From the campus
of Andrews University
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this is New Perception
with Dr. Dwight K. Nelson.
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Rejoice, the Lord is King!
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Your Lord and King adore!
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Rejoice, give thanks, and sing
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And triumph evermore
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Lift up your
heart, lift up your voice!
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Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
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Jesus, the Savior, reigns
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The God of truth and love
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When He had purged ur stains
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He took His seat above
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Lift up your
heart, lift up your voice!
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Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!
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Rejoice, in glorious hope!
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Our Lord the judge shall come,
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And take His servants
up to their eternal home
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Lift up your
heart, lift up your voice!
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Rejoice, again I say
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Rejoice!
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Let's pray.
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Oh, God, how firm a foundation
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we find in the word,
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we've not follow
cunningly devised fables.
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As we open Holy Scripture now
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if the might
third person of the God
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had who inspired
the stories long ago
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in today's teaching inspire
us to respond accordingly.
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In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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I'm a pilgrim,
and I'm a stranger
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I can tarry, I
can tarry but a night
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"'If the public will countenance
such a quack pretender,
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in his efforts
to excite the minds
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of ignorant,
superstitious people,
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they, as well as he
should bear the responsibility.'
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The Republican Herald."
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"'We must speak
out, and we will.
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These men are the
worst enemies of God.'
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The Olive Branch."
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"'The second advent delusion
has proven the greatest calamity
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that has
befallen our organization'
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General
Convention of Baptist, 1846."
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"'When I look back to the period
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when we began to publish
the news of a coming Savior.
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I think it the
happiest time of my life.
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The glorious appearing of Christ
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is my only hope
to this I claim.'
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William Miller."
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On the 22nd of October
in 1844 as tradition has it,
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a group of people
stood or sat expectantly
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from morning to night on a
large rock ledge in a place
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then called Low
Hampton, New York.
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Nearby in the
front room of a farmhouse
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a 62-year-old
itinerant Baptist preacher
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sat reading the
Bible and praying.
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These people and perhaps
hundreds of thousands more
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from Portland,
Maine to Saint Louis
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to Washington DC
were called Millerites.
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Some had sold or given away
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all their possessions
in the preceding days.
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Others had left crops
standing in the field.
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They had eaten what they thought
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was their last meal on earth.
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They and William
Miller a man in the farmhouse
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were waiting quietly
for the end of the world.
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So the fair question to
ask is the spiritual children
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of William Miller is this,
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how can a 167 year
old event still retain
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its cutting edge in
the apocalyptic community?
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They were right
about the prophetic
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time marker of Daniel 8:14.
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Scholars had
heaped up books affirming
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the correctness
of that conclusion.
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Obviously wrong about the
event Christ did not come.
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Something else happened at
that prophetic time marker.
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So as the descendants as
it were of William Miller,
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how do we keep a cutting-edge
on this 167 year old event?
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Before you're too
hard on that teaching
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I need to ask the
question this way.
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How do we keep the cutting edge?
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How do we
retain the cutting edge
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on an event 2,000 years ago
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a top of
mountain called Calgary?
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How does a believing
community keep that alive?
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Is the same question,
it's the same challenge.
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Let's not be too
hard on either event.
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How do we keep alive
the last red letter words?
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If you have a red letter Bible
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the last red
letter words in the Bible
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spoken by Christ at
the end of the apocalypse.
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"Surely I am coming soon."
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So how are we
gonna keep that one alive
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2,000 years later?
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Don't be too hard
on this Bible teaching
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that says before He returns
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the second time
there will be a celestial
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pre-advent convening judgment.
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Daniel 8:14.
Still speaks its truth.
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Ron Knott and producer Mohan
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who crafted this as DVD
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entitled "The
Midnight Cry, William Miller
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and the end of the world."
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The borrowed that title
from the parable Jesus told.
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You know, the
parable of the ten virgins
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and in the middle of the parable
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about Jesus speaks these words
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"But while the bridegroom"
Christ is the bridegroom.
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"But while the
bridegroom was delayed"
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It's a parable
Jesus is very clear
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about the second coming.
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"But while the
bridegroom was delayed,
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they all slumbered and slept."
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We have all slept.
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How do we live with this delay?
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A 167 years after
October 22, 1844 right now
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167 years to the
second here we are.
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Perhaps it's no
coincidence it all
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that we come in
the fourth gospel,
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we come to a series of Jesus
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most penetrating
statements about the judgment
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and we happen to come
to them on this October 22.
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I want to examine
those statements that be--
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did our prefaced
by a stunning miracle.
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Open your Bible
the fourth gospel,
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the Gospel of John
fly through one miracle
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and then two
stunning statements.
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John Chapter 4, you
didn't bring a Bible,
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you need to track this miracle.
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If it were just the miracle
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it would be worth it
all just for this narrative,
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John chapter 5.
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Grab the pew
Bible in front of you
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if you didn't bring a Bible.
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It's page 717 in that pew Bible.
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Unforgettable
miracle here in John 5,
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but it's followed by
two stunning statement
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about the judgments
and those statements
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that I want to get
to as fast as we can.
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So let's go, John 5:1
New King James Version.
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"After this" I put the
words on a screen for you.
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"After this there
was a feast of the Jews,
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and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."
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That's code language in John.
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John will repeat
that phrase, you know why?
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Because only John tells us
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that Jesus
repeatedly went up to Jerusalem.
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All the other gospels
these synoptic Gospels all say
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at the end He went up once.
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John says no again and again
He went up to Jerusalem, why?
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Because Jerusalem is
where Calvary will climax.
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So we already have
Calgary hinted at in this story.
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Calvary embedded in every
narrative in the Gospel of John.
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"After this there
was a feast to the Jews,
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and Jesus went up to Jerusalem."
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Verse 2 "Now
there is in Jerusalem,
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by the Sheep Gate a pool
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which is called
in Hebrew, Bethesda,"
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some suggest it
means house of mercy.
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"And it had five
porches or porticos."
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I've stood-- I've actually stood
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on the ledge in
Jerusalem and its way down
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because the
layers over the centuries
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have accumulated
as they've torn down
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and rebuilt,
torn down and rebuilt.
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There are actually two
pools for the pool of Bethesda,
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the length of a football field.
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So we're not talking about
a little wading pools here,
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a massive two pools
20 feet deep, 5 porticos,
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which means that their
porches on all four sides
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and then a portico
or porch in the middle
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and archaeologist are assuming
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that meant the separation
of genders two pools for each.
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"Now there is in Jerusalem
by the Sheep Gate a pool"
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verse 2 "which
is called in Hebrew,
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Bethesda, having five porches.
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In these lay a great multitude
of sick people, blind."
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The ancients
believe to heal a blind man
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is the pinnacle of
divine intervention.
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"Lame," they felt
the same about the lame.
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Those two-- those
two physical impairments
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were considered the unachievable
in terms of healing.
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"The blind, the
lame, the paralyzed
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waiting for the
moving of the water,"
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Somehow I got started
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in the Folklore
of that holy city
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that on certain
occasions unpredictable,
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there would come a supercharging
of the waters as it were.
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And if you stepped into
those waters you'd be healed.
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In fact, the Folklore was
the first person into the water
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when an angel that was the
belief an angel reached out
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and with his solicitor hand
he just stirred the rippling.
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The first person and is healed.
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It doesn't take a
whole lot of pondering
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to realize that
with that premise
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you can understand
it would always be those
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with the brew physical strength.
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Usually the least
of the sick, least sick
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who would be in the water first,
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because if you're
emaciated physically, medically
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there is no way
you can drag your frame
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those skin and
bones to that water,
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unless of
course you had a family
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who can rejuvenate, some friends
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who would hurry you
to the water's edge.
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Verse 5, so there they
lie by the hundreds packed
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around those two pools.
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"Now a certain man was there
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who had an
infirmity thirty-eight years."
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I feel like life is ended if
I have a cold for three days.
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I am miserable to
everybody around me.
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But some of you know,
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someone you know the
meaning of chronic suffering,
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pain that never goes
away, it just is with you,
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some of you know, 38
years skin and bones.
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That's where he is
lying right there too far.
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"Now a certain
man" verse 5 "was there
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who had an
infirmity thirty-eight years.
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And when Jesus saw him
lying their" Desire of Ages
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says by the way
that when Jesus stepped
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into that pool of
Bethesda two pools, really
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He inquired who's
been here the longest.
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Who is here the longest?
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Jesus purposely picked out.
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The Desire of Ages says
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is the worst
case, just hopeless.
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"And when Jesus
saw him lying there,
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and knew" see, " and
knew" he checked it out.
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"And knew that the
man had already been
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in that
condition for a long time,
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He said to him, 'Do
you what to be made well?'"
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What happened if Jesus
stood in front of you me today
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and He looked into our faces
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and He asked that question?
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Very privately of course to you,
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so that nobody else
would hear it, but you.
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If He looked into your face
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and He said, a girl, a boy,
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do you want to be made well?
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If Jesus stood
in front of me today
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and He said,
Dwight, I can heal you.
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I can heal you right now.
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Nobody else knows
what you're crippled over.
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I know, I can
heal you right now.
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What would I ask Him to do?
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If He asked me do
you want to be made well?
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Yes, please.
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Jesus leans over this emaciated
protruding cheek boned,
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sunken eyed countenance.
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When He leans over He
blocks the noonday sun
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and that's why the
bloodshot eyes open
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and they can see a stranger
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staring down at him back lighted
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by the glory of the afternoon.
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Do you want to be made well?
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"The sick man
answered Him," verse 7.
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"Sir, I have no man."
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I tell you what,
there's a whole sermon,
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someday
somebody's got to preacher it
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I have no one, I have no one.
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I have nobody in his dormitory.
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I have nobody on this campus.
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I have nobody in this community,
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I have no man, I have no woman,
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I have nobody who cares for me.
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Once in a while I get
an email from my worshipper
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who has
worshipped here for months
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and I tell you what, it
just makes my heart weep
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as that person describes
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coming here
Sabbath after Sabbath
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and there's nobody,
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nobody that shows
an interest in her,
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nobody that notices he's
even sitting in that pew.
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But I love that, I love that
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there's Johnny Bell
testimony a moment ago
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and I'm talking
to the family here
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at the Pioneer Memorial Church.
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Come on, go to
that website volunteer
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to become a
family away from family,
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a home away from home.
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We just had our
five over last Sabbath,
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had a glorious Sabbath together.
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Come on, that's what is about.
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We don't want anybody
leaving Andrews University
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and saying, you
know what, I had nobody.
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The whole four years
and nobody cared about me.
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That heartache "I have
no man to put me in a pool
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when the water is stirred up,
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but while I am coming,
another step down before me."
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The stronger obviously
are the ones who get healed.
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"Jesus said to him,"
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there must have been
something in that voice.
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There must have been something
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even in that back lighted face
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that mirrors compassion in hope
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Jesus says to that
man is He stoops over him.
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I'm telling you
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"Rise, take up
your bed and walk."
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Something in the heart of
that 38 years sick man leaps.
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He doesn't know
who is speaking to him
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but there's an ounce of
faith just a mustard seed
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and he jumps to his feet.
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Halleluiah.
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He jumps to his feet.
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"And immediately
the man was made well,
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and took up his
bed, and walked."
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Praise God.
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And John inserts
the word immediately
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because he wants high contrast
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between 38
years and immediately.
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For the last four chapters
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John has been
talking water, water,water
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and chapter 2
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the water pots of purification
in the wedding of Cana,
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in chapter 3 unless
you're born of water
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and chapter 4 the well
of Jacob's well in Samaria.
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And now in
chapter 5, water again,
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because there was
great ritual significance
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attached to the meaning of water
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and John is saying I
want to tell you something
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all the water in the
world can't save you,
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves.
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Boom he seals it by John 5.
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We've heard a joyful sound
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Jesus saves, Jesus saves,
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spread the glad news all around.
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Jesus saves, that's
the point of this miracle.
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Salvation is in Christ.
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Oh, we left off a sentence,
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we left off a sentence
in verse 19, didn't we?
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"And immediately
the man was made well,
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took up his bed, and walked."
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And now John purposely
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who has with held this phrase
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from the
beginning of his narrative
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for a moment
pregnant with drama.
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Now John inserts it
'cause he could have said it
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at the beginning
of the narrative.
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On the Sabbath Jesus
went to the pool of Bethesda
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and he found a sick man.
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No, not a word about
what day of the week it is
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only now the end of
verse 9, how does it read.
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"And that day
was the Sabbath day."
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And it was the Sabbath day.
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And John by that inclusion
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at the ending of the healing
is telling all these readers,
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the young
Messiah has intentionally
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chosen not to do
the healing on Tuesday,
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not to do it on
Monday, not to do it on Sunday,
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He chose to do it today
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and he found the
worst pathetic case
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around that pool and He says
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I'll do it on this one
so that it will be seen.
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He's thrown down the gauntlet
at the young Messiah as.
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He's challenging the
rabbinical regulations
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that have been heaped around
the Sabbath to protect it.
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Thirty nine
prohibitions they may have been
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well intended at the beginning
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to preserve the sanctity
of the seventh-day Sabbath,
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but they are now
strangulating the gift of God.
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And the Lord of the
Sabbath will not stand for it.
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He throws the gauntlet down
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and the challenge is on.
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It was the Sabbath day.
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And then-- then verse 10
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"The Jews" now
remember, come on, come on,
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whenever John
talks about the Jews
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he's not talking
about the Jewish people.
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He's talking about
the ecclesiastical,
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the religious hierarchy.
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He means the leaders.
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So you could read this way.
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Verse 10 The
leaders of the religion
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"therefore said
to the healed man
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who was cured,
'It is the Sabbath,
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it is not lawful for
you to carry your bed.'"
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Now ladies and gentlemen,
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arguably this is a
most well-known suffer
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in the city of
Jerusalem for 38 years
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even the grown-up children
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know the old man has
been lying there 38 years
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and he's never gotten healed.
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He's the most
well-known sufferer,
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so when he goes walking through,
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when he goes
walking to Jerusalem
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they know instantly who it is.
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Isn't that amazing?
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Not even a quiet
little, well, praise God.
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Hey, guys, can you
believe this, high five.
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Not a word about it,
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not a word about
thank God Almighty.
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The word is, because
when you're strangulated
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by legalism all you can think
of is exalting creed over need,
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it's always creed over need.
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Jesus comes long He says
no it's the other way around,
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it's need over creed.
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Not word about thank
God, for what just took place.
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Instead, what is
the problem with you,
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don't you know
this is a Sabbath?
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You carrying your bed?
00:21:16.29\00:21:18.53
And the poor man, the poor man.
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Verse 11, and why
you talking to me,
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and why you talking to me
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and that's what he
is saying in verse 11.
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"Don't talk to me,
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He who made me well said to me,
00:21:32.92\00:21:34.84
'Take up your bed and walk.'
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Then they asked him,
'Hey, who is this Man
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who said this to you,
Take up your bed and walk?'"
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Do you think they
need a little primer
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and healers that
might be in Jerusalem today?
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They know exactly who did it.
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Who else could do this?
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Thirty eight
years and not a doctor
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in sight has been
able to help this man
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and somebody walks
in and with one command,
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38 years out the window.
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They know who did it.
00:22:01.27\00:22:02.95
They need to
accumulate evidence for charges.
00:22:02.98\00:22:07.78
"Who is this Man who said you,
00:22:07.81\00:22:09.88
'Take up your bed, and walk?'"
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But verse 13
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"But the one who was
healed did not know who it was,
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for Jesus had withdrawn
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a multitude
being in that place."
00:22:15.65\00:22:16.74
It's crowded, its Sabbath.
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"Afterward Jesus
found him in the temple,
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and said to him, 'See,
00:22:22.02\00:22:23.90
you have been made well.
00:22:23.93\00:22:25.37
Sin no more, lest a
worst thing come upon you.'
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The man departed
and told the Jews"
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hey, here He is
right here, here He is,
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Here's the guy who
did it, right here.
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"It was Jesus who
had made him well."
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Verse 16 "For this reason
the Jews persecuted Jesus,
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and sought to kill Him,
00:22:39.16\00:22:40.36
because He had done
these things on the Sabbath.
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But Jesus answered them,
00:22:42.95\00:22:44.02
'My Father and I have
been working until now,
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and I have been working.'"
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Oh, talking
about double jeopardy,
00:22:46.89\00:22:48.24
you should not talked--
you shouldn't have talked
00:22:48.27\00:22:49.70
about God as your Father,
00:22:49.73\00:22:50.76
because boom, verse 18.
00:22:50.79\00:22:52.25
"Therefore the Jews
sought all the more to kill Him,
00:22:52.28\00:22:54.33
because He not
only broke the Sabbath,
00:22:54.36\00:22:55.86
but also said that
God was His Father,
00:22:55.89\00:22:58.38
making Himself equal with God."
00:22:58.41\00:23:01.16
Double jeopardy and
we got jumbled accounts.
00:23:01.19\00:23:03.48
What you are, you
think you are the one
00:23:03.51\00:23:05.65
that invented the Sabbath?
00:23:05.68\00:23:08.15
You think you
are related to God?
00:23:08.18\00:23:11.02
The die is cast
00:23:11.05\00:23:14.54
and now after
that stunning miracle
00:23:14.57\00:23:17.27
here comes Desire of Ages says
00:23:17.30\00:23:21.39
describes how Jesus is
actually being arraigned
00:23:21.42\00:23:24.50
before the
Supreme Court of the land.
00:23:24.53\00:23:26.36
He standing now
before the Sanhedrin,
00:23:26.39\00:23:28.22
71 members,
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He stands before them to answer
00:23:30.43\00:23:34.25
for His violation
of the day He created.
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And then two
stunning words about judgment
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nothing about the Sabbath,
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two stunning
words about judgment.
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Grab your study guide, let's go.
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I want you to write
both these words down
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with the both on the
words are out were home.
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Thank you, Ushers, let's go.
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Hold your hand up
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study guide when you came in.
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Up in the
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you have the study guide
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you're sitting
in overflow today.
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Hold your hand up
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you're gonna walk
this study guide please.
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Daniel 8:14
commencement on 167 years ago
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what's that have to do
with John 5 let's find out.
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Hold your hand up as they come
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You're looking for the
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It's a series on
the fourth gospel.
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I can't believe it
but this is part eight.
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Well, time is flying
by, this is part eight.
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You're looking for the teaching
entitled "Here Comes the Judge."
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All right, "Here
Comes the Judge."
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Keep your hand
up there in the back
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they are coming to you.
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Here Comes the Judge
when you see that teaching
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it says study guide underneath
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you click on it
and you will have it.
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Let's go.
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Two stunning
words about the judgment
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that Jesus gives in the context
of this Sabbath day miracle,
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but before we go to
those two stunning words
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just a little
introductory paragraph
00:24:56.12\00:24:58.15
from New Testament
scholar Craig Keener.
00:24:58.18\00:25:00.65
I want you to catch this
because it's significant.
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Notice how pivot
all the judgment theme
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is in the gospel of
John, in the fourth gospel.
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You have it there in
your study guide. Let's go.
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Keener writing
"Judgment appears as a central"
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would you write it down please.
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"Judgment appears as a
central motif" or theme.
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Judgment is a central theme
00:25:20.79\00:25:23.57
in this gospel,
the fourth gospel.
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Now I'm giving
evidence there for you
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'cause you can do
your homework on this.
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Keener's talking
about the Greek noun Krisis
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from which comes by
the way our word crisis.
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It can mean judgment or
it can mean condemnation.
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And then he listen-- 11 verses
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where that word
appears in the fourth gospel.
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Then he says oh, by the way,
00:25:41.12\00:25:42.15
let me tell you
about the very krino
00:25:42.18\00:25:43.95
which means to
judge or to condemn
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there are 14 verses, 15 verses
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oh, no 25 rather, 25
verses throughout the gospel.
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What's Keener's
point keep reading.
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"Jesus' present
mission is not judgment
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but the world apart from
Him stands under judgment.
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Jesus will judge in the end,
00:26:02.18\00:26:03.89
and the way
people respond to Him
00:26:03.92\00:26:05.30
in the present
determines their destiny
00:26:05.33\00:26:07.61
those who do not embrace
Him face eternal judgment."
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What's the point,
Dwight? The point is simple.
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Judgment is a central
theme in the fourth gospel.
00:26:14.32\00:26:20.56
So here they are now
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we just had the
miracle narrative
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now come two stunning
words about the judgment.
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Would you write the down please?
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Stunning word about end
time judgment stunning word one,
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it's a word about the Judge.
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Make sure to capital 'J.'
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It's a word about the Judge.
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Look at this is
a lengthy defense
00:26:38.15\00:26:39.20
of Jesus makes
before the Supreme Court
00:26:39.23\00:26:40.98
we're not going to read
the entire defense, you may.
00:26:41.01\00:26:43.43
We're going to spot check it.
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Drop down to verse 22.
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Jesus is now giving His defense
00:26:46.45\00:26:48.19
before the Sanhedrin
for-- this is verse 22.
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"For the Father judges no one,
00:26:51.25\00:26:53.30
but has committed
all judgment to the Son,
00:26:53.33\00:26:56.36
that all should honor the Son
00:26:56.39\00:26:57.71
just as they honor the Father.
00:26:57.74\00:26:59.61
She who does not honor the Son
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does not honor the
Father who sent Him."
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All right.
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Would you jot it down please?
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Jesus is saying hey,
00:27:07.11\00:27:08.94
"Because I am the Son
of God I am the judge."
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Write that down.
That's what He's saying.
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I'm the Son of
God, I am the Judge.
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All right.
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But notice He has a
little bit more to say.
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Drop down to verse 26.
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"For as the Father
has life in Himself,
00:27:26.77\00:27:28.45
so He has granted the
Son to have life in Himself."
00:27:28.48\00:27:31.17
Verse 27 "And the
Father has given Him
00:27:31.20\00:27:33.83
the Son authority to
execute judgment also,
00:27:33.86\00:27:38.17
because He is the Son of Man."
00:27:38.20\00:27:39.53
Write it down.
00:27:39.56\00:27:40.59
This time Jesus is saying,
00:27:40.62\00:27:41.85
"Because I'm the Son
of Man, I am the Judge."
00:27:41.88\00:27:45.21
Well, which is it?
00:27:45.24\00:27:46.27
You said you're the Son of God
00:27:46.30\00:27:47.33
and you're the judge,
or you are the Son of Man
00:27:47.36\00:27:48.61
you're the judge?
00:27:48.64\00:27:49.67
No, it's because I'm
both then I'm the judge.
00:27:49.70\00:27:54.20
It's because I am intimately
bound up with the human race,
00:27:54.23\00:27:57.66
intimately bound
up with Almighty God
00:27:57.69\00:27:59.72
that I'm the only
one in the universe
00:27:59.75\00:28:02.60
who can function as
judge of the human race.
00:28:02.63\00:28:08.13
I am the Judge.
00:28:08.16\00:28:11.79
You think about the people
sitting in that Supreme Court
00:28:11.82\00:28:15.01
who are the judges of the land.
00:28:15.04\00:28:17.31
There might have been a
bit of unnerving realization.
00:28:17.34\00:28:23.27
What if He is?
00:28:23.30\00:28:25.98
What if He is the Judge?
00:28:26.01\00:28:30.87
Then the Supreme
Court will one day
00:28:30.90\00:28:32.42
stand before Him, that's why.
00:28:32.45\00:28:36.19
Well, you know we don't talk--
00:28:36.22\00:28:38.88
we don't talk very often
about Jesus is Judge, do we?
00:28:38.91\00:28:41.89
Now we love the picture of
Jesus as the defense attorney,
00:28:41.92\00:28:44.45
the advocate that's why we love.
00:28:44.48\00:28:46.15
1 John 2:1, let's
put that on the screen.
00:28:46.18\00:28:48.88
1 John 2:1 "My dear children,
00:28:48.91\00:28:51.64
I write this to you
so that you will not sin.
00:28:51.67\00:28:54.87
But if anybody does
sin, we have an advocate"
00:28:54.90\00:28:57.60
a defending a
attorney, we have the defender
00:28:57.63\00:29:00.45
"with the Father Jesus
Christ, the Righteous One.
00:29:00.48\00:29:04.28
He is the atoning
sacrifice for our sins,"
00:29:04.31\00:29:06.33
and by the way
"not only for our sins,
00:29:06.36\00:29:07.86
but for the sins of
the whole wide world."
00:29:07.89\00:29:11.67
Yeah, we love
that picture of Jesus,
00:29:11.70\00:29:13.37
but Jesus as
Judge are you serious,
00:29:13.40\00:29:15.83
He's the Judge?
00:29:15.86\00:29:17.48
Holy Scripture is
replete with evidence
00:29:17.51\00:29:19.95
that Christ is the Judge.
00:29:19.98\00:29:21.50
I'm gonna run these by
you, keep your pen moving,
00:29:21.53\00:29:23.37
you won't even have to look up,
00:29:23.40\00:29:24.71
I'll just read
it out loud to you
00:29:24.74\00:29:26.24
and scribble the words down.
00:29:26.27\00:29:27.30
Let's go to Jesus last parable
00:29:27.33\00:29:29.38
that He told
before His crucifixion.
00:29:29.41\00:29:31.23
The King coming He separating
the sheep and the goats.
00:29:31.26\00:29:33.86
Here we go "When the Son a Man
comes in His glory as the king
00:29:33.89\00:29:37.44
He will sit on the
throne in His glory."
00:29:37.47\00:29:39.40
Now watch this.
00:29:39.43\00:29:40.46
"All the nations" of the world
"will be gathered before Him,
00:29:40.49\00:29:43.74
and He will separate them"
write in the word separate.
00:29:43.77\00:29:46.96
That is an active judgment,
because He's determining
00:29:46.99\00:29:48.95
whose gonna get saved
and whose gonna be lost.
00:29:48.98\00:29:51.04
"He will separate
them" as a Shepherd
00:29:51.07\00:29:54.02
separates the
sheep from the goats.
00:29:54.05\00:29:55.42
All right, that's Matthew 25.
00:29:55.45\00:29:57.05
Paul the mighty apostle comes
along in II Corinthians 5:10.
00:29:57.08\00:30:01.02
Jot this down.
00:30:01.05\00:30:02.12
"For we must all appear
before the" before the what?
00:30:02.15\00:30:07.55
"The judgment seat of Christ,
00:30:07.58\00:30:11.75
so that each of us may
receive what is due for us
00:30:11.78\00:30:14.14
for the things done
whether good or bad."
00:30:14.17\00:30:18.11
Next line. Paul again.
00:30:18.14\00:30:22.49
Before the creme da la
crème of the intelligence here
00:30:22.52\00:30:26.13
on the mighty sit all of
the area up in Athens Paul
00:30:26.16\00:30:29.45
thunders to these
Pagan philosophers.
00:30:29.48\00:30:31.78
"God has
appointed a day on which
00:30:31.81\00:30:33.73
He will judge the world
in righteousness by the Man."
00:30:33.76\00:30:37.50
Capital "M" man "
whom He has ordained."
00:30:37.53\00:30:40.34
Who is this man? Paul goes on.
00:30:40.37\00:30:42.41
"God has given assurances
of this to all by raising Him"
00:30:42.44\00:30:45.57
the man "from the dead."
00:30:45.60\00:30:47.77
Clearly Christ is the one
00:30:47.80\00:30:49.26
who would judge
the entire world.
00:30:49.29\00:30:51.06
God has set a date.
00:30:51.09\00:30:52.98
Daniel 8:14 defines that date
00:30:53.01\00:30:55.34
the prophetic marker
was absolutely correct
00:30:55.37\00:30:58.44
with William Miller
and those around him.
00:30:58.47\00:31:01.88
Nothing has changed
the marker was correct.
00:31:01.91\00:31:05.33
God has set a day.
00:31:05.36\00:31:08.35
Jesus Himself--let's look
at the words of Jesus again.
00:31:08.38\00:31:10.14
"For the Father judges no one,
00:31:10.17\00:31:11.29
but has committed
all judgment to the Son
00:31:11.32\00:31:14.76
and has given Him
authority to execute judgment."
00:31:14.79\00:31:19.94
No question the teaching
is that Christ is the Judge.
00:31:19.97\00:31:23.36
In fact a century ago--
00:31:23.39\00:31:25.22
let me put these
words on screen for you.
00:31:25.25\00:31:26.41
You'll have to fill them in.
00:31:26.44\00:31:29.35
"From His high position,
Christ, the King and glory,
00:31:29.38\00:31:32.89
the Majesty of heaven,
00:31:32.92\00:31:34.24
saw the condition
of men and women."
00:31:34.27\00:31:36.05
Here on earth.
00:31:36.08\00:31:37.15
"He pitied human beings
00:31:37.18\00:31:38.66
in their
weakness and sinfulness,
00:31:38.69\00:31:40.40
and He came to this earth
to reveal what God is to us.
00:31:40.43\00:31:43.68
Christ humbled Himself to
stand at the head of humanity,
00:31:43.71\00:31:48.00
to meet the temptations
and endure the trials
00:31:48.03\00:31:50.55
that we must meet and endure.
00:31:50.58\00:31:52.68
And Christ has
been made our Judge.
00:31:52.71\00:31:55.90
The Father is not the
Judge. The angels are not.
00:31:55.93\00:31:59.07
He who took
humanity upon Himself,
00:31:59.10\00:32:01.45
and in this world lived a
perfect life, is to judge us."
00:32:01.48\00:32:04.56
Final line.
00:32:04.59\00:32:05.62
"He only" right
that word in only.
00:32:05.65\00:32:08.59
"He only can be
are Judge." Only one.
00:32:08.62\00:32:14.66
You can't judge me by the way,
00:32:14.69\00:32:17.08
you can't judge me.
00:32:17.11\00:32:19.00
I can't judge you either.
00:32:19.03\00:32:20.70
Nobody can judge us
except the one who's here.
00:32:20.73\00:32:26.16
You know that means don't you?
00:32:26.19\00:32:28.57
Since the-- since the
onset of the pre-advent judgment
00:32:28.60\00:32:33.64
which Daniel 8:14 predicts
00:32:33.67\00:32:37.17
since October 22, 1844
the judgment has been placed
00:32:37.20\00:32:41.06
in the incarnate hands
of Christ Jesus our Savior.
00:32:41.09\00:32:45.80
He is the Judge.
00:32:45.83\00:32:48.77
Here comes the Judge. It is He.
00:32:48.80\00:32:53.87
Stunning word,
stunning Revelation.
00:32:53.90\00:32:55.76
How did Keener put it?
Let's put it up on the screen.
00:32:55.79\00:32:57.58
Keener, "Jesus
will judge in the end,
00:32:57.61\00:32:59.50
and the way
people respond to Him
00:32:59.53\00:33:00.85
in the present
determines their destiny,
00:33:00.88\00:33:02.51
those who do not embrace
Him face eternal judgment."
00:33:02.54\00:33:05.91
And because of that
ladies and gentlemen,
00:33:05.94\00:33:07.35
we need to ponder right now.
00:33:07.38\00:33:08.49
I'm gonna give
you the second word
00:33:08.52\00:33:09.59
then I'm through the second
00:33:09.62\00:33:11.14
stunning word
about the judgment.
00:33:11.17\00:33:12.55
Don't blow this one off,
00:33:12.58\00:33:13.98
this one is going to be--
00:33:14.01\00:33:15.06
this will catch you by surprise.
00:33:15.09\00:33:17.56
Stunning word number
two about the judgment.
00:33:17.59\00:33:19.38
Jot it down. What is it?
00:33:19.41\00:33:20.95
It's about the judged.
00:33:20.98\00:33:23.42
Not the capital "J" now.
00:33:23.45\00:33:24.57
No, no little "j,"
because that's you and me.
00:33:24.60\00:33:27.28
The word that Christ
speaks is about the judged.
00:33:27.31\00:33:29.97
Now before we get to that word
00:33:30.00\00:33:31.72
I want to read what He
said there in verse 24.
00:33:31.75\00:33:35.22
Okay, so you dropped down
a little lower in chapter 5.
00:33:35.25\00:33:37.57
"Most assuredly," remember
00:33:37.60\00:33:39.76
when the New King
James uses those words
00:33:39.79\00:33:43.67
"Most assuredly" a very truly
00:33:43.70\00:33:46.58
are truly, truly
or verily, verily
00:33:46.61\00:33:48.13
whatever your translation
that's John's device.
00:33:48.16\00:33:51.07
Twenty five times
in the fourth gospel
00:33:51.10\00:33:52.45
John had put a double amen.
00:33:52.48\00:33:53.64
Amen, amen.
00:33:53.67\00:33:55.02
Whenever John
inserts a double amen,
00:33:55.05\00:33:56.85
because Jesus
didn't say amen, amen,
00:33:56.88\00:33:58.72
John inserts amen, amen.
00:33:58.75\00:34:00.61
Whenever John
inserts amen, amen,
00:34:00.64\00:34:02.80
it's a red flag
saying, you slowdown,
00:34:02.83\00:34:04.38
slow, readers slowdown.
00:34:04.41\00:34:07.05
Speed limit is low
here, low, slower, slower
00:34:07.08\00:34:10.39
you got to see what
you're driving through.
00:34:10.42\00:34:12.49
Amen, amen.
00:34:12.52\00:34:15.53
"I say to you, he who hears
My word and believes in Him
00:34:15.56\00:34:19.24
who sent Me has
everlasting life,
00:34:19.27\00:34:21.48
and shall not
come into judgment,
00:34:21.51\00:34:23.68
but has passed
from death into life."
00:34:23.71\00:34:26.55
I told you Dwight, I
knew there was a verse.
00:34:26.58\00:34:28.75
Thank you for finding it for me.
00:34:28.78\00:34:30.17
I knew there was a
verse that says that
00:34:30.20\00:34:31.84
when you accept Jesus
as your Lord and Savior
00:34:31.87\00:34:34.00
you do not passed
into the judgment,
00:34:34.03\00:34:35.62
he just said it
right there from His lips.
00:34:35.65\00:34:40.16
Hey, hold on, hold on.
00:34:40.19\00:34:43.58
Come on, not so fast.
00:34:43.61\00:34:45.52
Now we need to remember
00:34:45.55\00:34:47.37
that the word
for judgment creases,
00:34:47.40\00:34:51.11
can we translate it
either judgment or condemnation.
00:34:51.14\00:34:54.64
And in fact it's
a translator's call,
00:34:54.67\00:34:56.46
which is why in verse
29 the translators also--
00:34:56.49\00:34:58.56
oh, no, no this
means condemnation here.
00:34:58.59\00:35:01.26
Same word but in verse 29
00:35:01.29\00:35:02.88
it's translated condemnation.
00:35:02.91\00:35:06.41
But that how can you
put it, how can say that
00:35:06.44\00:35:07.80
nobody comes into the judgment?
00:35:07.83\00:35:08.89
When we just look
at all these texts
00:35:08.92\00:35:10.16
that say you
come to the judgment
00:35:10.19\00:35:11.42
either Jesus is
lying about the other texts
00:35:11.45\00:35:15.50
or He has not given us a
get out of judgment free card
00:35:15.53\00:35:18.79
when you passed go.
00:35:18.82\00:35:21.54
Some thing is here.
00:35:21.57\00:35:25.41
In fact look at this Hebrews 10.
00:35:25.44\00:35:29.22
Christ Himself
inspired these words.
00:35:29.25\00:35:30.94
"The Lord will judge."
00:35:30.97\00:35:32.78
Who? "His people."
00:35:32.81\00:35:35.53
Well, I thought you just said
00:35:35.56\00:35:38.14
that that the God's
people don't pass into judgment.
00:35:38.17\00:35:39.97
No, no, no, no.
00:35:40.00\00:35:41.41
The Bible teaches the
Lord will judge His people.
00:35:41.44\00:35:42.88
Look at this I Peter 4:17
00:35:42.91\00:35:44.94
"For the time has come for
judgment to begin" at where?
00:35:44.97\00:35:48.30
"The house of God."
Begins with God's people.
00:35:48.33\00:35:51.86
So it can't mean
that if you believe in Him
00:35:51.89\00:35:55.82
you don't pass in the judgment.
00:35:55.85\00:35:57.61
That means we have to
use the other translation.
00:35:57.64\00:35:59.02
Does it make
sense the other way?
00:35:59.05\00:36:00.17
Amen, amen, I say to you,
00:36:00.20\00:36:01.86
who He hears My
word and believes in Him
00:36:01.89\00:36:03.44
who sent me has everlasting life
00:36:03.47\00:36:05.06
and shall not come
in a condemnation."
00:36:05.09\00:36:07.38
Oh, that works, no
condemnation to those
00:36:07.41\00:36:10.90
who are in
Christ Jesus Romans 8:1.
00:36:10.93\00:36:13.47
Oh, it works. So
here's the question.
00:36:13.50\00:36:17.54
What is the word that
Christ would speak to us?
00:36:17.57\00:36:20.13
This second stunning word
that Christ would speak to us
00:36:20.16\00:36:23.28
who live in the
hour of His judgment.
00:36:23.31\00:36:25.84
Ever heard the Revelation 14:7
00:36:25.87\00:36:27.69
"Fear God and give glory to Him
00:36:27.72\00:36:29.47
for the hour of His
judgment is come and worship Him
00:36:29.50\00:36:33.55
who made heaven,
and earth, the sea,
00:36:33.58\00:36:34.62
and the springs of water."
00:36:34.65\00:36:35.69
You've read those words before
00:36:35.72\00:36:37.38
just before the return of
Christ there is a judgment.
00:36:37.41\00:36:40.69
So what word would
Christ speak to us?
00:36:40.72\00:36:44.70
Could it be the same word
00:36:44.73\00:36:46.35
He spoke to the healed man
00:36:46.38\00:36:48.04
from the pool in Bethesda?
00:36:48.07\00:36:50.46
Drop back to verse
14. Go back to verse 14.
00:36:50.49\00:36:53.73
"Afterward Jesus found
the healed man in the temple,
00:36:53.76\00:36:58.00
and He said to him,
00:36:58.03\00:36:59.27
'See you have been made well.
00:36:59.30\00:37:02.66
Sin no more, lest a
worse thing come upon you.'"
00:37:02.69\00:37:08.14
Would you
scribbled this down please.
00:37:08.17\00:37:09.35
In the Greek it literally
reads "Do not go on sinning."
00:37:09.38\00:37:15.22
Do not go on sinning.
00:37:15.25\00:37:16.68
Apparently, the man's lifestyle
00:37:16.71\00:37:18.52
something he was doing
precipitated his illness.
00:37:18.55\00:37:25.33
Some sin the man was committing
00:37:25.36\00:37:27.56
was causing an
exacerbating his sickness.
00:37:27.59\00:37:31.81
Desire of Ages
00:37:31.84\00:37:32.87
and I put the words
on a screen for you.
00:37:32.90\00:37:34.32
"His disease was
in a great degree
00:37:34.35\00:37:36.47
the result of his owns sin,
00:37:36.50\00:37:40.38
and was looked upon
as a judgment from God."
00:37:40.41\00:37:42.76
I know there are
some Christians today
00:37:42.79\00:37:44.26
who believe that AIDS
is a judgment from God.
00:37:44.29\00:37:46.45
Well serves you right.
00:37:46.48\00:37:50.04
I hope you never--
00:37:50.07\00:37:51.17
I hope you never subscribe
to that kind of word thinking.
00:37:51.20\00:37:54.73
But people around
the pool were saying,
00:37:54.76\00:37:59.07
he did it, he's got it now.
00:37:59.10\00:38:05.90
"His disease was
in a great degree
00:38:05.93\00:38:07.79
the result of his own sin,
00:38:07.82\00:38:09.12
and was looked upon
as a judgment from God.
00:38:09.15\00:38:10.75
Alone and friendless,
00:38:10.78\00:38:12.15
feeling that he was
shut out from God's mercy,
00:38:12.18\00:38:14.53
the sufferer passed
long years of misery."
00:38:14.56\00:38:20.09
Was is an STD? Could have been.
00:38:20.12\00:38:24.09
Sexually transmitted
disease could have been.
00:38:24.12\00:38:27.30
Nobody says, nobody says,
00:38:27.33\00:38:29.90
all Jesus says is
stop it now, stop it now.
00:38:29.93\00:38:36.08
And so living as we are
00:38:36.11\00:38:39.60
you and I and the
hour of His judgment.
00:38:39.63\00:38:43.66
I wonder "Would there
be anything in your life,"
00:38:43.69\00:38:48.87
would there be
anything in my life,
00:38:48.90\00:38:52.39
"that Jesus would
quietly command us
00:38:52.42\00:38:54.56
to 'cease and desist?'"
00:38:54.59\00:39:00.65
Stop it, stop it
now, this is the judgment.
00:39:00.68\00:39:08.00
I'm coming soon.
00:39:08.03\00:39:10.23
You can no longer
keep laughing this off.
00:39:10.26\00:39:13.28
You can no longer
keep shrugging this away.
00:39:13.31\00:39:16.66
I am coming soon.
00:39:16.69\00:39:19.57
Don't go on sinning any longer.
00:39:19.60\00:39:27.44
Well, I wonder
what's in that would be
00:39:27.47\00:39:32.93
that He will be
speaking to you about
00:39:32.96\00:39:39.02
and me about?
00:39:39.05\00:39:41.29
Would it be this-- would
it be from the sexual realm?
00:39:41.32\00:39:48.38
Would it be in
the arena of diet?
00:39:48.41\00:39:54.48
Would it be under the category
00:39:54.51\00:39:56.21
of amusing myself entertainment?
00:39:56.24\00:40:00.70
What would Jesus say, hey, boy,
00:40:00.73\00:40:02.43
listen to Me
stop this, stop it now
00:40:02.46\00:40:06.41
or something worse
will come upon you.
00:40:06.44\00:40:08.50
And what could be
worse than losing your soul
00:40:08.53\00:40:11.95
over that which
you refuse to let go.
00:40:11.98\00:40:16.01
Stop it.
00:40:16.04\00:40:17.84
Don't go on
doing that any longer.
00:40:17.87\00:40:24.32
What does He speak of?
00:40:24.35\00:40:26.64
Would it be a spirit of
judging, of criticizing?
00:40:26.67\00:40:33.45
Would it be a
spirit of mercilessness?
00:40:33.48\00:40:36.37
Mercilessness of those
who are in chronic pain?
00:40:36.40\00:40:41.11
A cold heart for those
who are in chronic need?
00:40:41.14\00:40:43.60
That's not my
responsibility forget it.
00:40:43.63\00:40:46.95
What would it be you
got to stop this Dwight,
00:40:46.98\00:40:51.56
its going to kill you.
00:40:51.59\00:40:53.73
Would it be prayerlessness?
00:40:53.76\00:40:55.14
Too busy in my life
to carve a hunk of time
00:40:55.17\00:41:02.30
along with God every day
00:41:02.33\00:41:06.06
or it would it be
disobedience to what I know,
00:41:06.09\00:41:12.40
what you know is divine truth?
00:41:12.43\00:41:18.37
Would it be dishonesty,
00:41:18.40\00:41:21.56
a lack of integrity
fudging the reports,
00:41:21.59\00:41:26.74
cheating on a quiz?
00:41:26.77\00:41:29.14
You know it's just
not a big deal, please.
00:41:29.17\00:41:32.56
What it would be?
00:41:32.59\00:41:35.73
Or would it be
pride, self worship,
00:41:35.76\00:41:39.44
vanity and ego-driven cockiness
00:41:39.47\00:41:42.82
that corrupts everything we do?
00:41:42.85\00:41:47.64
What is it?
00:41:47.67\00:41:50.38
Fact of the matter
is, ladies and gentlemen,
00:41:50.41\00:41:52.75
this list doesn't
have to be exhaustive,
00:41:52.78\00:41:56.41
because already the Holy
Spirit has spoken to your heart
00:41:56.44\00:42:01.34
and you know what it is,
you already know what it is.
00:42:01.37\00:42:07.93
Just you and God perhaps,
00:42:07.96\00:42:10.26
but you know what Jesus says,
00:42:10.29\00:42:14.37
stop this, no more.
00:42:14.40\00:42:18.34
Do not go on sinning.
00:42:18.37\00:42:22.27
Now Dwight, I mean, please
00:42:22.30\00:42:23.81
there's no hope
for any for any of us.
00:42:23.84\00:42:25.30
Oh, yes there is.
00:42:25.33\00:42:27.99
The healer is the one
who shows up in Bethesda.
00:42:28.02\00:42:32.58
I want to end with this
quotation from Desire of Ages.
00:42:32.61\00:42:34.22
You're going to
need to fill in one word.
00:42:34.25\00:42:36.56
Listen to this.
00:42:36.59\00:42:37.65
Oh, my, here is the gospel.
00:42:37.68\00:42:39.84
"Through the same faith"
as the healed man of Bethesda,
00:42:39.87\00:42:42.85
"we may receive
spiritual healing.
00:42:42.88\00:42:45.17
By sin we have been
severed from the life of God.
00:42:45.20\00:42:48.13
Our souls our palsied.
00:42:48.16\00:42:49.86
Of ourselves we are no more
capable of living a holy life
00:42:49.89\00:42:53.03
than was the impotent
man capable of walking."
00:42:53.06\00:42:55.47
I can't be holy any
more than he could walk.
00:42:55.50\00:42:57.80
I can't do it, I can't, I
can't, I can't in my own power.
00:42:57.83\00:43:02.20
That's the point.
00:43:02.23\00:43:04.22
"There are many who
realize their helplessness,
00:43:04.25\00:43:07.42
and who long for
that spiritual life
00:43:07.45\00:43:10.06
which will bring them
into harmony with God,
00:43:10.09\00:43:12.09
they are vainly
striving to obtain it.
00:43:12.12\00:43:14.42
In despair they cry
out the words of Paul,
00:43:14.45\00:43:16.53
'O wretched man that I am!
00:43:16.56\00:43:18.75
who shall deliver me
from this body of death?'
00:43:18.78\00:43:21.09
Let these desponding,
struggling ones look up."
00:43:21.12\00:43:25.87
Hey, you see I
put a little 1 there,
00:43:25.90\00:43:27.31
I wish you put it
1 in your quotation.
00:43:27.34\00:43:28.80
Right now I want
to share with you
00:43:28.83\00:43:30.15
here as we wrap four steps
they're all embedded right here.
00:43:30.18\00:43:33.67
Put a 1 right in the margin
00:43:33.70\00:43:35.10
and then circle
the words "look up."
00:43:35.13\00:43:36.67
Number one, look up.
00:43:36.70\00:43:38.11
That's the only place
the impotent man could look.
00:43:38.14\00:43:40.77
He's looking straight
up into the face of Jesus
00:43:40.80\00:43:42.99
that means look into His face.
00:43:43.02\00:43:45.66
Look up.
00:43:45.69\00:43:47.14
Put a little one there.
00:43:47.17\00:43:49.02
Look up.
00:43:49.05\00:43:50.64
You want freedom,
you want to be set free
00:43:50.67\00:43:52.54
from what has held you,
what is straddled your life.
00:43:52.57\00:43:55.09
Step one look up,
look into His face.
00:43:55.12\00:43:59.30
"The Saviors is
bending over" keep reading
00:43:59.33\00:44:01.32
"The Savior is bending
over the purchase of His blood,
00:44:01.35\00:44:04.15
He saying with inexpressible
tenderness and pity,
00:44:04.18\00:44:06.91
do you want to be made well?
00:44:06.94\00:44:08.56
He bids you arise
in health and peace.
00:44:08.59\00:44:11.04
Do not wait to feel
that you are made whole."
00:44:11.07\00:44:13.56
Put a little 2
there, will you please?
00:44:13.59\00:44:15.31
"Believe in His
word, believe His word."
00:44:15.34\00:44:19.25
Put a 2 there.
00:44:19.28\00:44:20.47
Take it that His word.
00:44:20.50\00:44:22.59
There is no
command the Christ gives
00:44:22.62\00:44:24.30
that He does not give the power
to fulfill that command with,
00:44:24.33\00:44:27.80
with His bidding
comes as enabling.
00:44:27.83\00:44:30.02
Put a 2 there. Believe Him.
00:44:30.05\00:44:31.94
Believe that He can
enable you to be set free.
00:44:31.97\00:44:36.15
"Believe His word,
and it will be fulfilled.
00:44:36.18\00:44:39.09
Put your will."
00:44:39.12\00:44:40.42
Key word there,
fill that in please.
00:44:40.45\00:44:42.41
"Put your will on
the side of Christ."
00:44:42.44\00:44:44.81
Put your choosing
on the side of Christ.
00:44:44.84\00:44:47.01
I choose Christ.
00:44:47.04\00:44:48.72
And then would you put a 3 here.
00:44:48.75\00:44:50.25
Here it is choose
"Will choose to serve Him."
00:44:50.28\00:44:54.16
Put a little 3 by the margin
right there, that step three.
00:44:54.19\00:44:58.27
"Choose to serve Him."
00:44:58.30\00:45:00.52
I've choose Lord
Jesus to follow You.
00:45:00.55\00:45:02.85
I choose to obey You.
00:45:02.88\00:45:04.74
I choose by Your grace.
00:45:04.77\00:45:06.38
I choose to
stay faithful to You.
00:45:06.41\00:45:08.70
You've got to help me Christ,
00:45:08.73\00:45:10.02
I can no more walk
than the impotent man could.
00:45:10.05\00:45:14.52
I choose to obey You.
00:45:14.55\00:45:19.12
Are able "Choose to serve Him."
00:45:19.15\00:45:24.74
And in acting upon is
word there's the four-step,
00:45:24.77\00:45:28.09
put it down please,
little 4, act upon his word.
00:45:28.12\00:45:32.17
And in acting."
00:45:32.20\00:45:33.55
I know it doesn't make
sense, I know it looks bleak.
00:45:33.58\00:45:36.54
Just step out,
00:45:36.57\00:45:38.08
it isn't until you put your foot
00:45:38.11\00:45:39.67
in the Jordan
River that it parts,
00:45:39.70\00:45:41.43
it won't part with
you standing here saying
00:45:41.46\00:45:43.44
I can't find the
victory over this besetting sin.
00:45:43.47\00:45:45.73
I cannot find the victory
God over this besetting sin.
00:45:45.76\00:45:48.20
I cannot find the victory.
00:45:48.23\00:45:49.66
Yes, you can, put
your foot in the water.
00:45:49.69\00:45:51.91
The moment a foot
goes in that water apart.
00:45:51.94\00:45:55.40
But God's not gonna
take that step for you,
00:45:55.43\00:45:57.04
you have to take
the step for yourself.
00:45:57.07\00:45:58.81
You put your foot in
00:45:58.84\00:46:01.03
then the miracle
transforms your life.
00:46:01.06\00:46:09.03
Well, number four
acting on his word.
00:46:09.06\00:46:10.87
And look at how quick--
00:46:10.90\00:46:12.19
just put a big
huge circle around this
00:46:12.22\00:46:13.86
"You will receive strength."
00:46:13.89\00:46:16.98
Step into the water
you will receive miracles.
00:46:17.01\00:46:21.01
"Whatever may be
the evil practice"
00:46:21.04\00:46:23.85
now listen carefully to this,
00:46:23.88\00:46:24.97
this is speaking to me,
this is speaking to you.
00:46:25.00\00:46:28.76
"Whatever may be
the evil practice,
00:46:28.79\00:46:31.15
the master passion
00:46:31.18\00:46:32.57
which through long indulgence
binds both soul and body,
00:46:32.60\00:46:36.81
Christ is able
and longs to deliver."
00:46:36.84\00:46:41.00
Hallelujah. What do you say?
00:46:41.03\00:46:43.10
There is no master passion.
00:46:43.13\00:46:45.70
Whatever is gripping you
like a ball and chain today
00:46:45.73\00:46:48.35
you are not consign for life
00:46:48.38\00:46:50.41
to live in failure
after failure, after failure.
00:46:50.44\00:46:54.97
He can set you free.
00:46:55.00\00:46:57.41
He can set you free.
00:46:57.44\00:47:00.37
Guys, we're
living in the judgment.
00:47:00.40\00:47:03.49
Jesus is soon to come.
00:47:03.52\00:47:05.31
I can no longer laugh at that,
00:47:05.34\00:47:07.39
I can no longer shrugged it
off and say someday Mahayana,
00:47:07.42\00:47:11.44
no there is no Mahayana.
00:47:11.47\00:47:14.27
You have today, you have today,
00:47:14.30\00:47:18.01
this campus has learned
that there is no Mahayana.
00:47:18.04\00:47:22.01
You have today, you have today
don't put off for tomorrow.
00:47:22.04\00:47:29.69
What He is saying
please stop it Dwight, stop it.
00:47:29.72\00:47:33.67
Don't go on with
this, give it up.
00:47:33.70\00:47:36.75
Give it to Me, let Me have it,
00:47:36.78\00:47:39.15
I'll set you
free just like that.
00:47:39.18\00:47:42.67
Wow.
00:47:42.70\00:47:43.93
"He will impart life to the soul
that is 'dead in trespasses.'
00:47:43.96\00:47:47.05
He will set free the
captive that is held by weakness
00:47:47.08\00:47:49.44
and misfortune and
the chains of sins."
00:47:49.47\00:47:52.51
That's it.
00:47:52.54\00:47:54.30
He say, Dwight, come on please,
00:47:54.33\00:47:56.46
you can't be serious. No I am.
00:47:56.49\00:47:58.56
I'm serious, I'm
dead serious right now.
00:47:58.59\00:48:02.05
May I run the four in
front of you one more time
00:48:02.08\00:48:05.73
before we have the benediction?
00:48:05.76\00:48:08.44
Here they are,
number one "Focus on Jesus."
00:48:08.47\00:48:11.46
Go to the gospels every morning.
00:48:11.49\00:48:12.64
Read one story every
morning seven days a week.
00:48:12.67\00:48:15.26
Go to the gospels.
00:48:15.29\00:48:16.32
Look up into the
face looking down at you.
00:48:16.35\00:48:18.40
Look up into His face
00:48:18.43\00:48:19.78
and the things of
earth will go strangely dim
00:48:19.81\00:48:22.22
in the light of
His glory and grace.
00:48:22.25\00:48:23.74
Focus on Jesus in
the gospels. Number two.
00:48:23.77\00:48:25.96
What is it? "Believe His word."
00:48:25.99\00:48:27.86
"I can do all things
00:48:27.89\00:48:30.15
through Christ
who strengthens me."
00:48:30.18\00:48:31.69
Jude 24 and 25 "Now unto him
00:48:31.72\00:48:34.19
that is able to
keep you from falling."
00:48:34.22\00:48:36.62
He can keep you from falling.
00:48:36.65\00:48:38.89
He is able you have
to give Him permission.
00:48:38.92\00:48:42.05
Focus on the word.
00:48:42.08\00:48:44.03
Focus on Christ.
Believe His word.
00:48:44.06\00:48:46.20
Number three,
Choose to serve Him.
00:48:46.23\00:48:48.55
Obey Him. Just choose.
00:48:48.58\00:48:50.26
I choose Jesus, I choose,
00:48:50.29\00:48:51.82
I don't know how we're
gonna get through this,
00:48:51.85\00:48:53.58
but I choose to follow You.
00:48:53.61\00:48:56.33
And finally number
four, Act on His word.
00:48:56.36\00:49:01.31
Act on His word.
00:49:01.34\00:49:02.75
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:49:02.78\00:49:03.88
do you think God
intentionally made this
00:49:03.91\00:49:05.75
as difficult as
He could think of,
00:49:05.78\00:49:07.66
so that we could
barely get into the kingdom
00:49:07.69\00:49:09.51
and only a few with that.
00:49:09.54\00:49:11.28
Are you crazy?
00:49:11.31\00:49:12.82
He wants to save the human race.
00:49:12.85\00:49:14.53
It's about the ball
and chain on your ankle.
00:49:14.56\00:49:16.70
He can't take it off unless
you say you may take it off.
00:49:16.73\00:49:22.32
You can't take it off
00:49:22.35\00:49:23.73
you gone 38 years
with the ball and chain.
00:49:23.76\00:49:26.37
You can't do it, He can do it.
00:49:26.40\00:49:29.68
You say, Dwight, you know what,
00:49:33.06\00:49:34.17
what is this
some kind of legalism,
00:49:34.20\00:49:36.80
some kind of professionalism?
00:49:36.83\00:49:38.23
Okay, let me ask you,
00:49:38.26\00:49:41.81
was Jesus a legalist for
saying to the man in the temple,
00:49:41.84\00:49:44.73
stop doing what you're
doing it will kill you.
00:49:44.76\00:49:47.34
Was He a legalist for saying
that to the man in the temple?
00:49:47.37\00:49:49.42
Yes are no, call it out to me.
00:49:49.45\00:49:51.37
No, it was not a legalist.
00:49:51.40\00:49:52.68
Was He a perfectionist
for saying stop sinning?
00:49:52.71\00:49:55.74
Don't go on sinning any longer.
00:49:55.77\00:49:57.56
Was He
perfectionist? No, He was not.
00:49:57.59\00:50:00.03
You know what He
was? He's a realist.
00:50:00.06\00:50:02.39
And a realist is if you keep
doing that it will kill you,
00:50:02.42\00:50:05.33
it will kill you.
00:50:05.36\00:50:06.39
I just healed
you, but if you go back
00:50:06.42\00:50:07.48
like a dog to his
vomit, it kill you.
00:50:07.51\00:50:10.79
Stay away from it, stay away.
00:50:10.82\00:50:15.21
He's being a realist.
He's telling you the truth.
00:50:15.24\00:50:18.61
What do you want
Him to do, lie to you,
00:50:18.64\00:50:21.11
call you, let you
go to the judgment.
00:50:21.14\00:50:24.60
Laughing at what He has hoped
you would finally deal with.
00:50:24.63\00:50:31.00
This is the
hour of His judgment.
00:50:31.03\00:50:32.90
Ladies and
gentlemen, Jesus is coming soon.
00:50:32.93\00:50:38.48
It's time to
cleanse the soul temple,
00:50:38.51\00:50:41.75
cleanse the
records up there fine,
00:50:41.78\00:50:43.87
but please
cleanse the heart in here.
00:50:43.90\00:50:46.64
Cleanse me, oh God,
00:50:46.67\00:50:48.84
I want nothing
between You and me,
00:50:48.87\00:50:51.45
nothing, nothing, nothing.
00:50:51.48\00:50:53.34
So the decision is yours.
00:50:58.95\00:51:00.92
I know this is a strong message,
00:51:03.82\00:51:07.73
but we ran into it
getting to chapter 5.
00:51:07.76\00:51:09.74
We should have
skipped chapter 5.
00:51:09.77\00:51:12.96
We ran into it.
00:51:12.99\00:51:15.07
And now we have to do something.
00:51:15.10\00:51:17.44
You'll never be the same
again, because of this teaching.
00:51:17.47\00:51:20.52
If you say no to it, you now
know what you're saying no to.
00:51:20.55\00:51:24.61
You're saying no to your
Savior who is your judge.
00:51:24.64\00:51:28.48
And if He can't save you,
00:51:28.51\00:51:30.28
He'd the judge will
make, but one decision
00:51:30.31\00:51:33.11
which you made
for Him forget it,
00:51:33.14\00:51:37.10
take the Judge who is
your Savior, obey Him.
00:51:37.13\00:51:42.25
Don't go on doing
this please any longer.
00:51:42.28\00:51:50.05
"I can do all things
00:51:50.08\00:51:52.01
through Christ
who strengthens me."
00:51:52.04\00:51:54.16
As a boy as to hear my mother,
00:51:54.19\00:51:57.49
beautiful contralto voice,
00:51:57.52\00:51:59.84
my dad was a preacher
00:51:59.87\00:52:01.20
and he would often have
mother sing there in Japan
00:52:01.23\00:52:04.34
as we were move
from the little church
00:52:04.37\00:52:05.50
to little church,
00:52:05.53\00:52:06.56
we would have mother
sing this old gospel hymn.
00:52:06.59\00:52:09.08
So I grew up hearing this hymn
00:52:09.11\00:52:10.40
and I wish we would
sing a stanza of it as well.
00:52:10.43\00:52:13.59
It's the familiar one.
You've heard it, haven't you?
00:52:13.62\00:52:15.49
"Nothing between my
soul and the Savior,
00:52:15.52\00:52:18.39
naught of this
world's delusive dream."
00:52:18.42\00:52:23.69
Its 322 if you want sing.
00:52:23.72\00:52:25.39
Read the first stanza.
00:52:25.42\00:52:26.45
We'll put the words
on the screen for you
00:52:26.48\00:52:27.80
though also maybe you can
just leave your hymn now close
00:52:27.83\00:52:29.99
and let's stand together
and let's sing our commitment.
00:52:30.02\00:52:32.80
This is an altar call,
now nobody's coming forward.
00:52:32.83\00:52:34.87
I'm not asking you
to raise your hand,
00:52:34.90\00:52:36.46
you've already made a
decision in your heart
00:52:36.49\00:52:38.66
or you're wrestling
with that decision now
00:52:38.69\00:52:40.14
and I'm praying
for that decision
00:52:40.17\00:52:41.95
that you make the decision Jesus
is calling you today to make
00:52:41.98\00:52:45.54
the decision to declare to
Him by your grace Lord Jesus,
00:52:45.57\00:52:49.23
I want nothing between
my soul and You my Judge.
00:52:49.26\00:52:54.25
Nothing between
my soul and my Savior
00:53:09.23\00:53:17.02
Naught of this
world's delusive dream
00:53:17.05\00:53:25.00
I have renounced
all sinful pleasure
00:53:25.03\00:53:32.94
Jesus is mine,
00:53:32.97\00:53:36.42
There's nothing between
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Nothing between
my soul and my Savior
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So that His blessed face
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May be seen
00:53:54.28\00:53:57.93
Nothing preventing
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The least of His favor
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Keep the way clear!
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Let nothing between
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Isn't that a beautiful prayer
to pray to your own heart?
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Saying, oh, Jesus, please
00:54:19.88\00:54:21.75
so I want nothing
between You and my Savior.
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We pray the prayer
He answers the prayer.
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His grace is sufficient for us.
00:54:30.05\00:54:32.23
At the beginning of the journey
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it will be sufficient for
us, at the end of the journey.
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We can trust Him.
00:54:36.75\00:54:37.78
I want to sing that
chorus, one more time.
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How its begin,
what's the opening note?
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Nothing between
00:54:41.98\00:54:45.34
My soul and my Savior
00:54:45.37\00:54:50.48
So that His blessed face
00:54:50.51\00:54:55.37
May be seen
00:54:55.40\00:54:59.47
Nothing preventing
00:54:59.50\00:55:03.42
The least of His favor
00:55:03.45\00:55:08.97
Keep the way clear!
00:55:09.00\00:55:13.13
Let nothing between
00:55:13.16\00:55:20.01
O Father, we sing,
00:55:20.04\00:55:22.05
we sing the
desire of our hearts.
00:55:22.08\00:55:25.06
We are so weak, we
are so fragile, God.
00:55:25.09\00:55:31.47
But our Savior is able,
00:55:31.50\00:55:36.00
if He could heal a man
00:55:36.03\00:55:37.33
who for 38 years
lay there crippled,
00:55:37.36\00:55:43.08
He can heal my crippled heart,
00:55:43.11\00:55:45.75
He can heal our crippled lives.
00:55:45.78\00:55:47.88
There is nothing He cannot do.
00:55:47.91\00:55:51.36
And so oh, God,
00:55:51.39\00:55:52.42
we humbly ask that
You would take away
00:55:52.45\00:55:56.61
using our own hands please,
00:55:56.64\00:55:58.42
take away all that is
between us and the Savior
00:55:58.45\00:56:02.65
and let us live today in
the words of William Miller,
00:56:02.68\00:56:05.19
today and today and today
00:56:05.22\00:56:08.99
with nothing
between until Jesus comes.
00:56:09.02\00:56:13.61
And we shall know the truth
00:56:13.64\00:56:16.81
of this mighty
promise of Holy Scripture.
00:56:16.84\00:56:22.55
And now to Him who is able
to keep you from stumbling,
00:56:22.58\00:56:27.06
to keep you from falling,
00:56:27.09\00:56:29.56
and to present you faultless
before the presence of His glory
00:56:29.59\00:56:32.40
with exceeding joy
00:56:32.43\00:56:34.78
to God our
Savior who alone is wise
00:56:34.81\00:56:38.02
be glory and
majesty dominion power
00:56:38.05\00:56:42.50
both now and forever, amen.
00:56:42.53\00:56:48.25
Before you go I'd like to
take a moment and talk to you
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about your
relationship with Jesus.
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So often we go to church,
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we listen to a
sermon about the things
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that Jesus said or
that which Jesus did.
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We learn all
these facts about Him.
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Yeah, when it comes down
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we haven't actually come to
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00:57:11.98\00:57:15.55
or perhaps you've only recently
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