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 Amen. Please take your copy of God's Word and join me in John chapter 5.

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! John chapter 5, our text for today is verses 31 through 47.

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! Before reading our text, I want to give you the simple outline for our study this morning,

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 and I'll link the introduction. I think it'll take us a little time to get through.

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 So, first the outline. We will see in these verses, this closing portion of chapter 5,

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 witnesses to Jesus. There are a number of them. Witnesses to Jesus the Christ and rejection of

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 Jesus the Christ. The Scriptures contain within them a redemptive storyline. It is a magnificent

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 story of a loving God saving an undeserving people for the glory of His name. Tragically,

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 part of this narrative arc includes rebellion against God's loving kindness, particularly

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 on the part of Israel. We trace this all throughout the Old Testament. The prophet Isaiah pictures

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 Israel's unfaithfulness in a parable in Isaiah chapter 5, verses 1 through 7.

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 Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very

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 fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones and planted it with choice vines. He built a watchtower

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 in the midst of it and hewed out a wine vat in it, and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

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 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do

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 for my vineyard that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes?

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 And now I tell you that what I will do to my vineyard, I will remove its hedge and it shall be devoured. I will break down

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 its wall and it shall be trampled down. I will make it a waste. It shall not be pruned or hoed and briars and thorns

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 shall grow up. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it. For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts

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 is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting. And he looked for justice, but behold,

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 bloodshed. For righteousness, but behold, an outcry. Now although Israel was guilty of persistently

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 forsaking God, he remained and remains loving toward them. He has yet to cease his kindness to ethnic Israel.

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 See Romans 9 through 11. And he is broadening his kindness to all peoples, spiritual Israel.

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 Paul writes in Romans chapter 9, verse 6 and following after expressing great grief for those

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 Jewish people that rejected Jesus as the Christ. But it is not as though the word of God has failed,

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 for not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel. And not all are children of Abraham

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 because they are his offspring, but through Isaac shall your offspring be named. This means it is not

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 the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted

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 as offspring. So those who are not ethnically Jewish being grafted into Israel by God's grace.

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 God expresses his great love in redeeming wayward, undeserving rebels. This is so beautifully pictured

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 in the life of the prophet Hosea, who was instructed by God to marry a woman named Gomer, who is unfaithful.

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 He's told this at the outset. She will not be faithful to you. She has children by other men.

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 She abandons Hosea and is eventually an indentured slave. Hosea and Gomer's lives are pageantry meant to teach

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 us about God's faithfulness in juxtaposition, in comparison to unfaithfulness. The story of Hosea and

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 Gomer find its climax in chapter 3 of Hosea. This is the entirety of that chapter.

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 And the Lord said to me, Go again. Love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress,

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 even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes

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 of raisins. So I bought her for 15 shekels of silver and a homer and a lethic of barley. This was a massive

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 sum. And I said to her, You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore or belong to another man.

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 So will I also be to you. For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or

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 pillar, without ephod or household gods. Afterward, the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God

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 and David their king. And they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.

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 It is to a rebellious, Christ-rejecting people that Jesus ministered and John writes to.

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 Many of us have received Jesus, the Christ. We have believed in his name for the salvation of our souls.

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 Praise God for his great mercy to us. Justified by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone.

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 Declared righteous before God because we are found in Christ. We are one with him. What a glorious reality.

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 Be counted this day among those who have and are in Christ. Who have recognized him as the anointed one.

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 Do not find yourself among those who reject Jesus, the Christ. Whose perfect life, sacrificial death, and third day resurrection

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 grants eternal life to all who will believe in him. That's what this text sets before us today, as many of John's writings do.

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 So John chapter 5, verse 31 through 47. Join me in prayer before I read it.

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 Father God, thank you for your word this morning. It's such a privilege to be together

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 and to be able to open up this ancient text and have it speak to us today.

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 We recognize that it was written for your glory and for our good.

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 And we know that we need your help to rightly understand it.

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 Father, we want to believe its promises and we want to obey its commands.

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 And we want to have affection for you, its author.

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 Would you work this in us this day as we study together?

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 And we pray this for the glory of Christ. Amen.

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 Begin reading in verse 31.

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 Jesus says,

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 He says,

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 And it is they that bear witness about me, that you refuse to come to me, that you may have life.

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 I do not receive glory from people, but I know that you do not have the love of God within you.

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 I have come in my Father's name and you do not receive me.

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 If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

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 How can you believe when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

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 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father.

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 There is one who accuses you, Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

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 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me.

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 For he wrote of me.

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 But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?

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 Now, yesterday, at our men's morning meeting, I was made fun of for pointing out the literary structures of John,

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 and it got a real good laugh.

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 So, I'm not going to talk about chiastic structure this morning.

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 I'm kidding.

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 I am talking about chiastic structure this morning.

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 You all should know that my skin is thick, especially when it comes to teaching you something that I am confident is good for your souls.

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 Now, I should have done so from the beginning to help you see the structure more clearly.

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 So, this morning, I have included a short outline in your bulletin to just make this point further.

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 So, you have it there in front of you.

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 Which, by the way, the weird lines across it are no feature of the bulletin,

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 but a goofy thing the copier is doing that I didn't have time to fix yesterday.

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 So, ignore the line struck through the bulletin, but notice, under your sermon notes section,

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 you've heard me talk in this term, chiastic structure.

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 So, now you can see the half of the X there.

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 It's from the Greek letter chi for X.

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 And how the beginning section corresponds with the last section.

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 So, you see a true testimony that comes from John the Baptist,

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 and then a true accusation that comes from Moses.

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 A, and then A prime.

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 Then notice B, verses 34 and 35.

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 A testimony not received from man,

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 and then glory not received from man,

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 in verses 41 and 44.

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 I hope this helps you see the way that Jesus is speaking and John is recording.

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 Why does it feel so disjointed to us as we read it through?

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 It's a literary structure,

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 and it's meant to draw our attention somewhere.

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 So, then you go on, right?

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 You've got the work or the works that Jesus is doing,

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 and the Father testifying in verses 36 and the first part of 37.

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 And then in verses 39 and 40,

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 the Scriptures testifying.

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 The central part of this text,

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 the center of the chiasm,

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 is the last part of verse 37 and verse 38.

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 So, what do we do with that?

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 We pick the lens,

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 and we look at the rest of the text, right?

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 And again, you wouldn't have to see this to understand this.

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 I'm not suggesting that I'm giving to you some special code, right?

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 That you can lay this filter on top of any text,

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 and suddenly it's going to just be totally unlocked for you.

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 I think if you're being faithful to the text,

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 and you're giving it a fair reading,

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 you're going to pick up that there's testimony being given,

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 and there's rejection happening.

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 But this helps us to see that what's being communicated

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 is particularly this rejection.

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 To really note what's going on in the center of this very text.

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 So, with that in mind,

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 first point of the outline for today is,

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 number one, witnesses to Jesus, the Christ.

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 We see a number of them in this text.

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 You know, you remember, right,

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 for Christ, for Jesus to be the Christ,

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 he's the anointed one.

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 You see also the Hebrew word Messiah,

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 the one who's promised in the Old Testament,

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 who's going to come and take away the sin of the world,

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 who's going to liberate God's people.

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 Lots of misunderstandings about what that meant.

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 But the people that are being talked to here in this text

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 had some understanding that there was one who was going to come.

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 One who was going to reign in the line of David forever.

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 And they were sensitive to this.

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 They're highly concerned about who this Jesus is.

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 He's not the first person who would come and said he was the Christ.

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 There had been rebellions led against Rome

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 that were brutally squashed

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 in the name of the Christ.

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 They're rightly concerned.

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 Is this Jesus actually the Messiah?

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 And they just fail to see that he actually is.

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 You may remember earlier in the chapter,

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 chapter 5 and verse 18,

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 we see the record.

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 This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him.

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 Because not only was he breaking the Sabbath,

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 he had healed a man, a lame man,

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 at the pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath.

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 But he was even calling God his own father,

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 making himself equal with God.

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 If Jesus wasn't God,

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 then this would have been a great blasphemy.

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 They would have been right to seek justice in the matter.

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 But he is.

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 In the verses that follow,

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 verse 18 of chapter 5,

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 John records Jesus doubling down on the fact that he is God.

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 Never shrinks back from this reality.

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 And then we arrive at verse 31,

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 verse 31,

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 where he says,

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 if I alone bear witness about myself,

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 my testimony is not true.

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 Is he saying that as God,

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 incarnate God,

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 that everything he says isn't true?

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 Of course not.

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 But for the sake of people's salvation,

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 he's saying,

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 look,

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 on your terms,

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 if a man claims something about himself,

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 he better bring some witnesses along.

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 And then we get this laid out for us,

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 these varied witnesses to Jesus,

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 the Christ.

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 First we see John the Baptist,

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 verses 32 through 35.

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 There's a bit of debate in verse 32

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 whether or not the one who bears witness about him,

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 if he's referring to John,

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 or if he's referring to God.

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 It's not terribly important.

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 I lean off in the John the Baptist direction.

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 But some would say that Jesus is saying,

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 I know that the testimony he bears about me is true,

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 is referring to the testimony he'll later refer to

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 concerning God the Father.

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 But either way,

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 there's another one who's giving testimony.

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 And certainly in verse 33,

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 he says,

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 you sent to John,

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 and he has borne witness to the truth.

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 Now I'm pretty sure when he says,

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 you sent to John,

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 he's referring to something that we have recorded for us

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 back in John chapter 1.

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 So if you want to turn back a couple of pages

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 and look at verse 19 of John chapter 1.

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 There John records of John the Baptist,

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 different Johns,

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 and this is the testimony of John.

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 This is verse 19.

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 When the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem

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 to ask him,

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 who are you?

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 That's the thing I believe he's referring to.

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 Right?

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 You sent to John.

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 Right there we see in verse 19 of chapter 1.

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 The Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem

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 to ask him,

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 who are you?

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 John confessed and did not deny,

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 but confessed,

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 I am not the Christ.

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 And they asked him,

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 what then?

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 Are you Elijah?

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 He said,

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 I am not.

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 Are you the prophet?

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 And he answered,

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 no.

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 So they said to him,

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 who are you?

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 We need to give an answer to those who sent us.

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 What do you say about yourself?

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 He said,

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 I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness.

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 Make straight the way of the Lord,

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 as the prophet Isaiah said.

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 Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

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 They asked him,

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 then why are you baptizing,

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 if you are neither the Christ,

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 nor Elijah,

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 nor the prophet?

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 John answered them,

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 I baptize with water,

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 but among you stands one you do not know.

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 Even he who comes after me,

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 the strap of whose sandals,

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 I am not worthy to untie.

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 John the Baptist's witness to Christ

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 was that he was the forerunner of Christ.

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 He's preparing the way for the Messiah.

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 Later in the chapter,

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 he sees Jesus and he says,

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 behold,

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 the Lamb of God

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 who takes away the sins of the world.

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 Jesus goes on in verse 34 of chapter 5,

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 not that the testimony that I received

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 is from man,

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 but I say these things

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 so that you may be saved.

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 They're such frail,

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 mental beings.

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 There was an earthly witness,

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 someone who came,

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 someone you marveled at

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 who pointed to me

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 as the Christ.

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 He was a burning and shining lamp

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 and you were willing to rejoice

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 for a while in his light.

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 Something was going on

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 with this John the baptizer

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 and you were willing to heed

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 what he had to say

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 for some time.

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 This is most likely a reference

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 to Psalm 132.

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 There we can read beginning in verse 11,

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 the Lord swore to David a sure oath

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 from which he will not turn back.

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 One of the sons of your body

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 I will set on your throne.

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 If your sons keep my covenant

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 and my testimonies

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 that I shall teach them,

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 their sons also forever

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 shall sit on your throne.

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 For the Lord has chosen Zion.

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 He has desired it

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 for his dwelling place.

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 This is my resting place forever.

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 Here I will dwell

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 for I have desired it.

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 I will abundantly bless

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 her provisions.

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 I will satisfy her poor

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 with bread.

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 Her priests I will clothe

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 with salvation

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 and her saints

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 will shout for joy.

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 There I will make a horn

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 to sprout for David.

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 I have prepared a lamp

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 for my anointed.

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 I think that's the reference

00:20:12.099 --> 00:20:12.980
 going on here.

00:20:12.980 --> 00:20:14.139
 John the Baptist

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 is the lamp

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 of Psalm 132

00:20:17.139 --> 00:20:18.920
 and verse 17.

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 One meant to give light

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 to the coming

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 of the light

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 of the world.

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 So we see

00:20:27.859 --> 00:20:29.279
 John the Baptist

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 as a witness

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 to Jesus the Christ.

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 We also see

00:20:33.660 --> 00:20:35.240
 Jesus' works.

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 Every time that Jesus

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 is performing a miracle,

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 it's a miracle

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 that's given to him

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 by the Father

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 to do,

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 to testify

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 to the fact

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 that he is God.

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 That he exercises

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 dominion

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 over illness,

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 over creation,

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 over sin.

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 Again and again

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 and again

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 it sets a stage

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 for Jesus

00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.039
 to be shown

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 to be

00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:01.119
 the Christ.

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 And again and again

00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:03.819
 there's conflict

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 over it.

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 People miss it.

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 They want the signs

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 but they don't want

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 the one performing

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 the signs.

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 And John's narrative

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 is told in this way.

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 We see a miracle

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 and then we see teaching

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 and then we see a miracle

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 and then we see teaching.

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 And we're in that

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 teaching portion now

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 following that

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 miraculous healing

00:21:21.980 --> 00:21:23.099
 of the lame man

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 at the pool of Bethesda.

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 Verse 36.

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 He says,

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 But the testimony

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 that I have

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 is greater than that

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 of John.

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 For the works

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 that the Father

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 has given me

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 to accomplish,

00:21:33.539 --> 00:21:34.579
 the very works

00:21:34.579 --> 00:21:35.839
 that I am doing

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 bear witness

00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:38.039
 about me

00:21:38.039 --> 00:21:39.259
 that the Father

00:21:39.259 --> 00:21:40.680
 has sent me.

00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:42.279
 I am from the Father.

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 I am doing the works

00:21:43.500 --> 00:21:44.159
 that the Father

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 is doing.

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 We read earlier

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 in the chapter

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 and this bears witness

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 that I am God.

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 I am the Messiah.

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 The Christ.

00:21:55.180 --> 00:21:55.960
 Jesus' works

00:21:55.960 --> 00:21:57.619
 bear witness.

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 We also see

00:21:59.659 --> 00:22:01.119
 witness to the Christ

00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:02.979
 of the Father.

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 There in the beginning

00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:05.659
 of verse 37.

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 Jesus says,

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 And the Father

00:22:07.139 --> 00:22:08.239
 who sent me

00:22:08.239 --> 00:22:10.299
 has himself

00:22:10.299 --> 00:22:12.339
 borne witness

00:22:12.339 --> 00:22:13.779
 about me.

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 Now, Jesus' baptism

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 is referenced

00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:18.159
 by John the Baptist

00:22:18.159 --> 00:22:20.039
 in chapter 1.

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 But the details

00:22:21.879 --> 00:22:22.539
 of the event

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 are not mentioned

00:22:23.399 --> 00:22:24.979
 in John's Gospel.

00:22:25.919 --> 00:22:27.099
 It is likely

00:22:27.099 --> 00:22:28.199
 at the later date

00:22:28.199 --> 00:22:29.359
 of this Gospel's writing

00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:30.159
 that the details

00:22:30.159 --> 00:22:32.319
 were so commonly known

00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:33.179
 that the reference

00:22:33.179 --> 00:22:34.639
 to it was merely enough.

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 But for our sake,

00:22:37.139 --> 00:22:38.359
 listen to Matthew 3,

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 verse 16 and 17.

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 When Jesus was baptized,

00:22:43.879 --> 00:22:45.659
 immediately he went up

00:22:45.659 --> 00:22:46.419
 from the water

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 and behold,

00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:49.179
 the heavens were opened

00:22:49.179 --> 00:22:49.719
 to him

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 and he saw

00:22:50.779 --> 00:22:51.899
 the Spirit of God

00:22:51.899 --> 00:22:53.599
 descending like a dove

00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:54.279
 and coming

00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:55.519
 to rest on him.

00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:56.819
 And behold,

00:22:57.059 --> 00:22:58.759
 a voice from heaven

00:22:58.759 --> 00:22:59.839
 said,

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 I'm suggesting to you

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 this is what he's

00:23:02.259 --> 00:23:03.000
 referring to,

00:23:03.220 --> 00:23:03.379
 right?

00:23:03.819 --> 00:23:04.640
 Has himself

00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:05.319
 borne witness

00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:06.220
 about me.

00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:07.940
 A voice from heaven

00:23:07.940 --> 00:23:08.920
 said,

00:23:09.539 --> 00:23:11.140
 This is my

00:23:11.140 --> 00:23:13.039
 beloved son

00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:13.960
 with whom

00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:16.000
 I am well pleased.

00:23:16.779 --> 00:23:17.379
 Understood.

00:23:17.740 --> 00:23:18.839
 This is

00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:19.379
 the

00:23:19.379 --> 00:23:21.180
 Christ.

00:23:21.900 --> 00:23:22.960
 So the Father himself,

00:23:23.140 --> 00:23:23.920
 God the Father

00:23:23.920 --> 00:23:24.819
 has borne witness

00:23:24.819 --> 00:23:25.460
 to God

00:23:25.460 --> 00:23:26.940
 the Son.

00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:29.240
 We also see,

00:23:29.320 --> 00:23:29.840
 if we jump down

00:23:29.840 --> 00:23:30.400
 a couple verses

00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:31.400
 to verse 39,

00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:32.360
 the Scriptures

00:23:32.360 --> 00:23:33.400
 bear witness

00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:33.960
 to Jesus

00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:35.960
 as the Christ.

00:23:36.860 --> 00:23:37.700
 Here Jesus says,

00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:39.320
 You search

00:23:39.320 --> 00:23:40.200
 the Scriptures

00:23:40.200 --> 00:23:42.000
 because you think

00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:43.220
 that in them

00:23:43.220 --> 00:23:44.440
 you have eternal life.

00:23:44.600 --> 00:23:45.660
 And it is they

00:23:45.660 --> 00:23:47.279
 that bear witness

00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:48.980
 about me.

00:23:49.460 --> 00:23:50.039
 He's going to

00:23:50.039 --> 00:23:50.900
 reference the words

00:23:50.900 --> 00:23:52.340
 of Moses later,

00:23:52.500 --> 00:23:53.500
 being about

00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:54.680
 him.

00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:57.160
 Luke records

00:23:57.160 --> 00:23:58.019
 the resurrected

00:23:58.019 --> 00:23:58.640
 Jesus

00:23:58.640 --> 00:23:59.720
 conversing

00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:00.299
 with two

00:24:00.299 --> 00:24:01.259
 doubting disciples

00:24:01.259 --> 00:24:02.539
 as they

00:24:02.539 --> 00:24:04.039
 travel to a place

00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:05.340
 called Emmaus.

00:24:05.460 --> 00:24:06.000
 You may be

00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:07.100
 familiar.

00:24:07.980 --> 00:24:08.220
 In Luke

00:24:08.220 --> 00:24:09.120
 chapter 24

00:24:09.120 --> 00:24:09.980
 verse 25

00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:11.019
 and following,

00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:12.360
 Jesus says to them,

00:24:13.060 --> 00:24:14.259
 O foolish ones,

00:24:14.680 --> 00:24:15.860
 and slow of heart

00:24:15.860 --> 00:24:16.400
 to believe

00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:17.420
 all that the

00:24:17.420 --> 00:24:17.880
 prophets

00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:19.200
 have spoken.

00:24:20.100 --> 00:24:20.840
 Was it not

00:24:20.840 --> 00:24:21.500
 necessary

00:24:21.500 --> 00:24:22.259
 that the Christ

00:24:22.259 --> 00:24:22.860
 should suffer

00:24:22.859 --> 00:24:23.679
 these things

00:24:23.679 --> 00:24:24.419
 and enter

00:24:24.419 --> 00:24:26.099
 into his glory?

00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:26.959
 They're terribly

00:24:26.959 --> 00:24:27.879
 concerned that

00:24:27.879 --> 00:24:28.839
 the one who said

00:24:28.839 --> 00:24:29.679
 he was the Christ

00:24:29.679 --> 00:24:30.519
 died.

00:24:31.539 --> 00:24:32.319
 And then verse 27

00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:32.619
 says,

00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:33.199
 And beginning

00:24:33.199 --> 00:24:34.119
 with Moses

00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:35.679
 and all the

00:24:35.679 --> 00:24:36.039
 prophets,

00:24:36.139 --> 00:24:36.799
 that is to say,

00:24:36.939 --> 00:24:37.579
 the Scripture

00:24:37.579 --> 00:24:38.699
 of Jesus' day,

00:24:38.879 --> 00:24:39.879
 Moses and all

00:24:39.879 --> 00:24:40.479
 the prophets,

00:24:41.159 --> 00:24:42.119
 he interpreted

00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:42.799
 to them

00:24:42.799 --> 00:24:43.799
 in all the

00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:44.219
 Scriptures

00:24:44.219 --> 00:24:45.679
 the things

00:24:45.679 --> 00:24:46.740
 concerning

00:24:46.740 --> 00:24:48.099
 himself.

00:24:48.819 --> 00:24:49.740
 Every bit

00:24:49.740 --> 00:24:50.439
 of the Bible,

00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:51.920
 the entire text,

00:24:52.100 --> 00:24:52.920
 points us

00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:54.100
 to the person

00:24:54.100 --> 00:24:55.180
 and work

00:24:55.180 --> 00:24:56.960
 of Jesus Christ.

00:24:57.440 --> 00:24:57.900
 The Scriptures

00:24:57.900 --> 00:24:58.960
 bear witness

00:24:58.960 --> 00:24:59.680
 to Jesus

00:24:59.680 --> 00:25:01.299
 as the Christ.

00:25:02.539 --> 00:25:03.100
 And then lastly,

00:25:03.220 --> 00:25:03.960
 the last witness

00:25:03.960 --> 00:25:05.380
 is Moses,

00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:07.039
 verses 45

00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:08.940
 and 46.

00:25:09.559 --> 00:25:10.120
 Jesus says,

00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:10.880
 Don't think I will

00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:11.720
 accuse you to the Father?

00:25:11.840 --> 00:25:12.420
 There is one

00:25:12.420 --> 00:25:13.380
 who accuses you,

00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:14.660
 Moses,

00:25:15.019 --> 00:25:15.860
 on whom you have

00:25:15.860 --> 00:25:17.620
 set your hope.

00:25:17.620 --> 00:25:18.580
 Old covenant

00:25:18.579 --> 00:25:20.720
 obedience to the law.

00:25:21.659 --> 00:25:22.679
 This is not the place

00:25:22.679 --> 00:25:23.819
 for hope.

00:25:24.779 --> 00:25:25.819
 For if you believed

00:25:25.819 --> 00:25:26.299
 Moses,

00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:27.859
 you would believe me.

00:25:28.059 --> 00:25:30.240
 For he wrote

00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:31.839
 of me.

00:25:32.339 --> 00:25:34.139
 Moses was a forerunner

00:25:34.139 --> 00:25:35.379
 of Christ

00:25:35.379 --> 00:25:36.639
 who would come.

00:25:37.439 --> 00:25:38.059
 So there's all

00:25:38.059 --> 00:25:38.599
 this witness

00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:39.379
 and that's the point

00:25:39.379 --> 00:25:40.599
 that Jesus is making here.

00:25:41.059 --> 00:25:41.960
 You've had

00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:43.359
 all the advantage

00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:44.639
 laid before you.

00:25:44.779 --> 00:25:45.819
 All of this

00:25:45.819 --> 00:25:46.599
 testimony

00:25:46.599 --> 00:25:48.399
 to who I am

00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:49.040
 and yet

00:25:49.040 --> 00:25:50.220
 he is

00:25:50.220 --> 00:25:51.600
 rejected.

00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:53.019
 So let's look at that.

00:25:53.100 --> 00:25:53.759
 The rejection

00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:54.740
 of Jesus

00:25:54.740 --> 00:25:56.180
 the Christ.

00:25:57.040 --> 00:25:57.519
 Again,

00:25:57.600 --> 00:25:58.440
 that central part

00:25:58.440 --> 00:25:59.960
 of our chiastic structure.

00:26:00.080 --> 00:26:00.580
 The last part

00:26:00.580 --> 00:26:01.360
 of verse 37

00:26:01.360 --> 00:26:03.400
 and verse 38.

00:26:04.080 --> 00:26:04.540
 Jesus says,

00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:05.259
 His voice

00:26:05.259 --> 00:26:06.200
 you have never heard.

00:26:06.600 --> 00:26:07.519
 His form

00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:08.600
 you have never seen

00:26:08.600 --> 00:26:09.580
 and you do not

00:26:09.580 --> 00:26:10.540
 have his word

00:26:10.540 --> 00:26:11.420
 abiding in you.

00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:11.840
 He's talking about

00:26:11.840 --> 00:26:12.660
 God the Father.

00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:14.540
 For you do not believe

00:26:14.540 --> 00:26:15.500
 the one

00:26:15.500 --> 00:26:16.160
 whom he

00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:17.340
 has sent.

00:26:17.339 --> 00:26:18.679
 the Christ.

00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:19.859
 You do not believe

00:26:19.859 --> 00:26:20.879
 him.

00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:22.299
 There's this

00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:23.480
 indictment issued.

00:26:25.099 --> 00:26:25.779
 Jesus says

00:26:25.779 --> 00:26:26.559
 to this Jewish

00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:27.139
 audience

00:26:27.139 --> 00:26:28.139
 rejecting him

00:26:28.139 --> 00:26:28.859
 as the Christ

00:26:28.859 --> 00:26:29.519
 and it's

00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:30.519
 threefold.

00:26:31.099 --> 00:26:31.819
 The first,

00:26:31.980 --> 00:26:32.399
 he says,

00:26:32.779 --> 00:26:33.619
 His voice

00:26:33.619 --> 00:26:34.619
 you

00:26:34.619 --> 00:26:35.899
 have never heard.

00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:37.699
 They are

00:26:37.699 --> 00:26:38.819
 unlike

00:26:38.819 --> 00:26:39.539
 Moses

00:26:39.539 --> 00:26:41.179
 in this way.

00:26:41.339 --> 00:26:41.439
 Right?

00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:42.740
 One of their patriarchs.

00:26:42.740 --> 00:26:43.440
 are unlike

00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:44.000
 Moses

00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:45.259
 who heard

00:26:45.259 --> 00:26:46.140
 God's

00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:46.799
 voice.

00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:47.059
 Right?

00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:48.120
 Who met with him

00:26:48.120 --> 00:26:49.680
 on the mountain.

00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:50.220
 Exodus

00:26:50.220 --> 00:26:51.299
 chapter 33

00:26:51.299 --> 00:26:52.200
 and verse

00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:53.380
 11.

00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:55.380
 Those who reject

00:26:55.380 --> 00:26:55.980
 Jesus,

00:26:56.599 --> 00:26:57.359
 the Christ,

00:26:57.900 --> 00:26:58.599
 have never

00:26:58.599 --> 00:26:59.220
 heard

00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:00.339
 God's

00:27:00.339 --> 00:27:01.319
 voice.

00:27:01.579 --> 00:27:02.059
 Because

00:27:02.059 --> 00:27:02.640
 Jesus

00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:03.660
 speaks

00:27:03.660 --> 00:27:04.880
 the words

00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:05.799
 of God.

00:27:07.380 --> 00:27:08.660
 Earlier in our text,

00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:09.079
 I read of you

00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:09.960
 John chapter 5

00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:10.940
 in verse 18.

00:27:11.299 --> 00:27:11.960
 The verse that

00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:13.100
 follows at verse 19.

00:27:13.279 --> 00:27:14.000
 Jesus says

00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:14.900
 to them,

00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:15.200
 Truly,

00:27:15.340 --> 00:27:15.480
 truly,

00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:16.380
 I say to you,

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:17.740
 the Son can do

00:27:17.740 --> 00:27:18.640
 nothing of his

00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:19.200
 own accord,

00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:20.000
 but only what

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:20.620
 he sees the

00:27:20.620 --> 00:27:21.319
 Father doing.

00:27:21.680 --> 00:27:22.180
 For whatever

00:27:22.180 --> 00:27:23.059
 the Father does,

00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:23.940
 that the Son

00:27:23.940 --> 00:27:25.860
 does likewise.

00:27:27.120 --> 00:27:27.840
 And you could

00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:28.840
 see in that

00:27:28.840 --> 00:27:30.279
 what he speaks

00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:30.880
 as well.

00:27:30.980 --> 00:27:31.420
 But in case

00:27:31.420 --> 00:27:32.420
 that's too vague,

00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:33.900
 later in

00:27:33.900 --> 00:27:34.579
 John's gospel

00:27:34.579 --> 00:27:35.299
 in chapter 12

00:27:35.299 --> 00:27:36.100
 and verse 49,

00:27:36.860 --> 00:27:37.380
 Jesus says,

00:27:37.500 --> 00:27:38.140
 For I have not

00:27:38.140 --> 00:27:39.779
 spoken on my

00:27:39.779 --> 00:27:40.420
 own authority,

00:27:40.519 --> 00:27:41.099
 but the Father

00:27:41.099 --> 00:27:42.019
 who sent me

00:27:42.019 --> 00:27:43.119
 has himself

00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:43.980
 given me

00:27:43.980 --> 00:27:45.559
 a commandment.

00:27:45.819 --> 00:27:46.819
 What to say

00:27:46.819 --> 00:27:49.079
 and what to speak.

00:27:49.539 --> 00:27:50.859
 Jesus speaks

00:27:50.859 --> 00:27:51.879
 the very words

00:27:51.879 --> 00:27:52.319
 of God,

00:27:52.399 --> 00:27:52.740
 and if we

00:27:52.740 --> 00:27:53.740
 reject Jesus

00:27:53.740 --> 00:27:55.299
 as the Christ,

00:27:55.379 --> 00:27:56.099
 then we reject

00:27:56.099 --> 00:27:58.279
 God himself.

00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:00.099
 So his voice

00:28:00.099 --> 00:28:01.500
 you have never

00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:02.440
 heard is the

00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:03.980
 first point

00:28:03.980 --> 00:28:04.859
 of the indictment.

00:28:05.759 --> 00:28:06.460
 The second

00:28:06.460 --> 00:28:07.839
 is his form

00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:09.299
 you have never

00:28:09.299 --> 00:28:10.859
 seen.

00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:12.000
 Unlike

00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:13.319
 Jacob,

00:28:13.959 --> 00:28:14.500
 another

00:28:14.500 --> 00:28:15.959
 Jewish patriarch

00:28:15.959 --> 00:28:17.779
 who wrestled

00:28:17.779 --> 00:28:18.480
 with God

00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:19.379
 and said in

00:28:19.379 --> 00:28:20.240
 Genesis 32

00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:20.779
 and verse

00:28:20.779 --> 00:28:21.879
 30,

00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:23.039
 there it says,

00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:23.579
 So Jacob

00:28:23.579 --> 00:28:24.259
 called the name

00:28:24.259 --> 00:28:24.819
 of the place

00:28:24.819 --> 00:28:25.619
 Peniel,

00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:26.519
 saying,

00:28:26.959 --> 00:28:27.500
 For I have

00:28:27.500 --> 00:28:28.740
 seen God

00:28:28.740 --> 00:28:30.339
 face to face,

00:28:30.980 --> 00:28:31.500
 and yet my

00:28:31.500 --> 00:28:32.099
 life

00:28:32.099 --> 00:28:33.339
 has been

00:28:33.339 --> 00:28:34.579
 delivered.

00:28:34.579 --> 00:28:36.319
 You don't

00:28:36.319 --> 00:28:37.839
 know him

00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:38.319
 because you're

00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:39.199
 not accepting

00:28:39.199 --> 00:28:40.500
 me.

00:28:40.699 --> 00:28:41.339
 That's the second

00:28:41.339 --> 00:28:42.519
 part of the

00:28:42.519 --> 00:28:42.919
 indictment.

00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:43.319
 The third

00:28:43.319 --> 00:28:43.799
 part of it,

00:28:44.579 --> 00:28:45.059
 and you do

00:28:45.059 --> 00:28:45.919
 not have his

00:28:45.919 --> 00:28:47.539
 word abiding

00:28:47.539 --> 00:28:47.599
!

00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:48.720
 in you.

00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:50.000
 Unlike,

00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:51.339
 say,

00:28:51.439 --> 00:28:51.919
 Joshua,

00:28:53.019 --> 00:28:53.699
 another patriarch

00:28:53.699 --> 00:28:54.799
 who was commanded,

00:28:55.019 --> 00:28:55.939
 Joshua chapter 1

00:28:55.939 --> 00:28:56.960
 verse 8 and 9,

00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:58.379
 This book of the law

00:28:58.379 --> 00:28:59.159
 shall not depart

00:28:59.159 --> 00:28:59.899
 from your mouth,

00:29:00.339 --> 00:29:00.960
 but you shall

00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:02.019
 meditate on it

00:29:02.019 --> 00:29:02.740
 day and night

00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:03.319
 so that you may

00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:04.359
 be careful to do

00:29:04.359 --> 00:29:05.399
 according to all

00:29:05.399 --> 00:29:05.899
 that is written

00:29:05.899 --> 00:29:06.339
 in it.

00:29:06.879 --> 00:29:07.460
 For then you will

00:29:07.460 --> 00:29:08.000
 make your way

00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:08.519
 prosperous,

00:29:08.700 --> 00:29:09.000
 and then you

00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:09.639
 will have good

00:29:09.639 --> 00:29:10.379
 success.

00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:11.799
 Have I not

00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:12.539
 commanded you?

00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:13.819
 Be strong and

00:29:13.819 --> 00:29:14.200
 courageous,

00:29:14.339 --> 00:29:14.779
 do not be

00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:15.079
 frightened,

00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:15.639
 and do not

00:29:15.639 --> 00:29:16.559
 be dismayed,

00:29:16.879 --> 00:29:17.539
 for the Lord

00:29:17.539 --> 00:29:18.259
 your God

00:29:18.259 --> 00:29:19.319
 is with you

00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:21.240
 wherever you

00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:21.559
 go.

00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:22.879
 I'm going to

00:29:22.879 --> 00:29:23.220
 pick up this

00:29:23.220 --> 00:29:24.339
 idea of abiding

00:29:24.339 --> 00:29:25.539
 later on in

00:29:25.539 --> 00:29:27.039
 John's gospel,

00:29:27.220 --> 00:29:27.899
 but it means

00:29:27.899 --> 00:29:29.419
 to tarry along

00:29:29.419 --> 00:29:29.799
 with,

00:29:29.879 --> 00:29:31.220
 to travel in

00:29:31.220 --> 00:29:32.539
 your going,

00:29:32.539 --> 00:29:34.119
 you do not

00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:34.639
 have God's

00:29:34.639 --> 00:29:35.700
 word going

00:29:35.700 --> 00:29:36.480
 with you

00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:37.740
 because if

00:29:37.740 --> 00:29:38.480
 you did,

00:29:38.779 --> 00:29:39.240
 you would

00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:41.019
 see me,

00:29:41.339 --> 00:29:42.000
 the one

00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:42.779
 that it

00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:43.680
 testifies

00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:45.119
 to.

00:29:46.079 --> 00:29:46.879
 The last part

00:29:46.879 --> 00:29:47.460
 of verse 48

00:29:47.460 --> 00:29:47.720
 says,

00:29:47.839 --> 00:29:48.339
 For you do

00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:49.180
 not believe

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:49.619
 that you have

00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:49.980
 not seen

00:29:49.980 --> 00:29:50.639
 his form,

00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:51.420
 you do not

00:29:51.420 --> 00:29:51.899
 have his

00:29:51.899 --> 00:29:52.960
 word abiding

00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:53.420
 in you,

00:29:53.460 --> 00:29:54.279
 and the evidence

00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:55.299
 of that is

00:29:55.299 --> 00:29:56.240
 that you are

00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:57.180
 rejecting the

00:29:57.180 --> 00:29:58.579
 one that he

00:29:58.579 --> 00:29:59.039
 has sent.

00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:01.039
 after he

00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:01.460
 talks about

00:30:01.460 --> 00:30:02.480
 the scriptures

00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:02.940
 and their

00:30:02.940 --> 00:30:04.200
 diligent searching

00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:04.759
 of it and

00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:06.339
 trying to find

00:30:06.339 --> 00:30:07.200
 eternal life

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.000
 in it,

00:30:08.099 --> 00:30:08.579
 he says in

00:30:08.579 --> 00:30:09.059
 verse 40,

00:30:09.159 --> 00:30:09.879
 Yet you

00:30:09.879 --> 00:30:10.980
 refuse to

00:30:10.980 --> 00:30:12.039
 come to

00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:13.299
 me that

00:30:13.299 --> 00:30:13.799
 you may

00:30:13.799 --> 00:30:15.500
 have life.

00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:17.279
 This book

00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:17.779
 is a

00:30:17.779 --> 00:30:18.579
 precious,

00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:19.440
 precious

00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:20.319
 book.

00:30:21.220 --> 00:30:21.680
 We are

00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:23.059
 just so

00:30:23.059 --> 00:30:24.359
 abundantly

00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:25.480
 blessed with

00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:26.639
 Bible in

00:30:26.639 --> 00:30:27.420
 our days.

00:30:27.420 --> 00:30:29.160
 the translations

00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:29.680
 that we

00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:30.080
 have,

00:30:30.300 --> 00:30:30.700
 just pick

00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:31.300
 one of the

00:30:31.300 --> 00:30:32.440
 good translations

00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:33.279
 and we are

00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:35.039
 more favored

00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:36.100
 amongst peoples

00:30:36.100 --> 00:30:37.300
 to have such

00:30:37.300 --> 00:30:38.740
 good access

00:30:38.740 --> 00:30:39.720
 to the

00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:40.000
 scripture.

00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:40.500
 And then we

00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:41.500
 replete with

00:30:41.500 --> 00:30:41.600
 them.

00:30:41.660 --> 00:30:42.019
 We have all

00:30:42.019 --> 00:30:42.700
 kinds of

00:30:42.700 --> 00:30:44.220
 great translations

00:30:44.220 --> 00:30:44.860
 and great

00:30:44.860 --> 00:30:45.400
 tools to

00:30:45.400 --> 00:30:45.740
 study.

00:30:45.840 --> 00:30:46.380
 It's all

00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:47.759
 so good

00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:48.500
 and so

00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:49.039
 precious,

00:30:49.320 --> 00:30:49.680
 but guys,

00:30:49.779 --> 00:30:50.580
 we miss

00:30:50.580 --> 00:30:51.120
 it if we

00:30:51.120 --> 00:30:51.519
 don't see

00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:52.779
 Christ on

00:30:52.779 --> 00:30:53.240
 its pages.

00:30:54.120 --> 00:30:55.060
 It's useless

00:30:55.060 --> 00:30:56.340
 to us if we

00:30:56.340 --> 00:30:57.120
 don't take

00:30:57.119 --> 00:30:58.099
 hold of

00:30:58.099 --> 00:30:58.599
 Jesus,

00:30:59.779 --> 00:31:00.459
 the Christ.

00:31:01.739 --> 00:31:02.199
 He says in

00:31:02.199 --> 00:31:02.839
 verse 43,

00:31:03.099 --> 00:31:03.559
 I have come

00:31:03.559 --> 00:31:03.779
 in my

00:31:03.779 --> 00:31:04.439
 Father's name

00:31:04.439 --> 00:31:05.019
 and you

00:31:05.019 --> 00:31:05.339
 do not

00:31:05.339 --> 00:31:05.939
 receive me.

00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:06.439
 If another

00:31:06.439 --> 00:31:07.319
 comes in

00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:07.659
 his own

00:31:07.659 --> 00:31:07.939
 name,

00:31:08.159 --> 00:31:08.539
 you will

00:31:08.539 --> 00:31:09.599
 receive him.

00:31:09.679 --> 00:31:09.919
 And it's

00:31:09.919 --> 00:31:10.319
 like he's

00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:10.500
 saying,

00:31:10.579 --> 00:31:11.279
 what's wrong

00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:11.859
 with you?

00:31:13.139 --> 00:31:14.219
 God has

00:31:14.219 --> 00:31:15.279
 sent me,

00:31:16.199 --> 00:31:17.059
 see me,

00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:18.299
 and receive

00:31:18.299 --> 00:31:18.599
 me.

00:31:20.099 --> 00:31:20.819
 So let's

00:31:20.819 --> 00:31:21.619
 think through

00:31:21.619 --> 00:31:23.199
 some applications

00:31:23.199 --> 00:31:24.179
 as we

00:31:24.179 --> 00:31:25.019
 consider this

00:31:25.019 --> 00:31:25.500
 text in

00:31:25.500 --> 00:31:25.819
 closing.

00:31:28.160 --> 00:31:28.720
 First,

00:31:29.720 --> 00:31:30.539
 receive the

00:31:30.539 --> 00:31:31.819
 witness God

00:31:31.819 --> 00:31:33.880
 has given.

00:31:35.500 --> 00:31:36.579
 Jesus is

00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:37.579
 not lacking

00:31:37.579 --> 00:31:39.039
 for testimony.

00:31:40.500 --> 00:31:40.900
 John the

00:31:40.900 --> 00:31:41.400
 Baptist bore

00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:41.759
 witness.

00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:42.960
 Jesus'

00:31:43.240 --> 00:31:44.099
 works bore

00:31:44.099 --> 00:31:44.519
 witness.

00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:46.119
 The Father

00:31:46.119 --> 00:31:47.579
 bore witness.

00:31:48.579 --> 00:31:49.299
 The Scriptures

00:31:49.299 --> 00:31:50.619
 continue this

00:31:50.619 --> 00:31:51.759
 day to bear

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:52.880
 witness.

00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:54.280
 Moses bore

00:31:54.280 --> 00:31:55.360
 witness.

00:31:56.360 --> 00:31:56.860
 How much

00:31:56.860 --> 00:31:57.160
 more

00:31:57.160 --> 00:31:57.820
 confirmation

00:31:57.820 --> 00:31:58.600
 could God

00:31:58.600 --> 00:32:00.260
 possibly give?

00:32:01.900 --> 00:32:02.580
 Unbelief

00:32:02.580 --> 00:32:03.760
 is not an

00:32:03.760 --> 00:32:04.360
 intellectual

00:32:04.360 --> 00:32:05.100
 problem,

00:32:05.600 --> 00:32:06.860
 but it's a

00:32:06.860 --> 00:32:07.380
 moral one.

00:32:08.340 --> 00:32:08.960
 If you will

00:32:08.960 --> 00:32:09.480
 not come to

00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:09.860
 Christ,

00:32:09.920 --> 00:32:10.320
 it is not

00:32:10.320 --> 00:32:10.880
 because the

00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:11.600
 evidence is

00:32:11.600 --> 00:32:11.960
 weak,

00:32:12.280 --> 00:32:12.940
 but because

00:32:12.940 --> 00:32:13.540
 your heart

00:32:13.540 --> 00:32:14.960
 is hard.

00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:16.660
 I plead with

00:32:16.660 --> 00:32:17.020
 you this

00:32:17.020 --> 00:32:17.340
 morning.

00:32:18.060 --> 00:32:18.800
 Come to

00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:20.000
 Christ and

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:20.360
 live.

00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:21.259
 If you

00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:21.579
 need to

00:32:21.579 --> 00:32:22.259
 learn more,

00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:22.719
 I'm

00:32:22.719 --> 00:32:23.519
 certainly

00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:24.599
 one of

00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:24.839
 them.

00:32:26.099 --> 00:32:26.659
 Receive the

00:32:26.659 --> 00:32:27.159
 witness that

00:32:27.159 --> 00:32:28.159
 God has

00:32:28.159 --> 00:32:28.459
 given.

00:32:29.179 --> 00:32:29.839
 Find eternal

00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:31.419
 life in

00:32:31.419 --> 00:32:31.779
 Christ.

00:32:33.659 --> 00:32:34.259
 Secondly,

00:32:34.939 --> 00:32:35.559
 if you're in

00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:36.019
 Christ,

00:32:37.059 --> 00:32:38.179
 beware a

00:32:38.179 --> 00:32:38.959
 Bible without

00:32:38.959 --> 00:32:39.259
 him.

00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:41.159
 We too

00:32:41.159 --> 00:32:41.979
 often go to

00:32:41.979 --> 00:32:42.619
 the Bible to

00:32:42.619 --> 00:32:43.279
 know things

00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:44.199
 about our

00:32:44.199 --> 00:32:44.779
 God and

00:32:44.779 --> 00:32:45.219
 not to

00:32:45.219 --> 00:32:46.879
 know our

00:32:46.879 --> 00:32:47.219
 God.

00:32:47.220 --> 00:32:47.259
 God.

00:32:48.259 --> 00:32:48.920
 The Jews

00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:49.400
 searched the

00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:49.740
 scriptures

00:32:49.740 --> 00:32:50.519
 diligently,

00:32:51.100 --> 00:32:51.779
 but they

00:32:51.779 --> 00:32:52.240
 missed the

00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:53.120
 very one to

00:32:53.120 --> 00:32:53.620
 whom the

00:32:53.620 --> 00:32:54.019
 scriptures

00:32:54.019 --> 00:32:55.120
 pointed.

00:32:56.120 --> 00:32:56.700
 You can

00:32:56.700 --> 00:32:57.039
 read the

00:32:57.039 --> 00:32:57.279
 Bible,

00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:58.539
 you can

00:32:58.539 --> 00:32:59.579
 love theology,

00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:01.019
 study doctrine,

00:33:01.500 --> 00:33:02.640
 and still

00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:03.579
 perish if

00:33:03.579 --> 00:33:04.559
 Christ is

00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.720
 not your

00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:06.980
 Savior.

00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:08.680
 It's

00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:09.160
 altogether

00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:09.900
 possible to

00:33:09.900 --> 00:33:10.360
 know a

00:33:10.360 --> 00:33:10.779
 ton of

00:33:10.779 --> 00:33:13.480
 stuff and

00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:14.299
 not embrace

00:33:14.299 --> 00:33:15.100
 Christ for

00:33:15.100 --> 00:33:15.559
 the salvation

00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:16.579
 of your

00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:16.839
 soul.

00:33:17.220 --> 00:33:18.299
 it's

00:33:18.299 --> 00:33:18.799
 impossible,

00:33:19.140 --> 00:33:19.339
 I mean,

00:33:19.420 --> 00:33:19.660
 excuse me,

00:33:19.700 --> 00:33:19.860
 it's

00:33:19.860 --> 00:33:21.339
 possible to

00:33:21.339 --> 00:33:21.940
 master the

00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:22.740
 text and

00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:23.120
 miss the

00:33:23.120 --> 00:33:23.339
 Savior.

00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:24.900
 The ultimate

00:33:24.900 --> 00:33:25.579
 question is

00:33:25.579 --> 00:33:26.380
 not do I

00:33:26.380 --> 00:33:26.779
 know the

00:33:26.779 --> 00:33:27.740
 Bible, but

00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:29.620
 rather do I

00:33:29.620 --> 00:33:30.079
 know the

00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:31.039
 one that

00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:31.420
 the Bible

00:33:31.420 --> 00:33:32.779
 reveals.

00:33:34.980 --> 00:33:35.680
 Thirdly and

00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:36.039
 lastly,

00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:39.180
 delight in

00:33:39.180 --> 00:33:39.980
 the glory

00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:41.799
 of Christ.

00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:44.279
 Verse 44

00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:44.620
 says,

00:33:44.740 --> 00:33:45.819
 how can you

00:33:45.819 --> 00:33:46.539
 believe when

00:33:46.539 --> 00:33:47.039
 you receive

00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:47.659
 glory from

00:33:47.659 --> 00:33:48.240
 one another?

00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:49.379
 You're

00:33:49.379 --> 00:33:49.740
 willing to

00:33:49.740 --> 00:33:50.319
 prop each

00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:50.920
 other up

00:33:50.920 --> 00:33:51.759
 and give

00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:52.119
 each other

00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:53.059
 attaboys and

00:33:53.059 --> 00:33:53.680
 say way to

00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:54.059
 go.

00:33:55.399 --> 00:33:55.960
 And do

00:33:55.960 --> 00:33:56.920
 not seek

00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:57.920
 the glory

00:33:57.920 --> 00:33:59.099
 that comes

00:33:59.099 --> 00:34:00.740
 from the

00:34:00.740 --> 00:34:02.460
 only God.

00:34:02.680 --> 00:34:03.000
 He talked

00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:03.420
 about being

00:34:03.420 --> 00:34:04.500
 sent by

00:34:04.500 --> 00:34:05.159
 God,

00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:05.859
 Jesus,

00:34:06.339 --> 00:34:06.519
 right?

00:34:06.879 --> 00:34:07.980
 The glory

00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:09.800
 of Christ

00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:10.920
 is the way

00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:11.179
 that we

00:34:11.179 --> 00:34:11.960
 behold the

00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:13.519
 glory of

00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:14.880
 God.

00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:15.599
 God, what a

00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:17.079
 precious thing

00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:17.880
 this is that

00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:19.039
 we ought to

00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:20.759
 delight in.

00:34:21.739 --> 00:34:22.300
 John says in

00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:23.000
 chapter 17

00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:23.820
 that eternal

00:34:23.820 --> 00:34:24.559
 life is to

00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:25.759
 know God

00:34:25.759 --> 00:34:26.099
 and the

00:34:26.099 --> 00:34:26.659
 one whom

00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:27.400
 he has

00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:28.960
 sent.

00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:30.139
 This is

00:34:30.139 --> 00:34:30.860
 astounding.

00:34:31.619 --> 00:34:32.219
 I don't

00:34:32.219 --> 00:34:33.739
 fully comprehend

00:34:33.739 --> 00:34:34.800
 all that it

00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:35.539
 means.

00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:36.519
 I think we'll

00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:36.920
 spend our

00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:38.920
 lives trying

00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:39.639
 to know

00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:40.199
 God

00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:41.099
 imperfectly

00:34:41.099 --> 00:34:41.460
 so that

00:34:41.460 --> 00:34:41.919
 one day

00:34:41.919 --> 00:34:42.399
 we will

00:34:42.399 --> 00:34:43.219
 know him

00:34:43.219 --> 00:34:44.859
 perfectly.

00:34:46.759 --> 00:34:47.439
 John Owen

00:34:47.439 --> 00:34:48.139
 once wrote

00:34:48.139 --> 00:34:48.919
 in his book

00:34:48.919 --> 00:34:49.359
 The Glory

00:34:49.359 --> 00:34:49.899
 of Christ,

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:51.019
 which if

00:34:51.019 --> 00:34:51.259
 you've ever

00:34:51.259 --> 00:34:51.699
 tried to

00:34:51.699 --> 00:34:52.339
 read Owen,

00:34:52.939 --> 00:34:53.399
 you may

00:34:53.399 --> 00:34:54.299
 never try

00:34:54.299 --> 00:34:54.599
 to read

00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:55.099
 Owen again.

00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:56.719
 If you'd

00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:57.159
 like to

00:34:57.159 --> 00:34:57.639
 read Owen,

00:34:57.879 --> 00:34:58.259
 some of his

00:34:58.259 --> 00:34:58.619
 writing is

00:34:58.619 --> 00:34:59.259
 really difficult.

00:34:59.460 --> 00:34:59.839
 This is the

00:34:59.839 --> 00:35:00.299
 book to start

00:35:00.299 --> 00:35:00.500
 with,

00:35:00.579 --> 00:35:00.859
 The Glory

00:35:00.859 --> 00:35:01.319
 of Christ.

00:35:01.439 --> 00:35:01.819
 It's the

00:35:01.819 --> 00:35:03.319
 simplest of

00:35:03.319 --> 00:35:04.379
 his writing

00:35:04.379 --> 00:35:05.419
 and it's

00:35:05.419 --> 00:35:06.559
 a rich,

00:35:06.659 --> 00:35:07.099
 rich read.

00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:07.819
 He said

00:35:07.819 --> 00:35:08.159
 this though,

00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:08.419
 quote,

00:35:08.420 --> 00:35:09.760
 Make up

00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:10.220
 your mind

00:35:10.220 --> 00:35:10.460
 that to

00:35:10.460 --> 00:35:11.119
 behold the

00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:11.559
 glory of

00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:12.300
 God by

00:35:12.300 --> 00:35:12.860
 beholding

00:35:12.860 --> 00:35:13.220
 the glory

00:35:13.220 --> 00:35:13.820
 of Christ

00:35:13.820 --> 00:35:14.599
 is the

00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:15.200
 greatest

00:35:15.200 --> 00:35:15.740
 privilege

00:35:15.740 --> 00:35:16.119
 which is

00:35:16.119 --> 00:35:16.579
 given to

00:35:16.579 --> 00:35:16.920
 believers

00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:17.740
 in this

00:35:17.740 --> 00:35:18.099
 life.

00:35:18.659 --> 00:35:18.960
 Let me

00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:19.159
 read that

00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:19.500
 first part

00:35:19.500 --> 00:35:19.740
 again.

00:35:20.139 --> 00:35:20.440
 Make up

00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:20.960
 your minds

00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:21.240
 that to

00:35:21.240 --> 00:35:21.880
 behold the

00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:22.340
 glory of

00:35:22.340 --> 00:35:22.800
 God by

00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:23.380
 beholding

00:35:23.380 --> 00:35:23.720
 the glory

00:35:23.720 --> 00:35:24.300
 of Christ

00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:25.200
 is the

00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:25.680
 greatest

00:35:25.680 --> 00:35:26.139
 privilege

00:35:26.139 --> 00:35:26.480
 which is

00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:26.940
 given to

00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:27.340
 believers

00:35:27.340 --> 00:35:28.320
 in this

00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:28.700
 life.

00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:30.599
 This is

00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:31.220
 the dawning

00:35:31.220 --> 00:35:31.820
 of heaven.

00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:32.880
 It is the

00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:33.639
 first taste

00:35:33.639 --> 00:35:33.980
 of that

00:35:33.980 --> 00:35:34.700
 heavenly glory

00:35:34.700 --> 00:35:35.280
 which God

00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:35.860
 has prepared

00:35:35.860 --> 00:35:36.420
 for us

00:35:36.420 --> 00:35:37.500
 for this

00:35:37.500 --> 00:35:38.260
 is

00:35:38.260 --> 00:35:39.040
 eternal

00:35:39.040 --> 00:35:39.460
 life

00:35:39.460 --> 00:35:40.300
 to know

00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:40.780
 the Father

00:35:40.780 --> 00:35:41.600
 and Jesus

00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:42.140
 Christ

00:35:42.140 --> 00:35:43.180
 whom he

00:35:43.180 --> 00:35:43.680
 has sent.

00:35:43.980 --> 00:35:44.280
 That's

00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:45.780
 John 17

00:35:45.780 --> 00:35:46.980
 and verse

00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:47.260
 3.

00:35:47.860 --> 00:35:48.560
 Let's pray

00:35:48.560 --> 00:35:48.860
 together.

00:35:48.860 --> 00:35:49.019
 here.