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 Alright, and as you're being seated, please take out your copy of God's Word and turn with me to the gospel according to Mark.

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 Last week, some correspondence from the Christian Video Licensing International, which is a good organization, a good thing to do if you're going to use multimedia video clips.

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 There's copyright issues there, and you have to be legal and appropriate in dealing with those things.

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 But the front of it, the advertisement here on the front of it to entice you to open it, says,

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 Plan your upcoming events and sermon illustrations with these new releases in mind.

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 And then it lists off the clips that are coming out.

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 Star Trek Into Darkness, Iron Man 3, World War Z, etc.

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 The Croods, I don't even know what that's all about.

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 Munster University.

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 So, I just really brought to mind not any kind of indignation or frustration with churches that tend to do that type of thing.

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 There's value in good illustration, and I have nothing against people using media to make that point.

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 But what it did do for me is it brought to my mind how really thankful I am that I don't feel a pressure to do things like this.

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 That you people just want the Word of God preached to you, and that's a blessing to me.

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 Certainly, I try to come up with illustrations and to better explain things and do so,

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 but I'm so glad that I don't have to plan my sermon illustrations around the releases of what's coming out soon.

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 Movies I haven't even seen.

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 I'm going to hand that to you, so I don't have to deal with it up here.

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 So, that being said, I appreciate you.

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 And let's pray together, and let's thank God for His Word to us.

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 Father, we thank you so very much for your inspired words that you gave to Mark to pin down.

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 For the Roman believers that were his intended audience,

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 and yet, because it is your Word, it has meaning for us this day.

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 This book, penned so many years ago, has real-life implication for today, for us,

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 for those who have called on your name.

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 And I just pray, Father, that it will be instructive in that way,

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 that you will work by your Spirit to help us understand its meaning,

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 to give us wisdom as to how we should apply it to our lives.

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 We pray this in Christ's name. Amen.

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 So, our text for today, as Mark has been quickly pushing us into this Gospel account,

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 he says in verse 1, the beginning of the Gospel, the good news,

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 the proclamation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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 He's pressing us now to verse 9, to behold the baptism of Jesus.

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 And this is a major event, a huge event in the life of Christ.

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 Very, very important to the historical narrative here.

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 And Mark gives it all of three verses.

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 And I told you in our very first sermon that he moves and he scoots along through things,

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 ultimately pressing the readers here to a devotion to being disciples of Christ.

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 So, he's moving through things quickly to get us to that point, to get us to understand and to realize that.

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 So, he does it for a very specific reason.

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 I kind of feel like as we're pausing and preparing, as I'm looking at just three verses this morning,

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 I kind of feel like Mark sometimes is sitting in the office with me going,

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 get to it, keep moving, keep moving, hurry up, go, go, go.

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 And I'm saying, yeah, but we've got to stop.

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 We have to stop.

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 These words that you penned are far too precious for us to not reflect on them at some length.

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 So, remember, last week we talked about John the Baptist, as I called him, John the Baptizer.

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 This was his significance.

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 One that was sent as a prophet of God.

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 God had been silent for 400 years and now was speaking through John the Baptist in the wilderness

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 as he fulfilled this prophecy about who he would be.

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 He was in the line of the prophets dressed in camel hair and he was preaching baptism and repentance

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 in order to prepare the way for the one who would come after him.

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 And that is Jesus Christ.

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 The one that he says, I'm not even unworthy to unstrap his sandals.

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 And it's in these days, these days that John the Baptist is about his ministry in the wilderness

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 where we see verse 9.

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 So let's read together verses 9 through 11.

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 In those days, Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

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 And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn open

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 and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

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 And a voice came from heaven,

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 You are my beloved Son.

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 With you I am well pleased.

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 So we see here in these days that John the Baptist is active.

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 It is proposed, he's been active doing this ministry in the wilderness for about six months at this point.

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 Traveling up and down the Jordan Valley.

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 Heralding the coming of Jesus Christ.

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 We see that all Jerusalem and all Judea, meaning a great multitude of people,

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 are coming out of the city, coming out to receive this baptism that John was performing.

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 We saw last week that this was a baptism called proselytite baptism.

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 For those who were not of Jewish descent, but desired to worship the God of Israel.

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 They were permitted to come into that family in this way that they would be baptized.

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 And so it was significant for the Jews to be traveling out to be baptized with a proselytite baptism

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 because they were saying in doing that, that we are no better than the Gentiles.

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 We recognize our sinfulness.

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 Our blood relation is not enough to have us stand rightly before God.

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 We must repent.

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 We must believe in the Messiah who is to come.

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 So it was a radical form of repentance, but it was simply preparatory for the Jesus that would come onto the scene

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 as we see him here happening.

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 This is the only record, this account of this baptism that we see of John and Jesus interacting,

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 in person interacting.

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 And as I kind of just mused about this this week, just thought about this connection,

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 it caused me to think about the fact that they were related.

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 Mary and Elizabeth, Mary's Jesus' mother, Elizabeth, John's mother, were cousins.

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 So more than likely, depending on the paternal, maternal nature of their relationship,

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 I don't know if you even understand how the second cousin that wants to remove and all of that works,

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 but more than likely, more than likely, John and Jesus were second cousins.

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 It's likely in that way.

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 And so certainly John knew of Jesus.

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 He was sent to be the herald before him and knew that this distant relative of his,

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 this potentially second cousin, Jesus, was that person.

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 So more than likely, they knew each other as they came together to encounter one another in this way.

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 I just like to think sometimes outside of the text and just kind of imagine the conversations that are taking place

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 between Elizabeth and Mary, cousins, as they get together and talk about how their boys are doing,

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 both of them, and about their 30th year of life.

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 And Elizabeth says, oh yeah, John, he's out there full of the Spirit,

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 traveling around, wearing camel hair, doing this baptism.

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 He's eating locusts and honey.

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 And how's Jesus doing?

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 And Mary probably couldn't resist to go, oh, he's perfect.

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 He's perfect in every way.

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 I just wonder in my mind, particularly this week with our two, what a perfect baby would be like.

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 Would be nice.

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 But certainly though, even if they had not met each other up to this point in this first 30 years,

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 which I probably would think that the cousins got together and played and did some things together in their early years,

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 but certainly John knew of Jesus, right?

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 Don't know if he recognized him or not, but he certainly knew that he was the Messiah.

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 And we see that Jesus comes, the record here is, from Nazareth of Galilee.

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 And this Galilee was commonly called the Galilee of the Gentiles.

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 This was part of the land that was originally conquered by Joshua,

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 but also part of the land that was conquered by the Assyrians.

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 And during one of the captivities of Israel, they were carried away.

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 And guess who came in and replaced them in the land?

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 Gentiles, right?

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 The people of the nations, peoples who were not of Israel, came in and occupied this place.

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 And this is where Jesus comes from.

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 He comes from Nazareth of Galilee, which was the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy.

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 The second half of Isaiah 9.1 says,

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 In the latter time, he has made glorious the way of the sea, the land beyond the Jordan,

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 Galilee of the nations, or Galilee of the Gentiles.

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 And people miss that at every point, all of the prophecies,

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 all the things that were foretold about who Jesus was, that he fulfilled them perfectly.

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 People miss this.

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 An example, John 7, verses 40-42 says,

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 When they heard these words, Jesus just said some shocking things.

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 He says,

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 Some of the people said,

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 This really is the prophet.

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 Others said,

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 This is the Christ.

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 But some said,

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 Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

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 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David,

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 and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?

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 And here we see Christ perfectly fulfilling all these prophecies

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 as he was born in the town of Bethlehem.

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 I hope you're all familiar with that story.

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 So here we see him perfectly accomplishing this.

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 Now, this place that he came from,

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 has some interesting significance,

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 because it was rather far away from Jerusalem.

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 And it was understood in these days that the further you got away from Jerusalem,

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 the less the Israeli population existed.

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 It was more and more Gentile,

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 and therefore in their minds, more and more pagan.

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 So for him to come from Galilee of the Gentiles,

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 in their minds, in the Jewish mind,

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 was not a holy place for him to be from.

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 They would have much preferred their Savior,

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 their King,

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 to come from Jerusalem.

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 Born in the center of town.

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 That's where they would have liked to have seen him come.

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 Isn't it amazing that the most significant man

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 to have ever lived

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 came from a place that was little

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 and insignificant?

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 In fact,

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 the fact that it records here

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 that he was from Nazareth of Galilee,

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 because Nazareth is a totally insignificant town.

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 Completely insignificant.

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 It doesn't exist in any historic record outside of the Bible.

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 Small, dinky town.

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 Not worth talking about in any other literature at all.

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 Dahlonega at least has some history

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 being the side of the first American gold rush, right?

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 But some of you experienced,

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 somebody asked,

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 where are you going to school?

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 All of you who were in college?

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 I go to school in North Georgia.

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 It's in Dahlonega,

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 in Lumpkin County,

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 about an hour north of Atlanta, right?

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 You always feel like you have to add some qualifiers, right?

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 To help people understand

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 where it is that you live, right?

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 This would have been the case,

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 and that's what Mark is doing here for us.

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 He's from Nazareth of Galilee,

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 a very insignificant place,

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 and out of that comes much significance.

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 I hope that's a little bit of encouragement to you,

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 those of us who live in small towns like Dahlonega.

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 And as he came,

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 he was baptized by John in the Jordan.

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 See this record of that.

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 Let's look at it also in Matthew 3,

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 verse 13-15.

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 Please turn there with me.

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 Matthew 3, beginning in verse 13.

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 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John

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 to be baptized by him.

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 Here's some of the interaction between the two of them in this.

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 John would have prevented him,

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 saying, I need to be baptized by you,

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 and do you come to me?

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 But Jesus answered him,

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 Let it be so now,

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 for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.

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 Then he, being John, consented.

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 So here we see a little bit of the interaction that takes place.

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 And the thing I want to get into your mind

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 is the significance of what Jesus came to do.

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 Isn't it very interesting

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 that this day,

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 as we do baptisms together

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 in our stock tank on our stage,

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 that what we're saying

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 is that there's been a change in our hearts

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 that we once were sinners.

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 This was our nature.

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 Enemies of God.

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 But because of what Christ has done for us

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 and our faith in Him,

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 we are now believers.

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 We've been buried with Him in baptism.

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 Raised to walk in newness of life.

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 It's a symbol of that death

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 that has come spiritually

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 and the newness we now have in Christ.

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 That's the symbol of what this is.

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 It's what it was designed to do for us.

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 So how is it that Jesus was baptized?

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 Was Jesus made new at this point?

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 Certainly not.

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 Jesus was without sin.

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 Did He need to experience radical repentance?

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 No.

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 He had nothing to repent for.

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 So why?

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 Why?

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 Did Jesus Christ,

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 the Son of God,

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 come to John

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 to be baptized.

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 John didn't understand it

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 until he explained it to him.

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 And that's where we're going to get to

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 here in just a moment.

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 But I want to show you three

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 significant things

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 that we can notice,

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 that we can observe here.

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 So what is the significance of Jesus' baptism?

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 Three matters.

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 And they're all incredibly important,

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 but they move in level of importance,

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 the way I'm going to present them to you.

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 So let me say that to you.

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 Number one, important.

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 Number two, a little more important.

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 Number three, of utmost importance.

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 So number one,

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 Jesus set for us an example in baptism.

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 He didn't need it.

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 He didn't need to experience this proselyte baptism.

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 He didn't need to have an outward showing

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 of repentance as a man set apart.

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 Right?

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 The God-man who had lived in perfection

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 up until this day.

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 But He did it for us

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 as an example.

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 Mark 16.

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 This is the great commission charge

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 recorded in Mark.

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 Jesus says,

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 whoever believes and is baptized

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 will be saved,

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 but whoever does not believe

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 will be condemned.

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 So notice,

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 it's not that baptism saves us,

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 but whoever believes and is baptized

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 as evidence of that belief

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 will be saved.

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 Because notice,

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 He doesn't say next,

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 but whoever does not believe

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 and is not baptized

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 will be condemned.

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 Right?

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 It's not an equation.

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 Believing plus baptism equals salvation.

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 But simply,

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 believing.

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 And the obedient outflow

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 of that being baptism

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 is the evidence of this belief.

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 And you will be saved.

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 So here's the command,

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 the turning out of that.

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 For those of us

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 who now have faith in Christ,

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 we are to be baptized

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 as believers.

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 Right?

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 We believe in that.

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 Believer's baptism.

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 The fancier term for it is

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 credo baptism.

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 Right?

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 We're credo Baptists here

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 at Christ's Family Church.

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 Matthew 28.

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 18-20.

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 Probably a more familiar

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 account of the great commission.

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 And Jesus came and said to them,

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 All authority in heaven

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 and on earth

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 has been given to me.

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 Go therefore and make disciples

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 of all nations,

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 baptizing them in the name

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 of the Father and the Son

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 and the Holy Spirit,

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 teaching them to observe

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 all that I have commanded you.

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 And behold,

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 I am with you always

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 to the end of the age.

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 So again, we see here

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 this process of going

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 and making disciples

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 begins faith, repentance, baptism.

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 Right?

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 It's the obedient thing

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 that should be happening

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 as an outflow

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 of what God has done for us,

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 displaying to a community

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 of believers

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 what He has done.

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 It's a beautiful,

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 beautiful picture.

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 Symbolic in every way.

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 What a beautiful picture.

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 We do baptism

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 the way we do baptism.

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 We find it all together

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 to be biblical

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 because we see here

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 that Jesus was baptized.

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 The Greek is baptizo.

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 It's where we get this word from.

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 Which means literally

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 to immerse or submerge.

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 It in no way

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 in any stretch

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 of the imagination

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 could possibly ever mean

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 to sprinkle.

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 It's impossible.

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 Right?

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 Not a,

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 let's do some work

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 with the Greek,

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 let's really wrestle with this.

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 No, there's no way

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 this word can be made

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 to mean that.

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 An absolute impossibility.

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 It means to immerse

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 or to submerge.

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 Notice that Jesus

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 was baptized by John

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 in the Jordan.

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 Not next to it.

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 It wasn't an ample source

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 of water for John

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 to go around and dip from.

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 They got in the water together.

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 Verse 10 says,

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 and when he came up

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 out of the water.

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 Right?

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 Not referring to him

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 walking out of the Jordan,

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 but that he actually

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 was underwater

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 and he came up

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 out of the water.

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 So here's the example

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 that he's given to us

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 for how this should be done.

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 And just think,

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 if this is meant

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 to be something

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 that's symbolic

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 of our death

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 and resurrection,

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 we ought to be immersed

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 in that case.

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 I think many of you

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 have heard me say,

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 if we change our traditions,

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 the way we deal

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 with dead bodies,

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 right,

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 where we just simply

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 lay them on the ground

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 and throw dirt

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 on their face

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 and we walk away,

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 I might consider,

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 maybe,

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 I wouldn't actually

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 because of the example

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 given to us in scripture,

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 but then maybe

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 we could make some

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 justification for sprinkling

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 being the case for baptism.

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 That's not how people

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 are taken care of

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 when they die,

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 is it?

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 Right?

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 They are entombed,

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 put in the earth

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 and if they raise again,

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 they come up out

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 of the same

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 and that is what

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 we're showing forth.

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 It's a better picture.

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 To the degree

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 that it's worth

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 all the work it takes

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 to get this thing

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 in here

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 and get it filled.

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 On Friday,

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 some great guys

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 stick around

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 and help me

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 get it all set up

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 and then we worked

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 on filling it

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 and I said,

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 you guys take off,

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 I'll take care of it,

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 no big deal.

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 And I went downstairs

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 and I forgot

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 that it was filling

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 again.

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 This is the second time

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 this has happened.

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 This was worse

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 than the last time.

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 Those of you

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 who experienced,

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 the last one happened

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 at a college Bible study.

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 This one,

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 fortunately,

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 the homeschool co-op

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 that meets here,

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 a couple of the kids

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 were here a little bit early

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 and came frantically

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 running downstairs.

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 There's water everywhere.

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 And there was.

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 I mean,

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 it was water everywhere

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 all over the stage.

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 I had to get a shot

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 back out

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 and vacuum it up

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 and I think I dumped

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 about 15 gallons

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 of water out the door

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 from the shop vac.

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 If you could just imagine,

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 hey,

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 but look,

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 everything is okay.

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 Now everything's dry

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 and managing quite well.

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 It all got taken care of.

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 Kim Luttrell rightly

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 said that we probably

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 in the budget next year

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 need to put in

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 a stage repair line item.

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 And I said,

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 why don't we call it

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 pastor's mistakes?

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 Let's just go ahead

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 and designate some dollars

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 for that kind of thing.

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 I'd like to say

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 that I'm a smart man

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 so I learned from my mistakes

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 and hopefully it took two

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 in this case

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 and it will never happen again.

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 It was a lot of trouble though.

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 Let me say to you,

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 it was a lot of trouble.

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 Even if we had done it right,

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 it was a lot of trouble.

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 But certainly,

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 having done it wrong

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 and never once

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 in all of that time

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 that I think,

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 I wish we just did this

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 a different way.

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 Man,

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 wouldn't it be easier

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 if we just did this

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 a different way?

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 It would be wrong,

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 I believe,

00:20:52.139 --> 00:20:53.159
 to do it a different way.

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 This is the way

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 it should be done

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 by immersion

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 to show

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 what is happening

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 in the heart.

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 I hope that as you guys

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 experience this today

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 that it's beautiful to you,

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 that the imagery

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 means something

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 to you.

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 That it's not just like,

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 oh yeah,

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 baptism's great,

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 fine, right?

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 But that you see

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 that it actually

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 is a picture,

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 something we can kind of

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 sort of see

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 and wrap our minds around

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 what actually happens

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 in the heart of men

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 when they believe

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 in Jesus Christ.

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 So,

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 that's the first one.

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 Jesus set for us

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 an example

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 of baptism.

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 He didn't need to.

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 We do.

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 He didn't need to,

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 but He did it anyway.

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 Secondly,

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 Jesus affirmed

00:21:35.120 --> 00:21:36.240
 His deity

00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:37.200
 in being baptized.

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 He affirmed

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 His deity

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 in being baptized.

00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:43.860
 As Wes mentioned earlier,

00:21:43.980 --> 00:21:45.180
 in verse 10 and 11

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 we observe

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 a rare moment

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 that we can observe

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 in the Scriptures

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 when the Father,

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 the Son,

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 and the Holy Spirit

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 are all recorded

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 as being present,

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 seen,

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 heard,

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 interacting

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 together.

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 We see this happening

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 right here.

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 There's some debate

00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:04.000
 about who

00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:04.940
 experienced it.

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 You'll notice that

00:22:05.980 --> 00:22:06.740
 in verse 10

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 it says,

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 when He came up

00:22:07.620 --> 00:22:08.060
 out of the water

00:22:08.060 --> 00:22:09.299
 immediately He saw

00:22:09.299 --> 00:22:09.779
 the heavens

00:22:09.779 --> 00:22:10.920
 being torn open.

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 This would have been

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 Jesus that they're

00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:12.779
 referring to

00:22:12.779 --> 00:22:13.779
 in this case.

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 One of the commentators,

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 a book that I've picked up,

00:22:17.180 --> 00:22:18.100
 to help me with my study

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 of Mark,

00:22:18.580 --> 00:22:19.259
 said that Jesus

00:22:19.259 --> 00:22:20.060
 was the only one

00:22:20.060 --> 00:22:21.000
 that experienced this.

00:22:21.580 --> 00:22:22.180
 He saw the heavens

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 torn open,

00:22:22.759 --> 00:22:23.840
 saw the Spirit

00:22:23.840 --> 00:22:25.279
 descending like a dove.

00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:26.940
 Jesus was the one

00:22:26.940 --> 00:22:28.380
 that experienced this.

00:22:29.140 --> 00:22:29.720
 I disagree.

00:22:30.120 --> 00:22:31.460
 I disagree entirely

00:22:31.460 --> 00:22:32.160
 with Him,

00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:33.060
 in fact.

00:22:33.320 --> 00:22:34.880
 Because what's happening here

00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:35.980
 is this fulfillment

00:22:35.980 --> 00:22:37.120
 of Old Testament prophecy.

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 It's the confirmation

00:22:37.900 --> 00:22:38.880
 of who Jesus is.

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 It's a coronation ceremony,

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 so to speak,

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 of Him becoming

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 the King.

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 He already was,

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 but this is like

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 the crown is being placed

00:22:49.100 --> 00:22:50.400
 upon His head now

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 to confirm

00:22:51.140 --> 00:22:52.380
 who He is.

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 Why would God deny that

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 for the people observing?

00:22:57.720 --> 00:22:58.520
 Why would they not

00:22:58.520 --> 00:22:59.640
 experience this

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 to be true?

00:23:01.180 --> 00:23:02.840
 Isaiah 64.1

00:23:02.840 --> 00:23:03.880
 Isaiah has been

00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:04.500
 prophesying

00:23:04.500 --> 00:23:05.000
 of the coming

00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:05.600
 of the Messiah

00:23:05.600 --> 00:23:06.400
 all along,

00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:07.380
 and then in 64.1

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 he prays,

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 Oh,

00:23:08.759 --> 00:23:09.179
 that you would

00:23:09.179 --> 00:23:10.359
 rend the heavens

00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:11.659
 and come down.

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 After this 400 years

00:23:13.899 --> 00:23:15.319
 of prophetic silence,

00:23:15.679 --> 00:23:17.000
 God finally did

00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:18.480
 just that.

00:23:18.980 --> 00:23:20.480
 Pour the heavens

00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:21.319
 open.

00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:23.500
 The Greek here,

00:23:23.639 --> 00:23:24.179
 schismo,

00:23:24.599 --> 00:23:25.599
 our word schism

00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:26.500
 comes from that.

00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:27.179
 The heavens were

00:23:27.179 --> 00:23:28.419
 ripped open

00:23:28.419 --> 00:23:29.419
 as Isaiah

00:23:29.419 --> 00:23:30.339
 had prayed for,

00:23:30.639 --> 00:23:31.720
 and the Spirit

00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:32.740
 descended

00:23:32.740 --> 00:23:34.799
 like a dove.

00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:35.539
 Right?

00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:36.339
 So we see this picture

00:23:36.339 --> 00:23:37.379
 of this rather

00:23:37.379 --> 00:23:38.619
 graphic thing happening.

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 I have no idea

00:23:39.420 --> 00:23:40.539
 how to even describe

00:23:40.539 --> 00:23:41.220
 what that might have

00:23:41.220 --> 00:23:41.879
 looked like to you.

00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:43.079
 The heavens being

00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:43.920
 torn open,

00:23:44.639 --> 00:23:45.700
 and the Spirit

00:23:45.700 --> 00:23:46.500
 descending.

00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:47.000
 So this

00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:49.460
 almost violent thing,

00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:49.980
 and then this

00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:51.220
 very gentle thing.

00:23:51.779 --> 00:23:51.920
 Right?

00:23:52.359 --> 00:23:53.299
 The text does not read

00:23:53.299 --> 00:23:53.720
 that the Spirit

00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:55.059
 descended as a dove.

00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:56.440
 Most of us have

00:23:56.440 --> 00:23:57.059
 probably seen

00:23:57.059 --> 00:23:57.879
 some photo,

00:23:58.779 --> 00:23:59.379
 or painting,

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 I shouldn't say photo,

00:24:00.220 --> 00:24:01.659
 painting somewhere

00:24:01.659 --> 00:24:02.559
 of Jesus coming

00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:03.220
 out of the water,

00:24:03.339 --> 00:24:04.039
 and a dove.

00:24:04.619 --> 00:24:04.879
 Right?

00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:05.360
 It's usually got

00:24:05.360 --> 00:24:06.700
 some light lines

00:24:06.700 --> 00:24:07.320
 around it

00:24:07.320 --> 00:24:08.400
 coming down.

00:24:08.500 --> 00:24:09.280
 It does not say

00:24:09.280 --> 00:24:10.340
 that the Spirit

00:24:10.340 --> 00:24:11.800
 descended as a dove,

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 but rather like a dove.

00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:14.120
 And I think that the

00:24:14.120 --> 00:24:14.680
 picture we're meant

00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:15.340
 to see here is that

00:24:15.340 --> 00:24:16.840
 it came down gently,

00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:19.720
 and rested on Christ.

00:24:20.280 --> 00:24:20.640
 Again,

00:24:20.740 --> 00:24:21.360
 some commentators

00:24:21.360 --> 00:24:21.840
 have tried to do

00:24:21.840 --> 00:24:22.620
 some interesting things

00:24:22.620 --> 00:24:22.920
 with this.

00:24:22.960 --> 00:24:23.780
 They've tried to relate

00:24:23.780 --> 00:24:25.160
 this to the dove

00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:26.520
 with Noah,

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 and the ark

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 that Noah sent out.

00:24:29.180 --> 00:24:29.520
 Nope.

00:24:31.060 --> 00:24:31.320
 Right?

00:24:31.460 --> 00:24:32.420
 That was just a dove

00:24:32.420 --> 00:24:33.300
 that brought back

00:24:33.300 --> 00:24:33.880
 an olive branch.

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 That's the significance

00:24:34.760 --> 00:24:35.060
 there.

00:24:35.100 --> 00:24:35.640
 It was an animal

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 that he sent away.

00:24:37.320 --> 00:24:37.640
 Certainly,

00:24:37.800 --> 00:24:39.020
 we know that doves

00:24:39.020 --> 00:24:40.100
 are very gentle.

00:24:40.560 --> 00:24:40.760
 Right?

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 This is the description

00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:43.380
 that's happening here.

00:24:43.780 --> 00:24:43.980
 Right?

00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:45.720
 We know that John

00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:46.580
 saw it.

00:24:47.080 --> 00:24:48.480
 In the Gospel of John,

00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:49.780
 chapter 132,

00:24:49.900 --> 00:24:50.180
 it says,

00:24:50.360 --> 00:24:51.660
 and John bore witness.

00:24:52.180 --> 00:24:53.520
 I saw the Spirit

00:24:53.520 --> 00:24:54.460
 descend from heaven

00:24:54.460 --> 00:24:55.680
 like a dove,

00:24:55.760 --> 00:24:56.720
 and it remained

00:24:56.720 --> 00:24:57.620
 on him.

00:24:58.260 --> 00:24:58.420
 Right?

00:24:58.420 --> 00:24:59.180
 There's a record.

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 John the Baptist

00:25:00.380 --> 00:25:01.460
 saw this

00:25:01.460 --> 00:25:02.820
 as well.

00:25:04.500 --> 00:25:06.260
 This is so key

00:25:06.260 --> 00:25:07.380
 and so important

00:25:07.380 --> 00:25:08.600
 that the Spirit

00:25:08.600 --> 00:25:09.620
 came down

00:25:09.620 --> 00:25:10.400
 and descended

00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:11.860
 and rested

00:25:11.860 --> 00:25:13.220
 and remained

00:25:13.220 --> 00:25:14.240
 upon him

00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:14.600
 because,

00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:15.980
 remember the point,

00:25:16.080 --> 00:25:16.780
 Jesus affirmed

00:25:16.780 --> 00:25:17.260
 his deity

00:25:17.260 --> 00:25:18.300
 in being baptized.

00:25:18.620 --> 00:25:19.060
 Again,

00:25:19.320 --> 00:25:19.960
 the book of Isaiah,

00:25:20.080 --> 00:25:20.760
 chapter 11,

00:25:21.520 --> 00:25:22.660
 verses 1 and 2.

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 There shall come forth

00:25:24.140 --> 00:25:25.000
 a shoot from the stump

00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:25.440
 of Jesse,

00:25:26.040 --> 00:25:27.600
 and a branch from his root

00:25:27.600 --> 00:25:28.340
 shall bear fruit.

00:25:28.339 --> 00:25:29.859
 This is his Davidic line.

00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:31.379
 And the Spirit

00:25:31.379 --> 00:25:31.839
 of the Lord

00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:33.379
 shall rest upon him,

00:25:33.740 --> 00:25:34.599
 the Spirit of wisdom

00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:35.259
 and understanding,

00:25:35.399 --> 00:25:36.279
 the Spirit of counsel

00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:36.839
 and might,

00:25:36.919 --> 00:25:37.980
 the Spirit of knowledge

00:25:37.980 --> 00:25:38.919
 and the fear

00:25:38.919 --> 00:25:39.759
 of the Lord.

00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:40.339
 Right?

00:25:40.439 --> 00:25:41.419
 This fulfillment here

00:25:41.419 --> 00:25:42.139
 of this prophecy,

00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:42.759
 the Spirit of the Lord

00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:43.740
 shall rest upon him.

00:25:43.819 --> 00:25:44.519
 Who is he talking about?

00:25:44.579 --> 00:25:45.139
 They're talking about

00:25:45.139 --> 00:25:45.679
 the Messiah,

00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:46.500
 the Christ,

00:25:46.799 --> 00:25:47.159
 Jesus,

00:25:47.500 --> 00:25:48.359
 the Son of God.

00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:49.459
 Again,

00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:50.519
 Isaiah 42,

00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:51.279
 1.

00:25:51.619 --> 00:25:52.859
 Behold my servant

00:25:52.859 --> 00:25:53.939
 whom I uphold,

00:25:54.199 --> 00:25:54.980
 my chosen,

00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:56.299
 in whom my soul

00:25:56.299 --> 00:25:57.079
 delights.

00:25:57.079 --> 00:25:58.699
 I have put my Spirit

00:25:58.699 --> 00:26:00.159
 upon him.

00:26:00.740 --> 00:26:01.559
 He will bring forth

00:26:01.559 --> 00:26:03.220
 justice to the nations.

00:26:03.379 --> 00:26:03.939
 So here we see

00:26:03.939 --> 00:26:05.019
 this fulfillment,

00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:06.619
 this confirmation

00:26:06.619 --> 00:26:09.740
 of Jesus' deity.

00:26:10.399 --> 00:26:11.699
 It's said to the observers,

00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:14.639
 this is the Christ.

00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:17.740
 A coronation ceremony,

00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:18.639
 so to speak.

00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:20.119
 And the people there,

00:26:20.579 --> 00:26:22.119
 if they knew their Bibles,

00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:23.619
 knew this was

00:26:23.619 --> 00:26:24.899
 the Son of God.

00:26:24.900 --> 00:26:25.200
 So,

00:26:26.040 --> 00:26:26.420
 firstly,

00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:27.100
 Jesus was baptized.

00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:27.920
 Significant.

00:26:28.080 --> 00:26:29.000
 Sets for us an example.

00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:29.440
 Secondly,

00:26:29.780 --> 00:26:30.700
 he affirmed his deity

00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:31.840
 in being baptized.

00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:32.220
 And remember,

00:26:32.320 --> 00:26:33.220
 moving in levels

00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:33.720
 of importance.

00:26:33.820 --> 00:26:34.320
 I would say to you,

00:26:34.340 --> 00:26:34.840
 number three,

00:26:34.940 --> 00:26:35.720
 is the most

00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:37.900
 important thing

00:26:37.900 --> 00:26:38.600
 for you to hear

00:26:38.600 --> 00:26:39.820
 and to grasp

00:26:39.820 --> 00:26:40.700
 and to wrap your mind

00:26:40.700 --> 00:26:41.480
 around this morning.

00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:43.040
 The third one,

00:26:43.180 --> 00:26:44.100
 Jesus maintained

00:26:44.100 --> 00:26:46.120
 a perfect obedience

00:26:46.120 --> 00:26:47.440
 in being baptized.

00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:49.180
 Jesus maintained

00:26:49.180 --> 00:26:50.720
 a perfect obedience

00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:51.580
 in being baptized.

00:26:52.080 --> 00:26:52.500
 Do you remember

00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:53.480
 what he said to John?

00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:55.599
 His response to John?

00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:57.099
 The thing that we see

00:26:57.099 --> 00:26:58.240
 recorded for us

00:26:58.240 --> 00:26:58.740
 in Matthew

00:26:58.740 --> 00:27:00.220
 that causes John,

00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:01.480
 the simple record

00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:01.980
 of Matthew,

00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.279
 is that then he consented.

00:27:04.460 --> 00:27:05.720
 Then John consented.

00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:06.740
 Jesus answered him,

00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:07.000
 said,

00:27:07.500 --> 00:27:08.579
 Let it be so now,

00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:10.180
 for thus it is fitting

00:27:10.180 --> 00:27:11.460
 for us to fulfill

00:27:11.460 --> 00:27:13.119
 all righteousness.

00:27:14.019 --> 00:27:15.720
 So here is Jesus,

00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:17.740
 the man,

00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:19.960
 the only man

00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:21.640
 who ever didn't need

00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:22.299
 to repent,

00:27:23.259 --> 00:27:24.220
 who was perfect

00:27:24.220 --> 00:27:25.079
 to this time,

00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:26.180
 had no need of it

00:27:26.180 --> 00:27:26.740
 whatsoever,

00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:28.900
 but because God

00:27:28.900 --> 00:27:29.759
 had commanded

00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:31.299
 the baptism of repentance.

00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:32.420
 Isn't that what

00:27:32.420 --> 00:27:33.860
 John was preaching?

00:27:34.420 --> 00:27:35.539
 Mark records for us,

00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:36.140
 that was John

00:27:36.140 --> 00:27:36.799
 was traveling around

00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:37.079
 and preaching

00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:37.720
 that very thing.

00:27:37.880 --> 00:27:38.480
 As a prophet

00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:39.340
 sent by God,

00:27:39.620 --> 00:27:40.340
 he was teaching people

00:27:40.340 --> 00:27:41.019
 that they ought

00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:41.799
 to be baptized

00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:43.440
 to show repentance.

00:27:43.440 --> 00:27:46.100
 So Jesus

00:27:46.100 --> 00:27:47.960
 was baptized

00:27:47.960 --> 00:27:51.200
 to be fully obedient

00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:51.960
 to the commands

00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:53.059
 of the Father.

00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:55.000
 He didn't need to be.

00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:56.480
 A unique person

00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:57.240
 in this case.

00:27:57.700 --> 00:27:58.620
 The only person

00:27:58.620 --> 00:27:59.700
 that stood

00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:00.680
 on those grounds,

00:28:00.900 --> 00:28:01.160
 but

00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:02.340
 he was baptized

00:28:02.340 --> 00:28:03.420
 anyway

00:28:03.420 --> 00:28:04.960
 to show forth

00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:06.340
 a perfect

00:28:06.340 --> 00:28:07.580
 obedience.

00:28:08.740 --> 00:28:09.480
 And here we see

00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:10.120
 the heavens have been

00:28:10.120 --> 00:28:10.559
 ripped open,

00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.319
 and the Spirit of God

00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:12.899
 has descended

00:28:12.899 --> 00:28:14.259
 like a dove

00:28:14.259 --> 00:28:15.639
 and rested upon him.

00:28:15.859 --> 00:28:16.460
 And then we hear

00:28:16.460 --> 00:28:17.460
 the voice of the Father

00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:19.000
 from heaven say,

00:28:19.500 --> 00:28:21.440
 You are my beloved Son.

00:28:21.819 --> 00:28:22.480
 With you

00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:23.799
 I am well pleased.

00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:25.079
 Which is a composite

00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:26.159
 Scripture citation

00:28:26.159 --> 00:28:27.700
 of Psalm 2-7

00:28:27.700 --> 00:28:30.139
 and Isaiah 42-1.

00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:31.059
 It's God's Word.

00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:31.720
 He can do with it

00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:32.440
 what He pleases.

00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:32.899
 Right?

00:28:33.740 --> 00:28:34.980
 You are my beloved Son.

00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:35.659
 With you

00:28:35.659 --> 00:28:38.119
 I am well pleased.

00:28:38.899 --> 00:28:39.419
 Because

00:28:39.419 --> 00:28:40.379
 Jesus

00:28:40.380 --> 00:28:41.760
 was bringing Himself

00:28:41.760 --> 00:28:42.700
 into conformity.

00:28:43.120 --> 00:28:44.520
 Lived in that state

00:28:44.520 --> 00:28:46.240
 of perfect obedience

00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:47.800
 to the Father.

00:28:47.940 --> 00:28:49.040
 And we get the blessing

00:28:49.040 --> 00:28:49.900
 of God then

00:28:49.900 --> 00:28:51.060
 on Christ

00:28:51.060 --> 00:28:51.680
 for the ministry

00:28:51.680 --> 00:28:53.140
 He was about to start.

00:28:53.620 --> 00:28:53.700
 Right?

00:28:54.040 --> 00:28:55.500
 Jesus Christ

00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:57.440
 was perfect

00:28:57.440 --> 00:28:59.880
 in every sense

00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:00.680
 of the word.

00:29:01.020 --> 00:29:01.240
 Right?

00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:02.960
 Mary was proper

00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:03.840
 to boast

00:29:03.840 --> 00:29:04.580
 in her Son.

00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:06.360
 He was perfect.

00:29:07.360 --> 00:29:08.620
 The only way,

00:29:08.619 --> 00:29:11.159
 this is the only way,

00:29:11.679 --> 00:29:12.839
 God could have made

00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:14.299
 a way for us

00:29:14.299 --> 00:29:15.339
 back to Him

00:29:15.339 --> 00:29:16.659
 as we are completely

00:29:16.659 --> 00:29:17.819
 imperfect

00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:18.779
 in our sin.

00:29:19.239 --> 00:29:20.419
 In every way,

00:29:20.679 --> 00:29:21.639
 without faith,

00:29:21.879 --> 00:29:23.259
 everything we do,

00:29:23.419 --> 00:29:24.719
 even the good things

00:29:24.719 --> 00:29:26.419
 by the world's terms

00:29:26.419 --> 00:29:27.000
 that we do

00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:27.959
 are still

00:29:27.959 --> 00:29:28.959
 filthy.

00:29:29.959 --> 00:29:31.319
 All of our own effort,

00:29:31.479 --> 00:29:32.439
 all of our righteousness,

00:29:32.659 --> 00:29:33.219
 all of it

00:29:33.219 --> 00:29:34.099
 is utterly

00:29:34.099 --> 00:29:35.079
 filthy

00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:36.019
 before God.

00:29:36.299 --> 00:29:37.219
 He can have nothing

00:29:37.220 --> 00:29:38.339
 to do with it.

00:29:39.259 --> 00:29:40.380
 But because God

00:29:40.380 --> 00:29:41.140
 is just,

00:29:41.539 --> 00:29:42.519
 He must

00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:43.700
 punish sin.

00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:45.360
 Hear me carefully.

00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:46.120
 It's not that when

00:29:46.120 --> 00:29:47.160
 you believe in Christ,

00:29:47.500 --> 00:29:48.680
 God just forgives

00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:49.279
 your sin

00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:49.839
 the way we would

00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:50.579
 think of forgiveness.

00:29:50.700 --> 00:29:51.600
 It's not that God goes,

00:29:52.019 --> 00:29:52.279
 yeah,

00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:54.360
 I was offended by that,

00:29:54.420 --> 00:29:55.660
 but it's okay.

00:29:57.120 --> 00:29:58.420
 God can't do that.

00:29:59.220 --> 00:29:59.620
 God is

00:29:59.620 --> 00:30:00.819
 all the things

00:30:00.819 --> 00:30:01.400
 He is

00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:02.779
 all the time.

00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:03.740
 He's in no way

00:30:03.740 --> 00:30:04.960
 split personality.

00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:06.380
 And so if God

00:30:06.380 --> 00:30:07.319
 is wrath

00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:08.519
 and justice

00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:09.880
 pours that out

00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:10.400
 on sin,

00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:11.220
 He must

00:30:11.220 --> 00:30:12.620
 punish our sin.

00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:14.400
 And so who did

00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:15.059
 He punish it in?

00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:17.019
 Christ.

00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:18.360
 The perfect,

00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:19.720
 the spotless

00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:20.319
 Lamb.

00:30:21.100 --> 00:30:22.200
 The only

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:22.680
 one

00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:23.160
 that was

00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:23.660
 without

00:30:23.660 --> 00:30:24.740
 flaw.

00:30:25.380 --> 00:30:26.160
 He poured out

00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:27.019
 His wrath

00:30:27.019 --> 00:30:28.539
 on Christ

00:30:28.539 --> 00:30:29.180
 for you.

00:30:30.579 --> 00:30:31.600
 And in a sense,

00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:32.720
 our sins are forgiven,

00:30:32.860 --> 00:30:33.460
 just not the way

00:30:33.460 --> 00:30:34.440
 we typically think of it.

00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:34.920
 We are now

00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:35.960
 justified

00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:37.340
 before God

00:30:37.340 --> 00:30:38.120
 because of that.

00:30:38.360 --> 00:30:39.320
 You often get a picture

00:30:39.320 --> 00:30:40.000
 of justification

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.460
 of standing in a courtroom

00:30:41.460 --> 00:30:43.100
 before a judge

00:30:43.100 --> 00:30:44.180
 of a crime

00:30:44.180 --> 00:30:45.200
 you are absolutely

00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:45.920
 guilty of.

00:30:46.840 --> 00:30:47.519
 And the judge

00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:48.340
 knows it full well.

00:30:48.420 --> 00:30:49.299
 The evidence is there.

00:30:49.360 --> 00:30:50.279
 They've played the video.

00:30:50.420 --> 00:30:51.460
 They've seen you do it.

00:30:51.500 --> 00:30:52.019
 You paused

00:30:52.019 --> 00:30:52.940
 and stared at the camera.

00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:53.580
 They know

00:30:53.580 --> 00:30:54.440
 it's you.

00:30:55.100 --> 00:30:56.559
 You held up your license.

00:30:56.759 --> 00:30:56.960
 You said,

00:30:57.059 --> 00:30:57.220
 hey,

00:30:57.480 --> 00:30:58.360
 my name is Nathan.

00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:00.279
 Without a doubt,

00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:01.340
 you committed the crime.

00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:02.539
 And the judge says,

00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:03.120
 you know what?

00:31:03.119 --> 00:31:04.539
 I'm going to pardon you

00:31:04.539 --> 00:31:05.239
 for this crime.

00:31:06.539 --> 00:31:07.859
 We get an idea of that.

00:31:07.939 --> 00:31:09.019
 That is a sense

00:31:09.019 --> 00:31:09.859
 of what justification

00:31:09.859 --> 00:31:10.379
 looks like.

00:31:10.439 --> 00:31:11.419
 But more than that,

00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:13.039
 more than that,

00:31:13.639 --> 00:31:14.679
 there was a man

00:31:14.679 --> 00:31:15.279
 sitting in the courtroom

00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:15.899
 that's innocent

00:31:15.899 --> 00:31:17.319
 and the judge says,

00:31:17.439 --> 00:31:18.099
 I'm going to pardon you

00:31:18.099 --> 00:31:18.519
 for the crime

00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:19.159
 and I'm going to punish

00:31:19.159 --> 00:31:20.099
 him instead.

00:31:20.739 --> 00:31:21.459
 He's going to take

00:31:21.459 --> 00:31:21.899
 your punishment.

00:31:22.059 --> 00:31:22.659
 And this is the way

00:31:22.659 --> 00:31:24.559
 God must act.

00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:26.700
 And so,

00:31:27.220 --> 00:31:28.639
 Christ being completely

00:31:28.639 --> 00:31:29.179
 obedient

00:31:29.179 --> 00:31:31.419
 in every way

00:31:31.419 --> 00:31:33.200
 is good for us.

00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:35.839
 Because God

00:31:35.839 --> 00:31:36.740
 is pleased

00:31:36.740 --> 00:31:38.279
 with Jesus Christ.

00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:38.940
 With His

00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:40.419
 perfect obedience.

00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:43.000
 For those of us

00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:43.419
 who have placed

00:31:43.419 --> 00:31:44.279
 our faith in Christ,

00:31:44.379 --> 00:31:45.059
 He is also

00:31:45.059 --> 00:31:45.759
 pleased

00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:47.220
 with us.

00:31:48.339 --> 00:31:49.179
 For those of us

00:31:49.179 --> 00:31:49.819
 who have believed

00:31:49.819 --> 00:31:50.679
 in Christ,

00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:52.920
 Christ's perfection

00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:53.920
 has been given

00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:54.720
 to us.

00:31:54.860 --> 00:31:55.720
 Imputed is the

00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:56.840
 big fancy term

00:31:56.840 --> 00:31:57.320
 for that.

00:31:57.460 --> 00:31:57.799
 Martin Luther

00:31:57.799 --> 00:31:58.140
 called it

00:31:58.140 --> 00:31:59.080
 the great exchange.

00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:00.100
 Jesus Christ

00:32:00.100 --> 00:32:00.500
 gave us

00:32:00.500 --> 00:32:01.420
 His righteousness

00:32:01.420 --> 00:32:02.180
 and He took

00:32:02.180 --> 00:32:03.400
 our sin.

00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:04.700
 He swapped it

00:32:04.700 --> 00:32:05.180
 with us.

00:32:06.180 --> 00:32:07.220
 So when God

00:32:07.220 --> 00:32:08.340
 sees us now

00:32:08.340 --> 00:32:09.440
 in Christ,

00:32:09.539 --> 00:32:10.539
 in the Beloved,

00:32:10.539 --> 00:32:11.980
 He sees

00:32:11.980 --> 00:32:12.960
 Christ.

00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:15.279
 Ah!

00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:16.519
 If you

00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:17.500
 don't know

00:32:17.500 --> 00:32:18.320
 this Christ,

00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:20.320
 God sees you

00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:20.779
 and He sees

00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:21.319
 your sin

00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:22.379
 and because

00:32:22.379 --> 00:32:23.000
 He's perfect

00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:23.480
 and holy

00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:23.960
 and just,

00:32:24.059 --> 00:32:24.539
 He must

00:32:24.539 --> 00:32:25.579
 punish that

00:32:25.579 --> 00:32:25.960
 sin.

00:32:26.299 --> 00:32:27.019
 You deserve it

00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:27.619
 to be clear.

00:32:27.859 --> 00:32:28.740
 Don't place

00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:29.139
 that blame

00:32:29.139 --> 00:32:29.639
 on God.

00:32:30.619 --> 00:32:31.500
 You've rejected

00:32:31.500 --> 00:32:32.179
 His ways.

00:32:32.439 --> 00:32:32.879
 He gave you

00:32:32.879 --> 00:32:33.439
 a conscience.

00:32:33.779 --> 00:32:34.159
 He gave you

00:32:34.159 --> 00:32:34.639
 evidence of

00:32:34.639 --> 00:32:34.859
 Himself

00:32:34.859 --> 00:32:35.460
 and the nature.

00:32:35.579 --> 00:32:36.419
 You're fully

00:32:36.419 --> 00:32:37.579
 guilty of the

00:32:37.579 --> 00:32:37.899
 things that

00:32:37.899 --> 00:32:38.139
 you've done

00:32:38.139 --> 00:32:38.659
 against Him.

00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:39.500
 Don't blame it

00:32:39.500 --> 00:32:39.839
 on Him

00:32:39.839 --> 00:32:40.419
 and His character.

00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:40.839
 His character

00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:41.339
 is perfect

00:32:41.339 --> 00:32:42.119
 and holy.

00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:43.220
 You are utterly

00:32:43.220 --> 00:32:43.639
 sinful.

00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:45.240
 For those of us

00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:45.879
 who do know

00:32:45.879 --> 00:32:46.399
 Christ,

00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:48.240
 we get to

00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:48.899
 stand before

00:32:48.899 --> 00:32:49.819
 Him justified.

00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:50.819
 He sees

00:32:50.819 --> 00:32:52.779
 us as He

00:32:52.779 --> 00:32:53.279
 sees Jesus.

00:32:54.460 --> 00:32:55.179
 This is a

00:32:55.179 --> 00:32:56.099
 massive blessing

00:32:56.099 --> 00:32:56.639
 because we

00:32:56.639 --> 00:32:56.980
 are not

00:32:56.980 --> 00:32:57.379
 perfect.

00:32:59.200 --> 00:32:59.919
 The faith

00:32:59.919 --> 00:33:00.339
 we have

00:33:00.339 --> 00:33:00.799
 wasn't even

00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:01.159
 ours to

00:33:01.159 --> 00:33:01.639
 begin with.

00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:02.039
 Don't think

00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:02.399
 you're better

00:33:02.399 --> 00:33:02.859
 than anybody

00:33:02.859 --> 00:33:03.200
 else.

00:33:03.299 --> 00:33:03.740
 God gave

00:33:03.740 --> 00:33:04.119
 it to you

00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:04.759
 as a

00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:05.099
 gift.

00:33:06.679 --> 00:33:07.460
 So as we

00:33:07.460 --> 00:33:08.379
 struggle in

00:33:08.379 --> 00:33:08.939
 this life,

00:33:09.099 --> 00:33:09.500
 as we've

00:33:09.500 --> 00:33:10.039
 experienced

00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:10.539
 these great

00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:11.279
 gospel truths

00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:11.759
 and yet we

00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:12.159
 live in

00:33:12.159 --> 00:33:12.639
 contradiction

00:33:12.639 --> 00:33:13.079
 to them

00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:13.619
 all the

00:33:13.619 --> 00:33:13.919
 time,

00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:14.619
 we can

00:33:14.619 --> 00:33:15.159
 go back

00:33:15.159 --> 00:33:15.700
 to God.

00:33:16.059 --> 00:33:16.460
 We can

00:33:16.460 --> 00:33:17.059
 continue to

00:33:17.059 --> 00:33:17.919
 return to

00:33:17.919 --> 00:33:18.639
 Him because

00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:19.320
 we've been

00:33:19.320 --> 00:33:19.860
 given

00:33:19.860 --> 00:33:21.340
 Christ's

00:33:21.340 --> 00:33:21.740
 righteousness.

00:33:22.800 --> 00:33:23.360
 Charles Spurgeon

00:33:23.360 --> 00:33:23.820
 once said

00:33:23.820 --> 00:33:24.560
 in similar

00:33:24.560 --> 00:33:25.000
 words,

00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:26.040
 God is so

00:33:26.040 --> 00:33:26.840
 boundlessly

00:33:26.840 --> 00:33:27.480
 pleased with

00:33:27.480 --> 00:33:28.100
 Jesus that

00:33:28.100 --> 00:33:28.740
 in Him

00:33:28.740 --> 00:33:29.440
 He is

00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:29.960
 altogether

00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:30.840
 pleased with

00:33:30.840 --> 00:33:31.240
 us.

00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:32.780
 Let me

00:33:32.780 --> 00:33:33.040
 read that to

00:33:33.040 --> 00:33:33.340
 you again.

00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:34.020
 God is so

00:33:34.020 --> 00:33:34.980
 boundlessly

00:33:34.980 --> 00:33:35.700
 pleased with

00:33:35.700 --> 00:33:36.220
 Jesus that

00:33:36.220 --> 00:33:36.880
 in Him

00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:37.560
 He is

00:33:37.560 --> 00:33:38.080
 altogether

00:33:38.080 --> 00:33:38.759
 pleased

00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:40.060
 with us.

00:33:41.060 --> 00:33:42.040
 Ephesians 1

00:33:42.040 --> 00:33:43.520
 6 in the

00:33:43.520 --> 00:33:44.400
 ESV translation,

00:33:44.580 --> 00:33:44.980
 which is what

00:33:44.980 --> 00:33:45.720
 I'm using and

00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:46.320
 I know many of

00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:46.720
 you use.

00:33:47.579 --> 00:33:48.339
 It says that

00:33:48.339 --> 00:33:48.919
 He, being

00:33:48.919 --> 00:33:51.099
 God, has

00:33:51.099 --> 00:33:52.019
 blessed us in

00:33:52.019 --> 00:33:52.960
 the Beloved,

00:33:53.539 --> 00:33:54.359
 Jesus Christ.

00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:56.259
 King James, I

00:33:56.259 --> 00:33:56.779
 really like the

00:33:56.779 --> 00:33:57.379
 way it renders

00:33:57.379 --> 00:33:57.700
 that.

00:33:58.460 --> 00:33:59.159
 He hath made

00:33:59.159 --> 00:34:00.299
 us accepted

00:34:00.299 --> 00:34:01.720
 in the Beloved.

00:34:02.419 --> 00:34:02.939
 We are

00:34:02.939 --> 00:34:04.159
 accepted in

00:34:04.159 --> 00:34:05.419
 the Beloved

00:34:05.419 --> 00:34:06.000
 for all the

00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:06.539
 reasons that I

00:34:06.539 --> 00:34:07.379
 just said to

00:34:07.379 --> 00:34:07.460
 you.

00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:07.700
 If you've

00:34:07.700 --> 00:34:08.099
 placed your

00:34:08.099 --> 00:34:08.460
 faith in

00:34:08.460 --> 00:34:08.739
 Christ,

00:34:08.900 --> 00:34:10.259
 God sees

00:34:10.259 --> 00:34:11.159
 Jesus when

00:34:11.159 --> 00:34:11.639
 He sees

00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:12.779
 you.

00:34:12.780 --> 00:34:15.940
 1 John 3,

00:34:16.160 --> 00:34:17.080
 1-3,

00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:18.440
 John writes

00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:19.019
 this letter.

00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:20.100
 It says,

00:34:20.240 --> 00:34:20.640
 See what kind

00:34:20.640 --> 00:34:21.200
 of love the

00:34:21.200 --> 00:34:21.560
 Father has

00:34:21.560 --> 00:34:21.920
 given to

00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:22.240
 us, that

00:34:22.240 --> 00:34:22.560
 we should

00:34:22.560 --> 00:34:23.240
 be called

00:34:23.240 --> 00:34:24.200
 children of

00:34:24.200 --> 00:34:25.140
 God, and

00:34:25.140 --> 00:34:26.060
 so we

00:34:26.060 --> 00:34:26.440
 are.

00:34:27.040 --> 00:34:27.700
 The reason

00:34:27.700 --> 00:34:28.060
 why the

00:34:28.060 --> 00:34:28.380
 world does

00:34:28.380 --> 00:34:28.840
 not know

00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:29.320
 us is

00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:29.519
 that it

00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:29.880
 did not

00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:30.620
 know Him.

00:34:31.300 --> 00:34:31.600
 Now here,

00:34:32.060 --> 00:34:33.080
 listen carefully

00:34:33.080 --> 00:34:33.820
 to this.

00:34:34.680 --> 00:34:35.180
 Verse 2,

00:34:35.620 --> 00:34:36.260
 Beloved,

00:34:37.600 --> 00:34:38.060
 we are

00:34:38.060 --> 00:34:38.740
 God's

00:34:38.740 --> 00:34:39.620
 children now,

00:34:40.080 --> 00:34:40.620
 and what

00:34:40.620 --> 00:34:41.160
 we will be

00:34:41.160 --> 00:34:42.060
 has not yet

00:34:42.059 --> 00:34:42.699
 appeared, but

00:34:42.699 --> 00:34:43.159
 we know

00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:43.519
 that when

00:34:43.519 --> 00:34:44.299
 He appears,

00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:45.059
 we shall

00:34:45.059 --> 00:34:45.779
 be like

00:34:45.779 --> 00:34:46.719
 Him, because

00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:47.039
 we shall

00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:47.759
 see Him

00:34:47.759 --> 00:34:48.320
 as He

00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:48.820
 is.

00:34:49.259 --> 00:34:49.559
 And

00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:49.840
 everyone

00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:50.299
 who thus

00:34:50.299 --> 00:34:50.900
 hopes in

00:34:50.900 --> 00:34:52.159
 Him purifies

00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:53.340
 himself as

00:34:53.340 --> 00:34:54.699
 He is

00:34:54.699 --> 00:34:55.039
 pure.

00:34:55.940 --> 00:34:56.719
 Notice what

00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:57.299
 John does.

00:34:57.519 --> 00:34:58.039
 The language

00:34:58.039 --> 00:34:58.880
 that he uses

00:34:58.880 --> 00:34:59.320
 here.

00:34:59.739 --> 00:35:00.759
 Verse 2.

00:35:01.659 --> 00:35:02.079
 I think this

00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:02.840
 is so good.

00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:03.259
 I have heard

00:35:03.259 --> 00:35:04.299
 people preach

00:35:04.299 --> 00:35:05.119
 from the book

00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:05.779
 of 1 John

00:35:05.779 --> 00:35:06.559
 and talk about

00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:06.960
 how John

00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:07.480
 was very

00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:09.860
 old at this

00:35:09.860 --> 00:35:10.440
 point that he's

00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:10.940
 writing, and

00:35:10.940 --> 00:35:11.299
 so he had

00:35:11.299 --> 00:35:11.820
 the right to

00:35:11.820 --> 00:35:12.280
 call everybody

00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:12.620
 children.

00:35:13.140 --> 00:35:13.420
 That was the

00:35:13.420 --> 00:35:14.080
 explanation that

00:35:14.080 --> 00:35:14.820
 was given for

00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:15.059
 that.

00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:15.780
 Oh no.

00:35:16.160 --> 00:35:16.860
 What he's doing

00:35:16.860 --> 00:35:17.940
 is he's helping

00:35:17.940 --> 00:35:19.200
 believers understand

00:35:19.200 --> 00:35:19.880
 their identity.

00:35:20.080 --> 00:35:20.680
 He's calling us

00:35:20.680 --> 00:35:21.400
 children because

00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:22.500
 we are children

00:35:22.500 --> 00:35:23.180
 of the Most

00:35:23.180 --> 00:35:23.519
 High God.

00:35:23.580 --> 00:35:24.280
 That's why he's

00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:24.940
 using this

00:35:24.940 --> 00:35:25.440
 language, and I

00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:25.960
 think we see

00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:27.160
 this best at the

00:35:27.160 --> 00:35:27.680
 beginning of verse

00:35:27.680 --> 00:35:28.440
 2 of 1 John

00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:28.980
 chapter 3.

00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:30.240
 Beloved, there's

00:35:30.240 --> 00:35:30.780
 that word,

00:35:31.059 --> 00:35:31.480
 beloved.

00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:32.400
 Like, in your

00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:32.940
 mind when you

00:35:32.940 --> 00:35:33.420
 read that, I

00:35:33.420 --> 00:35:33.920
 hope that you're

00:35:33.920 --> 00:35:34.900
 hearing God

00:35:34.900 --> 00:35:35.940
 from heaven saying

00:35:35.940 --> 00:35:36.820
 to Jesus Christ,

00:35:37.240 --> 00:35:38.180
 you are my

00:35:38.180 --> 00:35:38.980
 beloved son.

00:35:39.240 --> 00:35:40.240
 With you I am

00:35:40.240 --> 00:35:40.660
 well pleased.

00:35:40.659 --> 00:35:41.539
 This is a title

00:35:41.539 --> 00:35:43.099
 that God gives

00:35:43.099 --> 00:35:44.119
 to Jesus, and

00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:45.539
 here John on the

00:35:45.539 --> 00:35:46.639
 inspiration of the

00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:47.480
 Spirit gives it to

00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:48.079
 us.

00:35:49.879 --> 00:35:50.139
 Have you ever

00:35:50.139 --> 00:35:51.000
 wondered in my

00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:51.500
 preaching why

00:35:51.500 --> 00:35:52.519
 sometimes I refer

00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:53.319
 to you all as

00:35:53.319 --> 00:35:53.659
 beloved?

00:35:54.299 --> 00:35:55.359
 I'm not talking

00:35:55.359 --> 00:35:56.259
 about my love for

00:35:56.259 --> 00:35:57.299
 you, although I do

00:35:57.299 --> 00:35:58.579
 love you very much.

00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:00.799
 I'm giving you the

00:36:00.799 --> 00:36:02.000
 title that God has

00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:03.179
 given you in

00:36:03.179 --> 00:36:03.579
 Christ.

00:36:03.699 --> 00:36:04.839
 Beloved, we are

00:36:04.839 --> 00:36:06.239
 God's children

00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:07.519
 now.

00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:09.019
 And the rest of

00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:09.699
 that verse, verse

00:36:09.699 --> 00:36:10.739
 2, just talks

00:36:10.739 --> 00:36:11.400
 about how we've

00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:12.719
 yet to come into

00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:13.259
 perfection.

00:36:13.820 --> 00:36:14.699
 We're not quite

00:36:14.699 --> 00:36:15.539
 there yet, this is

00:36:15.539 --> 00:36:16.019
 what I was just

00:36:16.019 --> 00:36:16.559
 saying, but we're

00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:18.099
 on our way in that

00:36:18.099 --> 00:36:18.480
 direction.

00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:19.800
 We're moving that

00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:21.900
 way to be like

00:36:21.900 --> 00:36:23.000
 Christ.

00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:26.119
 I'll read to you

00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:26.880
 another quote from

00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:27.579
 Charles Spurgeon.

00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:28.940
 I should try not to

00:36:28.940 --> 00:36:29.539
 quote the same guy

00:36:29.539 --> 00:36:30.280
 twice in a sermon,

00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:30.900
 but this was way

00:36:30.900 --> 00:36:31.320
 too good.

00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:35.740
 I believe that

00:36:35.740 --> 00:36:36.400
 when we have been

00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.059
 in heaven 10,000

00:36:38.059 --> 00:36:39.620
 years, this will

00:36:39.620 --> 00:36:40.760
 still be a subject

00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:42.340
 of rapture and

00:36:42.340 --> 00:36:43.780
 surprise, that he

00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:44.980
 should ever have

00:36:44.980 --> 00:36:46.120
 found anything in

00:36:46.120 --> 00:36:47.300
 us which he could

00:36:47.300 --> 00:36:48.200
 take delight.

00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:50.880
 That he should

00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:51.660
 ever have found

00:36:51.660 --> 00:36:52.680
 anything in us

00:36:52.680 --> 00:36:53.300
 which he could

00:36:53.300 --> 00:36:53.860
 take delight.

00:36:54.120 --> 00:36:55.860
 To pity us, to

00:36:55.860 --> 00:36:57.059
 show mercy to us,

00:36:57.660 --> 00:36:58.280
 that I can

00:36:58.280 --> 00:36:59.539
 understand, but to

00:36:59.539 --> 00:37:00.220
 love us?

00:37:00.219 --> 00:37:01.919
 The big heart

00:37:01.919 --> 00:37:02.819
 of God to love

00:37:02.819 --> 00:37:03.980
 a creeping thing

00:37:03.980 --> 00:37:04.879
 like man.

00:37:05.839 --> 00:37:06.899
 The infinite soul

00:37:06.899 --> 00:37:07.879
 of the Most High

00:37:07.879 --> 00:37:09.159
 to pour itself out

00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:10.480
 on such a mean,

00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:12.119
 worthless creature

00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:12.959
 as man.

00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:14.480
 The everlasting

00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:15.899
 God who fills all

00:37:15.899 --> 00:37:16.699
 in all to

00:37:16.699 --> 00:37:17.899
 concentrate as it

00:37:17.899 --> 00:37:18.679
 were the powers

00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:19.879
 of a spirit and

00:37:19.879 --> 00:37:20.599
 set the whole

00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:21.299
 upon a creature

00:37:21.299 --> 00:37:22.339
 that his own

00:37:22.339 --> 00:37:23.219
 hands have made.

00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:24.159
 A creature that

00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:25.159
 had revolted and

00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:26.099
 rebelled and at

00:37:26.099 --> 00:37:27.500
 the best is still

00:37:27.500 --> 00:37:28.159
 worthless.

00:37:28.359 --> 00:37:29.299
 At the best is

00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:30.760
 still worthless.

00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:32.720
 Oh, sing of this,

00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:33.660
 you spirits before

00:37:33.660 --> 00:37:34.080
 the throne.

00:37:34.160 --> 00:37:35.240
 We cannot speak of

00:37:35.240 --> 00:37:36.580
 it today as we

00:37:36.580 --> 00:37:36.920
 should.

00:37:37.680 --> 00:37:38.220
 Hear what he's

00:37:38.220 --> 00:37:38.440
 saying.

00:37:38.539 --> 00:37:39.720
 There's no way we

00:37:39.720 --> 00:37:40.660
 can even comprehend

00:37:40.660 --> 00:37:41.360
 now.

00:37:41.460 --> 00:37:42.140
 There's no way we

00:37:42.140 --> 00:37:43.180
 could possibly sing

00:37:43.180 --> 00:37:44.160
 the praises of God

00:37:44.160 --> 00:37:44.640
 for what he's done

00:37:44.640 --> 00:37:45.400
 for us in Christ

00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:46.080
 now.

00:37:46.160 --> 00:37:46.500
 And he's saying

00:37:46.500 --> 00:37:47.480
 that even when

00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:48.000
 we've been in

00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:49.280
 heaven for 10,000

00:37:49.280 --> 00:37:50.180
 years, he thinks

00:37:50.180 --> 00:37:50.580
 that this will

00:37:50.580 --> 00:37:51.840
 still be a subject

00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:52.980
 of rapture and

00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:53.660
 surprise.

00:37:54.060 --> 00:37:55.140
 To think that God,

00:37:55.220 --> 00:37:56.360
 a merciful, holy

00:37:56.360 --> 00:37:57.320
 God, perfect in

00:37:57.320 --> 00:37:58.340
 every way, would

00:37:58.340 --> 00:37:59.500
 condescend to

00:37:59.500 --> 00:38:00.800
 show love to

00:38:00.800 --> 00:38:01.080
 man.

00:38:02.700 --> 00:38:03.640
 Charles Spurgeon

00:38:03.640 --> 00:38:04.100
 says that he

00:38:04.100 --> 00:38:05.200
 could get maybe

00:38:05.200 --> 00:38:07.120
 mercy, but to

00:38:07.120 --> 00:38:09.500
 love us the way

00:38:09.500 --> 00:38:11.180
 he loves the

00:38:11.180 --> 00:38:11.500
 Son.

00:38:12.460 --> 00:38:13.900
 As he said to

00:38:13.900 --> 00:38:14.700
 the Son, you

00:38:14.700 --> 00:38:15.500
 are my beloved.

00:38:16.260 --> 00:38:17.700
 With you I am

00:38:17.700 --> 00:38:18.340
 well pleased.

00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:19.740
 Someday he will

00:38:19.740 --> 00:38:21.059
 say to us, because

00:38:21.059 --> 00:38:22.080
 if we have placed

00:38:22.080 --> 00:38:22.620
 our faith in

00:38:22.620 --> 00:38:23.960
 him, he sees

00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:25.940
 us as he sees

00:38:25.940 --> 00:38:26.760
 Jesus.

00:38:28.179 --> 00:38:28.980
 I hope that

00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:29.639
 you are with me

00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:30.800
 in wanting that

00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:31.700
 to be true.

00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:33.420
 In recognizing

00:38:33.420 --> 00:38:34.079
 that if that's

00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:34.900
 not true,

00:38:35.539 --> 00:38:36.700
 eternal damnation

00:38:36.700 --> 00:38:37.340
 is your place.

00:38:37.720 --> 00:38:38.280
 Destruction

00:38:38.280 --> 00:38:39.039
 forever.

00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:39.840
 I can't even

00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:40.980
 comprehend how

00:38:40.980 --> 00:38:41.619
 very horrible

00:38:41.619 --> 00:38:42.500
 that will be.

00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:44.179
 Separated

00:38:44.179 --> 00:38:45.300
 eternally from

00:38:45.300 --> 00:38:45.720
 God.

00:38:46.340 --> 00:38:47.240
 Thrown into a

00:38:47.240 --> 00:38:48.179
 place of fire

00:38:48.179 --> 00:38:49.200
 and weeping

00:38:49.200 --> 00:38:50.139
 and gnashing of

00:38:50.139 --> 00:38:50.420
 teeth.

00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:50.940
 Right?

00:38:51.539 --> 00:38:52.059
 And again,

00:38:52.179 --> 00:38:52.920
 don't blame that

00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:53.360
 on God.

00:38:53.460 --> 00:38:54.119
 That is not

00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:54.940
 his fault.

00:38:55.059 --> 00:38:55.740
 You bought it.

00:38:56.659 --> 00:38:57.760
 You were told

00:38:57.760 --> 00:38:58.519
 the way you

00:38:58.519 --> 00:38:59.240
 ought to live,

00:38:59.920 --> 00:39:01.099
 which we fail

00:39:01.099 --> 00:39:01.720
 at every point.

00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:02.659
 You were told

00:39:02.659 --> 00:39:03.619
 to believe in

00:39:03.619 --> 00:39:03.960
 Christ.

00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:04.740
 You're accountable

00:39:04.740 --> 00:39:05.840
 for that.

00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:06.519
 And yet you

00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:07.340
 rejected him.

00:39:08.139 --> 00:39:08.740
 You deserve

00:39:08.740 --> 00:39:09.659
 eternal punishment.

00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:11.960
 I hope that you

00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:12.559
 don't want to

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:13.300
 experience that.

00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:13.840
 I hope this

00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:14.320
 morning that

00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:14.659
 there's a

00:39:14.659 --> 00:39:15.099
 pricking in

00:39:15.099 --> 00:39:15.500
 your heart

00:39:15.500 --> 00:39:15.800
 if you've

00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:16.360
 never placed

00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:16.780
 faith in

00:39:16.780 --> 00:39:17.700
 Christ to

00:39:17.700 --> 00:39:18.420
 respond in

00:39:18.420 --> 00:39:19.340
 faith today.

00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:20.280
 The simple

00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:20.780
 call of the

00:39:20.780 --> 00:39:21.380
 gospel is to

00:39:21.380 --> 00:39:22.300
 repent and

00:39:22.300 --> 00:39:22.679
 believe.

00:39:23.260 --> 00:39:23.840
 Turn from

00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:24.440
 your sin and

00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:24.920
 turn towards

00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:25.280
 God.

00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:26.700
 Recognize that

00:39:26.700 --> 00:39:27.500
 your sufficiency

00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:28.659
 comes from

00:39:28.659 --> 00:39:28.940
 him.

00:39:29.059 --> 00:39:29.340
 And so I

00:39:29.340 --> 00:39:29.619
 just have

00:39:29.619 --> 00:39:30.280
 three questions

00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:31.420
 for you just

00:39:31.420 --> 00:39:31.920
 to kind of

00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:33.400
 filter some

00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:33.800
 of that.

00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:35.260
 Are you

00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:35.900
 found in

00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:36.340
 Christ?

00:39:36.760 --> 00:39:37.619
 When God

00:39:37.619 --> 00:39:38.639
 looks upon you

00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:39.200
 this morning,

00:39:39.200 --> 00:39:39.840
 can he say

00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:41.180
 of you that

00:39:41.180 --> 00:39:41.480
 you're his

00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:41.800
 beloved?

00:39:42.340 --> 00:39:42.980
 Does he see

00:39:42.980 --> 00:39:44.099
 Christ when he

00:39:44.099 --> 00:39:44.539
 sees you?

00:39:44.619 --> 00:39:44.900
 And so just

00:39:44.900 --> 00:39:45.460
 three questions

00:39:45.460 --> 00:39:45.960
 for you to

00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:46.400
 ponder.

00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:47.300
 Firstly,

00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:48.119
 do you depend

00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:48.840
 on the

00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:49.119
 beloved?

00:39:49.200 --> 00:39:49.860
 Do you depend

00:39:49.860 --> 00:39:50.579
 on Christ

00:39:50.579 --> 00:39:51.299
 for your

00:39:51.299 --> 00:39:51.699
 salvation?

00:39:51.940 --> 00:39:52.559
 Is he

00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:53.420
 your salvation?

00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:54.679
 Or is it

00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:55.480
 some manner

00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:56.119
 of works?

00:39:56.799 --> 00:39:57.440
 Being a

00:39:57.440 --> 00:39:57.920
 member of a

00:39:57.920 --> 00:39:58.759
 particular church

00:39:58.759 --> 00:39:59.519
 or denomination?

00:39:59.980 --> 00:40:00.559
 Or is it

00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:02.539
 Christ that

00:40:02.539 --> 00:40:02.779
 is your

00:40:02.779 --> 00:40:03.139
 salvation?

00:40:04.219 --> 00:40:04.799
 Do you

00:40:04.799 --> 00:40:05.679
 bear fruit

00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:07.000
 as one who

00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:07.559
 is dependent

00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:08.400
 on the

00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:08.699
 beloved?

00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:10.519
 Do you

00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:11.279
 live as you

00:40:11.279 --> 00:40:12.759
 should live?

00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:13.279
 We saw in

00:40:13.279 --> 00:40:14.219
 1 John 3

00:40:14.219 --> 00:40:14.840
 there that

00:40:14.840 --> 00:40:15.199
 this is

00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:15.699
 something that

00:40:15.699 --> 00:40:16.179
 we do

00:40:16.179 --> 00:40:17.279
 because of

00:40:17.279 --> 00:40:17.619
 what God

00:40:17.619 --> 00:40:17.880
 has done

00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:18.260
 for us?

00:40:18.460 --> 00:40:18.800
 Not that

00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:19.220
 our works

00:40:19.220 --> 00:40:20.079
 earn us

00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:20.740
 our salvation

00:40:20.740 --> 00:40:21.119
 but our

00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:21.460
 works are

00:40:21.460 --> 00:40:22.260
 evidence

00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:23.260
 of what

00:40:23.260 --> 00:40:23.500
 we've done.

00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:23.840
 That's what

00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:24.420
 baptism is.

00:40:24.460 --> 00:40:24.680
 It's an

00:40:24.680 --> 00:40:25.660
 obedient act

00:40:25.660 --> 00:40:26.440
 of response

00:40:26.440 --> 00:40:26.720
 to what

00:40:26.720 --> 00:40:27.079
 God has

00:40:27.079 --> 00:40:27.500
 done for

00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:28.579
 us in

00:40:28.579 --> 00:40:28.960
 Christ.

00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:29.300
 Do you

00:40:29.300 --> 00:40:29.599
 do bear

00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:30.240
 fruit in

00:40:30.240 --> 00:40:30.640
 that way?

00:40:32.180 --> 00:40:32.559
 And thirdly,

00:40:32.619 --> 00:40:32.920
 do you

00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:34.099
 love the

00:40:34.099 --> 00:40:34.360
 beloved?

00:40:35.180 --> 00:40:35.599
 Do you

00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:36.460
 love

00:40:36.460 --> 00:40:37.800
 Christ?

00:40:39.160 --> 00:40:39.619
 Christ

00:40:39.619 --> 00:40:40.420
 should be

00:40:40.420 --> 00:40:41.039
 the most

00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:41.680
 attractive

00:40:41.680 --> 00:40:42.380
 thing to

00:40:42.380 --> 00:40:42.880
 a regenerate

00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:43.180
 heart?

00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:44.760
 His

00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:45.280
 person

00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:46.140
 and his

00:40:46.140 --> 00:40:46.519
 work.

00:40:47.160 --> 00:40:47.599
 Knowing,

00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:48.179
 reflecting

00:40:48.179 --> 00:40:48.579
 upon,

00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:49.239
 understanding

00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:49.500
 what he

00:40:49.500 --> 00:40:49.759
 has done

00:40:49.759 --> 00:40:50.119
 for us,

00:40:50.319 --> 00:40:50.619
 he ought

00:40:50.619 --> 00:40:50.779
 to be

00:40:50.779 --> 00:40:51.139
 the most

00:40:51.139 --> 00:40:51.699
 valuable

00:40:51.699 --> 00:40:52.299
 thing

00:40:52.299 --> 00:40:53.319
 to us.

00:40:53.739 --> 00:40:54.679
 Do you

00:40:54.679 --> 00:40:55.500
 love

00:40:55.500 --> 00:40:56.360
 the beloved

00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:57.759
 or do you

00:40:57.759 --> 00:40:57.980
 love the

00:40:57.980 --> 00:40:58.219
 things of

00:40:58.219 --> 00:40:58.480
 the world?

00:40:59.259 --> 00:40:59.659
 These things

00:40:59.659 --> 00:40:59.980
 are said

00:40:59.980 --> 00:41:00.599
 in contradiction

00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:01.059
 to one

00:41:01.059 --> 00:41:01.319
 another.

00:41:01.739 --> 00:41:01.960
 We should

00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:02.779
 be ever

00:41:02.779 --> 00:41:03.299
 increasing

00:41:03.299 --> 00:41:03.679
 as we're

00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:04.159
 growing in

00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:04.559
 grace,

00:41:04.900 --> 00:41:05.279
 our love

00:41:05.279 --> 00:41:05.860
 for Christ

00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:06.639
 and our

00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:07.279
 disdain

00:41:07.279 --> 00:41:07.699
 for the

00:41:07.699 --> 00:41:07.980
 world.

00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:09.579
 I'm not

00:41:09.579 --> 00:41:10.380
 saying that

00:41:10.380 --> 00:41:10.759
 you don't

00:41:10.759 --> 00:41:11.420
 enjoy your

00:41:11.420 --> 00:41:11.819
 family,

00:41:12.059 --> 00:41:12.219
 that you

00:41:12.219 --> 00:41:13.000
 don't enjoy

00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:13.440
 having a

00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:13.679
 home,

00:41:13.779 --> 00:41:14.239
 I'm not

00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:14.920
 saying any

00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:15.199
 of that.

00:41:15.259 --> 00:41:15.460
 What I'm

00:41:15.460 --> 00:41:15.819
 saying to

00:41:15.819 --> 00:41:16.059
 you is

00:41:16.059 --> 00:41:16.940
 in comparison

00:41:16.940 --> 00:41:17.480
 to Christ,

00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:18.460
 all things

00:41:18.460 --> 00:41:19.059
 in the words

00:41:19.059 --> 00:41:19.420
 of Paul

00:41:19.420 --> 00:41:20.339
 are rubbish,

00:41:20.779 --> 00:41:21.259
 trash,

00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:22.000
 vile,

00:41:22.099 --> 00:41:22.679
 in comparison

00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:23.400
 to knowing

00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:24.460
 Jesus Christ

00:41:24.460 --> 00:41:25.279
 as Lord.

00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:25.860
 So do

00:41:25.860 --> 00:41:26.679
 you

00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:27.960
 love him?

00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:29.559
 I'm going

00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:29.920
 to close

00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:31.659
 today as

00:41:31.659 --> 00:41:31.980
 we come

00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:32.639
 to the end

00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:33.299
 of that point,

00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:33.920
 which I hope

00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:34.400
 you understand

00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:35.139
 why I believe

00:41:35.139 --> 00:41:35.699
 that's so

00:41:35.699 --> 00:41:36.619
 drastically

00:41:36.619 --> 00:41:37.380
 important as

00:41:37.380 --> 00:41:37.860
 we look at

00:41:37.860 --> 00:41:39.500
 this short

00:41:39.500 --> 00:41:39.759
 record,

00:41:39.839 --> 00:41:40.179
 these three

00:41:40.179 --> 00:41:41.099
 verses of

00:41:41.099 --> 00:41:41.779
 Jesus being

00:41:41.779 --> 00:41:42.179
 baptized.

00:41:42.179 --> 00:41:42.419
 baptized.

00:41:43.319 --> 00:41:43.779
 I came

00:41:43.779 --> 00:41:44.599
 across a

00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:45.000
 hymn that

00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:45.239
 was new

00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:45.659
 to me,

00:41:45.919 --> 00:41:46.759
 written in

00:41:46.759 --> 00:41:47.379
 1930,

00:41:48.379 --> 00:41:48.960
 called In

00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:49.440
 the Beloved

00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:50.319
 by a woman

00:41:50.319 --> 00:41:50.599
 named

00:41:50.599 --> 00:41:50.960
 Sevilla

00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:51.299
 Martin.

00:41:52.579 --> 00:41:52.699
 I just

00:41:52.699 --> 00:41:52.899
 want you

00:41:52.899 --> 00:41:53.119
 to listen

00:41:53.119 --> 00:41:53.359
 to these

00:41:53.359 --> 00:41:53.619
 words.

00:41:54.460 --> 00:41:54.699
 Wes is

00:41:54.699 --> 00:41:54.859
 going to

00:41:54.859 --> 00:41:55.059
 try to

00:41:55.059 --> 00:41:55.319
 put these

00:41:55.319 --> 00:41:55.659
 to music

00:41:55.659 --> 00:41:56.000
 for us

00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:56.199
 soon.

00:41:57.199 --> 00:41:57.639
 In the

00:41:57.639 --> 00:41:57.980
 beloved,

00:41:58.359 --> 00:41:59.199
 accepted I

00:41:59.199 --> 00:41:59.500
 am,

00:41:59.940 --> 00:42:00.359
 risen,

00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:00.980
 ascended,

00:42:01.179 --> 00:42:01.579
 and seated

00:42:01.579 --> 00:42:02.159
 on high,

00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:03.239
 saved from

00:42:03.239 --> 00:42:04.019
 all sin

00:42:04.019 --> 00:42:04.679
 through his

00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:05.599
 infinite grace,

00:42:05.919 --> 00:42:06.460
 with the

00:42:06.460 --> 00:42:06.819
 redeemed

00:42:06.819 --> 00:42:07.259
 ones,

00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:08.480
 accorded a

00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:08.879
 place.

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:10.079
 In the

00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:10.360
 beloved,

00:42:10.460 --> 00:42:10.700
 God's

00:42:10.700 --> 00:42:11.200
 marvelous

00:42:11.200 --> 00:42:11.579
 grace

00:42:11.579 --> 00:42:12.119
 calls me

00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:12.619
 to dwell

00:42:12.619 --> 00:42:13.019
 in this

00:42:13.019 --> 00:42:13.460
 wonderful

00:42:13.460 --> 00:42:13.960
 place.

00:42:14.539 --> 00:42:15.200
 God sees

00:42:15.200 --> 00:42:15.840
 my Savior

00:42:15.840 --> 00:42:16.340
 and then

00:42:16.340 --> 00:42:16.860
 he sees

00:42:16.860 --> 00:42:17.200
 me.

00:42:17.200 --> 00:42:17.840
 In the

00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:18.180
 beloved,

00:42:18.720 --> 00:42:19.200
 accepted

00:42:19.200 --> 00:42:20.099
 and free.

00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:21.519
 In the

00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:21.820
 beloved,

00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:22.480
 how safe

00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:23.119
 my retreat.

00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:23.760
 In the

00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:24.119
 beloved,

00:42:24.300 --> 00:42:24.800
 accounted

00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:25.579
 complete.

00:42:26.140 --> 00:42:26.539
 Who can

00:42:26.539 --> 00:42:27.099
 condemn me?

00:42:27.160 --> 00:42:27.640
 In him

00:42:27.640 --> 00:42:28.180
 I am

00:42:28.180 --> 00:42:28.519
 free.

00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:29.300
 Savior

00:42:29.300 --> 00:42:29.800
 and keeper

00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:30.760
 forever

00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:31.460
 is he.

00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:32.660
 In the

00:42:32.660 --> 00:42:32.940
 beloved,

00:42:33.039 --> 00:42:33.260
 God's

00:42:33.260 --> 00:42:33.640
 marvelous

00:42:33.640 --> 00:42:34.099
 grace

00:42:34.099 --> 00:42:34.740
 calls me

00:42:34.740 --> 00:42:35.220
 to dwell

00:42:35.220 --> 00:42:35.660
 in this

00:42:35.660 --> 00:42:35.940
 wonderful

00:42:35.940 --> 00:42:36.400
 place.

00:42:36.860 --> 00:42:37.059
 God

00:42:37.059 --> 00:42:37.680
 sees my

00:42:37.680 --> 00:42:38.000
 Savior

00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:38.300
 and then

00:42:38.300 --> 00:42:38.619
 he sees

00:42:38.619 --> 00:42:38.920
 me.

00:42:39.039 --> 00:42:39.359
 In the

00:42:39.359 --> 00:42:39.679
 beloved,

00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:40.480
 accepted

00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:41.400
 and free.

00:42:42.279 --> 00:42:42.759
 In the

00:42:42.759 --> 00:42:43.039
 beloved,

00:42:43.179 --> 00:42:43.579
 I went

00:42:43.579 --> 00:42:43.920
 to the

00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:44.239
 tree.

00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:44.679
 There

00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:45.019
 in his

00:42:45.019 --> 00:42:45.420
 person

00:42:45.420 --> 00:42:46.119
 by faith

00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:46.759
 I may

00:42:46.759 --> 00:42:47.179
 see.

00:42:47.779 --> 00:42:48.119
 Infinite

00:42:48.119 --> 00:42:48.559
 wrath

00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:48.880
 rolling

00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:49.179
 over

00:42:49.179 --> 00:42:49.460
 his

00:42:49.460 --> 00:42:49.759
 head,

00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:50.279
 infinite

00:42:50.279 --> 00:42:50.859
 grace,

00:42:51.279 --> 00:42:51.559
 for he

00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:51.960
 died

00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:52.699
 in my

00:42:52.699 --> 00:42:53.079
 stead.

00:42:54.359 --> 00:42:54.719
 In the

00:42:54.719 --> 00:42:55.039
 beloved,

00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:55.420
 God's

00:42:55.420 --> 00:42:55.859
 marvelous

00:42:55.859 --> 00:42:56.259
 grace

00:42:56.259 --> 00:42:56.839
 calls me

00:42:56.839 --> 00:42:57.359
 to dwell

00:42:57.359 --> 00:42:58.000
 in this

00:42:58.000 --> 00:42:58.400
 wonderful

00:42:58.400 --> 00:42:58.859
 place.

00:42:59.400 --> 00:42:59.599
 God

00:42:59.599 --> 00:43:00.019
 sees

00:43:00.019 --> 00:43:00.279
 my

00:43:00.279 --> 00:43:00.619
 Savior

00:43:00.619 --> 00:43:01.079
 and then

00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:01.299
 he

00:43:01.299 --> 00:43:01.579
 sees

00:43:01.579 --> 00:43:01.940
 me.

00:43:02.380 --> 00:43:02.619
 In

00:43:02.619 --> 00:43:02.739
 the

00:43:02.739 --> 00:43:03.099
 beloved,

00:43:03.619 --> 00:43:04.019
 accepted

00:43:04.019 --> 00:43:04.799
 and

00:43:04.799 --> 00:43:05.059
 free.

00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:05.779
 Let's

00:43:05.779 --> 00:43:05.920
 pray

00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:06.219
 together.