<<Bill: Back in the 15th
century in a tiny village near
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Nuremberg, Germany there lived
a family with eighteen children.
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That's right. eighteen!
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In order merely to keep food on
the table for this large family,
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the father (who was a goldsmith
by profession) worked almost
eighteen hours a day at
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this trade and any other
paying job he could find in the
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neighborhood. Despite their
seemingly hopeless condition,
two of the older children had a
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dream.
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They both wanted to pursue their
talent for art, but they knew
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full well that their father,
with all that he had on him,
would never be financially able
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to send either of them to
Nuremberg to study at the Art
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Academy there. After much
discussion, the two boys finally
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worked out a plan.
They would toss a coin.
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The loser would go down into
the nearby mines and with his
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earnings, support his brother
while he attended the Art
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Academy. Then, when that brother
who won the toss completed his
studies in four years,
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he would in turn support
the other brother at the academy
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either with sales of his art
work, or, if necessary, also by
working in the mines.
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So, one Sunday morning after
church, they tossed a coin.
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Albrecht Durer won the toss and
went off to Nuremberg to study
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art. His brother, Albert, went
down into the dangerous mines
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and for the next four years,
financed his brother's studies
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Albrecht Durer's etchings, his
woodworks, and his oils were far
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better than those of most of his
professors, and by the time he
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graduated, he was beginning to
earn considerable fees for his
commissioned works.
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When the young artist returned
home to his village, the Durer
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family held a festive dinner on
their lawn to celebrate
Albrecht's triumphant
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homecoming.
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After a delightful meal
with lots of music and laughter,
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Albrecht Durer rose from his
honored position at the head of
the table to express his
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deep appreciation to his beloved
brother, Albert, for the years
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of sacrifice he had put in that
had enabled Albrecht to fulfill
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his ambition. His closing words
were: "And now, Albert, blessed
brother of mine, now it is
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your turn.
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Now you can go to Nuremberg
to pursue your dream and I will
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take care of you.
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" All heads turned in love and
eager expectation to the far end
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of the table where Albert sat.
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Tears were
streaming down his face.
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Slowly, Albert stood to his feet
and softly he said, "Thank you,
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my brother, but no I
cannot go to Nuremberg.
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It is too late for me.
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Look, look what four years in
the mine have done to my hands.
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The bones in every finger have
been smashed at least once, and
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lately, I have been suffering
from arthritis so badly in my
right hand that I cannot
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even hold a glass to return your
toast, much less, make delicate
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lines on parchment or
canvas with a pen or a brush.
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No, my brother,
for me it is too late.
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" More than 450
years have passed.
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By now, Albrecht Durer's
hundreds of masterful portraits,
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pen and silver-point sketches,
watercolors, charcoals,
woodcuts, and copper
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engravings hang in every great
museum in the world, but the
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odds are great that you, like
most people, are familiar with
only one of Albrecht
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Durer's works.
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More than merely being familiar
with it, you very well may have
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a reproduction hanging
in your home or office.
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One day, to pay homage to Albert
for all that he had sacrificed,
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Albrecht Durer painstakingly
drew his brother's abused hands
with palms together and
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thin fingers stretched skyward.
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He called his powerful drawing
simply "Hands", but the entire
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world almost immediately opened
their hearts to this great
masterpiece and renamed
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his tribute of
love, "The Praying Hands.
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" The next time you see a copy
of this touching creation, take
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a second look; let it be a
reminder that no one. no one
ever makes it alone!
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Take Simon Peter, for example.
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He was one of the great leaders
of the original disciples of
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Jesus. He was one of the great
servants of the early church.
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He was one of the most beloved
and respected saints in the
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history of the world, but he did
not achieve that all by himself.
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The truth is we are incredibly
indebted to Simon Peter's
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brother, Andrew, for the gift of
Peter to the church and to the
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world. Andrew was the one who
brought his brother, Simon
Peter, into the presence
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of Jesus.
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Let's meet another of the
disciples, Andrew, Peter's
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brother. By the way,
his name means manly.
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He too was a native of
Bethsaida, that little village
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in Galilee. And he like
his brother was a fisherman.
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In fact, in Matthew 4 he was
down at the sea when Jesus came
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along, he had already met Jesus,
he had already believed in
Jesus, he had already affirmed
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Him as the Messiah, but after
going back to his fishing, now
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the Lord appears again to him at
the shore, and calls him
permanently to follow and
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He will make
him a fisher of men.
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Prior to coming to follow Jesus
Christ he had been a pious Jew,
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he had been a godly Jew, he
had been a God- fearing Jew.
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He had also been a
disciple of John the Baptist.
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In fact, it was one day at the
message of John the Baptist that
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his life was changed.
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For John the Baptist saw Jesus
in John 1 and said: "Behold, the
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Lamb of God." And Andrew was
there that day, along with John
who was also a fisherman , and
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surely an acquaintance
as well as was James.
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And he and John heard John the
Baptist say that, and they
followed after Jesus
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immediately and Jesus turned and
said to them, "What seek you?"
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And they replied,
"Where do You dwell?"
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And they went where Jesus dwelt
and they spent the entire day
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with Him and immediately it says
that Andrew opened his mouth and
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said these first words,
"We have found the Messiah."
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No sooner did Andrew discover
the reality of Jesus Christ for
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himself, than that he announced
to his brother Peter that very
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phrase, "We have
found the Messiah."
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Peter and Andrew lived
together, it says in Mark 1:29.
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And no doubt they
shared everything.
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And especially did Andrew want
to share with him the Messiah.
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And so from this very beginning
he becomes a part of that
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intimate four.
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In fact, if you study through
the New Testament, it's James
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and Peter and John and Peter,
James and John, and John and
Peter and James, they're always
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the inner circle and nobody is
ever let into that inner circle
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except once when Andrew gets in
and it's Peter, James, John and
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Andrew in one incident.
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He was in the most intimate four
but he never quite cracked that
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inside three.
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But he was greatly respected.
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In fact, Philip who was in group
two, a little less intimate with
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the Lord, one time had some
Greeks come to him and say - We
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want to see Jesus. And you
know where Philip took them?
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He took them to Andrew.
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Why?
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Because I guess Philip thought
that if you want to get to Jesus
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all you've got to
do is get to Andrew.
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Andrew was intimate with Jesus.
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And Andrew was respected.
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And even yet he
isn't in the inner three.
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But all of a sudden in the
fourth gospel, the gospel of
John, Andrew begins to
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emerge from the background.
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And we see Andrew three
times in the gospel of John.
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And all three times
Andrew is doing the same thing.
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It's easy to characterize him.
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The first time is in John
chapter 1 verse 40 which I just
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reported to you.
It says in John 1:40;
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And by the way, Andrew is always
called Simon Peter's brother
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with, I think, one or two
exceptions, maybe just one.
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That's always
how he's identified.
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"And he first finds his own
brother Simon, and says to him,
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We have found the Messiah,"
which is being interpreted the
Christ, the anointed one,
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"and he brought him to Jesus."
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Now if you want to know how to
characterize the life of Andrew
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it's very simple, he is the one
who was always bringing people
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to Jesus. The second time we see
him is in the sixth chapter of
John and the eighth and
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ninth verse John 6: 8 - 9.
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A vast multitude of people
are gathered, Jesus is teaching,
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it's late in the
day, the crowd is hungry.
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There's not enough food and
Andrew brings to Jesus this time
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a little boy. And the little boy
has five loaves and two fish.
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It doesn't mean five big loaves
of bread, it means five little
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flat barley
crackers and two fish.
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And they would take those fish
and they would pickle them and
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then they would eat
them with the crackers.
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So he brought a little fellow
with five barley crackers and
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two pickled fish.
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He brought him to Jesus.
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I guess Andrew must have thought
the Lord could make a whole lot
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out of a very little.
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The third time we
meet him is in John 12.
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And I've already
alluded to that incident.
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And in John 12: 20
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Philip is approached by the
Greeks, or the Gentiles, and
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they want to see Jesus.
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And Philip tells Andrew and
together they went to Jesus.
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The assumption being that
they took the folks there too.
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And so, whenever you see Andrew
he is involved in finding Jesus
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so that Jesus can meet someone,
bringing people to Jesus.
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I guess maybe he didn't think
there was anybody that Jesus
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didn't want to see.
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Or there was anything Jesus
couldn't respond to, or there
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was any problem
Jesus couldn't solve.
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Because he's characterized
as the one who brought men to
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Christ. Now in these three
incidents, if I can just sort of
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draw some pictures for you, in
these three incidents several
things become clear.
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First of all we
see Andrew's openness.
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He knew that they were to go to
the lost sheep of the house of
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Israel. He knew that primarily
it was the Jew first and then to
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the Gentile. And yet he also got
the spirit of our Lord because
the Lord originally had
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revealed His Messiahship to a
Samaritan woman, so Andrew was
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never choked by a hyper-Judaism.
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I mean, he didn't have any
problem at all with bringing
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some Gentiles to Jesus.
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So we sense a little bit
of the openness of his heart.
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There just wasn't anybody
outside, there wasn't anybody
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that he didn't think
Jesus would not want to see.
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We also see his faith.
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He had a simple faith.
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I don't know what he was
thinking when he brought those
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five crackers and two
fish with such a huge crowd.
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I don't know what he was trying
to do, running around looking
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for whoever had a lunch.
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But he must have had some kind
of faith to believe that the
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Lord could do
something with that.
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After all he had seen Jesus make
wine, why couldn't He make food?
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A third thing we see is not only
his openness and his faith but
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we see his humility.
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I mean, he spent his whole life
being known as Simon Peter's
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brother. And now when he had
found the Messiah, there might
have been a temptation to
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say -Boy, now I'm
not telling Peter.
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This is my
chance to be somebody.
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But no he runs to get Peter
knowing full well that as soon
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as Peter enters the group
he will run the group, because
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that's Peter. And Andrew will be
right back where he's always
been, as Simon Peter's
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brother.
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But he thought more of the
work to be done then who was in
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charge. He thought more of the
cause of the eternal virtue of
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the Kingdom then he did of
his personal and petty problems.
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Sad to say but there are some
people who won't play in the
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band unless they
can beat the big drum.
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James and John had
that problem, didn't they?
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But not Andrew.
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I don't find Andrew fighting
about whose going to get the
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glory in the Kingdom.
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You see, Andrew is the picture
of all those who labor quietly
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in humble places.
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Not with eye service as
men pleasers but as servants of
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Christ doing the will
of God from the heart.
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Andrew is not the pillar like
Peter, James and John, he is a
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humbler stone.
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I mean, after all, he was one of
the original two called and yet
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he wasn't in the inner three but
it didn't seem to bother him.
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He was always Peter's brother.
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He's one of those rare people
who's willing to take second
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place. One of those rare people
who wants to be in support.
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Or one of those rare people
who doesn't mind being hidden as
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long as the work is done.
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He is the kind of man
that all leaders depend on.
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He's the kind of person that
everyone knows is the backbone
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of every ministry.
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The cause of Christ is
dependent, beloved, on
self-forgetting souls who
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are content to occupy a small
sphere and an obscure place,
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free from self-seeking ambition
and yet he will sit on the
throne judging the tribes
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of Israel.
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Daniel Mc Lean, a Scotsman,
who has a special affection for
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Andrew writes about his
beloved Apostle these words:
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God uses people like that.
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And only God can calculate their
value because sometimes it takes
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an Andrew to reach a Peter.
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There's an early Methodist
preacher, his name was Thomas
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Mitchell. You
never heard of him.
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I had never heard of him.
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But he was an Andrew.
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And he died and the conference
of ministers who ministered with
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him wrote his obituary
and this is what it said:
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How's that for an obituary?
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Slender abilities and
a defective education.
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And yet one friend wrote this:
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A man of slender abilities and
defective education yet he was
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the means in God's hands of
bringing to Christ one of the
greatest of early preachers by
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the name of Thomas Olivers, the
writer of the great hymn, "The
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God of Abraham Praised."
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A man of slender abilities?
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That is the official record
and yet one of the strongest and
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most faithful
souls who ever lived.
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It was he who went to the
little village of Rangal in
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Lincoln-shire, and arose at 5
o'clock in the mornings to
preach the gospel in the open
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air. And so fiery was his
preaching that he was arrested.
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And in the midst of his
arrest a mob attacked him.
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He was taken to the public house
and the curate of the village
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was consulted as to
what to do with him.
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They said don't let him go and
so they decided they'd put him
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in the pond. They took him to a
pond which was full of filth and
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they threw him in. He tried
to get out and seven times they
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threw him back in. Then he was
taken again to the public house,
having been in the meantime
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painted from his head
to foot with white paint.
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Then they didn't know what to
do with him so they decided to
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drown him. They dragged him to a
railed in small lake outside the
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village which was at least ten
feet deep and they took him in
their arms and threw him into
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the water.
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He sank to the bottom and when
he came up to the surface and
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man in the crowd with a long
pole and a hook on the end,
played with him as if he were a
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fish.
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They brought him out more dead
than alive and he was taken to a
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little house in the village
where he was looked after by a
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pious lady. But when the mob
found that he was recovering
they sought him out and
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went to the house and to his
bedside and said they would rend
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him limb from limb unless he
promised never to preach again.
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To which he said - I
can promise no such thing.
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And somehow or other he got away
from the place and he made this
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record of the whole incident.
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He wrote, "All the time God kept
me in perfect peace and I was
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able to pray for my enemies."
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It doesn't sound like a
man of slender abilities to me.
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No one knows about him.
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No one ever heard of him.
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He ministered in obscurity.
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He was a faithful man.
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God needs Thomas Mitchells.
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God needs Andrews.
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People who quietly
obscurely bring others to Jesus.
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I regret the hours I have wasted
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and the pleasures I have tasted
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that you were never in.
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And I confess that
though your love is in me,
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it doesn't always win me
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when competing with my sin.
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And I repent, making no excuses.
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I repent no one else to blame.
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And I return to
fall in love with Jesus.
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I bow down on my
knees and I repent.
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I lament the
idols I've accepted,
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the commandments I've rejected
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to pursue my selfish end.
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And I confess I
need you to revive me,
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put selfishness behind me
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and take up my cross agian.
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And I repent, making no excuses.
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I repent no one else to blame.
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And I return to
fall in love with Jesus.
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I bow down on my knees...
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And I return to
fall in love with Jesus.
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I bow down on my
knees and I repent.
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I bow down on my
knees and I repent.
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>>Bill: Thank You, Father, for
Andrew, and the lesson of his
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life. May each of us become the
men and women You want us to
become, by the power of
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your sweet Spirit we
pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
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>>Dave: What kind
of people can God use?
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Any kind!
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All we have to do is
make ourselves available.
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That means that there
is hope for you and me.
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Pastor Bill has written a
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It includes all the
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We would like to send it to you.
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