>>Bill: When Julius Caesar
landed on the shores of Britain
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with his Roman legions, he took
a bold and decisive step to
ensure the success of his
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military venture.
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Ordering his men to march to the
edge of the Cliffs of Dover, he
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commanded them to look
down at the water below.
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To their amazement, they
saw every ship in which they had
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crossed the
channel engulfed in flames.
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Caesar had deliberately cut
off any possibility of retreat.
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Now that his soldiers were
unable to return to the
continent, there was
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nothing left for them to
do but to advance and conquer!
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And that is
exactly what they did.
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ANNOUNCER: It has
stood the test of time.
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God's book: the Bible,
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still relevant in
today's complex world.
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It Is Written,
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sharing the messages
of hope around the world.
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We've been looking at these
individuals whom our Lord chose
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and sent to preach the kingdom,
to heal, to cast out demons.
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We've found, I think that
it's fascinating to note that in
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spite of what is traditionally
believed about them they were
very common men, very much like
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we are.
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Now in this series we're
examining men who were willing
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to pay everything. They were
willing to go to the ultimate
sacrifice, they were willing to
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turn their back on their
profession, their lifestyle,
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their homes, their own choices
in life to follow Jesus Christ.
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These twelve gave everything.
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They walked away from their
nets, their tax tables, their
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political involvements, their
enterprises totally committed to
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following Jesus
Christ wherever He led them.
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And may I suggest to you that
they were a few among many who
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were not so willing.
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Look with me for a moment at
John chapter 6, and I want to
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give you a contrast out of which
the message today will flow with
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deeper meaning. Now Jesus had
many who followed Him, in fact
unnumbered multitudes
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followed Him.
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They attracted by His personal
magnetism, they were attracted
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by the power of what He said.
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They were attracted by His
ability to do miracles and signs
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and wonders. They were
fascinated by Him, and by the
things He said and did.
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And so wherever you see Jesus
you see this mass of people
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following. Now all of these
people in one sense or another
could be classified as
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disciples, for the word in the
Greek simply means a learner.
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They were there taking
it in, learning about Him.
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The word doesn't really say
anything about their commitment.
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That's why chapter 10 of Matthew
starts out with twelve disciples
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and then a verse
later it says apostles.
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First they were
learners then they were sent.
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For illustration
sake look at John 6:26.
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It is the morning after.
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The morning after Jesus had fed
the five thousand men plus women
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plus children.
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As morning breaks He sees the
same crowd back again, I mean
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why not? They got a free dinner,
why not go for a free breakfast?
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And so they're all back, and
Jesus says to them in verse 26,
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In other words He says to them,
your interest in Me is because
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you ate and got filled up.
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In other words you are living
on a totally physical level, and
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your attraction to Me has to
do with free food and physical
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healing. Verse 27,
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You need to be more concerned
with eternity than you are with
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time, with heaven
than you are with earth.
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They were attracted to Him
because of what they could see
that applied to their
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physical living, not really
thinking about the spiritual at
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all. We drop down
to verses 53 and 54
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He is simply saying you have
to take Me all in as if you were
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consuming Me. Everything I am,
everything I say, everything I
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do. They wanted free food and
miracles but they weren't
interested in really
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taking Jesus Christ
for all that He was.
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Look at verse 60,
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Jesus is saying, I alone am able
to give you life, and you have
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to take all of Me
to have that life.
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And they're saying, we can't
handle that, we cannot accept
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that. They didn't like what
He said, and they did understand
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it. And as a result of that,
Jesus said in verse 61 "Does
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this offend you?
What is He saying?
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He's saying, when I fed you it
was okay, and when I healed you
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it was okay, we
had something going.
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But when I said you take all
of Me or none, did that kill off
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our relationship?
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And indeed it did,
go down to verse 66,
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Why?
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Too much, too much was
expected, too much was required.
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They weren't
interested in total commitment.
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They bailed out.
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Free food, that's great,
healing, super, commitment, not
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interested.
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Verse 67
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After everybody leaves,
guess who's still there?
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Twelve guys.
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What I'm trying to show you
is these are not just sort of
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tagalongs, these twelve are the
ones who counted the cost, stuck
it out, paid the price when
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the rest bailed out.
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These have made the
commitment and paid the price.
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Why do I say that?
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Because I'm about to introduce
to you three men that we don't
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know anything about.
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And at least if we don't know
anything else we ought to know
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that they made
the commitment, right?
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Because when you take obscure
names, and we're going to be
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looking today at James, the son
of Alphaeus, Lebbaeus, surnamed
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Thaddeaus, and
Simon, the Zealot.
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At least if we don't know
anything about them the tendency
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is to sort of figure them as
second class sort of out of the
way stragglers, when the
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fact is they had made the same
commitment that Peter and
everybody else made,
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they crossed the line in utter,
total obedience to Christ.
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Now we've been asking a
question, and the question we've
been asking is what
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kind of people does God
use in His special service?
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When the Lord went out to pick
people what kind did He pick?
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And we've found some
interesting answers, haven't we?
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He picked all
kinds, all kinds of people.
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I mean we have seen that the
Lord can basically take any kind
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of raw material at all, and use
it for the advance of His
glorious eternal kingdom.
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Jesus Christ can take a
worthless, sinful life, wash it
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in the blood, put His Spirit in
it and make it a blessing, and
that's called sanctification,
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and that's what the Lord is in
the business of doing, taking
rough, raw material
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and using it.
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As we have been looking at the
apostles we have been amazed I
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think, at their
lack of qualification.
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In fact there is not of
executive search organization in
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the country who would have
picked up any one of these guys.
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They just didn't cut it,
by the world's standards.
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I mean, at least with James and
Peter, Andrew and John, you have
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some strong leaders there.
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Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas and
Matthew, some good men here, but
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James, the son of Alphaeus,
Lebbaeus, and Simon the Zealot,
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whoever heard of them?
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Do you want to know the Bible
doesn't say anything about them?
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Some of you are saying, does
that mean this is the end of
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today's broadcast? No.
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Because even though the Bible
doesn't say anything about them
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I would like to say
something about them.
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First, James,
the son of Alphaeus.
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He would never make Who's Who.
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He would never be a
guest on a TV talk show.
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He would never be asked to write
a preface for a book or to pray
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at a convention.
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James, the son of
Alphaeus, who is that?
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Do you know what the
Bible says about him?
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Absolutely nothing.
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That's right, nothing.
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Just his name.
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And he had a famous name,
I guess he probably suffered
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because there was James, the son
of Zebedee who was a ramrod of a
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guy. A son of
thunder, the Bible calls him.
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And then there was James, the
brother of our Lord, and then
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there was James,
the son of Alphaeus.
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Never wrote anything, never said
anything, never asked anything,
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never did anything
recorded in the Bible.
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In fact in Mark 15:40 he
is called; James the "mickros"
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little James, who was big James?
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James the "son of thunder",
and he was "little James".
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The word mikros basically means
small in stature, it could
indicate that he was
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little.
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It also can mean young in age,
it could mean that he was little
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and young. 9
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So he was little and
young and not very influential.
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I kind of think he probably was
all three of those things, and
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that's why they sort of gave
him that nickname, little James.
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So it may well be that he
was just a small, little, young
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fella who wasn't a particularly
powerful personality.
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Because God does
not depend on that.
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James, the son of Alphaeus will
sit on a throne reigning over
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one of the tribes of Israel,
and what do you know about him?
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You don't know
anything about him.
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Well, what's the point?
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God is the power, right?
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Not James.
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The Bible doesn't
say a thing about him.
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His work, his personality,
nothing, his mark is obscurity
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and I think it's kind of neat
that the Lord put one guy in
here, who is utterly obscure.
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He's the most
obscure of all of them.
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He didn't ask any questions,
he didn't say anything, we don't
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know anything about him.
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Oh, there is one
faint tradition about him.
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The early church fathers
say he preached in Persia.
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Persia is ancient Iran, and
that he took the Gospel of Jesus
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Christ to that land, and they
refused to hear him preach and
they crucified him.
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The Lord uses ordinary people
to do extraordinary things.
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Silent unknown soldiers.
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In Hebrews 11:32 - 38 we read,
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May I speak to you from
my heart for just a minute?
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The apostles demonstrate to
us that it is never really the
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worker who is the issue in the
kingdom work, that is what Paul
meant when he said, So
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what is Apollos
and what is Paul?
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"It is God that
gives the increase.
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"
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The human instrument
is immaterial to God.
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He can use
Balaam's ass if He has to.
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He can make the
rocks cry out if He has to.
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The, the human
instrument is not the issue.
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You don't have to be way up
here intellectually or - in the
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gifted category,
that is not the issue.
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The Bible never deals with that.
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The focus is always on Jesus.
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What about the second one?
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Verse 3, "Lebbaeus,
whose surname was Thaddaeus.
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" And if you look in Luke 6:16
and Acts 1:13, you don't have to
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look it up, you'll find he had a
third name, Judas, son of James.
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And he's one place
called Judas, not Iscariot.
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Judas also was a common name,
it means Jehovah leads, and many
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people in that time named their
son, Jehovah leads, God leads.
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This is Judas, that's probably
his given name, and then he
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probably received the names
Lebbaeus and Thaddaeus as people
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add names,
almost like nicknames.
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He did ask one very important
question, and it's the only time
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we meet him in the Scripture.
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John 14, look with me quickly
and we'll just look at this
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rather briefly.
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Jesus speaking, the night before
His trial, and He says in verse
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21 (John 14:21)
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"Whoever has my commands and
obeys them, he is the one who
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loves me. These words of Jesus
trigger something in his head
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and he asks the
following questions, verse 22
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'" It's a good question.
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Why won't everybody see You?
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I mean if it's the time for the
kingdom let's get it on, and you
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might see a little of that
courage that he perhaps was
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known for. Let's go for it Lord!
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The whole world needs to know.
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Why would You
just want to show us?
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That was an insightful question,
this guy really thought through.
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He reects a typical Jewish view
of the kingdom, that it was an
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earthly, literal real kingdom,
that's exactly what the Jews
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believed, and he couldn't figure
out how you could bring it
without everybody knowing
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it.
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He also reflects
I think humility.
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Why would You tell it to us and
not the whole world, why would
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You limit Yourself to just us?
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So you see some things
in him that are admirable.
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Only those whose heart are
purified by love and walk in
obedience will know the
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manifestation of God.
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I think that's the kind
of person Thaddaeus was.
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So we see the Lord uses obscure
people like James, the son of
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Alphaeus and
Thaddaeus, Lebbaeus, Judas.
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By the way, early church
tradition tells us he was killed
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in Syria. If you ever pick up an
old church history book on
Thaddaeus you will see
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that each of the disciples
have a symbol and the symbol for
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Thaddaeus is a big club, because
the legend says they beat him to
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death with a club.
Faithful to his Lord.
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Finally, the last name for this
morning, "Simon, the Zealot.
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" There were four dominant
groups within Judaism,
Pharisees, the Sadducees
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there were the Essenes and
then there were the Zealots.
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The Zealsots were the political
oriented group, they were the
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terrorists, they
were the guerrillas.
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Now a man like Simon to attach
himself to them must have been a
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man with a tremendous passion,
a tremendous capacity for zeal.
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And you can imagine that he must
have been a fireball when it got
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to the work of the Lord.
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He found a better
leader and a greater cause.
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He is listed,
right before what name?
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Judas Iscariot.
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It's interesting to me but they
probably went together two by
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two, because Judas had the same
kind of political orientation,
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didn't he? Simon could have been
the betrayer, and you would have
named your children
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Judas, not Simon.
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But Simon believed and was
transformed, Judas did not, and
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so no one names anything Judas.
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Simon became Christ's man.
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Think of how wonderful it must
have been for him to get along
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with Matthew who collected
taxes for the Roman government.
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I wonder if he ever had just
little anxieties about Matthew.
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Well, the Lord uses all kinds of
unqualified people, doesn't He?
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He can use you and me.
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There was a concert violinist
who wanted to demonstrate, a
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very important point he felt, so
he hired a great hall in a city
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and announced that he would play
a concert on a twenty thousand
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dollar violin. He had the place
packed with violin lovers, came
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out and he played exquisitely
and they applauded just
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gloriously. He bowed and took
their applause, threw the violin
to the ground and stomped
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it into bits.
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The people were horrified.
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And then he
walked off the stage.
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The stage manager came out and
said, Ladies and Gentlemen, to
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put you at ease that was a
twenty dollar violin, he will
now return to play the twenty
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thousand, or
whatever it was, violin.
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And you know what?
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They couldn't tell the
difference, and he made his
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point. It isn't the instrument,
it's the artist, right?
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Now folks let's face it, most of
us are twenty dollar violins, at
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best, right?
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At best.
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But oh what music can
the Master make with us.
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There are days when I feel
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There are days when I feel
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the best of me is ready to begin
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Then they're days when I feel
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i'm letting go and
soaring on the wind
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Cause i've learned in laughter
or in pain how to survive
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I get on my knees,
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I get on my knees
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There I am before
the love that changes me
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See I don't know how but there's
power when i'm on my knees
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I can be in a crowd
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or by myself or almost anywhere
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When I feel there's a need
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to talk with God, he is Emmanuel
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When I close my
eyes, no darkness there
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There's only light
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I get on my knees,
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I get on my knees
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There I am before
the love that changes me
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See I don't know how but
there's power in the blue skies,
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in the midnight
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When i'm on my knees
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I get on my knees,
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I get on my knees
00:23:53.93\00:23:58.66
There I am before
the love that changes me
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See I don't know how but
there's power when i'm on my....
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Oh, When i'm on my....
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When i'm on my knees
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>>Bill: Let us pray.
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Thank you Father for your word
to us through the lives of these
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obscure people.
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Thank you that we will see them
reigning in your kingdom, that
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we'll spend eternity with them
and learn all of the unspoken
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truths about their powerful
and marvelous ministries.
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Lord help us to know that the
focus in never on the human tool
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but only on you.
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Put these truths deep in our
hearts, may we see what you can
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do with a simple
life for your glory.
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Thank you for this time
together, in Jesus name, amen.
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>>Dave: God can take a very
common person and transform them
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into a very uncommon apostle.
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The only qualification God needs
is availability - and that means
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he can use anyone of us if
we make ourselves available.
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Pastor Bill has written a book
"All the King's men", it
includes all of the
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messages in this series, we
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>>Bill: Let me thank you
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