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 Well, amen and good morning. Please take your copy of God's Word and join me in John chapter 12.

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 Whenever I preach, I'm always very reticent to draw any attention to myself, which is, I know, a little ironic because I'm standing up here and you're listening to me.

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 But I don't want you to pay a whole lot of attention to me. I want to draw your attention to the text that we're in.

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 And so that's why I wear the same jacket every Sunday. It's not because I don't want to own multiple jackets.

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 It's because I see no need to, and I just want to be kind of boring for God's glory.

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 I just want to get up and preach and have you hear God's Word preached.

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 So sometimes when there's something about me that might be distracting, I don't know if I should draw attention to it or not draw attention to it.

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 And so this morning I'm going to draw attention to something that perhaps is distracting, and maybe not.

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 Thank you for those of you who have asked. Maybe you haven't noticed.

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 But I have a pretty decent gash on my cheek this morning. I don't know if you can see or not on my cheek here.

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 Because this week I got into a fight with a rather obtuse pry bar that cared nothing about the opinion I was sharing with it.

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 And to my shame, it drew first blood, and I don't think I hurt it at all.

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 So that's what's happening with my cheek. Again, thank you for those of you who asked. All is well with me.

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 We have been working our way through John's gospel account.

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 Last week we concluded chapter 11.

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 But before preaching verse by verse, the beginning of chapter 12, I want to take a unique break.

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 I've been planning on doing this for some months now.

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 For our time together, you're going to need two things. Your Bible. You already turned to chapter 12, I hope.

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 And we're going to spend a bit of time there eventually.

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 And number two, you're going to need that bulletin that was handed to you on your way in.

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 I don't always, in fact, I rarely include any notes within the notes section of your bulletin.

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 But in this case, I have, and they will be very helpful for you to follow what I am saying.

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 I think you might be entirely lost if you don't have that opened up in front of you.

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 I want us to take a unique break to consider broadly the literary structure of John.

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 If you've been with us in our study, this concept will not be new to you.

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 So, why, you might ask, take a step back from the book to consider it as a whole.

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 We've been talking about chiastic literary structure almost every week that we've been in John.

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 So, why look at it as a whole is the question that's in front of us.

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 I hope doing this is going to elicit three responses for you.

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 So, here's my answer to that question.

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 Number one, I hope it'll elicit in you humility.

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 This book is brilliantly constructed.

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 And while we believe in the inspiration of the Bible,

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 that is, in this case, the Holy Spirit worked through the pen of John,

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 we believe that it was breathed out by God through the pen of John,

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 we do not believe this happens apart from the author's experience,

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 cultural background, education, intellect, etc.

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 That inspiration uses the personality of the individual.

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 So, John the Apostle, formerly John the Fisherman,

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 was a brilliant man,

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 which I find should humble us.

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 We are not the smartest people to ever live.

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 I think that John would have run circles around every single one of us intellectually.

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 Further, grasping the complexity of a book like John

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 should show us that none of us know our Bibles quite as much

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 as we might think that we do.

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 We've got a lifetime ahead of us, right?

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 As long as the Lord tarries and He leaves us here,

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 that we can study this Word and understand it more and more and more.

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 So, I hope to work humility in us this morning.

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 Secondly, I want to elicit a response of wonder.

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 John wasn't alone, as I mentioned in writing of this Gospel.

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 The Bible is God-breathed, and it is magnificent.

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 We can spend the entirety of our lives studying this book,

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 and we will not unpack all of its beauty.

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 Now, it is true that the doctrine of the clarity of Scripture states

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 that all that is necessary for life and godliness is clear in the Bible.

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 We, yes and amen, that reality.

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 But that's where a lot of people stop.

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 They stop understanding it and mining its depths at that level.

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 But this book is just amazing.

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 It's amazing.

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 Written by various authors across time.

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 It contains such singular focus.

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 It's just layered, layered, layered with awe.

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 We truly worship an incredible God,

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 and our study of His written Word is but a drop in the ocean of Himself.

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 I am convinced that we will spend eternity enthralled by discovery of the person of God,

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 and we get to begin with this book.

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 We should just be amazed by it.

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 When structure like this exists,

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 when the connections are apparent to us,

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 we just ought to stand in awe of it.

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 So I hope to promote wonder in us this morning.

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 And third, I hope to elicit attention.

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 I want to draw your attention to what I believe,

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 and I'm not alone in this,

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 is the central phrase of the whole of John's Gospel.

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 A central phrase.

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 I believe he means for us to notice this central phrase

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 and have it inform our reading and study of the rest of the book.

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 And so I hope to grab your attention this morning.

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 Now, I've mentioned taking a unique break to consider literary structure.

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 I've mentioned a central phrase.

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 If you've been with us, you know exactly what we're referring to.

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 If you haven't been, I want to introduce you to a literary structure we called chiasms.

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 Much of the Bible is chiastic.

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 They're all over the place.

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 They're not everywhere, but they are all over the place.

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 It is a broadly employed mnemonic device

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 used to help in the memorization of long texts.

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 Often used by ancient peoples,

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 this kind of structure to help people memorize things

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 because they didn't have paper and pen readily available the way that we do.

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 But it also served to drive particular points,

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 to grant interpretive lenses to a text.

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 So in your bulletin, I included a simple definition by a man named Jim Hamilton.

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 And he is, I have called him the contemporary king of chiasms,

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 which is chiastic and it alliterates.

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 That's free for you today.

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 But he says this,

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 the word chiasm derives from the Greek letter chi,

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 which looks like an X.

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 The idea is that the first and last points match,

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 as do the second and second to last,

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 with as many in between as the author desires,

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 hinging at a central turning point.

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 Okay, so it's just that simple.

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 And you'll be able to see what that looks like

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 as I've included some notes for you in your bulletin as well.

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 Before we proceed, let me lead us in a prayer.

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 Father, we do ask that you would bless the preaching of your word this morning,

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 even as we look at it in a broader sense.

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 I pray that you would work in us humility and wonder,

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 and that you would draw our attention to the saving work of Christ,

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 that we would perhaps for the first time today,

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 receive him as Savior and Lord.

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 And if we already have, that we would relish him all the more.

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 We humbly recognize that we cannot do this without your help.

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 We need your spirit to work in us.

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 And so we pray that you'll do this very thing.

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 Amen.

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 Okay, so firstly, I wanted to look at John chapter 1, verses 1 through 18.

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 You read this as a responsive reading earlier.

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 And I want to do this because this is an undeniable chiasm.

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 Even people who don't like the work of looking at chiastic structures in the Bible agree.

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 All the scholars go, yep, we see it there.

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 So you read it earlier.

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 I'm not going to read it in its entirety to you.

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 But you may have noted that it's a little bit odd in its structure.

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 You get this mention of John, and then a departure from John,

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 and then a return back to John once again.

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 It's always read strange to me.

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 I've always thought, man, the first chapter of John is a strange chapter.

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 It's like he's forgetting things he wanted to say,

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 and going back and filling in some details,

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 and then going back to the thing.

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 Like, whoopsie-daisy, I went off to John the Baptist.

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 I better circle back around and say some things about Jesus,

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 and then go back to John the Baptist.

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 Like, he didn't have an eraser, and he just had no choice but to do that.

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 I didn't really think any of that.

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 But it just always read odd to me.

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 Well, the reason it reads a bit odd is because it's a chiasm.

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 So if you look, there, I put that in the bulletin for you.

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 You'll notice I've demarcated things by A and A prime.

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 So those two correspond with one another.

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 So those beginning four verses, you see Jesus presented as light.

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 He's coming from God, a representative of God.

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 And then in that last portion, verse 16 through 18,

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 no one has ever seen God, God the only Son who is at the Father's side.

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 He has made him known.

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 So you see him presented as light and then as glory come from God.

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 Then very obviously, the B and the B prime.

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 You have a man sent from God whose name was John.

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 And then picking up in verse 15, John bore witness about him and cried out.

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 There's that piece, John there, and then John picking back up again in verse 15.

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 Then you have C and then C prime.

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 Once again, the true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

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 Verse 14, and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.

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 Again, light and glory.

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 So the central piece of that is verses 10 through 13.

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 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.

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 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

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 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

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 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

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 There's the central turning point of this text.

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 And what John is doing is he's setting up a theme that he's going to carry all throughout the book of receiving Jesus and rejecting Jesus.

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 We see this over and over again, back to back to back.

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 Chiastic structures again and again and again.

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 Receiving Jesus, rejecting Jesus, receiving, rejecting.

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 And he explains on what basis this happens.

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 Why is it that some reject and some receive?

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 Some are not born of God.

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 God is building this case right at the beginning, right here.

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 How is it that they come to faith in Christ?

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 It's that they're born of God.

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 God quickens them, makes them alive, births faith in them.

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 And he's going to continue to argue this out all throughout the book.

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 You can see it, I hope, right?

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 So I gave you like a little, little tiny hint at a chiasm that I made up about Jim Hamilton.

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 And now you're seeing it here in John in these first 18 verses.

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 And can you see that X structure the way that it lays out before you?

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 Right.

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 I hope that you can.

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 I hope you're with me.

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 Now, let's take some time to look at the book as a whole.

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 And I'm working you toward a point, right?

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 So I'm flying through some things, but I'm working you toward a point.

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 And that is that I want to draw your attention to the central phrase of the text.

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 So if you look, I think you have to flip your page.

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 I can hear pages flipping.

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 I've enumerated the chapters.

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 It starts broad and gets smaller.

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 I did not AA prime demarcate at this time for the sake of space.

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 But you'll notice, again, corresponding chapters in the entirety of the book.

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 So chapter 1 corresponding to chapters 20 through 21.

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 I would really encourage you to take some time to read these chapters.

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 Read chapter 1, then read chapter 20 and 21, and notice the things that are happening in these places.

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 Chapters 2 through 4 correspond with chapters 18 through 20.

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 So you see from Cana to Cana, from garden to garden.

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 This is where, in those chapters where Jesus talks about destroying the temple and raising it up in three days.

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 And then in chapters 18 through 20, the temple, Jesus is crucified.

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 And then he is raised on the third day.

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 Chapters 5 through 11, you see Jesus' public ministry.

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 He's among crowds.

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 He's at feasts.

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 Summary things.

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 Chapters 12 through 17, he's in private.

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 He's with his disciples.

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 He's at a particular feast, the Passover feast.

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 Chapter 11, narrowing the scope, verses 45 through 53.

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 Caiaphas, the high priest that year, unknowingly prophesied

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 that it's better that one man would die for the nation.

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 And John explains to us what's meant by that.

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 That he would die for the people of Israel who believe in him.

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 And not only them, but for the nations.

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 And then what do we see as a correspondence to that?

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 Chapter 12, verses 12 through 19.

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 The triumphal entry.

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 Where he is proclaimed to be the Christ.

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 The one who is going to deliver his people.

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 Chapter 11, verse 54 through 57.

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 Right there at the end of the chapter, this question is being asked.

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 Will he come?

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 Is Jesus going to show up to the Passover feast?

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 And you see the Sanhedrin has put out an order.

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 They're seeking to arrest.

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 They want to know if he shows up.

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 They want to arrest him.

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 And we know that they've already decided that they're going to kill him at this point.

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 And then the corresponding text is chapter 12, verse 9 through 11.

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 Where he does in fact come.

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 Right?

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 He shows up.

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 And there's a mention there of them seeking to kill Lazarus.

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 Am I making sense?

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 How it builds into a central point.

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 The central text is chapter 12, verse 1 through 8.

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 Where we see reject.

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 This theme emerges of receiving Jesus as the Christ.

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 And rejecting Jesus as the Christ.

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 On one side of that, you have Mary.

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 On the other side of that, you have...

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 My brain just went totally blank.

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 He has a name.

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 Judith.

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 Thank you so much.

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 Somebody whispered it.

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 I appreciate you.

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 Okay.

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 So that's where we're going to spend our time looking at this.

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 Now we are, next week, Lord willing, we're going to look at this text more broadly.

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 So some of the details.

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 But here we're just, we're working the chiastic structure down to the central phrase.

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 Okay.

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 Now, we've spent some time.

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 You've seen it on paper.

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 And now you guys are chiastic professionals.

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 So I did not include verses 1 through 8 because I want you to look at it yourself.

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 So now you've got your Bibles open to John chapter 12.

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 We're going to look at verses 1 through 8.

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 I'm going to walk you through this and bring you to the central text.

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 And then we'll talk a bit at length about that.

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 Okay.

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 So let me read it in its entirety.

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 And then I'll go back and point things out.

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 All right.

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 So beginning in verse 1, chapter 12.

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 Six days before the Passover, Jesus therefore came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

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 So they gave a dinner for him there.

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 Martha served and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

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 Mary, therefore, took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair.

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 The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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 But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, he who was about to betray him, said,

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 Why was this ointment not sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?

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 He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief.

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 And having charge of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.

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 Jesus said, Leave her alone so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.

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 For the poor you will always have with you, but you do not always have me.

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 All right.

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 So beginning with verse 1, right?

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 Jesus comes to Bethany.

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 It's a suburb, essentially.

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 It's a couple miles outside of Jerusalem.

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 This is just before the triumphal entry that we'll read about soon.

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 to the house of Lazarus, who he's just raised from the dead at the end of chapter 11.

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 And his presence is there.

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 He's there, right?

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 He physically goes to this place.

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 And then in verse 7, right, what does he say?

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 The poor you will always have with you, but you do not always have me.

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 So you see Jesus' presence being mentioned in both places.

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 He's there physically, absolutely, but literarily he's being mentioned.

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 He comes to that place.

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 You do not always have me.

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 Verse 2.

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 So now we're going to step in in our chiastic structure.

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 So this would be B, if you're demarcating it.

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 So they gave a dinner for him there.

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 Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

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 And I suggest to you the corresponding verse would be verse 6,

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 which is explaining what Judas said.

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 He said this not because he cared about the poor,

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 but because he was a thief,

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 and having charge of the money bag,

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 he used to help himself to what was put into it.

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 So you have this dichotomy being set up between the two of them.

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 You have Martha serving.

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 She's serving others.

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 And here you have Judas serving himself.

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 So service of others corresponding to service of self.

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 Then our next step in in our structure,

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 verse 3, or C if you'd like to mark it out.

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 Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment

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 made from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus

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 and wiped his feet with her hair.

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 So there's a mention of the expense of this ointment.

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 I'm sure you can now see the correspondence to that.

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 Judas gets upset.

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 Why was this ointment not sold for 300 denarii?

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 Very expensive this sacrifice was and given to the poor.

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 So the expense of the ointment mentioned in both of these places.

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 Which brings me to the central phrase.

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 And you may have noted that I did not read the end of verse 3.

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 And here it is.

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 I believe this is a central phrase to this piece of text

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 and to the entirety of the book of John.

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 The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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 The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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 We are so quick to read past details like this.

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 Why in the world did John,

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 the inspired by God himself,

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 John, record this detail?

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 It's striking to me that there was mention in chapter 11

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 about the potential smell of Lazarus coming out of the tomb,

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 but no explanation of that whatsoever.

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 Never, right?

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 Never a mention he might smell.

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 Never does John give us any detail about that at all.

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 And yet here he mentions

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 the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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 Here is how the literary structure serves us.

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 Between two corresponding responses,

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 one, Mary kneels at the feet of Jesus.

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 She has received him as the Christ.

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 The other, Judas,

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 misunderstanding everything going on

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 and only concerned about his personal temporal gain.

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 Again, we'll look at more next week.

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 We have this phrase.

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 There's these two different characters.

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 One receiving, one rejecting.

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 The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

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 Now, I did not discover the significance

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 of what John is doing here on my own.

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 Oh, how I wish I did.

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 How I wish my mind was so saturated with the scripture

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 that this detail left off the page at me.

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 It did not.

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 I have read past this little detail

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 as if it was insignificant all the years.

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 But at the same time,

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 I'm thankful for the help I received from others

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 and continue to,

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 and in this case,

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 Jim Hamilton pointing out this structure

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 in this book.

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 What are we to make of this?

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 Just moments ago,

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 Jake led in the reading

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 of an Old Testament text

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 that is printed in your bulletin

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 this morning.

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 It's like I do things sometimes by design.

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 Leviticus chapter 16.

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 Look at that for me.

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 Jordan mentioned it when he got up

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 to lead the next song.

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 It is argued that the entire Pentateuch,

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 the first five books of the Bible,

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 are chiasc,

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 the whole thing,

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 and that it centers

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 on this text

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 in Leviticus.

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 The Day of Atonement.

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 The entirety of those five books

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 of the Bible

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 have this central point

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 in the middle

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 of it all.

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 I think that John knows this.

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 I think that he's assuming

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 his readers are going to know it.

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 I think that if we really knew

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 our Bibles,

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 these connections would fire off

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 and be made

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 in our minds.

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 What's happening here

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 is just a blip.

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 There's a lot of instruction

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 about the Day of Atonement.

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 But here it is

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 giving instruction

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 for the Levitical high priest,

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 the first of whom

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 was Aaron,

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 and how he was to make sacrifice

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 for the people of Israel

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 on this particular day.

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 So let's look at that text

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 again together.

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 I'm going to read it for us quickly

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 and draw your attention

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 to a few things.

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 So Leviticus 16,

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 starting in verse 11.

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 Aaron shall present the bull

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 as a sin offering for himself

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 and shall make atonement

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 for himself

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 and for his house.

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 He shall kill the bull

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 as a sin offering

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 for himself.

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 And he shall take

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 a censer full of coals of fire

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 from the altar

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 before the Lord

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 and two handfuls

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 of sweet incense

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 beaten small

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 and he shall bring it

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 inside the veil

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 and put the incense

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 on the fire

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 before the Lord

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 that the cloud

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 of the incense

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 may cover the mercy seat

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 that is over

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 the testimony

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 so that he does not die.

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 Are you making the connection?

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 Your brain

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 making the connection?

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 You're not awake

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 if you're not.

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 Verse 14.

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 And he shall take

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 some of the blood

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 of the bull

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 and sprinkle it

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 with his finger

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 on the front

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 of the mercy seat

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 on the east side

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 in front of the mercy seat

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 he shall sprinkle

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 some of the blood

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 with his finger

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 seven times.

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 Then he shall kill

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 the goat

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 of the sin offering

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 that is for the people

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 and bring its blood

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 inside the veil

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 and do with its blood

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 as he did

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 with the blood

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 of the bull

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 sprinkling it

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 over the mercy seat

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 and in front

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 of the mercy seat.

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 Thus he shall make

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 atonement for the holy place

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 because of the uncleanliness

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 of the people of Israel

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 and because of their transgressions

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 all their sins.

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 And so he shall do

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 for the tent of meeting

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 which dwells with them

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 in the midst

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 of their uncleanliness.

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 No one may be

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 in the tent of meeting

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 from the time he enters

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 to make atonement

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 in the holy place

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 until he comes out

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 and has made atonement

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 for himself

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 and for his house

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 and for all

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 the assembly

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 of Israel.

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 So Aaron

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 and then

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 his progeny

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 beyond him

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 those who served

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 as high priests

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 would go

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 one time of year

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 into an inner place

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 first in the tabernacle

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 that's where the instructions

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 are given here

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 and then into the temple

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 a place that was

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 the most holy

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 of places.

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 One time of year

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 this one man

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 could go in

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 and he had to follow

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 very strict instructions

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 or else he would be

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 struck dead.

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 One of the things

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 that he had to do

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 was bring in

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 incense

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 and burn it

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 to fill

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 the space

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 to cover

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 the mercy seat

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 so that

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 he does not

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 die.

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 He made an aromatic

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 sacrifice

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 in that moment

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 and God withheld

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 his wrath

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 for all their

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 uncleanliness

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 as he goes

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 about this process

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 of making

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 all of this

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 sacrifice

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 of blood.

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 The incense

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 the first thing

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 I want to draw

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 your attention to

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 right?

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 That other

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 I really want you

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 to see

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 is the solitude

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 of it.

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 It's Aaron

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 by himself

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 going into

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 this place

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 and burning

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 this incense

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 filling this

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 room

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 with this

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 fragrance.

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 fragrance.

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 So,

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 back in

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 John chapter

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 12

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 and verse

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 3,

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 as Mary

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 kneels at

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 the Lord's

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 feet,

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 receives him

00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:57.420
 as the Christ,

00:27:57.519 --> 00:27:58.000
 makes this

00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.920
 lavish sacrifice

00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:01.079
 of service

00:28:01.079 --> 00:28:02.000
 to him.

00:28:02.900 --> 00:28:03.400
 And on the

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:03.940
 other side

00:28:03.940 --> 00:28:04.279
 of that

00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:04.920
 you see

00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:07.620
 Judas

00:28:07.620 --> 00:28:08.799
 rejecting

00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:09.359
 Jesus,

00:28:10.120 --> 00:28:10.720
 wanting what

00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:11.500
 he could get

00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:12.519
 from Jesus'

00:28:12.819 --> 00:28:13.740
 ministry,

00:28:14.019 --> 00:28:14.599
 you see this

00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:14.980
 phrase,

00:28:15.259 --> 00:28:15.759
 the house

00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:16.619
 was filled

00:28:16.619 --> 00:28:17.720
 with the

00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:18.160
 fragrance

00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:19.519
 of the

00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:19.819
 perfume.

00:28:21.980 --> 00:28:22.819
 John means

00:28:22.819 --> 00:28:23.259
 for us to

00:28:23.259 --> 00:28:23.799
 see

00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:25.099
 Mary

00:28:25.099 --> 00:28:26.079
 worshiping

00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:26.599
 in the

00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:27.119
 very

00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:28.099
 presence

00:28:28.099 --> 00:28:28.880
 of God

00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:29.319
 himself.

00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:31.099
 Isn't that

00:28:31.099 --> 00:28:31.359
 cool?

00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:32.880
 That's the

00:28:32.880 --> 00:28:33.500
 moment that's

00:28:33.500 --> 00:28:34.279
 being recorded

00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:34.619
 here.

00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:35.539
 Mary has

00:28:35.539 --> 00:28:36.759
 gone in

00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:37.259
 behind

00:28:37.259 --> 00:28:38.460
 the veil

00:28:38.460 --> 00:28:39.680
 and she

00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:40.180
 has made

00:28:40.180 --> 00:28:41.420
 sacrifice

00:28:41.420 --> 00:28:42.400
 and Jesus

00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:43.740
 has welcomed

00:28:43.740 --> 00:28:44.600
 her.

00:28:45.740 --> 00:28:46.539
 The whole

00:28:46.539 --> 00:28:47.200
 book

00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:48.440
 is turning

00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:49.960
 on this

00:28:49.960 --> 00:28:50.500
 phrase,

00:28:51.340 --> 00:28:51.920
 the house

00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:53.240
 was filled

00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:53.860
 with the

00:28:53.860 --> 00:28:54.360
 fragrance

00:28:54.360 --> 00:28:55.779
 of the

00:28:55.779 --> 00:28:56.140
 perfume.

00:28:57.380 --> 00:28:57.680
 Now,

00:28:58.180 --> 00:28:59.059
 why does that

00:28:59.059 --> 00:28:59.340
 matter,

00:28:59.480 --> 00:28:59.660
 right?

00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:00.140
 You could

00:29:00.140 --> 00:29:00.460
 preach through

00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:00.660
 the book

00:29:00.660 --> 00:29:00.960
 of John

00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:01.160
 and I

00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:01.360
 think you

00:29:01.360 --> 00:29:01.660
 could preach

00:29:01.660 --> 00:29:02.160
 it faithfully

00:29:02.160 --> 00:29:02.620
 and miss

00:29:02.620 --> 00:29:02.920
 this.

00:29:03.420 --> 00:29:04.440
 I'm sure

00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:04.980
 without Jim

00:29:04.980 --> 00:29:05.500
 Hamilton's help

00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:06.220
 I would have

00:29:06.220 --> 00:29:06.980
 definitely done

00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:07.700
 that going

00:29:07.700 --> 00:29:08.980
 through the

00:29:08.980 --> 00:29:10.000
 gospel of

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:10.360
 John.

00:29:10.980 --> 00:29:11.299
 But I

00:29:11.299 --> 00:29:11.620
 think he's

00:29:11.620 --> 00:29:12.200
 doing something

00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:12.920
 particularly

00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:13.779
 helpful for

00:29:13.779 --> 00:29:14.120
 us.

00:29:15.140 --> 00:29:15.620
 So,

00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:16.340
 he says

00:29:16.340 --> 00:29:16.759
 in John

00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:17.500
 chapter 20

00:29:17.500 --> 00:29:18.039
 verse 30

00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:18.580
 and 31,

00:29:19.340 --> 00:29:19.640
 I've read

00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:19.920
 this to you

00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:20.400
 many times

00:29:20.400 --> 00:29:20.660
 in our

00:29:20.660 --> 00:29:21.039
 study so

00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:21.259
 far,

00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:22.200
 now Jesus

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:22.720
 did many

00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:23.299
 other signs

00:29:23.299 --> 00:29:23.539
 in the

00:29:23.539 --> 00:29:23.900
 presence of

00:29:23.900 --> 00:29:24.360
 the disciples

00:29:24.360 --> 00:29:24.900
 which are

00:29:24.900 --> 00:29:25.460
 not written

00:29:25.460 --> 00:29:25.860
 in this

00:29:25.860 --> 00:29:26.240
 book,

00:29:26.779 --> 00:29:27.420
 but these

00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:27.880
 are written

00:29:27.880 --> 00:29:28.400
 so that you

00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:29.100
 may believe

00:29:29.100 --> 00:29:29.740
 that Jesus

00:29:29.740 --> 00:29:30.440
 is the

00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:30.940
 Christ,

00:29:31.120 --> 00:29:31.460
 the Son

00:29:31.460 --> 00:29:31.980
 of God,

00:29:32.019 --> 00:29:32.700
 and that by

00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:33.220
 believing

00:29:33.220 --> 00:29:34.059
 you may

00:29:34.059 --> 00:29:34.799
 have life

00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:35.620
 in his

00:29:35.620 --> 00:29:35.900
 name.

00:29:36.180 --> 00:29:36.580
 You're

00:29:36.580 --> 00:29:36.819
 probably

00:29:36.819 --> 00:29:37.480
 very familiar

00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:37.819
 with this,

00:29:37.860 --> 00:29:38.079
 if you're

00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:38.400
 at all

00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:38.759
 familiar

00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:39.140
 with

00:29:39.140 --> 00:29:39.900
 John's

00:29:39.900 --> 00:29:40.519
 gospel.

00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:41.519
 He wrote

00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:41.900
 these things

00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:42.700
 down so

00:29:42.700 --> 00:29:42.900
 that we

00:29:42.900 --> 00:29:43.380
 can believe

00:29:43.380 --> 00:29:43.819
 Jesus is

00:29:43.819 --> 00:29:44.259
 the Christ

00:29:44.259 --> 00:29:44.880
 and have

00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:45.779
 life.

00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:46.220
 And what

00:29:46.220 --> 00:29:46.559
 we do

00:29:46.559 --> 00:29:47.180
 so often

00:29:47.180 --> 00:29:47.500
 when we

00:29:47.500 --> 00:29:48.019
 think about

00:29:48.019 --> 00:29:48.460
 life,

00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:48.720
 we think

00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:48.860
 about

00:29:48.860 --> 00:29:49.279
 eternal

00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:50.079
 life,

00:29:50.180 --> 00:29:50.519
 as we

00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:50.960
 put that

00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:51.180
 in

00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:51.799
 juxtaposition

00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:52.099
 to

00:29:52.099 --> 00:29:52.579
 eternal

00:29:52.579 --> 00:29:53.000
 death.

00:29:53.099 --> 00:29:53.380
 And there's

00:29:53.380 --> 00:29:53.559
 some

00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:54.200
 rightness

00:29:54.200 --> 00:29:54.740
 in doing

00:29:54.740 --> 00:29:55.140
 that,

00:29:55.380 --> 00:29:55.720
 but we

00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:56.079
 see it

00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:56.380
 as an

00:29:56.380 --> 00:29:57.079
 escape

00:29:57.079 --> 00:29:57.380
 from

00:29:57.380 --> 00:29:57.860
 punishment

00:29:57.860 --> 00:29:58.400
 and

00:29:58.400 --> 00:29:58.759
 nothing

00:29:58.759 --> 00:29:59.539
 more.

00:30:01.339 --> 00:30:01.599
 Nothing

00:30:01.599 --> 00:30:01.980
 more.

00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:04.680
 Justification.

00:30:05.620 --> 00:30:06.120
 What an

00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:06.459
 important

00:30:06.459 --> 00:30:06.939
 doctrine.

00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:08.479
 We want

00:30:08.479 --> 00:30:10.199
 to stand

00:30:10.199 --> 00:30:10.659
 on a hill

00:30:10.659 --> 00:30:11.199
 and die

00:30:11.199 --> 00:30:11.779
 for the

00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:12.239
 doctrine of

00:30:12.239 --> 00:30:12.699
 justification

00:30:12.699 --> 00:30:13.439
 by grace

00:30:13.439 --> 00:30:13.699
 alone,

00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:14.159
 through faith

00:30:14.159 --> 00:30:14.519
 alone,

00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:15.299
 in Christ

00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:15.579
 alone.

00:30:15.579 --> 00:30:16.399
 How can you

00:30:16.399 --> 00:30:16.879
 stand before

00:30:16.879 --> 00:30:17.279
 God?

00:30:17.719 --> 00:30:18.239
 How can you

00:30:18.239 --> 00:30:19.439
 have the

00:30:19.439 --> 00:30:20.039
 penalty of your

00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:21.639
 debt expunged

00:30:21.639 --> 00:30:21.979
 from you?

00:30:22.059 --> 00:30:22.500
 How can you be

00:30:22.500 --> 00:30:22.939
 given the

00:30:22.939 --> 00:30:23.899
 righteousness of

00:30:23.899 --> 00:30:24.399
 Christ so that

00:30:24.399 --> 00:30:25.159
 you can stand

00:30:25.159 --> 00:30:25.839
 before God

00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:26.679
 and not be

00:30:26.679 --> 00:30:27.219
 destroyed?

00:30:27.679 --> 00:30:28.179
 That's the

00:30:28.179 --> 00:30:28.479
 doctrine of

00:30:28.479 --> 00:30:29.000
 justification.

00:30:29.219 --> 00:30:29.799
 By grace,

00:30:30.019 --> 00:30:30.539
 through faith,

00:30:30.959 --> 00:30:31.519
 in Christ.

00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:31.900
 It's an

00:30:31.900 --> 00:30:32.599
 incredibly

00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:33.160
 important

00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:33.960
 doctrine.

00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:34.539
 But I

00:30:34.539 --> 00:30:34.900
 think our

00:30:34.900 --> 00:30:35.839
 minds stop

00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:36.180
 there.

00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:37.839
 I think if

00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:38.079
 we're not

00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:38.539
 careful,

00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:39.319
 it always

00:30:39.319 --> 00:30:40.019
 ends

00:30:40.019 --> 00:30:41.319
 there.

00:30:43.480 --> 00:30:44.319
 But John,

00:30:44.879 --> 00:30:45.259
 in saying

00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:45.480
 that we're

00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:45.539
 going to

00:30:45.539 --> 00:30:46.119
 have life

00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:46.759
 in Jesus'

00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:47.339
 name,

00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:48.559
 has already

00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:49.740
 defined what

00:30:49.740 --> 00:30:51.200
 life is

00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:51.960
 a few

00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:52.279
 chapters

00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:52.740
 earlier.

00:30:53.639 --> 00:30:54.400
 In chapter

00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:54.940
 17,

00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:55.559
 verse 3,

00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:56.000
 he says,

00:30:56.119 --> 00:30:56.660
 and this

00:30:56.660 --> 00:30:57.500
 is

00:30:57.500 --> 00:30:58.519
 eternal

00:30:58.519 --> 00:30:59.980
 life.

00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:01.640
 that they

00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:02.420
 know you,

00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:03.960
 the only

00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:04.799
 true God,

00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:05.920
 and Jesus

00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:06.579
 Christ,

00:31:07.299 --> 00:31:07.599
 whom you

00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:08.140
 have sent.

00:31:09.740 --> 00:31:10.180
 Beloved,

00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:10.500
 we are

00:31:10.500 --> 00:31:11.180
 justified

00:31:11.180 --> 00:31:12.799
 in order

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:13.640
 to be

00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:14.880
 adopted,

00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:16.319
 to be

00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:16.940
 welcomed

00:31:16.940 --> 00:31:18.240
 back into

00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:18.880
 God's

00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:19.640
 family,

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:20.400
 for to be

00:31:20.400 --> 00:31:21.120
 back like

00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:21.620
 in the

00:31:21.620 --> 00:31:22.259
 garden before

00:31:22.259 --> 00:31:22.759
 the fall

00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:23.160
 when God

00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:24.059
 walked with

00:31:24.059 --> 00:31:24.539
 Adam in

00:31:24.539 --> 00:31:25.000
 the cool

00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:25.880
 of the

00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:26.279
 day,

00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:27.420
 to get

00:31:27.420 --> 00:31:28.120
 to have

00:31:28.120 --> 00:31:28.440
 him as

00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:28.940
 our God

00:31:28.940 --> 00:31:29.420
 and we

00:31:29.420 --> 00:31:29.960
 be his

00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:30.779
 people,

00:31:31.019 --> 00:31:31.700
 to dwell

00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:32.299
 with

00:31:32.299 --> 00:31:33.259
 him.

00:31:34.220 --> 00:31:34.740
 He's the

00:31:34.740 --> 00:31:35.200
 end point,

00:31:35.360 --> 00:31:35.500
 right?

00:31:35.600 --> 00:31:36.360
 That restored

00:31:36.360 --> 00:31:36.860
 relationship,

00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:37.360
 to be

00:31:37.360 --> 00:31:38.200
 reconciled

00:31:38.200 --> 00:31:39.100
 back to

00:31:39.100 --> 00:31:39.539
 God

00:31:39.539 --> 00:31:40.180
 in

00:31:40.180 --> 00:31:40.920
 Jesus

00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:42.079
 Christ.

00:31:42.860 --> 00:31:43.380
 And I

00:31:43.380 --> 00:31:43.700
 think our

00:31:43.700 --> 00:31:44.519
 minds stop

00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:45.160
 too low.

00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:47.420
 Justification,

00:31:47.819 --> 00:31:48.100
 yes,

00:31:48.840 --> 00:31:49.319
 teach it,

00:31:49.579 --> 00:31:50.100
 defend it,

00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:51.240
 stand firm

00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:51.700
 on it,

00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:52.539
 but so

00:31:52.539 --> 00:31:53.100
 that

00:31:53.100 --> 00:31:54.000
 we're

00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:54.400
 adopted,

00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:56.100
 so that

00:31:56.100 --> 00:31:56.940
 we can

00:31:56.940 --> 00:31:57.620
 be welcomed

00:31:57.620 --> 00:31:58.600
 into the

00:31:58.599 --> 00:31:59.059
 presence

00:31:59.059 --> 00:32:00.159
 of God

00:32:00.159 --> 00:32:01.439
 forever.

00:32:02.879 --> 00:32:04.059
 The house

00:32:04.059 --> 00:32:05.699
 was filled

00:32:05.699 --> 00:32:06.740
 with the

00:32:06.740 --> 00:32:07.219
 fragrance

00:32:07.219 --> 00:32:08.299
 of the

00:32:08.299 --> 00:32:08.639
 perfume.

00:32:09.419 --> 00:32:09.839
 I think

00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:10.359
 that John

00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:10.959
 wants us

00:32:10.959 --> 00:32:11.759
 to have

00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:12.539
 this in

00:32:12.539 --> 00:32:13.659
 our mind,

00:32:13.899 --> 00:32:14.099
 right?

00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:15.139
 The Lord

00:32:15.139 --> 00:32:15.599
 of the

00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:16.359
 universe,

00:32:16.859 --> 00:32:17.759
 the word

00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:19.259
 made flesh,

00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:20.219
 dwelling with

00:32:20.219 --> 00:32:20.559
 man,

00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:21.299
 welcoming

00:32:21.299 --> 00:32:22.819
 a woman

00:32:22.819 --> 00:32:23.480
 who's willing

00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:23.759
 to give

00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:24.279
 everything

00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:24.899
 that she

00:32:24.899 --> 00:32:25.720
 might sit

00:32:25.720 --> 00:32:26.740
 in his

00:32:26.740 --> 00:32:27.160
 presence.

00:32:27.700 --> 00:32:28.379
 Let's pray

00:32:28.379 --> 00:32:28.680
 together.

00:32:28.379 --> 00:32:28.700