Let's sing together now.
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Lord, I will lift
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Mine eyes to the hills
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Knowing my help is coming
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From You
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Your peace You give me
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In time of the storm
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You are the
source of my strength
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You are the strength of my life
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I lift my hands in total
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Praise to you
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Lord, I will lift
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Mine eyes to the hills
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Knowing my help is coming
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From You
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Your peace You give me
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In time of the storm
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You are the
source of my strength
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You are the strength of my life
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I lift my hands in total
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Praise to you
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Amen,
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Amen Amen
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Amen Amen
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Amen Amen
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Amen
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You are the
source of my strength
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You are the strength of my life
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I lift my hands in total
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Praise to you
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Amen
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Amen Amen
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Amen Amen
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Amen Amen
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Amen
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Amen, praise the Lord.
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Y'all may be seated.
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They said, God
is in the big things
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and He's in the small things
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and I believe He's
also in the simple things
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when it's done intentionally.
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This next song is very simple,
but it's also very intentional
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because it talks about
Christ as the center of it all.
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Christ is the
pillar of our faith
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because His sacrifice
and His death in resurrection
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mean so much and we unpack that
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each and every day as
we get to know Him better.
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So sing with me
now, Jesus at the centre.
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Jesus at the center of it all
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Jesus at the center of it all
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From beginning to the end
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It will always be,
it's always been You,
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Jesus
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Let's sing it again, Jesus.
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Jesus at the center of it all
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Jesus at the center of it all
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From beginning to the end
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It will always be,
it's always been You, Jesus
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Jesus, nothing else matters
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Nothing in this world will do
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'Cause Jesus You're the center
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Everything revolves around You,
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Jesus, You
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Jesus be the center of my life
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Jesus be the center of my life
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Jesus be the center of my life
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From beginning to the end
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It will always be,
it's always been You, Jesus
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Jesus, nothing else matters
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Nothing in this world will do
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'Cause Jesus You're the center
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Everything revolves around You
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Jesus, You
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From my heart to the
Heavens Jesus be the center
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It's all about You
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Yes it's all about You
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From my heart to the
Heavens Jesus be the center
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It's all about You
Yes it's all about You
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From my heart to the
Heavens Jesus be the center
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It's all about You
Yes it's all about You
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Nothing else matters
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Nothing in this world will do
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'Cause Jesus You're the center
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Everything revolves around You
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Jesus, You
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This is the most important one.
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Jesus be the
center of Your church
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Jesus be the
center of Your church
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And every knee will bow
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And every tongue
shall confess You, Jesus
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Jesus
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Great is Thy faithfulness
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O God my Father
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There is no shadow
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Of turning with Thee
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Thou changest
not, Thy compassion's,
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They fail not
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As Thou hast been
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Thou forever will be
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Morning by morning
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New mercies I see
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All I have needed
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Thy hand hath provided
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Lord unto me
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Summer and winter
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And springtime and harvest
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Sun, moon, and stars
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In their courses above
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Join with all nature
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In manifold witness
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To Thy great faithfulness
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Mercy, and love
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Morning by morning
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New mercies I see
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All I have needed
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Thy hand hath provided
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Lord unto me
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For those of you that
would like to come forward,
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I invite you now
for a prayer appeal.
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Pardon for sin
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And a peace that endureth
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Thy own dear presence
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To cheer and to guide
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Strength for today
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And bright hope for tomorrow
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Blessings all mine
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With ten thousand beside
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Morning by morning
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New mercies I see
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All I have needed
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Thy hand hath provided
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Great is Thy faithfulness!
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Lord unto me
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My God
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I love Thee
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Not because I hope
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For heaven thereby
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Nor yet because
who love thee not
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Must die eternally
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Thou, O my Jesus, thou didst me
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Upon the cross embrace
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Thou, O my Jesus, thou didst me
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Upon the cross embrace
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For me didst bear the
nails, the nails and spear
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And manifold disgrace
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And manifold disgrace
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Why, then why,
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O blessed Jesus Christ
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Should I not love thee well?
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Not for the hope
of winning heaven
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Or of escaping hell
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Not with the
hope of gaining aught
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Not seeking a reward
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But as thyself hast loved me
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O ever-loving Lord
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E'en so I love thee
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And will love
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And in thy praise will sing
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Solely because thou art my God
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And my Eternal King
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Amen.
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Well, thank you
choir, that was powerful.
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My Eternal King, I love
you, I love you, I love you.
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Wow, we needed that.
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Bless you.
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Oh God, You're our king
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and in worship this morning you,
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you have been
drawing from our very souls.
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The praise,
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the total praise that is due you
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and I'm
exclaiming like David did.
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I was so glad
when they said to me,
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let us go to the
house of the Lord.
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We've been here, You're here.
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Don't stop now,
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we're getting to something
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absolutely
critical for our journey.
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Make it clear, ignite it.
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And may we get it,
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we pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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I mean what would you
do with a 75 pound pearl?
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You just can't imagine.
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Can you put that
picture one more time,
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I just want to imagine that
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under my bed I
was just thinking.
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By the way we snooped this
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because some of you
would think, oh, yeah,
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this is one of
those urban legends.
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No, we checked it out.
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Everybody's carried
the story, BBC included.
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They still haven't verified
if it's the largest pearl,
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but you know
what, if you had it,
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if you had a pearl like that,
come on, tell me the truth.
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Wouldn't shoot
100 million dollars.
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Wouldn't you be willing
to pretty much liquidate
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everything you own to possess
that pearl a 100 million.
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Jesus told a
story once upon a time,
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didn't He, what was that?
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Matthew 13 there
was a businessman
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who when he,
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when he ascertain the
veracity of that value,
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he found that
pearl of great price,
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he liquidated his entire assets,
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remember that little parable,
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liquidated his entire
assets just for the joy at...
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the glory of owning
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and possessing a
pearl of great price.
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So Christ Object Lessons,
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this classic on Jesus' parables.
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I love this line, put
it on the screen for you.
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"The blessings of redeeming love
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our Savior compared
to a precious pearl...
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Christ Himself is the
precious, I inserted that,
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Christ Himself is the
precious pearl of great price."
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How precious is He?
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Let's find out hashtag RxF4Now,
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have you figured that out yet?
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No, you haven't,
keep hanging on to it,
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you'll get it.
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Let's put it on the screen
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those of you are
watching right now,
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we're going to cut to a
study guide in a moment.
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So I need to put that website
up so that you're ready to go
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as we're ready to go.
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The website is
www.newperceptions.tv.
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You go to that website,
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you're looking
for the series hashtag
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RxF4Now,
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titled this one, 'Precious'.
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Hit on study guide, let's go.
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You ready?
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All right oh, yeah,
oh thank you ushers,
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bless you, thank you.
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If you didn't get a study guide,
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put your hands up
because we're plunging into it,
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it's just boom, boom, boom,
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we're not
stopping and looking back.
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This teaching is that critical.
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I'm just really
pumped about the chance
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that you and I get to share this
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from the Word of God.
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You watch, you see.
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All right so,
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Christmas is
still a long ways off.
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But let's pretend
like we're Walmart,
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let's have
Christmas in September,
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haven't they put the...
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Don't they already
have these decorations up
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with little Christmas trees?
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Let's take a page
out of Walmart playbook
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and let's go to a
Christmas story right now.
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Open your Bible please
to the Gospel of Matthew,
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Matthew 1.
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I'm in the New
International Version.
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Whatever
translation you've brought,
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it's fine by me.
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You didn't bring a
Bible, pull the pew Bible out.
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You've got it on your device,
that God will use your device,
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it's not a problem.
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Matthew 1, the Christmas story,
we pick it up in verse 20.
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We got to move,
you and me, let's move.
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Verse 20, but after
he, that would be Joseph,
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had considered this,
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that would be divorcing
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his little
teenage pregnant fiancé(C)
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because back then
when you got betrothed,
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the only way you
could break it off was,
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it's that
serious, it was a divorce.
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So after, so he now is thinking
he's going to divorce her,
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"But after you consider this,
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an angel of the Lord
appeared to Joseph in a dream
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and the angel said,
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Joseph son of David,
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do not be afraid to
take Mary home as your wife,
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because what is conceived
in her is from the Holy Spirit.
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She will give birth to a son,
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and you are to
give him the name Jesus,
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because he will save
his people from their sins."
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Matthew goes on,
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"And all this
took place to fulfill
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what the Lord had said
to the prophet Isaiah."
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Verse 23,
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"The virgin will conceive
and give birth to a son,
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and they will
call him Immanuel,"
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which means what?
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Which means God with us.
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Would you take your study
guide and write that down.
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That baby that
is going to be born
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full term of a
nine month pregnancy,
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when that baby is born,
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that baby will
be the eternal God
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incarnated in human flesh.
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We'll call him
Immanuel, it means God with us.
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So what was He like, this
God man who came to earth?
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What was He really like?
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I mean in terms
of His manliness,
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in terms of His humanity.
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The most profound statement
00:24:50.52\00:24:51.92
about Jesus' humanity is
found in the Book of Hebrews
00:24:51.95\00:24:54.72
and without apology
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I'm going to have you
read the entire passage.
00:24:56.12\00:24:58.49
Hebrews 2, open your
Bible towards the end
00:24:58.53\00:25:02.13
Hebrews 2, take a look at this.
00:25:02.16\00:25:05.07
What kind of a man was He?
00:25:05.10\00:25:06.97
Okay, I know God is with us.
00:25:07.00\00:25:08.77
So He's become human
00:25:08.80\00:25:10.27
but how human
was the one who came?
00:25:10.31\00:25:13.81
Hebrews 2.
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And by the way this
is in your study guide
00:25:15.58\00:25:17.15
and I wanted this entire
passage in the study guide,
00:25:17.18\00:25:19.31
so I put it in there.
00:25:19.35\00:25:20.68
So you're going
to fill in blanks.
00:25:20.72\00:25:22.05
You can either read
this from your study guide
00:25:22.08\00:25:24.12
and fill the blanks in as we go,
00:25:24.15\00:25:25.69
you'll have to kind of
take a peek at the screen
00:25:25.72\00:25:27.62
or you can read it
and fill it in later
00:25:27.66\00:25:29.56
because you obviously
know what goes in the blanks.
00:25:29.59\00:25:31.89
Hebrews 2, we're going
to pick it up in verse 9.
00:25:31.93\00:25:35.56
Verse 9,
00:25:35.60\00:25:37.73
"But we do see Jesus,"
write in the name Jesus.
00:25:37.77\00:25:40.14
That's what
we're going to do this.
00:25:40.17\00:25:41.50
We're going to
spend the whole morning,
00:25:41.54\00:25:42.87
the few moments you
and I have together,
00:25:42.90\00:25:44.24
we're going to look at Jesus,
00:25:44.27\00:25:45.61
we're just going to
keep looking at Jesus,
00:25:45.64\00:25:47.08
"We do see Jesus who was made
00:25:47.11\00:25:50.78
lower than the angels
for a little while..."
00:25:50.81\00:25:52.98
Now that's code language
because from the Old Testament
00:25:53.01\00:25:55.35
we know that the
human race was created
00:25:55.38\00:25:56.79
a little lower than the angels
00:25:56.82\00:25:58.62
so that language
is simply saying,
00:25:58.65\00:26:00.32
He was made human.
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Okay, so we do see
Jesus who was made human,
00:26:01.72\00:26:04.99
keep reading in verse 9,
00:26:05.03\00:26:06.90
now okay, he's back in heaven,
00:26:06.93\00:26:08.60
"Now crowned
with glory and honor
00:26:08.63\00:26:11.67
because he suffered death
00:26:11.70\00:26:14.17
so that by the grace of God
00:26:14.20\00:26:15.80
he might taste
death for everyone."
00:26:15.84\00:26:19.77
How many of the human
race are covered by His coming?
00:26:19.81\00:26:21.74
How many of the human race?
00:26:21.78\00:26:23.11
The entire human race,
every man, woman, child,
00:26:23.14\00:26:25.05
who ever occupied any
space on terra firma is covered.
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All right, now
go on to verse 10,
00:26:30.09\00:26:31.59
"In bringing many sons
and daughters to glory,
00:26:31.62\00:26:33.89
it was fitting
that God, for whom
00:26:33.92\00:26:35.26
and through whom
everything exists,
00:26:35.29\00:26:36.86
should make the pioneer,
00:26:36.89\00:26:38.23
" I like that in the new NIV,
00:26:38.26\00:26:40.33
"The pioneer of
their salvation perfect
00:26:40.36\00:26:42.96
through what he suffered."
00:26:43.00\00:26:44.60
Keep filling them
in, both now verse 11,
00:26:44.63\00:26:47.80
"Both the one who
makes people holy,
00:26:47.84\00:26:49.67
it would be God,
00:26:49.70\00:26:51.04
and those who are made
holy are of the same family.
00:26:51.07\00:26:54.91
So, Jesus is not
ashamed to call them
00:26:54.94\00:26:58.05
brothers and sisters."
00:26:58.08\00:27:00.12
We are family, that's the point.
00:27:00.15\00:27:06.02
We're family.
00:27:06.05\00:27:07.62
He's one with us.
00:27:07.66\00:27:09.46
He's not ashamed
00:27:09.49\00:27:10.83
that's my bro, that's my sis,
00:27:10.86\00:27:12.19
that's my little sis,
that's my little brother.
00:27:12.23\00:27:14.46
Keep going.
00:27:14.50\00:27:15.83
We're going to
drop down to verse 14,
00:27:15.86\00:27:17.20
"Since the children
have flesh and blood..."
00:27:17.23\00:27:19.20
That would be you and
me, flesh and blood, right,
00:27:19.23\00:27:20.77
here we go, we got it,
00:27:20.80\00:27:22.17
"He too shared in their humanity
00:27:22.20\00:27:25.37
so that by his death..."
00:27:25.41\00:27:28.14
So he's sharing our humanity,
00:27:28.18\00:27:30.68
"By his death he
might break the power of him
00:27:30.71\00:27:34.02
who holds the power of death."
00:27:34.05\00:27:35.38
Who would that
be? That's the devil.
00:27:35.42\00:27:37.22
It's going to be mortal,
hand to hand combat, combat,
00:27:37.25\00:27:40.56
mind to mind the
entire time he's here,
00:27:40.59\00:27:43.26
he's here for combat.
00:27:43.29\00:27:44.63
Now, keep going.
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Put the next slide up
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"And by that death he's
going to free those of us,
00:27:47.40\00:27:50.27
and that will be all of us,
00:27:50.30\00:27:51.63
who all our lives
have been held in slavery
00:27:51.67\00:27:54.44
by our fear of death."
00:27:54.47\00:27:58.07
He came to set us free.
00:27:58.11\00:28:00.14
Now verse 16, keep going,
00:28:00.18\00:28:01.88
"For surely it is not
angels that Jesus helps,
00:28:01.91\00:28:05.01
but Abraham's descendants."
00:28:05.05\00:28:06.82
Pause button,
00:28:06.85\00:28:08.18
the Greek word for descendants
00:28:08.22\00:28:09.55
sperm, sperma,
that's the word sperma.
00:28:09.58\00:28:13.02
We're talking about real
life humanity here, okay.
00:28:13.05\00:28:17.39
He's in the midst of it.
00:28:17.43\00:28:19.89
He helps Abraham's descendants,
00:28:19.93\00:28:21.50
"For this reason
he had to be made,
00:28:21.53\00:28:24.07
he had to be
made like them in...
00:28:24.10\00:28:26.23
" What are the
next two words, in what?
00:28:26.27\00:28:28.84
Everyway, in
everyway made like us.
00:28:28.87\00:28:32.01
How human was He? In everyway.
00:28:32.04\00:28:33.61
"In order that he
might become a merciful
00:28:33.64\00:28:35.24
and faithful high
priest in the service of God,
00:28:35.28\00:28:37.41
and that he might make
atonement for the sins."
00:28:37.45\00:28:40.58
That's why He's
here, He's going to die.
00:28:40.62\00:28:42.75
He has to become
human because God can't die.
00:28:42.78\00:28:44.35
He has to become human,
00:28:44.39\00:28:45.72
He's going to pay
the eternal penalty
00:28:45.75\00:28:50.03
for the
rebellion of this planet.
00:28:50.06\00:28:52.23
Himself He will pay
for the sins of the earth.
00:28:52.26\00:28:55.06
Verse 18, one
more from chapter 2,
00:28:55.10\00:28:57.40
"Because he himself
suffered when he was tempted..."
00:28:57.43\00:29:00.97
We're talking
about trivial human,
00:29:01.00\00:29:02.80
He is tempted,
00:29:02.84\00:29:04.17
"Because he
suffered when he was tempted,
00:29:04.21\00:29:05.54
he is able to help
those who are being tempted."
00:29:05.57\00:29:08.61
He's down here
in the mud with us.
00:29:08.64\00:29:12.78
Now we're going to
throw in verse Chapter 4:15,
00:29:12.81\00:29:15.08
keep your pen moving,
00:29:15.12\00:29:16.45
"For we do not
have a high priest
00:29:16.48\00:29:17.82
who is unable to empathize
with our weaknesses..."
00:29:17.85\00:29:20.22
He has all our
weaknesses now within him.
00:29:20.26\00:29:24.19
"He is not unable to
empathize with our weaknesses,
00:29:24.23\00:29:28.10
but we have one who has
been tempted in everyway."
00:29:28.13\00:29:31.77
So, just write that in
00:29:31.80\00:29:33.13
because He's not only
made like us in everyway,
00:29:33.17\00:29:35.40
He's been tempted like everyway,
00:29:35.44\00:29:37.84
in everyway.
00:29:37.87\00:29:40.21
"Just as we are,
yet he did not sin."
00:29:40.24\00:29:44.91
Huge, write in the word
sin, He did not, He did not.
00:29:44.95\00:29:49.08
One last verse Hebrews
5:8, "Son though he was,
00:29:49.12\00:29:52.75
he learned obedience
from what he suffered."
00:29:52.79\00:29:55.46
You know why?
00:29:55.49\00:29:56.83
No pain, no gain.
00:29:56.86\00:30:00.46
No pain, no gain.
00:30:00.50\00:30:02.33
It had to be this way.
00:30:02.36\00:30:03.70
It had to be this way.
00:30:03.73\00:30:05.50
So, Dwight, how
come I have to go through
00:30:05.53\00:30:06.87
this extended
passage, I mean please.
00:30:06.90\00:30:08.57
All right, I'll tell you why?
00:30:08.60\00:30:09.94
Because God's strategic plan.
00:30:09.97\00:30:12.07
This rescue mission of God's
00:30:12.11\00:30:14.01
to save the human race
critically necessitated Him
00:30:14.04\00:30:17.98
becoming one
with us rebel sinners.
00:30:18.01\00:30:21.38
So that nobody could come
up to Him one day and say,
00:30:21.42\00:30:23.55
"Yo, Jesus, I
understand You came,
00:30:23.59\00:30:25.39
I understand You have
five fingers on each hand,
00:30:25.42\00:30:27.02
but You do not
know what it's like,
00:30:27.06\00:30:28.92
You don't know
what I've been through,
00:30:28.96\00:30:30.29
You have not
felt what I have felt,
00:30:30.33\00:30:31.93
You do not
understand me really truly."
00:30:31.96\00:30:35.36
Boom, He says, "Forget that."
00:30:35.40\00:30:37.97
Reminds me of a little playlet,
little short play, entitled,
00:30:38.00\00:30:42.14
title of the
play, The Long Silence.
00:30:42.17\00:30:44.41
I want to read this to
you, see if you get it.
00:30:44.44\00:30:47.24
"At the end of time,
00:30:47.28\00:30:48.61
billions of people were
scattered on a great plain
00:30:48.64\00:30:50.68
before God's throne.
00:30:50.71\00:30:52.11
Most shrank back
00:30:52.15\00:30:53.48
from the
brilliant light before them.
00:30:53.52\00:30:54.95
But some groups near
the front talked heatedly,
00:30:54.98\00:30:58.12
not with cringing
shame, but with belligerence.
00:30:58.15\00:31:00.92
'Can God judge us?
00:31:00.96\00:31:02.42
How can he know
about suffering?'
00:31:02.46\00:31:03.79
snapped a pert young brunette.
00:31:03.83\00:31:05.83
She ripped open a sleeve
and reveal a tattooed number
00:31:05.86\00:31:08.86
from a Nazi concentration camp.
00:31:08.90\00:31:10.90
'We endured terror and beatings,
00:31:10.93\00:31:13.03
torture and death!'
00:31:13.07\00:31:14.40
In another group a black
young man lowered his collar.
00:31:14.44\00:31:18.17
'What about this?'
00:31:18.21\00:31:19.54
he demanded,
showing an ugly rope burn.
00:31:19.57\00:31:20.91
'Lynched for no
crime but being black!'
00:31:20.94\00:31:24.71
In another crowd,
00:31:24.75\00:31:26.08
a pregnant
schoolgirl with sullen eyes,
00:31:26.11\00:31:28.12
'Why should I
suffer' she murmured,
00:31:28.15\00:31:29.88
'It wasn't my fault.'
00:31:29.92\00:31:32.52
Far out a cross the plain there
were hundreds of such groups.
00:31:32.55\00:31:35.26
Each had a complaint
against God for the evil
00:31:35.29\00:31:37.23
and suffering he
permitted in his world.
00:31:37.26\00:31:39.86
How lucky God
was to live in heaven
00:31:39.89\00:31:42.53
where all was
sweetness and light,
00:31:42.56\00:31:44.50
where there was
no weeping or fear,
00:31:44.53\00:31:46.20
no hunger or hatred.
00:31:46.23\00:31:47.64
What did God know of all that
man had been forced to endure
00:31:47.67\00:31:51.17
in this world?
00:31:51.21\00:31:52.54
For God leads a pretty
sheltered life, they said.
00:31:52.57\00:31:57.31
So each of these groups
sent forth their leader,
00:31:57.35\00:31:59.88
chosen because he
had suffered the most.
00:31:59.91\00:32:01.42
A Jew, a black, a
person from Hiroshima,
00:32:01.45\00:32:04.05
a horribly deformed
arthritic, an autistic child.
00:32:04.09\00:32:07.16
In the centre of the plain
they consulted with each other.
00:32:07.19\00:32:09.49
At last they were quite
ready to present their case.
00:32:09.52\00:32:12.53
It was rather clever.
00:32:12.56\00:32:14.76
Before God could be
qualified to be their judge,
00:32:14.80\00:32:17.80
he must endure
what they had endured.
00:32:17.83\00:32:20.47
Their decision was that
00:32:20.50\00:32:21.84
God should be sentenced
to live on earth as a man.
00:32:21.87\00:32:25.87
'Let him be born a Jew.
00:32:25.91\00:32:27.51
Let the legitimacy
of his birth be doubted.
00:32:27.54\00:32:29.78
Give him a work so difficult
00:32:29.81\00:32:31.15
that even his
family will think him
00:32:31.18\00:32:32.51
out of his mind
when he tries to do it.
00:32:32.55\00:32:34.65
Let him be betrayed
by his closest friends.
00:32:34.68\00:32:37.52
Let him face false charges,
be tried by a prejudiced jury,
00:32:37.55\00:32:40.42
convicted by a cowardly judge.
00:32:40.46\00:32:42.72
And then let him be tortured.
00:32:42.76\00:32:44.53
'And at last,
00:32:44.56\00:32:45.89
let him see what it
means to be terribly alone.
00:32:45.93\00:32:48.43
Let then let him die.
00:32:48.46\00:32:50.23
Let him die so that there
can be no doubt that he died.
00:32:50.27\00:32:52.90
Let there be a great host
of witnesses to verify it.'
00:32:52.93\00:32:56.34
As each leader announced
his portion of the sentence,
00:32:56.37\00:32:58.97
loud murmurs of approval went up
00:32:59.01\00:33:01.21
from the throng
of people assembled.
00:33:01.24\00:33:03.11
And when the last had
finished pronouncing sentence,
00:33:03.14\00:33:08.58
there was a long silence.
00:33:08.62\00:33:13.49
No-one uttered another word.
00:33:19.26\00:33:23.90
No-one moved.
00:33:23.93\00:33:26.50
For suddenly all knew
00:33:26.53\00:33:29.30
that God had already
00:33:29.34\00:33:32.64
served his sentence."
00:33:32.67\00:33:37.35
Wow.
00:33:37.38\00:33:39.21
What did we just read?
00:33:39.25\00:33:41.12
For we do not have one
who is unable to empathize
00:33:41.15\00:33:43.05
with our weaknesses
00:33:43.08\00:33:44.42
but we have one who has
been tempted in every way
00:33:44.45\00:33:46.19
just as we are, God with us.
00:33:46.22\00:33:50.16
So here's the question.
00:33:54.03\00:33:56.70
How would you answer this?
00:33:56.73\00:33:58.67
When God became man,
00:33:58.70\00:34:01.00
how did He relate to God?
00:34:01.04\00:34:03.67
Think about it.
00:34:07.08\00:34:08.88
Did Jesus have some
sort of inside track,
00:34:08.91\00:34:14.22
some sort of divine privilege?
00:34:14.25\00:34:17.19
Maybe little, just a
little teeny divine advantage.
00:34:17.22\00:34:20.26
You already know the
answer to the question,
00:34:20.29\00:34:21.82
the question is no.
00:34:21.86\00:34:23.46
Instead Jesus had a
huge human advantage
00:34:23.49\00:34:28.96
and I'm going to give
you six texts right now
00:34:29.00\00:34:31.20
in a row that will prove to you
00:34:31.23\00:34:32.93
that you have the
same huge human advantage
00:34:32.97\00:34:36.87
as Jesus did.
00:34:36.91\00:34:38.24
Let's go six of them, counting,
00:34:38.27\00:34:39.61
when the sixth one is
done, I'm sitting down.
00:34:39.64\00:34:40.98
Number one, it's
in your study guide,
00:34:41.01\00:34:42.48
number one Hebrews
2:13 we skip that verse.
00:34:42.51\00:34:46.51
But the verse is by,
by the Book of Hebrews,
00:34:46.55\00:34:48.78
it's being attributed to Jesus.
00:34:48.82\00:34:50.15
He says this
quote in the Psalms,
00:34:50.19\00:34:51.55
"I will put My
trust, " quoting Isaiah,
00:34:51.59\00:34:53.82
"I will put My trust in Him."
00:34:53.86\00:34:56.89
You know how Jesus
live when He was down here?
00:34:56.93\00:34:58.79
It was just like that.
00:34:58.83\00:35:01.20
He put His trust in God.
00:35:01.23\00:35:02.80
Was that once a week
when He went to church.
00:35:02.83\00:35:05.03
Maybe that was once a day,
when He prays in the morning.
00:35:05.07\00:35:08.27
Once an hour?
00:35:08.30\00:35:09.64
Once a minute?
00:35:09.67\00:35:11.14
Are you kidding?
00:35:11.17\00:35:12.54
Jesus lived by faith.
00:35:12.57\00:35:17.11
Now that's not such a
radically new strategy.
00:35:17.15\00:35:19.31
In fact, it's a
radically old strategy
00:35:19.35\00:35:22.48
which is why in
the Book of Hebrews
00:35:22.52\00:35:23.85
you have Chapter 11
00:35:23.89\00:35:25.22
which is called
the Hall of faith,
00:35:25.25\00:35:26.59
Hall of Fame
chapter of the Bible
00:35:26.62\00:35:27.96
by faith Enoch,
00:35:27.99\00:35:29.56
by faith Nova,
00:35:29.59\00:35:31.09
by faith Abraham, by faith Sara,
00:35:31.13\00:35:33.40
by faith Joseph, by faith Moses,
00:35:33.43\00:35:36.43
by faith Gideon,
00:35:36.46\00:35:37.80
by faith all of them,
00:35:37.83\00:35:40.27
thought Jesus lived by faith,
00:35:40.30\00:35:43.87
by faith.
00:35:43.91\00:35:45.24
Proof text number two,
00:35:48.94\00:35:51.05
here comes
number two, jot it down.
00:35:51.08\00:35:52.75
And by the way the next three,
00:35:52.78\00:35:54.12
the next three
are all red letters
00:35:54.15\00:35:56.18
because we'll hear
from Jesus' own lips
00:35:56.22\00:35:58.25
the huge human
reality that He lived through.
00:35:58.29\00:36:02.22
Okay, so this is
number two, John Chapter 5.
00:36:02.26\00:36:06.26
You've got it there in
the study guide John 5:19,
00:36:06.29\00:36:09.90
"Very truly I tell you,"
00:36:09.93\00:36:11.40
oh, by the way because
this is the fourth gospel
00:36:11.43\00:36:13.34
you already know
this many of you,
00:36:13.37\00:36:15.10
but this is a double amen,
00:36:15.14\00:36:17.31
whenever you see
those words in the NIV,
00:36:17.34\00:36:18.84
"Very truly I tell you,"
00:36:18.87\00:36:20.44
that means
there's a double amen.
00:36:20.48\00:36:22.51
Amen, amen.
00:36:22.54\00:36:23.88
Now that's a device,
00:36:23.91\00:36:25.25
a literary device that
John uses like a huge red flag.
00:36:25.28\00:36:27.55
"Yo, reader slow
down, slow down, slow down,
00:36:27.58\00:36:31.49
something huge is about
to be declared by Jesus."
00:36:31.52\00:36:35.12
It's only on his lips
that we hear the double amen.
00:36:35.16\00:36:37.33
So here it now,
something big is coming,
00:36:37.36\00:36:39.79
"Barely, barely amen, amen,
00:36:39.83\00:36:42.16
I tell you, the
Son can do nothing."
00:36:42.20\00:36:45.80
How much?
00:36:45.83\00:36:47.17
How much?
00:36:47.20\00:36:48.54
Nothing by Himself
and then to make sure
00:36:48.57\00:36:51.97
we didn't miss that verse
30 of the same conversation
00:36:52.01\00:36:55.48
he is having with
these ecclesiastical leaders,
00:36:55.51\00:36:57.25
look it, he puts it there,
00:36:57.28\00:36:58.61
puts it this way, "By
myself I can do, how much?
00:36:58.65\00:37:03.05
Nothing, nada, zero,
00:37:03.08\00:37:04.92
nothing, I can do
nothing by myself.
00:37:04.95\00:37:09.59
Now this is,
this is rather amazing
00:37:09.62\00:37:11.59
because this is
coming from the incarnated
00:37:11.63\00:37:13.23
creator of the universe,
00:37:13.26\00:37:14.60
remember the
creator of the universe.
00:37:14.63\00:37:15.96
The creator who
spoke and when He speaks,
00:37:16.00\00:37:18.93
what He speaks becomes reality.
00:37:18.97\00:37:22.04
So when He says,
00:37:22.07\00:37:23.41
"Let there be light"
00:37:23.44\00:37:24.77
in less than a
half a nanosecond,
00:37:24.81\00:37:26.37
boom, there is light
00:37:26.41\00:37:28.04
because the
creator's word get this,
00:37:28.08\00:37:30.21
the creator's word
describes the reality
00:37:30.25\00:37:35.78
embedded in the word
and creates the reality
00:37:35.82\00:37:39.65
when the word is spoken.
00:37:39.69\00:37:41.56
Let there be light,
boom, there's light.
00:37:41.59\00:37:42.92
Psalm 33:9,
00:37:45.99\00:37:48.20
remember that from our first
part in the series verse 9,
00:37:48.23\00:37:51.33
"For He spoke, and it was done."
00:37:51.37\00:37:54.10
And by the way in the
Hebrew, it goes like this,
00:37:54.14\00:37:55.87
"For He spoke and it was."
00:37:55.90\00:37:57.87
There's no done,
I inserted the done.
00:37:57.91\00:37:59.97
"For He spoke, and it was,
00:38:00.01\00:38:01.34
He commanded,
and it stood fast."
00:38:01.38\00:38:04.35
That's the point.
00:38:04.38\00:38:05.71
That's why I love Isaiah 55:11.
00:38:05.75\00:38:07.75
These are two, boy, I tell you,
00:38:07.78\00:38:09.22
I've latched on to this,
00:38:09.25\00:38:11.15
these verbs these verses
00:38:11.19\00:38:13.86
with their verbs are in my mind
kind of every day, every day.
00:38:13.89\00:38:17.63
Why?
00:38:17.66\00:38:18.99
Because I know that
when God speaks the word,
00:38:19.03\00:38:21.66
let not your heart be troubled
neither let it be afraid.
00:38:21.70\00:38:25.03
When God uses the same language,
00:38:25.07\00:38:26.74
"Let not" when
He speaks that word.
00:38:26.77\00:38:29.87
The moment He
speaks it, you got it.
00:38:29.90\00:38:32.47
Let your heart be at peace.
00:38:32.51\00:38:34.14
Peace, because
the word He speaks
00:38:34.18\00:38:37.51
creates the reality it describes
00:38:37.55\00:38:40.28
So Isaiah 55:11 I love this,
00:38:40.32\00:38:41.65
"So is My word that
goes out of My mouth:
00:38:41.68\00:38:44.12
It will not return to Me empty,
00:38:44.15\00:38:45.49
but will
accomplish what I desire
00:38:45.52\00:38:46.99
and achieve the
purpose for which I sent it."
00:38:47.02\00:38:50.03
When I say, when I say,
00:38:50.06\00:38:52.29
"Let not...
00:38:52.33\00:38:57.47
your heart be troubled."
00:38:57.50\00:39:01.74
It's no trouble.
00:39:01.77\00:39:03.97
Neither let it be afraid.
00:39:04.01\00:39:05.34
Let this mind be in you
which is also in Christ Jesus.
00:39:08.08\00:39:11.15
You got it.
00:39:14.28\00:39:16.69
When He speaks it,
00:39:16.72\00:39:19.05
and you receive it, you got it.
00:39:19.09\00:39:23.32
So Jesus says,
00:39:23.36\00:39:24.73
isn't it something
that the great creator
00:39:24.76\00:39:26.09
who just says the word
00:39:26.13\00:39:27.46
and the whole
universe is shaped.
00:39:27.50\00:39:28.86
He says, "I can do nothing,
I can do nothing by Myself,
00:39:28.90\00:39:32.53
nothing."
00:39:32.57\00:39:33.90
Something has happened.
00:39:33.94\00:39:35.27
Something has happened
to the Almighty God Creator
00:39:35.30\00:39:37.21
come to earth
incarnated into our likeness,
00:39:37.24\00:39:39.11
something has happened.
00:39:39.14\00:39:40.48
He has become us and
because He is now us,
00:39:40.51\00:39:43.71
He can do nothing on His own.
00:39:43.75\00:39:47.52
Proof text number
three, there are six of these.
00:39:47.55\00:39:50.15
Here comes number
three also red letters.
00:39:50.19\00:39:52.79
Then on the eve
of His execution,
00:39:52.82\00:39:54.39
this is John 14:10,
00:39:54.42\00:39:55.96
Oh, boy, wait till you
see what this one says.
00:39:55.99\00:39:58.53
This is Jesus speaking,
00:39:58.56\00:39:59.89
there're only 11 men
in the upper room now,
00:39:59.93\00:40:01.26
one of them is gone.
00:40:01.30\00:40:03.53
"The words I say to you,
my friends and disciples,
00:40:03.57\00:40:07.94
I do not speak
on My own authority.
00:40:07.97\00:40:09.94
Rather, it is the
Father, living in Me.
00:40:09.97\00:40:14.28
The father living in
Me, who is doing His work."
00:40:14.31\00:40:17.65
He lives in Me.
00:40:17.68\00:40:19.01
He's doing it through Me.
00:40:19.05\00:40:20.38
It's His work.
00:40:20.42\00:40:23.28
What is going on here?
00:40:23.32\00:40:24.79
Do you mean the
healing Jesus did?
00:40:24.82\00:40:26.39
You mean, the loving Jesus did?
00:40:26.42\00:40:27.79
The weeping Jesus did?
00:40:27.82\00:40:29.16
The dying Jesus did?
The resurrecting Jesus did?
00:40:29.19\00:40:31.13
Do you mean that was
all the work of the Father,
00:40:31.16\00:40:32.96
that's exactly what Jesus means?
00:40:32.99\00:40:35.46
I didn't do this.
I can't do anything.
00:40:35.50\00:40:37.27
By Myself I can do nothing.
00:40:37.30\00:40:38.63
You know who's in Me?
00:40:38.67\00:40:40.00
The Father Himself is in Me.
00:40:40.04\00:40:41.97
I am totally dependent
00:40:42.00\00:40:45.24
on the Father of this universe.
00:40:45.27\00:40:49.01
Look at Desire of Ages,
you can take this one home.
00:40:49.04\00:40:51.35
You got it in your study guide,
00:40:51.38\00:40:52.71
"So utterly was Christ
emptied of self that He made,"
00:40:52.75\00:40:55.68
this, this is astounding,
00:40:55.72\00:40:57.05
"that He made no
plans for Himself.
00:40:57.09\00:40:59.25
He accepted God's,
God's plans for Him,
00:40:59.29\00:41:02.96
and day by day the
Father unfolded His plans."
00:41:02.99\00:41:06.86
Now what gets me is
are the next four words,
00:41:06.90\00:41:10.37
"So should we
00:41:10.40\00:41:13.13
depend upon God."
00:41:13.17\00:41:18.57
His modus operandi is to
become our modus operandi.
00:41:18.61\00:41:21.88
"So should we depend upon God
00:41:21.91\00:41:24.11
that our lives may be the
simple outworking of His will,
00:41:24.15\00:41:26.51
keep reading, "As one with us,
00:41:26.55\00:41:28.42
God with us, a sharer in
our needs and weaknesses, "
00:41:28.45\00:41:31.99
weak just like you and me,
00:41:32.02\00:41:34.26
"He was wholly
depended upon God,
00:41:34.29\00:41:37.06
and in the
secret place of prayer
00:41:37.09\00:41:38.96
He sought divine strength,
00:41:38.99\00:41:40.53
that He might go forth
braced for duty and trial."
00:41:40.56\00:41:45.60
Huge advantage, Dwight,
00:41:45.63\00:41:47.50
I'm not seeing
the huge advantage.
00:41:47.54\00:41:49.04
Oh, you'll see it,
there are only six of these,
00:41:49.07\00:41:50.91
you'll see it,
here comes number four.
00:41:50.94\00:41:52.71
Also by the way
in the upper room
00:41:52.74\00:41:54.71
just a few breaths
later than Chapter 14.
00:41:54.74\00:41:57.85
Jot this down, John 15:5,
00:41:57.88\00:42:00.02
Jesus speaking, "I am the vine,
00:42:00.05\00:42:02.18
you are the what?
00:42:02.22\00:42:03.89
Come one, you are the what?
00:42:03.92\00:42:05.25
You're the
branches, I'm the vine.
00:42:05.29\00:42:08.09
What is Jesus saying here.
00:42:08.12\00:42:09.46
"If you remain in Me,
your older translation say,
00:42:09.49\00:42:12.29
if you abide in Me as I,
00:42:12.33\00:42:13.66
If you remain in
Me and I in you."
00:42:13.70\00:42:17.50
Hit the pause
button right there.
00:42:17.53\00:42:18.93
You know what Jesus is saying?
00:42:18.97\00:42:20.60
He's saying, hey,
listen, listen, as it was,
00:42:20.64\00:42:24.44
as it is with the Father in
Me, I can do nothing by Myself,
00:42:24.47\00:42:28.04
I can do nothing by Myself
00:42:28.08\00:42:29.51
but the Father
is in Me, He doeth,
00:42:29.54\00:42:31.61
he does the works.
00:42:31.65\00:42:33.58
As it is between
the Father and Me,
00:42:33.62\00:42:36.35
it's going to be
between You and Me.
00:42:36.38\00:42:38.32
I'm gonna be in You, boy,
and you're gonna be in Me.
00:42:38.35\00:42:40.86
We're gonna be just like this.
00:42:40.89\00:42:43.19
Girl, do you understand me?
00:42:43.22\00:42:44.99
I'm in you, you're in Me,
00:42:45.03\00:42:47.36
just like it was
Me and the Father,
00:42:47.40\00:42:49.10
it will be with you.
00:42:49.13\00:42:51.47
Wow, and now notice
some very familiar words
00:42:51.50\00:42:54.67
so after he says
this in John 15:5,
00:42:54.70\00:42:57.01
"If you remain
in Me and I in you,
00:42:57.04\00:42:58.37
you will bear much fruit,"
00:42:58.41\00:42:59.74
and now here comes
"for apart from Me..."
00:42:59.77\00:43:01.68
How does it go? Tell me.
00:43:01.71\00:43:03.04
How does it go?
00:43:03.08\00:43:04.41
"For apart from Me
you can do nothing."
00:43:04.45\00:43:06.85
Twice He's already
told us, I can do nothing,
00:43:06.88\00:43:09.62
I can do nothing,
has to be the Father.
00:43:09.65\00:43:11.05
Now He tells us, guess what?
00:43:11.09\00:43:12.72
Ditto for you.
00:43:12.75\00:43:14.09
You can do nothing
00:43:14.12\00:43:16.06
unless I'm in you and you in Me.
00:43:16.09\00:43:20.00
The track that He
carves across the face of time
00:43:20.03\00:43:24.90
is the very trail
we too are to trot.
00:43:24.93\00:43:29.77
Same-o, same-o, same-o,
00:43:29.80\00:43:32.17
nothing different
for me than for you.
00:43:32.21\00:43:36.61
If I win doing it
this way, guess what?
00:43:36.64\00:43:39.81
You win doing it this way.
00:43:39.85\00:43:41.95
You'll be fine just like
Me and the Father, you and Me.
00:43:41.98\00:43:46.79
Wow.
00:43:46.82\00:43:48.16
Jesus is declaring
here in John 15:5 is
00:43:52.66\00:43:55.03
"That just as His
life was distinguished
00:43:55.06\00:43:57.53
by His radical and
dependent faith in God,
00:43:57.57\00:44:00.30
even so our life is to be
distinguished by our radical
00:44:00.34\00:44:04.51
and dependent faith in Christ."
00:44:04.54\00:44:08.01
But now I've got
a surprise for you,
00:44:08.04\00:44:09.94
the best comes last.
00:44:09.98\00:44:12.15
There're still number five.
00:44:12.18\00:44:14.62
Now we can know
00:44:14.65\00:44:16.22
why the Bible's
last book describes the,
00:44:16.25\00:44:18.82
describes earth
final generation in the way
00:44:18.85\00:44:23.19
that feels a bit
grammatically crazy
00:44:23.22\00:44:26.93
which has led
modern translations
00:44:26.96\00:44:28.43
to miss the point
completely as I'll show you.
00:44:28.46\00:44:31.10
Revelation 14:12,
take a look at this.
00:44:31.13\00:44:33.34
You can look at in your Bible
00:44:33.37\00:44:34.70
but I have it right
here in the study guide.
00:44:34.74\00:44:37.07
If you want to do it
right there, you read,
00:44:37.11\00:44:38.67
some of you will
remember these words.
00:44:38.71\00:44:40.38
"Here is the
patience of the saints..."
00:44:40.41\00:44:43.88
This is at the end of
the Three Angels' Messages,
00:44:43.91\00:44:45.71
this is the last line of
the Three Angels' Messages,
00:44:45.75\00:44:47.92
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:44:47.95\00:44:50.45
here are those who
keep" two, two things.
00:44:50.49\00:44:53.76
And I've numbered them,
00:44:53.79\00:44:55.12
the numbers aren't in the Bible,
00:44:55.16\00:44:56.49
I've numbered them
for you, two things just,
00:44:56.52\00:44:57.99
you keep two things is
clear from the grammar.
00:44:58.03\00:45:00.46
They keep two things,
00:45:00.50\00:45:01.83
"Here are those
who keep, number one,
00:45:01.86\00:45:03.90
the commandments of God,
and number two, the what?
00:45:03.93\00:45:09.47
The faith of whom?
00:45:09.50\00:45:11.97
The faith of Jesus,
00:45:12.01\00:45:15.74
but modern
translations come along and say,
00:45:15.78\00:45:17.18
that can't be.
00:45:17.21\00:45:18.55
I mean, how do you
keep the faith of Jesus.
00:45:18.58\00:45:20.62
So you know what they do?
00:45:20.65\00:45:21.98
It's like my NIV,
it renders it this way.
00:45:22.02\00:45:24.19
"Here are they who
remain faithful to Jesus."
00:45:24.22\00:45:26.99
The word remain
isn't even in the Greek,
00:45:27.02\00:45:28.62
they inserted to try to make
their misinterpretation fit.
00:45:28.66\00:45:32.59
It doesn't fit.
00:45:32.63\00:45:34.03
The Greek reads
exactly as it is.
00:45:34.06\00:45:35.70
"Here are they who keep,
one, the commandments of God
00:45:35.73\00:45:38.07
and two, keep
the faith of Jesus."
00:45:38.10\00:45:41.14
They keep Jesus' faith.
00:45:41.17\00:45:43.14
Do you understand that?
00:45:43.17\00:45:44.51
That's not the faith of me,
that's not the faith of you,
00:45:44.54\00:45:47.11
that is the faith of Jesus,
00:45:47.14\00:45:48.54
that's what will
get them through,
00:45:48.58\00:45:49.91
the final chapter
of earth's history.
00:45:49.94\00:45:51.51
It's not the faith of
you, it's not the faith of me,
00:45:51.55\00:45:54.68
it's the faith of
Jesus that they hang on to
00:45:54.72\00:45:57.95
and that is what
gets them through.
00:45:57.99\00:46:01.66
A final
generation which must endure
00:46:01.69\00:46:04.03
what no generation in
the history of this planet
00:46:04.06\00:46:06.16
has ever endured.
00:46:06.19\00:46:07.60
They will get through,
00:46:07.63\00:46:09.06
not on their
faith, but on His faith.
00:46:09.10\00:46:13.94
You say, oh,
Dwight, this is kind of...
00:46:13.97\00:46:15.84
I think you're just a little bit
00:46:15.87\00:46:17.24
pushing the margins here,
00:46:17.27\00:46:18.61
I mean please.
00:46:18.64\00:46:20.08
Oh, really.
00:46:20.11\00:46:22.11
It's one of
Paul's favorite phrases
00:46:22.14\00:46:24.21
also mistranslated
by modern translations.
00:46:24.25\00:46:28.18
I'll show you why?
00:46:28.22\00:46:29.55
Now I don't
want to show you why,
00:46:29.58\00:46:30.92
I'll just show it to you.
00:46:30.95\00:46:32.29
Galatians 2,
00:46:32.32\00:46:33.66
okay, this is the
last text I told you, six.
00:46:33.69\00:46:35.02
Here's number
six, Galatians 2:20,
00:46:35.06\00:46:37.36
there are a lot of you
00:46:37.39\00:46:38.73
who have been
able to sing the song
00:46:38.76\00:46:40.10
and you know, you
know how the words go
00:46:40.13\00:46:41.56
and so I must do
it out loud with you.
00:46:41.60\00:46:42.93
Let's do it.
00:46:42.96\00:46:44.30
"I am crucified with
Christ," come on you know this,
00:46:44.33\00:46:46.40
"I am crucified with
Christ, nevertheless I live,
00:46:46.43\00:46:50.74
yet not I, but"
00:46:50.77\00:46:53.74
remember abide
in me and I in you,
00:46:53.78\00:46:55.28
that's what Paul said,
00:46:55.31\00:46:56.64
and that's what
happened, He's in me.
00:46:56.68\00:46:58.01
He's in me.
00:46:58.05\00:46:59.38
Christ in you the hope of glory,
00:46:59.41\00:47:00.75
He's in me.
00:47:00.78\00:47:02.12
Let's do it again, "I
am crucified with Christ,
00:47:02.15\00:47:04.25
nevertheless I live, yet
not I, but Christ lives in me.
00:47:04.29\00:47:09.79
And the life I live,
00:47:09.82\00:47:12.06
I live by the
faith of the Son of God,
00:47:12.09\00:47:16.00
who loved me, and
gave himself for me."
00:47:16.03\00:47:17.83
It reads exactly as
Revelation 14:12 does,
00:47:17.87\00:47:20.94
the Greek identical.
00:47:20.97\00:47:23.20
The life I live, I
live by the faith of Jesus.
00:47:23.24\00:47:28.38
It's the faith of
Jesus that I live every day
00:47:28.41\00:47:31.28
says the greatest
Christian who ever lived.
00:47:31.31\00:47:33.21
Did you fill that in?
00:47:33.25\00:47:34.58
I didn't stop to
let you fill it in
00:47:34.62\00:47:36.18
because I needed
to keep going here,
00:47:36.22\00:47:37.55
what's going on,
you gonna say, Dwight,
00:47:37.59\00:47:38.92
something's going on here.
00:47:38.95\00:47:40.29
You bet.
00:47:40.32\00:47:41.66
I want to go to my
friend Carl Cosaert,
00:47:41.69\00:47:43.02
one of the bright New Testament
00:47:43.06\00:47:44.39
scholars in our faith Community.
00:47:44.43\00:47:46.19
He teaches at
Walla Walla University.
00:47:46.23\00:47:48.06
Carl Cosaert in
his punchy little short
00:47:48.10\00:47:50.40
commentary on Galatians.
00:47:50.43\00:47:52.83
I'm quoting him now.
00:47:52.87\00:47:55.94
There's a new wind blowing even
in New Testament scholarship.
00:47:55.97\00:47:59.67
N. T. Wright, he
believes the same,
00:47:59.71\00:48:02.38
Richard Hayes, Duke University,
00:48:02.41\00:48:04.08
he believes the same,
00:48:04.11\00:48:05.51
Cosaert puts it simply for us.
00:48:05.55\00:48:08.35
Words on a
screen, you take it home,
00:48:08.38\00:48:09.78
"In Greek the phrase..."
00:48:09.82\00:48:12.75
And by the way the
phrase in modern translations
00:48:12.79\00:48:15.32
is rendered this way,
00:48:15.36\00:48:16.69
"Faith in Jesus, faith in Jesus,
00:48:16.73\00:48:19.13
faith in Jesus."
00:48:19.16\00:48:20.50
Everybody says, those
that are thinking deeply
00:48:20.53\00:48:23.13
in the new scholarship
are saying no, no, no, no, no
00:48:23.16\00:48:25.27
and that's what Carl is saying,
00:48:25.30\00:48:26.63
read this now.
00:48:26.67\00:48:28.00
In Greek the
phrase literally means
00:48:28.04\00:48:30.51
the faith of Jesus or
the faithfulness of Jesus.
00:48:30.54\00:48:35.74
"For Paul, Cosaert goes on,
00:48:35.78\00:48:37.61
the primary emphasis
is not our faith in Jesus,
00:48:37.65\00:48:41.85
but Jesus' faithfulness.
00:48:41.88\00:48:43.82
Thus the issue is not our works
00:48:43.85\00:48:45.95
versus our faith
00:48:45.99\00:48:48.42
- that would almost
make our faith meritorious,
00:48:48.46\00:48:50.76
which it is not."
00:48:50.79\00:48:52.79
My faith cannot save me.
00:48:52.83\00:48:55.46
If you make your faith the key,
00:48:55.50\00:48:58.23
the strategic piece
in this jigsaw puzzle,
00:48:58.27\00:49:01.30
you have now made
yourself your savior.
00:49:01.34\00:49:04.31
If your faith is what saves you,
00:49:04.34\00:49:06.41
your faith is your savior
00:49:06.44\00:49:08.14
and the New
Testament is saying no,
00:49:08.18\00:49:09.88
no, no, no, no
00:49:09.91\00:49:12.71
it's his faith.
00:49:12.75\00:49:14.55
The faith of Jesus,
the faithfulness of Jesus.
00:49:14.58\00:49:18.92
Do you see it?
00:49:18.95\00:49:20.42
That's what Cosaert is saying.
00:49:20.46\00:49:22.22
Keep reading where I stopped.
00:49:22.26\00:49:24.49
Rather, okay,
see the word rather,
00:49:24.53\00:49:26.33
"Rather, faith
is only the conduit
00:49:26.36\00:49:29.93
by which we take hold of Christ.
00:49:29.96\00:49:32.47
We are justified or saved
not on the basis of our faith,
00:49:32.50\00:49:36.57
but on the basis of
Christ's faithfulness."
00:49:36.60\00:49:42.11
Are you getting any of this?
00:49:42.14\00:49:44.38
Is this getting through?
00:49:44.41\00:49:47.45
And I've had a few
weeks to work through this
00:49:47.48\00:49:49.02
since my study this summer.
00:49:49.05\00:49:50.69
It may take a little longer.
00:49:50.72\00:49:52.05
Don't throw your
hands up in despair,
00:49:52.09\00:49:53.46
just keep thinking,
keep thinking the Holy Spirit
00:49:53.49\00:49:55.39
who is here
will impress upon you
00:49:55.42\00:49:57.26
what you need to
remember and retain.
00:49:57.29\00:50:00.60
Here's what's happening.
00:50:00.63\00:50:02.20
There lies in
this a vital nuance
00:50:02.23\00:50:05.60
that most modern
translations now miss.
00:50:05.63\00:50:08.17
Here's what Paul, Paul exclaims,
00:50:08.20\00:50:09.77
here's what he's saying,
00:50:09.80\00:50:11.14
"I live by the faith
of, not the faith in,
00:50:11.17\00:50:14.58
I live by the
faith of the Son of God."
00:50:14.61\00:50:16.85
In other words, it is his faith,
00:50:16.88\00:50:19.35
his faithfulness
that I daily live by."
00:50:19.38\00:50:21.38
Okay, let's put it another way,
00:50:21.42\00:50:22.75
try this one.
00:50:22.78\00:50:24.12
I live by the faith
that belongs to Jesus.
00:50:24.15\00:50:27.46
All right.
00:50:27.49\00:50:28.82
The very faith He
lived out when He was here,
00:50:28.86\00:50:34.80
that historical
faith I'm living by it,
00:50:34.83\00:50:37.90
that's what Paul is saying.
00:50:37.93\00:50:40.24
I am accepted by God on
the basis of Jesus' faith,
00:50:40.27\00:50:44.04
Jesus' faithfulness
because it is His faith,
00:50:44.07\00:50:46.78
not my faith that
matters in the end.
00:50:46.81\00:50:51.91
Wow, the good news,
00:50:51.95\00:50:54.78
ladies and
gentlemen, of salvation.
00:50:54.82\00:50:56.55
The good news of salvation
00:50:56.58\00:50:59.89
in Christ is not the
good news of our faith,
00:50:59.92\00:51:04.66
but rather the good
news of Jesus faithfulness
00:51:04.69\00:51:07.10
when He was here.
00:51:07.13\00:51:08.46
In other words we
are accepted by God
00:51:08.50\00:51:09.83
not on the basis of our
faith, but it's His faith.
00:51:09.86\00:51:12.03
It's his faith. It's his faith.
00:51:12.07\00:51:14.70
The faith of Jesus.
00:51:14.74\00:51:17.04
There will be a
generation at the end of time
00:51:17.07\00:51:18.71
that keeps the faith of Jesus.
00:51:18.74\00:51:24.25
A.T. Jones,
00:51:24.28\00:51:27.15
you've probably heard of that
famous duo Wagner and Jones,
00:51:27.18\00:51:31.29
he's one half of that team.
00:51:31.32\00:51:33.29
This team by the way
who exploded this truth
00:51:33.32\00:51:35.46
into prominence 120 years ago,
00:51:35.49\00:51:37.93
A.T. Jones in
1895 spoke these words,
00:51:37.96\00:51:43.10
put him on the screen please,
00:51:43.13\00:51:44.47
"When Jesus stood where we are,
00:51:44.50\00:51:46.23
He said, "I will
put my trust in Him..."
00:51:46.27\00:51:49.00
That's Hebrews 2:13.
00:51:49.04\00:51:51.71
"And that trust was
never disappointed."
00:51:51.74\00:51:53.94
I will put my trust in Him
00:51:53.98\00:51:55.61
and that trust was
never disappointed,
00:51:55.64\00:51:57.85
"In response to that trust
00:51:57.88\00:51:59.45
the Father dwelt in
Jesus and with Jesus
00:51:59.48\00:52:02.62
and kept Jesus from sinning,
00:52:02.65\00:52:04.65
and thus the Lord Jesus
has brought to every man,
00:52:04.69\00:52:06.86
woman and child in
this world divine faith.
00:52:06.89\00:52:10.29
That is the faith
of the Lord Jesus,
00:52:10.33\00:52:12.83
and that is saving faith.
00:52:12.86\00:52:15.73
Faith is not something
that comes from ourselves
00:52:15.76\00:52:17.87
with which we believe upon Him,
00:52:17.90\00:52:19.40
but it is that
something He believed,
00:52:19.43\00:52:21.87
the faith He exercised,
which He brings to us,
00:52:21.90\00:52:25.54
and which becomes ours
00:52:25.57\00:52:26.94
and works in us
-the gift of God."
00:52:26.98\00:52:33.05
Here they who keep
the commandments of God
00:52:33.08\00:52:37.62
and who keep the faith of Jesus.
00:52:37.65\00:52:43.46
You know, my generation,
00:52:43.49\00:52:44.99
the Haight Ashbury generation.
00:52:45.03\00:52:49.80
You heard of hippies.
00:52:49.83\00:52:51.17
So those of us growing
up in the '60s and '70s,
00:52:51.20\00:52:52.93
there was a hot phrase
that was making the rounds.
00:52:52.97\00:52:55.74
It was making
the rounds everywhere
00:52:55.77\00:52:57.11
and here's a hot phrase.
00:52:57.14\00:52:58.47
Here's a hot phrase.
00:52:58.51\00:52:59.97
Keep the faith baby.
00:53:00.01\00:53:03.04
Yo, they didn't have
fist bumps back then,
00:53:03.08\00:53:05.05
keep the faith baby.
00:53:05.08\00:53:07.25
There will be a
people at the end of time
00:53:07.28\00:53:08.82
who'll keep the faith baby.
00:53:08.85\00:53:10.39
They keep the faith of Jesus.
00:53:10.42\00:53:13.86
They keep the faith of Jesus.
00:53:13.89\00:53:18.93
But now hold on to your
pew because this gets...
00:53:18.96\00:53:21.03
This is where it
blow out of the water,
00:53:21.06\00:53:23.63
this very teaching.
00:53:23.67\00:53:25.47
You've got to see
how incredibly good
00:53:25.50\00:53:27.04
the good news is.
00:53:27.07\00:53:28.40
I only wrote one
sentence for you to fill in,
00:53:28.44\00:53:30.34
the rest has all been
scripture but here's a sentence
00:53:30.37\00:53:32.41
that I needed you
to fill in right now,
00:53:32.44\00:53:33.81
you see it's true.
00:53:33.84\00:53:35.18
Fill it in.
00:53:35.21\00:53:36.54
"If it is the faith and
faithfulness of Jesus...
00:53:36.58\00:53:38.71
And I hope you know,
00:53:38.75\00:53:40.08
now know that in fact
that's what scripture teaches.
00:53:40.12\00:53:42.15
"If it is the faith
and faithfulness of Jesus
00:53:42.18\00:53:45.02
that will save
you and me in the end,
00:53:45.05\00:53:47.09
then that means God ends up
providing everything essential
00:53:47.12\00:53:52.49
for our salvation!"
00:53:52.53\00:53:54.50
Everything
essential for our salvation,
00:53:54.53\00:53:57.97
He has provided it all.
00:53:58.00\00:54:00.90
Do you understand that?
00:54:00.94\00:54:02.37
Because we used to
think, well, I've got the faith,
00:54:02.40\00:54:03.74
He's got the rest.
00:54:03.77\00:54:05.11
No.
00:54:05.14\00:54:06.47
Now we know, jot this down,
jot this down, there's whole,
00:54:06.51\00:54:09.51
there's seven of these.
00:54:09.54\00:54:10.88
Now we know that,
00:54:10.91\00:54:12.25
"He offers us the
unshakable faith of Jesus."
00:54:12.28\00:54:15.75
The faith isn't even mine.
00:54:15.78\00:54:18.15
He gives the faith.
00:54:18.19\00:54:20.69
Keep going.
00:54:20.72\00:54:22.06
"He offers us also the
perfect obedience of Jesus."
00:54:22.09\00:54:25.03
Last Sabbath we looked
at the law giver made flesh
00:54:25.06\00:54:28.70
perfectly obeying God's law.
00:54:28.73\00:54:31.17
The Father says, you may
have His perfect obedience.
00:54:31.20\00:54:33.64
Number three,
00:54:33.67\00:54:35.00
"He offers us the spotless
righteousness of Jesus."
00:54:35.04\00:54:37.51
That robe in which
there is not a stain,
00:54:37.54\00:54:39.41
not a smear,
not a single smudge.
00:54:39.44\00:54:45.11
You have that
perfectly white robe.
00:54:45.15\00:54:49.05
Number four,
00:54:49.08\00:54:50.42
"He offers us the
sinless sacrifice of Jesus"
00:54:50.45\00:54:54.26
I give that to you.
00:54:54.29\00:54:56.19
Number six.
00:54:56.22\00:54:57.56
Number five rather
00:54:57.59\00:54:58.93
"He offers us the
intercessory prayer of Jesus."
00:54:58.96\00:55:00.30
Now your high priest is
interceding for you 24/7.
00:55:00.33\00:55:04.07
You never have to
worry again in your life.
00:55:04.10\00:55:07.94
Number six,
00:55:07.97\00:55:09.77
"He offers us the
eternal life of Jesus."
00:55:09.80\00:55:11.97
And number seven,
00:55:12.01\00:55:13.34
"He even offers us the
eternal home of Jesus."
00:55:13.38\00:55:16.01
Ladies and gentleman,
everything, everything,
00:55:16.04\00:55:19.25
everything has been
given to us in Jesus,
00:55:19.28\00:55:23.75
in Jesus.
00:55:23.79\00:55:26.45
Wow.
00:55:26.49\00:55:29.09
Everything is yours.
00:55:29.12\00:55:32.33
When I was going over
my notes last night late,
00:55:32.36\00:55:36.67
I said, "Oh God, this is, this,
00:55:36.70\00:55:38.33
I just cannot miss this point."
00:55:38.37\00:55:39.90
And so pardon me for
doing this but I wrote it.
00:55:39.93\00:55:43.17
I got a big marker
00:55:43.20\00:55:45.61
and I wrote it at
the bottom of my notes
00:55:45.64\00:55:48.54
so that I would not forget
00:55:48.58\00:55:49.91
and I want to make
sure that you don't forget.
00:55:49.94\00:55:51.51
So I was just going
to show you my notes,
00:55:51.55\00:55:54.48
"God has provided it all
00:55:54.52\00:56:00.96
in Jesus."
00:56:00.99\00:56:04.33
That's the truth.
00:56:04.36\00:56:05.96
If you get this truth,
00:56:05.99\00:56:08.36
you have the goodest
news in the universe,
00:56:08.40\00:56:14.80
amen.
00:56:14.84\00:56:16.27
But, Dwight, I don't do it,
00:56:16.30\00:56:17.64
I do something,
Dwight, come on, come on, come.
00:56:17.67\00:56:19.01
Yes, you do. Here's what you do.
00:56:19.04\00:56:20.38
You put your
little trembling hand out
00:56:20.41\00:56:22.08
and you say, I'll take it,
00:56:22.11\00:56:26.45
that's the little
faith you'll exercise,
00:56:26.48\00:56:28.15
you have to believe.
00:56:28.18\00:56:29.85
You just put your
little hand out and you say,
00:56:29.88\00:56:31.72
I'll take it, how
much do you want, Dwight,
00:56:31.75\00:56:33.56
I'll take the whole
thing if you don't mind.
00:56:33.59\00:56:35.82
All of it.
00:56:35.86\00:56:37.73
I'll take it all.
00:56:37.76\00:56:39.66
In Jesus you have it all.
00:56:39.69\00:56:42.26
No wonder I end with this
00:56:42.30\00:56:43.93
speaking of the
pearl of great price.
00:56:43.97\00:56:45.30
Put it on the
screen for us please.
00:56:45.33\00:56:46.84
All that can see
Christ Object Lesson,
00:56:46.87\00:56:48.67
"All they can satisfy the needs
and longings of the human soul,
00:56:48.70\00:56:51.61
for this world and
for the world to come,
00:56:51.64\00:56:53.48
is found in Christ."
00:56:53.51\00:56:55.24
Oh, oh, one more
line, here it is,
00:56:55.28\00:56:58.08
"Our Redeemer is the pearl
00:56:58.11\00:57:00.18
so precious that in
comparison all things else
00:57:00.22\00:57:04.45
may be accounted loss."
00:57:04.49\00:57:07.19
Amen and amen.
00:57:07.22\00:57:09.02
What do you say?
00:57:09.06\00:57:10.39
Amen.
00:57:10.43\00:57:11.76
May I take an
extra moment with you
00:57:14.40\00:57:15.73
and let you know
how grateful I am
00:57:15.76\00:57:17.43
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00:57:17.47\00:57:19.13
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00:57:19.17\00:57:21.54
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00:57:21.57\00:57:24.31
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00:57:24.34\00:57:25.67
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