>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO SEVENTH
DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, RIGHT HERE
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IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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WE'RE SO GLAD
THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN.
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WHETHER YOU'RE LISTENING
ON RADIO, WATCHING LIVE AT OUR
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WEB SITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG',
OR ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION
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NETWORKS - HOWEVER
YOU'RE JOINING US -
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A VERY, VERY SPECIAL WELCOME.
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WE ALWAYS START OUR PROGRAM
SINGING YOUR FAVORITE HYMNS AND
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YOU'VE SENT THEM IN AND WE HAVE
OVER 20,000 SONG REQUESTS THAT
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HAVE COME IN OVER THE LAST FEW
YEARS AND WE'RE STILL WORKING
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OUR WAY THROUGH THEM
AND EVERY WEEK WE GET MORE.
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AND WE'RE SO EXCITED TO
HEAR FROM YOU. SO TODAY,
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IT'S NO EXCEPTION - WE'RE GOING
TO SING TWO OF YOUR FAVORITES.
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THE FIRST ONE 'ANYWHERE WITH
JESUS I CAN SAFELY GO' - #508 -
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SO PULL OUT YOUR
HYMNALS, THOSE OF YOU AT HOME,
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AND JOIN US HERE AT
CENTRAL SINGING #508.
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WE'LL DO THE FIRST,
SECOND AND FOURTH STANZAS.
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THIS REQUEST IS FROM ROBERT IN
BELIZE, LYN IN GERMANY, JAMES IN
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ITALY, ALEX IN HUNGARY, FRANCIS
IN SRI LANKA, ISAAC, JUNIOR,
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REBECCA, PATEL, AND NAYIA IN THE
NETHERLANDS - AND THERE WAS A
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WHOLE LIST MORE FROM AROUND
THE WORLD. IT WAS VERY EXCITING.
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I JUST CAN'T NAME EVERYBODY
BUT WE'RE GOING TO SING YOUR
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FAVORITE - #508 - 1, 2, AND 4.
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(MUSIC)
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
SENDING IN THAT REQUEST.
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IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE THAT YOU
WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON AN
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UPCOMING
PROGRAM, IT'S VERY SIMPLE.
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YOU JUST GO TO OUR WEB SITE
AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND CLICK ON
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THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND
ANY SONG THAT'S IN THE HYMNAL IS
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THERE FOR YOU TO CHOOSE.
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OUR NEXT SONG IS #83 - 'O
WORSHIP THE KING' - AND THIS IS
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A REQUEST FROM GUADO IN BELGIUM,
JACOB IN ICELAND, EZRA IN KENYA,
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AND ODERMAAT IN SWITZERLAND, AND
THERE WERE A WHOLE BUNCH MORE
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NAMES AS WELL, FOR THIS
ONE, FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
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WE'LL DO THE FIRST,
SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS.
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'O WORSHIP THE KING'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>WOULD YOU BOW YOUR
HEADS WITH ME FOR PRAYER?
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE COME
BEFORE YOU AND WE WORSHIP YOU -
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OUR REDEEMER AND OUR FRIEND.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BLESSING
US WITH THE SABBATH, FOR
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BLESSING US WITH LIFE AND HEALTH
AND STRENGTH - WE'RE HERE TODAY
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- I KNOW THERE'S MANY WHO
ARE NOT AND I JUST PRAY THAT YOU
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WOULD BE WITH THEM WHEREVER THEY
ARE, HOWEVER THEY'RE FEELING,
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AND THAT THEY WOULD SENSE YOUR
PRESENCE WITH THEM RIGHT NOW.
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FATHER, WE COME BEFORE
YOU WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS.
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WE'RE GOING TO OPEN UP YOUR WORD
AND STUDY TOGETHER, AND I JUST
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PRAY THAT YOUR SPIRIT WILL
BE HERE AND YOU'LL BLESS OUR
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SPEAKER. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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FOR THE PAST 15 YEARS I'VE HAD
THE PRIVILEGE, EVERY SABBATH, OF
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INTRODUCING OUR SPEAKER AND
TODAY, AN ERA COMES TO AN END -
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IT FEELS LIKE THAT.
INTRODUCING PASTOR DOUG
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BATCHELOR WHO IS OUR
SENIOR PASTOR - FOR TODAY.
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NEXT WEEK HE'S
OUR GUEST SPEAKER.
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PASTOR DOUG, IF YOU WOULD BRING
US THE LESSON STUDY, WE WOULD
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LOVE TO HAVE YOU AS OUR SENIOR
PASTOR ONE MORE TIME UP HERE.
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PASTOR DOUG, AT THIS TIME, WILL
BE BRINGING US OUR LESSON STUDY.
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>>MAN, THANK YOU.
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THANK YOU TO OUR MUSICIANS AND
YES, WHILE IT IS TRUE TODAY SORT
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OF MARKS THE POINT WHEN I WILL
NO LONGER BE THE SENIOR PASTOR
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OF THIS WONDERFUL CONGREGATION,
THEY'VE BEEN NICE ENOUGH TO SAY
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THAT I CAN COME BACK FOR A
LITTLE WHILE AND CONTINUE TO
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TEACH THE
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSONS.
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SO IT'S NOT LIKE I'M REALLY
LEAVING AND - AT LEAST NOT YET.
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SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO STUDY THE
WORD TODAY AND PRETEND THAT NO
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ONE SAID ANYTHING A MINUTE AGO.
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OUR LESSON TODAY - WE'RE
CONTINUING IN OUR STUDY DEALING
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WITH THE SUBJECT OF DISCIPLESHIP
AND TODAY, IN PARTICULAR, WE'RE
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TALKING ABOUT LESSON #6, WHERE
IT DEALS WITH THE SUBJECT OF
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DISCIPLING ORDINARY PEOPLE.
AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM MARK
CHAPTER 1, VERSES 16 THROUGH 18.
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I HOPE YOU'LL SAY IT WITH ME
- MARK 1, VERSES 16 THROUGH 18.
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YOU READY? I THINK THIS IS THE
KING JAMES VERSION, "NOW AS HE
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WALKED BY THE SEA OF GALILEE, HE
SAW SIMON AND ANDREW HIS BROTHER
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CASTING A NET INTO THE
SEA: FOR THEY WERE FISHERS.
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AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, COME
YE AFTER ME, AND I WILL MAKE YOU
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TO BECOME FISHERS OF MEN.
AND STRAIGHTWAY THEY FORSOOK
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THEIR NETS, AND FOLLOWED HIM."
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
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WE NOTICE RIGHT AWAY ABOUT
THE MINISTRY OF JESUS IS THAT HE
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ATTRACTED TO HIM
JUST REGULAR PEOPLE.
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IT WASN'T LIKE HE HAD AN
ENTOURAGE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT
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POLITICIANS AND WRITERS AND
MUSICIANS AND GENERALS, JESUS
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REALLY BUILT HIS
CHURCH OF THE RANK AND FILE.
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BUT THROUGH, WHAT WE WOULD CALL
ORDINARY PEOPLE, HE WAS ABLE TO
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TOTALLY TRANSFORM THE WORLD.
SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T REALLY
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RECOGNIZE THAT SOME ORDINARY
PEOPLE ARE REALLY GREAT PEOPLE
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BUT IN EVERY OTHER WAY THEY SEEM
TO GO ABOUT THEIR LIVES LIKE
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EVERYBODY ELSE. THE
MAN WHO STARTED WAL-MART,
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SAM WALTON, JUST DROVE A
PICK-UP TRUCK AROUND TOWN.
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THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER
PEOPLE THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE SOME
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UNUSUAL GIFTS OR RARE ABILITIES
- WHO KNEW THAT PETER WOULD BE
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SUCH A GREAT PREACHER
WHILE HE WAS OUT FISHING?
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BUT JESUS RECOGNIZED THAT THESE
ORDINARY PEOPLE HAD GALLONS -
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HAD UNIQUE TALENTS THAT, WHEN
COMBINED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT,
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THAT REMARKABLE
THINGS WOULD HAPPEN.
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YOU KNOW, I SHARED THIS LITTLE
AMAZING FACT WITH YOU EARLIER IN
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THE YEAR, BUT I WAS TOUCHED
BY IT AND I THOUGHT I'D GO AHEAD
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AND - SOME OF YOU MAYBE HEARD
THIS DURING THE CHURCH SERVICE
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BUT YOU DIDN'T HEAR IT - SOME OF
YOU DIDN'T HEAR IT SO I'M GOING
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TO READ IT. TIBOR
RUBIN - TIBOR RUBIN - BORN
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IN PASZTO, HUNGARY, ONE OF
SIX CHILDREN OF A SHOEMAKER.
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DURING THE GERMAN EFFORT TO WIPE
OUT THE HUNGARIAN JEWS, IN 1943,
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THE 13-YEAR-OLD CHILD WAS
TRANSFERRED TO THE INFAMOUS
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MAUTHAUSEN
CONCENTRATION CAMP IN AUSTRIA.
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HIS PARENTS AND TWO
SISTERS PERISHED THERE.
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RUBIN WAS LIBERATED TWO YEARS
LATER BY AMERICAN TROOPS AND HE
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SAID WHEN HE SAW THEM LIBERATING
THE - THE PRISONERS, THE POWS IN
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THE CAMP THERE - HE THOUGHT THAT
THE AMERICAN GIS WERE THE HEROES
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- THEY WERE THE SUPERMEN OF
THE WORLD. HE WAS SO THANKFUL
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AND HE COULDN'T THINK
OF ANYTHING BETTER THAT HE
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COULD DO WITH HIS LIFE
THAN TO BE AN AMERICAN SOLDIER.
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SO HE FINALLY WAS ABLE TO COME
TO AMERICA IN 1948 AND IN 1950,
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AFTER LEARNING ENOUGH ENGLISH
TO PASS THE ARMY'S ENTRANCE
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EXAMINATION - BARELY ENOUGH
ENGLISH - RUBIN JOINED THE
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CAVALRY JUST IN
TIME FOR THE KOREAN WAR.
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A FEW MONTHS LATER HE
WAS PRIVATE 1ST CLASS RUBIN,
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FIGHTING ON THE FRONT LINES
IN KOREA WITH 1ST COMPANY, 8TH
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REGIMENT - THE
FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION.
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NOW, ACCORDING TO LENGTHY
AFFIDAVITS SUBMITTED BY NEARLY A
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DOZEN MEN IN RUBIN'S COMPANY,
THE HUNGARIAN VOLUNTEER FOUND
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HIMSELF UNDER THE THUMB OF
A 1ST SERGEANT - A SOLDIER WHO
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CONSISTENTLY VOLUNTEERED RUBIN
FOR THE MOST DANGEROUS PATROLS
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AND MISSIONS.
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ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL
ARMY REPORTS, RUBIN'S BRAVERY
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FIGHTING DURING THE CHAOTIC
EARLY MONTHS OF THE CONFLICT,
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EARNED RUBIN TWO COMMENDATIONS
FOR THE MEDAL OF HONOR BY
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COMMANDING OFFICERS THAT
WERE LATER KILLED IN ACTION.
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BUT NOT LONG BEFORE THIS
1ST SERGEANT ORDERED RUBIN TO A
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MISSION - AND, ACCORDING TO
TESTIMONIES, RUBIN HAD TO SECURE
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A ROUTE OF RETREAT FOR
HIS COMPANY BY SINGLE-HANDEDLY
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DEFENDING A HILL FOR 24 HOURS
AGAINST WAVE AFTER WAVE OF NORTH
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KOREAN SOLDIERS. HE
ALSO, AT ONE POINT, WAS ABLE
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TO CAPTURE 20
MEN SINGLE-HANDEDLY.
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EVENTUALLY, HE RAN OUT OF
AMMUNITION AND HE WAS OUT THERE
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ON THE HILL BY HIMSELF AND
HE WAS WOUNDED AND THEN CAPTURED
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AND TAKEN - PUT IN A
CHINESE PRISONER OF WAR CAMP.
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HIS FELLOW SOLDIERS SAY THAT
THIS 1ST SERGEANT WAS EXTREMELY
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ANTI-SEMITIC AND HE WAS HOPING
TO GET RUBIN KILLED BY GIVING
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HIM THE MOST DANGEROUS MISSIONS,
BUT HE NEVER COMPLAINED AND HE
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TOOK THEM. IN THE CONCENTRATION
CAMP, AS HE BEGAN TO HEAL FROM
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HIS INJURIES, ALL THE OTHER
SOLDIERS WERE STARVING AND HE
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BECAME THE SOURCE OF
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ALL OF THEM.
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HE WOULD SNEAK - ONE OF HIS
CO-GIS SAID EVERYBODY WAS OUT
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FOR HIMSELF, JUST
TRYING TO STAY ALIVE,
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BUT RUBIN WAS
THE RARE EXCEPTION.
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ACCORDING TO THE SOLDIERS WHOSE
LIVES HE SAVED - THIS IS IN THE
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POW CAMP IN CHINA, ALMOST EVERY
EVENING HE WOULD SNEAK OUT AND
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STEAL FOOD FROM THE CHINESE
AND NORTH KOREAN SUPPLY DEPOTS,
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KNOWING IF HE WAS CAUGHT HE
WOULD BE SHOT AND KILLED AND HE
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WOULD BREAK BACK INTO THE POW
CAMP TO FEED THE OTHER SOLDIERS
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WHEN HE MIGHT
HAVE TRIED TO ESCAPE.
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DESPITE HEROIC ACTIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS OF DOZENS OF
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SOLDIERS, RUBEN RECEIVED NOTHING
EXCEPT - FROM THE ARMY - EXCEPT
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HIS REGULAR DISCHARGE.
FOR THE INTERVENING 30 YEARS
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AFTER HIS SEPARATION FROM ACTIVE
DUTY, HE AND HIS WIFE, THEY
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RAISED THEIR FAMILY IN
GARDEN GROVE, CALIFORNIA.
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NOTHING CAME OF IT UNTIL
EVENTUALLY SOME RESEARCH WAS
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DONE AND, I THINK, 60 YEARS
AFTER THE FACT, HE RECEIVED THE
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HIGHEST HONOR THAT AMERICANS
CAN GET, WHICH IS THE MEDAL OF
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HONOR. NOW, THIS
MAN WHO JUST LIVED A
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NORMAL AVERAGE LIFE, FIVE-STAR
GENERALS ARE SUPPOSED TO STAND
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WHEN HE ENTERS THE ROOM,
AS WELL AS THE PRESIDENT.
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AND YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW BY
SEEING HIM ALL THESE YEARS THAT
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HERE WAS A HERO OF WAR WHO HAD
DONE ALL THESE GALLANT THINGS,
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WHO HAD SURVIVED TWO POW CAMPS.
ONE AT 13 AND ONE WHEN HE WAS A
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U.S. SOLDIER AND DONE ALL THESE
HEROIC THINGS AND HE JUST LIVED
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ALL OF HIS LIFE AND
NONE OF HIS NEIGHBORS KNEW.
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YOU KNOW WHAT, I THINK THAT WE
FORGET SOMETIMES THAT IN GOD'S
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EYES, NOBODY IS REALLY ORDINARY.
THE LORD WANTS TO SAVE EVERYBODY
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AND HE VALUES EVERY
SOUL IN A GREAT WAY.
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LET'S GO TO THE FIRST PART OF
OUR LESSON, 'HUMBLE BEGINNINGS'.
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OH, YOU KNOW WHAT
I FORGOT TO TELL YOU?
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WITH EVERY LESSON
WE ALSO HAVE AN OFFER.
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AND FOR LESSON #6 WE'RE OFFERING
THIS BOOK CALLED 'CHRIST'S HUMAN
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NATURE'.
SOMETIMES PEOPLE FORGET THAT
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JESUS - PEOPLE ON THE
STREET DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE WAS.
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THAT'S WHY THEY HAD TO
GET JUDAS TO IDENTIFY HIM.
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HE LOOKED LIKE OTHER PEOPLE.
'CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE' BY JOE
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CREWS - WE'LL SEND
THIS TO YOU FOR FREE.
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JUST CALL AND ASK
FOR IT, IT'S OFFER #703.
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HERE'S A PHONE NUMBER
- 866-STUDY-MORE - THAT'S
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866-788-3966.
WE'LL SEND YOU THE BOOK
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'CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE'.
ALRIGHT, 'HUMBLE BEGINNINGS' -
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SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME LUKE 2
- WE GAVE OUT SOME VERSES AND I
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DON'T KNOW WHO HAS
THIS. LUKE 2, VERSES 6 AND 7.
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HOLD UP YOUR HAND
IF YOU'VE GOT THAT.
00:16:09.00\00:16:11.26
DID YOU REALLY GET
THAT MRS. BATCHELOR?
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ALRIGHT, GET A
MICROPHONE TO HER.
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SHE DID. SHE
CAME TO HEAR ME TEACH.
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>>"AND SO IT WAS, THAT WHILE
THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE
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ACCOMPLISHED THAT
SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED.
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AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER
FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM
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IN SWADDLING CLOTHES, AND LAID
HIM IN A MANGER; BECAUSE THERE
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WAS NO ROOM FOR
THEM IN THE INN."
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>>HE WASN'T IN A PALACE.
00:16:35.13\00:16:36.50
JESUS WAS NOT BORN IN THE
PRESIDENTIAL SUITE OR EVEN HIS
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OWN HOUSE, BUT AS A WAYFARER
- A PILGRIM, SO TO SPEAK.
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HE WAS BORN IN SOMETHING THAT
WAS THE EQUIVALENT OF A STABLE -
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PLACES WHERE THEY FED THE CATTLE
- AND NOT PLACED IN A BEAUTIFUL
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BASSINET, BUT IN A TROUGH THAT
HOLDS GRAIN WHERE THEY FEED THE
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CATTLE. SO JESUS
SETS AN EXAMPLE FOR US
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OF COMING INTO THE WORLD
WITH VERY HUMBLE BEGINNINGS.
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GOING BACK, AGAIN, SOMEONE
LOOK UP LEVITICUS 12, VERSE 8 -
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LEVITICUS 12, VERSE 8 - WE GAVE
THAT TO SOMEBODY AND IF YOU HAVE
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THAT VERSE - IF YOU'VE GOT
LEVITICUS 12:8, HOLD UP YOUR
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HAND. SOMEBODY OVER THERE
HAVE IT? OH, OKAY, I DIDN'T SEE.
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>>LEVITICUS 12, VERSE 8, "AND IF
SHE IS NOT ABLE TO BRING A LAMB,
00:17:21.36\00:17:24.66
THEN SHE MAY BRING TWO
TURTLEDOVES OR TWO YOUNG PIGEONS
00:17:24.66\00:17:28.00
- ONE AS A BURNT OFFERING
AND THE OTHER AS A SIN OFFERING.
00:17:28.00\00:17:31.20
SO THE PRIEST SHALL
MAKE ATONEMENT FOR HER,
00:17:31.20\00:17:33.10
AND SHE WILL BE CLEAN."
00:17:33.10\00:17:34.63
>>IF THEY'RE NOT ABLE
TO BRING A LAMB - WHY?
00:17:34.63\00:17:38.10
THEY DON'T HAVE
ENOUGH MONEY FOR A LAMB.
00:17:38.10\00:17:40.03
NOW, DOES THAT TELL YOU
SOMETHING ABOUT JOSEPH AND MARY?
00:17:40.03\00:17:43.33
DID JESUS HAVE
BROTHERS AND SISTERS? HE DID.
00:17:43.33\00:17:47.86
IT NAMES THE BOYS - THERE'S FOUR
BOYS - AND I - ONE WAS JAMES,
00:17:47.86\00:17:53.06
ONE WAS JUDE, AND I CAN'T
REMEMBER THE OTHER TWO NAMES -
00:17:53.06\00:17:57.76
JOSES - THERE'S ONE
MORE I CAN'T REMEMBER.
00:17:57.76\00:18:00.10
IT DOESN'T NAME HIS SISTERS -
SIMON - AND HE HAD AT LEAST TWO
00:18:00.10\00:18:05.36
SISTERS BECAUSE IT SAYS
'SISTERS' - HE COULD HAVE HAD
00:18:05.36\00:18:07.43
FIVE SISTERS, WE DON'T KNOW.
WERE THEY OLDER OR YOUNGER?
00:18:07.43\00:18:12.43
PROBABLY OLDER FROM -
JOSEPH PROBABLY WAS MARRIED
00:18:12.43\00:18:15.76
BEFORE HE MARRIED MARY.
00:18:15.76\00:18:17.00
ANOTHER REASON WE BELIEVE THAT
- YOU NOTICE THAT WHEN JESUS
00:18:17.00\00:18:19.06
BEGINS HIS MINISTRY YOU DON'T
EVER HEAR FROM JOSEPH AGAIN.
00:18:19.06\00:18:22.53
HE HAD DIED AT THAT POINT AND HE
WAS PROBABLY OLDER THAN MARY AND
00:18:22.53\00:18:26.70
THE OTHER REASON IS THEY WERE
PROBABLY MARY'S STEP-CHILDREN
00:18:26.70\00:18:30.93
BECAUSE WHEN JESUS IS ON THE
CROSS, JESUS COMMITS THE CARE OF
00:18:30.93\00:18:35.03
HIS MOTHER TO - HIS
BROTHERS AND SISTERS?
00:18:35.03\00:18:38.56
OR TO JOHN THE APOSTLE RIGHT?
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN VERY ODD NOT
00:18:38.56\00:18:43.66
TO JUST ASSUME THAT HER REGULAR
CHILDREN WOULD TAKE CARE OF
00:18:43.66\00:18:47.53
MARY, BUT THEY
WERE HER STEP-CHILDREN.
00:18:47.53\00:18:50.30
NOW, THE REASON I'M SAYING
THAT IS THEY HAD A BIG FAMILY.
00:18:50.30\00:18:54.23
EVEN WHEN JESUS CAME ALONG THEY
WERE STRUGGLING TO PUT FOOD IN
00:18:54.23\00:18:57.03
THE MOUTHS OF THEIR CHILDREN
AND WHEN JESUS WAS FINALLY BORN,
00:18:57.03\00:19:01.83
THEY COULD ONLY MAKE THE
VERY MINIMAL OFFERING FOR THE
00:19:01.83\00:19:05.96
FIRSTBORN - FIRSTBORN FOR MARY.
ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
00:19:05.96\00:19:10.06
JOHN - STILL TALKING ABOUT
THE HUMBLE BEGINNINGS OF JESUS.
00:19:10.06\00:19:13.36
LOOK UP FOR ME THE GOSPEL OF
JOHN 1:48. WHO HAS THAT VERSE?
00:19:13.36\00:19:17.40
JOHN - DID WE GET
THAT? DID SOMEBODY GET THAT?
00:19:17.40\00:19:20.50
ALRIGHT - OVER HERE
- HOLD YOUR HAND UP.
00:19:20.50\00:19:22.16
JOHN 1, VERSE 48.
WE'LL BRING YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:19:22.16\00:19:25.66
WHEN JOHN THE
BAPTIST BEGAN HIS MINISTRY,
00:19:25.66\00:19:29.36
DID HE GO TO THE
UNIVERSITIES OF JERUSALEM?
00:19:29.36\00:19:33.60
DID HE GO TO A
PARLIAMENT BUILDING?
00:19:33.60\00:19:36.30
WHERE WAS IT THAT HE INTRODUCED
JESUS AS THE LAMB OF GOD THAT
00:19:36.30\00:19:40.33
TAKES AWAY THE
SINS OF THE WORLD?
00:19:40.33\00:19:42.56
JOHN - IT TELLS US IN CHAPTER
1, VERSE 23, "HE SAID, 'I AM THE
00:19:42.56\00:19:47.30
VOICE OF ONE CRYING IN THE
WILDERNESS: MAKE STRAIGHT THE
00:19:47.30\00:19:50.40
WAY OF THE LORD,' AS
THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAID."
00:19:50.40\00:19:54.66
YOU KNOW, USUALLY, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO INAUGURATE A PRESIDENT
00:19:54.66\00:19:58.46
- ANYONE KNOW WHERE GEORGE
WASHINGTON WAS INAUGURATED?
00:19:58.46\00:20:03.93
IT WASN'T WASHINGTON, D.C.,
THEY HADN'T EVEN NAMED IT YET.
00:20:03.93\00:20:06.83
HE WAS
INAUGURATED IN NEW YORK CITY.
00:20:06.83\00:20:09.00
DID YOU KNOW NEW YORK CITY WAS
THE CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES
00:20:09.00\00:20:11.40
BEORE WASHINGTON, D.C.? AND
THERE'S A CHURCH - THE CHURCH IS
00:20:11.40\00:20:16.06
RIGHT AT THE FOOT OF THE WORLD
TRADE CENTER - IS WHERE IT USED
00:20:16.06\00:20:18.20
TO BE - ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
IS WHERE GEORGE WASHINGTON - I
00:20:18.20\00:20:22.50
THINK HE WENT THERE RIGHT AFTER
HIS INAUGURATION BUT THEY HAD A
00:20:22.50\00:20:25.23
SERVICE THERE AND THAT
CHURCH IS STILL THERE TODAY.
00:20:25.23\00:20:28.30
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:20:28.30\00:20:29.56
BUT YOU THINK YOU'D FIND SOME
HISTORIC, GRAND, VISIBLE SPOT
00:20:29.56\00:20:33.50
AND IT WAS OUT THERE BY A
RIVER SURROUNDED WITH SCRUB AND
00:20:33.50\00:20:38.20
SYCAMORE TREES WHERE JESUS WAS
INTRODUCED AS THE LAMB OF GOD.
00:20:38.20\00:20:41.53
VERY ORDINARY, HUMBLE
PLACE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
00:20:41.53\00:20:45.70
AND NOW SOMEONE'S GOING
TO READ JOHN 1:48, PLEASE.
00:20:45.70\00:20:49.26
>>"NATHANAEL SAITH UNTO
HIM, 'WHENCE KNOWEST THOU ME?'
00:20:49.26\00:20:52.13
JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO
HIM, 'BEFORE THAT PHILIP CALLED
00:20:52.13\00:20:55.20
THEE, WHEN THOU WAST UNDER
THE FIG TREE, I SAW THEE.'"
00:20:55.20\00:20:58.56
>>SO HERE YOU FIND THAT THE
PEOPLE WHO ARE FOLLOWING JESUS
00:20:58.56\00:21:01.86
ARE PRETTY AVERAGE PEOPLE AND
NATHANAEL'S OUT PRAYING UNDER A
00:21:01.86\00:21:06.93
TREE. JESUS IS
BAPTIZED IN A RIVER.
00:21:06.93\00:21:11.46
IT SEEMS - THESE
ARE SUCH AVERAGE THINGS.
00:21:11.46\00:21:13.46
IT'S NOT THE WAY THAT THE
WORLD WOULD WANT TO MAKE A BIG
00:21:13.46\00:21:16.33
INTRODUCTION AND TO
LAUNCH A NEW PROGRAM.
00:21:16.33\00:21:20.66
WHEN WE WERE IN NEW YORK DOING
THE 'NET 99' PROGRAM, THIRTEEN,
00:21:20.66\00:21:27.80
FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, AND WE WERE
IN THE MANHATTAN CENTER, SEVERAL
00:21:27.80\00:21:33.80
COMPANIES CAME TO
LAUNCH THEIR COMPANIES.
00:21:33.80\00:21:36.70
THIS IS BACK WHEN THE DOT-COM
BOOM WAS HAPPENING AND THIS ONE
00:21:36.70\00:21:41.16
COMPANY - YOU KNOW, I CAN'T EVEN
REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT, BUT
00:21:41.16\00:21:43.96
THEY SPENT SEVERAL MILLION
DOLLARS ON THE ADDRESS FOR THEIR
00:21:43.96\00:21:49.06
COMPANY AND NOW
IT'S OUT OF BUSINESS.
00:21:49.06\00:21:53.06
BUT JUST FOR THE WEB DOMAIN
ADDRESS - IT WAS SOMETHING DOT
00:21:53.06\00:21:56.06
COM - AND THEY SAID SOMEONE ELSE
OWNED IT AND THEY PAID SEVERAL
00:21:56.06\00:21:59.33
MILLION DOLLARS FOR THAT NAME.
AND THEN THEY RENTED THIS BIG
00:21:59.33\00:22:02.96
MANHATTAN CENTER AND THEY HAD
ALL THE MEDIA THERE AND THEY HAD
00:22:02.96\00:22:06.03
THIS BIG RELEASE AND THEY HAD
BALLOONS FALLING AND ALL THIS
00:22:06.03\00:22:08.80
STUFF TO INTRODUCE THIS
COMPANY THAT'S NOW DEFUNCT.
00:22:08.80\00:22:11.33
AND WHEN JESUS IS INTRODUCED
AS THE MESSIAH, IT'S LIKE A CAMP
00:22:11.33\00:22:15.76
MEETING. IT'S
JUST, SORT OF, YOU KNOW
00:22:15.76\00:22:17.46
THEY'RE OUT BY THE RIVER AND
'MASTER, WHERE ARE YOU STAYING?
00:22:17.46\00:22:20.03
COME, YOU CAN
CAMP WITH ME TONIGHT.
00:22:20.03\00:22:21.26
I'LL SHOW YOU WERE I'M STAYING.'
AND THAT'S HOW HE SORT OF
00:22:21.26\00:22:24.00
LAUNCHES THE CHURCH.
VERY SIMPLE WAY TO DO THINGS.
00:22:24.00\00:22:27.80
ALRIGHT, GO WITH
ME TO MATTHEW 10:29.
00:22:27.80\00:22:32.10
OH, YOU KNOQ, THIS WAS ACTUALLY
GOING WITH THAT FIRST ONE.
00:22:32.10\00:22:34.26
"ARE NOT TWO SPARROWS SOLD FOR A
COPPER COIN? AND NOT ONE OF THEM
00:22:34.26\00:22:38.43
FALLS TO THE GROUND
APART FROM YOUR FATHER'S WILL."
00:22:38.43\00:22:43.76
A COPPER COIN IS A PENNY AND THE
VERY POOREST OF THE POOR WOULD
00:22:43.76\00:22:47.46
OFFER A COUPLE OF SPARROWS AND -
BUT JESUS IS SAYING HERE, 'EVEN
00:22:47.46\00:22:52.83
SPARROWS' - DOES THE FATHER
WATCH THE LITTLE BROWN SPARROW?
00:22:52.83\00:22:58.83
WE HAVE THIS DVD -
NATURE DVD - ON BIRDS.
00:22:58.83\00:23:02.36
IT'S ACTUALLY VERY GOOD -
AND DONE BY BBC - AND THEY TALK
00:23:02.36\00:23:06.33
ABOUT SPARROWS ARE MUCH
MORE COMPLEX THAN YOU THINK.
00:23:06.33\00:23:08.90
SPARROWS ACTUALLY HAVE RANK AND
ALL THE LITTLE SPARROWS YOU SEE
00:23:08.90\00:23:12.53
FLITTING AND TWERPING AND
POPPING AROUND AND HOPPING ON
00:23:12.53\00:23:14.73
THE GROUND, IT WAS SHOWING HOW
THAT THEY EXERT THEMSELVES AND
00:23:14.73\00:23:18.70
THEY TAKE OVER CERTAIN
TERRITORIES AND THE DIFFERENT
00:23:18.70\00:23:21.30
SPARROWS, BASED ON THEIR AGE
AND SIZE, HAVE DIFFERENT RANK.
00:23:21.30\00:23:24.36
AND THEY'RE MUCH MORE
COMPLICATED AND IMPORTANT
00:23:24.36\00:23:26.50
THAN YOU THINK.
00:23:26.50\00:23:27.70
BUT FOR US THEY'RE JUST,
YOU KNOW, LITTLE DIRTY SPARROWS.
00:23:27.70\00:23:30.50
BUT GOD SAYS, 'I WATCH EVEN THE
LITTLE SPARROWS AND I MAKE SURE
00:23:30.50\00:23:35.30
THAT THEY'RE FED AND NOT ONE
FALLS TO THE GROUND WITHOUT MY
00:23:35.30\00:23:38.86
KNOWING.' AND GOD CARES ABOUT
THEM. DOES HE CARE ABOUT US?
00:23:38.86\00:23:44.26
MARK 6, VERSE 2, "AND WHEN THE
SABBATH HAD COME, HE BEGAN TO
00:23:44.26\00:23:50.06
TEACH IN THE SYNAGOGUE.
AND MANY HEARING HIM WERE
00:23:50.06\00:23:53.06
ASTONISHED, SAYING, 'WHERE
DID THIS MAN GET THESE THINGS?'
00:23:53.06\00:23:57.10
AND WHAT WISDOM IS THIS WHICH IS
GIVEN TO HIM, THAT SUCH MIGHTY
00:23:57.10\00:24:00.33
WORKS ARE
PERFORMED BY HIS HANDS!
00:24:00.33\00:24:02.63
IS THIS NOT THE CARPENTER'S SON,
THE SON OF MARY, AND BROTHER OF
00:24:02.63\00:24:07.30
JAMES, JOSES, JUDAS, AND
SIMON?'' - THERE'S HIS BROTHER'S
00:24:07.30\00:24:09.86
NAMES - "'AND ARE NOT
HIS SISTERS HERE WITH US?'
00:24:09.86\00:24:14.36
SO THEY WERE OFFENDED AT
HIM. BUT JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'A
00:24:14.36\00:24:18.36
PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT HONOR
EXCEPT IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, AMONG
00:24:18.36\00:24:22.30
HIS OWN RELATIVES.'" NOW,
JESUS' BEGINNING - DID EVERYONE
00:24:22.30\00:24:26.56
IN THE TOWN LOOK UPON HIM
AS JUST ONE OF THE CITIZENS?
00:24:26.56\00:24:30.10
GOOD PERSON, YES, THEY COULDN'T
THINK OF ANYTHING HE'D EVER DONE
00:24:30.10\00:24:33.26
- NO CRIMES - THEY DON'T
REMEMBER HIM EVER - NO SCANDAL
00:24:33.26\00:24:36.43
CONNECTED WITH JESUS' NAME BUT,
YOU KNOW, WHEN - THE IDEA THAT
00:24:36.43\00:24:41.26
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE CHRIST
JUST TOOK THEM AS A SURPRISE.
00:24:41.26\00:24:45.30
WHY? BECAUSE HE
WENT THROUGH LIFE
00:24:45.30\00:24:48.06
WORKING LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.
HE WENT THROUGH HIS CHORES.
00:24:48.06\00:24:50.83
HE CONDUCTED
HIMSELF AS A NORMAL PERSON.
00:24:50.83\00:24:55.26
AND I THINK SOMETIMES WE FORGET
THAT JESUS WAS ONE HUNDRED
00:24:55.26\00:24:58.06
PERCENT HUMAN AND HE WAS
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT DIVINE.
00:24:58.06\00:25:03.06
AND THAT'S A REALLY CONFUSING
COMBINATION FOR US. BY THE WAY,
00:25:03.06\00:25:05.86
I RECOMMEND THAT YOU READ THIS
BOOK 'CHRIST'S HUMAN NATURE'
00:25:05.86\00:25:08.83
BECAUSE I THINK SOMETIMES - HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN PAINTINGS
00:25:08.83\00:25:11.66
OF JESUS IN THE MANGER AND
HE'S GLOWING. HE HAS A HALO.
00:25:11.66\00:25:18.76
AND WHEN JESUS IS THE CHILD IN
THE CARPENTER'S SHOP - THERE'S
00:25:18.76\00:25:22.03
MANY FAMOUS PAINTINGS WHERE
THERE HE IS AND HE'S GOT THIS
00:25:22.03\00:25:24.86
LIKE SOLAR DISC AROUND HIS HEAD
AND LIGHTS OF BEAM - BEAMS OF
00:25:24.86\00:25:28.73
LIGHT ARE EMANATING FROM
HIS HEAD. DO YOU THINK HE REALLY
00:25:28.73\00:25:31.06
WENT LIKE THAT
THROUGH HIS NEIGHBORHOOD?
00:25:31.06\00:25:35.00
THE ONLY WAY THE SHEPHERDS KNEW
THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL
00:25:35.00\00:25:37.43
ABOUT THIS CHILD IS
BECAUSE THE ANGELS TOLD THEM.
00:25:37.43\00:25:40.26
THE WISE MEN KNEW BECAUSE THE
LORD TOLD THEM - THE STAR LED
00:25:40.26\00:25:42.86
THEM - OTHERWISE, THEY
WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN WHO HE WAS.
00:25:42.86\00:25:47.73
HE JUST SEEMED ORDINARY.
AND IN HIS OWN TOWN - THEY WERE
00:25:47.73\00:25:52.70
ONE OF THE LAST ONES - WHEN HE
CAME AMONG HIS OWN PEOPLE IN HIS
00:25:52.70\00:25:55.60
OWN TOWN THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO HE
WAS. THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE HIM
00:25:55.60\00:25:59.36
BECAUSE GOD USES
NORMAL, HUMBLE INSTRUMENTS.
00:25:59.36\00:26:03.13
YOU KNOW, YOU PROBABLY WOULD
HAVE RECOGNIZED ELIJAH AS A
00:26:03.13\00:26:07.16
PROPHET BECAUSE HE WAS WEARING
THE HAIRY ROBE WITH A LEATHER
00:26:07.16\00:26:11.40
BELT. THAT WAS
SORT OF THEIR UNIFORM.
00:26:11.40\00:26:14.36
BUT MOST OF THE OTHER PROPHETS
AND PEOPLE THAT GOD HAD IN THE
00:26:14.36\00:26:17.30
BIBLE, THEY LOOKED
LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.
00:26:17.30\00:26:21.00
NOT EVERYTHING A PROPHET SAYS IS
A PROPHECY. THEY'RE PEOPLE TOO.
00:26:21.00\00:26:25.70
YOU CAN READ IN THE BOOK 'DESIRE
OF AGES' PAGE 72, "THE PARENTS
00:26:25.70\00:26:29.53
OF JESUS WERE POOR AND
DEPENDENT UPON THEIR DAILY TOIL.
00:26:29.53\00:26:33.03
HE WAS FAMILIAR WITH POVERTY,
SELF-DENIAL AND PRIVATION.
00:26:33.03\00:26:37.36
THIS EXPERIENCE WAS A SAFEGUARD
TO HIM. IN HIS INDUSTRIOUS LIFE,
00:26:37.36\00:26:42.86
THERE WERE NO IDLE
MOMENTS TO INVITE TEMPTATION.
00:26:42.86\00:26:45.96
NO AIMLESS HOURS OPENED THE
WAY FOR CORRUPTING ASSOCIATIONS.
00:26:45.96\00:26:49.36
SO FAR AS POSSIBLE HE
CLOSED THE DOOR TO THE TEMPTOR.
00:26:49.36\00:26:53.40
NEITHER GAIN, NOR PLEASURE,
APPLAUSE NOR CENSURE COULD
00:26:53.40\00:26:56.80
INDUCE HIM TO
CONSENT TO A WRONG ACT.
00:26:56.80\00:26:59.70
HE WAS WISE TO DISCERN
EVIL AND STRONG TO RESIST IT."
00:26:59.70\00:27:04.40
AND HE WORKED LIKE EVERYBODY
ELSE - AND, BY THE WAY, THAT
00:27:04.40\00:27:07.80
KEPT HIM OUT OF TROUBLE TOO.
BUT HE HAD AN ORDINARY LIFE.
00:27:07.80\00:27:11.63
YOU KNOW, I LIKE THIS PASSAGE
THAT YOU READ IN 1 CORINTHIANS
00:27:11.63\00:27:14.53
1, VERSES 26 THROUGH 29. YOU
MIGHT WANT TO LOOK THIS ONE UP.
00:27:14.53\00:27:20.10
1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER
1, VERSES 26 THROUGH 29.
00:27:20.10\00:27:28.40
WHEN YOU BECOME PART OF A CHURCH
FAMILY, CHURCHES ARE MADE UP OF
00:27:28.40\00:27:34.83
JUST ORDINARY PEOPLE.
00:27:34.83\00:27:37.73
YEAH, THERE MIGHT BE A COUPLE OF
EXTRAORDINARY FOLKS THAT COME TO
00:27:37.73\00:27:40.76
A CHURCH, AND I UNDERSTAND IN
WASHINGTON, D.C. THAT WHENEVER
00:27:40.76\00:27:44.80
THE PRESIDENT ATTENDS
CHURCH - LATELY, THE LAST COUPLE
00:27:44.80\00:27:49.36
PRESIDENTS - SOMETIMES THEY
DON'T ATTEND CHURCH BECAUSE IT'S
00:27:49.36\00:27:51.40
SUCH A SECURITY NIGHTMARE.
ON OCCASION, WHEN THE PRESIDENT
00:27:51.40\00:27:54.93
ATTENDS CHURCH,
THE ATTENDANCE GOES UP.
00:27:54.93\00:27:57.80
PEOPLE FIND OUT
THE PRESIDENT'S COMING.
00:27:57.80\00:27:59.50
BUT MOST OF THE TIME THE BODY
OF CHRIST IS MADE UP OF JUST
00:27:59.50\00:28:04.00
REGULAR BRICKS. WE ARE
BRICKS IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
00:28:04.00\00:28:08.73
AND IT MAY NOT SEEM ORNATE.
00:28:08.73\00:28:11.66
IT MAY NOT SEEM EXTRAORDINARY OR
UNUSUAL - PRECIOUS TO GOD BUT -
00:28:11.66\00:28:16.63
NOTICE WHAT HE SAYS: 1
CORINTHIANS 1, VERSE 26, "FOR
00:28:16.63\00:28:19.83
YOU SEE YOUR CALLING, BRETHREN,
THAT NOT MANY WISE ACCORDING TO
00:28:19.83\00:28:24.20
THE FLESH, NOT MANY
MIGHTY," - THERE'S SOME WISE.
00:28:24.20\00:28:27.83
THERE'S SOME MIGHTY. BUT -
"NOT MANY NOBLE, ARE CALLED.
00:28:27.83\00:28:31.76
BUT GOD HAS CHOSEN THE FOOLISH
THINGS OF THE WORLD TO PUT TO
00:28:31.76\00:28:35.73
SHAME THE WISE, AND GOD HAS
CHOSEN THE WEAK THINGS OF THE
00:28:35.73\00:28:39.66
WORLD TO PUT TO SHAME THE THINGS
WHICH ARE MIGHTY; AND THE BASE
00:28:39.66\00:28:43.50
THINGS OF THE WORLD AND THE
THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED GOD
00:28:43.50\00:28:45.96
HAS CHOSEN, AND THE THINGS WHICH
ARE NOT, TO BRING TO NOTHING THE
00:28:45.96\00:28:49.00
THINGS THAT ARE, THAT NO FLESH
SHOULD GLORY IN HIS PRESENCE."
00:28:49.00\00:28:53.46
I ALWAYS MARVEL AT THAT STORY IN
THE BIBLE WHEN EVERYBODY IN THE
00:28:53.46\00:28:58.50
CITY OF SAMARIA IS STARVING
AND THEY NEED A MIRACLE AND GOD
00:28:58.50\00:29:02.03
FINALLY REVEALS THAT THERE'S AN
ABUNDANCE OF FOOD AND THAT THE
00:29:02.03\00:29:06.33
ASSYRIAN ARMY HAS FLED -
THE PEOPLE IN SAMARIA HAD BEEN
00:29:06.33\00:29:11.33
BESEIGED - AND WHO DOES
GOD REVEAL IT TO? FOUR LEPERS.
00:29:11.33\00:29:17.03
GOD JUST - IT ALWAYS STRIKES
ME THAT HE'S WILLING TO USE VERY
00:29:17.03\00:29:21.40
HUMBLE MEANS TO BRING THIS
EXCITING MESSAGE TO PEOPLE.
00:29:21.40\00:29:26.36
'NOT MANY WISE, ACCORDING TO
THE FLESH, NOT MANY MIGHTY ARE
00:29:26.36\00:29:29.30
CALLED, BUT GOD HAS CHOSEN THE
FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD TO
00:29:29.30\00:29:33.80
PUT TO SHAME THE THINGS THAT
ARE WISE.' NOW YOU MIGHT WANT TO
00:29:33.80\00:29:37.56
LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT. YOU
MIGHT WANT TO LOOK TO YOUR
00:29:37.56\00:29:40.06
LEFT. YOU MIGHT NOT.
00:29:40.06\00:29:45.26
BUT YOU'RE PROBABLY SURROUNDED
BY SOME ORDINARY PEOPLE.
00:29:45.26\00:29:47.96
YOU MIGHT BE SITTING - TO
ONE OF THEM YOU'RE MARRIED TO.
00:29:47.96\00:29:51.30
AND BUT GOD SEEMS TO BE ABLE
TO DO GREAT THINGS THROUGH THOSE
00:29:51.30\00:29:56.60
PEOPLE. HAVE YOU
EVER NOTICED THAT JESUS
00:29:56.60\00:29:59.60
SAID TO THE APOSTLES, 'YOU'LL BE
BROUGHT BEFORE KINGS AND RULERS.
00:29:59.60\00:30:03.53
DO NOT TAKE THOUGHT AHEAD OF
TIME OF WHAT YOU WILL SAY FOR IT
00:30:03.53\00:30:06.76
WILL BE GIVEN YOU IN THAT MOMENT
WHAT YOU WILL SAY.' AND WHEN THE
00:30:06.76\00:30:11.06
DISCIPLES HAD TO DEFEND THEIR
FAITH AT THE SANHEDRIN - WHEN
00:30:11.06\00:30:13.80
THE SUPREME COURT - THEY WERE SO
BOLD AND THEY WERE SO ARTICULATE
00:30:13.80\00:30:18.46
THAT THE RULERS ALL LOOKED AT
EACH OTHER AND SAID, 'WHERE DID
00:30:18.46\00:30:21.96
THEY GET THIS LEARNING?
THEY MUST HAVE BEEN WITH JESUS.
00:30:21.96\00:30:26.13
HOW DO THEY KNOW THESE
THINGS? HOW COULD THEY BE SO
00:30:26.13\00:30:28.80
SOPHISTICATED AND SO POWERFUL
AND PROFOUND IN WHAT THEY'RE
00:30:28.80\00:30:32.13
SAYING?' GOD WAS
ABLE TO DO IT WITH THE
00:30:32.13\00:30:34.43
HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH
ORDINARY PEOPLE, RIGHT?
00:30:34.43\00:30:38.03
GOD - AND THAT LEADS US TO
OUR NEXT DAY - 'TRANSFORMING THE
00:30:38.03\00:30:41.06
COMMON' -
'TRANFORMING THE COMMON'.
00:30:41.06\00:30:44.16
JOHN 2, VERSES 1 TO 3 - THE
GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 2 - AND
00:30:44.16\00:30:49.40
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
GOSPEL OF JOHN 20, VERSE 7.
00:30:49.40\00:30:52.16
WHO GOT THAT ONE? HOLD
YOUR HAND UP IF YOU GOT IT.
00:30:52.16\00:30:55.20
RIGHT UP FRONT. OKAY,
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:30:55.20\00:30:57.70
IN A MINUTE WE'LL
GET TO YOU, JONATHAN.
00:30:57.70\00:31:00.50
ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO READ JOHN
2, VERSES 1 TO 3, "ON THE THIRD
00:31:00.50\00:31:03.56
DAY THERE WAS A
WEDDING IN CANA OF GALILEE,
00:31:03.56\00:31:06.63
AND THE MOTHER
OF JESUS WAS THERE.
00:31:06.63\00:31:09.00
NOW BOTH JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES
WERE INVITED TO THE WEDDING.
00:31:09.00\00:31:12.50
AND WHEN THEY RAN OUT OF WINE,
THE MOTHER OF JESUS SAID TO HIM,
00:31:12.50\00:31:16.23
'THEY HAVE NO WINE.'" NOW
YOU NOTICE THAT HERE, JESUS,
00:31:16.23\00:31:20.26
HE'S INTRODUCED
AS THE LAMB OF GOD.
00:31:20.26\00:31:23.26
YOU THINK THAT HE'S GOING TO GET
HIS FOLLOWERS TO RUN AHEAD OF
00:31:23.26\00:31:28.60
HIM LIKE SOME KIND OF
PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY AND HE'S
00:31:28.60\00:31:31.16
GOING TO HOP ON A CHARIOT AND GO
UP TO JERUSALEM AND BE ENTHRONED
00:31:31.16\00:31:33.70
IN THE TEMPLE OR
SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
00:31:33.70\00:31:35.43
BUT, INSTEAD, AFTER THIS
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT THEY SAID, 'NOW
00:31:35.43\00:31:37.76
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?'
HE SAID, 'WELL, MOM INVITED ME
00:31:37.76\00:31:39.80
TO A WEDDING I GUESS I'LL GO.'
SO HE GOES TO A WEDDING OF SOME
00:31:39.80\00:31:43.10
RELATIVE IN GALILEE AND HE'S
JUST THERE AT THE WEDDING LIKE
00:31:43.10\00:31:45.76
EVERYBODY ELSE, BUT GOD DOES
SOMETHING - HE USES THAT WEDDING
00:31:45.76\00:31:51.46
AS A CONTEXT TO DO
A REMARKABLE MIRACLE.
00:31:51.46\00:31:55.00
IT SAYS THEY RAN OUT OF
WINE. SO WHAT DOES JESUS DO?
00:31:55.00\00:31:58.60
THERE WERE SIX STONE POTS - VERY
COMMON - FILLED WITH WATER -
00:31:58.60\00:32:04.93
ALSO COMMON. THEY
SOMETIMES PUT THE WATER IN
00:32:04.93\00:32:06.73
THE STONE POTS BECAUSE THEY
DIDN'T GET HOT DURING THE DAY.
00:32:06.73\00:32:09.46
- THE STONE HELPED THEM
KEEP THEIR COOL TEMPERATURE.
00:32:09.46\00:32:11.73
AND JESUS SAID, 'POUR - POUR
OUT' - HE SAID A PRAYER OR WAVED
00:32:11.73\00:32:18.60
HIS HAND OR WHATEVER HE DID HE
SAYS, 'YOU GO POUR OUT WHAT'S IN
00:32:18.60\00:32:20.96
THOSE STONE POTS BEFORE THE
PEOPLE.' AND HE DID A MIRACLE.
00:32:20.96\00:32:24.23
HE TURNED THE WATER INTO WINE.
NOW WHAT KIND OF WINE WAS IT?
00:32:24.23\00:32:29.86
HOW DO WE KNOW
IT WAS GRAPE JUICE?
00:32:29.86\00:32:34.63
WOULD JESUS MAKE
BOOZE FOR A PARTY?
00:32:34.63\00:32:37.90
I MEAN, WHAT USUALLY HAPPENS
WHEN PEOPLE DRINK TOO MUCH AT A
00:32:37.90\00:32:40.06
PARTY? DO GOOD THINGS
HAPPEN? OR DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN?
00:32:40.06\00:32:44.33
DO PEOPLE SAY WISE THINGS
OR DO THEY SAY FOOLISH THINGS?
00:32:44.33\00:32:48.06
AND DOES THE BIBLE ALREADY
SAY HOW GOD FEELS ABOUT STRONG
00:32:48.06\00:32:50.50
DRINK? THAT WINE IS A
MOCKER AND IT'S RAGING?
00:32:50.50\00:32:55.86
AND AT THE LAST SUPPER WHEN
IT SAYS THAT JESUS SAID, 'I WILL
00:32:55.86\00:32:58.26
NOT EAT OF THIS FRUIT OF THE
VINE AGAIN - I WILL NOT DRINK OF
00:32:58.26\00:33:02.10
THE FRUIT OF THE VINE TIL
I DRINK IT WITH YOU NEW IN MY
00:33:02.10\00:33:06.23
FATHER'S KINGDOM.' SO THERE'S
NEW WINE AND THERE'S OLD WINE.
00:33:06.23\00:33:08.50
JESUS SAID, 'YOU DON'T PUT
NEW WINE IN OLD WINESKINS.' WHAT
00:33:08.50\00:33:10.90
KIND OF WINE WAS HIS
GOSPEL, THE NEW OR THE OLD?
00:33:10.90\00:33:13.66
IT WAS NEW SO IT HAD TO BE
FRESH GRAPE JUICE THAT HE MADE.
00:33:13.66\00:33:16.46
AND THEY SAID, 'YOU
SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST.' NOW,
00:33:16.46\00:33:18.63
UNFORTUNATELY, IN OUR CULTURE,
WE SAY, 'YOU GOT ANY GOOD
00:33:18.63\00:33:21.50
STUFF?' AND WE
MEAN, 'DO YOU HAVE ANY
00:33:21.50\00:33:23.86
STRONG, OLD STUFF?'
BUT YOU COULD GET FERMENTED
00:33:23.86\00:33:26.96
GRAPE JUICE ANY TIME OF THE YEAR
BECAUSE ONCE IT'S GOT ALCOHOL IN
00:33:26.96\00:33:30.50
IT, IT COULD STAY
LIKE THAT INDEFINITELY.
00:33:30.50\00:33:32.73
IT'S A PRESERVATIVE.
YOU COULD ONLY GET THE FRESH
00:33:32.73\00:33:34.76
STUFF DURING THE HARVEST.
AND SO THAT'S WHY THEY SAID,
00:33:34.76\00:33:37.76
'YOU'VE SAVED
THE BEST FOR LAST'.
00:33:37.76\00:33:39.16
BUT HERE, HE WAS ABLE TO TAKE
SOMETHING THAT WAS COMMON AND
00:33:39.16\00:33:43.10
WORK A MIRACLE. HE
TURNED THIS WATER IN THESE
00:33:43.10\00:33:46.10
VESSELS INTO SOMETHING
THAT WAS USED IN HIS COVENANT.
00:33:46.10\00:33:50.80
YOU AND I ARE VESSELS, RIGHT?
HE'S THE POTTER, WE'RE THE CLAY.
00:33:50.80\00:33:58.13
AND HE'S ABLE TO WORK A MIRACLE
WITH WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE.
00:33:58.13\00:34:01.53
IT MIGHT JUST BE WATER. IT
MIGHT BE VERY COMMON AND HE'S
00:34:01.53\00:34:04.40
ABLE TO MAKE IT SOMETHING RICH
THROUGH HIS SPIRIT AND THAT'S
00:34:04.40\00:34:07.86
TURNING THE WATER INTO WINE.
WE ACCEPT THAT NEW COVENANT.
00:34:07.86\00:34:10.86
SOMETHING ELSE I THINK IS
INTERESTNG - YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY
00:34:10.86\00:34:12.96
THIS MANY TIMES - FIRST MIRACLE
IN JESUS MINISTRY IS THIS: HE
00:34:12.96\00:34:18.90
TURNS WATER INTO PURE NEW
GRAPE JUICE AT A WEDDING, RIGHT?
00:34:18.90\00:34:24.40
ONE OF THE LAST THINGS THAT
HAPPENS BEFORE JESUS DIES ON A
00:34:24.40\00:34:26.83
CROSS IS THEY OFFER HIM SOUR
WINE IN A SPONGE - FERMENTED.
00:34:26.83\00:34:33.66
HE TASTES IT AND HE TURNS AWAY.
HIS WINE - THAT NEW WINE IS A
00:34:33.66\00:34:38.83
SYMBOL OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS
THAT WASHES AWAY THE SIN OF THE
00:34:38.83\00:34:41.43
WORLD. FIRST
MIRACLE HE GIVES TO US HIS
00:34:41.43\00:34:46.26
BLOOD - THIS GRAPE
JUICE - AT A WEDDING.
00:34:46.26\00:34:48.93
THE LAST THING THAT HAPPENS IS
HE TAKES OURS. WE'VE ALL SINNED.
00:34:48.93\00:34:52.66
IT'S LIKE HE'S TAKING THE
BAD AND HE'S GIVING US THE GOOD.
00:34:52.66\00:34:56.43
IT'S ALMOST LIKE A BLOOD
TRANSFUSION THAT HAPPENS IN THE
00:34:56.43\00:34:58.66
LIFE OF CHRIST. DO
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:34:58.66\00:35:00.43
FIRST MIRACLE - HE'S OFFERING
US THE PURE AND THE GOOD.
00:35:00.43\00:35:04.30
LAST THING IS
HE'S TAKING OUR BAD.
00:35:04.30\00:35:07.03
AND HE GIVES US TO BEGIN WITH,
WE GIVE HIM AT THE END AND THEN
00:35:07.03\00:35:11.70
HE DIES. LAST THING THAT
HAPPENS AND THEN HE DIES.
00:35:11.70\00:35:14.80
AND SO, IT'S JUST LIKE
AN ANALOGY OF THE GOSPEL.
00:35:14.80\00:35:18.90
BUT HE DOES IT WITH
SOMETHING VERY COMMON.
00:35:18.90\00:35:21.43
YOU CAN ALSO SEE MATTHEW - I
HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN IT - SOMEONE'S
00:35:21.43\00:35:25.00
GOT JOHN THERE - MATTHEW 15,
VERSE 35, "SO HE COMMANDED THE
00:35:25.00\00:35:28.96
MULTITUDE TO SIT
DOWN ON THE GROUND.
00:35:28.96\00:35:31.10
AND HE TOOK THE SEVEN LOAVES AND
THE FISH AND GAVE THANKS, BROKE
00:35:31.10\00:35:34.63
THEM AND GAVE THEM TO HIS
DISCIPLES; AND THE DISCIPLES
00:35:34.63\00:35:36.76
GAVE TO THE MULTITUDE. SO
THEY ALL ATE AND WERE FILLED,
00:35:36.76\00:35:40.86
AND THEY TOOK UP SEVEN LARGE
BASKETS FULL OF THE FRAGMENTS
00:35:40.86\00:35:43.66
THAT WERE LEFT. NOW
THOSE WHO ATE WERE THE FOUR
00:35:43.66\00:35:46.56
THOUSAND MEN,
BESIDES WOMEN AND CHILDREN."
00:35:46.56\00:35:49.23
THERE'S ANOTHER
NEED FOR A MIRACLE NOW.
00:35:49.23\00:35:52.13
PEOPLE HAVE RUN OUT OF FOOD AND
THEY SAY TO JESUS, 'WHAT ARE WE
00:35:52.13\00:35:56.60
GOING TO DO?' HE
SAYS, 'WELL, WHAT DO YOU
00:35:56.60\00:35:57.80
HAVE?' 'WELL, WE
DUG AROUND A LITTLE
00:35:57.80\00:36:00.33
BIT AND ALL WE HAVE IS THIS
BOY'S GOT A LUNCH HERE WHERE
00:36:00.33\00:36:03.96
HE'S GOT FIVE LITTLE TORTILLAS
AND A COUPLE OF SARDINES, BUT
00:36:03.96\00:36:08.90
WHAT ARE WE
GOING TO DO WITH THAT?'
00:36:08.90\00:36:11.13
NOBODY WOULD HAVE
EVER THOUGHT TWICE OF IT.
00:36:11.13\00:36:13.53
IT'S SOMETHING THAT
YOU MIGHT SEE - WHO KNOWS,
00:36:13.53\00:36:15.36
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
IN A PICNIC BASKET.
00:36:15.36\00:36:17.00
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WRAPPED UP IN
A RAG THAT HIS MOTHER GAVE HIM.
00:36:17.00\00:36:19.73
I MEAN IT WAS PROBABLY
JUST COMPLETELY ORDINARY.
00:36:19.73\00:36:22.66
BUT HAVE ALL OF US AROUND THE
WORLD TODAY HEARD THE STORY OF
00:36:22.66\00:36:25.53
WHAT HAPPENED WITH
THOSE ORDINARY THINGS?
00:36:25.53\00:36:27.93
WHEN JESUS TOOK IT INTO HIS
HANDS AND HE BLESSED IT AND HE
00:36:27.93\00:36:30.30
GAVE IT BACK, A
MIRACLE HAPPENED.
00:36:30.30\00:36:32.46
THOUSANDS WERE FED AS A RESULT.
SOMEONE LOOK FOR ME - I GAVE IT
00:36:32.46\00:36:37.40
TO YOU ALREADY - JOHN 20, VERSE
7 - I THINK WE'RE READY FOR YOU.
00:36:37.40\00:36:41.30
>>"AND THE NAPKIN, THAT WAS
ABOUT HIS HEAD, NOT LYING WITH
00:36:41.30\00:36:45.53
THE LINEN CLOTHES, BUT WRAPPED
TOGETHER IN A PLACE BY ITSELF."
00:36:45.53\00:36:49.40
>>NOW THIS IS, I THINK, A GREAT
EXAMPLE - WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM
00:36:49.40\00:36:54.76
THE DEAD AND PETER AND JOHN RAN
TO THE TOMB THEY DIDN'T KNOW IF
00:36:54.76\00:36:58.86
THE BODY WAS STOLEN.
THEY DIDN'T KNOW IF THE ROMANS
00:36:58.86\00:37:00.90
HAD EVICTED HIM AND PUT
HIM IN THE PAUPER'S GRAVE.
00:37:00.90\00:37:04.36
THEY DIDN'T KNOW IF THE
HIGH PRIEST HAD DONE SOMETHING.
00:37:04.36\00:37:06.66
THEY DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT HAD HAPPENED.
00:37:06.66\00:37:08.20
THE WOMEN SAID, 'WELL, WE'VE
SEEN ANGELS' BUT PETER AND JOHN,
00:37:08.20\00:37:11.53
MAYBE THEY'RE MORE SUSPICIOUS.
WHEN THEY GET THERE, THEY DON'T
00:37:11.53\00:37:13.40
SEE THE ANGELS - WHEN PETER
AND JOHN FIRST GET TO THE TOMB.
00:37:13.40\00:37:16.63
BUT WHAT MADE JOHN BELIEVE
THAT JESUS HAD ACTUALLY RISEN?
00:37:16.63\00:37:22.03
DO YOU REMEMBER? WE
WERE JUST READING THAT.
00:37:22.03\00:37:24.30
"THE HANDKERCHIEF THAT HAD BEEN
AROUND HIS HEAD, NOT LYING WITH
00:37:24.30\00:37:27.30
THE LINEN CLOTHS, BUT FOLDED
TOGETHER IN A PLACE BY ITSELF."
00:37:27.30\00:37:30.93
WHEN HE SAW THAT
HE BELIEVED. WHY?
00:37:30.93\00:37:34.50
IF YOU'RE STEALING A BODY DO
YOU TAKE THE TIME TO FOLD THE
00:37:34.50\00:37:39.50
WRAPPING? BUT WHAT ABOUT JESUS?
00:37:39.50\00:37:43.10
JESUS WAS SO CAREFUL AND GAVE
SUCH FAITHFUL ATTENTION TO EVEN
00:37:43.10\00:37:47.20
LITTLE DETAIL, THAT ONLY JESUS
WOULD HAVE SAID, 'RESURRECTION!'
00:37:47.20\00:37:51.96
- INSTEAD OF JUST THROWING IT
ASIDE HE WENT, 'LET'S FOLD THIS
00:37:51.96\00:37:54.60
THING UP HERE AND PUT IT DOWN.'
THAT'S THE WAY MARY TAUGHT HIM
00:37:54.60\00:37:58.60
AND THEY KNEW THAT.
AND THEY LOOKED AT THAT - A
00:37:58.60\00:38:01.00
LITTLE ORDINARY THING LIKE THAT
THAT HE HAD FOLDED THE CLOTH
00:38:01.00\00:38:04.33
THAT HAD BEEN AROUND HIS HEAD
INSTEAD OF TOSSING IT ASIDE AND
00:38:04.33\00:38:07.63
SAID, 'ONLY JESUS WOULD DO
THAT.' AND THAT, TO THEM, WAS A
00:38:07.63\00:38:12.53
CLUE THAT HE HAD RISEN.
LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT.
00:38:12.53\00:38:16.70
MATTER OF FACT JESUS, TALKING
AGAIN ABOUT HIS ATTENTION TO
00:38:16.70\00:38:19.16
DETAIL, GO TO JOHN
6, VERSES 12 AND 13.
00:38:19.16\00:38:23.23
AFTER THE PEOPLE FINISHED
EATING, WHEN THE BREAD AND THE
00:38:23.23\00:38:26.30
FISH WERE MULTIPLIED, JESUS SAID
TO HIS DISCIPLES, "'GATHER UP
00:38:26.30\00:38:31.03
THE FRAGMENTS THAT REMAIN, SO
THAT NOTHING IS LOST.' THEREFORE
00:38:31.03\00:38:35.03
THEY GATHERED THEM UP, AND
FILLED TWELVE BASKETS" - I DON'T
00:38:35.03\00:38:38.60
THINK THESE WERE SMALL BASKETS
- "TWELVE BASKETS WITH THE
00:38:38.60\00:38:40.86
FRAGMENTS OF THE FIVE BARLEY
LOAVES WHICH WERE LEFT OVER BY
00:38:40.86\00:38:44.00
THOSE WHO HAD EATEN."
NOW WHY DID JESUS DO THIS?
00:38:44.00\00:38:48.03
ANY OF YOU EVER GO TO A
RESTAURANT AND SAY, 'THAT WAS
00:38:48.03\00:38:50.63
GOOD FOOD AND IT WAS EXPENSIVE.
CAN I HAVE A DOGGY BAG?'
00:38:50.63\00:38:55.06
AND YOU TAKE SOME HOME?
I'M NOT TOO PROUD TO DO THAT.
00:38:55.06\00:38:58.03
AND SOMETIMES IT'S EVEN BETTER
THE NEXT DAY, RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY.
00:38:58.03\00:39:03.23
AND JESUS IS GOING, 'HEY, A LOT
OF THESE PEOPLE ARE HUNGRY.' AND
00:39:03.23\00:39:06.16
THE OTHER REASON JESUS SAID THAT
- THE PEOPLE WHO HAD SEEN THE
00:39:06.16\00:39:09.80
MIRACLE - OTHERS WOULDN'T
BELIEVE IT - HE SAID, 'TAKE SOME
00:39:09.80\00:39:12.63
OF IT BACK TO YOUR
VILLAGES WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO.
00:39:12.63\00:39:16.43
TAKE THESE TWELVE BASKETFULS AND
SPREAD IT AROUND AND SAY 'THIS
00:39:16.43\00:39:20.93
IS - IT WAS REAL
BREAD. HERE IS SOME OF IT.
00:39:20.93\00:39:23.20
HE DID IT WITH FIVE LOAVES, NOW
LOOK AT WHAT'S LEFT OVER.' AND I
00:39:23.20\00:39:27.10
DON'T KNOW, MAYBE THERE
WERE FRAGMENTS OF THE FISH TOO.
00:39:27.10\00:39:29.80
AND SO AS THEY TOOK THE
EXTRA FOOD BACK TO THEIR VARIOUS
00:39:29.80\00:39:32.73
TOWNS, THE STORY OF THE
MIRACLE SPREAD WHERE THEY WENT.
00:39:32.73\00:39:37.73
SO THOSE LITTLE ORDINARY THINGS
MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. 'A FLAWED
00:39:37.73\00:39:43.46
FISHERMAN'S CALLING' - THIS IS
A GOOD STORY. LUKE CHAPTER 5 -
00:39:43.46\00:39:49.86
LUKE 5, VERSE 4 - THIS IS
THE STORY OF PETER'S CALLING.
00:39:49.86\00:39:54.53
AND AFTER JESUS GOT DONE
TEACHING FROM PETER'S BOAT, "HE
00:39:54.53\00:39:57.33
SAID TO SIMON, 'LAUNCH OUT INTO
THE DEEP AND LET DOWN YOUR NETS
00:39:57.33\00:40:01.46
FOR A CATCH.' BUT SIMON ANSWERED
AND SAID TO HIM 'MASTER, WE HAVE
00:40:01.46\00:40:05.43
TOILED ALL NIGHT AND CAUGHT
NOTHING; NEVERTHELESS AT YOUR
00:40:05.43\00:40:09.30
WORD I WILL LET DOWN THE NET.'
AND WHEN THEY HAD DONE THIS,
00:40:09.30\00:40:14.06
THEY CAUGHT A GREAT NUMBER
OF FISH, AND THEIR NET WAS
00:40:14.06\00:40:17.13
BREAKING. SO THEY SIGNALED TO
THEIR PARTNERS IN THE OTHER BOAT
00:40:17.13\00:40:21.16
TO COME AND HELP THEM.
AND THEY CAME AND FILLED BOTH
00:40:21.16\00:40:24.80
THE BOATS, SO THAT
THEY BEGAN TO SINK."
00:40:24.80\00:40:27.90
NOW, CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW
BIG A CATCH THAT MUST HAVE BEEN?
00:40:27.90\00:40:31.10
THESE ARE TWO BOATS - KEEP IN
MIND, THESE BOATS ARE BIG ENOUGH
00:40:31.10\00:40:34.56
THAT ALL OF THE APOSTLES COULD
FIT IN ONE BOAT BECAUSE THERE'S
00:40:34.56\00:40:37.36
OTHER STORIES WHERE
ALL OF THE APOSTLES -
00:40:37.36\00:40:39.10
TWELVE OF THEM AND
JESUS - GOT IN ONE BOAT.
00:40:39.10\00:40:41.00
SO THIRTEEN MEN COULD
FIT IN THIS BOAT, RIGHT?
00:40:41.00\00:40:45.00
AND IT TELLS US THAT THESE BOATS
- NOT ONE, BUT TWO BOATS - WERE
00:40:45.00\00:40:47.60
SO FULL OF FISH THAT THEY
WERE AT RISK - IT WAS UP TO THE
00:40:47.60\00:40:51.40
GUNWALLS - THEY
WERE AT RISK OF SINKING.
00:40:51.40\00:40:57.43
YOU KNOW, I'VE SOMETIMES
MENTIONED, WHEN I READ THIS
00:40:57.43\00:41:01.90
STORY IN THE BIBLE, WHAT
BOAT WAS JESUS IN WHEN HE WAS
00:41:01.90\00:41:05.96
TEACHING? PETER'S BOAT
OR JAMES AND JOHN'S BOAT?
00:41:05.96\00:41:11.36
JUST - IT'S IN
THERE. PETER'S BOAT, OKAY?
00:41:11.36\00:41:14.13
DO YOU THINK JAMES AND
JOHN WERE JEALOUS? MAYBE.
00:41:14.13\00:41:18.00
THEY MIGHT HAVE SAID - PETER,
YOU KNOW, HE SAID, 'NO, NO, GET
00:41:18.00\00:41:20.73
IN MY BOAT, LORD, MY BOAT.'
'YEAH, WE'D RATHER HAVE JESUS
00:41:20.73\00:41:24.33
PREACHING FROM OUR BOAT
BUT HOW MANY BOATS WERE FILLED?
00:41:24.33\00:41:31.73
BOTH BOATS. SOMETIMES I'VE SEEN
CHURCHES COME TOGETHER FOR AN
00:41:31.73\00:41:35.30
EVANGELISTIC MEETING AND THE
EVANGELISTIC MEETING MIGHT BE IN
00:41:35.30\00:41:39.43
ONE OF THREE CHURCHES,
BUT IF ALL THOSE CHURCHES WORK
00:41:39.43\00:41:42.33
TOGETHER, THE LORD CAN FILL ALL
THREE CHURCHES, EVEN THOUGH THE
00:41:42.33\00:41:46.10
MEETING WAS HELD IN ONE CHURCH.
AND SO, ALL THE BOATS ARE
00:41:46.10\00:41:51.63
FILLED. AND WHEN THEY SAW
THIS MIRACLE - NOW, CAN YOU
00:41:51.63\00:41:56.53
UNDERSTAND WHAT A
BIG MIRACLE THIS IS?
00:41:56.53\00:41:58.00
PETER'S BEEN FISHING ALL HIS
LIFE - HE'S NEVER SEEN A CATCH
00:41:58.00\00:41:59.90
LIKE THIS. NOT ONLY THAT,
IT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.
00:41:59.90\00:42:03.10
IT WAS THE WORST TIME
OF DAY TO DO ANY FISHING.
00:42:03.10\00:42:05.56
THEY WOULD FISH AT NIGHT WHERE
THEY'D HANG A LAMP OFF THE BACK
00:42:05.56\00:42:07.73
OF THEIR BOAT AND THE FISH WERE
ATTRACTED TO THE LIGHT AND THEN
00:42:07.73\00:42:09.66
THEY'D NET THEM. HERE
IT IS DAYLIGHT, THE FISH
00:42:09.66\00:42:11.50
HAVE NOTHING TO ATTRACT THEM -
EXCEPT THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD IS
00:42:11.50\00:42:14.86
IN PETER'S BOAT - AND SO HE SAYS
'THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
00:42:14.86\00:42:18.90
IT'S A MIRACLE.' AND SO WHEN
HE SEES THIS, PETER SUDDENLY
00:42:18.90\00:42:21.30
REALIZES ONLY A DIVINE POWER
COULD GATHER THOSE FISH TO HIS
00:42:21.30\00:42:25.70
BOAT. THAT HE IS IN THE
PRESENCE OF THE GOD MAN.
00:42:25.70\00:42:30.50
AND PETER, WHEN HE SAW IT, HE
FELL DOWN - INSTEAD OF SAYING,
00:42:30.50\00:42:33.00
'LET'S GO SELL THE FISH, HE
FELL DOWN AT JESUS' KNEES - THEY
00:42:33.00\00:42:37.10
HAVEN'T EVEN TAKEN THE FISH
ASHORE YET - HE SAYS, "DEPART
00:42:37.10\00:42:39.63
FROM ME FOR I AM A
SINFUL MAN, O LORD."
00:42:39.63\00:42:43.10
WAS PETER TELLING
THE TRUTH? HE WAS.
00:42:43.10\00:42:46.56
HE PROVED IT WAS TRUE LATER
IN HIS MINISTRY WHEN HE DENIED
00:42:46.56\00:42:49.40
CHRIST, RIGHT? PETER KNEW HOW
TO SWEAR AND CURSE. PETER WAS
00:42:49.40\00:42:55.10
PROBABLY YOUR RUN-OF-THE-MILL
ORDINARY GALILLEAN FISHERMAN.
00:42:55.10\00:42:59.06
THE BIBLE EVEN SAYS HE
HAD A GALILLEAN ACCENT.
00:42:59.06\00:43:01.76
PROBABLY, YOU KNOW,
A LITTLE MORE CRUDE.
00:43:01.76\00:43:04.06
WASN'T SO GOOD TO ARTICULATE
THINGS AND HE SAID, 'I'M A
00:43:04.06\00:43:09.23
SINFUL MAN' - "FOR HE AND
ALL WHO WERE WITH HIM" - PETER,
00:43:09.23\00:43:11.53
JOHN, JAMES AND ANDREW - ALL OF
THEM - THEY "WERE ASTONISHED AT
00:43:11.53\00:43:14.16
THE CATCH OF FISH WHICH THEY HAD
TAKEN; AND SO ALSO WERE JAMES
00:43:14.16\00:43:17.40
AND JOHN, THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE,
WHO WERE PARTNERS WITH SIMON.
00:43:17.40\00:43:20.00
AND JESUS SAID TO
SIMON, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID.
00:43:20.00\00:43:23.63
FROM NOW ON YOU WILL CATCH
MEN.'" CAN GOD DO WONDERFUL
00:43:23.63\00:43:27.83
THINGS THROUGH ORDINARY PEOPLE?
WHEN YOU'RE BAPTIZED - DOES GOD
00:43:27.83\00:43:34.40
PROMISE TO GIVE THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO JUST SOME PEOPLE OR
00:43:34.40\00:43:37.06
EVERYBODY? AND WE
ALL GET DIFFERENT GIFTS.
00:43:37.06\00:43:41.56
THE BIBLE SAYS IN ACTS CHAPTER
2, 'REPENT AND BE BAPTIZED,
00:43:41.56\00:43:44.33
EVERY ONE OF YOU, IN THE NAME OF
THE LORD AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE
00:43:44.33\00:43:47.60
THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR
THE PROMISE' - THS IS A PROMISE
00:43:47.60\00:43:51.30
HERE - 'THE PROMISE IS UNTO YOU
AND YOUR BRETHREN AND AS MANY AS
00:43:51.30\00:43:55.90
THE LORD GOD WILL CALL.' IT
SAYS BE BAPTIZED AND YOU WILL
00:43:55.90\00:43:59.40
RECEIVE. DID JESUS GET THE
HOLY SPIRIT AT HIS BAPTISM?
00:43:59.40\00:44:02.00
ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO WAIT
UNTIL YOU FEEL GOOSEBUMPS OR
00:44:02.00\00:44:04.80
ELECTRICITY BEFORE YOU BELIEVE
YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT?
00:44:04.80\00:44:07.50
OR DO YOU BELIEVE
IT BECAUSE GOD SAID IT?
00:44:07.50\00:44:09.36
IF YOU REPENT AND CONFESS
YOUR SINS, GOD SAYS THAT 'HE IS
00:44:09.36\00:44:13.16
FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE
YOU YOUR SINS AND TO CLEANSE YOU
00:44:13.16\00:44:15.76
FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.' ARE
YOU SUPPOSED TO WAIT UNTIL YOU
00:44:15.76\00:44:18.36
FEEL LIKE YOU ARE FORGIVEN,
OR DO YOU BELIEVE IT BECAUSE HE
00:44:18.36\00:44:20.76
SAID SO? SO IF HE
SAYS HE GIVES YOU THE
00:44:20.76\00:44:23.43
HOLY SPIRIT, DO
YOU BELIEVE THAT?
00:44:23.43\00:44:26.06
AND THEN HE WILL MANIFEST
THAT SPIRIT THROUGH HIGHLIGHTING
00:44:26.06\00:44:31.40
DIFFERENT GIFTS IN YOUR LIFE YOU
MAY NOT EVEN KNOW THAT YOU HAVE
00:44:31.40\00:44:33.60
YET. DID PETER,
WHEN HE WAS GROWING
00:44:33.60\00:44:37.50
UP ON THE SHORES OF GALILEE AND
THEY'D TALK AMONG THEMSELVES AND
00:44:37.50\00:44:42.73
SAY, 'SO WHAT ARE YOU
GOING TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?'
00:44:42.73\00:44:45.16
PETER SAID,
'WELL, DAD'S A FISHERMAN.
00:44:45.16\00:44:46.80
I THINK I'LL BE A FISHERMAN.'
'OH, YOU DON'T THINK YOU WANT TO
00:44:46.80\00:44:49.80
BE AN ITINERANT
PREACHER OR A GREAT EVANGELIST?'
00:44:49.80\00:44:52.13
'OH, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? A RABBI?
ME? NO.' I MEAN, IF YOU HAD TOLD
00:44:52.13\00:44:57.33
PETER THAT, WOULD HE
HAVE EVER GUESSED IT?
00:44:57.33\00:44:59.56
'YOU'RE GOING TO WRITE BOOKS,
PETER, AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE AN
00:44:59.56\00:45:02.03
ORATOR.' 'WHAT?' HE
NEVER WOULD HAVE DREAMED IT.
00:45:02.03\00:45:06.73
WHEN YOU GIVE YOURSELF TO THE
LORD THERE'S NO TELLING WHAT HE
00:45:06.73\00:45:09.20
CAN DO WITH
ORDINARY PEOPLE, RIGHT?
00:45:09.20\00:45:13.20
THERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE: JOHN
21, VERSE 3 - NOW JESUS HAS -
00:45:13.20\00:45:18.03
JUST TO SHOW YOU HOW ORDINARY
THESE GUYS ARE, THIS IS AFTER
00:45:18.03\00:45:21.16
THREE AND A HALF YEARS, THIS IS
AFTER JESUS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN.
00:45:21.16\00:45:25.40
FROM THE TIME JESUS ASCENDED TO
HEAVEN UNTIL THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS
00:45:25.40\00:45:28.13
POURED OUT, THERE WAS ABOUT 40
DAYS - ACTUALLY IT'S 50 DAYS -
00:45:28.13\00:45:32.20
NO, NO - 50 DAYS
FROM THE RESURRECTION.
00:45:32.20\00:45:35.46
IT WAS 40 DAYS THAT - FROM
- LET ME SEE HERE - 40 DAYS HE
00:45:35.46\00:45:44.00
APPEARED - TEN DAYS AFTER
HE ASCENDED BEFORE PENTECOST.
00:45:44.00\00:45:49.83
SO ANYWAY, MY POINT IS THEY HAD
SOME DOWN TIME BEFORE THE HOLY
00:45:49.83\00:45:53.03
SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT FROM
THE TME JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED.
00:45:53.03\00:45:56.13
AND AT ONE POINT THEY'RE WAITING
BECAUSE JESUS SAID, 'DON'T GO
00:45:56.13\00:45:58.36
OUT PREACHING, TEACHING UNTIL
YOU RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY
00:45:58.36\00:46:00.60
SPIRIT AND THE DISCIPLES ARE,
YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY'RE JUST
00:46:00.60\00:46:03.36
CARVING STICKS. I DON'T
KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
00:46:03.36\00:46:06.26
THEY'RE PRAYING A LOT.
AND PETER SAID, 'I CAN'T TAKE
00:46:06.26\00:46:09.13
THIS SITTING AROUND ANYMORE.
I'M GOING FISHING.' AND THEY
00:46:09.13\00:46:12.76
SAID, 'GOOD IDEA. WE'RE
GOING WITH YOU.' THAT'S A
00:46:12.76\00:46:14.90
LOOSE PARAPHRASE. "THEY
WENT OUT AND IMMEDIATELY
00:46:14.90\00:46:17.46
GOT INTO THE BOAT, AND
THAT NIGHT THEY CAUGHT NOTHING."
00:46:17.46\00:46:20.30
- NOW THEY'VE
GONE UP TO GALILEE.
00:46:20.30\00:46:21.83
THERE'S ANOTHER LITTLE LAKE THEY
MAY HAVE GONE TO NORTH OF THAT -
00:46:21.83\00:46:25.00
'BUT WHEN THE MORNING HAD NOW
COME, JESUS STOOD ON THE SHORE;
00:46:25.00\00:46:29.20
YET THE DISCIPLES DID
NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS JESUS.
00:46:29.20\00:46:31.36
THEN JESUS SAID TO THEM,
'CHILDREN, HAVE YOU ANY FOOD?'"
00:46:31.36\00:46:33.66
- THAT WAS JUST
A COMMON GREETING.
00:46:33.66\00:46:35.46
HE'S SAYING, 'IF YOU CAUGHT
ANYTHING COULD YOU SHARE SOME?'
00:46:35.46\00:46:37.46
- "THEY ANSWERED HIM, 'NO.' AND
HE SAID TO THEM, 'CAST THE NET
00:46:37.46\00:46:39.30
ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BOAT,
AND YOU WILL FIND SOME.'" - AND
00:46:39.30\00:46:42.66
THEY THOUGHT, 'YOU KNOW, WE
VAGUELY REMEMBER SOMEONE TELLING
00:46:42.66\00:46:44.76
US HOW TO CAST OUR
NET AND IT WORKED WELL.
00:46:44.76\00:46:47.23
LET'S TRY THAT AGAIN.' THEY
STILL DON'T KNOW IT'S JESUS.
00:46:47.23\00:46:50.26
- "SO THEY CAST, AND NOW
THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO DRAW IT IN
00:46:50.26\00:46:53.16
BECAUSE OF THE
MULTITUDE OF FISH."
00:46:53.16\00:46:54.56
- THEY ACTUALLY HAD TO PADDLE
ASHORE AND DRAG IT ASHORE.
00:46:54.56\00:46:57.63
PETER COULDN'T EVEN
WAIT. HE DOVE IN THE WATER.
00:46:57.63\00:46:59.30
HE REALIZED IT WAS
JESUS AND HE SWAM TO JESUS.
00:46:59.30\00:47:01.40
AND THEY GET THERE
AND WHAT'S JESUS DOING?
00:47:01.40\00:47:03.46
HE'S GOT A LITTLE CAMPFIRE AND
HE'S BAKING - HE'S ALREADY GOT
00:47:03.46\00:47:05.90
BREAD THERE AND HE'S GOT
FISH. HE'S COOKING BREAKFAST FOR
00:47:05.90\00:47:08.20
EVERYBODY. JUST
SUCH AN AVERAGE OUTDOOR
00:47:08.20\00:47:11.86
THING AND IT WAS IN THOSE
ENVIRONMENTS THAT HE REVEALED
00:47:11.86\00:47:15.26
HIMSELF TO THE DISCIPLES.
JESUS IS WALKING BY THE SEA OF
00:47:15.26\00:47:19.70
GALILEE - I KNOW I HAVE SOME OF
THESE VERSES OUT OF ORDER - AND
00:47:19.70\00:47:22.73
HE SAW TWO BROTHERS, SIMON AND
PETER, CALLED ANDREW, CASTING A
00:47:22.73\00:47:26.33
NET INTO THE SEA
FOR THEY WERE FISHERMEN.
00:47:26.33\00:47:28.13
AND HE SAID, 'FOLLOW ME AND I'LL
MAKE YOU FISHERS OF MEN.' NOW HE
00:47:28.13\00:47:32.70
TOOK ORDINARY PEOPLE - HE DIDN'T
SAY, 'AS SOON AS YOU FOLLOW ME
00:47:32.70\00:47:35.00
YOU'LL BECOME.' HE
SAID THERE WAS A PROCESS.
00:47:35.00\00:47:37.83
'FOLLOW ME AND I WILL MAKE
YOU.' AS THEY FOLLOWED JESUS, HE
00:47:37.83\00:47:42.00
TRANSFORMED THEM
INTO FISHERS OF MEN.
00:47:42.00\00:47:44.33
YOU SEE WHAT HE'S SAYING THERE?
AND WONDERFUL THINGS HAPPENED.
00:47:44.33\00:47:47.66
GO UNDER THE SECTION
UNDER 'HEAVENLY EVALUATION' -
00:47:47.66\00:47:53.40
'HEAVENLY EVALUATION'.
LUKE CHAPTER 12, VERSE 6 - AND
00:47:53.40\00:48:01.66
IT SAYS, "ARE NOT FIVE SPARROWS
SOLD FOR TWO COPPER COINS?"
00:48:01.66\00:48:05.70
- I ALREADY QUOTED THIS - "AND
NOT ONE OF THEM IS FORGOTTEN
00:48:05.70\00:48:08.33
BEFORE GOD. BUT THE
VERY HAIRS OF YOUR HEAD
00:48:08.33\00:48:11.33
ARE ALL NUMBERED. DO
NOT FEAR THEREFORE; YOU ARE
00:48:11.33\00:48:13.63
OF MORE VALUE THAN SPARROWS."
SO ALRIGHT, LET'S ESTABLISH
00:48:13.63\00:48:18.13
THIS: ARE PEOPLE
WORTH MORE THAN SPARROWS?
00:48:18.13\00:48:21.06
ARE THERE VARIATIONS OF VALUE
AMONG THE CREATURES THAT GOD
00:48:21.06\00:48:24.10
MADE? DOES IT WORK LIKE THIS?
00:48:24.10\00:48:27.60
YOU'VE GOT HUMANS,
THEN ANIMALS, THEN ROCKS.
00:48:27.60\00:48:32.33
ARE ANIMALS WORTH MORE
THAN ROCKS? YOU ALL AGREE? WHY?
00:48:32.33\00:48:39.83
ALRIGHT, NOW LET ME BREAK THIS
DOWN FOR YOU A LITTLE FARTHER.
00:48:39.83\00:48:45.60
IS IT WORSE TO KILL A
MOSQUITO OR A SPARROW?
00:48:45.60\00:48:53.26
IS A SPARROW OF MORE VALUE THAN
A MOSQUITO? NOW IF THAT SPARROW
00:48:53.26\00:48:57.96
IS EATING YOUR CORN
YOU MIGHT FEEL DIFFERENTLY.
00:48:57.96\00:49:03.70
BUT IS A DOG - IS IT
WORSE TO KILL A DOG OR A MOUSE?
00:49:03.70\00:49:13.50
IF YOU TRAP A RAT - YOU TOSS IT
IN THE GARBAGE CAN - WOULD YOU
00:49:13.50\00:49:16.73
FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT A
DOG OR WOULD YOU FEEL WORSE?
00:49:16.73\00:49:21.03
SO IN YOUR MINDS - I THINK MOST
PEOPLE I'VE ASKED USUALLY AGREE
00:49:21.03\00:49:23.86
WITH ME - IN YOUR MINDS YOU
RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS A VALUE
00:49:23.86\00:49:28.26
OF LIFE AND IT'S NOT JUST BASED
ON SIZE, IT'S USUALLY BASED ON
00:49:28.26\00:49:31.96
INTELLIGENCE.
OBVIOUSLY, A DOG IS MORE
00:49:31.96\00:49:36.13
INTELLIGENT THAN A ROCK - THOUGH
YOU HAVE HAD DOGS THAT YOU'VE
00:49:36.13\00:49:38.66
WONDERED ABOUT, RIGHT?
AND SO WHO WAS MADE IN GOD'S
00:49:38.66\00:49:45.53
IMAGE? PEOPLE
ARE WORTH A LOT MORE.
00:49:45.53\00:49:49.43
HUMANS ARE WORTH - HUMANS
MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD ARE -
00:49:49.43\00:49:51.50
THERE'S SOMETHING
SACRED ABOUT HUMAN LIFE, RIGHT?
00:49:51.50\00:49:54.40
THAT'S WHY WE EVEN RESPECT
PEOPLE THAT ARE BURIED BECAUSE
00:49:54.40\00:49:57.66
THESE WERE CREATURES THAT WERE
MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD AND
00:49:57.66\00:50:00.03
YOU'RE RESPECTFUL OF THE FORM
OF SOMEONE WHEN THEY PASS AWAY.
00:50:00.03\00:50:04.26
BUT WE'RE IN A CULTURE NOW
WHEN THEY'RE TELLING YOU THAT A
00:50:04.26\00:50:08.76
SPOTTED OWL OR A KANGAROO RAT OR
A TREE MIGHT BE WORTH AS MUCH AS
00:50:08.76\00:50:12.56
A HUMAN BECAUSE WE'RE ALL
PART OF THAT CIRCLE OF LIFE, YOU
00:50:12.56\00:50:15.46
KNOW? THE CIRCLE
OF LIFE - JUST YOU
00:50:15.46\00:50:19.16
ALL KIND OF GO - YOU MIGHT COME
BACK AS A MOUSE OR A COW OR A
00:50:19.16\00:50:21.83
TREE. IN THE WORLD
TODAY, THIS IDEA OF
00:50:21.83\00:50:27.46
VALUATION DOESN'T
GO OVER VERY WELL.
00:50:27.46\00:50:31.10
LET'S FACE IT, PEOPLE IN OUR
CULTURE, THEY DON'T HAVE VERY
00:50:31.10\00:50:34.83
MUCH PROBLEM ABORTING A BABY.
AND SOME OF THOSE VERY SAME
00:50:34.83\00:50:38.50
PEOPLE WILL TIE THEMSELVES TO
A TREE BEFORE IT GETS CUT DOWN.
00:50:38.50\00:50:43.43
OR THEY'LL RISK THEIR LIVES TO
SAVE SOME, YOU KNOW, VULTURE EGG
00:50:43.43\00:50:48.16
OR SOMETHING. SO THEY'RE - WE'RE
REALLY MIXED UP WITH VALUES.
00:50:48.16\00:50:52.93
BUT GOD TELLS YOU THAT YOU -
OH, BY THE WAY, I DIDN'T MENTION
00:50:52.93\00:50:56.36
THAT VERSE. 'HOW MUCH MORE THEN
IS A MAN BETTER THAN A SHEEP?'
00:50:56.36\00:51:02.93
AND THEN UNDER THE LAST SECTION
IT TALKS ABOUT A 'CLASSLESS
00:51:02.93\00:51:04.96
SOCIETY'. LET'S
LOOK AT SOME VERSES HERE.
00:51:04.96\00:51:07.63
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR
ME ROMANS 2, VERSE 10.
00:51:07.63\00:51:09.70
WHO HAS THAT? RIGHT HERE.
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
00:51:09.70\00:51:12.76
HOLD YOUR HAND UP
SO HE CAN SEE YOU.
00:51:12.76\00:51:15.26
TALKING ABOUT A
CLASSLESS SOCIETY.
00:51:15.26\00:51:18.00
ACTS CHAPTER 10, VERSE
34 - WE'LL START THERE.
00:51:18.00\00:51:21.80
"THEN PETER OPENED HIS MOUTH" -
THIS IS AFTER PETER PREACHES THE
00:51:21.80\00:51:24.43
GOSPEL TO CORNELIUS. YOU
REMEMBER THE JEWS, BACK IN
00:51:24.43\00:51:27.53
THE TIME OF PETER, THEY SORT OF
THOUGHT THE GENTILES WERE, YOU
00:51:27.53\00:51:30.46
KNOW, THEY'RE NOT QUITE AT
THE STRATA OF THE JEWS BECAUSE
00:51:30.46\00:51:33.63
THEY'RE UNCLEAN. THEY'RE DOGS.
THOSE ARE THE WORDS THAT THEY
00:51:33.63\00:51:36.36
USED. AND GOD
SAID TO PETER, 'DON'T
00:51:36.36\00:51:41.70
CALL ANY MAN
COMMON OR UNCLEAN, RIGHT?
00:51:41.70\00:51:46.40
IN ACTS CHAPTER 10, VERSE 34,
"THEN PETER OPENED HIS MOUTH AND
00:51:46.40\00:51:49.06
SAID: 'IN TRUTH I PERCEIVE'" -
AFTER THIS VISION THAT GOD GAVE
00:51:49.06\00:51:52.43
HIM - ''THAT GOD
SHOWS NO PARTIALITY.
00:51:52.43\00:51:55.36
BUT IN EVERY NATION
WHOEVER FEARS HIM AND WORKS
00:51:55.36\00:51:58.30
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS ACCEPTED BY
HIM." SO GOD SAYS, 'WHOEVER'.
00:51:58.30\00:52:03.80
GOD HAS MADE OF
ONE BLOOD ALL NATIONS.
00:52:03.80\00:52:07.20
GOD WANTS 'WHOSOEVER' TO
BE SAVED. I THINK WE'RE READY.
00:52:07.20\00:52:11.36
GO AHEAD, READ FOR
US ROMANS 2:10 - 11.
00:52:11.36\00:52:15.03
>>"BUT GLORY, HONOR, AND PEACE
TO EVERYONE WHO WORKS WHAT IS
00:52:15.03\00:52:17.80
GOOD, TO THE JEW
FIRST AND ALSO TO THE GREEK.
00:52:17.80\00:52:21.83
FOR THERE IS NO
PARTIALITY WITH GOD."
00:52:21.83\00:52:24.96
>>PAUL HAS TO REPEAT THESE
STATEMENTS MANY TIMES IN HIS
00:52:24.96\00:52:27.80
TEACHINGS BECAUSE IT TOOK AWHILE
FOR HIM TO BREAK THROUGH AND
00:52:27.80\00:52:31.60
EXPLAIN THAT, YES, WHILE IT
IS TRUE GOD FIRST DELIVERED THE
00:52:31.60\00:52:36.26
GOSPEL AND THE TRUTH TO THE
JEWS, HE ALSO WANTS THE GENTILES
00:52:36.26\00:52:40.43
SAVED. GOD WANTS EVERYBODY TO
BE SAVED. THAT'S WHY HE SAYS THE
00:52:40.43\00:52:43.76
JEW FIRST - IT DOESN'T
MEAN THE JEWS ARE WORTH MORE,
00:52:43.76\00:52:45.83
IT MEANS THAT THE
MESSAGE FIRST CAME TO THE JEWS.
00:52:45.83\00:52:48.60
YOU CAN EVEN READ IN JOB, FOR
INSTANCE, CHAPTER 34, VERSE 19,
00:52:48.60\00:52:52.80
"YET HE IS NOT PARTIAL TO
PRINCES, NOR DOES HE REGARD THE
00:52:52.80\00:52:57.10
RICH MORE THAN THE POOR;
FOR THEY ARE ALL THE WORK OF HIS
00:52:57.10\00:53:00.43
HANDS." THIS PRINCIPLE IS
NOT A NEW TESTAMENT PRINCIPLE.
00:53:00.43\00:53:03.90
THIS PRINCIPLE - JOB IS
THE OLDEST BOOK IN THE BIBLE.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT? IT GOES ALL
THE WAY BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
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READ JAMES - DO ANOTHER ONE
- JAMES 2, VERSES 1 TO 4, "MY
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BRETHREN, DO NOT HOLD THE
FAITH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,
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THE LORD OF
GLORY, WITH PARTIALITY.
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FOR IF THERE SHOULD COME INTO
YOUR ASSEMBLY A MAN WITH GOLD
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RINGS, IN FINE APPAREL, AND
THERE SHOULD ALSO COME IN A POOR
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MAN IN FILTHY CLOTHES, AND YOU
PAY ATTENTION TO THE ONE WEARING
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THE FINE CLOTHES AND SAY TO HIM,
'YOU SIT HERE IN A GOOD PLACE'
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AND SAY TO THE POOR MAN, 'YOU
STAND THERE,' OR, 'SIT HERE AT
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MY FOOTSTOOL,' HAVE YOU
NOT SHOWN PARTIALITY AMONG
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YOURSELVES, AND BECOME
JUDGES WITH EVIL THOUGHTS?"
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NOW, IN PRINCIPLE, WE KNOW
THAT'S TRUE, BUT I STILL SEE
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IT'S TRUE THAT IF WE KNOW A
PERSON IS A PERSON WHO IS FAMOUS
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OR A PERSON WHO IS EXTREMELY
WEALTHY, AND THEY SUDDENLY COME
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INTO A CONGREGATION, FOLKS SORT
OF FALL OVER THEMSELVES A LITTLE
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BIT - TO SHAKE THEIR HAND OR
GIVE THEM ATTENTION, MAKE SURE
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THEY'RE TAKEN CARE OF, BRING
THEM TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE
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AND, WHILE THEY MIGHT HAVE A
HOMELESS VISITOR AND THEY WON'T
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GET THE SAME TREATMENT.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
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WE ALL - WE ALL, SORT
OF, KIND OF GRAVITATE -
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IT'S JUST OUR FALLEN NATURES.
GALATIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 28,
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"THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK,
THERE IS NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE
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THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR
FEMALE; FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN
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CHRIST JESUS." GOD
SAVES EVERYBODY WHO -
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WHOSOEVER COMES TO HIM
THE LORD IS WILLING TO SAVE.
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AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK MAYBE
I'LL CLOSE - I'LL JUST TELL YOU
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AN INTERESTING STORY
GEORGE VANDEMAN USED TO TELL.
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THERE WAS A VERY FAMOUS JEWELER
NAMED HARRY WINSTON AND HE WAS -
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HE WAS FAMOUS FOR BUYING SOME OF
THE MOST EXPENSIVE GEMS IN THE
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WORLD. YOU'VE HEARD
OF THE HOPE DIAMOND?
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HARRY WINSTON IS THE ONE WHO
OWNED THE HOPE DIAMOND, I THINK,
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FOR TEN YEARS AND HE WAS
SO WEALTHY HE COULD AFFORD TO
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DONATE IT TO THE SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTE WHERE IT IS TODAY.
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I SAW IT THERE ONCE.
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WELL, HE WAS GETTING READY TO
TAKE DELIVERY IN NEW YORK CITY
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SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OF TIFFANY'S
- THIS IS YEARS AGO - AND HE WAS
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GETTING READY TO TAKE DELIVERY
OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS GEMS
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IN THE WORLD - THIS ENORMOUS
JEWEL THAT HAD BEEN OWNED BY
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SEVERAL MONARCHS AND TRADED
AND DISAPPEARED AND LOST AND
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CAPTURED AND REFOUND.
HE BOUGHT IT AND IT WAS
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EXQUISITE AND ALL THESE
PEOPLE GATHERED ON THE STREET.
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THEY WANTED TO SEE THIS
DELIVERED AND THEY WERE LOOKING
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UP AND DOWN THE STREET.
THERE WERE REPORTERS THERE AND
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THEY WANTED TO KNOW IF
HE'D GIVE THEM A GLIMPSE OF IT.
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AND SO HE WAS OUT - A BEAUTIFUL
SPRING DAY - IN FRONT OF THIS
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DIAMOND STORE IN NEW YORK CITY
AND THE NEWS WAS THERE AND THE
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CROWDS WERE THERE AND THEY WERE
LOOKING UP AND DOWN THE STREET
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WAITING FOR THIS CARRIAGE
TO ARRIVE THAT WAS, YOU KNOW,
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ESCORTED WITH THIS JEWEL AND THE
ARMED GUARDS AND ALL AND, WELL
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THE POOR POSTMAN, HE WAS TRYING
TO DO HIS ROUTE AND HE COULDN'T
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GET UP THE SIDEWALK BECAUSE THIS
CROWD WAS BLOCKING THE STREET.
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AND SO HE SAID, 'EXCUSE ME.
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I'VE GOT TO GET -
COULD YOU PLEASE LET ME'.
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AND THEY SAID, 'WHO
DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
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WHY DO YOU THINK
YOU'RE MORE IMPORTANT?'
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AND THEY WOULDN'T LET THE GUY
THROUGH AND HE JUST KEPT PUSHING
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HIS WAY THROUGH SAYING
'LOOK, I'M ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
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I'VE GOT TO GET THROUGH.' AND
FINALLY THEY LET HIM START TO
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DISSECT THE CROWD AND WHEN
HE GOT IN FRONT OF WINSTON HE
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HANDED HIM A BROWN PACKAGE AND
THEN HE KEPT GOING THROUGH THE
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CROWD. WINSTON
HELD UP THIS LITTLE
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BROWN PACKAGE TIED WITH STRING
AND HE TORE IT OPEN AND THERE IN
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A COMMON BOX - HE
OPENED IT UP - WAS THE GEM.
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IT HAD COME
THROUGH REGULAR MAIL.
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AND EVERYBODY JUST WAS SHOCKED
THAT SOMETHING SO VALUABLE WOULD
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HAVE BEEN DELIVERED THAT WAY AND
- GEORGE VANDEMAN USED TO LOVE
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TO ILLUSTRATE - HE'D SAY, 'YOU
KNOW, WHEN JESUS CAME INTO OUR
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WORLD, NOBODY REALLY EXPECTED
THAT GOD, THIS PRICELESS GEM,
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WOULD BE IN SUCH A COMMON
CONTAINER.' BUT IT'S ALSO TRUE
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WHEN THE LORD LOOKS DOWN AT EACH
ONE OF US, WHAT THE WORLD MIGHT
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SEE AS JUST A COMMON CONTAINER
IS SO PRECIOUS TO GOD THAT GOD,
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BASICALLY, EMPTIED THE TREASURY
OF HEAVEN TO PAY A RANSOM TO
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REDEEM YOU. SO HOW
COMMON ARE YOU IF GOD WAS
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WILLING TO EMPTY
HEAVEN TO PAY FOR YOU?
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DOES GOD CARE
ABOUT ORDINARY PEOPLE?
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AND DID GOD TAKE SOMEONE LIKE
MOSES WHO WAS THE CHILD OF A
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SLAVE AND SOMEONE LIKE RUTH, AND
THE MESSIAH WOULD COME THROUGH,
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AND HE TAKES AN ORPHAN GIRL
IN PERSIA AND SHE BECOMES QUEEN?
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AND HE TAKES A SHEPHERD BOY,
ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION, HE
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BECOMES KING OR, IN
JOSEPH'S CASE, PRIME MINISTER.
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GOD LOVES TO TAKE
ORDINARY PEOPLE AND THEN HE DOES
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EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. SO
WHEN WE'RE DISCIPLING OTHERS,
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LET'S NOT FORGET THAT EVERYBODY
IS PRECIOUS IN GOD'S EYES, AMEN?
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CLOSING, OUR FREE OFFER, FOR
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WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING
TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
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(MUSIC)
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