We're back in
the Gospel of Mathew,
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exploring Chapter 4,
seeking to understand,
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more of the
insights that we can gain
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from the temptations of Jesus.
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Ranko, as we look
at these temptations,
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we see some things
about the work of the devil.
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He quotes scripture,
so we can't just assume
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that anyone who refers the Bible
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is necessarily
following God's will.
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And he misquotes it and
he seems to get out issues.
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Now, how can he say here,
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you know, in the
third temptation,
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you know, I'll give you all
these kingdoms of the world.
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Where they his? They were.
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Can I just before we
deal with that to finish
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the subject
that--that we as is though.
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We're dealing with, first,
three temptations of Jesus.
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If Jesus failed at this point,
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we would not have the cross.
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We would not have
the Garden of Gethsemane.
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We would not
have the four Gospels.
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So this was the
most decisive battle.
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And I want to
assure the readers,
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what we have
here, is the reversal
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of the appearance of sin
at the beginning of Genesis,
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where Adam failed Paul
said. In those three areas.
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Because Jesus won the victory,
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so can you
remind us one more time,
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the three aspects
of the temptation?
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The lust of the eyes.
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The lust of the flesh
and the pride of life.
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This is exactly how the
sin came into this world.
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Glenn, can you open
Genesis 3:6? Genesis Chapter 3.
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We can't
understand what is going on.
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Otherwise those
temptations, they you know,
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do not have too
much significance.
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So you're suggesting that
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Jesus succeeds
where others have failed.
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Yeah. Jesus, actually,
we have a reversal here,
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of the coming of
sin into this world.
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With the human beings
where Adam, actually failed,
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Jesus won the victory
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in order to save His
people from their sins.
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And you know, we better
say hallelujah. Oh, yes.
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You know, without
this, this is our hope.
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Can you read 3:6, Genesis?
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Genesis 3:6. All right.
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So when the woman saw
that, the tree was good.
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She saw that the tree was good.
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She saw. That was
pleasing to the eyes.
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So the first was
good for food, to eat.
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What is that, the lust
of the flesh? The next one.
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It was pleasing with the eyes,
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and a tree
desirable to make one wise.
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The pride of life
and pleasing to the eyes,
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it's the lust of eyes.
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And she took of
its fruit and ate it.
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How did the first sin come?
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Through the lust of eyes,
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the lust of the flesh
and the pride of life.
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So, now Jesus comes,
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this is His first step to
save His people from their sins.
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It is exactly where the
first human couple failed,
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opening, okay, the door for sin
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and temptation in this world.
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Jesus had to win the victory.
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So we have first
temptation that you mentioned.
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If you're Son of God,
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say to these
stones to become bread.
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What is this?
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It's the lust
of the flesh, okay.
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Then after that
Jesus put, sorry,
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the devil put Jesus on
the top of the mountain.
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And he shows him all
the kingdom of this world.
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I will give it to
you all these things,
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okay, whatever you see.
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Actually, these words are
really the lust of the eyes.
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And after that he said to Jesus,
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and he put him there on
the pinnacle of the temple.
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Jump down, throw yourself,
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when you jump
down from the temple,
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people will applaud to you
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and tell you
'Jesus the Messiah'.
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This is
'Superman,' this is 'Hero'.
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You know, this is the Son
of Man from the Book of Daniel.
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You know,
coming with the clouds,
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nothing can happen to him.
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Actually, this
was the pride of life.
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This was actually, the
three aspects of the temptations
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that Jesus had to go
through in order to save
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His people from their sins.
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And not only the
first couple have failed,
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but we have all failed. Yes.
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What does this portrait
of the temptations of Jesus
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tell you about Jesus as our
sin-bearer as the sinless one?
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What picture should we
be sure that we have of Him?
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Actually that's
what the Bible says,
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that Jesus took all
our sins upon Himself.
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You see, we are tempted,
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and I would like
to tell the viewers
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and I am not saying to you,
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but I'm saying also about
myself. We're all sinners.
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We all have different
temptations in our life,
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and believe me so many times,
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I'm asking God
always for guidance.
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There's so many
times, I feel sorry,
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because I did not succeed, etc.
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But Matthew Chapter 4, give me
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that strong
assurance that my Savior. Yes.
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Overcame those temptations.
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He told me, that the victory
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over sin is
possible, that's number one.
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And number two, he showed me
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how the victory
is possible. How?
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Relying not on my
method, on my own way,
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the way how I think that
I should succeed in life.
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It's only
relying and trusting God.
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Putting my trust in God.
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Never should be an excuse
for us to just live in sin.
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And yet there is
a tremendous joy,
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tremendous reassurance, to know
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that Jesus has
succeeded in every place.
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Actually, I
reminded, I think I heard
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that Martin
Luther said it, he said,
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when I look at
myself, I cannot believe that
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I can be saved
and be victor or save.
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But when I look in Jesus,
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I cannot imagine
that I'm not saved. Yeah.
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This is the beauty,
the beauty of Jesus.
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How can we be lost if
we have a Savior like this,
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unless we choose
to just ignore Him.
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What a wonderful Savior?
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We wanna go a little bit
further in Matthew Chapter 4.
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It says that He
went out from there,
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what takes place next?
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Actually, now Jesus
begins His public ministry.
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You see his Sonship was
pronounced at the baptism.
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His Sonship was tested.
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Now, He has proven what
kind of Messiah He would be?
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But the way, do you
notice here something.
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What was the
purpose of this temptation
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that Satan was doing,
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trying to prevent
Jesus to go to the cross?
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You don't need to
go to the cross. Sure.
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Do this following
things. Take the easy way.
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And I will give all
this to you and ever.
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By the way, from this moment on,
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up to the end of Jesus ministry,
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Satan is doing everything
to prevent Jesus to the cross.
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Do you remember?
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In Mathew, you will come
to that Matthew Chapter 16,
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He even use His beloved
disciple by name of Peter
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to prevent Him to go the cross.
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And Jesus had to call Peter,
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go behind me Satan
because Jesus saw Peter,
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being used by Satan to prevent
Jesus to go to the cross.
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When even Jesus
finally was on the cross,
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Satan tried to pull Him down
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from the cross.
Come down, come down.
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People were shouting come
down and we'll believe in You.
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That was a
constant, constant effort,
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effort to prevent
Jesus to go to the cross.
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Once, Jesus won the victory
over that first temptation,
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where the human beings
failed at the beginning.
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Now, Jesus is ready to go
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and to start
His public ministry.
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So we see a victorious,
triumphant Savior coming forth.
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It says that, let me
just read Chapter 4:12.
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"Now when Jesus heard
that John was put in prison,
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he departed to
Galilee and so forth."
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What's the significance
of that He went to Galilee?
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Is this just about geography?
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Please, you can
read up to verse 17.
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Okay. Please.
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"And leaving Nazareth, he
came to dwell in Capernaum
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which is by the sea,
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in the region of
Zebulun and Naphtali
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that it might be
fulfilled what was spoken,
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by the prophet Isaiah."
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Saying verse 15,
"The land of Zebulun
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and the land of
Naphtali by the way of the sea,
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beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles.
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The people, who sat in darkness,
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have seen a great light,
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and upon those
who sat on the region,
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and shadow of
death light has dawned.
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From that time Jesus,
began to preach and to say,
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repent for the
kingdom of heaven is at hand."
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Actually, Glenn, are we
aware, that from this moment,
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when Jesus made the
first step in His ministry,
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trying to preach the Gospel.
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Or, up to the time,
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just few weeks
before His crucifixion.
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All the time, almost
three-and half years,
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Jesus ministry was
confined to Galilee,
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except when Jesus made
short trips to Jerusalem,
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or to other territories.
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It was just very short trips.
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Actually, Jesus
mission was completely there--
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there in Galilee.
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But we have then to
understand-- What's Galilee?
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About Galilee. Actually, let
me just illustrate little bit.
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You know, Galilee had
the north and had a south.
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South was Judaea; north was
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the territory of two
tribes, Zebulun and Naphtali.
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We're talking about territory
around the Sea of Galilee;
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down was Dead
Sea and Judaea, etc.
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If you go there down to Judaea,
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you know, rocky
area, Judean desert.
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If you go to the
north, around Sea of Galilee,
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it's a fertile ground.
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Farmers, actually
all these oranges, etc,
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you know, that
were coming from Israel,
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would come from
that part of the world.
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But the problem was, that
people who lived in Galilee,
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they were not really Jews.
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They were not
descendants of Abraham.
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You know, with
those 10 tribes-- Yes.
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were deported from Palestine,
the king of Assyria hided it.
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After that, the king of Assyria
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brought these
pagan people, nations,
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and he settled them
there into the territory.
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Okay, so people, who
lived in the territory
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were not really the
descendants of Abraham.
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It was few
decades, before Jesus is,
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that Alexander by name,
one of the Jewish kings,
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he forcibly circumcised
those people around Shechem,
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so make them to
be-- to be Jewish.
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But the problem
with these people,
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they were not, never accepted
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by the Pharisees
to be Jews. Sure.
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They were outcast,
they were rejected.
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Another thing is, they
were there in the north.
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Whenever, the enemies of Israel
would come to invade Palestine,
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who was the first
target? Galileans, okay.
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They were the first target.
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When the enemies were
cut, leaving Palestine.
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Who was the last
group that actually,
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they express
their anger against?
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They were Galileans.
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But something else?
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Since, it was a fertile ground.
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They took about farmers.
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Romans imposed heavy
taxes on those people.
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So Romans would take taxes.
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Herod, who made all
those building projects,
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another taxes and
then tax collectors
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who were collecting those taxes,
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were stealing money from
those people for themselves.
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Can you imagine that?
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Those people suffered,
so much in that--that area.
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And Jesus came to those
people to preach the Gospel.
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So in the text of Isaiah,
we read that actually people
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who were sitting in
darkness, they saw great light,
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that light came to him
and they responded to light.
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Jesus was rejected in Jerusalem,
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but if people embrace
to Jesus, they founded Him.
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They recognized him,
the great Savior who came,
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when the light shown,
people responded to that light.
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Ranko, you're
suggesting that God
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came to those who
rejected. Those who are outcast.
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He's still doing the
same thing today, isn't He?
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You see, Jesus
does not have elite,
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a special people that He favors.
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All those people
who need the Savior,
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who need Jesus
Christ, Jesus come to them.
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And that's why, the
beginning of Jesus ministry
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and almost the
conclusion of His ministry
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actually happened
there, there in Galilee.
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What a Savior? What a Savior?
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He comes to those
who need him most. Yes.
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Ranko, as we wrap this up,
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it's the repentance,
is the kingdom of heaven.
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How do you see Jesus
in these two scenes here?
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Yes. I would like to make
the final word to the viewers.
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May be you say, you
recognize yourself and say,
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I am the one
sitting in darkness,
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on the valley and
the shadow of death.
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I feel like Galileans.
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Praise God, that's
why we need the Savior
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and the Savior came to
save just as one, of you and me.
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