From the campus
of Andrews University
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this is New Perceptions
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with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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All Your ways are
good All Your ways are sure
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I will trust in You
alone Higher than my sight
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High above my life
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I will trust in You alone
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Where You go, I'll go
Where You stay, I'll stay
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When You move, I'll
move I will follow You
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Whom You love, I'll
love How You serve I'll serve
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If this life I
lose I will follow You
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I will follow You
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Light unto the
world Light unto my life
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I will live for You alone
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You're the One I
seek Knowing I will find
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All I need in You alone,
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in You alone
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Where You go, I'll go
Where You stay, I'll stay
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When You move, I'll
move I will follow You
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Whom you love, I'll love
How You serve, I'll serve
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If this life I lose,
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I will follow You
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I will follow You
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In You there's life everlasting
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In You there's
freedom for my soul
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In You there's joy unending, joy
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And I will follow You
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Where You go, I'll go
Where You stay, I'll stay
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When You move, I'll
move I will follow You
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Whom You love, I'll love
How You serve, I'll serve
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If this life I
lose, I will follow You
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Where You go, I'll go
Where You stay, I'll stay
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When You move, I'll
move I will follow YOU
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Whom you love, I'll love
How You serve, I'll serve
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If this life I
lose, I will follow You
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I will follow You
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I will follow You
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Let's pray together.
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Oh, God Jesus is about to walk
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on to this stage
of the fourth gospel
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and I pray that it
will leave none of us
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the same again
in His name, amen.
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In 1936, Samuel Barber
composed what has become
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perhaps the most recognizable
American orchestral piece.
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NPR music said, and I quote
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with a "tense melodic
line and tout harmonies"
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a composition
is consider by many
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to be the most popular of all
20th century orchestral works.
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Do you recognize it yet?
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It's a second movement in
Barber's string quartet opus 11.
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The second movement is
known as Adagio for strings.
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Wikipedia what we
do without Wikipedia,
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informs us that the recording
of the 1938 world premiere
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with Arturo Toscanini conducting
the NBC symphony orchestra
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was selected in 2005 by
the US Library of Congress
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for permanent preservation
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in the National
Recording Registry.
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Since 1938 this recording
has been heard the world over.
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Even the Soviet
Union during the cold war
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this was the one
American classical piece
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they would allowed to be played.
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When Franklin
Delano Roosevelt died
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they played this
music over the radio.
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Albert Einstein
funeral it was played.
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The funeral of
Princess Grace of Monaco
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it was-- it was played.
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2001, we just
remembered a few days ago
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at the last night of the
proms in the Royal Albert Hall
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that would be] London, England,
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the normal
patriotic music was dropped
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the Adagio for
Strings was played.
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Sports fans, we are in
Olympics, Vancouver BC 2010,
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it was played in
the opening exercises.
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The British public listening
to the BBC's today program
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voted Adagio for Strings
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the saddest
classical work ever composed.
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And I love that piece don't you.
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I am gonna play it for you
not the whole piece but a line.
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Because, in 1967, Samuel Barber
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transcribed his piece into
an eight part coral rendition
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and he named it
"Agnus Dei Lamb of God."
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My favorite coral rendition
is by the all male choir.
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All these voices are male
that you are about to hear
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of new college
Oxford before we play
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just a piece of it a line of it.
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I have written the words in
Latin right here in my Bible.
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Just to on the page for John 1.
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[speaking in foreign language],
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Lamb of God, it takes
away the sin in the world.
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[speaking in foreign language]
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Have mercy on us.
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[speaking in foreign language]
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Grant us peace.
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Now the row that
the row that band
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and we will listen to just
a few seconds of the opening.
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You would instantly
recognize it when you hear it
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if you still don't recall it.
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All right, I could listen to
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all eight minutes
of it couldn't you.
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But there is no
angelic choir singing.
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There was no heavenly
orchestration on the day
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the words that
inspired Agnus Dei on yours day
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were first spoken.
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Sunbathe wilderness movement
when the world made flesh
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appears on this
stage for the first time.
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I want to read that
line with you open your Bible
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the fourth gospel, the
Gospel of John let's go.
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A moving drama we now
we finished a prologue
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three sessions in the
prologue now the stories
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one of the other
come tumbling in.
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John 1:29, I have been in
the New King James version.
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If you didn't
bring your bible today
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you have to track this narrative
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pull the pew Bible
out in front of you.
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Page 714, in the pew Bible
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it will also be the
New King James version.
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John Chapter 1,
the Gospel of John
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fourth gospel 1:29.
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"The next day"
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hit the pause
button right there.
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What's the next day?
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That's the day
to the previous day.
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What happened on
the previous day?
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You Baptist, you're the Messiah?
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Nope.
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You're Elijah? No.
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You're the prophet
Moses talked about?
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No.
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Then who are you?
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And the voice of one
crying in the wilderness
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makes straight
the way of the Lord.
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Then why do you baptized.
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Listen to me, I
baptized with water
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but there is one
standing in your mist right now
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whose stand those I am
not even worthy to unlatch.
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Rabbis when they surrounded
themselves with disciples
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could never command a
disciple took off my sandals.
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Disciple never had
to stoop that load,
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that task was only performed
by a slave in the Middle East
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anything down here
were burden, just bad.
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So when the President of
the United States shows up
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by surprise in
Baghdad at the news conference
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and a reporter reaches down.
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He pulls of his shoe
to throw it out at him.
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You might remember that, bad.
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When John says "I am not even
worthy to unlatch his sandal
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he saying "I am lower
than a slave in his presence."
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That's the one
of whom he speaks.
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All right, now we can read it.
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Verse 29 "And the
next day John saw Jesus."
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Last time he saw
Jesus 40 plus days ago.
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He sees the same
Jesus that he baptized
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now sunken
cheeks hollowed out eyes
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skinned bones but
fire in those young eyes.
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And a kingly mane
on that countenance
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and when he
spots Him in the crowd.
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"The next day John saw Jesus
coming toward him, and he said."
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Here the words
"Agnus Dei and he said,"
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Behold! '"Behold!
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The Lamb of God who takes
away the sin of the world!'
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"I will tell you what
there are to be an angel choir
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singing right now.
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This would be the perfect moment
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for all of that
orchestration to come moving in.
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Do you know why?
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Because this is the
first time in human history
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that any human
being has been granted
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the honor of
personally introducing
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God almighty made
flesh as a Messiah?
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Prophets by the
hundreds before John
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would have given
almost their lives
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if they could have
been the one appoint.
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Can I have that privilege
God, when You come to earth
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can I be the one
to introduce You?
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Only John, that's why Jesus
months later will say of John.
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By the way of all the babies
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that ever came out
of their mothers womb
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this is the
greatest ever to be born.
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Wow, and by the way
born for this solitary moment
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and mission, you think about it.
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This is it, everything
prior in John the Baptist life
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has been a prelude.
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Now, verse 29 and everything
that follows is postlude.
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Everything is wrapped
up in his life mission
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in that single
sentence that sunbathe day.
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I bring that to our attention
because some of us think
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that when God calls
you to do whatever it is,
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you have been called
to do and thank you Alice,
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for reminding us during
our worship this morning
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we all have a calling.
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But then when God calls me
you he calls for a nice hunk
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a 20 years on the
world stage may be 30, no.
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When you look at the
grades in Holy Scripture
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more often than not it
was one shining moment.
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Elisha, you think
Elisha lived all his life
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miracle after miracle
43 years of Elisha's life
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an absolute obscurity
we have no trace of them.
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Elisha, the big Elisha
the precursor to Elisha
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29 years we only know a
few days of Elisha's life.
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The Lord Jesus 30 plus years
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in absolute unknown obscurity
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and then you get your moment.
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Some of you are
coming to that moment soon.
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Some of us have
already passed the moment
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but we remain
faithful to the end.
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Behold the Lamb of God
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who takes it away
the sin of the world.
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For this one sentence
John the Baptist was born
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and it makes you wonder
could it be my life destiny
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and yours is wrapped up
in that sentence as well.
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That point so critical
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I want you to grab
your study guide right now
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out of your
worship bulletin please.
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Brand new study
guide today pull it out,
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we got to lock that in
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while it's still
fresh in our minds.
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Thank you ushers, let's go.
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If you didn't get a
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So hold your hand up
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This one is the keeper I
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hold your hand up,
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Let me put your
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There it is, our
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the fourth gospel
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I will get to
you, keep your hand up
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if you didn't get one.
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Jot this down,
for this one sentence
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John the Baptist
was born, one sentence
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everything before I pray to you
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and everything after postlude
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one sentence he
gives, that's his moment.
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For this one sentence he
was born and how about this
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"For this one witness
you and I have been born."
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Could that be true
for this one witness?
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You're saying
Dwight, what's the witness?
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You know what the
witness is, write it down.
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"For this one
witness," look that's the NIV.
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I like the NIV by the
way "Look the lamb of God
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who takes away
the sin of the world!"
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Look at him.
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For that one
witness you have been born.
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Look the Lamb of God
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who takes away
the sin of the world.
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And by the way why Lamb of God,
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why doesn't John the baptize
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who used what John
the evangelist does.
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Why doesn't he say "hey
look the word of the God."
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And how about "hey
look the king of God."
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Well, how about this
one hey look the son of God.
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No, no, no he says
"hey look the Lamb of God."
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Now in his curious
minds boom connection
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but we are not in a
agrarian society, are we.
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The closest we
ever get to a lamb is
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"Mary had a little lamb,
its fleece was white as snow.
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And everywhere that Mary
went, the lamb was sure to go."
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I bet don't
know the next stanza.
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"It followed her
to school one day,
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it was against the rule.
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It made the children laugh and
play to see a lamb in school."
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We don't even
know the poem anymore.
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We are not agrarian
"Behold the Lamb of God
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who takes away
the sin of the world!"
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The very mention
of sin and this lamb
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links it
immediately to sacrifice
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but what we do know
about sacrificing a lamb today.
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We know zero not a nothing.
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So let's go to a nearby farm
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fortunately one of our
retired faculty owns a farm.
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I am talking about the
retired religion professor
00:19:14.75\00:19:16.97
Joseph Greg.
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So let's go to
Joseph Greg's farm
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we are gonna take
Kathy Coudle along
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she is from the
agriculture department here.
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We are taking along a camera
and we are gonna go and find out
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what's up with the sacrificing
of a sheep of a lamb.
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We rolled this
camera out a few years ago
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and we'll play
the clip right here.
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This is Joe, Joe
and Stella Greg's farm.
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All right, right
outside of-- right down the road
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here on lemon creek.
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I am standing here in
the pasture of the Joe Greg
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who is standing
beside me and Kathy Coudle.
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Actually, Kathy,
this is your sheep
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or you have how many sheep here?
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I have about six.
Yeah, six sheep here.
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And this is you. Right.
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Yeah, about how old will she be?
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About an year and half
old. About an year and half old.
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Thinking of the
sacrificial system ah,
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Kathy and Joe the
little lamb here under
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and is brought
to the tabernacle.
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Well, let's face it, sheep
are butchered in our country
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for money, for consumption.
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Where, how is
the animal butchered?
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Ah, with a knife. Okay.
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Right here, you
can feel the artery
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if you push your fingers
right down on the right spot.
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All right, yeah.
Yeah, ear to ear.
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Yeah, ear to ear. Yeah, you cut.
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You can't cut it just
shallow because other wise
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you'll cut the just jugular
and it will stand them bleed
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for a long on time.
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I have seen
people who have done that
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and its not a very nice sight.
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And Joe, you were saying
the moment the incision is made
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the animal goes unconscious.
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That's right, soon as
the blood pressure drops.
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The blood pressure
drops, consciousness fades away.
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Right.
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And then period
of moment's minutes
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the animal will bleed to death.
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Yeah, yeah. Moments seconds.
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Moments Seconds.
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You have been a real
sport bless your soul.
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Well it's important
to be kind to animals.
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It's always important
to be kind to animals.
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Look at when
you and I see a lamb
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or you see a sheep off baa,
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and all that
little curly, curly wool.
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But when John cries
out behold the Lamb of God
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instantly the connection
is made in the listeners
00:21:39.17\00:21:43.47
that they knew
the ancient prophecy.
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Now I want you to
keep your finger right here
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because we will be right back.
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But go to Isaiah
they knew this prophecy.
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This was not an
unknown piece of antiquity.
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Isaiah 53, we
know it well ourselves
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but look at the words
here just refresh our memories.
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Isaiah 53:4 speaking
of the coming Messiah
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"Surely He has borne our
grief's ad carried our sorrows,
00:22:07.19\00:22:10.01
yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
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But He was wounded
for our transgressions,
00:22:13.11\00:22:15.27
He was bruised
for our iniquities,
00:22:15.30\00:22:18.06
the chastisement for
my peace was upon Him,
00:22:18.09\00:22:21.11
by His stripes you
and I, we are healed.
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All we like sheep"
verse 6 "have gone astray,
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we have turned,
every one, to his own way,
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and the Lord has laid on
Him the iniquity of us all.
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He was oppressed
and He was afflicted,
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yet He opened not His mouth."
00:22:35.64\00:22:36.75
Now here it comes.
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"He was led as a
lamb to the slaughter,
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and as a sheep before
its shearers is silent,
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So He opened not His mouth."
00:22:43.45\00:22:46.50
Write it down what
John is crying out that,
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that sunny day when he cries out
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"Behold! The Lamb of God
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who takes away
the sin of the world!"
00:22:58.89\00:23:00.11
It is essentially the
cry, "Behold, the Savior."
00:23:00.14\00:23:03.38
That's what he is saying.
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Take a look, you I am
pointing at them right now.
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Look at the
savior of this world.
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I mean, that's the gospel.
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The Lamb of God who takes away--
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He takes away our sin.
00:23:16.15\00:23:18.03
He takes away our
guilt. He takes away our shame.
00:23:18.06\00:23:21.73
He takes away our death.
00:23:21.76\00:23:23.16
By dying in our place the
cut is on His throat not ours.
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The Lamb of God who takes away
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you don't have to go bed tonight
00:23:30.73\00:23:31.77
with any haunting
guilt on your conscience.
00:23:31.80\00:23:35.11
You can ask Jesus
in this split second.
00:23:35.14\00:23:37.95
God, be my Savior
and wash me clean.
00:23:37.98\00:23:40.99
Just like that He will do it.
00:23:41.02\00:23:42.52
He is the Lamb of
God who takes it away
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that is the everlasting gospel.
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Thundered by that camel haired
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bushy bearded prophet
name John the baptizer.
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Behold!
00:23:54.78\00:23:56.07
The Lamb of God who takes away
00:23:56.10\00:23:58.47
the sin of the
world, the Savior.
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And by the way the next
day the John is so eager
00:24:00.47\00:24:03.22
to drive this point
into the consciousness
00:24:03.25\00:24:05.79
of his own disciples
that he repeats himself.
00:24:05.82\00:24:08.39
This is the next day verse 35
00:24:08.42\00:24:10.18
"Again, the next day, John stood
with two of his disciples."
00:24:10.21\00:24:13.50
So they were just were
three of them standing there.
00:24:13.53\00:24:15.54
"And looking at
Jesus as He walked."
00:24:15.57\00:24:17.72
He spots Him the same forum.
00:24:17.75\00:24:20.90
"Looking at Jesus as He walked
John said, gentlemen, Behold"
00:24:20.93\00:24:25.94
look, look, look
"the Lamb of God!"
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I am not gonna talk about
taking away the sin of the world
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I told you back that yesterday
I want you to lock on him,
00:24:29.92\00:24:32.64
get that picture in your mind,
00:24:32.67\00:24:34.15
this is the one see
his face this is God
00:24:34.18\00:24:37.03
come down look
at the Lamb of God.
00:24:37.06\00:24:39.76
Behold and
immediately this was so amazing
00:24:39.79\00:24:44.12
immediately those two
disciples of John the baptizer
00:24:44.15\00:24:49.71
devoted followers of
his in that split second
00:24:49.74\00:24:53.06
they privet on their sandals
00:24:53.09\00:24:54.97
they walk away from
John for ever and ever.
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I will tell you what, some
of us find it very difficult
00:25:00.39\00:25:03.05
to play second
fiddle but not John.
00:25:03.08\00:25:08.30
John 3:30 he will
declare this immortal words
00:25:08.33\00:25:13.23
they still remain
with us john speaking--
00:25:13.26\00:25:14.98
speaking of Christ.
00:25:15.01\00:25:16.09
"He must increase.
And I, I must decrease.
00:25:16.12\00:25:21.64
How hard it is for some of
us to say that about each other.
00:25:21.67\00:25:24.95
She must increase and
put me in the background
00:25:24.98\00:25:27.40
push her up, put him out
put me in the background.
00:25:27.43\00:25:30.19
How hard it is for
some of us who work for Him
00:25:30.22\00:25:32.74
to say he must
increase and I must decrease.
00:25:32.77\00:25:37.49
That's a gutsy
confession to make.
00:25:37.52\00:25:39.95
After you're prime, after
you're prime, He makes it.
00:25:39.98\00:25:45.59
And when the
crowds begin to dwindle
00:25:45.62\00:25:47.23
and the people
follow a new Messiah
00:25:47.26\00:25:49.44
can we still whisper
00:25:49.47\00:25:51.48
He must increase
and I must decrease.
00:25:51.51\00:25:56.24
Just like that
they're gone forever
00:25:56.27\00:25:57.63
two disciples never
to follow John again.
00:25:57.66\00:26:00.10
Something in that
stranger compels them.
00:26:00.13\00:26:02.67
Here we go verse 37,
00:26:02.70\00:26:04.68
"The two disciples
who heard John speak,
00:26:04.71\00:26:09.54
they followed Jesus."
00:26:09.57\00:26:13.82
When somebody starts
walking behind you for a while
00:26:13.85\00:26:15.70
you pretty soon
pick it up, don't you?
00:26:15.73\00:26:17.74
You just know,
somebody is following me.
00:26:17.77\00:26:21.61
"Then Jesus turned,
and seeing them following,
00:26:21.64\00:26:26.71
said to them,
'What do you seek?'"
00:26:26.74\00:26:33.40
There they are.
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If you have a Red Letter Bible
00:26:34.66\00:26:35.77
those are the first words
in red in the fourth gospel.
00:26:35.80\00:26:40.02
John the evangelist
obviously has brooded over
00:26:40.05\00:26:44.92
how to begin his story
what would be the first words
00:26:44.95\00:26:49.08
on the lips of
Christ the word made flesh.
00:26:49.11\00:26:51.19
What will be his first
words intriguingly enough
00:26:51.22\00:26:54.37
this question
must be significant
00:26:54.40\00:26:56.81
to John the evangelist
00:26:56.84\00:26:58.29
because he not only
begins his gospel with question
00:26:58.32\00:27:02.34
what do you seek, he ends his
gospel with the same question
00:27:02.37\00:27:06.56
who do you seek.
00:27:06.59\00:27:08.40
Mary sobbing her
eyes out in the garden
00:27:08.43\00:27:10.46
and the supplicant is emptying
she thinks it's the gardener
00:27:10.49\00:27:13.19
who ask her women
why you are crying,
00:27:13.22\00:27:15.06
what are you looking for?
00:27:15.09\00:27:16.20
And she says sir, if
you have taken the body
00:27:16.23\00:27:17.60
just tell me I
will take it from you.
00:27:17.63\00:27:20.74
The gospel begins
with what do you seek,
00:27:20.77\00:27:22.85
it ends with who do you seek,
because the journey of life
00:27:22.88\00:27:25.81
is from what you
seek to who you seek.
00:27:25.84\00:27:29.47
The last question,
why are you Dwight,
00:27:29.50\00:27:33.18
why are you so furiously
00:27:33.21\00:27:36.00
driving yourself
through this life.
00:27:36.03\00:27:39.16
Andrews university
campus, what's up with you guys
00:27:39.19\00:27:43.00
just driven,
driven, driven, driven
00:27:43.03\00:27:45.83
what are you looking for.
00:27:45.86\00:27:48.14
Who you're seeking?
Could it be me you look for.
00:27:48.17\00:27:55.86
Robert Smith in his,
very creative commentary
00:27:55.89\00:28:01.12
on the fourth gospel
called the "Wounded Lord."
00:28:01.15\00:28:03.84
It's all set to the
eyes and confession of time
00:28:03.87\00:28:06.08
as it the end of the gospel.
00:28:06.11\00:28:07.21
Very, very creatively done.
00:28:07.24\00:28:08.77
I will put his words
on the screen for you.
00:28:08.80\00:28:10.40
Take a look at this.
00:28:10.43\00:28:11.46
You have to fill this in by the
way it's in your study guide.
00:28:11.49\00:28:13.53
"By means of this
first utterance of Jesus,
00:28:13.56\00:28:17.79
the evangelist poses a question
to all readers of the gospel.
00:28:17.82\00:28:20.85
As we approach to
Jesus who inhabits
00:28:20.88\00:28:23.70
the pages of the Fourth
Gospel, the evangelist insists
00:28:23.73\00:28:26.71
that we not rush forward,
mindlessly turning pages."
00:28:26.74\00:28:30.43
By the way I love it
00:28:30.46\00:28:31.55
and David Alberta
was in first church
00:28:31.58\00:28:33.62
and I spoke to him from up here.
00:28:33.65\00:28:34.98
I love this one
project that were on now.
00:28:35.01\00:28:37.14
We are all in the gospels right.
00:28:37.17\00:28:38.98
Matthew and house of
prayer and dorm worships,
00:28:39.01\00:28:42.39
co-curricle worships everybody
is in the gospels or acts.
00:28:42.42\00:28:46.05
But you know
what it would really,
00:28:46.08\00:28:47.58
it would be sad
as if all we're doing
00:28:47.61\00:28:49.57
is just turning
the pages while good
00:28:49.60\00:28:50.71
get another gospel quick, quick
00:28:50.74\00:28:52.61
before the school
years is up, forget it.
00:28:52.64\00:28:55.11
Robert Smith says, wait a minute
00:28:55.14\00:28:56.19
why are you turning the pages?
00:28:56.22\00:28:58.22
You people who are
plunging in to the fourth gospel
00:28:58.25\00:29:00.18
what is it just a
little bit of page turning.
00:29:00.21\00:29:03.19
So you read a new story.
00:29:03.22\00:29:04.43
"As we approach
to Jesus who inhabits
00:29:07.77\00:29:09.59
the pages of the fourth gospel,
00:29:09.62\00:29:11.76
the evangelists insist
that we do not rush forward
00:29:11.79\00:29:14.82
mindlessly turning pages.
00:29:14.85\00:29:16.22
He wants us to stop and
take to heart this question,
00:29:16.25\00:29:19.78
" write it down "
what are you seeking?"
00:29:19.81\00:29:22.57
What do you
looking for in your life?
00:29:22.60\00:29:24.61
What's the
thirst that drives you?
00:29:24.64\00:29:27.06
What's the
hunger that moves you?
00:29:27.09\00:29:29.31
What are you seeking?
00:29:29.34\00:29:31.30
What do you
want from this Jesus?
00:29:31.33\00:29:33.01
What are you
hoping for and looking for
00:29:33.04\00:29:34.58
as you read the story of
Jesus set forth in this gospel?
00:29:34.61\00:29:37.23
What are you seeking
with all of your striving
00:29:37.26\00:29:39.06
and working and thinking?
00:29:39.09\00:29:40.33
What is the target and
goal of all your living?
00:29:40.36\00:29:44.59
What are you seeking guys?
00:29:44.62\00:29:46.49
You are following me.
What are you looking for.
00:29:46.52\00:29:48.57
Verse 38 "Then Jesus turned,
and seeing them following,
00:29:52.70\00:29:56.02
said to them,
'What do you seek?'
00:29:56.05\00:29:57.69
and they said to Him,
00:29:57.72\00:29:59.02
'Rabbi' (which is to say,
when translated, Teacher),
00:29:59.05\00:30:02.74
'where are You staying?'
00:30:02.77\00:30:03.97
" This is the little
too public place to talk
00:30:04.00\00:30:05.79
and we-- do you
have a little place,
00:30:05.82\00:30:07.15
do you have somewhere
private where we can visit,
00:30:07.18\00:30:08.76
where you are staying?
00:30:08.79\00:30:09.95
And Jesus said
to them I love this,
00:30:09.98\00:30:11.71
verse 39, "Come and see.
00:30:11.74\00:30:14.32
And they came and they
saw where He was staying,
00:30:14.35\00:30:16.82
And they
remained with Him that day
00:30:16.85\00:30:19.05
(now it was
about the tenth hour)."
00:30:19.08\00:30:20.78
Four O'clock in the afternoon
00:30:20.81\00:30:23.17
when she love
talking about a video clip
00:30:23.20\00:30:24.84
that rolled in the
midst of this teaching.
00:30:24.87\00:30:26.70
When she like love see on
the screen he picture of Jesus,
00:30:26.73\00:30:29.63
Andrew and we are gonna find out
00:30:29.66\00:30:32.63
its John boy the three of them
00:30:32.66\00:30:35.13
sitting where
ever Jesus took them
00:30:35.16\00:30:37.64
and they are spending the
afternoon in conversation.
00:30:37.67\00:30:40.33
Look at if you and your friend
00:30:40.36\00:30:41.70
could be along with
Jesus for one afternoon
00:30:41.73\00:30:44.13
what would you be
talking about with Jesus?
00:30:44.16\00:30:46.47
Who would be on your--
00:30:46.50\00:30:47.53
what would be on
your conversation list?
00:30:47.56\00:30:51.43
If you could
have that time alone
00:30:51.46\00:30:53.56
we are not told
what the conversation was
00:30:53.59\00:30:56.23
but whatever it was
one of he two of them
00:30:56.26\00:30:57.71
were so moved as soon
as they excuse themselves
00:30:57.74\00:30:59.53
at four in afternoon he
went to find his brother.
00:30:59.56\00:31:02.73
And because everybody
in this story gets name
00:31:02.76\00:31:06.96
except this other disciple
and because we already know
00:31:06.99\00:31:10.56
that the writer
of the Gospel of John
00:31:10.59\00:31:12.63
always hides
himself in the background.
00:31:12.66\00:31:14.68
It isn't a whole lot of
rocket science to conclude to
00:31:14.71\00:31:16.94
and that's John boy and
because John boy and peter
00:31:16.97\00:31:19.88
always show up
together in the gospel.
00:31:19.91\00:31:21.66
Its not surprising to think
00:31:21.69\00:31:23.51
that may be
Andrews didn't go alone
00:31:23.54\00:31:24.97
but john boy followed
him and the two of them
00:31:25.00\00:31:27.57
find brother, friend Peter.
00:31:27.60\00:31:31.53
Verse 40 "One of the two
of them who heard John speak,
00:31:34.23\00:31:36.53
and followed Him, was
Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.
00:31:36.56\00:31:39.01
He first found
his own brother Simon,
00:31:39.04\00:31:42.30
and said to him, 'We
have found the Messiah'
00:31:42.33\00:31:45.71
(which is
translated, the Christ).
00:31:45.74\00:31:48.57
And he brought him to Jesus.
00:31:48.60\00:31:51.74
And when Jesus looked at him,
00:31:51.77\00:31:53.90
He said, 'You are
Simon the son of Jonah.'
00:31:53.93\00:31:56.27
" Or the son of John.
00:31:56.30\00:31:57.75
"You shall be called
Cephas" as we say cephas.
00:31:57.78\00:32:01.94
In the Aramaic
stone, Greek petros
00:32:01.97\00:32:04.96
and once came the name
Peter you will be called stone.
00:32:04.99\00:32:10.35
You know, wasn't that something
that Jesus didn't say oh yeah.
00:32:10.38\00:32:13.94
Yeah, You know,
what you are gonna do?
00:32:13.97\00:32:16.39
Before I am even
dead you are gonna dead,
00:32:16.42\00:32:18.86
knock me to the word.
00:32:18.89\00:32:19.92
You are going to turn the
up blew with your obscenities
00:32:19.95\00:32:21.89
saying I don't know Him at all.
00:32:21.92\00:32:23.83
Not a word, not a word.
00:32:23.86\00:32:26.51
You just said Mr. Stone
you are going be a rock.
00:32:26.54\00:32:31.11
Isn't that something
about Jesus by the way?
00:32:31.14\00:32:33.44
He calls us what
our potentially is
00:32:33.47\00:32:35.54
never what are our weakness is.
00:32:35.57\00:32:38.19
He picks out your
potential and He says girl
00:32:38.22\00:32:41.09
"I love you I got a
dream for your life."
00:32:41.12\00:32:45.15
Boy, I see you. And
that's what He speaks.
00:32:45.18\00:32:48.99
Reminds me this
line from Desire of Ages
00:32:49.02\00:32:50.46
not connecting
with the story at all
00:32:50.49\00:32:52.35
but I want to
insert it right here
00:32:52.38\00:32:53.51
put it on the screen
for you Desire of Ages
00:32:53.54\00:32:55.38
that classic on life of Jesus.
00:32:55.41\00:32:56.75
"Jesus does not tell to
any all that He might reveal,
00:32:56.78\00:33:01.86
but He bids every
trembling soul take courage."
00:33:01.89\00:33:05.80
I am so glad
Jesus doesn't tell me
00:33:05.83\00:33:07.47
everything about
me that He knows.
00:33:07.50\00:33:09.92
I think I'd quit.
00:33:09.95\00:33:11.57
I think we'd all commit suicide
00:33:11.60\00:33:13.63
and I think we probably would.
00:33:13.66\00:33:14.99
If that just be
truth I can't take that.
00:33:15.02\00:33:17.14
He says I know you can.
00:33:17.17\00:33:18.23
I am not gonna
tell you everything
00:33:18.26\00:33:19.29
I know about you, Dwight.
00:33:19.32\00:33:21.06
Just live today with
me, we will get you tomorrow
00:33:21.09\00:33:24.28
in due time, today you would Me.
00:33:24.31\00:33:27.55
What a savior. What a friend.
00:33:27.58\00:33:30.61
I mean, do you have a friend
who is closer to you than that.
00:33:30.64\00:33:34.46
Wow, so, Jesus now
has three disciples.
00:33:34.49\00:33:40.62
Look at this, Jesus
with His disciple Andrew
00:33:40.65\00:33:44.75
and His disciple peter
and His disciple John boy.
00:33:44.78\00:33:50.22
Or should we say
there is Jesus and Andrews--
00:33:50.25\00:33:53.66
you are pretty quick.
00:33:57.44\00:33:59.85
Doesn't He want to be
disciples with all of us?
00:33:59.88\00:34:02.86
He says I want
Andrews and I want Peter,
00:34:02.89\00:34:05.54
and I want John, I
want the whole campus.
00:34:05.57\00:34:08.06
He is always
looking for disciples
00:34:08.09\00:34:10.07
which is why
the very next verse.
00:34:10.10\00:34:11.13
Look at verse 43
"The following day
00:34:11.16\00:34:13.12
Jesus wanted to go to
Galilee, and He found"
00:34:13.15\00:34:19.06
this is the one he finds.
00:34:19.09\00:34:20.12
"He found Philip and
said to him, 'Follow Me.'
00:34:20.15\00:34:23.03
" Verse 44 "Now
Philip was from Bethsaida,
00:34:23.06\00:34:25.51
the city of Andrew and Peter."
00:34:25.54\00:34:27.45
And by the way John.
00:34:27.48\00:34:29.13
They are awful
right they are all right
00:34:29.16\00:34:30.77
there on the shores of Galilee.
00:34:30.80\00:34:32.50
Isn't that something?
00:34:32.53\00:34:33.95
Philip knows Peter and
Andrew and John and by the way
00:34:33.98\00:34:37.33
that's how the kingdom
grows as my friend Rutty Jackson
00:34:37.36\00:34:40.08
likes to put it the
kingdom advances among friends.
00:34:40.11\00:34:43.41
And so the four of
them spend time with Jesus.
00:34:43.44\00:34:45.28
How much time we don't know
00:34:45.31\00:34:46.95
but we do know that
as soon as it is over
00:34:46.98\00:34:49.62
Philip behaves in the
same way as Andrew did.
00:34:49.65\00:34:51.73
He leaves Jesus and he goes
and he finds a friend of his
00:34:51.76\00:34:55.77
because that's how it works.
00:34:55.80\00:34:58.35
I love this line
from Steps to Christ.
00:34:58.38\00:35:00.45
You have to fill it in.
Put it on the screen please.
00:35:00.48\00:35:02.40
Steps to Christ "No
sooner does one come to Christ"
00:35:02.43\00:35:05.93
than there was born in her heart
00:35:05.96\00:35:07.48
"there is born in
his heart a desire
00:35:07.51\00:35:10.05
to make known to
others what a precious friend"
00:35:10.08\00:35:13.30
write that in.
00:35:13.33\00:35:14.36
"What a precious
friend he has found in Jesus."
00:35:14.39\00:35:19.69
Do you think of
Jesus as your friend?
00:35:19.72\00:35:22.03
You really can,
you don't have to
00:35:22.06\00:35:23.88
you know I don't
want to get too familiar.
00:35:23.91\00:35:27.14
No, He is your
friend. He is your friend.
00:35:27.17\00:35:31.48
What a precious
friend you found in Jesus.
00:35:31.51\00:35:33.85
"The saving and
sanctifying truth
00:35:33.88\00:35:35.21
can't be shut up in your heart.
00:35:35.24\00:35:37.33
We shall not be
able to hold our peace."
00:35:37.36\00:35:38.81
Oh I love this.
00:35:38.84\00:35:39.87
You can't keep
quite you're gonna have to
00:35:39.90\00:35:40.93
say something
about it to somebody
00:35:40.96\00:35:42.40
I got to tell you
about this friend of mine
00:35:42.43\00:35:44.02
who doesn't tell me my weakness
but he calls me by my strength
00:35:44.05\00:35:46.97
when I not even
have my strength yet.
00:35:47.00\00:35:49.45
Wow, "If we have tasted
and seen that the Lord is good,
00:35:49.48\00:35:52.83
we shall have something to tell.
00:35:52.86\00:35:54.34
Like Philip when
he found the Savior,
00:35:54.37\00:35:56.36
we shall invite
others" come, come, come,
00:35:56.39\00:35:58.56
"into His presence.
00:35:58.59\00:35:59.62
We shall seek to present
to them the attractions."
00:35:59.65\00:36:03.19
Would you make sure
you get that word in
00:36:03.22\00:36:05.60
because some people go around
00:36:05.63\00:36:07.74
and they are
always talking about
00:36:07.77\00:36:09.39
the distractions of Christ.
00:36:09.42\00:36:12.36
This is what is
not good about them
00:36:12.39\00:36:13.78
and this will be what's
tough about this Christian life.
00:36:13.81\00:36:16.12
And this is where the burden
gets heavy for peace sake.
00:36:16.15\00:36:20.04
If you can't say
anything nice about Jesus
00:36:20.07\00:36:21.94
don't say anything at all.
00:36:21.97\00:36:24.90
Talk about His attractions.
00:36:24.93\00:36:27.62
Man, you see that
way I will tell you what
00:36:27.65\00:36:30.04
He's been that way with me.
00:36:30.07\00:36:31.33
Come check it out for yourself.
00:36:31.36\00:36:35.33
"We shall seek to present to
them the attractions of Christ
00:36:35.36\00:36:38.93
and the unseen
realities of the world to come.
00:36:38.96\00:36:41.19
There will be an earnest
longing that those around us may
00:36:41.22\00:36:44.72
here is our theme text
Behold the Lamb of God,
00:36:44.75\00:36:47.62
who takes away
the sin of the world."
00:36:47.65\00:36:51.32
So what does Philip do?
He goes looking for a friend.
00:36:51.35\00:36:54.87
I will tell you
what he knows precisely
00:36:54.90\00:36:56.39
where to find a friend.
00:36:56.42\00:36:57.54
Your friends, know
where you hang out.
00:36:57.57\00:36:59.24
They know, please.
00:36:59.27\00:37:00.65
Philip knows where
you will find his friend
00:37:00.68\00:37:02.23
under a fig tree.
00:37:02.26\00:37:03.58
Why he is under that fig tree
00:37:03.61\00:37:05.00
in once split
second we will find out.
00:37:05.03\00:37:06.86
But let's go with
Philip to find Nathanael,
00:37:06.89\00:37:08.51
verse 45 "Philip found
Nathanael and he said to him,
00:37:08.54\00:37:12.30
'We have found Him.'
00:37:12.33\00:37:14.55
" This is the same,
same testimony as Andrew.
00:37:14.58\00:37:17.27
He's essentially
saying we found the Messiah.
00:37:17.30\00:37:18.99
"We have found Him
'of whom Moses in the law,
00:37:19.02\00:37:22.20
and also the prophets, wrote.'
00:37:22.23\00:37:24.50
" Now I'm gonna give
you his name Nathanael.
00:37:24.53\00:37:26.26
He is "Jesus of
Nazareth, the son of Joseph.
00:37:26.29\00:37:29.41
And Nathanael said to
him, 'Can any good thing
00:37:29.44\00:37:34.35
come out of that little town?
00:37:34.38\00:37:39.38
There was a little bit of intra
village rivalry around Galilee
00:37:39.41\00:37:42.82
and that's what was going on.
00:37:42.85\00:37:45.88
Nazareth, can you believe it?
00:37:45.91\00:37:49.81
But ladies and
gentlemen, in the sequence
00:37:49.84\00:37:51.11
we have just read this
last five or six verses.
00:37:51.14\00:37:53.03
What we have found are
imbedded seven simple steps
00:37:53.06\00:37:57.93
on how to share
Jesus with your world.
00:37:57.96\00:38:00.79
Jot them down I'm gonna
fly them by seven of them.
00:38:00.82\00:38:02.94
Here they go.
00:38:02.97\00:38:04.00
Number one, first,
meet Jesus yourself.
00:38:04.03\00:38:07.37
That's absolutely impairment.
00:38:07.40\00:38:09.85
You can't share
what you don't have.
00:38:09.88\00:38:12.04
You have to meet Jesus yourself.
00:38:12.07\00:38:13.99
Andrew meets Philips
00:38:14.02\00:38:15.05
meet him then they go
to find their friends.
00:38:15.08\00:38:16.21
All right number
one, meet Jesus yourself.
00:38:16.24\00:38:18.08
Number two, spend time with Him.
00:38:18.11\00:38:20.27
Can't you say Oh, hey, Jesus,
00:38:20.30\00:38:21.33
nice to meet you
see you again then go.
00:38:21.36\00:38:22.81
You have to spend time.
00:38:22.84\00:38:24.52
You got to know why this
friendship is so special.
00:38:24.55\00:38:28.18
Why is this
friendship so meaningful?
00:38:28.21\00:38:30.36
Wow, because you
spend time with the Him.
00:38:30.39\00:38:31.59
Number three,
good counsel by the way
00:38:31.62\00:38:34.25
begin with a
family member or friend.
00:38:34.28\00:38:37.61
Some people will
say well, I am gonna try
00:38:37.64\00:38:38.71
so I'm go out and
stick on a stranger.
00:38:38.74\00:38:41.10
Oh, you can do it.
00:38:41.13\00:38:42.86
But you're setting yourself
up for some real disappointment.
00:38:42.89\00:38:45.67
Pick somebody who
already has confidence in you,
00:38:45.70\00:38:47.31
who knows you.
00:38:47.34\00:38:48.37
Says hey, I will
take your word for it.
00:38:48.40\00:38:50.21
Somebody that
loves you, family member.
00:38:50.24\00:38:52.29
Somebody who is
close to you a friend.
00:38:52.32\00:38:54.17
Tell them let
them be the first ones
00:38:54.20\00:38:56.15
you tell about Jesus.
00:38:56.18\00:38:57.70
As Ruthie
Jacobsen say jot it down.
00:38:57.73\00:38:59.24
"The kingdom
advances among friends."
00:38:59.27\00:39:01.52
That's how Jesus is doing,
Andrew, John, Philip, Nathanael.
00:39:01.55\00:39:05.89
He is pulling all these
friends He'll soon have 12.
00:39:05.92\00:39:09.85
One of them he never called.
00:39:09.88\00:39:12.11
One of them came and said
you need me and didn't need him.
00:39:12.14\00:39:18.57
Sad story.
00:39:18.60\00:39:21.30
Okay number three, begin with
the family member or a friend.
00:39:21.33\00:39:23.89
Number four, share your story.
00:39:23.92\00:39:26.53
Some people call on
testimony. What's a testimony?
00:39:26.56\00:39:28.32
It is simply telling your
story about you and Jesus.
00:39:28.35\00:39:30.28
That's what Andrews did.
00:39:30.31\00:39:31.34
Hey, Peter, I got to
tell you about me and Jesus.
00:39:31.37\00:39:32.93
That's what Phil did.
00:39:32.96\00:39:33.99
You know, Nathanael let me
tell you about me and Jesus.
00:39:34.02\00:39:35.76
Just tell your
story that's number four.
00:39:35.79\00:39:37.44
Number 5, do not argue.
00:39:37.47\00:39:41.64
Notice how Philip
deafly sidestepped the argument
00:39:41.67\00:39:45.87
that the Nathanael
was trying to pick.
00:39:45.90\00:39:46.94
Oh, come on
Nazareth, not a word.
00:39:46.97\00:39:51.29
Instead he does number six,
00:39:51.32\00:39:53.05
"Invite personal
examination come and see."
00:39:53.08\00:39:56.98
Hey, look at I know it
doesn't make sense to you
00:39:57.01\00:39:58.73
come on check it out.
00:39:58.76\00:40:00.22
Trust me.
00:40:00.25\00:40:01.28
Do you know, you
and I friends, right?
00:40:01.31\00:40:03.08
Yeah.
00:40:03.11\00:40:04.14
Can you trust me. Yeah.
00:40:04.17\00:40:05.20
Come on, check it out.
00:40:05.23\00:40:07.47
And finally, number seven,
00:40:07.50\00:40:09.00
important, bring them to Jesus.
00:40:09.03\00:40:11.71
In other words stay
with your family members,
00:40:11.74\00:40:13.13
stay with your friend,
don't try to invitation
00:40:13.16\00:40:15.55
say hey go find
Jesus, blessings on you.
00:40:15.58\00:40:18.27
No, you got to go with Him.
00:40:18.30\00:40:19.74
You got to lead Him,
you got to journey with Him.
00:40:19.77\00:40:21.86
I am with you. We're close.
00:40:21.89\00:40:23.75
You've confidence in
me You've met to Jesus
00:40:23.78\00:40:25.35
but you've confidence
to me, let's go together.
00:40:25.38\00:40:28.18
Always journey with Him.
00:40:28.21\00:40:30.23
There they are
seven simple steps,
00:40:30.26\00:40:32.74
let me take you to Jesus.
00:40:32.77\00:40:33.96
Oh come on, Dwight,
has this work in real life.
00:40:33.99\00:40:35.77
I mean look, if Jesus were
here and He is coming to chapel
00:40:35.80\00:40:38.26
or something than I could
bring everybody to chapel.
00:40:38.29\00:40:39.63
Look, I want you all
to meet my friend Jesus
00:40:39.66\00:40:41.35
but He is not here now.
00:40:41.38\00:40:43.76
Okay, I will
show you how it works.
00:40:43.79\00:40:45.37
We'll do it right here.
00:40:45.40\00:40:47.17
Let me share an example for you.
00:40:47.20\00:40:50.55
In today's
bulletin is one of these
00:40:50.58\00:40:55.97
put up here we
have got the camera on.
00:40:56.00\00:40:58.03
Can you see it?
00:40:58.06\00:40:59.14
It says, "Prophecies Decoded."
00:41:02.06\00:41:04.75
It's in your worship bulletin.
00:41:04.78\00:41:06.79
Do you know this is--
this is a satellite lectureship
00:41:06.82\00:41:10.88
done by a friend of
all of ours Ron Clouzet.
00:41:10.91\00:41:13.35
He sits in this church
every Sabbath of worship
00:41:13.38\00:41:15.08
when he is around.
00:41:15.11\00:41:16.64
He is going to do this.
00:41:16.67\00:41:19.33
Prophecies
Decoded, ah, come on Dwight,
00:41:19.36\00:41:21.62
I am not into prophecy you were
talking about sharing Jesus.
00:41:21.65\00:41:25.33
I am talking
about sharing Jesus.
00:41:25.36\00:41:26.58
You're not-- you're
kidding me, aren't you
00:41:26.61\00:41:28.21
when you say, you're
not getting into prophecies.
00:41:28.24\00:41:30.73
Oh, man, please
look at in chapter 5,
00:41:30.76\00:41:32.49
at the Gospel of John
we're gonna run into this line
00:41:32.52\00:41:34.37
one of these day, Jesus
said you search the scriptures
00:41:34.40\00:41:36.67
because they are
they which testify me.
00:41:36.70\00:41:39.89
That's what prophecy is,
it tells the story of Jesus.
00:41:39.92\00:41:42.03
In fact, the
greatest prophetic book
00:41:42.06\00:41:43.33
at the end of the New
Testament is called Revelation.
00:41:43.36\00:41:46.11
It's the Revelation of what?
The Revelation of Jesus Christ.
00:41:46.14\00:41:50.77
So here's our verse.
00:41:50.80\00:41:54.04
You take one of
these, somebody says,
00:41:54.07\00:41:56.15
"Yeah I am not in the prophecy."
00:41:56.18\00:41:57.21
Oh, come on, come
on, it's about Jesus.
00:41:57.24\00:42:03.17
You take it to a friend,
all right, somebody you know.
00:42:03.20\00:42:05.80
Somebody in the dormitory
that you know that needs Jesus.
00:42:05.83\00:42:08.68
Okay, so you take it
personally deliver it.
00:42:08.71\00:42:10.62
You know, stick
it under the door.
00:42:10.65\00:42:13.21
You deliver it.
Neighbor, deliver it.
00:42:13.24\00:42:16.44
Colleague at
work, you deliver it.
00:42:16.47\00:42:18.63
You say listen, this is
our fascinating lectureship
00:42:18.66\00:42:21.55
that's beginning two
weeks from last night,
00:42:21.58\00:42:23.49
two weeks from last night.
00:42:23.52\00:42:24.63
You'll be right here to
Pioneer Memorial Church.
00:42:24.66\00:42:27.24
I am gonna pick you
up and let's go together.
00:42:27.27\00:42:29.25
You don't have to
stay for the whole thing.
00:42:29.28\00:42:31.11
If you don't like it you leave.
00:42:31.14\00:42:33.11
But I have found
these prophecies not only a,
00:42:33.14\00:42:36.57
a steering opening
to the headlines today
00:42:36.60\00:42:39.89
but I have found they
tell about my friend Jesus.
00:42:39.92\00:42:43.02
I love to have you come.
00:42:43.05\00:42:44.19
Let me pick you up, what
time I am going to pick you up
00:42:44.22\00:42:45.83
because this is going
to start at 7:20 sharp?
00:42:45.86\00:42:49.25
When can I pick you up?
00:42:49.28\00:42:50.39
What do we just do,
00:42:50.42\00:42:51.45
we went through all
seven steps, right here.
00:42:51.48\00:42:53.12
We did all seven steps.
00:42:53.15\00:42:54.72
Oh, no I am not into prophecy.
00:42:54.75\00:42:56.12
Now come on, come on,
00:42:56.15\00:42:57.18
you know, me let's
just check it out together.
00:42:57.21\00:42:59.21
I think you will
be happily surprised.
00:42:59.24\00:43:02.78
Come and see. I go with you.
00:43:02.81\00:43:06.18
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:43:06.21\00:43:07.24
we are talking
about rocket science here?
00:43:07.27\00:43:09.34
You're kidding.
00:43:09.37\00:43:10.45
Hey I gonna ask you
this question, you tell me.
00:43:10.48\00:43:12.45
Do you suppose Jesus
worked hard to make sure
00:43:12.48\00:43:15.98
that sharing Him, with
other people on this planet
00:43:16.01\00:43:19.45
would be the most gruesome
00:43:19.48\00:43:21.05
and awful
experience we could ever have?
00:43:21.08\00:43:23.55
Do you think He
worked hard to do that?
00:43:23.58\00:43:26.21
I think it's a flipside
of that coin, don't you.
00:43:26.24\00:43:28.30
I think Jesus says,
I am gonna make this
00:43:28.33\00:43:30.10
as easiest possible
for you, find a friend,
00:43:30.13\00:43:33.33
somebody who loves
you, somebody who trusts you
00:43:33.36\00:43:35.52
and go to that friend and
say I want to come with me
00:43:35.55\00:43:38.21
I will go with you.
00:43:38.24\00:43:39.70
We'll go together.
00:43:39.73\00:43:40.94
I think you're gonna
be happily surprised.
00:43:40.97\00:43:43.95
What's not to like about that?
00:43:43.98\00:43:45.54
When we stack of these
at the door when you leave
00:43:51.54\00:43:53.84
any other greeting
stations, grab a handful.
00:43:53.87\00:43:55.72
Say, I got more than one
friend, great grab a handful.
00:43:55.75\00:43:58.11
Hand him out.
00:43:58.14\00:43:59.32
By the way Pastor Rodley
is telling me listen Dwight,
00:43:59.35\00:44:01.54
make sure they know that
in the worship bulletin today
00:44:01.57\00:44:04.32
there is a page for
signing up as a volunteer.
00:44:04.35\00:44:07.13
We need all kinds of volunteers
00:44:07.16\00:44:08.72
to help make this
event a huge success.
00:44:08.75\00:44:12.76
So you bring your
friends volunteer if you want.
00:44:12.79\00:44:16.04
You see that
page in the bulletin.
00:44:16.07\00:44:18.63
By the way let me tell
you this before I sit down.
00:44:18.66\00:44:20.87
There is
something in it for you.
00:44:20.90\00:44:23.76
No, I am serious, you
know, those Steps to Christ
00:44:23.79\00:44:26.73
quotation a moment
ago we didn't finish it
00:44:26.76\00:44:28.17
let's finish it right now.
00:44:28.20\00:44:29.24
Put it back up
on the screen please
00:44:29.27\00:44:30.41
you will have to fill it in.
00:44:30.44\00:44:31.47
"And the effort to bless
others" because sharing Jesus
00:44:34.17\00:44:36.73
what is that He's
trying to bless somebody else.
00:44:36.76\00:44:38.53
"And the effort to bless others
00:44:38.56\00:44:39.71
will react in
blessings upon ourselves.
00:44:39.74\00:44:42.92
This was the purpose of God
00:44:42.95\00:44:44.64
in giving us a part to
act in the plan of salvation.
00:44:44.67\00:44:47.39
He has granted you
and me the privilege
00:44:47.42\00:44:49.68
of becoming
partakers of the divine nature
00:44:49.71\00:44:51.67
and, in their turn,
in our turn of spreading
00:44:51.70\00:44:55.21
defusing blessings
to those around us."
00:44:55.24\00:44:58.11
Now, here coming out,
this is, this is dynamite.
00:44:58.14\00:44:59.90
This is the highest
honor, can you believe that.
00:44:59.93\00:45:02.28
Now notice that,
this is the highest honor.
00:45:02.31\00:45:05.25
There is no
honor higher than this.
00:45:05.28\00:45:06.89
"This is the highest
honor, this is the greatest joy
00:45:06.92\00:45:10.35
that it is possible for God
to give to bestowed you and me."
00:45:10.38\00:45:16.18
Why would it be
such a high honor,
00:45:16.21\00:45:17.39
why would it be
such a great joy?
00:45:17.42\00:45:19.33
Because just like
John, just like John
00:45:19.36\00:45:21.84
you get the privilege of same.
00:45:21.87\00:45:23.17
Hey, look, look, look this
is the one, this is the one.
00:45:23.20\00:45:27.37
I want you to meet Him.
There is no higher honor.
00:45:27.40\00:45:31.50
And by the way
you're born for this.
00:45:31.53\00:45:33.41
You were born to do this.
00:45:33.44\00:45:35.42
That's why you live.
00:45:35.45\00:45:36.96
You think that you live
just to occupy little bit
00:45:36.99\00:45:38.80
of tiller farmer until
you become fertilizer again?
00:45:38.83\00:45:42.69
You think that's why you live?
00:45:42.72\00:45:43.80
You're kidding,
you've been born.
00:45:43.83\00:45:45.93
Why did Jesus find you?
00:45:45.96\00:45:47.23
Why did He find
Andrew because I want Peter.
00:45:47.26\00:45:50.04
I am getting you
Andrew, you get Peter for me.
00:45:50.07\00:45:52.71
I am getting you Philip,
you get Nathanael for me.
00:45:52.74\00:45:55.99
He needs us
that's why we were born.
00:45:56.02\00:45:58.61
This is the
highest honor you can have.
00:45:58.64\00:46:03.06
Keep, keep going.
00:46:03.09\00:46:04.12
"Those who thus
become participants
00:46:04.15\00:46:05.68
in the labors of
love are brought."
00:46:05.71\00:46:07.34
Can you believe that word?
00:46:07.37\00:46:09.22
"Nearest."
00:46:09.25\00:46:11.56
Nearest. Nearest.
00:46:11.59\00:46:14.25
You want to be close to God?
00:46:14.28\00:46:17.29
I can't imagine
anybody saying no Dwight,
00:46:17.32\00:46:18.39
I actually I don't
want to be very near God
00:46:18.42\00:46:19.71
I want to be close
enough but not that near.
00:46:19.74\00:46:22.14
Are you kidding you
wouldn't be here today.
00:46:22.17\00:46:23.80
You want to be close to god
00:46:23.83\00:46:25.42
this is the one
activity in this life
00:46:25.45\00:46:28.10
that will bring
you nearest to God.
00:46:28.13\00:46:30.87
You can't get
closer to the nearest.
00:46:30.90\00:46:34.54
Wow, why do we make.
00:46:34.57\00:46:36.70
Do you know what
it had just hit me
00:46:36.73\00:46:38.51
why we make such a
big deal about this?
00:46:38.54\00:46:40.05
I bet you there is
somebody around here
00:46:40.08\00:46:41.38
who doesn't want us to do this.
00:46:41.41\00:46:44.70
He knows how fast it goes, stop.
00:46:44.73\00:46:49.13
This is too much word
come on, you don't have time
00:46:49.16\00:46:51.73
look at look oh
good night. Go, go, go.
00:46:51.76\00:46:54.87
Why would he do that?
00:46:54.90\00:46:56.18
Because you are the most
persuasive witness Christ has.
00:46:56.21\00:46:59.14
You can show him the person,
the person will fall down dead.
00:46:59.17\00:47:01.59
He said I can't do that.
00:47:01.62\00:47:03.14
I will send a friend of his.
00:47:03.17\00:47:04.74
She will listen
to a friend of hers.
00:47:04.77\00:47:07.70
You're the best shot God
has, don't let your friend down.
00:47:07.73\00:47:11.23
That one and that one,
00:47:11.26\00:47:14.20
don't let your
friend down, be a witness.
00:47:14.23\00:47:16.69
Wow, so Philip does.
00:47:16.72\00:47:18.36
So Philip is talking
Nathanael, come and see
00:47:18.39\00:47:21.49
okay verse 47 and look at this.
00:47:21.52\00:47:23.52
Jesus is waiting,
Jesus has set this thing
00:47:23.55\00:47:25.59
and watch this verse 47.
00:47:25.62\00:47:26.76
And "Jesus saw Nathanael coming
toward Him, and said of him."
00:47:26.79\00:47:30.16
Not in the whispers,
00:47:30.19\00:47:31.22
you see has all these
little disciples around now
00:47:31.25\00:47:32.51
little tall as he is.
00:47:32.54\00:47:34.15
He has all these
disciples around him
00:47:34.18\00:47:35.55
and he is saying it
loud enough so that Nathanae
00:47:35.58\00:47:37.53
who is walking this way in
spite of the quenching sandals
00:47:37.56\00:47:39.97
on the wilderness rock,
Nathanael can overhear Jesus.
00:47:40.00\00:47:43.06
So Jesus is talking rather loud.
00:47:43.09\00:47:44.59
He said Oh, by the way
hey fellows look "Behold,
00:47:44.62\00:47:48.35
an Israelite indeed
a true blue Israelite,
00:47:48.38\00:47:52.68
in whom there is no deceit!"
00:47:52.71\00:47:55.66
And the Greek word for deceit
is the bait on a fishhook.
00:47:55.69\00:48:00.49
In whom there is no bait
because I know some people
00:48:00.52\00:48:03.62
who say they're
followers of Christ
00:48:03.65\00:48:05.17
that they
practice bait and switch
00:48:05.20\00:48:07.34
from about ten
yards away they look great
00:48:07.37\00:48:09.78
until you get up
close and then mercy
00:48:09.81\00:48:12.11
when did they move in next door
00:48:12.14\00:48:13.63
and why do we have to
live next door to them.
00:48:13.66\00:48:15.34
Bait and switch.
00:48:18.94\00:48:21.49
Hey here is the true
Israelite no bait on that hook,
00:48:21.52\00:48:25.01
he is real deal.
00:48:25.04\00:48:27.77
Oh, Nathanael comes
walking up and he say
00:48:27.80\00:48:29.99
you how do you know about me.
00:48:30.02\00:48:34.32
Jesus looked at him and
look at that next verse.
00:48:34.35\00:48:35.64
Jesus looked at him and He said,
00:48:35.67\00:48:36.70
I want to tell you
something Nathanael.
00:48:36.73\00:48:38.00
"Before Philip came to you I
saw you under that fig tree."
00:48:38.03\00:48:45.67
And just like that this
is what sourced down into me.
00:48:45.70\00:48:47.94
I have always said
why come on Nathanael
00:48:47.97\00:48:50.18
this is don't you think
this is little precipitous,
00:48:50.21\00:48:51.87
it can't just brooded it out.
00:48:51.90\00:48:53.63
Because oh,
00:48:53.66\00:48:54.88
"Rabbi you are the king
of Israel and Son of God!"
00:48:54.91\00:48:58.92
How did you do
that so fast Nathanael?
00:48:58.95\00:49:01.51
That's the clue to what was
happening under the fig tree.
00:49:01.54\00:49:06.25
Apparently, Nathanael has been
in prayer under the fig tree.
00:49:06.28\00:49:10.86
He has heard John the
Baptist he has seen this skinny
00:49:10.89\00:49:13.37
that he is pointed
at this young adult.
00:49:13.40\00:49:15.27
And he is under this
fig tree praying to God.
00:49:15.30\00:49:17.79
Almighty, God you can't--
00:49:17.82\00:49:19.14
God, you can't be serious
this can't be the Messiah.
00:49:19.17\00:49:21.77
Is this really the Lamb of God?
00:49:21.80\00:49:23.67
God, I am asking
you give me a sign,
00:49:23.70\00:49:25.99
give me a sign
and I will believe.
00:49:26.02\00:49:29.00
And when
Nathanael comes walking up
00:49:29.03\00:49:30.71
he gets the perfect sign.
00:49:30.74\00:49:32.55
I saw you under the fig tree.
00:49:32.58\00:49:37.31
Wow, your God. Isn't that so?
00:49:37.34\00:49:42.47
By the way when
do you have worship?
00:49:42.50\00:49:44.38
First part of the day.
00:49:44.41\00:49:46.02
Where's it that
you go to have prayer.
00:49:46.05\00:49:48.36
Wherever it is.
00:49:48.39\00:49:50.12
Isn't it stunning to realize
00:49:50.15\00:49:52.73
He sees me in
my private prayers?
00:49:52.76\00:49:56.47
He sees you with
your broken heart,
00:49:56.50\00:49:59.09
he sees you with
your tortured life.
00:49:59.12\00:50:02.17
He sees you with
your weary heart.
00:50:02.20\00:50:05.40
He sees you-- I saw you in
the corner of that dorm room.
00:50:05.43\00:50:08.51
I saw you this
morning I was listening, girl.
00:50:08.54\00:50:11.43
Boy, I was
listening to you I saw you.
00:50:11.46\00:50:17.14
Isn't that amazing?
00:50:17.17\00:50:18.85
Wow, you are God.
00:50:18.88\00:50:22.83
I know and I am
your friend follow me.
00:50:22.86\00:50:27.94
Mercy, and Jesus looks
into Nathanael's face by the way
00:50:27.97\00:50:31.68
and He says to him, verse 50.
00:50:31.71\00:50:33.60
This is the end.
00:50:33.63\00:50:35.47
"Jesus answered
and said to him."
00:50:35.50\00:50:36.74
Hey "Because I said to you,
I saw you under the fig tree,'
00:50:36.77\00:50:39.95
do you believe?"
00:50:39.98\00:50:41.04
Oh, Nathanael
00:50:41.07\00:50:42.17
you're going to see
greater things than these.
00:50:42.20\00:50:43.93
Now, here comes verse 51.
00:50:43.96\00:50:45.29
"And Jesus said to
Nathanael, most assuredly."
00:50:45.32\00:50:48.08
And by the way we're running
to it for the first time.
00:50:48.11\00:50:50.08
Twenty five, times,
only the writer John
00:50:50.11\00:50:53.00
will exercise
this literary device,
00:50:53.03\00:50:55.30
two words in the
Greek, the same word, Amen.
00:50:55.33\00:50:59.55
In English it
would be Amen, Amen.
00:50:59.58\00:51:01.72
Only John does it and
every time John inserts
00:51:01.75\00:51:04.67
twenty five, times,
in his gospel, amen, amen
00:51:04.70\00:51:06.86
it's like he is
waving this red flag.
00:51:06.89\00:51:09.59
You all reader, slowdown
now, slowdown something big
00:51:09.62\00:51:13.31
is about to be declared.
00:51:13.34\00:51:15.87
Amen, amen, "I
say to you from now on
00:51:15.90\00:51:20.34
you shall see the heaven opened
00:51:20.37\00:51:22.93
and the angels of god ascending
00:51:22.96\00:51:26.02
and descending
upon the Son of Man."
00:51:26.05\00:51:28.61
Look at me Nathanael,
00:51:28.64\00:51:30.63
you remembered
the story of Jacob,
00:51:30.66\00:51:31.97
you remembered Jacob's ladder.
00:51:32.00\00:51:33.89
I am that ladder.
00:51:33.92\00:51:35.49
I will take the
hand of Almighty God
00:51:35.52\00:51:37.27
I take the hand
of the human race.
00:51:37.30\00:51:38.77
I am the connection.
00:51:38.80\00:51:40.87
I am and on me the angels
of God will ascend and descend.
00:51:40.90\00:51:48.07
I just caught it for
the first time this week
00:51:48.10\00:51:50.14
it says ascend and descend.
00:51:50.17\00:51:51.96
I thought it was
descend and ascend.
00:51:51.99\00:51:54.74
No when Jesus
steps into your life
00:51:54.77\00:51:57.17
the ladder goes
down into your life.
00:51:57.20\00:51:59.04
And in that instinct
you have the bonus blessing
00:51:59.07\00:52:02.04
of the angels of heaven
00:52:02.07\00:52:03.33
who are on the ground
boots on the ground with you.
00:52:03.36\00:52:06.23
They ascend to
heaven with your petitions
00:52:06.26\00:52:08.31
they descend from
heaven with God's promises.
00:52:08.34\00:52:10.37
They ascend to
heaven with your cries
00:52:10.40\00:52:12.22
they descend from
heaven with God's answers.
00:52:12.25\00:52:15.05
When you get Jesus,
when you get the ladder,
00:52:15.08\00:52:20.00
you get all of the heaven.
00:52:20.03\00:52:22.68
Now tell me that isn't the
friend to get excited about?
00:52:22.71\00:52:26.84
And because I am
God's ladder in your life
00:52:31.59\00:52:35.00
I need you to be my
ladder in someone else's life.
00:52:35.03\00:52:40.11
Ladies and
gentlemen, that's the truth.
00:52:40.14\00:52:41.96
Write it down in closing please.
00:52:41.99\00:52:44.42
"Once Jesus becomes your Lamb,
00:52:44.45\00:52:49.26
you become His ladder."
00:52:49.29\00:52:53.56
What's that mean?
Put it the other way.
00:52:53.59\00:52:56.65
Next screen please.
00:52:56.68\00:52:57.87
"Once Jesus becomes your
Savior, you become His witness."
00:52:57.90\00:53:04.17
It just goes ipso facto it
just follows just like that.
00:53:04.20\00:53:09.22
Do I, do I have to
be a witness for Him.
00:53:12.07\00:53:14.51
No, its not do I have to
its do I get to, you get to.
00:53:14.54\00:53:20.04
And what do we just read
and this is the highest honor
00:53:20.07\00:53:22.88
the greatest joy
that is possible for God
00:53:22.91\00:53:25.00
to bestow upon men and
women hallelujah and amen.
00:53:25.03\00:53:30.72
Well, it has a pretty weak amen.
00:53:30.75\00:53:32.07
Let me try it again
hallelujah and amen.
00:53:32.10\00:53:34.88
Amen, that is an honor
that He has called you and me
00:53:34.91\00:53:39.16
to become witnesses for Him.
00:53:39.19\00:53:40.22
So stand your feet right now,
we're going to sing the song
00:53:40.25\00:53:42.13
that you learned
in Sabbath school
00:53:42.16\00:53:43.39
and I promise you,
you have not forgotten it.
00:53:43.42\00:53:45.37
Stand to your feet
right now and minister music
00:53:45.40\00:53:48.01
will give us a mighty chord
00:53:48.04\00:53:49.53
and we're going
to start with that.
00:53:49.56\00:53:53.52
This little light of
mine, I'm gonna let it shine
00:53:53.55\00:54:00.73
This little light of
mine, I'm gonna let it shine
00:54:00.76\00:54:07.72
Let it shine, let
it shine, let it shine
00:54:07.75\00:54:12.73
Put your hands, put
your hand in the air.
00:54:12.76\00:54:15.29
All around the neighborhood
00:54:15.32\00:54:19.38
I'm gonna let it shine
00:54:19.41\00:54:23.00
All around the neighborhood
I'm gonna let it shine
00:54:23.03\00:54:30.08
Let it shine, let
it shine, let it shine
00:54:30.11\00:54:35.90
All right, now you
know this next one.
00:54:35.93\00:54:37.86
Won't let Satan 'whoof'
it out I'm gonna let it shine
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Won't let Satan 'whoof'
it out I'm gonna let it shine
00:54:45.39\00:54:52.12
Let it shine, let
it shine, let it shine
00:54:52.15\00:54:58.14
Till Jesus comes.
00:54:58.17\00:54:59.90
Let it shine till Jesus
comes I'm gonna let it shine
00:54:59.93\00:55:07.88
Let it shine till Jesus
comes I'm gonna let it shine
00:55:07.91\00:55:14.66
Let it shine, let
it shine, let it shine
00:55:14.69\00:55:21.51
All right now
sing it like a prayer.
00:55:21.54\00:55:23.84
This little light of mine
00:55:23.87\00:55:28.27
I'm gonna let it shine
00:55:28.30\00:55:32.96
This little light of
mine I'm gonna let it shine
00:55:32.99\00:55:40.47
Let it shine, let it shine,
00:55:40.50\00:55:45.47
let it shine
00:55:45.50\00:55:49.90
Oh, Father, that is our choice.
00:55:49.93\00:55:52.44
That is our prayer.
00:55:52.47\00:55:53.75
We were born for this
just like John the Baptist,
00:55:53.78\00:55:56.88
born for this one testimony.
00:55:56.91\00:55:59.55
Oh, world you who know me.
00:55:59.58\00:56:02.78
Take a look at him
this is the Lamb of God
00:56:02.81\00:56:07.60
who takes away the sin of world.
00:56:07.63\00:56:10.95
God, please make us
mighty witnesses for our Christ.
00:56:10.98\00:56:17.45
In His name we pray, amen.
00:56:17.48\00:56:20.87
It's been a pleasure to be
able to worship with you today.
00:56:33.39\00:56:35.62
I hope the Spirit of
Jesus has blessed your time
00:56:35.65\00:56:38.79
with us right here in
the Pioneer Memorial Church,
00:56:38.82\00:56:40.66
on the campus of
Andrews University.
00:56:40.69\00:56:42.80
Do you know that around
the world people join us
00:56:42.83\00:56:44.57
every week for
this hour of worship?
00:56:44.60\00:56:46.25
We're always
looking as a consequence
00:56:46.28\00:56:48.10
for new ways to bridge.
00:56:48.13\00:56:49.32
Somehow, to
connect with these people
00:56:49.35\00:56:51.22
who come here to
worship you the telecast.
00:56:51.25\00:56:54.55
One of the areas that
is quickly growing for us
00:56:54.58\00:56:56.89
is our website.
00:56:56.92\00:56:57.95
We have more than a
140,000 visitors last year.
00:56:57.98\00:57:01.79
It's an incredible opportunity
that God has given us
00:57:01.82\00:57:04.40
to expand His kingdom.
00:57:04.43\00:57:06.43
If you'd like to
help partner with us
00:57:06.46\00:57:08.40
as we seek to spread
the everlasting gospel
00:57:08.43\00:57:11.21
I'd love to have you
call our toll free number.
00:57:11.24\00:57:14.01
We have got very
friendly operators standing by.
00:57:14.04\00:57:16.36
Here is the number 877-HIS-WILL,
00:57:16.39\00:57:19.46
877 and then two words HIS WILL,
00:57:19.49\00:57:21.60
one of the operators will be
happy to give you the details
00:57:21.63\00:57:24.99
of how you can partner
with this global ministry.
00:57:25.02\00:57:27.57
If you prefer listen,
you could do it all online.
00:57:27.60\00:57:30.15
Go to our website
please www.pmchurch.tv
00:57:30.18\00:57:34.25
I'd be honored to have
the privilege of partnering
00:57:34.28\00:57:36.47
with you as we
seek to spread the truth
00:57:36.50\00:57:38.30
about God for this generation.
00:57:38.33\00:57:40.42
We are living in urgent times.
00:57:40.45\00:57:43.36
Now more than ever
we've got to go to the world
00:57:43.39\00:57:46.94
with the good
news entrusted to us.
00:57:46.97\00:57:48.52
So once again hears that
toll free number 877-HIS-WILL.
00:57:48.55\00:57:52.86
Thank you in
advance for your generosity
00:57:52.89\00:57:55.30
it blesses me and
you grow this ministry.
00:57:55.33\00:57:58.59
I pray that the
Spirit of Christ will abide
00:57:58.62\00:58:00.76
with you every step of the way
00:58:00.79\00:58:02.52
and hope you'll come back
again next time right here
00:58:02.55\00:58:05.54
as we continue our
worship journey together.
00:58:05.57\00:58:08.48