Every son like You
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"For God so loved the world
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that He gave His
only begotten Son,
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that whosoever
believes in Him will not perish,
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but has everlasting life."
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It's for this reason
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that we give
thanks this morning.
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I think you know this one,
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"Give Thanks with
a Grateful Heart."
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Give thanks,
with a grateful heart
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Give thanks to the Holy One
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Give thanks,
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because He's given
Jesus Christ, His Son
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Give thanks,
with a grateful heart
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Give thanks to the Holy On
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Give thanks,
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because He's given
Jesus Christ, His Son
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And now, let the
weak say, I am strong
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Let the poor say, I am rich
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Because of what the
Lord has done for us
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Give thanks
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Try that again, give thanks.
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Give thanks,
with a grateful heart
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Give thanks to the Holy One
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Give thanks,
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because He's given
Jesus Christ, His Son
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Give thanks,
with a grateful heart
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Give thanks to the Holy One
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Give thanks,
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because He's given
Jesus Christ, His Son
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And now, let the
weak say, I am strong
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Let the poor say, I am rich
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Because of what the
Lord has done for us
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And now, let the
weak say, I am strong
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Let the poor say, I am rich
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Because of what the
Lord has done for us
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Give thanks, give thanks,
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give thanks
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My soul Doth,
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Magnifies the Lord
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And my spirit
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I've rejoiced
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in God my Savior
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For He has regarded
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the lowly state
of His maidservant
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For behold, from henceforth
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all generations
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shall call me blessed
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For He who is mighty
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has done great things for me
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And holy is His name
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And His mercy
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is on those who fear Him
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From generation
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to generation
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He has shown
strength with His arm
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He has scattered the proud
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in the thoughts of their hearts
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He has put down the
mighty from their thrones
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And exalted
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the lowly
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He has filled the
hungry with good things
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And the rich He
has sent empty away
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He has helped His servant Israel
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In remembrance of His mercy
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As He spoke to our fathers
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To Abraham
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and to his seed forever
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Amen
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The challenge is to take
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the story that Julia just sang,
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so movingly.
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Couple it with
another short story
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and we've haveth them
both single sharp truth.
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But the two stories
go together as clear
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from who they are.
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One is the son of
David and the other
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is the mother of
the son of David.
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And yet she is not his mother,
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because he
preceded her by 1,000 years.
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How can that be?
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Today's
teaching, we'll find out.
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We continue our mini series,
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"Not I but Christ,
Tales of Humility."
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Title of the teaching today,
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"Two Halves to One truth."
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Let's pray together.
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Holy Father, we must
get both halves right.
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Just one half is not enough.
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Give us both halves
in this single truth
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and may one of the
halves become true of us,
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we pray in Jesus name, amen.
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Once up on a time
there was a father
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and his son,
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and as it is with fathers
and sons, they were close.
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Perhaps a bit too close.
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Given the fact that
the life of the father,
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moral words and all
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became replicated in
the life of his sons.
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And actually the two
sad endings played out
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on the stage of sacred history,
it's the two of them together.
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In controvertible
proof of lifes law,
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whatsoever a man sows
that shall he also has to go.
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That shall he also
reap. What you sow, you reap.
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No matter how
merciful and gracious God is,
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it is the law of
life far too many times.
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And so King David,
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sowed his moral oaths
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and his sons reaped
the bay of a harvest.
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I understand it
doesn't seem fair.
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But be reminded,
children are never punished
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for their parent sins,
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but children too often
follow their parents examples.
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Open your bible with me please,
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to tragic tale of
humility, number one.
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Second Samuel, find second
Samuel in the Old Testament.
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If you didn't bring a Bible,
it would be in the pew Bible,
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page 219, 2 Samuel, Chapter 13.
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Tragic, right of the
bad and out of the shoot,
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simply because it
comes on the king's adultery
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and murder to secure the
life of his neighbor Bathsheba.
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Everything that follows
for the rest of second Samuel
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is the baleful harvest
being reaped by his kids.
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2 Samuel 13:1.
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I'd be in the New
King James Version.
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Whatever translation you
have follow along please.
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"And after this Absalom"
that's David's third boy.
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"Absalom the son of
David had a lovely sister,
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whose name was Tamar."
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Beautiful girl.
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"And Amnon"
that's David's first boy.
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He's the crown prince.
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"And Amnon" by another mother,
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by the way than Absalom,
so they're step brothers.
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"And Amnon, the son
of David loved her."
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And seduced her and raped
her and then discarded her
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as man who use
woman for pleasure alone,
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so often do.
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And Absalom, her older brother
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is livid, rage.
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But vengeance is
both sweet and patient.
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And so he waited two long
years for the perfect moment
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and then Absalom slewed
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the crown prince of Israel Amnon
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and fled in self imposed exile.
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Go to the end of chapter 13
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"So Absalom fled
and went to Geshur"
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that's the home
of his grandfather,
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who was King of Geshur.
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"And was there three years.
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And King David
longed to go to Absalom.
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For he had been
comforted concerning Amnon,
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because he was dead."
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Oh, come on.
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What does this doting
father find in his third boy?
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What is there about the prince
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that is so
magnetic for even dad?
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Turn the page to
chapter 14, let's find out.
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Chapter 14 and verse 25.
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"Now in all
Israel there was no one
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who was praised as much as
Absalom for his good looks.
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From the sole of his
foot to the crown of his head
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there was no blemish in him."
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Every take a
gander at GQ magazine?
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You ladies don't
know what GQ magazine is,
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but we men do, its
Gentlemen's Quarterly.
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It's just a
fashion magazine for men.
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Some of the world's
most stunning male models
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are demonstrating
blazers and watches and--
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have you been able
to figure this out,
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why is it that whenever
they're advertising cologne
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they have to grow
three days worth of stubble
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and then get
their pictures taken?
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What's up with that?
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That's beyond us, gentlemen.
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Ladies aren't
listening right now.
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There are some guys
who are so good looking
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it's enough to make you sick.
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The only thing worse
than a man that handsome
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is a man that knows it.
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And Absalom knew it.
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Verse 25 again
"Now in all Israel
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there was no one who was praised
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as much as Absalom
for his good looks.
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From the sole of his
foot to the crown of his head
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there was no blemish in him."
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Verse 26, "And when he
cut the hair of his head
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at the end of
every year he cut it
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because it was heavy
on him, when he cut it,
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he weighed the hair of his head
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at two hundred shekels
according the king's standard."
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By some estimates,
that's close to five pounds.
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It was the head
or hair to be sure.
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And obviously
all of Israel gloried
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in the man and physique
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of Prince Absalom,
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whose hair truly
went to his head.
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Vanity, vanity, vanity,
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all his vanity,
vanity, the male weakness.
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Vanity, the female weakness.
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Vanity, the weakness
and downfall of Absalom.
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And thus it was with
all the adulation of Israel
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puffing up his vanity
and enlarging his head size.
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Absalom, begins to pine
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for more power.
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I need another
position, I need, I need more.
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Drop down to
chapter 15, look at verse 4.
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"Moreover Absalom
would say," oh, oh, 15:4.
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"'Oh, that I were made judge"
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read leader "in
the land, and everyone
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who has any suit or
cause would come to me
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then I would give him justice.'"
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And verse five.
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"And so it was,
whenever anyone came near
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to bow down to Absalom,
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that he would put out his
hand and take him and kiss him.
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And In this manner,"
verse 6 "Absalom acted
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toward all Israel
who came to the king"
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unsuspecting Father
David "for judgment.
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So Absalom stole the
hearts of the men of Israel."
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It was an inside job.
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But doting father
knew absolutely nothing
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about what was taking place.
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Second inline to the throne,
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the young prince quietly
stole the hearts of the kingdom.
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Reminds me of another prince,
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second inline to
the throne perhaps
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who just as quietly stole
the hearts of the kingdom.
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Would you think Absalom
got this invented it himself
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the conceit in the pride?
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For a moment, let's be
reminded of the original sin.
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Keep your finger
right here, we'll come back.
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But Ezekiel,
you got to see this.
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They're twins.
Lucifer and Absalom.
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Watch this, Ezekiel Chapter 28,
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that's page 578
in your pew Bible.
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Ezekiel Chapter
28, lets pick it up in,
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we'll pick it up in verse 11.
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Ezekiel 28:11.
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Where did Absalom get all this,
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the vanity and
insanity of pride?
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Here's where he got them.
Okay, chapter 28, verse 11.
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"Moreover the word of
the Lord came unto me,
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saying, Son of man,
take up a lamentation
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for the king of
Tyre, and say to him,
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'Thus says the Lord God.'"
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Now it feels like
we're gonna be talking
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about a king who's
alive at the time of Ezekiel,
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but the moment two lines
into this we know immediately,
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this is no king living
in the time of Ezekiel,
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you'll see.
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"Thus says the Lord
GOD," verse 12 continuing
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"'You were the
seal of perfection,
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full of wisdom and
perfect in beauty.'"
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Who's this? "You were in Eden".
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Oh, it can't be
anybody in the life of Ezekiel.
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"You were in Eden,
the garden of God."
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Now, wait a minute,
was it-- could it be Adam?
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No.
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Could it be Eve? No.
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Somebody else was in Eden.
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I wonder who that might be.
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"You were in
Eden, the garden of God,
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every precious
stone was your covering:
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the sardius, topaz,
and diamond, beryl, onyx,
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and jasper, sapphire,
turquoise and emerald with gold.
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The workmanship of
your timbrels and pipes
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was prepared for you on
the day you were created."
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So this can't be God,
this isn't talking about
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an uncreated being,
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it's a being who's been created,
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who was in the garden
of Eden and he's not human.
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Who would this
being be? Verse 14.
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"You were the
anointed cherub who covers,"
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code language,
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for this single
highest creaturely position
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in the universe,
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stationed beside the
throne of Almighty God,
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standing next to God himself
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yet to be the
highest of the high
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to have that
position, that's who you are.
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"You were the
anointed cherub who covers,
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I established you,
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you were on the
holy mountain of God,
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you walked back and forth
in the midst of fiery stones."
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Code language for the
physical presence of God.
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Yeah, you were there,
verse 15 and guess what,
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"You were perfect in your ways
from the day you were created,
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till iniquity," the
mystery, the iniquity
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"was found in you."
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Drop down to verse 17,
here is the Achilles heel,
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of Absalom and this being.
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"Your heart was lifted
up because of your," what?
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What does it read?
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"Because of your beauty,
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you corrupted your wisdom
for the sake of your splendor,
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I cast you to the
ground, I laid you before kings,
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that they might gaze up on you."
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Lucifer, Absalom, two
princes, two immense tragedies,
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brought down by the
vanity and insanity of pride.
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How did it God put it here?
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They corrupted their wisdom
for the sake of their splendor.
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Because mark it down,
ladies and gentlemen, self--
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the self delusion of
self love is self destructive.
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Destroys both the mind,
destroys the mind and the soul.
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Narcissus, ever
heard of Narcissus?
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Greek mythology told a
tale about a young man,
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a young man, who cause
the death of goddess Echo
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by spurning her love,
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killed her by ignoring her.
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So that the God
Nemesis and you hear
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we use the
phrase, the word Nemesis.
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The God Nemesis caused
the young man to fall in love
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with his own image
reflected and mirrored
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in the pool of a forest one day.
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Put the picture on the screen.
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He was taking a
walk and he came across
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the pool and he looked down--
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hey, who might that be?
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And he fell in love
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with the image
reflected in the water.
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So in love was
Narcissus, with his own image
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that he pined away
beside that pond, until he died.
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And because of that little myth,
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we have a word in
English called narcissism.
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Let's put it on
the screen, narcissism.
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How does the
dictionary define it?
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"Excessive admiration for,
or fascination with oneself,
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self-love, the
infantile stage of development
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in which the self is the object
of one's erotic interest, also,
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the persistence of this
stage into later years."
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Vanity,
narcissism, Absalom, Lucifer.
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You and me doesn't matter
self-love is self deluding
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and it is
always self destroying.
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Always, it destroys us.
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Because in the kingdom of God,
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hasn't it ever been proven true,
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pride goeth before a fall.
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He who exhorts
himself will be humble.
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There is a fall
Lucifer and Absalom,
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the fall of you, the fall of me,
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has so tragically
and painfully confirmed
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pride always goes before a fall.
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Self love, self
destroys by over reaching self.
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And so there was war in heaven
and there was war in Israel.
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Absalom and his loyal
troops, now march on Jerusalem,
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just like Lucifer did, marching
on his father in Jerusalem
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where Lucifer father was.
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They marched on Jerusalem.
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David and his
royal entourage flee
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just before the rebel arrives.
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And then get a note
of this, this is awful.
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To prove that depths of no shame
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that self love boasts.
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Absalom brings
his fathers concubines
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and in plain view
of a gasping public,
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he sleeps with all of
them on the roof of the palace.
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Now, there's nothing
left of dad in my kingdom
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that I do not possess.
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So stupid is ego that
he immediately gathers
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his forces and
pursuits King David.
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Go back to where you had
your finger a moment ago.
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Chapter 18, David has
fled to the East of Jerusalem.
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They've crossed the
Jordan, they're east of Jordan
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and in that day, the
forested woods were thick.
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Not today, no, not today.
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In fact read this,
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this is chapter 18
pick it up in verse 18.
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The two forces,
father and son are battling.
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"For the battle
there was scattered
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over the face of
the whole countryside,"
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chapter 18 verse 8, 2 Samuel.
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"For the battle
there was scattered
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over the face of
the whole countryside,
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and the woods
devoured more people
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that day than
the sword devoured."
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Isn't that something?
They just suck them up.
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Obviously the tide
of the battle has turned
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and Absalom is fleeing.
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Verse 9, notice
what happens here.
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"Then Absalom met
the servants of David."
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An advance guard,
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an advance patsy is moving
its way through the forest.
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Absalom sees them, turn
around 180 degrees and he flees.
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"Then Absalom met
the servants of David.
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Now Absalom rode on a mule"
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the symbol of
royalty, I'm the king now.
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Big mistake.
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"Absalom rode on a
mule and the mule galloped
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under the thick boughs
of a great terebinth tree,
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and his head
caught in the terebinth,
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so he was left hanging
between heaven and earth.
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And the mule which was under him
00:27:19.93\00:27:21.83
just kept on running."
00:27:21.86\00:27:24.78
It's what they
call poetic justice.
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When your flouted strength
becomes your fatal weakness.
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The hair that
Absalom worshipped, hung him.
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Joab comes on
the scene, verse 14.
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"Then Joab said, 'I
cannot linger with you.'
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And he took three
spears and thrust them
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through Absalom's heart,
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while he was still alive
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in the midst of
the terebinth tree.
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And ten young men
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who bore Joab's
armor surrounded Absalom,
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and struck and killed him.
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So Joab blew the trumpet,
00:27:54.64\00:27:55.79
and the people
returned from pursuing Israel.
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For Joab held back the people."
00:27:57.62\00:27:59.25
No sense in
fighting a day longer.
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"And they took
Absalom" verse 17 "
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and cast him into a
very large pit in the woods,
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and laid a very large
heap of stones over him.
00:28:06.03\00:28:08.87
Then all Israel fled,
everyone to his tent."
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Those would be the--
00:28:10.68\00:28:11.71
that would be
the army of Absalom.
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Now, notice verse 18.
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"Absalom in his
lifetime had taken
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and set up a pillar for himself,
00:28:18.15\00:28:22.19
which is in the King's Valley.
00:28:22.22\00:28:23.57
For he said, 'I have no son
00:28:23.60\00:28:25.27
to keep my name in remembrance.'
00:28:25.30\00:28:26.94
And he called the
pillar after his own name.
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And to this day it is
called Absalom's Monument."
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You want to know
what the genuine monument
00:28:35.11\00:28:36.73
is to that vain prince?
00:28:36.76\00:28:38.48
The genuine
monument is a broken mirror,
00:28:38.51\00:28:41.85
and there is no worse bad
luck than a broken mirror.
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Tale of humility number two.
Absalom was the son of David.
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She was the mother
of the son of David
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and that is all, that is
all that they had in common.
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For all that he
was, she was not,
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for all that he
was not, she was.
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Turn your bible to
the Gospel of St Luke.
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Find Luke, will you?
The gospel, chapter 1.
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Luke 1, tale of
humility number 2.
00:29:14.47\00:29:19.43
Back to back, what
a stunning contrast.
00:29:19.46\00:29:23.51
Luke 1:26, in the pew
Bible this would be page 688.
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"Now in the sixth
month," Sixth month of what?
00:29:28.31\00:29:30.19
Elizabeth,
Elizabeth is pregnant.
00:29:30.22\00:29:34.52
Elizabeth the aged lady
married to an even older man.
00:29:34.55\00:29:37.28
Couldn't have kids, angels
said, you're gonna have kids.
00:29:37.31\00:29:39.54
She's six months in
to her pregnancy now.
00:29:39.57\00:29:42.77
"Now in the sixth
month the angel Gabriel"
00:29:42.80\00:29:44.65
by the way, talking
about poetic justice,
00:29:44.68\00:29:48.92
Gabriel stepped in
to a vacated position
00:29:48.95\00:29:52.71
in the kingdom of heaven.
00:29:52.74\00:29:53.97
Guess who'd been in
the position before him?
00:29:54.00\00:29:58.60
The fallen Lucifer.
00:29:58.63\00:30:02.63
"Now in the sixth month
the angel Gabriel was sent
00:30:02.66\00:30:04.58
by God to a city
of " little backwoods,
00:30:04.61\00:30:06.73
backwater
village, "named Nazareth,"
00:30:06.76\00:30:09.14
Verse 27 "to a virgin betrothed"
00:30:09.17\00:30:11.50
even more formal
than our engagement.
00:30:11.53\00:30:12.82
"Betrothed to a man
whose name was Joseph,
00:30:12.85\00:30:15.80
of the house of David.
00:30:15.83\00:30:16.86
And the virgin's name was Mary.
00:30:16.89\00:30:18.53
And having come in,"
she's in a house somewhere,
00:30:18.56\00:30:21.94
we're not told
where, he's coming in.
00:30:21.97\00:30:23.57
"And having come in,
the angel said to her,
00:30:23.60\00:30:26.33
'Rejoice'" hail,
greeting, some translation.
00:30:26.36\00:30:29.80
In the Latin it reads ave.
00:30:29.83\00:30:32.39
From hence comes our word ave.
00:30:32.42\00:30:34.07
The phrase Ave Maria,
that's not a sacred phrase
00:30:34.10\00:30:37.62
that just means,
greets Maria ave.
00:30:37.65\00:30:41.51
Hey, "Rejoice,
highly favored one,
00:30:41.54\00:30:43.66
the Lord is with you,
blessed are you among women!"
00:30:43.69\00:30:49.46
Hey I've got to
ask you a question.
00:30:49.49\00:30:50.55
What was it that would possibly
make this teenage virgin girl
00:30:50.58\00:30:56.46
so attractive to
the God of the universe
00:30:56.49\00:30:58.57
that when He looks on the planet
00:30:58.60\00:31:00.00
and He says, I
got to pick a mother,
00:31:00.03\00:31:01.42
I have to pick My
own mother, He picks her.
00:31:01.45\00:31:04.08
What is there about her?
00:31:04.11\00:31:07.47
Just I've little clues
00:31:07.50\00:31:08.60
in what Gabriel
has announced to her.
00:31:08.63\00:31:13.85
It says, oh highly favored one,
00:31:13.88\00:31:16.22
the young girl is
called highly favored.
00:31:16.25\00:31:17.96
In fact, look
at this Psalm 5:12,
00:31:17.99\00:31:20.25
when God favors somebody,
00:31:20.28\00:31:21.32
what does it say
about that somebody?
00:31:21.35\00:31:22.87
Psalm 5:12, "For You,
00:31:22.90\00:31:24.47
O Lord, will
bless the righteous,
00:31:24.50\00:31:26.42
with favor You will surround her
00:31:26.45\00:31:29.47
as with a shield."
00:31:29.50\00:31:31.13
She must've been a
righteous young woman.
00:31:31.16\00:31:34.78
Gabriel calls her highly
favored and the only people
00:31:34.81\00:31:36.38
who got highly favors
are those who are righteous.
00:31:36.41\00:31:39.08
You ask, is there such a thing
00:31:39.11\00:31:40.75
as a righteous teenager today?
00:31:40.78\00:31:44.35
Glad you asked. Yes, there is.
00:31:44.38\00:31:48.69
Oh, I've met
them. Yes, there are.
00:31:48.72\00:31:52.66
And I'd like to say
00:31:52.69\00:31:53.72
to all the
teenagers listening right now,
00:31:53.75\00:31:56.75
don't you ever let
anyone insinuate to you
00:31:56.78\00:32:02.75
that in order to be
normal, you can't be a virgin.
00:32:02.78\00:32:09.00
Oh, yes, you
can. Oh, yes, you can.
00:32:09.03\00:32:14.07
Remain what God
has called you to be,
00:32:14.10\00:32:18.95
highly favorite one.
00:32:18.98\00:32:22.03
Righteous teenager that you are.
00:32:22.06\00:32:25.68
Don't you worry,
about the drum beat
00:32:25.71\00:32:30.24
of the fallen society around us.
00:32:30.27\00:32:35.59
Gabriel says, how highly favored
00:32:35.62\00:32:37.35
and then he says
the Lord is with you.
00:32:37.38\00:32:38.77
Can you imagine?
00:32:38.80\00:32:39.86
God had to find
somebody to spend His time with,
00:32:39.89\00:32:41.91
and before He's
even impregnated her,
00:32:41.94\00:32:43.96
God has been
hanging around the girl.
00:32:43.99\00:32:46.57
What kind of a girl is this,
00:32:46.60\00:32:47.78
that the God
just loved being with?
00:32:47.81\00:32:49.82
And by the way,
00:32:49.85\00:32:50.92
who'd you rather have
with you than God himself?
00:32:50.95\00:32:53.14
She had him.
00:32:53.17\00:32:54.20
Unbeknownst to
her, she's just living
00:32:54.23\00:32:55.76
a normal life as a teenager.
00:32:55.79\00:32:57.18
She doesn't know that the God
00:32:57.21\00:32:58.50
of the Universe
is been tracking her.
00:32:58.53\00:33:01.22
Highly favored one,
the Lord is with you,
00:33:01.25\00:33:03.35
blessed are you among all woman.
00:33:03.38\00:33:05.67
Hey, by the
way, He's not saying,
00:33:05.70\00:33:07.17
now you win the beauty pageant.
00:33:07.20\00:33:10.52
He's not saying, I find you
at the top of the dean's list.
00:33:10.55\00:33:13.90
He's not saying,
00:33:13.93\00:33:14.98
you have the checking
account that beats them all.
00:33:15.01\00:33:17.02
No, no, no, no,
He's talking about
00:33:17.05\00:33:18.89
a moral quality here
in this young little girl.
00:33:18.92\00:33:23.18
And He says, blessed are you.
00:33:23.21\00:33:25.52
Oh, don't get to
thinking, she isn't bright,
00:33:25.55\00:33:28.09
as we note in a moment,
from her response that Gabriel,
00:33:28.12\00:33:30.94
she has a deep intellect.
00:33:30.97\00:33:35.01
But blessed are you
because of you moral character
00:33:35.04\00:33:40.22
you've been chosen, girl.
00:33:40.25\00:33:42.18
We went down to Huntsville,
Alabama, few weeks ago.
00:33:48.23\00:33:51.20
Pastor Oliver got
married, hallelujah.
00:33:51.23\00:33:52.80
I'm here to tell you,
00:33:52.83\00:33:53.86
the wedding
went without a hitch.
00:33:53.89\00:33:56.68
Praise God.
00:33:56.71\00:33:58.89
We're gonna
introduce them to you,
00:33:58.92\00:34:00.08
just about four weeks from now.
00:34:00.11\00:34:01.47
They're down in the islands,
honeymooning for a while.
00:34:01.50\00:34:04.04
Anyway, it was a lovely wedding.
00:34:04.07\00:34:07.14
We had another day,
so we wanted to see,
00:34:07.17\00:34:10.01
what's known in Huntsville,
as US Space and Rocket Center.
00:34:10.04\00:34:13.16
And I'm telling
you, we too were there.
00:34:13.19\00:34:14.48
We were blown away by
the immense complexity
00:34:14.51\00:34:17.68
of the technology
behind the Apollo rockets
00:34:17.71\00:34:20.43
and the Space shuttle.
00:34:20.46\00:34:21.82
Listen, ladies and gentlemen,
00:34:21.85\00:34:23.38
you can be sure that nobody
comes walking off the street
00:34:23.41\00:34:26.27
and said, hey, I'm gonna
be a part of this mission,
00:34:26.30\00:34:28.04
can I go tomorrow?
00:34:28.07\00:34:29.59
Are you kidding?
00:34:29.62\00:34:30.66
For a mission, that complex,
00:34:30.69\00:34:34.53
you have to vetted and screened
00:34:34.56\00:34:38.33
and trained and
coached for months and years
00:34:38.36\00:34:43.43
and then we'll take you on.
00:34:43.46\00:34:45.44
You know why?
00:34:45.47\00:34:46.50
'Cause we can't
afford to lose this mission.
00:34:46.53\00:34:48.77
We can't put this
mission in hands of someone
00:34:48.80\00:34:52.24
who will let us down at the end.
00:34:52.27\00:34:56.24
When they picked Mary,
the virgin of Nazareth,
00:34:56.27\00:35:00.84
she has been vetted
and screened and coached
00:35:00.87\00:35:05.57
and trained for the
highest maternal mission
00:35:05.60\00:35:09.88
in the history
of the human race,
00:35:09.91\00:35:12.22
become the mother that God picks
00:35:12.25\00:35:17.71
through whom to be born.
00:35:17.74\00:35:19.63
Mercy.
00:35:19.66\00:35:22.63
Blessed are you,
you've been chosen.
00:35:22.66\00:35:28.22
Verse 29, "But when she saw him"
00:35:28.25\00:35:30.47
now get this, watch this.
00:35:30.50\00:35:32.12
"But when she saw him" Gabriel,
00:35:32.15\00:35:33.57
"she was troubled at his saying,
00:35:33.60\00:35:34.83
and considered what
manner of greeting this was."
00:35:34.86\00:35:36.15
Isn't this amazing?
00:35:36.18\00:35:37.21
She doesn't fall on her face,
00:35:37.24\00:35:38.28
she doesn't panic
and run from the room,
00:35:38.31\00:35:40.19
she's thinking
she's thinking it through.
00:35:40.22\00:35:41.72
She's evaluating
everything he said so far.
00:35:41.75\00:35:44.36
And he hasn't said much.
Now, comes the bombshell.
00:35:44.39\00:35:48.43
"Then the angel said to her,"
00:35:48.46\00:35:49.54
verse 30 "Do
not be afraid, Mary,
00:35:49.57\00:35:51.70
for you have
found favor with God.
00:35:51.73\00:35:53.07
And behold, you will
conceive in your womb
00:35:53.10\00:35:55.24
and you will bring forth a Son,
and shall call His name Jesus.
00:35:55.27\00:35:58.42
He will be great,
and will be called
00:35:58.45\00:35:59.99
the Son of the Highest,
00:36:00.02\00:36:01.05
and the Lord God will give Him
00:36:01.08\00:36:02.43
the throne of His father David."
00:36:02.46\00:36:03.65
The real Son of David is coming
straight through you, girl.
00:36:03.68\00:36:08.25
Verse 33 "'And He will reign
over the house of Jacob forever
00:36:08.28\00:36:11.23
and ever and of His
kingdom there will be no end.'
00:36:11.26\00:36:13.50
And then Mary said to the angel,
00:36:13.53\00:36:15.65
'How can this be,
since I do not know a man?'"
00:36:15.68\00:36:18.48
Something, time-out.
00:36:18.51\00:36:19.93
She has thought through this,
00:36:19.96\00:36:20.99
she has tracked
Gabriel's announcement
00:36:21.02\00:36:22.98
line by line and
she says, pause, please.
00:36:23.01\00:36:27.27
Can't do it, I've
never slept with a man.
00:36:27.30\00:36:31.57
She says how?
00:36:31.60\00:36:32.64
By the way, Zachariah,
in the preceding story,
00:36:32.67\00:36:35.22
he also says how,
but his how is a, huh!
00:36:35.25\00:36:39.53
You haven't seen my wife,
you don't know how old she is.
00:36:39.56\00:36:45.27
Both raise the
question how, but his was a huh!
00:36:45.30\00:36:48.71
Hers was a how, I've
never slept with anybody?
00:36:48.74\00:36:55.02
You go, Mary.
00:36:55.05\00:36:57.08
Verse 35 "And the angel
answered and said to her,
00:36:57.11\00:36:59.75
'The Holy Spirit
will come upon you,
00:36:59.78\00:37:01.13
and the power of the
Highest will overshadow you,
00:37:01.16\00:37:02.78
therefore, also, that
Holy One who is to be born'"
00:37:02.81\00:37:06.24
in your tummy "'will be
called the Son of God.'"
00:37:06.27\00:37:08.91
Verse 36, In fact, "Now
indeed, Elizabeth your relative"
00:37:08.94\00:37:12.16
your cousin "has also
conceived a son in her old age
00:37:12.19\00:37:15.71
and this is now
the sixth month for her
00:37:15.74\00:37:17.66
who was called barren."
00:37:17.69\00:37:19.01
For remember this Mary,
00:37:19.04\00:37:20.13
"with God nothing
will be impossible."
00:37:20.16\00:37:22.66
And now comes the clincher.
00:37:22.69\00:37:25.08
These are the seeds
of Mary's greatness.
00:37:25.11\00:37:27.76
Verse 38 "Then Mary said,
00:37:27.79\00:37:31.64
'Behold the
maidservant of the Lord!
00:37:31.67\00:37:35.19
Let it be to me
according to your word.'"
00:37:35.22\00:37:37.68
And the angel is gone.
00:37:37.71\00:37:40.60
She said, yes, mission
accomplished, Gabriel's gone.
00:37:40.63\00:37:42.86
No need hanging around
now. The girl said, yes.
00:37:42.89\00:37:47.80
Let me tell you what
she said in the Greek.
00:37:47.83\00:37:50.84
In the Greek
she said, here I am,
00:37:50.87\00:37:54.01
a female slave of God.
00:37:54.04\00:37:58.08
Ladies and
gentlemen, the only person
00:37:58.11\00:37:59.55
who would ever
call herself or himself
00:37:59.58\00:38:01.85
a slave
00:38:01.88\00:38:06.27
is a person of humility.
00:38:06.30\00:38:08.98
The rest of us spent our
lives proven, we are not that.
00:38:09.01\00:38:13.43
She begins her
life with a mission,
00:38:13.46\00:38:15.95
I'm nothing but a
female slave for Almighty God,
00:38:15.98\00:38:19.63
for Almighty God.
00:38:19.66\00:38:20.85
And so when Mary
burst into song that Julia--
00:38:28.84\00:38:31.90
and by the way
you didn't know this,
00:38:31.93\00:38:33.33
but Julia was
singing the Magnificat,
00:38:33.36\00:38:35.71
you might have picked up that.
00:38:35.74\00:38:37.14
She sang it word for
word, from the King James.
00:38:37.17\00:38:41.80
Beautifully--
beautiful rendition,
00:38:41.83\00:38:44.30
never heard that
rendition of the Magnificat.
00:38:44.33\00:38:46.77
Mary breaks in to the song,
00:38:46.80\00:38:48.14
and I want you to know
that the song is really
00:38:48.17\00:38:50.15
and ode to humility.
00:38:50.18\00:38:53.07
It's a hymn, a hymn of humility.
00:38:53.10\00:38:55.36
Drop down to verse 46.
00:38:55.39\00:38:56.42
"And Mary said," Mary
sang, "Oh, my soul magnifies."
00:38:56.45\00:39:00.06
Magnificat,
comes from that word.
00:39:00.09\00:39:01.54
"My soul magnifies the Lord,
00:39:01.57\00:39:03.35
and my spirit has
rejoiced in God my Savior,
00:39:03.38\00:39:05.83
for He has
regarded the lowly state"
00:39:05.86\00:39:08.00
I'm nothing but a female slave.
00:39:08.03\00:39:10.71
"He has regarded the lowly state
00:39:10.74\00:39:12.39
of His maidservant, for behold,
00:39:12.42\00:39:14.17
henceforth all generations
will call me blessed.
00:39:14.20\00:39:16.64
For He who is mighty has
done great things for me"
00:39:16.67\00:39:18.97
notice who the focus is on.
00:39:19.00\00:39:20.48
It's all on
external, externally focused.
00:39:20.51\00:39:25.63
"For He who is mighty
has done great things for me,
00:39:25.66\00:39:27.37
and holy is His name.
00:39:27.40\00:39:28.76
And His mercy is
on those who fear Him"
00:39:28.79\00:39:30.28
Verse 50 "from
generation to generation.
00:39:30.31\00:39:32.26
He has shown
strength with His arm,
00:39:32.29\00:39:33.77
He has scattered the proud."
00:39:33.80\00:39:35.61
See the contrast here
"He has scattered the proud
00:39:35.64\00:39:37.68
in the
imagination of their hearts."
00:39:37.71\00:39:39.07
And verse 52 "'He has put down
the mighty from their thrones,
00:39:39.10\00:39:43.11
and exalted the lowly.'"
00:39:43.14\00:39:45.88
Little old me, in the
hands of Almighty God,
00:39:45.91\00:39:49.87
the Magnificat is
an ode to humility.
00:39:49.90\00:39:52.79
And wouldn't you know it,
00:39:57.73\00:39:59.74
the very words that
Mary sings in this song,
00:39:59.77\00:40:03.20
when her boy grows up
he will weave her words
00:40:03.23\00:40:06.63
into the most quoted
line in all the gospels.
00:40:06.66\00:40:09.78
More than any other line
Christ will use, these words.
00:40:09.81\00:40:14.48
Single line that tells the truth
00:40:14.51\00:40:15.97
about two tales of humility.
00:40:16.00\00:40:17.76
In the first half of the line,
we find the tale of Absalom.
00:40:17.79\00:40:20.85
In the second half of the
line, we find the tale of Mary.
00:40:20.88\00:40:25.84
That line is in Luke,
so just turn over to 14:11,
00:40:25.87\00:40:28.81
one line used more
times than any other line
00:40:28.84\00:40:32.85
in the teachings of Christ.
00:40:32.88\00:40:34.28
By the way, in its various forms
00:40:34.31\00:40:36.51
this line is used 26
times in the scripture.
00:40:36.54\00:40:41.45
What's the big
deal about this line?
00:40:41.48\00:40:42.63
I'll tell you
what the big deal is,
00:40:42.66\00:40:43.69
it's because of original sin.
00:40:43.72\00:40:45.27
God's response to
original sin, unoriginal vanity,
00:40:45.30\00:40:48.65
unoriginal insanity of pride,
God's response to original sin,
00:40:48.68\00:40:52.34
here it is.
00:40:52.37\00:40:53.60
Jesus, red letters
in your Bible, perhaps,
00:40:53.63\00:40:56.13
chapter 14 verse 11
00:40:56.16\00:40:57.77
"For whoever exalts
himself will be" what?
00:40:57.80\00:41:01.53
"And whoever humbles
himself will be" what?
00:41:01.56\00:41:03.38
Call it out to
me. "Will be exalted."
00:41:03.41\00:41:07.60
Take your study guide
and fill it in please,
00:41:07.63\00:41:09.35
the one line Jesus
taught more than any other line,
00:41:09.38\00:41:14.43
fill it in, please.
00:41:14.46\00:41:16.23
"He who exalts
himself will be humbled"
00:41:16.26\00:41:18.26
And then write the name Absalom,
00:41:18.29\00:41:19.91
write the name
Absalom, will you?
00:41:19.94\00:41:21.65
"And she who humbles
herself will be exalted."
00:41:21.68\00:41:25.06
Write in the name Mary.
00:41:25.09\00:41:26.69
Lucifer and Absalom set
out to exalt themselves,
00:41:26.72\00:41:28.54
they're tragically humbled.
00:41:28.57\00:41:29.97
Mary and Jesus set
out to humble themselves
00:41:30.00\00:41:31.94
and they are gloriously exalted.
00:41:31.97\00:41:34.04
There you have it, a moral play.
00:41:34.07\00:41:39.73
Two stories, one truth.
00:41:39.76\00:41:43.58
So what does it
mean to humble ourselves?
00:41:43.61\00:41:45.83
I mean, how can
I be more like Mary
00:41:45.86\00:41:47.51
and less like Absalom?
00:41:47.54\00:41:49.16
How can I be more like
Jesus and less like Satan?
00:41:49.19\00:41:51.78
Is there a secret
to humbling ourselves?
00:41:51.81\00:41:58.31
Two strategies, the
twin strategy in Luke,
00:41:58.34\00:42:00.40
I'll give these two to
you and then I'll sit down.
00:42:00.43\00:42:01.84
Write them down, strategy
number 1, jot it down, please.
00:42:01.87\00:42:04.41
"Humble yourself
before others and show it."
00:42:04.44\00:42:07.10
What does it
mean to humble myself?
00:42:07.13\00:42:08.32
Here's what you do.
00:42:08.35\00:42:09.38
Humble yourselves
before others and show it.
00:42:09.41\00:42:13.22
In fact this comes right
at the tail end of the story
00:42:13.25\00:42:15.33
that Jesus has all ready told--
by the way its good counsel.
00:42:15.36\00:42:18.09
This is the month
of weddings, isn't it?
00:42:18.12\00:42:19.98
So here's the
counsel from Jesus.
00:42:20.01\00:42:21.14
When you go to a
wedding reception,
00:42:21.17\00:42:22.38
never get up
close to the head table.
00:42:22.41\00:42:24.19
Don't you dare sit up or
you want to be right there
00:42:24.22\00:42:26.21
where the action is,
when the cake is cut.
00:42:26.24\00:42:27.69
Forget it, Jesus says,
because once you sit down
00:42:27.72\00:42:29.62
and you get the
goblet dirty from drinking,
00:42:29.65\00:42:32.44
the Mater Dei will
come along and say,
00:42:32.47\00:42:33.55
didn't you read the
little name tag there,
00:42:33.58\00:42:34.84
that's not your place, you're
way back there in the back.
00:42:34.87\00:42:37.72
Jesus says that's humiliating.
00:42:37.75\00:42:39.30
He said, when you go
to a wedding reception,
00:42:39.33\00:42:40.83
always sit in the back.
00:42:40.86\00:42:42.85
If you're
supposed to be up closer,
00:42:42.88\00:42:44.26
they'll come and get you.
00:42:44.29\00:42:45.87
There's nothing like going up
than the worse than going down.
00:42:45.90\00:42:49.37
And then Jesus makes the point.
00:42:49.40\00:42:51.14
"For whoever" humbles
himself will be humbled.
00:42:51.17\00:42:53.59
"For whoever exalts
himself will be humbled,
00:42:53.62\00:42:55.21
and he who humbles
himself will be exalted."
00:42:55.24\00:42:57.65
So here's the question
Jesus, what do You mean?
00:42:57.68\00:42:59.43
What are You
trying to tell me to do?
00:42:59.46\00:43:00.56
What does it
mean to humble myself?
00:43:00.59\00:43:02.83
It means whenever
you're given a choice,
00:43:02.86\00:43:05.07
okay, here he go,
whenever you're given a choice,
00:43:05.10\00:43:07.42
take the lowest seat.
00:43:07.45\00:43:09.89
Take the lowest seat.
00:43:09.92\00:43:11.64
You say, Dwight, I
doesn't know what that means,
00:43:11.67\00:43:12.71
take the lowest seat.
00:43:12.74\00:43:13.81
Okay let me put
it other language.
00:43:13.84\00:43:15.35
Whenever you're given a
choice, take the smallest piece.
00:43:15.38\00:43:20.02
Your favorite pie is
out-- I don't know what--
00:43:20.05\00:43:22.56
about you, but when something
00:43:22.59\00:43:23.74
that I really enjoy
is brought to the table,
00:43:23.77\00:43:26.85
I like a hawk watch
00:43:26.88\00:43:28.78
the
dissemination of those pieces.
00:43:28.81\00:43:33.01
Don't you do the same, come on,
00:43:33.04\00:43:34.32
don't you act like
you're holier than me.
00:43:34.35\00:43:38.79
Although I know, you
are. Take the smallest piece.
00:43:38.82\00:43:42.09
You say, what's happening there?
00:43:42.12\00:43:43.69
You're forcing yourself,
you're humbling yourself,
00:43:43.72\00:43:45.57
you'll automatically say,
00:43:45.60\00:43:46.63
I'll take that
little one, right there.
00:43:46.66\00:43:48.39
Probably
healthier for you any way,
00:43:48.42\00:43:49.89
take the smallest piece.
00:43:49.92\00:43:52.55
Take the last place,
take the smallest piece,
00:43:52.58\00:43:55.62
wash the dirtiest feet.
00:43:55.65\00:44:00.04
Volunteer for the most menial
of tasks, the worst of chores.
00:44:00.07\00:44:05.62
Hey, listen guy, we don't
have a janitor around here.
00:44:05.65\00:44:07.96
I hate to do this,
but would one of you,
00:44:07.99\00:44:09.48
who here would be
willing to clean the toilets?
00:44:09.51\00:44:11.28
You be the first
hand to go up, I'll do it.
00:44:11.31\00:44:13.54
You know, nobody wants to do it.
00:44:13.57\00:44:15.73
Go ahead and do it.
00:44:15.76\00:44:17.92
To humble yourself
means, to take the action,
00:44:17.95\00:44:20.53
take the action first.
00:44:20.56\00:44:22.20
Here's a concept,
vote for your opponent.
00:44:22.23\00:44:26.58
Can you imagine,
00:44:26.61\00:44:27.69
what American
politics would be today,
00:44:27.72\00:44:29.25
if we voted for our opponents?
00:44:29.28\00:44:31.92
I mean come on, how
civil the campaigns would be.
00:44:31.95\00:44:36.12
I didn't know, by the way,
00:44:36.15\00:44:37.23
that you could
vote for yourself,
00:44:37.26\00:44:38.29
when I went the
academy for the first time.
00:44:38.32\00:44:40.21
So I ran for an election
in the student association
00:44:40.24\00:44:43.12
and I voted for the
other guy and I found out,
00:44:43.15\00:44:44.82
I lost by two
votes, his and mine.
00:44:44.85\00:44:46.70
I didn't know you are
supposed to vote for yourself,
00:44:50.84\00:44:52.37
I thought you're supposed
to vote for somebody else.
00:44:52.40\00:44:53.87
Now I know, oh,
I don't lose now.
00:44:53.90\00:44:56.21
See humbling myself--
humbling yourself means,
00:44:59.71\00:45:03.14
you go out of the way
to do it counter cultural,
00:45:03.17\00:45:06.44
do the opposite
of what's expected.
00:45:06.47\00:45:10.48
Build up your competitor,
every chance you get.
00:45:10.51\00:45:15.91
You're in business,
00:45:15.94\00:45:17.06
you got a guy down
the street outselling you?
00:45:17.09\00:45:18.88
Celebrate it.
00:45:18.91\00:45:20.83
Are you in an institution,
00:45:20.86\00:45:22.27
you got a guy down
the street outselling you?
00:45:22.30\00:45:24.17
Celebrate it.
I'm making a point.
00:45:24.20\00:45:28.61
Sometimes we're so preoccupied
in building ourselves up
00:45:28.64\00:45:33.79
and making sure we have
00:45:33.82\00:45:36.53
the top position in the ranking.
00:45:36.56\00:45:41.55
Did we get humbled?
00:45:41.58\00:45:44.45
Because he who exalts himself,
will always gets humbled.
00:45:44.48\00:45:48.20
But she who humbles
herself, will be exalted.
00:45:48.23\00:45:54.69
Build up your
competitor, better yet,
00:45:54.72\00:45:56.90
quit having a
competitor, quit keeping score.
00:45:56.93\00:46:00.18
I'm gonna tell
you something that
00:46:00.21\00:46:01.24
I never told
anybody, till last service.
00:46:01.27\00:46:04.64
The Lord was
dealing with me one day
00:46:09.62\00:46:11.21
and He says you know what boy,
you got a problem with envy.
00:46:11.24\00:46:13.77
I said, get out of
here, I don't have envy.
00:46:13.80\00:46:16.19
I'm not jealous of anybody.
He said, oh, yes, you are.
00:46:16.22\00:46:20.02
How can I be jealous of anybody?
00:46:20.05\00:46:21.13
He says, because
look at your heart,
00:46:21.16\00:46:22.19
every time that
name is mentioned,
00:46:22.22\00:46:23.88
every single time you freeze up.
00:46:23.91\00:46:27.26
Why you freezing up?
00:46:27.29\00:46:29.04
'Cause you're jealous.
00:46:29.07\00:46:32.42
You know, God can
humble you very privately,
00:46:32.45\00:46:34.34
fortunately, but it
is humbling to realize,
00:46:34.37\00:46:38.14
it was humbling for me,
I'm ashamed to tell you,
00:46:38.17\00:46:40.41
but there's been somebody
that I've been jealous of.
00:46:40.44\00:46:43.73
Why is he always so
good? And why am I not so good?
00:46:43.76\00:46:49.67
We do crazy
thinking when we're envious.
00:46:49.70\00:46:53.01
Then one day, God
finally said to me,
00:46:53.04\00:46:54.65
you know what boy,
00:46:54.68\00:46:55.73
here's how you
gonna deal with it.
00:46:55.76\00:46:57.34
You're gonna force yourself
00:46:57.37\00:46:58.43
every time that
name comes up to say,
00:46:58.46\00:47:00.11
to be the first
to jump up and say,
00:47:00.14\00:47:01.28
man have you ever seen somebody
who can do it like that?
00:47:01.31\00:47:04.52
I'm so impressed.
00:47:04.55\00:47:06.72
Hey guys, I'm no
paragon of virtue,
00:47:06.75\00:47:11.16
but I found that worked.
00:47:11.19\00:47:13.22
Now whenever the name comes up,
00:47:13.25\00:47:14.69
I'm first to-- hey, how can--
00:47:14.72\00:47:16.69
and you know what, it just kind
of dissipated, it's just gone.
00:47:16.72\00:47:18.96
I mean, who cares?
00:47:18.99\00:47:20.76
Let me be on the bandwagon
00:47:20.79\00:47:22.56
to cheer him on, professionally.
00:47:22.59\00:47:25.86
Build up your competitor,
quit having a competitor.
00:47:28.76\00:47:30.94
Don't keep score.
00:47:30.97\00:47:32.27
Angie and Chris who'd gave me
00:47:32.30\00:47:33.52
a delightful little
book called "The Go-Giver."
00:47:33.55\00:47:35.14
It's a morality play about
how to succeed in business.
00:47:35.17\00:47:37.30
They gave it to me
just about four weeks ago.
00:47:37.33\00:47:38.69
And in one scene, an old sage,
00:47:38.72\00:47:40.04
passes along to the
young upstart in the business,
00:47:40.07\00:47:42.40
this piece of wise
council, listen to this.
00:47:42.43\00:47:45.96
Stop keeping
score, don't keep track,
00:47:45.99\00:47:49.28
watch out for the other guy,
watch out for his interests,
00:47:49.31\00:47:51.67
forget about 50-50 son,
00:47:51.70\00:47:53.15
the only winning
proposition is 100 percent.
00:47:53.18\00:47:56.72
Just give
yourself to the other guy.
00:47:56.75\00:47:58.83
Who cares who
he is, let him win.
00:47:58.86\00:48:01.06
Quit keeping score
and how do you win now?
00:48:01.09\00:48:02.94
There's no score.
00:48:02.97\00:48:05.16
See, if we keep
the score up here.
00:48:05.19\00:48:07.53
Give up your place in the line.
00:48:07.56\00:48:10.09
Give up your
day off for service.
00:48:10.12\00:48:12.27
Give up your life
for somebody else.
00:48:12.30\00:48:14.39
Ladies and Gentlemen,
00:48:14.42\00:48:15.48
the whole point that
Jesus is making here is that
00:48:15.51\00:48:17.49
we have to do
something, we have to act,
00:48:17.52\00:48:19.57
we have to humble ourselves.
00:48:19.60\00:48:21.16
Never pray this prayer,
00:48:21.19\00:48:22.35
you will not
find it in the Bible.
00:48:22.38\00:48:23.74
Never pray this
prayer, oh God, humble me.
00:48:23.77\00:48:27.76
You regret the day you did.
00:48:27.79\00:48:30.89
He all ready is keeping
close track to you, trust me.
00:48:30.92\00:48:34.15
He knows when a
little extra nudge is exactly
00:48:34.18\00:48:36.81
what you need, you can
count on that, trust me as well.
00:48:36.84\00:48:40.00
Never pray the
prayer, humble me.
00:48:40.03\00:48:41.47
Instead pray the prayer, oh God,
00:48:41.50\00:48:45.19
let me humble
myself, before you.
00:48:45.22\00:48:48.95
That prayer is
laced to scripture.
00:48:48.98\00:48:51.25
Humble
yourself. Take the action.
00:48:51.28\00:48:53.61
Do the work.
Don't ask God to do it.
00:48:53.64\00:48:56.84
Don't you dare?
00:48:56.87\00:48:58.23
Just take a deep
breath, humble yourself.
00:48:58.26\00:49:02.09
All right, there are two
steps then I'll sit down.
00:49:02.12\00:49:03.53
Step number one is,
00:49:03.56\00:49:04.65
"Humble yourself
before others and show it."
00:49:04.68\00:49:06.37
Step number two is,
00:49:06.40\00:49:07.43
"Humble yourself
before God and mean it."
00:49:07.46\00:49:10.21
And the key word
there is, "mean it."
00:49:10.24\00:49:12.38
The other place that
this line appears in Luke,
00:49:12.41\00:49:14.39
is chapter 18,
00:49:14.42\00:49:15.46
so just go four pages
over it, Luke Chapter 18.
00:49:15.49\00:49:18.51
And this is the story
about the two worshippers
00:49:18.54\00:49:20.26
and the guy that walks
at the front of the church
00:49:20.29\00:49:22.52
for worship that Sabbath,
00:49:22.55\00:49:23.68
stands up and he
prays to himself.
00:49:23.71\00:49:26.02
That's the way
Jesus tells the story.
00:49:26.05\00:49:27.62
Oh God, I thank
You, that I'm not like
00:49:27.65\00:49:30.23
the other reprobates in
this little village of mine.
00:49:30.26\00:49:35.05
I tithe, I'm
great in stewardship,
00:49:35.08\00:49:38.45
I fast, I watch my diet,
I worship on the right day.
00:49:38.48\00:49:42.17
Thank you, oh God, for who I am.
00:49:42.20\00:49:44.62
And Jesus said in
back of that same church,
00:49:44.65\00:49:46.48
that very same
Sabbath there was a man
00:49:46.51\00:49:49.07
who so shattered by his
guilt, that he could only sob
00:49:49.10\00:49:52.21
into the sleeve
of his sports jacket.
00:49:52.24\00:49:55.52
Oh God, be merciful
to me, for I'm a sinner.
00:49:55.55\00:50:00.77
Then the point, here
it is verse 14, Luke 18.
00:50:00.80\00:50:03.58
"I tell you, this man "
in the back of the church
00:50:03.61\00:50:06.28
"went down to
his house justified"
00:50:06.31\00:50:08.26
declared righteous by God
00:50:08.29\00:50:09.54
"rather than the
other for everyone
00:50:09.57\00:50:11.75
who exalts
himself will be humbled,
00:50:11.78\00:50:13.78
and he who humbles himself"
quoting His mothers song
00:50:13.81\00:50:17.31
"He who humbles
himself will be exalted."
00:50:17.34\00:50:21.41
What does it mean
to humble ourselves
00:50:21.44\00:50:22.79
before our God and mean it?
00:50:22.82\00:50:24.17
I'll leave you
with these quotations
00:50:24.20\00:50:25.44
in your study guide.
00:50:25.47\00:50:26.50
These are so
choice you have them,
00:50:26.53\00:50:28.15
you don't have to
fill a single blank in,
00:50:28.18\00:50:29.59
just keep the quotations.
00:50:29.62\00:50:31.18
Christ's Object Lessons,
comments on this parable,
00:50:31.21\00:50:33.17
with these words.
00:50:33.20\00:50:34.23
Take a look in your study guide.
00:50:34.26\00:50:35.29
"The lips may express" I
thought this was prescient.
00:50:35.32\00:50:38.12
"The lips may
express a poverty of soul
00:50:38.15\00:50:41.19
that the heart
does not acknowledge."
00:50:41.22\00:50:43.12
We're good up here.
We're terrible down here.
00:50:43.15\00:50:46.98
So I may be
saying oh, I'm so humble.
00:50:47.01\00:50:48.35
Yes, of course, I am of course.
00:50:48.38\00:50:50.36
"While speaking to
God of poverty of spirit,
00:50:50.39\00:50:53.26
the heart may be swelling
00:50:53.29\00:50:54.73
with the conceit of
its own superior humility
00:50:54.76\00:50:58.59
and exalted righteousness."
00:50:58.62\00:51:01.06
See you can't fool God.
00:51:01.09\00:51:03.38
You can fool
everybody else in your own home,
00:51:03.41\00:51:05.47
but you can't fool God.
00:51:05.50\00:51:08.57
"In one way only can a true
knowledge of self be obtained."
00:51:08.60\00:51:11.52
Circle it, "We
must behold Christ."
00:51:11.55\00:51:14.00
Track Jesus.
00:51:14.03\00:51:15.85
"It is ignorance of Him
that makes men and women
00:51:15.88\00:51:18.02
so uplifted in
their own righteousness.
00:51:18.05\00:51:19.60
When we contemplate
His purity and excellence,
00:51:19.63\00:51:21.88
we shall see our own" hopeless
00:51:21.91\00:51:23.58
"we to see our own
weakness and poverty
00:51:23.61\00:51:25.78
and defects as they really are.
00:51:25.81\00:51:27.16
We shall see
ourselves lost and hopeless,
00:51:27.19\00:51:29.48
clad in garments
of self-righteousness,
00:51:29.51\00:51:31.41
like every other sinner.
00:51:31.44\00:51:32.87
We shall see that
if we are ever saved,
00:51:32.90\00:51:34.97
it will not be
through our own goodness,
00:51:35.00\00:51:37.34
but through
God's infinite grace."
00:51:37.37\00:51:40.07
What do you say to that?
00:51:40.10\00:51:43.15
Self-- now this is choice.
00:51:43.18\00:51:44.86
"Self to the publican
appeared nothing but shame.
00:51:44.89\00:51:49.52
Thus it must be seen
by all who seek God."
00:51:49.55\00:51:52.60
I'm ashamed self.
00:51:52.63\00:51:55.47
"By faith--
00:51:55.50\00:51:56.53
faith that
renounces all self-trust--
00:51:56.56\00:51:58.23
the needy suppliant is to
lay hold upon infinite power."
00:51:58.26\00:52:02.07
Isn't that
something? Isn't that something?
00:52:02.10\00:52:05.85
And now here's what I
want to send home with you.
00:52:05.88\00:52:07.34
There's a little prayer,
00:52:07.37\00:52:08.42
just a few
sentences later that follows.
00:52:08.45\00:52:10.42
This is the prayer,
00:52:10.45\00:52:11.48
you want to pray this prayer
with me every day, you can.
00:52:11.51\00:52:13.85
Here's the
prayer, listen to this.
00:52:13.88\00:52:15.65
It's in that next quotation.
00:52:15.68\00:52:17.02
"No outward observances
00:52:17.05\00:52:18.35
can take the
place of simple faith
00:52:18.38\00:52:19.98
and entire renunciation of self.
00:52:20.01\00:52:22.44
But no man can
empty himself of self."
00:52:22.47\00:52:23.92
How can-- self--
00:52:23.95\00:52:24.98
hey self, cast self out.
00:52:25.01\00:52:27.04
Can I pick myself up
and throw myself out?
00:52:27.07\00:52:28.93
You can't do it, its impossible.
00:52:28.96\00:52:31.09
That's true.
00:52:31.12\00:52:32.15
"No man or woman can
empty himself of self.
00:52:32.18\00:52:34.73
We can only consent for
Christ to accomplish the work.
00:52:34.76\00:52:39.23
Then" now here comes the prayer.
00:52:39.26\00:52:41.07
Oh, boy, this would be
great to memorize, wouldn't it?
00:52:41.10\00:52:43.19
"Then the language
of the soul will be,
00:52:43.22\00:52:45.58
Lord, take my heart,
for I cannot give it.
00:52:45.61\00:52:50.78
It is Thy property.
00:52:50.81\00:52:52.72
Keep it pure, for I
cannot keep it for Thee.
00:52:52.75\00:52:56.71
Save me in spite of myself,
my weak, unchristlike self.
00:52:56.74\00:53:02.55
Mold me, fashion me,
00:53:02.58\00:53:04.68
raise me into a
pure and holy atmosphere,
00:53:04.71\00:53:07.74
where the rich
current of Thy love
00:53:07.77\00:53:09.87
can flow through my soul."
00:53:09.90\00:53:14.14
Isn't that some?
How did Jesus put it?
00:53:14.17\00:53:16.51
"He who exalts
himself, will be humbled
00:53:16.54\00:53:18.52
and she who humbles
herself, will be exalted."
00:53:18.55\00:53:22.65
Once upon a time,
00:53:22.68\00:53:24.91
there was a prince
and a woman and a God.
00:53:24.94\00:53:30.90
The prince exalted
himself and he was humbled.
00:53:30.93\00:53:36.14
The teenage virgin, humbled
herself and she was exalted.
00:53:36.17\00:53:41.94
And the God, the God
was also the Son of David,
00:53:41.97\00:53:47.76
but the God, humbled Himself
and became obedient unto death,
00:53:47.79\00:53:53.02
even the death of the cross,
00:53:53.05\00:53:55.70
wherefore God
have highly exalted him
00:53:55.73\00:53:59.76
and given him a
name above every name
00:53:59.79\00:54:02.51
under the heaven and on
earth and under the earth.
00:54:02.54\00:54:07.89
So why on earth would
we not just like Mary,
00:54:07.92\00:54:12.23
just like Jesus, why
would we not humble ourselves
00:54:12.26\00:54:18.57
in the site of the Lord?
00:54:18.60\00:54:22.29
I want you to sing it with me.
If you know it, just join me.
00:54:27.25\00:54:33.81
Humble thyself in
the sight of the Lord
00:54:33.84\00:54:40.00
Humble thyself in
the sight of the Lord
00:54:40.03\00:54:46.71
And He shall raise you up
00:54:46.74\00:54:53.37
Higher and higher
00:54:54.83\00:54:56.83
And He shall raise you up
00:54:56.86\00:55:03.47
Sing it again.
00:55:03.50\00:55:04.89
Humble thyself in
the sight of the Lord
00:55:04.92\00:55:10.50
Humble thyself in
the sight of the Lord
00:55:10.53\00:55:15.67
And He shall raise you up
00:55:15.70\00:55:22.20
Higher and higher
00:55:22.23\00:55:24.22
And He shall raise you up
00:55:24.25\00:55:29.81
Because our God
is an awesome God
00:55:32.02\00:55:35.95
He reigns from heaven above
00:55:35.98\00:55:40.07
With wisdom, power, and love
00:55:40.10\00:55:43.88
Our God is an awesome God
00:55:43.91\00:55:47.90
Our God is an awesome God
00:55:47.93\00:55:51.57
He reigns from heaven above
00:55:51.60\00:55:56.24
With wisdom, power, and love
00:55:56.27\00:56:00.35
Our God is an awesome God
00:56:00.38\00:56:04.69
So humble thyself in
the sight of the Lord
00:56:04.72\00:56:10.72
Humble thyself in
the sight of the Lord
00:56:13.22\00:56:17.83
And He shall raise you up
00:56:20.24\00:56:26.97
Higher and higher
00:56:28.44\00:56:30.75
And He shall raise you up
00:56:30.78\00:56:37.56
Oh God, teaches us
how, that's all we ask.
00:56:39.92\00:56:45.53
We just pray to
You, teach us how,
00:56:45.56\00:56:51.22
to be like Mary and like Jesus.
00:56:51.25\00:56:55.59
Amen.
00:56:58.35\00:56:59.51
I wanted to take
one more moment here
00:57:01.78\00:57:03.37
at the end of the
telecast to let you know
00:57:03.40\00:57:05.15
how grateful I'm for
your journey with us,
00:57:05.18\00:57:08.23
with our New
Perceptions ministry.
00:57:08.26\00:57:10.13
You may think
that New Perceptions
00:57:10.16\00:57:11.21
is only about television
but I need to tell you
00:57:11.24\00:57:14.02
we do have a website
00:57:14.05\00:57:15.39
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00:57:15.42\00:57:17.47
I know we go to the
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00:57:17.50\00:57:19.16
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00:57:19.19\00:57:20.98
on the screen
again, www.pmchurch.tv.
00:57:21.01\00:57:26.12
You will find at
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00:57:26.15\00:57:28.40
Every Wednesday I
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00:57:28.43\00:57:29.94
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00:57:29.97\00:57:31.79
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00:57:33.74\00:57:36.09
You want to
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00:57:40.82\00:57:43.32
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00:57:43.35\00:57:44.84
You want to get
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I'm not real hi-techie on
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00:57:53.03\00:57:54.13
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00:57:54.16\00:57:55.46
The point is
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00:57:55.49\00:57:57.16
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00:57:57.19\00:58:00.01
Thanks for being a part of it.
00:58:00.04\00:58:01.23
Thanks for your
prayer partnership.
00:58:01.26\00:58:02.44
We've got to
connect with this generation
00:58:02.47\00:58:04.98
at this time in earth's history
00:58:05.01\00:58:07.04
and I'm grateful you and
I are sharing the mission.
00:58:07.07\00:58:09.50
God bless you, until next time.
00:58:09.53\00:58:11.46