Will you stay standing
with us, as we sing, Amazed.
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You dance over me
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While I am unaware
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And You sing all around
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But I never hear the sound
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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Straight again,
You dance over me.
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You dance over me
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While I am unaware
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And You sing all around
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But I never hear the sound
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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Let's sing, how wide.
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How wide, how deep
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How great,
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is Your love for me?
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Let's sing it again, how long.
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How wide
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how deep
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How great
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Is Your love for me?
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Come on sing it up.
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How wide
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How deep
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How great
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Is Your love for me?
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Lord
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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Lord, I'm amazed by You
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How You love me
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Amen. You may be seated.
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Sing with us, I'm forgiven.
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I'm forgiven
because you were forsaken
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I'm accepted, You were condemned
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I'm alive and well
Your spirit is within me
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Because You died and rose again
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Let's try that
again, I'm forgiven.
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I'm forgiven
because You were forsaken
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I'm accepted, You were condemned
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I'm alive and well
Your spirit is within me
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Because You died and rose again
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Amazing love, how can it be?
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That you, my
king would die for me
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Amazing love, I know it's true
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It's my joy to honor You
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In all I do I honor You
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I'm forgiven,
because You were forsaken
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I'm accepted, You were condemned
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I'm alive and well
Your spirit is within me
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Because You died and rose again
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Amazing love, how can it be
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That You, my
King would die for me
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Amazing love, I know it's true
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It's my joy to honor You
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Sing amazing love.
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Amazing love how can it be?
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That You, my
King would die for me
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Amazing love, I know it's true
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It's my joy to honor You
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In all I do, I honor You
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The faithful love of
the Lord, it never ends!
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His mercies never cease.
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Great is thy faithfulness,
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His mercies begin
new every morning.
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I say to myself, the
Lord is my inheritance.
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Therefore I will hope in him.
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Morning by morning
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new mercies I see
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All I have needed
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Thy hand hath provided
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Lord unto me
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You all know this prayer.
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In Ephesians 3,
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it's Paul's prayer
for spiritual growth
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and he says, "When I
think of all these things,
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I fall to my knees
and I pray to the Father,
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the Creator of everything
in heaven and on earth.
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I pray that from His
glorious unlimited resources
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that He will
empower you with strength,
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in the inner spirit.
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Then, Christ will make
his home in your hearts
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as you trust in Him,
your roots will grow down deep
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and God's love
will keep you strong.
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And may you have
the power to understand,
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as all Gods people should,
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how wide, how long, how
high, and how deep His love is.
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May you experience
the love of Christ,
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that's surpasses all knowledge.
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Sing with us, "How
Deep the Father's Love."
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How deep the
Father's love for us
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How vast beyond all measure
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That He should give His only Son
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To make a wretch His treasure
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How great the
pain of searing loss
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The Father turns His face away
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As wounds which
mar the chosen One
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Bring many sons to glory
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Behold the Man upon a cross
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My sin upon His shoulders
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Ashamed I hear my mocking voice
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Call out among the scoffers
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It was my sin
that left Him there
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Until it was accomplished
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His dying breath
has brought me life
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I know that it is finished
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I will not boast in anything
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No gifts, no power, no wisdom
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But I will boast in Jesus Christ
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His death and resurrection
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Why should I
gain from His reward?
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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This is the day, this is the day
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That the Lord has
made, that the Lord has made
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I will rejoice, I will rejoice
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And be glad in
it, and be glad in it
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This is the day
that the Lord has made
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I will rejoice and be glad in it
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This is the day, this is the day
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That the Lord has made
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(Singing in foreign language)
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Red is the color
of my favorite rose
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Green is the color
of the grass that grows
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Yellow is the color
of the sun that shines
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Way up high in
the blue, blue sky
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Jesus! You sure
know how to color!
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Jesus! You sure
know how to color!
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Jesus! You sure
know how to color!
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Color my life with love!
00:16:19.45\00:16:23.32
Red is the color
of my favorite rose
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Green is the color
of the grass that grows
00:16:34.66\00:16:38.80
Yellow is the color
of the sun that shines
00:16:38.83\00:16:42.97
Way up high in
the blue, blue sky
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Jesus! You sure
know how to color!
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Jesus! You sure
know how to color!
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Jesus! You sure
know how to color!
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Color my life
with Color my life with
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Color my life with love!
00:17:03.66\00:17:07.07
Oh God, we linger a bit longer
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in this sanctuary
00:17:15.84\00:17:16.87
of this glad worship place.
00:17:16.90\00:17:23.04
We've been much in worship
00:17:23.07\00:17:27.06
as now the Holy
Scripture speaks in a way,
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we hope will be clear for us.
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Open our minds, our ears,
our hearts, You have your way.
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Instruct us as we
begin a new journey today
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in Jesus name, amen.
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You know what, after
all the, the mounts--
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are you following
this, the election campaign?
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I mean, please, this
thing is interminable.
00:17:53.62\00:17:57.99
After the mounts of
hubris that stinky pride
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that had been accumulating
through this campaign
00:18:03.10\00:18:05.46
on television, radio ad nauseam,
00:18:05.49\00:18:08.21
it might be the right time
for a new series of reflections
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on the subject of humility.
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Although, it
would be interesting
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just to put on the screen
all the people that we know
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of who've run for
office, this year,
00:18:18.98\00:18:21.57
a coveted restraint
for President of this land.
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Look at them, you'd
recognize some of the faces,
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some of them
you don't even know.
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But all of them,
I'll tell you what,
00:18:29.38\00:18:30.41
just like our
neighbor Muhammad Ali,
00:18:30.44\00:18:32.74
all of these have said
at one time or another,
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I am the greatest, I am
the best and you must pick me,
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to be the number one
leader in this nation.
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You know sometimes,
I'm not gonna tell you
00:18:42.17\00:18:43.80
which candidate, on that screen,
00:18:43.83\00:18:46.34
but there's one
of those candidates,
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whenever I hear
that candidate speak,
00:18:47.43\00:18:48.84
I almost blush with the hubris,
00:18:48.87\00:18:52.59
just the ego that ekes
out of every statement.
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You're say, Dwight,
00:18:56.76\00:18:57.80
what are you
talking about this hubris?
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Lets put it on
the screen, hubris.
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It's a word in our
dictionary, "hubris,
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it's a noun that means
wanton arrogance arising
00:19:02.35\00:19:05.28
from overbearing
pride or passion."
00:19:05.31\00:19:08.56
Just kind of this excess.
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So I'd begin today, a
series of biographical sketches.
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I went back over your
sermon surveys from last year,
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haven't got into
the ones this year, yet.
00:19:16.71\00:19:18.43
But from last year,
and a number of you said,
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oh, do some biographies.
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And so we're gonna
do some biographies.
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You ask for it,
we're gonna do it.
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Six biographies coming
up here all focusing on the,
00:19:24.34\00:19:29.49
the antithesis of hubris,
the very opposite of pride,
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and that'd be
humility, humility.
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Now I need to tell you,
00:19:35.12\00:19:37.82
perhaps it's helpful to note
it right here at the outset,
00:19:37.85\00:19:40.32
that generally, not
always okay, not always,
00:19:40.35\00:19:42.53
but generally when a
preacher preaches his heart out,
00:19:42.56\00:19:46.13
when he tackles a certain theme,
00:19:46.16\00:19:47.93
it is generally a confession,
00:19:47.96\00:19:52.89
but it is subject which
he struggles with or she.
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And so we begin a
series today entitled,
00:20:00.79\00:20:02.61
"Not I but Christ,
Tales of Humility."
00:20:02.64\00:20:07.04
Today's story,
"After the Thunder, Missed."
00:20:07.07\00:20:10.81
After the-- and by the way
00:20:10.84\00:20:11.90
that's not mist that's missed.
00:20:11.93\00:20:16.14
"After the Thunder, Missed."
00:20:16.17\00:20:20.02
So let's shift
gears and let's go.
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I've never enjoyed
or particularly relished
00:20:22.82\00:20:29.26
being the
youngest face in the crowd.
00:20:29.29\00:20:32.79
And I don't
suppose you did, either.
00:20:32.82\00:20:35.72
When you have a baby face,
00:20:35.75\00:20:37.97
it feels like you never grow up.
00:20:38.00\00:20:40.69
You're always the boy.
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I suppose there comes a time
00:20:44.41\00:20:45.48
when all that
plays to your advantage.
00:20:45.51\00:20:48.45
When all of your cohorts
are shriveled like prunes,
00:20:48.48\00:20:52.44
but it is small consolation,
00:20:52.47\00:20:56.66
when you want so very
much to be taken seriously...
00:20:56.69\00:20:59.91
and they'll
treat you like a kid.
00:21:04.39\00:21:07.13
John Boy and I'm not thinking
of the Walton's, either.
00:21:07.16\00:21:12.64
John Boy. Was that way for him.
00:21:12.67\00:21:17.74
The boyish face of the youngest
00:21:17.77\00:21:19.10
of the disciples
of the Lord Jesus.
00:21:19.13\00:21:21.13
Karen and I just
came back from Italy.
00:21:21.16\00:21:22.41
We were in Italy, last week.
00:21:22.44\00:21:24.38
Quinquennial
gathering of the church in Italy
00:21:24.41\00:21:26.64
for a congress, it's
such a joy to be with them.
00:21:26.67\00:21:29.59
That center filled
with Italian, Christian,
00:21:29.62\00:21:33.33
some of the Adventist
singing their hearts out.
00:21:33.36\00:21:35.69
Anyway, so we had three
extra days to spend in Rome.
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Rome is the
capital of Christian heart,
00:21:38.09\00:21:40.11
it's a capital of
Christian sculpture,
00:21:40.14\00:21:41.50
you know what, it's
just the capital of history,
00:21:41.53\00:21:43.23
period, that's Rome.
00:21:43.26\00:21:45.14
But you see them all
over, all over the city,
00:21:45.17\00:21:47.78
the statues of apostles.
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And I'm telling
you the gospel truth,
00:21:49.06\00:21:50.59
whenever you come in that little
00:21:50.62\00:21:52.69
that the pantheon of apostles,
00:21:52.72\00:21:54.71
you come to John, he's always,
00:21:54.74\00:21:56.59
he's always
portrayed with a baby face,
00:21:56.62\00:21:59.90
beardless, obviously masculine,
00:21:59.93\00:22:02.73
could with a hair that
long, look like a girl.
00:22:02.76\00:22:06.22
That's John, John Boy.
00:22:06.25\00:22:08.29
In fact you remember this,
00:22:08.32\00:22:10.15
Daniel Brown in that
blockbuster book of his,
00:22:10.18\00:22:13.43
The Da Vinci Code, he's playing
on the fact that Da Vinci,
00:22:13.46\00:22:16.33
in the last supper,
not in Rome by the way,
00:22:16.36\00:22:18.63
the last supper's in Milan,
00:22:18.66\00:22:19.81
but Da Vinci portrays John,
almost like a woman's face.
00:22:19.84\00:22:23.26
I'll put it on
the screen for you.
00:22:23.29\00:22:24.61
And of course the
whole plot of this fiction,
00:22:24.64\00:22:27.28
that's supposed
to be Mary Magdalene,
00:22:27.31\00:22:28.92
that's kind of a under little
secret we're passing along,
00:22:28.95\00:22:31.63
of course it's a
bunch of hokey-pokey.
00:22:31.66\00:22:34.60
But it's because John looks so--
00:22:34.63\00:22:36.65
he's just so young.
00:22:36.68\00:22:39.19
So hubris, he's
got it in spades.
00:22:39.22\00:22:41.71
When you, when you were a
kid, you have to prove yourself,
00:22:41.74\00:22:44.87
you have to climb
to the top of that heap
00:22:44.90\00:22:46.59
and you'd do anything
00:22:46.62\00:22:48.02
to establish
yourself as a macho.
00:22:48.05\00:22:51.47
That's John, John-Boy.
00:22:51.50\00:22:56.16
It's interesting isn't it?
00:22:56.19\00:22:57.40
We usually hide
00:22:57.43\00:22:59.47
or reveal our
inadequacies by our accessories.
00:22:59.50\00:23:05.15
Napoleon, the
neighborhood shorty,
00:23:05.18\00:23:08.33
ends up growing up to
become the European bully.
00:23:08.36\00:23:10.30
Why?
00:23:10.33\00:23:11.37
Because he's got to,
he's got to overcompensate
00:23:11.40\00:23:12.81
for being such a
short little rut.
00:23:12.84\00:23:16.79
John Boy, let's
go to the first time
00:23:16.82\00:23:18.07
John Boy
appears in the synoptics
00:23:18.10\00:23:19.60
by the Sea of Galilee.
00:23:19.63\00:23:21.17
It is the gospel
of St. Mark Chapter 1.
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Ian mark.
00:23:23.77\00:23:26.53
John comes on the
scene here in the synoptics,
00:23:26.56\00:23:28.73
right by
Galilee, this would be--
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if you don't, you
don't have a Bible,
00:23:30.36\00:23:32.24
grab your pew Bible
we'll give the page number.
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Here the page number is 673.
Six hundred and seventy three.
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Mark Chapter 1,
this is the first moment.
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Mark 1:16 "And as He"
00:23:45.03\00:23:46.72
Jesus "walked
beside the Sea of Galilee,
00:23:46.75\00:23:48.52
He saw Simon and
Andrew his brother
00:23:48.55\00:23:50.86
casting a net into the
sea, for they were" what?
00:23:50.89\00:23:53.45
Call it out to
me, what were they?
00:23:53.48\00:23:54.91
Come on guys,
these, these are fishermen.
00:23:54.94\00:23:57.61
Being a fisherman wasn't
high in the social ladder,
00:23:57.64\00:23:59.49
but at least it
was on the ladder.
00:23:59.52\00:24:02.00
I mean, you didn't
make a huge living,
00:24:02.03\00:24:03.34
but you made a living.
00:24:03.37\00:24:04.55
I've seen Simon
Peter's home at Capernaum,
00:24:04.58\00:24:06.65
they say this is where it
was, at least he had a house.
00:24:06.68\00:24:11.00
So they're fishermen.
00:24:11.03\00:24:13.61
So Jesus comes up
on these two fishermen.
00:24:13.64\00:24:16.69
And "Then Jesus
said to them, 'Follow Me,
00:24:16.72\00:24:20.69
and I will make you become
fishers of men and women.'"
00:24:20.72\00:24:27.08
Hey I got to tell
you, this is hardly
00:24:27.11\00:24:28.33
the first time
Jesus has met these men.
00:24:28.36\00:24:29.96
They're-- these young men
00:24:29.99\00:24:31.07
are have already have met Jesus.
00:24:31.10\00:24:32.57
They're already quasi disciples.
00:24:32.60\00:24:35.70
But the problem is,
they've been trying to juggle--
00:24:35.73\00:24:38.68
this young master
that they're following
00:24:38.71\00:24:40.23
and a career that they're
trying desperately to build.
00:24:40.26\00:24:42.49
So they haven't
fully cut-off yet
00:24:42.52\00:24:44.78
and Jesus knows that this back
and forthness has got to stop.
00:24:44.81\00:24:47.78
I got to have your
full time attention
00:24:47.81\00:24:49.83
and so the day it comes,
00:24:49.86\00:24:51.28
you're coming
after Me, follow Me.
00:24:51.31\00:24:53.40
Of course you know who I
am and I know who you are,
00:24:53.43\00:24:55.26
come on boys, let's go.
00:24:55.29\00:24:57.10
You know these
little slimy, silvery things
00:24:57.13\00:25:01.00
that you're
wiggling around, no more.
00:25:01.03\00:25:03.86
I'm gonna enable you
to fish for human lives.
00:25:03.89\00:25:07.26
You're gonna fish
for souls, follow Me.
00:25:07.29\00:25:12.86
Verse 18, "They immediately"
00:25:12.89\00:25:14.67
that should be the two
brothers, Peter and Andrew,
00:25:14.70\00:25:17.43
"They immediately left
their nets and followed Jesus."
00:25:17.46\00:25:19.39
Verse 19, "When He had gone
00:25:19.42\00:25:20.46
a little
farther" down the beach,
00:25:20.49\00:25:21.52
I've been along that
stretch of beach in Capernaum,
00:25:21.55\00:25:23.72
when he went a little
farther down those rocks,
00:25:23.75\00:25:25.41
because it's not
a white sand beach,
00:25:25.44\00:25:27.09
when He went a little
farther down the beach,
00:25:27.12\00:25:31.15
"He saw James the son of Zebedee
00:25:31.18\00:25:34.18
and John his brother,
00:25:34.21\00:25:35.47
who were also in the
boat mending their nets."
00:25:35.50\00:25:40.91
Because James--
whenever James and John are,
00:25:40.94\00:25:42.99
are listed together, James
is perennially named first,
00:25:43.02\00:25:46.53
we
automatically conclude rightly
00:25:46.56\00:25:48.27
so that James is
the elder brother
00:25:48.30\00:25:51.48
John Boy is the kid.
00:25:51.51\00:25:53.23
All right James and John,
now they're also fishermen.
00:25:53.26\00:25:56.43
They're, they're,
they're the sons of Zebedee,
00:25:56.46\00:25:57.99
and by the way
Zebedee does pretty--
00:25:58.02\00:25:59.84
pretty well this man does,
00:25:59.87\00:26:01.46
because you'll
note in the last verse.
00:26:01.49\00:26:03.10
He has servants.
00:26:03.13\00:26:04.70
So it's not just a father-son
deal, they have hired help.
00:26:04.73\00:26:07.88
You got to be doing okay
to have hired help, right?
00:26:07.91\00:26:10.41
He's an
entrepreneur, so they got'em.
00:26:10.44\00:26:13.44
Jesus, the divine Master,
00:26:13.47\00:26:14.92
He stops before
calling these boys
00:26:14.95\00:26:16.31
that barb and little skip,
00:26:16.34\00:26:17.53
up and down trying
to get the nets ready
00:26:17.56\00:26:19.53
for fishing again tonight,
00:26:19.56\00:26:20.75
barbing and up and down
Jesus reads their lives.
00:26:20.78\00:26:24.31
The divine Master knows
before He even calls them,
00:26:24.34\00:26:26.86
you see that elder one
right there, the older boy,
00:26:26.89\00:26:30.13
he'll be the first, the first.
00:26:30.16\00:26:34.11
By direct order of Herod
himself, you'd be beheaded.
00:26:34.14\00:26:36.99
Number one, be the first to go.
00:26:37.02\00:26:38.81
And you see the
little boy, you see John Boy,
00:26:38.84\00:26:41.57
John Boy, he'd be the last.
00:26:41.60\00:26:43.64
He'll hang on with
every last finger nail
00:26:43.67\00:26:46.86
to He's the last to
bear the reproach persecution
00:26:46.89\00:26:49.41
and toil of
loyalty to the Master.
00:26:49.44\00:26:51.04
He'd be the last to go.
00:26:51.07\00:26:53.09
Jesus looked into that boat,
00:26:53.12\00:26:54.68
said, hey boys, you,
you, let's go, follow Me.
00:26:54.71\00:27:01.66
"And immediately"
verse 20, "He called them,
00:27:04.81\00:27:06.46
and they left
their father Zebedee
00:27:06.49\00:27:07.82
in the boat with
the hired servants,
00:27:07.85\00:27:11.37
and they went after Jesus."
00:27:11.40\00:27:13.53
That's the calling of John Boy.
00:27:13.56\00:27:15.35
I don't know it, may be he's 19,
00:27:15.38\00:27:16.68
may be he's 20, we don't know.
00:27:16.71\00:27:18.32
He's just a kid; he's
with his older brother, Jimmy.
00:27:18.35\00:27:22.63
They're following this Jesus.
00:27:22.66\00:27:25.93
Just turn one page, you
can move from the calling--
00:27:25.96\00:27:28.13
I just love this moment.
00:27:28.16\00:27:29.51
The moment when
Jesus says, okay,
00:27:29.54\00:27:31.80
I'm gonna give you a nickname.
00:27:31.83\00:27:33.35
Did you ever get a
nick-name when you were a kid?
00:27:33.38\00:27:35.36
Did anybody give you a nickname?
00:27:35.39\00:27:36.56
And has that nick-name stuck?
00:27:36.59\00:27:37.63
There's nothing worse
than the nick-name that sticks.
00:27:37.66\00:27:39.93
You got a nickname?
00:27:39.96\00:27:41.04
I got a nick-name
with some cousins.
00:27:41.07\00:27:44.75
And how would you like it,
if it wasn't just your parents
00:27:44.78\00:27:47.41
or the cousins who
gave you the nickname?
00:27:47.44\00:27:48.75
How'd you like it if
God gave you the nickname?
00:27:48.78\00:27:51.72
Oh, brother, it
would really stick.
00:27:51.75\00:27:55.05
That's what happens
here, just turn one page,
00:27:55.08\00:27:56.60
go to Mark
Chapter 3, turn one page.
00:27:56.63\00:27:59.15
This is the moment
now, Jesus finally has 12,
00:27:59.18\00:28:01.58
this is His inner circle the 12.
00:28:01.61\00:28:02.93
He's gonna, He's
gonna appoint these,
00:28:02.96\00:28:04.52
He's gonna anoint these,
00:28:04.55\00:28:05.78
this is the ordination servants
we're gonna have right now.
00:28:05.81\00:28:07.76
And so it picks up here in John,
00:28:07.79\00:28:09.47
rather Mark Chapter 3,
00:28:09.50\00:28:11.45
just turn that page to verse 13.
00:28:11.48\00:28:13.22
"And Jesus went up on a mountain
00:28:13.25\00:28:14.84
and he called to Him
those He Himself wanted.
00:28:14.87\00:28:17.31
And they came to Him."
00:28:17.34\00:28:18.57
And "Then Jesus
appointed twelve,
00:28:18.60\00:28:19.98
that they might be
with Him and that"--
00:28:20.01\00:28:21.55
they might, "that He
might send them out to preach,
00:28:21.58\00:28:24.19
and to have power
to heal sicknesses
00:28:24.22\00:28:25.72
and to cast out demons."
00:28:25.75\00:28:26.90
They're gonna
become full time disciples.
00:28:26.93\00:28:28.55
Just what you and
I'd been called to be,
00:28:28.58\00:28:29.91
by the way, full time disciples.
00:28:29.94\00:28:31.58
They're gonna be full time.
00:28:31.61\00:28:33.56
And now we get a listing, among
I'd read a partial listing.
00:28:33.59\00:28:35.74
He starts with the, Mark does,
00:28:35.77\00:28:37.75
"Simon, to whom He
gave the name Peter;"
00:28:37.78\00:28:40.36
Hey, I like you boy, I'm
gonna call you, Rock, Rocky.
00:28:40.39\00:28:46.15
And then He turns,
and who does He come to?
00:28:46.18\00:28:48.86
He comes to James and
John. Look at that, verse 17.
00:28:48.89\00:28:50.66
"James the son of Zebedee
and John the brother of James,
00:28:50.69\00:28:52.95
to whom Jesus gave the
name Boanerges," direct,
00:28:52.98\00:28:58.73
it means, "Sons of
Thunder" sons of wrath.
00:28:58.76\00:29:01.25
We kind of view-- we view
00:29:01.28\00:29:03.13
from my eyes did in
to "Sons of Thunder."
00:29:03.16\00:29:06.20
You know what
He's really saying?
00:29:06.23\00:29:08.33
I mean you try to picture
this ladies and gentlemen,
00:29:08.36\00:29:09.65
what happened to an ordination.
00:29:09.68\00:29:10.84
Right now, this is a
very serious moment, Lord.
00:29:10.87\00:29:13.22
I just assume, not
have a nickname today
00:29:13.25\00:29:15.40
but the Lord stops
the ordination and says,
00:29:15.43\00:29:17.31
by the way, before
I put my hands on you,
00:29:17.34\00:29:19.63
you know what I'm
gonna name you boys,
00:29:19.66\00:29:20.93
I'm gonna call you,
"The Hothead Brothers."
00:29:20.96\00:29:24.12
That's exactly
right, I'm gonna name you,
00:29:24.15\00:29:25.79
"The Hothead Brothers."
00:29:25.82\00:29:29.17
How'd you like that?
00:29:29.20\00:29:30.73
I don't mind a nickname,
00:29:30.76\00:29:31.84
but if God gives me
the nickname, please,
00:29:31.87\00:29:33.69
I'll never get rid
of it and he doesn't.
00:29:33.72\00:29:37.73
Hey Mark, by the way,
how could the incarnate
00:29:37.76\00:29:40.08
God pick out a
nick-name like that?
00:29:40.11\00:29:42.39
What do you suppose
to let Jesus to say,
00:29:42.42\00:29:44.37
you're gonna be the
hothead bros, with Me?
00:29:44.40\00:29:48.99
Why do you suppose,
He gives them a nickname?
00:29:49.02\00:29:52.40
John did it the
hard way, he earned it.
00:29:52.43\00:29:56.57
Jesus has been
watching these boys
00:29:56.60\00:29:58.09
just from the beginning.
00:29:58.12\00:30:01.65
In fact, Dr.
Luke, in his gospel,
00:30:01.68\00:30:03.05
he puts two of the
hothead stories side by side,
00:30:03.08\00:30:05.07
so it makes really
easy to read them together.
00:30:05.10\00:30:06.78
So let's go to Luke Chapter 9.
00:30:06.81\00:30:08.37
You want to see the hothead
stories, this is the evidence.
00:30:08.40\00:30:10.48
Why were these boys be
called the hothead brothers?
00:30:10.51\00:30:12.23
Look at this, go to
Mark-- from Mark go to Luke 9.
00:30:12.26\00:30:17.80
Luke Chapter 9.
00:30:17.83\00:30:22.67
I hate it when a
nickname sticks, don't you?
00:30:22.70\00:30:25.68
Stuck for them,
and now you know why,
00:30:25.71\00:30:27.33
now you know why, look at this,
00:30:27.36\00:30:28.39
Luke, Luke 9, take
a look in your Bible.
00:30:28.42\00:30:30.37
Let's pick this
up in the verse 51.
00:30:30.40\00:30:32.72
"Now it came to pass,
when the time had come
00:30:32.75\00:30:34.32
for Jesus to be received up,
00:30:34.35\00:30:36.65
that He steadfastly set
His face to go to Jerusalem."
00:30:36.68\00:30:39.61
He's got to die in Jerusalem.
00:30:39.64\00:30:40.79
He knows that.
00:30:40.82\00:30:41.85
"And He sent
messengers before His face.
00:30:41.88\00:30:44.61
And as they
went" these messengers,
00:30:44.64\00:30:46.15
"they entered a
village of Samaritans,
00:30:46.18\00:30:47.77
to prepare of Him."
00:30:47.80\00:30:48.83
Hey listen, the master's coming.
00:30:48.86\00:30:50.93
We need a little
place to stay tonight,
00:30:50.96\00:30:52.28
we'll eat some
food, and what happens?
00:30:52.31\00:30:55.40
"But" verse 53, the
villagers, the Samaritans,
00:30:55.43\00:30:58.94
"did not receive Jesus,
00:30:58.97\00:31:00.92
because His face was set
for the journey to Jerusalem."
00:31:00.95\00:31:04.25
Picky, picky, picky.
00:31:04.28\00:31:05.99
I want to tell you something,
00:31:06.02\00:31:07.05
nothing has
changed in 2,000 years.
00:31:07.08\00:31:08.65
The president just
this week was in Palestine
00:31:08.68\00:31:11.88
and you still have
the same contentious.
00:31:11.91\00:31:14.61
If you're going there,
you're not a friend of ours.
00:31:14.64\00:31:17.34
Do you know what
it used to be that
00:31:17.37\00:31:18.59
if we had a visa from one
of those nations in Palestine?
00:31:18.62\00:31:21.18
You couldn't cross the
border in to the other,
00:31:21.21\00:31:22.82
and if you had it from the other
00:31:22.85\00:31:23.88
you couldn't get here,
it's just got worse and worse.
00:31:23.91\00:31:26.88
Started long ago.
00:31:26.91\00:31:29.39
Now John Boy and James,
00:31:29.42\00:31:34.72
are big on superheroes.
00:31:34.75\00:31:38.43
And that they love history.
00:31:38.46\00:31:39.49
You got to hand that to
them, they love history.
00:31:39.52\00:31:41.56
And when that
messenger comes back and says,
00:31:41.59\00:31:43.20
you know what, they say
we can't even stay here,
00:31:43.23\00:31:44.98
we got to find
somewhere else to sleep tonight.
00:31:45.01\00:31:46.86
These boys go apoplectic.
00:31:46.89\00:31:48.36
They just, they just
explode hotheads that they are.
00:31:48.39\00:31:54.60
And they pull story
right out of history.
00:31:54.63\00:31:56.63
Elijah was their superhero.
00:31:56.66\00:31:58.18
They love that moment
when the captain of the guard
00:31:58.21\00:32:01.05
from the battalion in Samaria
brought those 50 soldiers
00:32:01.08\00:32:05.24
and Elijah just
calls down fire from heaven
00:32:05.27\00:32:08.05
on those rebels and boom,
they're nuked, they're gone.
00:32:08.08\00:32:11.15
And so Jimmy and
John turned to Jesus said,
00:32:11.18\00:32:13.49
listen Master, just
don't you worry about this,
00:32:13.52\00:32:16.47
we will take care of
this village just like that.
00:32:16.50\00:32:20.70
Give us a word, and we're
gonna nuke that entire town.
00:32:20.73\00:32:27.39
That's exactly
what happened here.
00:32:27.42\00:32:29.97
Look at verse 54.
00:32:30.00\00:32:31.03
"And when His disciples
James and John saw this,
00:32:31.06\00:32:32.55
they said, 'Lord, do
You want us to command fire
00:32:32.58\00:32:33.75
to come down from heaven
00:32:33.78\00:32:34.83
and consume them,
just as Elijah did?'
00:32:34.86\00:32:36.44
But Jesus turned and
rebuked them, and said"
00:32:36.47\00:32:38.02
you hotheaded, you hotheads,
what is the problem with you?
00:32:38.05\00:32:44.18
"'You do not know what
manner of spirit you are.
00:32:44.21\00:32:47.28
For the Son of Man did not come
00:32:47.31\00:32:48.76
to destroy men's
lives but to save them.'
00:32:48.79\00:32:52.00
And so they went
to another village."
00:32:52.03\00:32:56.81
Can you believe that,
over a perceived sight,
00:32:56.84\00:33:00.12
Jim and John are
willing and ready to obligate
00:33:00.15\00:33:04.17
an entire village of human life?
00:33:04.20\00:33:07.29
Just gone!
Because you tipped me off.
00:33:07.32\00:33:12.28
Sons of thunder.
00:33:12.31\00:33:14.17
Now the other story is actually
00:33:14.20\00:33:15.23
just before this
one that we read.
00:33:15.26\00:33:16.62
So go up to verse 49.
00:33:16.65\00:33:19.14
When they had a
comeback-- when they came back
00:33:19.17\00:33:20.74
from one of their
mission and John said,
00:33:20.77\00:33:22.08
hey Jesus, You're
not gonna believe this.
00:33:22.11\00:33:25.15
I came across a man, we did,
00:33:25.18\00:33:27.31
a man who's casting
out demons in Your name.
00:33:27.34\00:33:29.42
You know what I did?
00:33:29.45\00:33:30.48
I put that man in his
place and said listen,
00:33:30.51\00:33:32.44
you can't do this, you're
not follower of the Master,
00:33:32.47\00:33:34.69
like we are,
cease in this cyst, or--
00:33:34.72\00:33:38.84
what do you think Jesus,
did I do the right thing?
00:33:38.87\00:33:42.41
Jesus answers, verse 50.
00:33:42.44\00:33:45.48
"But Jesus said
to him," oh brother,
00:33:45.51\00:33:48.44
"'Do not forbid him,
00:33:48.47\00:33:50.28
for he who is not
against us is on our side.'"
00:33:50.31\00:33:54.44
Come on guys,
time out, hotheads.
00:33:54.47\00:34:00.84
How often are we
just like John Boy?
00:34:00.87\00:34:06.10
Categorizing, oh
categorizing our actions
00:34:06.13\00:34:08.64
as always very
defensive of glory of Christ,
00:34:08.67\00:34:11.14
when in fact if
the truth were known,
00:34:11.17\00:34:12.80
and it'll always
says, I did what I did
00:34:12.83\00:34:15.07
for the glory of me.
00:34:15.10\00:34:17.34
I just won't tell you that,
00:34:17.37\00:34:18.44
I say, I'm
doing it for Jesus.'''
00:34:18.47\00:34:21.54
Doing it for Jesus.
00:34:21.57\00:34:23.82
I have seen times
when men and women
00:34:23.85\00:34:25.98
would refuse to budge
from a public position
00:34:26.01\00:34:30.17
they have taken
regarding some Biblical truth.
00:34:30.20\00:34:33.43
And there are saying,
it is in defensive truth,
00:34:33.46\00:34:36.43
when in fact, it is in
defense of pride and ego.
00:34:36.46\00:34:42.58
I'm not backing down now,
I got book supporting this.
00:34:42.61\00:34:46.46
I've seen marriages, I've
seen marriages just unravel,
00:34:50.32\00:34:56.53
because somebody refuses
00:34:56.56\00:35:02.02
to swallow his
pride, swallow her hubris.
00:35:02.05\00:35:08.52
I've seen
business associates broken.
00:35:08.55\00:35:10.56
I've watched
close friends, severed.
00:35:10.59\00:35:16.97
Because neither guy has
willing to admit, he was wrong.
00:35:17.00\00:35:21.40
I've taken my
stand, so help me God.
00:35:21.43\00:35:25.02
And God doesn't help
you. You're on your own.
00:35:25.05\00:35:31.50
Acts of the
Apostles puts it this way,
00:35:31.53\00:35:33.36
James and John had thought
that in checking this man
00:35:33.39\00:35:35.84
they had in
view the Lords honor.
00:35:35.87\00:35:39.09
But they began to see
00:35:39.12\00:35:40.19
that they were
jealous for their own.
00:35:40.22\00:35:41.72
Just pretending,
pretending that this was--
00:35:41.75\00:35:43.64
I'm doing this for Jesus.
00:35:43.67\00:35:44.71
Now, I realize
I'm doing this for me.
00:35:44.74\00:35:47.33
I want to be in the inner circle
00:35:47.36\00:35:48.49
and I don't want
anyone else there.
00:35:48.52\00:35:51.60
So a little bit of John Boy
is in all of us, isn't there?
00:35:51.63\00:35:55.11
Okay, jot this down.
00:35:55.14\00:35:56.17
This is something
from your study guide.
00:35:56.20\00:35:57.23
Now, it's a very
short study guide?
00:35:57.26\00:35:58.29
Jot this down.
00:35:58.32\00:35:59.35
Acts of the Apostles,
page 540, notice this.
00:35:59.38\00:36:01.85
"John did not naturally possess
the loveliness of character
00:36:01.88\00:36:04.76
that his later
experience revealed.
00:36:04.79\00:36:06.84
By nature," jot this
down, "he had serious defects."
00:36:06.87\00:36:12.67
Serious
defects, yeah, by nature.
00:36:12.70\00:36:18.69
You know defects
are don't just happen--
00:36:18.72\00:36:20.20
Tribune, I read
the Tribune every day.
00:36:20.23\00:36:22.19
Here're the
parts being recalled.
00:36:22.22\00:36:24.50
Defect means, there's
something wrong with this thing,
00:36:24.53\00:36:25.90
it should've never
gone in to the market.
00:36:25.93\00:36:28.06
Can you imagine,
can you imagine like
00:36:28.09\00:36:30.50
you and me being born
with the defects already?
00:36:30.53\00:36:33.87
God can't recall us.
00:36:33.90\00:36:35.04
He says, I'm gonna have
to fix what's already there.
00:36:35.07\00:36:37.82
Look at these, I
could not believe this list.
00:36:37.85\00:36:40.18
Eight defects, jot these -
you don't have to jot it down,
00:36:40.21\00:36:42.79
just count them, in your mind.
00:36:42.82\00:36:43.98
He was-- speaking of John Boy,
00:36:44.01\00:36:45.40
"He was not only 1,
proud, 2, self-assertive,
00:36:45.43\00:36:50.39
3, ambitious for
honor, he was also impetuous."
00:36:50.42\00:36:53.76
Boom! I'm ticked and I'm
acting on this right now.
00:36:53.79\00:36:57.19
He was impetuous.
00:36:57.22\00:36:58.25
"He was 5,
resentful under injury.
00:36:58.28\00:37:00.10
He and his brother were
called 'sons of thunder.'
00:37:00.13\00:37:01.63
6, he had an evil temper,
00:37:01.66\00:37:03.09
7, he had the
desire for revenge."
00:37:03.12\00:37:05.05
Here's was John's
motive, this was his mantra.
00:37:05.08\00:37:09.11
I never get mad, I get even.
00:37:09.14\00:37:12.55
Desire for revenge, I'll
get back at you don't you worry.
00:37:12.58\00:37:15.88
Tit-for-a tat, I keep score.
00:37:15.91\00:37:18.89
"Number 8,"
What's number 8 there?
00:37:18.92\00:37:21.44
"He had the spirit of criticism"
00:37:21.47\00:37:22.80
all of that in
the beloved disciple."
00:37:22.83\00:37:25.12
Boy, good news for
the likes of you and me,
00:37:25.15\00:37:26.60
wouldn't you say?
00:37:26.63\00:37:27.66
Hallelujah.
00:37:27.69\00:37:29.64
Jesus, if you can do
something that kind of a life,
00:37:29.67\00:37:31.63
would you please
do something for me?
00:37:31.66\00:37:38.27
You know but what's so
utterly amazing for me,
00:37:38.30\00:37:41.40
is that this John Boy,
with all that psychological
00:37:41.43\00:37:44.27
and character defects,
00:37:44.30\00:37:45.74
not only ends up in
the inner circle of Jesus,
00:37:45.77\00:37:47.91
get this guys, he ends up
00:37:47.94\00:37:49.99
the closest friend
Jesus will have on earth.
00:37:50.02\00:37:54.78
Acts of Apostles
describes it this way,
00:37:54.81\00:37:56.34
John enjoyed to
pre-eminent degree,
00:37:56.37\00:38:00.17
the friendship of Christ.
00:38:00.20\00:38:03.84
It makes you wonder, doesn't it?
00:38:03.87\00:38:04.95
Did Jesus play
favorites, is that it?
00:38:04.98\00:38:06.99
Did He play favorites?
00:38:07.02\00:38:08.20
You know what, I
know I wouldn't have been
00:38:08.23\00:38:09.61
in the inner circle.
00:38:09.64\00:38:10.95
I'd be out there in the fringes.
00:38:10.98\00:38:12.01
I understand that.
00:38:12.04\00:38:13.29
So I can't help,
but feel for those guys.
00:38:13.32\00:38:15.72
Because I remember the
times in the gospel stories
00:38:15.75\00:38:17.56
when Jesus would stop the
group right here and says,
00:38:17.59\00:38:18.84
hey guys hey, let's
see, I want you Peter,
00:38:18.87\00:38:21.12
I want you James, I want you
John, you three, come with me.
00:38:21.15\00:38:23.27
We're going behind close
doors. You guys stay out here.
00:38:23.30\00:38:25.39
The close doors
belongs to Jairus,
00:38:25.42\00:38:27.03
behind those doors he's gonna
get a little girl back to life
00:38:27.06\00:38:29.84
and only three of
them get to see it.
00:38:29.87\00:38:31.53
I would be feeling it.
00:38:31.56\00:38:34.59
Why wasn't I part of that group?
00:38:34.62\00:38:36.53
Who're these guys?
00:38:36.56\00:38:38.37
When Jesus says stops the
group and say, hey, hey, hey,
00:38:38.40\00:38:40.52
Peter I'll take you,
John, James, come here boys.
00:38:40.55\00:38:42.72
We're gonna climb this mountain,
00:38:42.75\00:38:43.79
you guys stay down
here in the valley.
00:38:43.82\00:38:45.01
And up on top of the mountain,
00:38:45.04\00:38:46.32
Moses and Elijah
personally show up
00:38:46.35\00:38:48.83
and Jesus just transfigured.
00:38:48.86\00:38:49.89
I would be tipped that I
got left out of that one.
00:38:49.92\00:38:54.05
I'd feel it.
Wouldn't you feel it?
00:38:54.08\00:38:57.39
But Jesus says, I want to
have some real prayer time now.
00:38:57.42\00:39:00.35
So you guys, lets see, the
nine of you stay right here
00:39:00.38\00:39:02.15
at the gate of the garden.
00:39:02.18\00:39:03.22
But Peter, James,
John, you three come with Me
00:39:03.25\00:39:05.61
we're gonna have a prayer,
00:39:05.64\00:39:06.72
a prayer season
inside Gethsemane.
00:39:06.75\00:39:09.81
I'd have felt
that. I'd have said, hey.
00:39:09.84\00:39:14.37
Is Jesus playing
favorites? Is he?
00:39:14.40\00:39:17.76
There's one more story
I want to share with you.
00:39:17.79\00:39:20.09
Its proof enough, He's
not playing favorites at all.
00:39:20.12\00:39:21.83
Go to the gospel of Mark again,
00:39:21.86\00:39:23.35
so we're in
Luke, go back to Mark.
00:39:23.38\00:39:24.99
Mark Chapter 10.
00:39:25.02\00:39:27.48
Because one day, one day
James and John sat up to Jesus,
00:39:27.51\00:39:33.61
sat right up to
His side and say,
00:39:33.64\00:39:34.97
hey, can we talk to
You privately please?
00:39:35.00\00:39:38.70
Peter-- rest of you--
00:39:38.73\00:39:43.31
I want to talk to the Master,
just the two of us, you go.
00:39:43.34\00:39:47.85
That moment, they're
gonna spring something on Jesus,
00:39:47.88\00:39:50.42
to catch Him off guard,
00:39:50.45\00:39:51.58
may be we'll get
what we want that way.
00:39:51.61\00:39:53.14
And that's exactly
00:39:53.17\00:39:54.20
what happened
here in Mark 10:35.
00:39:54.23\00:39:56.94
"Then James and
John, the sons of Zebedee,
00:39:56.97\00:39:58.51
came to Jesus and they
said, 'Teacher'" look at--
00:39:58.54\00:40:00.74
if anybody ever comes
to you with this request,
00:40:00.77\00:40:02.66
you just be fore
warned, something,
00:40:02.69\00:40:04.59
something you're not
gonna be happy with it.
00:40:04.62\00:40:07.07
"'Teacher, we want You to
do for us whatever we ask.'"
00:40:07.10\00:40:12.08
Anybody ever comes and
says, I want you do for me,
00:40:12.11\00:40:13.71
whatever I ask,
you'd never say yes,
00:40:13.74\00:40:15.95
till you find out what it is.
00:40:15.98\00:40:17.70
Jesus is
brilliant, He's also gentle.
00:40:17.73\00:40:20.31
And so He's gonna
let this thing play out.
00:40:20.34\00:40:21.67
He says, okay guys, what is it?
00:40:21.70\00:40:23.30
He's okay the next first.
00:40:23.33\00:40:24.44
What is it? What is it you want?
00:40:24.47\00:40:28.59
According to Him, verse 37.
00:40:28.62\00:40:29.69
They say okay, you want to know
00:40:29.72\00:40:30.76
what we want, here it is.
00:40:30.79\00:40:31.82
"Grant us that we may
sit, one on Your right hand
00:40:31.85\00:40:34.59
and the other on Your
left, in Your glory.'"
00:40:34.62\00:40:38.56
Want the top two positions,
00:40:38.59\00:40:41.57
two senior
vice-president positions,
00:40:41.60\00:40:43.44
please represent You.
00:40:43.47\00:40:48.28
I love this.
00:40:48.31\00:40:49.76
Jesus said to them guys,
00:40:49.79\00:40:54.35
you don't even
know what you're asking.
00:40:54.38\00:40:57.39
Do you know what
My throne is gonna be?
00:40:57.42\00:41:00.20
Do you what my
throne is going to be?
00:41:00.23\00:41:03.31
It won't have a place to sit.
00:41:03.34\00:41:04.97
I'll have to be
nailed to that thing.
00:41:05.00\00:41:07.96
You don't want,
what you just asked.
00:41:07.99\00:41:09.81
Ladies and
gentlemen, brothers and sisters,
00:41:09.84\00:41:11.49
be careful what you pray
for, ever, ever, ever with God.
00:41:11.52\00:41:15.54
You may just get
what you ask for.
00:41:15.57\00:41:18.25
Jesus says, hey talk to me.
00:41:18.28\00:41:21.31
Are you able to drink
the cup I'm gonna drink?
00:41:21.34\00:41:23.84
Oh, yes, of course, we are.
00:41:23.87\00:41:26.28
Are you able to be
baptized with the baptism,
00:41:26.31\00:41:28.03
I'm gonna be baptized with?
00:41:28.06\00:41:29.26
Yes, indeed.
00:41:29.29\00:41:31.72
Be careful what you ask
for because they got exactly
00:41:31.75\00:41:34.71
what they asked for.
00:41:34.74\00:41:36.18
First guy to go--
last guy to hang on.
00:41:36.21\00:41:40.69
They both got it.
00:41:40.72\00:41:43.34
You didn't want
it that way, did you?
00:41:43.37\00:41:45.39
Be careful.
00:41:45.42\00:41:47.02
You better be serious
00:41:47.05\00:41:48.12
what you're
asking God right now.
00:41:48.15\00:41:49.21
Some of you are in an
earnest prayer season with God
00:41:49.24\00:41:51.04
you be very serious
what you're asking Him,
00:41:51.07\00:41:53.26
because you may
get what you ask for.
00:41:53.29\00:41:57.14
They said, we're
able we can do it.
00:41:57.17\00:41:58.98
Jesus said, let Me
tell you something,
00:41:59.01\00:42:00.63
I love this,
look at this verse 39.
00:42:00.66\00:42:04.23
"They said, 'We're able.'
00:42:04.26\00:42:05.30
Jesus said to them,
00:42:05.33\00:42:06.51
'You will indeed drink the
cup that I drink and you end
00:42:06.54\00:42:08.72
with the baptism
I am baptized with,
00:42:08.75\00:42:10.06
you will be baptized.'"
00:42:10.09\00:42:11.12
But notice verse 40.
00:42:11.15\00:42:12.27
"But to sit on My right hand
00:42:12.30\00:42:13.71
and on My left
is not Mine to give,
00:42:13.74\00:42:15.42
but it is for those
for whom it is prepared."
00:42:15.45\00:42:17.79
Now I'm gonna put
something on the screen
00:42:17.82\00:42:18.85
that you don't have
it in your study guide.
00:42:18.88\00:42:19.91
I want you to see this,
this is from "Desire of Ages,"
00:42:19.94\00:42:21.61
take a look at this.
00:42:21.64\00:42:23.61
"In the kingdom of God,
00:42:23.64\00:42:26.80
position is not
gained through favoritism.
00:42:26.83\00:42:31.33
It is not earned,
nor is it received
00:42:31.36\00:42:33.49
through an arbitrary bestowal.
00:42:33.52\00:42:35.42
It is the result of character."
00:42:35.45\00:42:37.80
Isn't that some? Jesus
is not playing favorites.
00:42:37.83\00:42:41.24
This inner circle, nope.
"It is the result of character.
00:42:41.27\00:42:44.19
The crown and
the throne are tokens
00:42:44.22\00:42:46.05
of a condition attained,
00:42:46.08\00:42:47.55
they are the
tokens of self-conquest
00:42:47.58\00:42:49.17
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
00:42:49.20\00:42:51.21
You know Jesus is so
merciful that these guys
00:42:51.24\00:42:53.71
He could've just cut the
legs out from under them--
00:42:53.74\00:42:56.42
What kind of idiots are you?
00:42:56.45\00:43:00.65
I've got 12 guys following Me,
who says you get the closest?
00:43:00.68\00:43:04.40
He could've just
diced them, but He doesn't.
00:43:04.43\00:43:09.30
He knows that
inside that earthy heart,
00:43:09.33\00:43:12.99
there is an
ardent love for Jesus.
00:43:13.02\00:43:16.61
Jesus was always drawn to those
00:43:16.64\00:43:20.80
who were drawn to Him.
00:43:20.83\00:43:22.37
He never played favorites.
00:43:22.40\00:43:24.59
But if you want Me, we're
gonna be the best friends.
00:43:24.62\00:43:28.40
He just wants to
know, do you want Him?
00:43:28.43\00:43:32.19
If you don't want Him,
00:43:32.22\00:43:33.26
He's not gonna
kick the door down.
00:43:33.29\00:43:36.19
He's drawn to the
people who are drawn to Him.
00:43:36.22\00:43:39.11
You want an
inside circle friendship?
00:43:39.14\00:43:41.10
You want an
inside circle position?
00:43:41.13\00:43:45.43
Be a friend. Get drawn in.
00:43:45.46\00:43:49.25
You may end up--
00:43:49.28\00:43:53.26
But it'll be best
thing in eternity for you.
00:43:53.29\00:43:56.98
Draw near. I
love that about Jesus.
00:43:57.01\00:44:01.05
You know what, Jesus
is really saying here?
00:44:03.12\00:44:08.57
You want to be the greatest?
00:44:08.60\00:44:11.46
Become the humblest
00:44:11.49\00:44:12.70
and you never want to
be the greatest again.
00:44:12.73\00:44:14.86
That's what He is saying.
00:44:14.89\00:44:15.92
Look at this-- got to
end with this, Now 41.
00:44:15.95\00:44:18.21
"Then the ten heard
it," and it says here,
00:44:18.24\00:44:21.14
"they were greatly displeased."
00:44:21.17\00:44:22.38
That's euphemism.
00:44:22.41\00:44:24.73
They were
ticked to high heavens.
00:44:24.76\00:44:27.41
Those punks.
00:44:27.44\00:44:31.22
"They were greatly
displeased with James and John.
00:44:31.25\00:44:33.11
But Jesus called all of them."
00:44:33.14\00:44:34.54
Gathers the twelve, and He
says, hey listen, verse 42.
00:44:34.57\00:44:36.73
"You know that those
who are considered rulers
00:44:36.76\00:44:38.25
over the Gentiles
lord it over them,
00:44:38.28\00:44:39.96
and their great ones
exercise authority over them."
00:44:39.99\00:44:42.09
Remember that by the
way, the next time you watch
00:44:42.12\00:44:43.72
this
presidential campaign unfold,
00:44:43.75\00:44:45.67
the great one in
the world of paganism,
00:44:45.70\00:44:47.89
in the world of Gentiles,
the great ones achieve status.
00:44:47.92\00:44:52.47
Jesus says, it's not that
way with you, look at verse 43.
00:44:52.50\00:44:54.82
"'It shall not be so among you,
00:44:54.85\00:44:55.88
but whoever desires to" be among
00:44:55.91\00:44:57.27
"be great among you
shall be your servant.
00:44:57.30\00:44:59.26
Whoever of you desires to
be first shall be slave of all.
00:44:59.29\00:45:01.73
For even the Son of Man"
00:45:01.76\00:45:03.26
who could've asked
for that top throne
00:45:03.29\00:45:05.79
in the universe
and already had it.
00:45:05.82\00:45:07.87
"For even the Son of Man
did not come to be served,
00:45:07.90\00:45:09.73
but to serve, and to give
His life a ransom for many."
00:45:09.76\00:45:16.11
Greatest are the humblest
00:45:16.14\00:45:17.31
who don't want to
be the greatest at all.
00:45:17.34\00:45:20.41
Clearly Jesus is mixing
any favorite status, notions,
00:45:20.44\00:45:24.80
no inner circle here,
I'm not playing favorites.
00:45:24.83\00:45:27.86
Not you James, not
you John, nope, nobody.
00:45:27.89\00:45:32.68
I'm simply drawn to
those who're drawn to Me
00:45:32.71\00:45:34.77
and He reads the
hearts of these boys,
00:45:34.80\00:45:37.17
it says, they want Me.
00:45:37.20\00:45:44.00
He draws all, Jesus draws
all, but not all will be drawn.
00:45:44.03\00:45:49.32
And by the way,
00:45:49.35\00:45:50.66
that's the difference
between John and Judas.
00:45:50.69\00:45:54.45
Two disciples, on the
eve of Christ's death,
00:45:54.48\00:45:58.19
it is Judas and John,
00:45:58.22\00:45:59.69
who pressed the
closest to the Jesus.
00:45:59.72\00:46:02.08
Do you know on this, you know
this that the top two positions
00:46:02.11\00:46:04.49
around the Lords upper
table are John and Judas?
00:46:04.52\00:46:06.77
You know that?
00:46:06.80\00:46:07.83
Its-- now you think
00:46:07.86\00:46:08.90
it was Peter and John may be
00:46:08.93\00:46:11.33
James and John, Andrew and John.
00:46:11.36\00:46:13.14
No, no, no, no,
the top two positions
00:46:13.17\00:46:14.84
around that Lords
table are John and Judas.
00:46:14.87\00:46:17.35
How do we know?
00:46:17.38\00:46:18.44
Because Peter
sitting around the table
00:46:18.47\00:46:19.50
he goes-- ask Him.
00:46:19.53\00:46:22.54
For John's right there to ask.
00:46:22.57\00:46:24.42
How do we that Judas
was on the other side?
00:46:24.45\00:46:26.23
Because Jesus dips
that little piece of bread
00:46:26.26\00:46:28.42
that Paschal
bread in to the dipping.
00:46:28.45\00:46:34.12
And He says, the one I hands
this to he is gonna betray Me.
00:46:34.15\00:46:38.50
Judas and John making
a play at the very end,
00:46:38.53\00:46:45.42
and only one of them follow
the Jesus into the garden.
00:46:45.45\00:46:47.63
Only one of them refused to run
00:46:47.66\00:46:49.03
when the rest cut
and fled at Jesus arrest.
00:46:49.06\00:46:51.30
Only John Boy made his way
00:46:51.33\00:46:53.30
in to the very inner
courtyard of kangaroo trial
00:46:53.33\00:46:55.61
and because there
was pounding at the door,
00:46:55.64\00:46:56.89
and he realize it was Peter,
00:46:56.92\00:46:57.95
and he goes back and
he tells the gatekeeper,
00:46:57.98\00:46:59.35
let him in and he rushes Peter
00:46:59.38\00:47:01.60
in to the place of
his great moral fall.
00:47:01.63\00:47:03.98
Only John followed Jesus
to the torturous long night
00:47:04.01\00:47:07.28
and the early morning.
00:47:07.31\00:47:08.58
Only John, of all the disciples,
00:47:08.61\00:47:10.36
only John, followed the
master to the summit of Calvary.
00:47:10.39\00:47:14.07
Only John is left, so when Jesus
00:47:14.10\00:47:16.57
in His supreme
agony looks down and says,
00:47:16.60\00:47:18.39
to whom can I give My mother,
00:47:18.42\00:47:19.92
there's one boy
standing there and He said,
00:47:19.95\00:47:21.43
John Boy, this is your mother.
00:47:21.46\00:47:22.89
Do you understand? Take
care of her when I'm gone.
00:47:22.92\00:47:26.03
Only John, everybody's gone.
00:47:26.06\00:47:30.93
Something has happened to John.
00:47:30.96\00:47:36.19
Some mysterious transformation
has reshaped this hothead,
00:47:36.22\00:47:40.77
this Son of Thunder
who is now willing to die.
00:47:40.80\00:47:44.21
Peter said, I'll
die, he's cut, not John.
00:47:44.24\00:47:49.55
Something-- would this be
00:47:49.58\00:47:52.74
too much to conclude,
apparently, apparently,
00:47:52.77\00:47:57.93
a daily prolonged
exposure to the Savior,
00:47:57.96\00:48:03.51
can actually
change your character?
00:48:03.54\00:48:09.51
Huh?
00:48:09.54\00:48:12.28
The guy has changed forever.
00:48:12.31\00:48:15.42
Three-and-half
years-- I'll tell you what,
00:48:15.45\00:48:16.49
when I was studying this,
00:48:16.52\00:48:17.55
and doing the
research this week,
00:48:17.58\00:48:18.61
my heart just leaped.
00:48:18.64\00:48:19.72
Because I got so
many character flaws,
00:48:19.75\00:48:21.87
I don't even know
where to start with God.
00:48:21.90\00:48:23.66
But here's the good
news that struck me,
00:48:23.70\00:48:26.02
three-and-half years, you can go
00:48:26.05\00:48:28.48
through an entire
character transformation
00:48:28.51\00:48:30.68
in three-and-half years.
00:48:30.71\00:48:33.34
Isn't that something?
00:48:33.37\00:48:34.84
I used to think that it
takes a whole life-time.
00:48:34.87\00:48:36.03
I can't change in a life-time.
00:48:36.06\00:48:37.63
No, look at John,
three-and-half years,
00:48:37.66\00:48:40.41
this Son of
Thunder becomes a new man
00:48:40.44\00:48:44.59
and he never changes,
00:48:44.62\00:48:45.66
he stays that way
for the rest of his life.
00:48:45.69\00:48:50.50
Guys, don't give
up, do not give up.
00:48:50.53\00:48:54.06
I want the
Spirit of God is calling
00:48:54.09\00:48:56.44
from deep inside of you saying,
00:48:56.47\00:48:57.67
you can change
boy, come on girl,
00:48:57.70\00:48:59.43
you can change, I'll change you.
00:48:59.46\00:49:01.67
Prolonged
exposure with the Savior
00:49:01.70\00:49:04.34
apparently changes the one
00:49:04.37\00:49:07.50
who by
beholding becomes changed.
00:49:07.53\00:49:10.99
By beholding, we become changed.
00:49:11.02\00:49:16.67
Isn't that amazing?
00:49:16.70\00:49:18.08
I mean that's the greatest
news in the whole story.
00:49:18.11\00:49:20.10
Three-and-half years
and he's a different man.
00:49:20.13\00:49:22.83
Apparently I
don't have to be stuck
00:49:22.86\00:49:24.85
with what I was born with.
00:49:24.88\00:49:27.54
Apparently the defects
in my heart can be overcome
00:49:27.57\00:49:33.11
with prolonged exposure
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:49:33.14\00:49:38.11
What do you say to that, huh?
00:49:38.14\00:49:40.00
Didn't make you
want to say, amen?
00:49:40.03\00:49:41.10
Amen.
00:49:41.13\00:49:42.16
Now let me hear
an, amen from you.
00:49:42.19\00:49:43.22
Amen.
00:49:43.25\00:49:44.28
Oh, come on guys,
that's the good news.
00:49:44.31\00:49:49.54
Matthew 11:29,
putting on the screen for you.
00:49:49.57\00:49:51.99
This is the great
gospel invitation.
00:49:52.02\00:49:53.37
"Learn from Me, for I am" what?
00:49:53.40\00:49:56.18
Let's say this
together out loud.
00:49:56.21\00:49:57.38
"Learn from Me, for I am
gentle and lowly in heart."
00:49:57.41\00:50:01.36
The NIV says, "Learn from
Me, for I am gentle and humble."
00:50:01.39\00:50:05.81
I'm a humble one.
00:50:05.84\00:50:07.68
Stick around with me
John Boy, I'll change you.
00:50:07.71\00:50:10.96
I got to share this
with you before I sit down.
00:50:10.99\00:50:12.72
Sevenfold
strategy, he has an eight,
00:50:12.75\00:50:15.10
an eight characteristic defect,
within him, eight part defect.
00:50:15.13\00:50:21.12
Note in your study
guide, sevenfold strategy.
00:50:21.15\00:50:23.43
Here's how you can change,
00:50:23.46\00:50:24.53
here's how I can change,
just like John, jot it down.
00:50:24.56\00:50:26.77
"But day after day, in contrast
with his own violent spirit,"
00:50:26.80\00:50:29.57
this is "Desire of
Ages" that classic.
00:50:29.60\00:50:32.42
John, jot it down,
beheld the tenderness
00:50:32.45\00:50:36.55
and forbearance of Jesus."
00:50:36.58\00:50:38.45
He just looked at Jesus,
just keep looking at Jesus,
00:50:38.48\00:50:40.18
read a gospel story a day.
00:50:40.21\00:50:41.56
Read a gospel story a
day from the life of Christ.
00:50:41.59\00:50:43.30
I'm working my way
through Luke right now.
00:50:43.33\00:50:44.81
Just read a gospel story a day.
00:50:44.84\00:50:46.19
Behold Jesus. That's
what happened with John.
00:50:46.22\00:50:47.97
He beheld the tenderness
and forbearance of Jesus.
00:50:48.00\00:50:50.33
He heard," number 2
00:50:50.36\00:50:51.42
"His lessons of
humility and patience."
00:50:51.45\00:50:52.96
You'll hear them.
00:50:52.99\00:50:54.02
"3, He opened his heart."
00:50:54.05\00:50:55.53
Okay God, do
something, I'm a mess.
00:50:55.56\00:50:58.21
Do you understand, my
personality is a mess.
00:50:58.24\00:51:01.61
My character needs
help, do something.
00:51:01.64\00:51:03.53
Just open your heart
and just say God, do it.
00:51:03.56\00:51:05.84
"4, He became not only a hearer
00:51:05.87\00:51:09.80
but a doer of
the Savior's words."
00:51:09.83\00:51:12.10
Jesus will say to you
in the morning worship,
00:51:12.13\00:51:13.47
you're gonna do this
now and you're gonna say,
00:51:13.50\00:51:15.07
yes Lord, I will.
00:51:15.10\00:51:16.77
Just do what you hear.
00:51:16.80\00:51:18.66
"5, Self was hid in Christ."
00:51:18.69\00:51:22.62
I'll be like that alligator,
00:51:22.65\00:51:23.74
you don't have to
have a prominent place,
00:51:23.77\00:51:25.20
just stay where you are.
00:51:25.23\00:51:27.13
God will change the
world from that base,
00:51:27.16\00:51:29.23
where He already put you.
00:51:29.26\00:51:30.89
"6, He learned to
wear the yoke of Christ."
00:51:30.92\00:51:33.26
Learn from Me,
00:51:33.29\00:51:34.39
for I am gentle
and humble at heart.
00:51:34.42\00:51:36.16
And finally, "7, He
learned to bear His burden."
00:51:36.19\00:51:39.92
There it is
ladies and gentlemen,
00:51:39.95\00:51:41.75
learn from Me Jesus says,
00:51:41.78\00:51:45.40
and John did and he became
the humblest disciple of all.
00:51:45.43\00:51:48.11
The humblest disciple, hothead,
the humblest disciple of all.
00:51:48.14\00:51:52.89
How do I know?
00:51:52.92\00:51:55.13
Clinching proof,
then I'll say that.
00:51:55.16\00:51:57.73
This was just--
there's a boy out of the water.
00:51:57.76\00:51:59.15
How do I know?
00:51:59.18\00:52:00.21
Because when
John wrote the gospel,
00:52:00.24\00:52:01.73
when John wrote the
story of Jesus, listen to this,
00:52:01.76\00:52:04.52
you will not find
in a single place,
00:52:04.55\00:52:06.82
in the gospel of
John, the name, John.
00:52:06.85\00:52:11.19
He has left
himself out of the story.
00:52:11.22\00:52:14.10
You know you'll
find John, the Baptist,
00:52:14.13\00:52:15.73
you won't find John
ever named in the story.
00:52:15.76\00:52:20.44
Oh, wasn't he-- is he not
00:52:20.47\00:52:21.51
in the story in
the gospel of John?
00:52:21.54\00:52:22.71
Oh, he's there, often.
00:52:22.74\00:52:26.38
But he intentionally cloaks
himself with a cold phrase
00:52:26.41\00:52:30.16
he'll use five
times in that gospel.
00:52:30.19\00:52:33.00
This is proof, that
when you go to Calvary
00:52:33.03\00:52:37.04
in that prolonged
exposure, you're changed.
00:52:37.07\00:52:41.24
You don't have to wait
till you're 80 to changed,
00:52:41.27\00:52:43.89
you can change right now.
00:52:43.92\00:52:45.56
Here's the proof,
I'm gonna show you
00:52:45.59\00:52:46.62
the first place it
appears, this cold phrase,
00:52:46.65\00:52:48.89
John, this is our
last text, John 13:23,
00:52:48.92\00:52:51.01
take a look at this.
00:52:51.04\00:52:52.07
John 13:23 never forget this.
00:52:52.10\00:52:55.33
This is the proof, John
learned the lesson of humility.
00:52:55.36\00:52:59.71
And if there's hope for
John with eight serious defects,
00:52:59.74\00:53:03.14
there might be hope
for me and you as well.
00:53:03.17\00:53:04.81
John 13:23, and then,
"There was one leaning
00:53:04.84\00:53:08.96
on Jesus' bosom
one of His disciples,
00:53:08.99\00:53:12.50
whom Jesus loved."
00:53:12.53\00:53:16.32
I don't know
what you're saying--
00:53:16.35\00:53:17.63
Dwight, that didn't
sound very humble to me.
00:53:17.66\00:53:21.04
Hey, by the way, I'm the
disciple that Jesus loved.
00:53:21.07\00:53:24.00
What's so humble about that?
00:53:24.03\00:53:26.26
Because we miss it, we
miss it in the English,
00:53:26.29\00:53:28.79
we have to get it in the Greek.
00:53:28.82\00:53:29.92
In the Greek, in the Greek tense
00:53:29.95\00:53:31.86
it's in the imperfect
and it goes like this.
00:53:31.89\00:53:34.78
"He was the disciple
whom Jesus kept on loving."
00:53:34.81\00:53:39.90
Write it down.
00:53:39.93\00:53:41.10
That's how it is
supposed to be translated.
00:53:41.13\00:53:42.63
He kept on loving
me, that's John point.
00:53:42.66\00:53:46.04
Five times, in my
mess, He kept on loving me.
00:53:46.07\00:53:49.78
In my short fused
fury, He kept on loving me.
00:53:49.81\00:53:53.49
In my hubris and
pride, He kept on loving me,
00:53:53.52\00:53:56.62
and He drew me
closer, and He drew me closer
00:53:56.65\00:53:59.23
and He can keep on loving you
and draw you closer and closer.
00:53:59.26\00:54:02.68
Five times, cold phrase,
00:54:02.71\00:54:07.07
I'm the guy in the story
that Jesus never quit loving.
00:54:07.10\00:54:12.05
Isn't that great?
00:54:12.08\00:54:13.66
Isn't that great? Hallelujah.
00:54:13.69\00:54:15.28
You know what
ladies and gentlemen,
00:54:15.31\00:54:16.36
Jesus will keep on loving you.
00:54:16.39\00:54:18.46
You go to the same
Jesus that John went to,
00:54:18.49\00:54:20.25
you get some prolonged
exposure with Him every morning.
00:54:20.28\00:54:22.95
He will keep on
loving you closer
00:54:22.98\00:54:25.06
and closer and closer, to Him.
00:54:25.09\00:54:27.86
You want to sit
beside Me in the kingdom,
00:54:27.89\00:54:30.34
you want to sit on this side?
00:54:30.37\00:54:32.25
You come, you come with Me,
00:54:32.28\00:54:34.65
you'd be baptized with
what I am baptized with.
00:54:34.68\00:54:36.81
You drink the cup that I drink.
00:54:36.84\00:54:38.98
You get so close to Me,
that we are this, trust Me.
00:54:39.01\00:54:44.85
You'll be in My
kingdom, next to Me.
00:54:44.88\00:54:50.56
I want to be next
to Jesus, don't you?
00:54:50.59\00:54:53.35
I want to be next to Jesus,
00:54:53.38\00:54:55.25
so I want to be just like John.
00:54:55.28\00:54:59.20
I want to be next to Jesus,
so I want to be just like John.
00:54:59.23\00:55:04.60
Prolonged
exposure to the Savior,
00:55:04.63\00:55:07.95
I want be changed.
00:55:07.98\00:55:09.51
I got may be
three-and- half years,
00:55:09.54\00:55:10.99
may be I got
two-and- half years,
00:55:11.02\00:55:12.29
I may only have
half-a-year left,
00:55:12.32\00:55:14.44
I need to be
changed now just like John.
00:55:14.47\00:55:20.41
You want that?
00:55:21.87\00:55:24.08
After the
thunder John's missing.
00:55:24.11\00:55:28.85
He's missed, he's
missed an whole book,
00:55:28.88\00:55:30.85
his name isn't even there.
00:55:30.88\00:55:31.91
After the thunder, he's missed.
00:55:31.94\00:55:33.96
There is a mist, a
mist of Christ's humility,
00:55:33.99\00:55:37.28
after the thunder in your life,
00:55:37.31\00:55:38.78
there will be the
mist of Jesus humility.
00:55:38.81\00:55:40.95
Step into that mist,
step in, not I but Christ,
00:55:40.98\00:55:46.34
we honored, loved,
exhorted, not I but Christ.
00:55:46.37\00:55:50.77
Not I but Christ.
00:55:50.80\00:55:53.33
You want that?
00:55:53.36\00:55:55.23
I do. I really, really do.
00:55:55.26\00:55:59.57
Let us stand
for the benediction.
00:55:59.60\00:56:01.84
Three-and-half
years, three-and-half years,
00:56:10.47\00:56:15.18
and we thought it
would take forever.
00:56:15.21\00:56:21.46
Oh Jesus, what
I pray for myself,
00:56:21.49\00:56:23.44
I pray for this
worshipping community,
00:56:23.47\00:56:28.51
for every viewer,
for every worshipper.
00:56:28.54\00:56:31.45
May the prolonged exposure
00:56:31.48\00:56:33.50
to who you are,
in the gospel story
00:56:33.53\00:56:39.46
have a tangible transforming
00:56:39.49\00:56:44.40
effect on our hearts,
00:56:44.43\00:56:47.20
our characters, our
personalities, our lives.
00:56:47.23\00:56:52.37
I want to be humble just like
John, who was just like You.
00:56:52.40\00:56:56.98
Grant that to all of us
for the glory of our Savior.
00:56:57.01\00:57:03.05
We pray in His name, amen.
00:57:03.08\00:57:08.78
I wanted to take
one more moment here
00:57:08.81\00:57:10.48
at the end of the telecast
to let you know how grateful
00:57:10.51\00:57:12.74
I'm for your journey with us,
00:57:12.78\00:57:15.33
with our New
Perceptions ministry.
00:57:15.36\00:57:17.18
You may think
that New Perceptions
00:57:17.21\00:57:18.32
is only about television
but I need to tell you
00:57:18.35\00:57:20.98
we do have a website
00:57:21.01\00:57:22.41
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00:57:22.44\00:57:24.56
I know we go to the
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00:57:24.59\00:57:26.28
but if you go to our
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00:57:26.31\00:57:28.05
on the screen
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00:57:28.08\00:57:33.17
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00:57:33.20\00:57:35.09
Every Wednesday I
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00:57:35.12\00:57:37.01
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00:57:37.04\00:57:40.01
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00:57:40.04\00:57:42.92
You want to archive
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00:57:42.95\00:57:45.74
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00:57:45.77\00:57:49.26
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I'm not real
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00:57:55.09\00:57:57.17
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00:57:59.49\00:58:01.11
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00:58:01.14\00:58:02.56
The point is
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00:58:02.59\00:58:04.21
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00:58:04.24\00:58:07.03
Thanks for being a part of it.
00:58:07.06\00:58:08.21
Thanks for your
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00:58:08.24\00:58:09.42
We've got to
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00:58:09.45\00:58:12.06
at this time in earth's history
00:58:12.09\00:58:14.05
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00:58:14.08\00:58:16.67
God bless you, until next time.
00:58:16.70\00:58:18.38