From the campus of
Andrews University,
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this is "New Perceptions"
with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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This is my desire,
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To honor You
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Lord, with all my heart
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I worship You
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All I have within me
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I give You praise
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All that I adore is in You
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Lord, I give You my heart
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I give You my soul
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I live for You alone
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Ev'ry breath that I take
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Ev'ry moment I'm awake
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Lord, have Your way in me
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Lord, I gave You my heart
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I give You my soul
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I live for You alone
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Ev'ry breath that I take
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Ev'ry moment I'm awake
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Lord, have Your way in me
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I have a Maker,
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He formed my heart
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Before even time began,
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My life was in His hand
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He knows my name,
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He knows my every thought
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He sees each tear that falls
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And hears me when I call
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I have a Father,
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He calls me His own
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He'll never leave me,
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No matter where I go
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He knows my name
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He knows my every thought
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He sees each tear that falls
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And hears me when I call
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He knows my name
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He knows my every thought
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He sees each tear that falls
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And hears me when I call
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And hears me when I call
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In a couple of the
Gospels, there is a story.
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Jesus is on the mountain,
He has a crowd all around Him.
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And He asked His disciples,
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"we should
probably feed these people."
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And so they go
and they're trying
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to figure out how to do this.
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You know, they respond,
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well, how could we
feed all these people
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just send them home?
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But they find a lad.
It's the word that's used.
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They find a lad and he
has five loaves and two fish,
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five loaves and two fish
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and I remember the
questions they asked.
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But, what is that in
the midst of this crowd.
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What is that for these people,
just five loaves and two fish?
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May be you could even Jesus,
maybe we can have a few scraps.
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But Jesus takes those
five loaves and two fish,
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He blesses them and
all of a sudden its more,
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more than enough
for everybody there.
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There's baskets
that are leftover.
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What's the
beautiful thing is that,
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however unworthy we may feel
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when we give it to
Him it all of a sudden
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becomes more than enough.
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Whatever is it that
Jesus has in His creative power
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He can take the
simple and serious things
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that perhaps in our measurements
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in our value
aren't quite good enough,
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don't quite measure up
but when He receives them
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because He is worthy
they then become worthy.
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That's what it means
to have Jesus blessing.
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Let's stand as we
sing this to hymn together
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"Worthy is the Lamb."
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Worthy, worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy, worthy is the Lamb
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Worthy, worthy is the Lamb
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That was slain
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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Savior, let Thy kingdom come!
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Now the power of sin consume
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Bring Thy blest millennium,
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Holy Lamb
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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Thus may we each moment feel
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Love Him, serve Him,
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Praise Him still
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Till we all on Zion's hill
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See the Lamb
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Glory, hallelujah!
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Praise Him, hallelujah!
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Glory, hallelujah
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To the Lamb!
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We shall walk
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Through peace
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We shall walk
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Through the valley
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We shall walk in walk in peace
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We shall walk
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Through the valley in peace
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For Jesus Himself
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Will be our leader
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We shall walk
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Through the valley in peace
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We shall walk
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Through peace
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We will meet
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Our loved ones
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They'll return there
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We will meet
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Our loved ones there
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For Jesus Himself
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Will be our leader
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We shall walk
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Through the valley in peace
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There we'll be
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Above trials there
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There we'll be
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Above trials there
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For Jesus Himself
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Will be our leader
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We shall walk
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Through the valley in peace
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We shall walk in peace
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Let's pray together.
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Oh, God, we shall walk
through the valley in peace,
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Jesus will lead us.
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We live in a world languishing
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for that valley of eternal peace
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when shall it come.
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It's business to
do until You do come.
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And so Holy Father, please,
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let these moments
in a Holy Scripture
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open not only our minds
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but open our
hearts to Your teaching.
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We pray in Jesus name, amen.
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Stephen Hawking,
you've heard of the,
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the eminent British
theoretical physicist.
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Stephen Hawking
turned 70 two weeks ago.
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So to celebrate that milestone,
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the magazine New Scientist
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interviewed this
brilliant author.
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He wrote the book "A
Brief History of Time"
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you've read that book.
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A brilliant
scientist, they interviewed him.
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And as a result
of that interview
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we now know the mystery
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before which even the
great Stephen Hawking bows
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when the journalist asked him,
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"What do you think
about most during the day?"
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Hawking replied
and I put his words
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on the screen for you.
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"Women.
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They are a complete mystery."
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There you have
ladies and gentlemen,
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the pronouncement of one of
the brightest minds on earth.
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We now know that mystery, women.
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But women were
no mystery to Jesus.
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They will remain
one-half of His strategic plan
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for the human race.
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Case in point, our story
today, Jesus and one woman.
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Open your Bible with me
please to the Gospel of John,
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our new semester series
entitled, "The Last Days."
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Let's put the
title slider please,
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"The Last Days" not
the last days of earth,
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the last seven
days of Jesus life.
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One-third of all four Gospels
devoted to the last seven days
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and that's what counts.
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The last seven days,
titled today's teaching
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"Of perfume, Tears
and Grumpy Old Man."
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So grab your Bible, you
didn't bring your Bible?
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Oh, this is a narrative.
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It's a short but
punching narrative,
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grab the pew
Bible in front of you.
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Leave that, leave that
up on the screen please,
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because I want to
say to those of you
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who are joining us right now
on television or live streaming,
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we are delighted to
have you, glad you are here.
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You can even go to that website,
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you see that website
there www.pmchurch.tv.
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Go to the website
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click on to this is the second
teaching in this new series.
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You just heard the title
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and it will say study
guide get that study guide.
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Ushers, would you make sure
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that everybody here gets
the study guide, bless you.
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This is an unusual study guide,
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it's for taking notes,
you'll see one in a moment.
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There are no fill in the blanks
but you are gonna need this.
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There is one quotation I
want you to have for sure.
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So hold your hand up
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I hope the choir has
study guide to do, good.
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Let's go.
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All right, John Chapter 12,
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so I'm in the New
King James version.
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Let's go to John 12:1.
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"Then, six days
before the Passover"
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at the end of
this week, He's dead.
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This is Saturday night.
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Six days from now
He'll be dead, Cavalry.
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"Then, six days
before the Passover,
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Jesus came to Bethany,
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where Lazarus was
who had been dead,
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whom He had
raised from the dead."
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And so we were in the last week.
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This is the same Lazarus,
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this is last weeks story now
just providing the linkage here.
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There in that
little village of Bethany
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"They made Him a supper."
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Jesus is the, He
is the guest of honor.
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But I need to
tell you, that the--
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all the uninvited
are crowded around
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that banqueting hall that night
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because for four days
His body was decomposing
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and now He's alive and
everybody wants to see Lazarus.
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So Lazarus is
also a guest of honor.
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So they made Him a supper.
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In verse 2 "And Martha served"
that would be Lazarus's sister.
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"But Lazarus was one of those
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who sat at the
table with Jesus."
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Then verse 3, Mary that
would be Lazarus's other sister.
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"Mary took a pound of
very costly oil of spikenard,
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anointed the feet of Jesus,
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and wiped His
feet with her hair.
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And the house was filled
with the fragrance of the oil."
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Now by the Greek language
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here in John and the
other three synoptic's
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this nard plant,
here's what we know about it.
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This nard plant was a tiny
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but fragrant blossom
that only grew on the hills
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at the feet of the mighty
Himalayas in Northern India.
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So you can
understand it was rare
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and exquisite perfume oil.
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Easily it could command
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an entire year of
wages for commoner.
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Scholars wondered did
Mary somehow liquidate
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her part of the family
inheritance, we don't know.
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All we know is that a
great and great expense,
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she purchase the
pound of this spikenard
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in a narrow alabaster flask
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and quietly surreptitiously
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slipping into the
banqueting room full of men
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she broke open her
precious alabaster flask.
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Read verse 3 again,
"Then Mary took a pound"
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now this is a Roman
pounds about twelve ounces.
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"Then Mary took a pound of
very costly oil of spikenard,
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anointed the feet of Jesus,
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and wiped His
feet with her hair.
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And the house was filled
with the fragrance of the oil."
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You know I can
never fool, Karen.
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When I come back
shopping for a gift for her
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I never fool her,
whether it's for her birthday
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or valentines or a
Christmas or whatever
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because I love
to shop for perfume.
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And so I go to that
department store counter
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and I am never contempt.
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I don't know how you are
guys but I'm never contempt
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with just getting
one little sample.
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Look, I know they have
these little white papers sticks
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that you're supposed to
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and then smell
the stick, forget it.
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For me it has to be on flesh.
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I have to smell.
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So up to they want to
figure out oh, that's good.
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And I take another one because
I love to get a lot of them.
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Take the other one,
and get a third one.
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I go with all the fingers
and I see Karen do this Dwight,
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drew on my wrists.
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That is good.
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Yeah, so, I got
to check it all out.
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Then I make the
purchase and every time
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when I come walking to
the door she always guesses
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what I bought her for a gift.
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What's up with that?
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Because a perfume worth
its so cannot be hidden.
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That's what's up.
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And that's what happening here.
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Mary has
desperately tried to be discrete
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and unnoticed as possible.
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She timidly slips
into that room of men.
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She anoints the head
and the feet of this Man,
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who forgave her, her
past of utter lostness.
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He knew all about her past
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and she can hardly
restrain her tears,
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such deep gratitude
for that forgiveness.
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By the way she
just heard this man
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seven times in tears himself,
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pleading with His
father deliver this woman
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from what is
holding her in the clutches.
00:20:58.92\00:21:01.75
Seven times He's
begged for her deliverance.
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And I'm telling you
00:21:05.38\00:21:06.41
it's just the heart
bursting with gratitude.
00:21:06.44\00:21:09.08
And by the way the rumors out,
00:21:09.11\00:21:10.32
He's going to become
the anointed Messiah King
00:21:10.35\00:21:14.29
and she wants to
have her anointing
00:21:14.32\00:21:16.42
ahead of the public one.
00:21:16.45\00:21:19.21
And so she comes
and breaks that flask
00:21:19.24\00:21:22.60
and the room becomes
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a lovely department
store perfume counter.
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Verse 4,
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"But one of His disciples,
00:21:31.19\00:21:38.66
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,
00:21:38.69\00:21:41.56
who would betray Him, said,
00:21:41.59\00:21:46.31
'Why was this fragrant oil
00:21:46.34\00:21:48.47
not sold for
three hundred denarii
00:21:48.50\00:21:50.65
and given to the poor?'"
00:21:50.68\00:21:53.00
This, verse 6, "This he said,
not that he cared for the poor,
00:21:53.03\00:21:58.71
but because he was a
thief, and had the money box
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and he used to take
what was put in it."
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Unlike the synoptic,
John intentionally ID's
00:22:06.86\00:22:13.78
two of the key
players in Jesus story.
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The protagonist,
John reveals her name,
00:22:16.80\00:22:20.29
perhaps because Mary is now dead
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and any embarrassment about her
00:22:22.22\00:22:23.76
checkered past is
no longer relevant.
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So he ID's the protagonist
and he ID's the antagonist
00:22:26.21\00:22:30.91
because by identifying Judas
as a instigator of this cruel
00:22:30.94\00:22:35.28
and heartless public shaming
00:22:35.31\00:22:38.66
John deftly
creates a powerful contrast
00:22:38.69\00:22:42.17
between Judas's greed in Everest
00:22:42.20\00:22:45.17
and Mary's utterly sacrificial
devotion to the Savior.
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I mean like an awful, sour,
00:22:50.35\00:22:52.54
thumb beside her
Judas sticks out.
00:22:52.57\00:22:56.64
But like a fragrant blossom
00:22:56.67\00:22:58.44
beside rancid waters is Mary.
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Judas by the way
was the chief instigator
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but all the
disciples, all the men piled on.
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Watch this we'll go
to the Gospel of Mark now
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and just get to his reading.
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Mark 14:3, "While Jesus
was in Bethany reclining
00:23:16.79\00:23:19.61
at the table in the
home of Simon the Leper,
00:23:19.64\00:23:21.83
a woman came
with an alabaster jar
00:23:21.86\00:23:23.96
of very expensive
perfume, made of pure nard.
00:23:23.99\00:23:28.51
She broke the jar and poured
the perfume on Jesus head.
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Some of those
present were saying
00:23:32.01\00:23:34.41
indignantly to one another,
00:23:34.44\00:23:35.97
'Why this waste of
perfume?'" Can you believe it?
00:23:36.00\00:23:39.11
"'It could have been sold
for more than a year's wages
00:23:39.14\00:23:41.56
and the money
given to the poor.'
00:23:41.59\00:23:43.22
And they rebuked her harshly."
00:23:43.25\00:23:47.01
All of them rebuked her harshly.
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So how does Jesus respond?
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Back to your own Bible,
verse 7, "But Jesus said,
00:23:53.60\00:23:58.42
'Let her alone she has kept
this for the day of My burial.
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For the poor you
have with you always,
00:24:05.76\00:24:09.02
but Me you do not have always.'"
00:24:09.05\00:24:16.21
Leave her alone.
00:24:16.24\00:24:21.41
Won't you just
love Jesus for that
00:24:21.44\00:24:23.55
when you think about it?
00:24:23.58\00:24:25.02
Come on, nobody
speaks up in her defense,
00:24:25.05\00:24:28.84
not her brother
Lazarus, not her sister Martha,
00:24:28.87\00:24:32.41
not one of the
disciples that has tasted
00:24:32.44\00:24:35.46
and enjoyed the warmth of
that congenial hospitality
00:24:35.49\00:24:39.50
in that little Bethany home.
00:24:39.53\00:24:40.78
Nobody speaks up,
one Man, leave her alone.
00:24:40.81\00:24:48.65
How could we not help,
but love Jesus for this?
00:24:48.68\00:24:52.23
I tell you what,
it takes chutzpah
00:24:52.26\00:24:54.51
to speak in defense of
the defenseless, doesn't it?
00:24:54.54\00:24:57.18
I mean, come on,
you think about it,
00:24:57.21\00:24:58.24
it takes more a
backbone to speak up
00:24:58.27\00:25:00.92
in defense of the
minority, the marginalized
00:25:00.95\00:25:03.16
when no one
else dare say a word,
00:25:03.19\00:25:05.50
it does take
courage, doesn't it?
00:25:05.53\00:25:08.47
How can you not
help but love Jesus
00:25:08.50\00:25:11.33
at a moment like this?
00:25:11.36\00:25:12.81
I mean, look at,
He not only converses
00:25:12.84\00:25:14.92
his wit of Samaritan woman,
00:25:14.95\00:25:16.47
He makes a Samaritan the hero
of one of His greatest parables
00:25:16.50\00:25:19.36
so that we end up
calling that hero,
00:25:19.39\00:25:21.26
the Good Samaritan and
the Jews hated Samaritans.
00:25:21.29\00:25:27.04
Jesus not only
forgives prostitutes
00:25:27.07\00:25:28.73
and tax
collectors and other sinners
00:25:28.76\00:25:30.88
He dines with them.
00:25:30.91\00:25:32.38
That's social
chutzpah in spates.
00:25:32.41\00:25:36.98
And when nobody else
has time for the children
00:25:37.01\00:25:39.92
who is this who gathers
the little ones in His arms
00:25:39.95\00:25:42.30
and He hugs them
and He blesses them.
00:25:42.33\00:25:46.17
Pagan Gentiles?
00:25:46.20\00:25:49.94
Now Jesus, Syrophoenician
mother pagan Roman centurion
00:25:49.97\00:25:56.45
He is gonna die for them all.
00:25:56.48\00:25:59.82
And women, when
the strictest Rabbi's
00:25:59.85\00:26:05.31
and the most orthodox Pharisees
00:26:05.34\00:26:07.82
would never be
caught talking in public
00:26:07.85\00:26:09.80
to another women other than
their own wife Jesus gratefully,
00:26:09.83\00:26:13.71
publicly receives the
ministry of many women, many.
00:26:13.74\00:26:18.91
Look at this, this is Cavalry.
00:26:18.94\00:26:20.46
This is Mark
Chapter 15 at the cross,
00:26:20.49\00:26:22.24
"There were also"
there at the cross,
00:26:22.27\00:26:24.04
"women looking on from afar,
00:26:24.07\00:26:26.45
among whom were Mary Magdalene"
00:26:26.48\00:26:28.34
and by the way you just
met Mary Magdalene in John 12.
00:26:28.37\00:26:31.64
"Mary the mother of
James the Less and of Joses,
00:26:31.67\00:26:34.57
and Salome, who
also followed Him
00:26:34.60\00:26:37.80
and ministered to Him
when He was in Galilee,
00:26:37.83\00:26:39.93
and many other women
00:26:39.96\00:26:42.74
who came up with
Jesus to Jerusalem."
00:26:42.77\00:26:45.35
Isn't that amazing?
00:26:45.38\00:26:46.74
Many other women followed Him
00:26:46.77\00:26:49.71
and ministered to Him.
00:26:49.74\00:26:52.80
Which means
this, leave her alone,
00:26:52.83\00:26:55.06
is not some isolated little
moment in defense of a woman.
00:26:55.09\00:27:00.36
Obviously, Jesus gladly,
00:27:00.39\00:27:03.18
publicly received the
ministry of all these women.
00:27:03.21\00:27:09.85
Leave her alone.
00:27:09.88\00:27:12.67
I mean you think
what's just happened,
00:27:12.70\00:27:13.96
come on think,
what has just happened,
00:27:13.99\00:27:15.46
when He in stern voice commands.
00:27:15.49\00:27:22.13
I mean, here is this woman,
00:27:22.16\00:27:25.12
she's just quietly
entered into a man's world
00:27:25.15\00:27:28.70
has humbly brought it
Christ her own expression
00:27:28.73\00:27:31.51
of love and devotion
00:27:31.54\00:27:33.60
when suddenly noticed, for
her outer bounds expression,
00:27:33.63\00:27:36.70
a certain man
leaps up on that act
00:27:36.73\00:27:38.24
and loudly declares this
is a misguided waste of effort
00:27:38.27\00:27:41.84
and a
misappropriation of devotion.
00:27:41.87\00:27:45.28
And all-- have you noticed
00:27:45.31\00:27:46.50
all it takes is
for one man to protest
00:27:46.53\00:27:49.42
and soon other man to
prove their male credentials
00:27:49.45\00:27:52.64
jump on the band
wagon until all of them
00:27:52.67\00:27:56.65
would drive this
woman from their circle
00:27:56.68\00:28:00.25
until another man interrupts,
00:28:00.28\00:28:02.81
leave her
alone, leave her alone.
00:28:02.84\00:28:09.39
Now remember,
this is the same Jesus,
00:28:09.42\00:28:11.78
this is the same Mary
00:28:11.81\00:28:13.30
and from the same
little village of Bethany.
00:28:13.33\00:28:16.66
Some months earlier
you remember the story
00:28:16.69\00:28:18.26
when Martha comes
into her living room
00:28:18.29\00:28:19.47
she's all huff and buff.
00:28:19.50\00:28:20.85
Hey come on Jesus
what is up with this,
00:28:20.88\00:28:22.37
you just led my sister sitting
here with the all are you men
00:28:22.40\00:28:25.24
when I got work
to do in the kitchen.
00:28:25.27\00:28:26.43
Would You command her to come
back to the kitchen with me?
00:28:26.46\00:28:30.65
Remember that story?
00:28:30.68\00:28:34.53
How did Jesus respond?
00:28:34.56\00:28:37.17
Mary, Martha is right.
00:28:37.20\00:28:39.73
You need to remember
your place in this world,
00:28:39.76\00:28:42.00
standing here with
all the men and Me.
00:28:42.03\00:28:44.20
It's in the
kitchen where you belong,
00:28:44.23\00:28:45.52
go, go, go, girl.
00:28:45.55\00:28:48.34
How do you
respond, look at this,
00:28:48.37\00:28:49.40
Luke 10, Luke Chapter 10,
00:28:49.43\00:28:53.38
"And Jesus
answered and said to her,"
00:28:53.41\00:28:56.59
when He repeats her name
its 'cause He really loves you.
00:28:56.62\00:29:00.10
"Martha, Martha, you are worried
00:29:00.13\00:29:03.48
and troubled about many things.
00:29:03.51\00:29:05.87
But one thing is needed," girl
00:29:05.90\00:29:08.16
"and Mary has
chosen that good part,
00:29:08.19\00:29:10.54
which will not be
taken away from her."
00:29:10.57\00:29:14.08
Martha, Martha, its okay,
00:29:14.11\00:29:16.74
for Mary to be here
00:29:16.77\00:29:18.37
because she's
chosen the better part.
00:29:18.40\00:29:21.85
She's doing it
out of love for Me.
00:29:21.88\00:29:24.32
The very same observance
00:29:24.35\00:29:30.45
as that Saturday night banquet.
00:29:30.48\00:29:31.92
She's doing it
out of love for me.
00:29:31.95\00:29:36.20
May she want it, doesn't it?
00:29:36.23\00:29:38.36
I makes me wonder,
00:29:38.39\00:29:39.42
where would Jesus stand today
00:29:39.45\00:29:43.27
in a church that is
opened its doors of ministry
00:29:43.30\00:29:46.44
to all except women?
00:29:46.47\00:29:52.79
Oh, it's true, there
are designated ministries
00:29:52.82\00:29:55.19
in the church that
women are applauded to doing.
00:29:55.22\00:29:58.78
But no pastoral ministry
is she allowed to perform
00:29:58.81\00:30:02.19
with the same recognition
of spiritual authority
00:30:02.22\00:30:04.86
as her male counterparts enjoy.
00:30:04.89\00:30:09.05
Namely, the sacred and
ecclesiastical recognition
00:30:09.08\00:30:13.48
that God has already called
and gifted the individual.
00:30:13.51\00:30:18.67
A calling with
spiritual authority
00:30:18.70\00:30:20.34
and leadership recognized
universally in the church
00:30:20.37\00:30:23.76
by something called ordination.
00:30:23.79\00:30:29.46
Ordination does
not confer giftedness.
00:30:29.49\00:30:33.52
Ordination
recognizes it's already there
00:30:33.55\00:30:37.31
and we see the fruit.
00:30:37.34\00:30:41.57
No Mary, no, no for that
you need to leave this circle.
00:30:41.60\00:30:46.31
For God's word declares
that this responsibility,
00:30:46.34\00:30:49.56
a spiritual authority
belongs only to man, I'm sorry.
00:30:49.59\00:30:54.30
It does.
00:30:54.33\00:30:56.18
I just read an article
00:31:00.10\00:31:01.74
in defense of that men
only position about ordination
00:31:01.77\00:31:05.97
and bless the writers are.
00:31:06.00\00:31:07.49
I have to wonder,
00:31:07.52\00:31:09.21
why, what is so
clear to me in scripture
00:31:09.24\00:31:11.33
is not clear to the writer.
00:31:11.36\00:31:14.12
For example, the writer, listen,
00:31:14.15\00:31:15.27
the writer suggested
that when the Bible declares
00:31:15.30\00:31:17.57
that the elder or
that would be the pastor
00:31:17.60\00:31:19.73
is to be the husband of one wife
00:31:19.76\00:31:22.56
that clearly means
that only men can hold
00:31:22.59\00:31:25.44
that position of
ordained spiritual leadership.
00:31:25.47\00:31:29.71
But that's not
how I read the text.
00:31:29.74\00:31:31.85
Let's look at the
text put it on the screen,
00:31:31.88\00:31:33.68
1 Timothy 3:2 Paul writing,
00:31:33.71\00:31:36.70
"A bishop" and
that could be an elder.
00:31:36.73\00:31:39.95
"A bishop then
must be blameless,
00:31:39.98\00:31:43.22
the husband of one wife,
00:31:43.25\00:31:45.26
temperate,
sober-minded, of good behavior,
00:31:45.29\00:31:47.47
hospitable, able to teach."
00:31:47.50\00:31:50.49
But listen, I
know we're required
00:31:50.52\00:31:52.18
that text to be read as
meaning exclusively male.
00:31:52.21\00:31:56.03
Then I required
Jesus instructions
00:31:56.06\00:31:57.89
to His disciple
ministries to be read
00:31:57.92\00:31:59.69
as meaning exclusively
the way He phrases it.
00:31:59.72\00:32:02.82
Here's what He
says to a group of men
00:32:02.85\00:32:04.75
who have just been
ordained to the gospel ministry.
00:32:04.78\00:32:07.72
I want you to see this,
00:32:07.75\00:32:09.28
Matthew Chapter 10
we'll pick it up in verse 9.
00:32:09.31\00:32:11.23
He's getting right to send them
out on their first pastorate.
00:32:11.26\00:32:13.64
"Provide" He says hey
"Provide neither gold nor silver
00:32:13.67\00:32:16.96
nor copper in your money belts"
00:32:16.99\00:32:19.85
now I am not thinking
man I got to get that wallet,
00:32:19.88\00:32:21.66
go on and got to
find the money belt,
00:32:21.69\00:32:23.16
I'm not thinking that.
00:32:23.19\00:32:24.22
Verse 10, "nor" don't get a bag,
00:32:24.25\00:32:27.30
don't get a
suitcase for your journey,
00:32:27.33\00:32:29.15
you don't need
"two tunics nor sandals"
00:32:29.18\00:32:32.18
just the one's you
have on all you need
00:32:32.21\00:32:34.18
"nor staffs for a
worker is worthy of his food."
00:32:34.21\00:32:39.24
Now ladies and gentlemen,
00:32:39.27\00:32:40.69
surely Jesus detailed
instructions to His disciples,
00:32:40.72\00:32:45.05
do not mean that today
00:32:45.08\00:32:46.75
we're not
allowed to take suitcases
00:32:46.78\00:32:48.27
when we pastors travel.
00:32:48.30\00:32:49.80
And we are not allowed to
take an extra change of clothes
00:32:49.83\00:32:52.27
or an extra pair of sandals,
we should only wear sandals.
00:32:52.30\00:32:56.38
He's not saying you got to have
a staff or no staff, you see?
00:32:56.41\00:33:01.34
Oh, come on Dwight, please.
00:33:01.37\00:33:03.75
Jesus is
speaking to specific man
00:33:03.78\00:33:06.15
in a specific country and
culture at a specific time,
00:33:06.18\00:33:09.14
you're stretching the scripture
00:33:09.17\00:33:10.53
to make Him
require sandals and staffs
00:33:10.56\00:33:12.90
and no suitcases of His
ministers 2,000 years later.
00:33:12.93\00:33:18.54
Which my friend, is
precisely the point.
00:33:18.57\00:33:23.84
We listen to Ancient Scripture,
00:33:23.87\00:33:25.43
even the red
letter words of Jesus
00:33:25.46\00:33:27.82
and we interpret the
principles behind those words
00:33:27.85\00:33:30.30
for our living
and ministering today.
00:33:30.33\00:33:31.66
We make the application,
you know, what Jesus is saying.
00:33:31.69\00:33:33.92
I believe He's
saying, we have to travel,
00:33:33.95\00:33:35.37
we had a travel light,
we have to travel simply.
00:33:35.40\00:33:40.06
Who is being
interpreted simply and clearly
00:33:40.09\00:33:42.04
means that the church has to--
00:33:42.07\00:33:45.58
how did Paul put it?
00:33:45.61\00:33:47.33
He gave His
council about ordaining
00:33:47.36\00:33:49.64
those who are the
husband of one wife.
00:33:49.67\00:33:55.83
But what is He saying
00:33:55.86\00:33:57.48
if He's not
admonishing the church
00:33:57.51\00:34:00.65
to ordain those knows
00:34:00.68\00:34:02.37
who are martially
faithful to their spouses?
00:34:02.40\00:34:06.95
Hey, look no, no, He say, no,
no, Dwight, you can't do that.
00:34:06.98\00:34:09.08
That has to stay a little.
00:34:09.11\00:34:10.14
Jesus He's
figurative this is literal.
00:34:10.17\00:34:13.03
Okay, let's say
its stays literal,
00:34:13.06\00:34:15.32
think about the implications
if it remains literal.
00:34:15.35\00:34:17.69
If these words are
to be literal command
00:34:17.72\00:34:19.52
for all time the
husband of one wife
00:34:19.55\00:34:22.96
then there can be
no single ministers.
00:34:22.99\00:34:26.15
No single ministers.
00:34:26.18\00:34:27.23
Well, how can you be a
single, you have to have a wife.
00:34:27.26\00:34:30.18
There can be no
remarried ministers,
00:34:30.21\00:34:32.98
no divorced ministers
because now you have two wives.
00:34:33.01\00:34:38.10
And number three,
00:34:38.13\00:34:39.70
they could be no
childless ministers
00:34:39.73\00:34:41.10
because the very
next line says he--
00:34:41.13\00:34:42.84
he must be very good
at raising his children.
00:34:42.87\00:34:46.36
So you can't be
a childless pastor.
00:34:46.39\00:34:50.14
Oh, come on, Dwight,
nobody wishes to push
00:34:50.17\00:34:51.82
that single
phrase that literally.
00:34:51.85\00:34:53.43
Everybody reinterprets
it to fit our society today
00:34:53.46\00:34:56.60
as we do what Jesus
command to His disciples
00:34:56.63\00:34:59.06
but for some reason
00:34:59.09\00:35:01.35
and I'm trying to
figure this out for some reason
00:35:01.38\00:35:03.79
those who do not believe
00:35:03.82\00:35:05.26
that women should be granted
the same spiritual authority
00:35:05.29\00:35:08.30
for their calling
the gospel ministry
00:35:08.33\00:35:10.30
they're allowed a
free interpretation
00:35:10.33\00:35:12.04
of phrase for singles.
00:35:12.07\00:35:13.31
Oh yeah, you can have single,
00:35:13.34\00:35:14.37
remarriage, oh yeah,
childless, no problem.
00:35:14.40\00:35:17.04
But inexplicably
they suddenly demand
00:35:17.07\00:35:19.91
a strict literal
interpretation for gender.
00:35:19.94\00:35:22.57
Oh no, you have to be a man.
00:35:22.60\00:35:25.29
Three times you said
we could interpret it away
00:35:25.32\00:35:27.75
but this one you can't.
00:35:27.78\00:35:32.16
Almost humbly, personally,
00:35:32.19\00:35:37.64
disagree with them
00:35:37.67\00:35:40.21
for I believe, I believe that
00:35:40.24\00:35:43.74
they are inconsistently
interpreting scripture
00:35:43.77\00:35:47.65
to fit their beliefs,
00:35:47.68\00:35:50.12
and not allowing Holy Scripture
00:35:50.15\00:35:52.49
to dictate their beliefs.
00:35:52.52\00:35:54.95
Amen.
00:35:54.98\00:35:57.12
Yeah, but come
on Dwight, please,
00:35:57.15\00:35:59.78
doesn't the Bible command
women to keep silent in church
00:35:59.81\00:36:02.10
and do not exercise
spiritual authority over men
00:36:02.13\00:36:04.80
because Eve was
created second and sin first.
00:36:04.83\00:36:09.74
That's a good question.
00:36:09.77\00:36:11.58
Lets' reread what God
very plainly declared to the,
00:36:11.61\00:36:15.20
to our first
parents Adam and Eve
00:36:15.23\00:36:17.31
after their moral
meltdown in the Garden of Eden.
00:36:17.34\00:36:20.36
Let's put Genesis
3 on the screen here,
00:36:20.39\00:36:22.72
"To the woman"
this is the Creator,
00:36:22.75\00:36:24.10
this is the
pre-incarnate Christ by the way,
00:36:24.13\00:36:26.46
the same one that
was there with Mary.
00:36:26.49\00:36:29.58
"To the woman He said
00:36:29.61\00:36:32.11
'I will greatly multiply
your sorrow and you conception.
00:36:32.14\00:36:34.99
In pain you shall
bring forth children.
00:36:35.02\00:36:37.59
Your desire shall
be for your husband,
00:36:37.62\00:36:39.67
and he shall rule over you.'"
00:36:39.70\00:36:42.76
Now sadly, many
have read God's words
00:36:42.79\00:36:45.45
that mean that all women
00:36:45.48\00:36:46.91
are to be
subordinated to all men.
00:36:46.94\00:36:49.93
But that is simply
not what God is saying.
00:36:49.96\00:36:53.83
In fact, the
Creator, a very clearly
00:36:53.86\00:36:56.04
the Creator
literally in the Hebrew,
00:36:56.07\00:36:57.74
here's what He saying.
00:36:57.77\00:36:58.80
And your desire
shall be for your men.
00:36:58.83\00:37:02.78
You know we're for
husband there its 'is.'
00:37:02.81\00:37:05.00
Your desire is for your man
00:37:05.03\00:37:08.24
which means this was
never a Carte Blanche decoration
00:37:08.27\00:37:11.57
that all women would
be subordinated to all men
00:37:11.60\00:37:15.18
in or out of the
church, that's not there.
00:37:15.21\00:37:19.87
You know, what this is?
00:37:19.90\00:37:20.98
This is a post
fall chain of command,
00:37:21.01\00:37:23.44
divine spiritual
leadership prescription
00:37:23.47\00:37:26.52
dealing with husbands and wives.
00:37:26.55\00:37:30.44
That's what it
is which by the way
00:37:30.47\00:37:33.22
hardly diminishes the
wives role in marriage.
00:37:33.25\00:37:35.96
I mean, let me give
you two reasons why.
00:37:35.99\00:37:37.50
If you've ever read Proverbs
31 the ideal wife oh mercy,
00:37:37.53\00:37:41.57
look at her
financial leadership,
00:37:41.60\00:37:43.33
look at her familiar leadership,
00:37:43.36\00:37:44.96
look at her managerial skill,
00:37:44.99\00:37:46.41
she buys and sells property
00:37:46.44\00:37:47.87
without
consultation with anybody.
00:37:47.90\00:37:50.98
You can read
Proverb 31 and say well,
00:37:51.01\00:37:53.74
there is subjugations, it's
not about subjugation at all.
00:37:53.77\00:37:56.94
In fact with Proverbs 31
00:37:56.97\00:37:58.23
go ahead and have Ephesians 6
00:37:58.26\00:37:59.94
where Paul takes that Genesis 3
00:37:59.97\00:38:02.31
principle and it
applies and He says,
00:38:02.34\00:38:03.75
listen this is
really how it works, guys.
00:38:03.78\00:38:07.75
Both husband and wife
are to submit to each other.
00:38:07.78\00:38:10.71
He describes mutual submission.
00:38:10.74\00:38:14.36
But the husband is to--
00:38:14.39\00:38:15.42
somebody's got to
take the first step
00:38:15.45\00:38:16.68
so it is the
husbands responsibility
00:38:16.71\00:38:19.16
in the example of
Christ self sacrificing
00:38:19.19\00:38:22.45
love at the Cavalry
it's the husband's example
00:38:22.48\00:38:24.79
to initiate repentance.
00:38:24.82\00:38:26.48
I was wrong, to
offer forgiveness,
00:38:26.51\00:38:29.37
to break the logjam.
00:38:29.40\00:38:32.28
Paul is carefully,
carefully protecting,
00:38:32.31\00:38:38.96
this wall that
God has placed around
00:38:38.99\00:38:41.81
husband and wife
in the human home.
00:38:41.84\00:38:46.74
But he is not
making a statement,
00:38:46.77\00:38:48.88
just as God was not about
women and men on this planet.
00:38:48.91\00:38:52.39
Now here's that line,
00:38:52.42\00:38:55.27
you need to see the
line that's in question.
00:38:55.30\00:38:58.01
Some people read this
line for the first time,
00:38:58.04\00:38:59.41
they'll say, whoa, what is that?
00:38:59.44\00:39:01.51
Its Paul writing saying Paul,
00:39:01.54\00:39:03.03
"Let a woman learn in
silence with all submission."
00:39:03.06\00:39:06.37
1 Timothy 2:11,
here comes verse 12
00:39:06.40\00:39:08.33
"And I do not
permit a woman to teach
00:39:08.36\00:39:10.57
or to have authority over a man,
00:39:10.60\00:39:12.51
but to be in silence."
00:39:12.54\00:39:14.81
Does that all
women are subjugated
00:39:14.84\00:39:16.93
to all men for all time,
00:39:16.96\00:39:19.11
hardly in the
church? Not at all.
00:39:19.14\00:39:22.45
Let me show you something
00:39:22.48\00:39:23.71
that word for man aner
that word for women goo-nay.
00:39:23.74\00:39:28.21
Those words can be translated
00:39:28.24\00:39:29.51
either man,
husband or woman, wife.
00:39:29.54\00:39:34.73
Which means Paul's
admonition can accurately read
00:39:34.76\00:39:39.63
let a wife in
church learn in silence.
00:39:39.66\00:39:42.60
For I do not
permit a wife to teach
00:39:42.63\00:39:44.36
or to have her
authority over her husband,
00:39:44.39\00:39:47.38
which being interpreting means
Paul is carefully protecting,
00:39:47.41\00:39:49.82
Gods protecting wall
around marriage and home,
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.49
He's no where declaring
00:39:51.52\00:39:52.82
all women are subordinated
to all men in the church
00:39:52.85\00:39:55.35
and only men are
allowed spiritual authority.
00:39:55.38\00:39:57.59
He's not saying that at all.
00:39:57.62\00:39:59.12
He's talking what the
Creator was talking about.
00:39:59.15\00:40:01.80
Husband and wife relationship,
00:40:01.83\00:40:05.02
post fall somebody has
to take the initiative.
00:40:05.05\00:40:11.58
Moreover, moreover the position
00:40:11.61\00:40:18.45
that men only men are to be
ordained to the Gospel ministry
00:40:18.48\00:40:22.85
and thus be granted spiritual
authority in the church,
00:40:22.88\00:40:26.05
which I believe the
Bible does not support,
00:40:26.08\00:40:28.93
that position does
not supported biblically.
00:40:28.96\00:40:31.99
But isn't that
position particularly
00:40:32.02\00:40:34.82
incongruous in a denomination
00:40:34.85\00:40:38.23
that was founded by a woman
00:40:38.26\00:40:44.11
and some male colleagues.
00:40:44.14\00:40:47.61
What's up with that?
00:40:47.64\00:40:49.61
The most prolific American
author of either gender,
00:40:54.69\00:40:58.81
the third most
translated human being
00:40:58.84\00:41:01.04
in the history of
the earth, a wife,
00:41:01.07\00:41:05.36
a mother, a visionary, a leader,
00:41:05.39\00:41:09.83
raised up the most
expansive protested
00:41:09.86\00:41:13.39
educational system on earth.
00:41:13.42\00:41:15.71
She raised up the most
00:41:15.74\00:41:16.77
expansive protestant
health system on earth,
00:41:16.80\00:41:18.99
she raised up the most expansive
00:41:19.02\00:41:20.77
Christian
missionary movement on earth,
00:41:20.80\00:41:23.44
isn't it a bit incongruous
00:41:23.47\00:41:28.41
that some within
this community of faith
00:41:28.44\00:41:31.91
which recognizes the
spiritual authority that
00:41:31.94\00:41:33.82
little five foot, two
inch woman named Ellen White.
00:41:33.85\00:41:36.54
Isn't it incongruous that some
00:41:36.57\00:41:38.42
who revere her authority
would continue to insist
00:41:38.45\00:41:42.89
that women should not exercise
spiritual authority over men?
00:41:42.92\00:41:47.33
To me that is just
one astounding anomaly.
00:41:47.36\00:41:51.04
How do you explain it?
00:41:51.07\00:41:56.83
And by the way any
little comment about well,
00:41:56.86\00:42:01.44
women prophets or women
00:42:01.47\00:42:02.57
who exercise the prophetic
gift has spiritual authority
00:42:02.60\00:42:05.00
that rest of the women don't,
that's just plain war games.
00:42:05.03\00:42:10.52
Isn't it something,
00:42:10.55\00:42:13.41
especially when,
listen to this, especially
00:42:13.44\00:42:15.34
when not a single word form her
00:42:15.37\00:42:19.17
ever prohibiting the church
from coming to a prayerful,
00:42:19.20\00:42:22.76
careful, biblical, understanding
00:42:22.79\00:42:25.31
that is utterly consistent
00:42:25.34\00:42:26.63
with the Bible
witness to conclude
00:42:26.66\00:42:29.12
that women who are
called by God today,
00:42:29.15\00:42:31.95
share with man the
same spiritual authority
00:42:31.98\00:42:34.77
and accountability
of Gospel ministry
00:42:34.80\00:42:37.09
as recognized by ordination.
00:42:37.12\00:42:38.85
Not a single word saying,
00:42:38.88\00:42:40.59
oh, no, no, no, you
can't go down that path.
00:42:40.62\00:42:43.67
Not a word.
00:42:43.70\00:42:45.42
There is not a single word
and I read widely trust me.
00:42:45.45\00:42:50.67
There is not a
single word ever suggesting
00:42:50.70\00:42:54.06
that such a prayerful, careful,
00:42:54.09\00:42:55.59
biblical decision would be
out of harmony with God's will
00:42:55.62\00:42:59.09
for His people at
this time in history.
00:42:59.12\00:43:02.85
In fact to the contrary,
00:43:02.88\00:43:04.71
I got to share this with you.
00:43:04.74\00:43:05.92
I came across these
words in Acts of the Apostles
00:43:05.95\00:43:08.50
while preparing my GYC
sermon on Acts 10 and 11.
00:43:08.53\00:43:12.20
You remember Acts, you remember
the story behind Acts 10 and 11.
00:43:12.23\00:43:14.70
You remember
Cornelius the Roman Centurion
00:43:14.73\00:43:17.98
and remember Peter,
00:43:18.01\00:43:19.51
who's never, he's never put
a scandal in a Gentile home.
00:43:19.54\00:43:22.95
He would never
on the pain of death
00:43:22.98\00:43:24.87
he would never do it.
00:43:24.90\00:43:25.94
And you remember an
angel shows up to Cornelius'
00:43:25.97\00:43:27.59
and says hey, go get a guy
name Peter, he's over in Joppa
00:43:27.62\00:43:29.93
and always spiritual
at appearances by the way
00:43:29.96\00:43:32.20
go with these
people who have come.
00:43:32.23\00:43:33.98
You remember that story
so Peter finds himself doing
00:43:34.01\00:43:35.90
what he's never
done at all in his life.
00:43:35.93\00:43:37.82
He's put his
sandals in a Gentile,
00:43:37.85\00:43:40.56
a Pagan home and
then he begins to preach.
00:43:40.59\00:43:43.91
Jesus and God doesn't even wait
for Peter to finish his sermon.
00:43:43.94\00:43:46.79
Something in the
middle of sermon, boom,
00:43:46.82\00:43:48.63
the Holy Spirit is poured out
on these Gentile Pagan seekers.
00:43:48.66\00:43:54.71
Wow, so Peter
says, baptize them all.
00:43:54.74\00:44:00.22
But oh boy, when he
gets back to Jerusalem,
00:44:00.25\00:44:02.99
he's in hot water and they
call him in on the red carpet
00:44:03.02\00:44:06.55
and they said
what were you thinking
00:44:06.58\00:44:09.84
teaching in a Gentile's home.
00:44:09.87\00:44:12.26
And so in chapter 11, Peter is--
00:44:12.29\00:44:14.21
listen, let me tell
you something guys, whoa,
00:44:14.24\00:44:16.49
here's what happened and
he goes to the whole story.
00:44:16.52\00:44:18.68
He gets down to
the end of the story
00:44:18.71\00:44:20.46
and I want you to
listen very carefully now,
00:44:20.49\00:44:22.88
to what he says to the
hierarchy in Jerusalem.
00:44:22.91\00:44:26.71
And as he says, I'm
there preaching it away
00:44:26.74\00:44:29.44
"And as I began to speak
the Holy Spirit fell on them,
00:44:29.47\00:44:33.15
as up on us at the beginning."
00:44:33.18\00:44:36.37
Verse, "If
therefore God gave them
00:44:36.40\00:44:40.13
the same gift as He gave us
00:44:40.16\00:44:42.51
what we believed on
the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:44:42.54\00:44:44.90
who was I that I
could withstand God?"
00:44:44.93\00:44:48.58
I mean they have the same gift.
00:44:48.61\00:44:51.20
I didn't realize that
but they have the same gift,
00:44:51.23\00:44:54.64
how can I say, no, only me
with that gift counts not you.
00:44:54.67\00:44:59.97
I couldn't do it.
Brethren, I could not do it.
00:45:00.00\00:45:05.04
The wall
separating Jews and Gentiles
00:45:05.07\00:45:08.07
began its last crumble
00:45:08.10\00:45:13.19
in that incident, amazing.
00:45:13.22\00:45:17.68
I mean, that's
what Peter has just said
00:45:17.71\00:45:19.19
that's the question
for the church today.
00:45:19.22\00:45:21.87
If God has poured out
His spirit on young women
00:45:21.90\00:45:23.91
and not so young women
00:45:23.94\00:45:24.97
who are ministering just
as Mary did to the Lord Jesus
00:45:25.00\00:45:27.99
and the fruits of their
ministry are dramatically clear
00:45:28.02\00:45:30.88
to all who
observed their ministry
00:45:30.91\00:45:33.69
if therefore God
gave them the same gift
00:45:33.72\00:45:35.93
He gave us then who are we
as men to stand in the way.
00:45:35.96\00:45:40.19
How in the name of
Christ can we defend this wall
00:45:47.74\00:45:51.54
when our leaders
are circumnavigating
00:45:51.57\00:45:53.83
this plan of these days
begging the church of God
00:45:53.86\00:45:56.48
to plea for the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit
00:45:56.51\00:45:59.25
and I join them and I
believe we need that outpouring
00:45:59.28\00:46:02.70
but how can we stand before God
00:46:02.73\00:46:05.43
and beg for that infilling
00:46:05.46\00:46:07.92
when there's wall
that's separating us?
00:46:07.95\00:46:11.89
The wall will have to comedown
00:46:11.92\00:46:14.06
before the Spirit can comedown.
00:46:14.09\00:46:17.56
You can't come down with
a wall blocking your way.
00:46:17.59\00:46:20.44
It's not my fault God
says, you have to help Me.
00:46:20.47\00:46:24.45
Get this wall
down then I'll come.
00:46:24.48\00:46:30.91
So we'll keep
praying, we'll keep praying.
00:46:30.94\00:46:36.48
But we have the answer to
our prayers in our own hands.
00:46:36.51\00:46:41.04
Now here's that
line from Ellen White,
00:46:45.57\00:46:47.15
I want you to catch this.
00:46:47.18\00:46:49.61
This is her inspired commentary,
00:46:49.64\00:46:50.98
at the moment
chapter 11 comes to an end.
00:46:51.01\00:46:54.87
Put it on the screen for
you, Acts of the Apostles.
00:46:54.90\00:46:57.46
"Thus without controversy,
prejudice was broken down,
00:46:57.49\00:47:01.27
the exclusiveness established
00:47:01.30\00:47:03.00
by the custom of
ages was abandoned."
00:47:03.03\00:47:06.60
By the way those
italics are mine.
00:47:06.63\00:47:09.23
"The exclusiveness established
00:47:09.26\00:47:11.08
by the custom of
ages was abandoned."
00:47:11.11\00:47:15.35
We've always done it this way.
00:47:15.38\00:47:17.47
We've always through
the ages done it this way,
00:47:17.50\00:47:20.13
but when the
Holy Spirit came down
00:47:20.16\00:47:22.45
the exclusiveness established
00:47:22.48\00:47:24.15
by the custom of
ages was abandoned
00:47:24.18\00:47:26.62
and the way was
opened for the gospel
00:47:26.65\00:47:28.17
to be
proclaimed to the Gentiles.
00:47:28.20\00:47:30.94
Isn't that amazing?
00:47:30.97\00:47:32.84
It took that wall to come down
00:47:32.87\00:47:34.79
to open up the gospel to
be proclaimed more widely,
00:47:34.82\00:47:37.67
more effectively, more
powerfully, than ever before.
00:47:37.70\00:47:42.80
But did you catch that line?
00:47:42.83\00:47:44.40
The exclusiveness established
00:47:44.43\00:47:46.28
by the custom of
ages was abandoned.
00:47:46.31\00:47:51.36
And ladies and gentlemen,
00:47:51.39\00:47:52.85
isn't it time for the wall
00:47:52.88\00:47:57.22
to come down in
the gospel ministry.
00:47:57.25\00:48:01.14
For how can God possibly bless
00:48:04.81\00:48:07.46
the exclusiveness established
00:48:07.49\00:48:10.06
by the custom of ages?
00:48:10.09\00:48:15.54
Look, women might be a
mystery to Stephen Hawking
00:48:15.57\00:48:19.85
but they are no mystery to God.
00:48:19.88\00:48:22.53
For a women our one half
00:48:22.56\00:48:25.74
of His strategic
plan for the human race
00:48:25.77\00:48:28.58
and women are
one half of His will
00:48:28.61\00:48:33.01
for the gospel ministry.
00:48:33.04\00:48:35.93
Amen. Amen.
00:48:35.96\00:48:37.93
Let's pray.
00:48:40.85\00:48:42.30
Oh, Jesus,
defender of the defenseless,
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remover of the wall,
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isn't it time for the church
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to become just like You?
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And my head is
still bowed in prayer.
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I need to make an appeal here.
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And this appeal is only
for the women who are here,
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who are watching,
who are listening.
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Three appeals,
number one, ladies,
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would you be willing to
offer your life to Jesus
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like Mary in gratitude for His
loving sacrifice on your behalf?
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Would you?
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Already I know the
answer to that question.
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Of course you do.
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Here's appeal number two,
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would you be
willing to offer your career
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as a ministry for Him?
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I had a young woman come in
to my office after first church.
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She said "I am
taking science here."
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We talked, it
doesn't matter your career,
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it doesn't matter
you are major here
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God has led you to
chose that, I believe.
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But would you be
willing offer that major,
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that career to come or
career you are already in
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as a lawyer,
physician, a homemaker, a wife.
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Would you be willing to offer
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you're career to Jesus
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so that it might be a
daily ministry for Him?
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And then appeal number three.
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I hesitate with this one.
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I hesitate to ask you to offer
your life for gospel ministry
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because the truth is
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not many young
women are being placed.
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And in some places the
door is not open at all.
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But I cannot-- not invite
you to respond to Christ call
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whatever the
spirit means for you.
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And so with these
three appeals in your heart,
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I'd like to ask the women
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who are here if you
are willing to respond
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to one of those three appeals
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to stand to your feet,
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just as Mary
stepped into that room
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in front of all those men
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to demonstrate
her devotion to Jesus.
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I'd like to invite
you to stand to your feet
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and by standing,
you say to Jesus,
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I'm available to You,
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I'm available to You.
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God bless you.
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Oh, Jesus, they
stand before You,
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You who stood up
for them long ago
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they stand up for You now.
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Jesus, see You her devotion,
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see You her
passion, see You her calling,
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see You her
commitment, and take her.
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Once you did with
Mary turn the world
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upside down for her ministry.
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Oh, Jesus, we all
would stand before You,
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we all offer our lives to You.
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And so I wish to
stand with these women
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and I invite my brothers here
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if they wish to stand with them
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to stand with me now.
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So we are all
standing, the whole family
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of God is standing.
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We are saying
whatever You want Jesus,
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use us anyway you
wish, the hour has come
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for the Spirit to be outpoured
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and we wish to be a part
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of that mighty final gift.
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Seal all of us Jesus,
seal us for the journey ahead
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and may You be glorified please.
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May You be glorified in
Your name we pray, amen.
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I want to sing one stanza,
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pull the hymn in
the lot in front of you.
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Just one stanza
of this beautiful,
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"I will follow Thee, my Savior,
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Wheresoe'er my lot may be."
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Its 6:23.
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Take the hymn aloud
6:23 just one stanza
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and then we leave worship
to the world that awaits us.
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Stay standing.
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I will follow Thee, my Savior
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Wheresoe'er my lot may be
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Where Thou goest I will follow
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Yes, my Lord, I'll follow Thee
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I will follow Thee, my Savior
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Thou didst shed Thy blood for me
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And though all men
should forsake Thee
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By Thy grace I'll follow Thee
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I want to sing that.
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I want to sing that
chorus one more time.
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It's such a
beautiful confession.
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And it says although
are men will forsake you.
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Although all people forsake you,
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Lord Jesus, I'll follow You.
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Let's sing it.
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We're singing quiet
enough as our prayer,
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it's a beautiful prayer.
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We'll pray this in commitment.
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I will follow Thee, my Savior
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Thou didst shed Thy blood for me
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And though all men
should forsake Thee
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By Thy grace I'll follow Thee
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And now may the
love of the Father
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and the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ
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and the communion
of the Holy Spirit
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of Bible that's all.
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Amen.
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It's been a pleasure to be
able to worship with you today.
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I hope the Spirit of
Jesus has blessed your time
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with us right here in
the Pioneer Memorial Church
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on the campus of
Andrews University.
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Do you know that
around the world people
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join us every week
for this hour of worship?
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We're always
looking as a consequence
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for new ways to bridge somehow
to connect with these people
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who come here to
worship via the telecast.
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One of the areas that is quickly
growing for us is our website.
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We had more than a
140,000 visitors last year.
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It's an incredible opportunity
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that God has given us
to expand His kingdom.
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If you'd like to
help partner with us,
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as we seek to spread
the ever lasting gospel
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I would love to have
your call on toll free number.
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We got very friendly
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here's the number 877-HIS-WILL,
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877 and then the
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one of the operators will be
happy to give you the details
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of how you can partner
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If you prefer listen,
you could do it all online.
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Go to our website
please www.pmchurch.tv.
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I would be honored
to have the privilege
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of partnering with you as
we seek to spread the truth
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about God for this generation.
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We are living in urgent times,
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now more than ever
we've got to go to the world
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with the good
news entrusted to us.
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So once again here's that
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toll free number 877-HIS-WILL.
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Thank you in
advance for your generosity.
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It blesses me and
you'll grow this ministry
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and pray that Spirit of
Christ will abide with you
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every step of the way
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and I hope you comeback
again next time right here
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as we continue our
worship journey together.
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