiar with the story of John the Baptist

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 know the story of how Herod,

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 the ruler,

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 John the Baptist stands up to Herod.

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 He says to Herod,

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 Herod,

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 what you are doing is wrong.

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 And even though Herod looks at him with murderous intent,

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 and even though his wife looks at him with murderous intent,

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 John the Baptist won't back down.

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 He's not impressed by this.

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 He's learned how to stand before a tyrant

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 and proclaim the truth.

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 And he stands before a tyrant.

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 He proclaims the truth.

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 He's sent to jail.

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 And even in jail,

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 he won't recant.

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 And it eventually leads to him being beheaded,

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 put to death by beheading.

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 And he won't back down at all.

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 And even as John the Baptist is standing in front of

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 some of the members of the elite

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 and the representatives of all of the elites

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 of that Jewish culture,

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 and even as he stands before them,

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 he can look at them and say,

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 there is one standing amongst us

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 whom you do not know,

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 whose sandal you and I are unworthy to even untie.

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 Like, that's pretty strong stuff.

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 He's in effect modeling a great Christian virtue and strength

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 to be able to stand before tyrants and kneel before God.

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 Stand before tyrants and kneel before God.

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 We live in an egalitarian age.

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 It grates us to even acknowledge

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 that there are people better than us

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 or greater than us.

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 We revel in rebellion.

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 We refuse to acknowledge hierarchy and hate it.

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 And John the Baptist,

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 in front of all of these worthy and important people,

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 he says,

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 you and I,

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 you folks,

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 and he's including us in this,

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 we are not even,

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 we are not even worthy,

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 if Jesus was in the room,

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 we wouldn't even be worthy

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 to untie his sandals

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 after he's been walking around in the mall day.

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 It's really, really quite astounding, isn't it?

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 If you just think about it for a second.

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 Like, if I said that,

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 you'd think I was joking about myself.

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 And if it appeared that I was serious,

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 that I really believed it,

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 or if you came into this church

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 and found out that other people believed it,

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 you'd say,

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 you'd go out and tell people

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 there's something really sick going on there.

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 You know,

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 the idea of saying to another person

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 that I'm not even worthy to touch you,

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 it's just,

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 it grates against us on one hand,

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 and the other hand,

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 it also creates maybe within some of us

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 a little bit of longing or yearning,

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 because it opens to us a picture

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 of a depth of goodness,

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 or a depth of greatness,

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 or a depth of otherness,

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 or a depth of purity,

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 or a depth of worth,

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 or a depth of holiness,

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 or a depth of something

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 that in our egalitarian age,

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 we have a hard time maybe even understanding

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 what on earth it's a depth of,

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 but it implies to us

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 that there's a depth of something

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 which is good,

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 that this is not

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 like some kooky movie star,

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 or some kooky rock star,

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 who has a kooky clauses

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 in their contract,

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 that the room has to be painted white,

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 or that nobody can look at them,

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 or nobody can touch them,

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 or nobody can refer to them by name,

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 and we just hear stories about that in the press,

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 and we just think to ourselves,

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 this person is ego-driven,

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 and they are completely and utterly crazy,

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 and it would be terrible to be in that situation,

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 and the thing which is put before us is this,

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 is Jesus one who is demanding these things

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 because he is just as crazy and kooky

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 as the most arrogant and kooky movie star,

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 or rock star,

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 or is he in fact,

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 is John the Baptist saying

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 that there is something about Jesus

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 that is the complete polar opposite of this,

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 which speaks of a depth of goodness,

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 greatness,

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 holiness,

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 purity,

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 reverence,

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 otherness,

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 and we don't have the category,

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 so that to see Jesus,

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 he is the one

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 whose sandals

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 I am not even worthy to untie.

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 The question then comes,

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 if this is true of Jesus,

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 how would someone like Jesus think?

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 What would he be like to be around?

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 What would he think of ordinary people?

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 Is he arrogant?

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 Is he full of himself?

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 That's one of the reasons

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 we're to read the Gospels,

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 to see if this is what Jesus is like.

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 Let's just read and continue on

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 as we get to see more of what

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 John the Baptist says about Jesus

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 after what he said in verse 27.

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 Continue at verse 29.

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 The next day,

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 John the Baptist saw Jesus

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 coming toward him and said,

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 Behold,

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 the Lamb of God

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 who takes away

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 the sin of the world.

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 Jesus is the one

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 who narrates God.

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 Jesus is the one

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 whose sandals

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 we are not even worthy to untie.

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 And Jesus is the Lamb of God

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 who takes away

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 the sin of the world.

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 You know,

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 if you go down to chapters

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 on Rideau Street

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 and you go to the New Age section

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 or the spirituality section

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 or the religion section

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 or any of those

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 appropriately titled sections,

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 and if you were to start

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 to read the books,

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 almost all of those books,

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 which are very,

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 very popular,

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 will all tell you

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 of your innate goodness,

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 my innate goodness.

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 In fact,

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 might even talk about

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 your innate divinity

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 or my innate divinity

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 or my innate connectedness

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 to divinity

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 or to goodness.

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 And if you watch

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 the advertising

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 on the television,

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 the heart of a lot

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 of modern advertising

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 is to say,

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 George,

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 you are worth it.

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 You are worth driving a BMW.

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 You are worth having this watch.

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 You deserve to have

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 these sunglasses

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 or these products.

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 And the more expensive it is,

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 the more money it costs,

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 the more I am worth it

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 or I deserve

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 to have these

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 very, very fine things.

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 And if there's one thing

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 that we can always count on,

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 whether it's

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 Saturday Night Live

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 or any television show

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 that will get a laugh

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 is when comedians

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 talk about us being sinners

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 and they can put on

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 a fancy voice,

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 they can put on

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 a high voice,

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 they can put on

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 a mocking voice.

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 And the idea

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 that we are sinners,

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 that we have to be washed

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 from our sins,

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 will always be something

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 which just sounds

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 so inherently

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 hick-like

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 and backwards

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 and foolish

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 that it will always

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 get a laugh.

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 And Jesus is the one

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 described

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 as the Lamb of God

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 who takes away

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 the sin of the world.

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 Later on,

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 if you want,

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 you can read Mark 2,

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 verse 17.

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 And one of the things

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 which is really interesting

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 about Mark's Gospel

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 is that Mark's Gospel,

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 part of how it works

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 is that there are

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 three times in Mark's Gospel

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 where Jesus is asked,

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 he tells people

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 why he's come.

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 Like,

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 what is the purpose

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 of his coming?

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 And the first time

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 is towards the end

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 of chapter 1

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 where he says,

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 I have come to preach.

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 The second,

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 the third purpose statement

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 is he says,

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 I have come to be

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 a ransom for many.

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 Not to serve,

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 but to serve,

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 not to be served,

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 but to serve

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 and to make my life

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 a ransom for many.

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 That's his third

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 purpose statement.

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 And the in-between

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 purpose statement

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 which is in Mark

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 chapter 2,

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 verse 17,

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 he says,

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 I have come

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 not to call

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 the righteous

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 but sinners.

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 I have come

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 not to call

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 the righteous

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 but sinners.

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 Jesus came

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 to call

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 sinners

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 to himself.

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 That's because

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 he is the Lamb

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 of God

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 who takes away

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 the sin of the world.

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 As we run

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 towards books

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 which emphasize

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 our goodness

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 or our inherent

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 divinity

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 or how we deserve

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 the most expensive

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 consumer products

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 that are beyond

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 what we can afford

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 but we're willing

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 to find somebody

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 who will give us

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 the credit

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 so we can buy them.

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 To run towards

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 a perception

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 of our own

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 inherent goodness

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 or divinity

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 is to run away

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 from the call

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 of Jesus

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 because we are

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 running towards

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 understanding ourselves

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 as righteous

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 and Jesus

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 did not come

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 to call the righteous

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 he came to call

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 sinners.

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 Jesus is not arrogant.

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 He is the Lamb

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 of God

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 who takes away

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 the sin of the world.

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 He came

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 not to be served

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 but to serve.

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 He came to die.

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 He didn't come

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 just to reveal

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 or to teach

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 he came to die.

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 He came

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 to take away

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 sin.

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 He came

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 to bear

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 in his body

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 and in his person

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 your sin

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 and your rebellion

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 and mine.

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 He came

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 to be the sacrifice.

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 He dies

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 so that you

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 and I

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 by coming

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 to the one

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 who takes away

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 your sin

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 and mine

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 he dies

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 so that we

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 can be connected

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 to God

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 not by

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 our own

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 arrogance

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 or our own

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 accomplishment

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 or our own

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 technology

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 or techniques

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 but born

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 by adoption

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 and grace.

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 He came

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 so that

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 we could be

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 reconciled

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 to God

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 and connect

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 to God

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 when we could

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 not reconcile

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 ourselves to God

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 by our own power

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 or connect

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 to God

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 by our own power

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 but are dependent

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 upon God himself

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 to send

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 the Lamb of God

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 who takes away

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 the sin of the world.

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 Jesus came

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 so that you

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 and I

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 might become gods.

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 The very same

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 one

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 who narrates

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 God

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 the very same

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 one

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 who sandals

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 I am not

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 worthy to untie

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 is love

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 himself.

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 He loves us

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 and died

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 for us.

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 Continue reading

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 very briefly

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 from verse

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 29.

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 The next day

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 John saw Jesus

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 coming toward him

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 and said

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 Behold the Lamb

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 of God

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 who takes away

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 the sin of the world

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 this is he

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 of whom I said

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 after me

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 comes a man

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 who is preferred

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 before me

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 it's really saying

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 who existed

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 even before me

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 for he was

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 before me

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 I did not

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 know him

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 but that he

00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:05.140
 should be revealed

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 to Israel

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 therefore I came

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 baptizing with water

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 in other words

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 he's baptizing

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 with water

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 so that Jesus

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 will be revealed

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 to Israel

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 and John the Baptist

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 bore witness

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 of Jesus saying

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 I saw the Holy Spirit

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 descending from heaven

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 like a dove

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 and he remained

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 upon him

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 I did not

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 know him

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 but he sent me

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 he who sent me

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 to baptize

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 with water

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 said to me

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 upon you

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 whom you see

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 the spirit

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 descending

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 and remaining

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 on him

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 this is he

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 who baptizes

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 with the Holy Spirit

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 Jesus is the one

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 who baptizes

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 with the Holy Spirit

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 in the ancient world

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 baptism was a sign

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 baptism by water

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 immersion in water

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 was a sign

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 of change

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 a sign

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 of change

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 of ownership

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 a sign

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 of change

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 of direction

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 a sign

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 of change

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 of belonging

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 and Jesus

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 is described

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 as the one

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 who can

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 immerse

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 our bodies

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 and souls

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 not just

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 in the sign

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 you know

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 like the water

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 being a sign

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 and we can be

00:20:11.900 --> 00:20:12.840
 immersed in water

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 our bodies

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 but Jesus

00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:14.559
 is the one

00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:15.640
 who can immerse

00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:16.400
 our bodies

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 and souls

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 in the Holy Spirit

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 he is the only

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 one

00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:23.220
 who can send

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 the Holy Spirit

00:20:23.940 --> 00:20:24.520
 upon us

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 or offer

00:20:25.060 --> 00:20:25.780
 the Holy Spirit

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 in such a way

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 that we can be

00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:27.720
 immersed

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 body and soul

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 in the Holy Spirit

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 Jesus' baptism

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 creates

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 a true change

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 in ownership

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 Jesus' baptism

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 by the Holy Spirit

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 creates a true

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 change

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 in direction

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 it's a change

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 in our soul

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 it creates

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 a change

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 in our souls

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 in earth

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 and in heaven

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 a change

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 in our souls

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 in past

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 in present

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 and in future

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 Jesus is the one

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 who has this ability

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 to baptize us

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 in the Holy Spirit

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 to send the Holy Spirit

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 of God

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 upon us

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 and within us

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 in such a way

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 who is Jesus?

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 who is Jesus?

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 Jesus is the narrator

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 of God

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 Jesus is the one

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 whose sandals

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 we are unworthy

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 to untie

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 Jesus is the Lamb

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 of God

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 who takes away

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 the sin of the world

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 Jesus is the one

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 who baptizes

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 those who come

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 to him

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 in the Holy Spirit

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 let's talk with him

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 now in prayer

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 let us pray

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 Jesus

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 we thank

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 and praise you

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 that you willingly

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 set aside

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 your glory

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 and your splendor

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 and your divine

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 prerogatives

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 to set all of

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 these things aside

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 to become flesh

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 and walk among us

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 we thank you

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 for your teaching

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 and your sinless life

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 and all of your

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 good examples

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 but most of all

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 we thank and praise you

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 that you are the Lamb

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 of God

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 who takes away

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 the sin of the world

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 who can take away

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 our sin

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 and reconcile us

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 to God

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 we thank and praise you

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 that you are the one

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 Jesus

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 who can pour out

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 the Holy Spirit

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 upon us

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 body and soul

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 and past and present

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 and future

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 the length and depth

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 and height and width

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 of our lives

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 so that we can be changed

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 and belong to you

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 and be connected

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 to God the Father

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 loving Jesus

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 we acknowledge

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 that only you

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 narrate God truly

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 and loving Jesus

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 we acknowledge

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 that this mystery

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 about you

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 that you are

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 so full of love

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 and so full of humility

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 and willing to serve

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 and yet we are not

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 even worthy

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 to unloose

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 the thongs

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 of your sandals

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 Jesus

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 we ask that your Holy Spirit

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 would fall afresh

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 upon us

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 and lead us

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 ever closer

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 to yourself

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 and Jesus

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 through you

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 lead us ever closer

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 to the Father

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 in Jesus' name

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 we pray

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 Amen

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 Amen

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 Amen

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 Amen

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 Amen

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 Amen