One day You'll make
ev'rything new Jesus
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One day You
will bind every wound
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The former things
shall all pass away
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No more tears
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One day You'll make
sense of it all Jesus
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One day ev'ry question resolved
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And ev'ry anxious
thought left behind
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No more fear
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When we all get to heaven
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What a day of
rejoicing that will be
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When we all see Jesus
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We'll sing and shout the victory
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One day we will
see face to face Jesus
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Is there a
greater vision of grace
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And in a moment,
we shall be changed
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On that day
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When we all get to heaven
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What a day of
rejoicing that will be
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When we all see Jesus
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We'll sing and shout the victory
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One more time.
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When we all get to heaven
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What a day of
rejoicing that will be
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When we all see Jesus
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We'll sing and shout the victory
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We'll sing and shout
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The victory
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So today's scripture reading
comes to us from John 114:18.
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And this is a verse
that personally for me
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has always impacted me.
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Whenever I read it,
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it reminds me not
just of the text itself,
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but it reminds me of memories
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because I have a lot of
memories with this verse
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and I'll read the text.
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It says, "The word
of God became flesh
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and made its dwelling among us.
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We have seen His glory,
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the glory of
the one and the only
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who came from the
Father, full of grace and truth.
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No one has ever seen God.
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But God, the one and only
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who is have the father
side has made him known."
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And when I think
about this verse,
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I think about every time
that I get to sing up here,
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and I always get
a clean view of that
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that stained glass
window in the back of Jesus.
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And it just reminds me...
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God didn't just
give up 50 cents,
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God didn't just give up a
dollar from His bank account.
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God gave us the
one and the only thing
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that He loved most...
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so that we could
have a chance in heaven.
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And especially in this time
where everything is so corrupt,
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and everything is so messed up
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and we see our
nation falling apart,
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we see the health of our
nation just falling apart,
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not have been just
our nation but our world.
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It is in these moments
where I sing that last song
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we just sang.
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When we all get to heaven,
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what a day of
rejoicing that will be.
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And I don't know about you guys,
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but I am ready for
that day of rejoicing.
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I am ready for
that day of rejoicing.
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And as we continue
through this service
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and as we continue to sing,
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and then hear
Pastor Dwight's message,
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I just encourage you guys,
I want you guys to get into,
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into today.
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I want you guys to
take something out of today.
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Because oftentimes we just come
and we run through the motions.
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We don't realize that
there's something deeper.
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And so I encourage
you guys to sing with us
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Our next song Way Maker.
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You are here,
moving in our midst
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I worship You I worship You
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You are here,
working in this place
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I worship You I worship You
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And You are way
maker Miracle worker,
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Promise keeper
Light in the darkness
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My God, that is who You are
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And You are way
maker Miracle worker,
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Promise keeper
Light in the darkness
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My God, that is who You are
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A way maker Miracle
worker, promise keeper
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Light in the darkness
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My God, that is who You are
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And You are way
maker Miracle worker,
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Promise keeper
Light in the darkness
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My God, that is who You are
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Even when I don't
see it You're working
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Even when I don't
feel it You're working
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You never stop
You never stop working
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You never stop
You never stop working
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Even when I don't
see it You're working
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Even when I don't
feel it You're working
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You never stop
You never stop working
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You never stop
You never stop working
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Way maker Miracle
worker, promise keeper
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Light in the darkness
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My God, that is who You are
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And You are way
maker Miracle worker,
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Promise keeper
Light in the darkness
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My God, that is who You are
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That is who You are
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And that is who You
are And that is who You are
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That is who You are
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I invite the
congregation to stand with us
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for this last song.
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Here I am
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Down on my knees again
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Surrendering all
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Surrendering all
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And find me here
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Lord as You draw me near
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I'm desperate for You
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I'm desperate for You
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I surrender
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I surrender
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I want to know You more
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I want to know You more
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I surrender
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I surrender
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I want to know You more
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I want to know You more
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Like a rushing wind
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Jesus breathe within
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Lord have Your way
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Lord have Your way in me
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Like a mighty storm
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Stir within my soul
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Lord have Your way
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Lord have Your way in me
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Like a rushing wind
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Jesus breathe within
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Lord have Your way
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Lord have Your way in me
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Like a mighty storm
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Stir within my soul
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Lord have Your way
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Lord have Your way in me
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I surrender
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I surrender
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I want to know You more
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I want to know You more
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There's a lot in this life,
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you can surrender
yourself to as one person.
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You're safe in
surrendering completely to Him.
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Let's talk to Him.
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Oh God, we've been in worship.
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Hearts have been
lifted up to Your throne room.
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We've listened.
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We've responded.
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And we're so blessed to be here.
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Thank you,
Father. Thank you, Lord.
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Right now, may
Jesus be front and center.
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Do whatever you want to do
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with a few moments we have left.
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Make it clear.
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That's all we're
asking in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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I'm really jest about
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what we're going
to share right now.
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I don't think a
lot of deep thoughts.
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As a human being I have friends
who are very deep thinkers.
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And I'm always
very jealous of them.
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I don't have that gift.
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But I have been pondering
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if you could take all
the truth in the universe.
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Reduce it to one
simple sentence...
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what would it be?
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I have a lot of
friends who are scientists
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and God bless the
scientists among us
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and a bunch of you
are science majors.
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And you know scientists kind
of keep goading each other on,
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come on.
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They're looking
for what they call
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the theory of everything.
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You've heard about it.
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From quasars and
spiraling galaxies
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to amoeba,
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is there one
organizing principle
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that becomes the
theory to explain it all.
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I'm not interested in
the theory of everything.
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I'm looking for one
sentence to summarize,
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all revealed
truth in the universe.
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I think I found it.
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You're not gonna
believe where it came from.
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A literary critic, and novelist,
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writer named Reynolds Price.
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He says whenever a
person is hungry for a story,
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what the human wants most
from this story is this line.
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I want to share it
with you right now.
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Let me put it on the screen.
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Reynolds Price in the
clearest voice we have.
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Okay, this is as
clear he says we can do it.
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"In the clearest
voice we have the sentence
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that mankind
craves from stories."
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When you pick up a storybook,
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you want this sub
subliminally, you're seeking it.
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What's that sentence?
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Price, he puts it right here.
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"The Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
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He's thinking this is
why people go to books.
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And I'm wondering,
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could this be
the simple sentence
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that summarizes
all universal truth
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in one line.
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Read it again,
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"The Maker of all
things loves and wants me."
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Now he goes on.
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"No other book
our culture owns."
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He's talking about
this book right here.
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"No other book our
culture owns can we see
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a clearer graph of that
need that enormous radiant arc."
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Overall...
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what's the story in the book?
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He summarizes it,
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"Fragile
creatures made by God's hand
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hurled into space,
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then caught it last by a man
in some ways like ourselves."
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He's talking about Jesus.
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Could that be the sentence?
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The Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
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The truth of the matter
is, here's my observation.
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The reason you and
I don't communicate
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what we believe to other people,
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basically, is,
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we have
overcomplicated what we believe.
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And it's just too hard to share.
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I mean, don't ask me
what I believe, please.
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Could it be that the summation
of everything we believe,
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everything you're
taught in this university?
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The universal truth
can, could it be reduced
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to a default, a
default sentence?
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And this would be
the default sentence,
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the Maker of all
things, loves and wants me.
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Somebody yells at you, "Yo!
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What do you believe?"
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Default,
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the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
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Yeah, but come on, man.
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What do you think is
the philosophy of life?
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The Maker of all
things loves and wants me?
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Yeah, but what
about what about my life?
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The Maker of all
things loves and wants you.
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Can you believe this old book?
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What do you
suppose the bottom line
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is to this dusty,
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archaic bit of literature,
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filmmaker of all
things, loves and wants me?
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Too simplistic, too simple.
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There is one
book in that old book
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that radiates from
beginning to end with that line,
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I happen to believe,
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and I'm going to share
with you now six storylines
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from that book.
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Check them out, six of them.
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And the book is
the Gospel of John.
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And because we're only going
to be in the Gospel of John
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for the few
minutes we have left,
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you might as well just
open your Bible to John.
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Let's start in the beginning.
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John Chapter 1.
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John 1.
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Layo just read
these words a moment ago.
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Drop down to verse 14.
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All right, John 1,
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the story of
Christmas in the Gospel of John.
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You say there's no
story of Christmas.
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Only Matthew and Luke
have the Christmas story,
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Mark left it
out, John left it out.
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John did not leave
it out. Here it is.
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John 1:14, and
the Word became flesh.
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He made his dwelling among us.
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We've seen His glory,
00:18:01.38\00:18:02.71
the glory of
the One and only Son
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who came from the
Father full of grace and truth.
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The great English writer
JB Phillips, 20th century,
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told a story once upon a time
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that began with
once upon a time,
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there was a senior angel,
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who was taking a rookie
angel on a tour of the universe.
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As they roam through the
vast chasms of the cosmos,
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they made their way to a galaxy
of about 500 billion stars.
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It's called the Milky Way.
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And as they began to
penetrate the Milky Way
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the senior angel speaks.
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Yo, I want you to watch,
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I want you to keep your
eye on that little smudge.
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He points, let me
quote JB Phillips here.
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He points to a small and
rather insignificant sphere,
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turning very slowly on its axis.
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It looked as dull
as a dirty tennis ball
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to the little angel
00:19:03.74\00:19:05.07
whose mind has been filled
with the size and the glory
00:19:05.11\00:19:06.64
of what he's seen
elsewhere in this universe.
00:19:06.68\00:19:09.01
And finally, the
rookie angel speaks,
00:19:09.04\00:19:11.18
"Why do you want me to
watch this dirty tennis ball?"
00:19:15.22\00:19:20.49
The senior angel replies
because keep your eye on it.
00:19:20.52\00:19:24.19
"It is the visited planet."
00:19:24.23\00:19:27.66
You can't be serious.
00:19:30.90\00:19:32.90
Do you mean, JB
Phillips writing,
00:19:32.93\00:19:34.77
"Do you mean our great
and glorious Prince went down
00:19:34.80\00:19:36.91
in person to that
fifth rate little ball?
00:19:36.94\00:19:38.94
Why should He do
a thing like that?
00:19:38.97\00:19:42.61
The little angel's
face wrinkled in disgust.
00:19:42.64\00:19:45.08
Do you mean to
tell me, he goes on,
00:19:45.11\00:19:47.22
that He stooped
so low as to become
00:19:47.25\00:19:48.92
one of those creeping,
00:19:48.95\00:19:50.29
crawling creatures
of that floating ball.
00:19:50.32\00:19:54.42
Sternly now the
senior angel speaks,
00:19:54.46\00:19:57.73
"I do and I don't think
00:19:57.76\00:19:59.39
He would like you
to call them creeping,
00:19:59.43\00:20:00.96
crawling creatures
in that tone of voice.
00:20:01.00\00:20:03.47
For as strange as it may
seem to us, He loves them.
00:20:03.50\00:20:10.11
He went down to visit
them, to lift them up,
00:20:10.14\00:20:12.57
to become like Him."
00:20:12.61\00:20:14.14
Last line of the story,
the little angel looked blank,
00:20:14.18\00:20:17.71
such a thought was
almost beyond his comprehension.
00:20:17.75\00:20:22.82
Me too.
00:20:22.85\00:20:25.35
Read it again, John 1:14,
00:20:25.39\00:20:28.29
"And the Word became flesh
and made his dwelling among us.
00:20:28.32\00:20:33.86
We have seen His glory,
00:20:33.90\00:20:35.76
the glory of
the One and only Son
00:20:35.80\00:20:37.40
who came from the Father,
full of grace and truth."
00:20:37.43\00:20:40.74
But why would he do it?
00:20:40.77\00:20:42.70
Ah, because the
maker of all things
00:20:42.74\00:20:46.98
loves and wants me,
loves and wants you.
00:20:47.01\00:20:51.71
Yeah.
00:20:51.75\00:20:53.55
Do you know what
kind of a risk He took?
00:20:53.58\00:20:57.35
I've only found one line
in literature that I've read
00:20:57.39\00:21:02.02
that describes that risk.
00:21:02.06\00:21:04.59
And it can't even define it.
00:21:04.63\00:21:06.03
But I'll put it on
the screen for you.
00:21:06.06\00:21:07.40
So it's a classic
on the life of Jesus
00:21:07.43\00:21:09.16
called the Desire of Ages.
00:21:09.20\00:21:10.60
Look at this, the
lines coming up here.
00:21:10.63\00:21:12.07
"Yet into the world where Satan,
00:21:12.10\00:21:14.54
the rebel angel,
claimed dominion,
00:21:14.57\00:21:17.14
God permitted His son
to come a helpless babe,
00:21:17.17\00:21:20.78
subject to the
weakness of humanity.
00:21:20.81\00:21:24.31
He permitted Him to
meet life's peril and comment
00:21:24.35\00:21:27.28
with every human
soul to fight the battles
00:21:27.32\00:21:29.85
every child in
this building right now,
00:21:29.88\00:21:32.15
every child of
humanity must fight it
00:21:32.19\00:21:34.16
every single day of our lives."
00:21:34.19\00:21:36.99
He permitted him to come at...
00:21:37.03\00:21:39.46
Now here's the line,
00:21:39.49\00:21:40.83
at the risk of
failure and eternal loss.
00:21:40.86\00:21:43.57
We are not we are not told...
00:21:43.60\00:21:45.30
what that
fallout would have been.
00:21:47.34\00:21:49.24
It's an absolute mystery.
00:21:49.27\00:21:51.07
But it is clear at the
risk of failure and eternal loss
00:21:51.11\00:21:55.54
is trying to
capture the supposition
00:21:55.58\00:21:59.25
that had he
failed in his mission,
00:21:59.28\00:22:03.32
this universe would forever
have been marked and changed.
00:22:03.35\00:22:09.06
And then the
writer, Ellen White,
00:22:09.09\00:22:12.79
exclaims,
sentence following this.
00:22:12.83\00:22:15.03
Herein, speaking
of the incarnation,
00:22:15.06\00:22:18.03
herein is love,
00:22:18.07\00:22:19.67
'Wonder, O heavens,
and be astonished O earth!
00:22:19.70\00:22:25.07
That He was
willing to risk it all.
00:22:25.11\00:22:27.78
Eternal failure, come
on, why would He do it?
00:22:27.81\00:22:32.95
Because the maker of all
things loves and wants me,
00:22:32.98\00:22:37.65
that's why.
00:22:37.69\00:22:39.55
That storyline number one,
00:22:39.59\00:22:41.19
here comes storyline number two,
00:22:41.22\00:22:42.72
the secret interview...
00:22:42.76\00:22:46.33
The midnight visitor
00:22:46.36\00:22:48.03
happens to be a secret
admirer of the young teacher.
00:22:48.06\00:22:51.00
But so radical
is this young man...
00:22:51.03\00:22:55.47
that this
upstanding member of society
00:22:55.50\00:22:58.37
cannot risk being
seen in public with him.
00:22:58.41\00:23:02.51
And so he comes under the
cover of midnight shadows...
00:23:02.54\00:23:08.52
to interview the upstart.
00:23:08.55\00:23:09.88
And he begins, oh, teacher,
we know you are sent from God.
00:23:12.92\00:23:19.36
For how could
anyone do what you do
00:23:19.39\00:23:21.96
if he were not sent from God?
00:23:22.00\00:23:25.43
Oh, Nicodemus, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:23:25.47\00:23:29.47
You just said nothing
but a hot air in the ether.
00:23:29.50\00:23:35.41
You're trying
to flatter the man.
00:23:35.44\00:23:38.08
And he is not flattered.
00:23:38.11\00:23:41.45
Jesus smiles at him.
00:23:41.48\00:23:45.42
Teacher of Israel,
let me tell you something.
00:23:45.45\00:23:50.19
Unless you are born
again, you are lost.
00:23:50.23\00:23:54.00
And don't you give me
any of that blather about
00:23:54.03\00:23:55.70
I have to crawl back
into my mother's womb,
00:23:55.73\00:23:57.43
you know exactly
what I'm talking about.
00:23:57.47\00:24:00.97
Do you remember the time Moses,
00:24:01.00\00:24:03.20
those killer adders
penetrated the camp of Israel?
00:24:03.24\00:24:06.07
They're dying.
00:24:06.11\00:24:07.44
They're dropping
all over the camp.
00:24:07.48\00:24:08.91
Do you remember when Moses
00:24:08.94\00:24:10.51
sticks a pole in
the middle and upon it
00:24:10.55\00:24:13.05
a bronze serpent
and the order from God
00:24:13.08\00:24:15.22
was look at that
pole, that serpent?
00:24:15.25\00:24:18.59
Look, believe and you'll live?
00:24:18.62\00:24:21.32
Do you remember that?
00:24:21.36\00:24:23.29
Of course, I the Son of man,
00:24:23.32\00:24:27.10
I'm gonna to be lifted up
so that when people look to Me,
00:24:27.13\00:24:31.70
they will look
and live and be saved,
00:24:31.73\00:24:35.50
oh...
00:24:35.54\00:24:38.67
and then come the words.
00:24:38.71\00:24:40.38
Look at, we're
right here in John 1.
00:24:40.41\00:24:41.74
So you just turn
to page to John 3:16.
00:24:41.78\00:24:44.38
Oh, you know this.
Everybody knows this.
00:24:44.41\00:24:46.08
In fact, let's just
read this one out loud
00:24:46.11\00:24:48.08
inside our masks.
00:24:48.12\00:24:49.68
Let's read it out loud together,
00:24:49.72\00:24:51.05
"For God so loved the world
00:24:51.09\00:24:53.92
that He gave
His One and only Son
00:24:53.96\00:24:57.13
that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish,
00:24:57.16\00:25:01.40
but have eternal life."
00:25:01.43\00:25:02.80
The problem is
we stopped too soon.
00:25:06.84\00:25:10.31
There's a 17, oh,
don't you ever forget the 17.
00:25:10.34\00:25:13.68
You've got,
you've got 16 memorized.
00:25:13.71\00:25:15.54
Oh, you're not gonna have
a hard time memorizing this,
00:25:15.58\00:25:17.81
"For God did not send
His Son into the world
00:25:17.85\00:25:20.32
to condemn the world,
00:25:20.35\00:25:21.82
but to save the
world through Him."
00:25:21.85\00:25:24.65
I have come...
00:25:24.69\00:25:28.39
to make this a visited planet
00:25:28.42\00:25:30.49
not because I wish
to condemn the world.
00:25:30.53\00:25:33.26
I have made
this a visited planet
00:25:33.29\00:25:35.53
because I longed to
save the entire world...
00:25:35.56\00:25:40.57
which to that because
the Maker of all things
00:25:40.60\00:25:47.31
loves and wants me.
00:25:47.34\00:25:52.58
There it is,
ladies and gentlemen,
00:25:52.61\00:25:54.62
bright young scholars to be.
00:25:54.65\00:25:56.69
There it is, the
summation of all universal truth
00:25:56.72\00:26:00.79
in that one line.
00:26:00.82\00:26:02.16
FF Bruce in his
wonderful commentary
00:26:02.19\00:26:03.99
on the fourth gospel,
00:26:04.03\00:26:05.36
in the Gospel of
John, he puts it this way,
00:26:05.39\00:26:07.20
"The love of God is limitless.
00:26:07.23\00:26:10.43
It embraces all mankind.
00:26:10.47\00:26:12.90
No sacrifice was too great
00:26:12.93\00:26:15.24
to bring its
unmeasured intensity,"
00:26:15.27\00:26:17.97
Oh, I love that, "no
sacrifice was too great
00:26:18.01\00:26:20.41
to bring its
unmeasured intensity home
00:26:20.44\00:26:23.31
to man and women,
00:26:23.35\00:26:25.11
the best that God had to
give He gave His only Son,
00:26:25.15\00:26:29.08
His well-beloved."
00:26:29.12\00:26:31.65
The profound but abiding truth,
00:26:31.69\00:26:34.52
the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:26:34.56\00:26:40.33
Storyline number three,
00:26:40.36\00:26:44.33
the thirsty woman,
00:26:44.37\00:26:47.44
and the first four words
00:26:47.47\00:26:49.10
of this
storyline are unbelievable.
00:26:49.14\00:26:52.07
Come on, you're in Chapter 3.
00:26:52.11\00:26:53.81
So I didn't
have to turn the page
00:26:53.84\00:26:55.18
because now there's
Chapter 4 right there.
00:26:55.21\00:26:57.25
Chapter 4, drop down to
verse 4, short little verse,
00:26:57.28\00:27:00.48
this is all
there is to the verse.
00:27:00.52\00:27:01.95
Now, He Jesus had
to go through Samaria.
00:27:01.98\00:27:07.99
Now, come on, that is not true.
00:27:08.02\00:27:11.73
He did not have to
go through Samaria.
00:27:11.76\00:27:14.96
Every Jew knows
00:27:15.00\00:27:16.33
that if you're
going north to Galilee
00:27:16.36\00:27:18.17
you take a long
cut, not a shortcut,
00:27:18.20\00:27:20.84
a long cut around Samaria,
then you get the Galilee.
00:27:20.87\00:27:27.74
Isn't it amazing?
00:27:27.78\00:27:29.11
Four words. No,
no, no, no, no, no.
00:27:29.14\00:27:31.21
He had to go.
00:27:31.25\00:27:35.08
Why did He have to go?
00:27:35.12\00:27:37.62
Jews and Samaritans
with their hatred party
00:27:37.65\00:27:41.02
run it at max speed.
00:27:41.06\00:27:43.79
Why did He have to go?
00:27:43.83\00:27:45.69
Because in that
disenfranchised land,
00:27:45.73\00:27:48.26
somewhere there,
there was a woman
00:27:48.30\00:27:52.53
who cried herself
to sleep every night.
00:27:52.57\00:27:56.87
Beside the snoring man,
who was her husband, de-jour,
00:27:56.91\00:28:01.58
husband of the day.
00:28:01.61\00:28:04.25
Unable to find a love
00:28:04.28\00:28:06.08
that would love
her for who she was.
00:28:06.11\00:28:09.92
She has nearly given hope,
00:28:09.95\00:28:12.05
given up hope her heart
will ever, ever be healed.
00:28:12.09\00:28:18.79
You may have
given up hope yourself.
00:28:18.83\00:28:22.76
But then one day,
at noon of all times
00:28:22.80\00:28:27.40
to be alone she goes to the well
00:28:27.44\00:28:29.60
and there is a stranger.
00:28:29.64\00:28:32.24
A Jew, wouldn't you know it?
00:28:32.27\00:28:34.91
A man...
00:28:34.94\00:28:37.21
at my well...
00:28:37.25\00:28:40.75
and a stranger
with a smile on his face
00:28:40.78\00:28:44.12
watches her approach.
00:28:44.15\00:28:47.39
And He says,
"Lady would you mind
00:28:47.42\00:28:50.53
sharing a drink
of water with Me?"
00:28:50.56\00:28:53.53
She says, "With you, Jew man.
00:28:53.56\00:28:57.97
Your eyes blind.
00:28:58.00\00:28:59.77
I'm woman.
00:28:59.80\00:29:01.14
I'm Samaritan."
00:29:01.17\00:29:04.04
I still warm and
friendly peer into her face.
00:29:04.07\00:29:10.05
As a stranger goes
on, whoa, whoa, whoa,
00:29:10.08\00:29:13.45
if you knew who
you were talking to,
00:29:13.48\00:29:16.42
you would ask Him for
the water that will satisfy
00:29:16.45\00:29:20.39
the thirst that has
driven you night and day.
00:29:20.42\00:29:23.76
And He would give it to you.
00:29:23.79\00:29:26.49
I love this.
00:29:26.53\00:29:28.46
He had to go...
00:29:28.50\00:29:32.00
for one woman.
00:29:32.03\00:29:35.27
And the rest we know...
00:29:35.30\00:29:37.27
He became the savior
of that Samaritan woman.
00:29:37.31\00:29:40.08
He became the savior of
every man who ever knew her.
00:29:40.11\00:29:43.04
He eventually became the
savior of the entire town.
00:29:43.08\00:29:46.35
Why? Why did He have to go?
00:29:46.38\00:29:48.62
Because the Maker of all things
loves and wants me, that's why.
00:29:48.65\00:29:53.39
Are you getting a
familiar storyline
00:29:53.42\00:29:56.56
theme developing
out of these please,
00:29:56.59\00:30:00.20
the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:30:00.23\00:30:06.30
Four words, He had to go.
00:30:06.33\00:30:10.57
You know what?
00:30:10.61\00:30:11.94
Those four words to
me are the explanation
00:30:11.97\00:30:15.48
of the mystery we
call the incarnation.
00:30:15.51\00:30:17.58
It's a Latin word that
means the infleshment of God,
00:30:17.61\00:30:20.72
when He becomes the baby,
then He's the Christ child,
00:30:20.75\00:30:23.15
then he's the teen
Christ with a squeaky voice,
00:30:23.18\00:30:25.45
then He becomes a
young adult Christ,
00:30:25.49\00:30:27.12
then He becomes
Christ the Savior.
00:30:27.16\00:30:32.79
Why did He do it?
00:30:32.83\00:30:34.66
Because He had to go.
00:30:34.70\00:30:36.03
Jesus had to come.
00:30:36.06\00:30:38.80
No long cut around the earth,
straight through this planet.
00:30:38.83\00:30:43.34
Look at this, from Desire
of Ages, Jesus did not count...
00:30:43.37\00:30:46.37
Oh, this is so beautiful.
00:30:46.41\00:30:47.74
"Jesus did not count
heaven a place to be desire
00:30:47.78\00:30:50.81
while you and me
while we were lost.
00:30:50.85\00:30:53.45
He left the heavenly
courts for a life of reproach
00:30:53.48\00:30:56.25
and insult and a death of shame.
00:30:56.28\00:30:58.79
He who was rich and heavens
priceless treasure became poor,
00:30:58.82\00:31:02.32
that through His
poverty we might be rich."
00:31:02.36\00:31:05.79
Can I hear an amen to that?
00:31:05.83\00:31:08.00
Come on, why would He do it?
00:31:08.03\00:31:10.00
Because the Maker of all
things loves and wants me,
00:31:10.03\00:31:13.54
that's why He did it...
00:31:13.57\00:31:15.97
That is the bottom line.
00:31:16.00\00:31:19.01
That is the
summation of universal truth.
00:31:19.04\00:31:22.91
In one simple sentence,
00:31:22.94\00:31:25.78
the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:31:25.81\00:31:29.02
What do you believe?
00:31:29.05\00:31:30.39
The Maker of all
things loves and wants me?
00:31:30.42\00:31:33.19
How do you know?
00:31:33.22\00:31:34.56
The Maker of all
things is loved and wanted me?
00:31:34.59\00:31:38.19
Where do you get it from?
00:31:38.23\00:31:39.56
This book.
00:31:39.59\00:31:40.93
What's its bottom line?
00:31:40.96\00:31:42.30
The Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:31:42.33\00:31:44.97
You gotta be kidding me.
00:31:45.00\00:31:48.64
No.
00:31:48.67\00:31:51.31
Storyline number four,
the sinner by the pool.
00:31:51.34\00:31:57.95
It was a glorious Sabbath day
when Jesus stepped through that
00:31:57.98\00:32:01.22
crowded poolside weaving
amongst the sufferers lying
00:32:01.25\00:32:05.05
on that marble floor,
00:32:05.09\00:32:08.72
all of them with
this desperate hope
00:32:08.76\00:32:10.99
that some angel
will descend from heaven
00:32:11.03\00:32:13.40
and put his pinky in the
water and just stir it up
00:32:13.43\00:32:16.63
and the first boy is healed.
00:32:16.67\00:32:20.70
He's looking for the worst case.
00:32:20.74\00:32:25.04
It's the Sabbath.
00:32:25.07\00:32:27.94
Looking for the worst
case he finally sees him.
00:32:27.98\00:32:31.65
We are told the man's
disease was in a great degree,
00:32:31.68\00:32:35.78
the result of his own
sin and was looked upon
00:32:35.82\00:32:39.15
as a judgment from God.
00:32:39.19\00:32:41.72
It is left to our imaginations
as to what would have caused
00:32:41.76\00:32:44.76
that disease.
00:32:44.79\00:32:46.13
But you don't have
to be a rocket scientist
00:32:46.16\00:32:47.90
to figure it out.
00:32:47.93\00:32:50.07
He's been ravished,
00:32:50.10\00:32:51.70
ravaged because of that sin.
00:32:51.73\00:32:57.34
Jesus steps over
this shriveled invalid
00:32:57.37\00:33:01.38
so that his
shadow blocks the sun.
00:33:01.41\00:33:04.91
Do you want to get well?
00:33:04.95\00:33:10.05
The invalid winces...
00:33:10.09\00:33:13.42
"I have no one to help me."
00:33:13.46\00:33:17.13
Come on.
00:33:17.16\00:33:18.49
That's John 5,
we're just a page away.
00:33:18.53\00:33:20.03
John 5 drop down to verse 8.
00:33:20.06\00:33:22.93
Then Jesus said
to him, I love this.
00:33:22.96\00:33:26.43
"Jesus said to him, 'Get up...
00:33:26.47\00:33:29.97
pick up your mat, and walk."
00:33:30.01\00:33:33.61
And then once the man was cured,
00:33:33.64\00:33:35.24
he picked up his
mat and he walked.
00:33:35.28\00:33:38.01
And he is so
overjoyed, this huge sinner
00:33:38.05\00:33:41.25
that he totally
forgets to thank Jesus.
00:33:41.28\00:33:43.95
He didn't even get his name.
00:33:43.99\00:33:45.55
And Jesus as quietly as
He came slipped away unseen.
00:33:48.72\00:33:54.36
Later Sabbath afternoon,
they're both at church.
00:33:54.40\00:33:57.90
And Jesus bumps into the man.
00:33:57.93\00:34:02.07
The man recognizes Jesus now.
00:34:02.10\00:34:04.77
And Jesus speaks,
drop down to verse 14.
00:34:04.81\00:34:08.24
Later Jesus found
him at the temple.
00:34:08.28\00:34:10.28
And he said to him,
see, you are well again.
00:34:10.31\00:34:15.82
Stop sinning...
00:34:15.85\00:34:18.39
stop sinning or
something worse...
00:34:18.42\00:34:21.42
may happen to you.
00:34:21.46\00:34:25.56
You see, the Maker of all things
00:34:25.59\00:34:27.56
loves and wants me
00:34:27.60\00:34:29.56
hardly teaches the notion
00:34:29.60\00:34:31.67
that because He
loves and wants me,
00:34:31.70\00:34:34.20
my sins are of no
account to Him or to me.
00:34:34.24\00:34:40.91
Some people feel that,
well, if you embrace this truth,
00:34:40.94\00:34:43.24
it's just kind of a
willy-nilly spineless gospel.
00:34:43.28\00:34:46.88
No, the Maker of all
things looks into your heart.
00:34:46.92\00:34:50.79
He looks into mine
and says no, not at all.
00:34:50.82\00:34:54.09
You have got to
quit playing games,
00:34:54.12\00:34:56.73
with what you know is sin.
00:34:56.76\00:34:59.66
Stop it.
00:34:59.69\00:35:01.73
Stop sinning.
00:35:01.76\00:35:05.60
Of course, the
Maker of all things
00:35:05.63\00:35:06.97
loves and wants me.
00:35:07.00\00:35:08.90
Stop sinning.
00:35:08.94\00:35:10.47
That's precisely why
I'm asking you to stop
00:35:10.51\00:35:14.34
because I love you
00:35:14.38\00:35:15.71
and you will kill
yourself in the end.
00:35:15.74\00:35:18.11
Stop it.
00:35:18.15\00:35:19.48
The Maker of all
things loves and wants me,
00:35:23.62\00:35:28.46
which happens to
be the bottom line
00:35:28.49\00:35:30.09
of the very next storyline.
00:35:30.13\00:35:31.46
This is storyline number
five, the sins on the floor,
00:35:31.49\00:35:36.93
it was a terribly
embarrassing ordeal.
00:35:36.97\00:35:41.70
The church board,
00:35:41.74\00:35:43.07
the entire church board shows up
00:35:43.10\00:35:45.24
to make sure this young adult
00:35:45.27\00:35:47.71
gets the
punishment she deserves.
00:35:47.74\00:35:50.15
And so they drag the woman,
00:35:50.18\00:35:51.95
they push her
toward the young teacher.
00:35:51.98\00:35:54.62
And they say guess
where we just found her?
00:35:54.65\00:35:57.09
Sleeping with a man
who is not her husband.
00:35:57.12\00:36:00.06
The law says stone her.
00:36:00.09\00:36:02.22
So what say you?
00:36:02.26\00:36:03.76
Jesus doesn't speak.
00:36:09.63\00:36:10.97
The girl has
hardly had time to dress,
00:36:11.83\00:36:13.84
the straps are
still off her shoulders.
00:36:13.87\00:36:18.57
She's sobbing...
00:36:18.61\00:36:21.24
because not only is
she appearing before
00:36:21.28\00:36:22.68
the church board,
this is early service,
00:36:22.71\00:36:25.31
the preacher was about to begin
00:36:25.35\00:36:27.15
and the whole congregation
is gaping at her now.
00:36:27.18\00:36:32.59
What would the
young teacher say?
00:36:32.62\00:36:37.29
The Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:36:37.33\00:36:41.10
It means that Jesus
must not only show love
00:36:41.13\00:36:44.90
to the young adult woman,
00:36:44.93\00:36:46.94
He must show love to
the accusing church board.
00:36:46.97\00:36:52.34
How you gonna do that?
00:36:52.37\00:36:55.94
And so Mount Sinai's law giver
00:36:55.98\00:36:59.85
who with His own
finger etched into granite
00:36:59.88\00:37:02.68
the very sins and commandments
00:37:02.72\00:37:05.22
this young woman
has already broken.
00:37:05.25\00:37:08.82
Stoops down and with His finger
00:37:08.86\00:37:12.33
in the dust of the temple floor,
00:37:12.36\00:37:15.16
He begins to carve the
secret sins of every member
00:37:15.20\00:37:20.87
of the church board.
00:37:20.90\00:37:22.37
And then he stands up.
00:37:26.51\00:37:28.71
All right.
00:37:28.74\00:37:30.08
Okay.
00:37:30.11\00:37:31.68
The one without sin,
you throw the first stone.
00:37:31.71\00:37:35.28
Nobody moves.
00:37:38.25\00:37:41.29
We'll pick up the
story right here in John 8.
00:37:41.32\00:37:43.63
Let's turn a couple
pages over to John 8.
00:37:43.66\00:37:46.80
Here's what happens next.
00:37:46.83\00:37:48.16
And at this,
throw the first stone.
00:37:48.20\00:37:51.37
"At this, those who had heard
began to go away one at a time,
00:37:51.40\00:37:57.21
the older ones first,
00:37:57.24\00:37:59.77
until only Jesus
was left with a woman
00:37:59.81\00:38:03.08
still standing there."
00:38:03.11\00:38:07.32
Jesus straightens up.
00:38:07.35\00:38:09.58
And He asked her,
"Woman, where are they?
00:38:09.62\00:38:12.99
Does no one condemn you?"
00:38:13.02\00:38:16.02
Through tear blurred
eye, she looks around,
00:38:16.06\00:38:19.63
her mascara smeared,
trickles down her rouge.
00:38:19.66\00:38:26.57
No one, my Lord.
00:38:26.60\00:38:28.77
Well...
00:38:28.80\00:38:31.37
then neither do I condemn you.
00:38:31.41\00:38:34.68
Jesus declared,
00:38:34.71\00:38:36.54
"Go now and
leave your life of sin.
00:38:36.58\00:38:43.12
Leave it behind."
00:38:43.15\00:38:44.49
It's again, the
Maker of all things
00:38:47.22\00:38:51.06
loves and wants me.
00:38:51.09\00:38:53.76
I tell you what?
00:38:53.80\00:38:55.13
You can choose
any story you wish
00:38:55.16\00:38:56.50
from the Gospel of John,
00:38:56.53\00:38:57.87
you pick any story,
bring it to me afterwards
00:38:57.90\00:38:59.50
if you find an exception.
00:38:59.53\00:39:00.87
Every single story reaffirms
00:39:00.90\00:39:04.57
and ratifies
this universal truth.
00:39:04.61\00:39:08.31
The Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:39:08.34\00:39:13.72
In fact, Jesus has
just proven it true.
00:39:13.75\00:39:16.79
Those words from
that midnight interview,
00:39:16.82\00:39:19.85
for God did not send
His Son into the world
00:39:19.89\00:39:21.89
to condemn the world,
00:39:21.92\00:39:23.49
but to save the
world through Him.
00:39:23.53\00:39:26.43
Neither do I condemn you.
00:39:26.46\00:39:29.06
Now go leave, leave,
leave, leave, leave, leave that,
00:39:29.10\00:39:31.67
leave that behind.
00:39:31.70\00:39:33.80
It's because He
loves you and me.
00:39:33.84\00:39:36.44
He says leave it behind.
00:39:36.47\00:39:38.47
I love you. I want you.
00:39:38.51\00:39:40.91
And by the way, the accusers,
oh, as hard as aching for them,
00:39:40.94\00:39:45.88
He loves and wants them.
00:39:45.91\00:39:47.58
So He has written their
sins in the dust of the floor
00:39:47.62\00:39:51.32
so that the first morning breeze
00:39:51.35\00:39:53.46
will simply erase the
record and nobody will know.
00:39:53.49\00:39:57.89
Save the ones who saw
it Him right there sin.
00:39:57.93\00:40:04.10
The maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:40:04.13\00:40:08.04
Storylines from the Gospel
of John proving that in fact,
00:40:08.07\00:40:12.31
it is indeed true.
00:40:12.34\00:40:13.68
Our last
storyline, at the cross.
00:40:13.71\00:40:18.91
Very interesting
about the cross in John.
00:40:18.95\00:40:22.55
It's a
marvelous chapter to read,
00:40:22.58\00:40:23.99
just sit down this
afternoon and read just John 19,
00:40:24.02\00:40:26.32
it is just profound.
00:40:26.35\00:40:28.52
But John inserts
into his story of Calvary
00:40:28.56\00:40:32.39
three details the
synoptic totally omitted.
00:40:32.43\00:40:36.00
Either they didn't know,
00:40:36.03\00:40:37.37
either they were
blocked from knowing,
00:40:37.40\00:40:39.80
either they forgot.
00:40:39.83\00:40:41.17
It doesn't matter.
00:40:41.20\00:40:42.77
Oh, yes, John's
Gospel is very clear.
00:40:42.80\00:40:45.24
The brutal bloody scourging
has already taken place.
00:40:45.27\00:40:48.64
Jesus is bleeding
00:40:48.68\00:40:50.51
as He's pinned to
that middle cross.
00:40:50.55\00:40:53.42
Yes, just like the
synoptic, John agrees.
00:40:53.45\00:40:56.55
He's in the middle
00:40:56.58\00:40:58.62
of two condemned criminals.
00:40:58.65\00:41:03.96
They're being executed
on the same day together.
00:41:03.99\00:41:09.40
But then John adds
a detail that matters.
00:41:09.43\00:41:14.17
You see, all the gospels
agree that there's a sign
00:41:14.20\00:41:16.27
that's placed over Jesus head,
00:41:16.30\00:41:18.41
and the sign
reads Jesus of Nazareth,
00:41:18.44\00:41:20.24
King of the Jews.
00:41:20.28\00:41:22.44
But in the Gospel of
John, John boy goes further.
00:41:22.48\00:41:26.61
And he says, Pilate inked
that sign in three languages,
00:41:26.65\00:41:32.79
the three languages
of the Roman Empire,
00:41:32.82\00:41:35.69
Aramaic, Greek...
00:41:35.72\00:41:39.86
and Latin.
00:41:39.89\00:41:43.53
John's quiet,
unsettled way of making sure
00:41:43.57\00:41:47.27
we know that this truth,
00:41:47.30\00:41:48.84
the Maker of all
things loves and wants me
00:41:48.87\00:41:51.31
is a universal truth.
00:41:51.34\00:41:53.78
It does not belong
to a private people.
00:41:53.81\00:41:56.34
It does not belong
to a faith community.
00:41:56.38\00:41:58.55
It is a truth of the
universe, for the human race,
00:41:58.58\00:42:01.98
the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:42:02.02\00:42:03.99
Three details in
the Gospel of John,
00:42:04.02\00:42:05.75
that the others didn't get.
00:42:05.79\00:42:07.22
Detail number two, amazing.
00:42:07.26\00:42:09.89
John wants to
make sure that we know
00:42:09.92\00:42:13.03
the man on the center cross
00:42:13.06\00:42:14.96
happens to be the
maker of all things.
00:42:15.00\00:42:19.37
And that's why...
00:42:19.40\00:42:22.50
this Jesus, and, of course,
00:42:22.54\00:42:23.87
from the synoptic we
know He's Son of God.
00:42:23.91\00:42:25.41
Yes, yes. And He's Son of man.
00:42:25.44\00:42:27.14
But only john
Pulls the veil aside,
00:42:27.18\00:42:30.35
so that in Jesus' death cry,
00:42:30.38\00:42:32.18
there is a link to
the maker of all things.
00:42:32.21\00:42:35.35
I got to show this to
you. So come on, John 19.
00:42:35.38\00:42:37.49
You got a few pages to
turn to get to John 19.
00:42:37.52\00:42:39.52
That's all right.
00:42:39.55\00:42:40.92
Find John 19.
00:42:40.96\00:42:42.42
This is the
crucifixion chapter, verse.
00:42:42.46\00:42:44.69
John 19:30,
00:42:44.73\00:42:46.06
"And when Jesus had
received the drink, "
00:42:46.09\00:42:48.00
his mouth is as dry as
if 1000 Roman legionnaires
00:42:48.03\00:42:51.80
had marched across
His tongue barefoot.
00:42:51.83\00:42:54.94
He cannot move.
00:42:54.97\00:42:56.30
It is just stuck.
00:42:56.34\00:42:57.91
He has bade,
00:42:57.94\00:42:59.57
"Is there anybody
that has a drink."
00:42:59.61\00:43:02.74
The stranger by
the well of Samaria
00:43:02.78\00:43:07.52
once again has to ask,
00:43:07.55\00:43:10.92
does somebody have
something for Me to drink?
00:43:10.95\00:43:17.19
When He received the drink,
some Roman had pity on Him.
00:43:17.23\00:43:22.16
Jesus said, "It is finished."
00:43:22.20\00:43:26.80
And with that, He bowed His head
00:43:26.84\00:43:29.40
and gave up His spirit.
00:43:29.44\00:43:30.97
Now look, it was
the day of preparation.
00:43:31.01\00:43:33.07
We know it is Good Friday,
00:43:33.11\00:43:34.58
it's the day
before the seventh day,
00:43:34.61\00:43:36.85
it was a day of preparation,
00:43:36.88\00:43:38.28
and the next day was
to be a special Sabbath.
00:43:38.31\00:43:41.65
Wow.
00:43:41.68\00:43:43.02
The one who finished His work
00:43:43.05\00:43:44.45
on the sixth day
of the creation week
00:43:44.49\00:43:46.86
and then rested is the same one
00:43:46.89\00:43:49.09
who finishes work
00:43:49.12\00:43:50.46
on the sixth day
of the Passion Week,
00:43:50.49\00:43:52.93
and then rested.
00:43:52.96\00:43:55.26
Same one, the one who
cries out it is finished.
00:43:55.30\00:43:58.63
When creation is
over, is the same one
00:43:58.67\00:44:00.84
who cries out it is finished.
00:44:00.87\00:44:02.84
When redemption is
complete, it is finished.
00:44:02.87\00:44:06.54
And by the way,
don't miss this moment
00:44:06.57\00:44:09.24
that you've just been
exposed to the word is finished.
00:44:09.28\00:44:14.35
It is not partially finished.
00:44:14.38\00:44:17.79
It is not dominantly finished.
00:44:17.82\00:44:20.36
It is totally finished.
00:44:20.39\00:44:22.52
The Greek is clear, finished.
00:44:22.56\00:44:27.43
So when anybody that
rebel angel comes your way
00:44:27.46\00:44:30.73
and whispers you know what, boy,
00:44:30.77\00:44:32.67
you can be
forgiven after what you did.
00:44:32.70\00:44:35.94
Please, girl, you're
asking Him to forgive you.
00:44:35.97\00:44:41.68
You got to be crazy.
00:44:41.71\00:44:44.31
It's too late.
00:44:44.35\00:44:45.98
No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, it is not too late.
00:44:46.01\00:44:48.05
Two thousand years
ago, the Maker of all things
00:44:48.08\00:44:50.95
who died on that center
cross said it's finished.
00:44:50.99\00:44:54.92
This will be truth
forever and ever now,
00:44:54.96\00:44:57.66
the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:44:57.69\00:45:00.43
It is truth forever.
00:45:00.46\00:45:01.80
Don't you ever let
that rebel angel fool you.
00:45:01.83\00:45:05.53
You can have
salvation just like that,
00:45:05.57\00:45:08.80
for the asking...
00:45:08.84\00:45:12.17
is ready for you.
00:45:12.21\00:45:14.58
He's ready to go.
00:45:14.61\00:45:17.51
Oh, but you see
there are three exceptions
00:45:17.55\00:45:20.32
that the Gospel of John
details that the others missed?
00:45:20.35\00:45:25.29
Here's the third one.
00:45:25.32\00:45:27.09
And I think it may be
the most precious of all.
00:45:27.12\00:45:30.03
Watch this.
00:45:30.06\00:45:32.89
A few verses before Jesus dies.
00:45:32.93\00:45:34.80
If you go a little
higher, you get to verse 26.
00:45:34.83\00:45:37.60
And only John
records this detail.
00:45:37.63\00:45:39.80
"When Jesus saw
His mother there,
00:45:39.83\00:45:42.57
and the disciple whom He loved."
00:45:42.60\00:45:44.11
Oh, the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:45:44.14\00:45:47.31
You can't get away from
it, John boy knew that truth
00:45:47.34\00:45:49.54
from the moment he met Jesus.
00:45:49.58\00:45:51.81
And for the rest of his life,
00:45:51.85\00:45:53.18
he will champion that
truth till he dies of old age.
00:45:53.21\00:45:58.65
When Jesus saw the disciple
whom he loves standing nearby,
00:45:58.69\00:46:01.99
He said to her,
00:46:02.02\00:46:03.36
He could not
point his hands or nail.
00:46:03.39\00:46:07.33
He can only move His chin...
00:46:07.36\00:46:10.47
and He speaks to His
beloved mother, "Woman,
00:46:10.50\00:46:15.20
here is your son
and to the disciple,
00:46:15.24\00:46:21.11
here is your mother.
00:46:21.14\00:46:24.31
And from that time
on, this disciple took her
00:46:24.35\00:46:27.78
into his home.
00:46:27.82\00:46:29.65
Jesus can barely...
00:46:29.68\00:46:34.06
eke the words out, John,
00:46:34.09\00:46:37.76
my mother is your mother.
00:46:37.79\00:46:42.60
Do you understand?
00:46:42.63\00:46:45.10
But what's so beautiful
to me is that Mary Magdalene
00:46:45.13\00:46:48.67
is standing there
watching all this.
00:46:48.70\00:46:50.34
And on Sunday morning,
00:46:50.37\00:46:51.71
Jesus was saying to
Mary Magdalene, girl,
00:46:51.74\00:46:54.54
go back to the
disciples and tell them,
00:46:54.58\00:46:57.31
My father is your father.
00:46:57.35\00:47:00.88
Is that amazing?
00:47:00.92\00:47:02.72
Before He dies, my
mother is your mother.
00:47:02.75\00:47:05.85
After He's resurrected,
my father is your father,
00:47:05.89\00:47:09.59
I am all of that
to you and I am more.
00:47:09.62\00:47:14.60
Desire of Ages...
00:47:14.63\00:47:16.03
captures this profound
assurance in this one line,
00:47:16.06\00:47:19.40
and I hope you never forget
and jot that page number down
00:47:19.43\00:47:21.77
three to seven.
00:47:21.80\00:47:23.67
"Closer than
father, mother, brother,
00:47:23.71\00:47:28.81
friend or lover is
the Lord our Savior."
00:47:28.84\00:47:33.38
Can I get an amen to that?
00:47:33.42\00:47:35.65
Closer than your
father, closer than your mother,
00:47:35.68\00:47:40.39
closer than your
brother or sister,
00:47:40.42\00:47:42.79
closer than your friend,
00:47:42.82\00:47:44.16
closer than your lover...
00:47:44.19\00:47:47.23
is the Lord your Savior.
00:47:47.26\00:47:52.20
For the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:47:52.23\00:47:57.57
And there's nobody
closer in this universe
00:47:57.61\00:47:59.74
to you right now than
the Lord Jesus Himself.
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You got to believe me,
you just have to believe,
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He's the
closest friend you have.
00:48:06.01\00:48:09.08
And He'll never quit on you.
00:48:09.12\00:48:11.05
He will never quit on you.
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Why?
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Because the Maker of all things
loves and wants me, that's why.
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I'm closer to you, Dwight,
than all of them, all of them.
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That's me and you,
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we're like this forever,
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stay with me.
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Which is why Jesus said to
us last week in our theme text
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for the short little
winter series, John 21.
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John 20-21 matches the
year that we're in now 2021.
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"As the Father has sent Me...
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so I'm sending you."
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Yeah, but Lord what
am I supposed to take?
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What?
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When you send me
what's the message
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I'm supposed to give?
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Come on, for Maker of
all things loves and wants.
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Me, you and all the world.
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Take it, take it to them.
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Don't overcomplicate
it, tell them the truth.
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No wonder that one line
in Christ Object Lessons
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is to remind us
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to the closing
day of this battle.
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The last rays of merciful light.
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The last message of
mercy to be given to the world
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is a revelation of
God's character of love.
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The last message,
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you're a part of
that last message mission.
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Should you choose to accept it,
00:49:35.77\00:49:37.14
you have one
sentence to take to the world.
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You go to
social media right now.
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I can't believe this.
00:49:42.88\00:49:44.21
You know what I learned today?
00:49:44.25\00:49:45.85
That all truth, universal truth
is summarized in this sentence,
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the Maker of all
things loves and wants me,
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post, send it out.
00:49:55.76\00:49:58.53
Be a missionary.
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He sent you.
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That's the truth.
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Wow.
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The Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
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I want to commit, I
want to commit to this truth.
00:50:12.27\00:50:14.68
I want to take you to the world.
00:50:17.75\00:50:21.12
And I know you
did to your world.
00:50:21.15\00:50:25.05
Connect card, it's online.
00:50:25.09\00:50:27.92
It's a electronic piece
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you can do it in
your phone right now,
00:50:30.29\00:50:32.13
pmchurch.org/connect.
00:50:32.16\00:50:34.50
I want you to see
the three options today.
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There are three options.
00:50:36.36\00:50:38.10
Go to that pmchurch.org.
00:50:38.13\00:50:39.70
It's on the
screen, slash connect.
00:50:39.73\00:50:42.47
You're looking for this.
00:50:42.50\00:50:43.84
My next step today is,
well, I want to share the truth,
00:50:43.87\00:50:46.68
the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:50:46.71\00:50:48.34
There you got the
sentence in writing now.
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But I want to share it.
00:50:51.05\00:50:52.38
I want to pass it on.
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Come on, you can pass it on.
00:50:54.08\00:50:55.72
You'd have it
done before the day.
00:50:55.75\00:50:57.39
You keep passing it on
for the rest of your life.
00:50:57.42\00:50:59.05
That's what I plan to do.
00:50:59.09\00:51:01.79
Number two, I would like to read
00:51:01.82\00:51:03.16
that classic on the
life of Jesus Desire of Ages.
00:51:03.19\00:51:05.89
I'm reading the
chapter every Friday.
00:51:05.93\00:51:07.96
Oh man, I had a great
chapter just yesterday.
00:51:08.00\00:51:11.57
Peace be still, it's
the title of that chapter.
00:51:11.60\00:51:16.24
It's greatest book,
in my humble opinion,
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outside of Scripture.
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Do you want a copy of that book?
00:51:20.44\00:51:21.78
We'll send an e-copy to
you, send the link to you.
00:51:21.81\00:51:24.58
Just put a
checkmark there, make sure
00:51:24.61\00:51:25.95
we have your email address.
00:51:25.98\00:51:27.52
And finally, I would
like to surrender my life
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to my Maker and be
baptized into Christ.
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Because if the
Maker of all things
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loves and wants me,
I'm giving my life to Him.
00:51:33.82\00:51:37.06
If He's the closest
person in the universe to me,
00:51:37.09\00:51:39.49
I'm giving my life to Him.
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You're a girl, you're
a boy, it doesn't matter.
00:51:41.90\00:51:44.13
Give your life,
00:51:44.17\00:51:45.50
you're an aged
man and aged woman,
00:51:45.53\00:51:47.47
it doesn't matter.
00:51:47.50\00:51:48.84
Give your life to the
one who loves you more than
00:51:48.87\00:51:51.74
any other person
in this universe.
00:51:51.77\00:51:56.68
The Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:51:56.71\00:52:02.52
Is that good news to you?
00:52:02.55\00:52:05.32
No, I'm serious. Is
that good news to you?
00:52:05.35\00:52:08.19
Come on, come on.
00:52:08.22\00:52:10.63
We got to talk to Him
together. Stand to your feet.
00:52:10.66\00:52:12.56
Please stand right now.
00:52:12.59\00:52:13.93
And let's talk to Him together.
00:52:13.96\00:52:15.30
Let's talk to Him right now.
00:52:15.33\00:52:17.43
Maker of all things...
00:52:17.47\00:52:20.84
Lord Jesus unbelievable,
00:52:20.87\00:52:25.27
could the news be
this good and so simple,
00:52:25.31\00:52:30.05
the Maker of all
things loves and wants me.
00:52:30.08\00:52:33.25
We've seen it again and
again in the storylines.
00:52:33.28\00:52:36.82
It's throughout Scripture.
00:52:36.85\00:52:39.62
Oh, forgive us for
over complicating...
00:52:39.65\00:52:42.89
universal truth.
00:52:42.92\00:52:46.16
Set our hearts free...
00:52:46.19\00:52:49.76
with a realization
that closer than father,
00:52:49.80\00:52:52.60
mother, brother,
sister, friend, lover,
00:52:52.63\00:52:54.80
there's someone...
00:52:54.84\00:52:57.47
longs to share
the journey with us.
00:52:57.51\00:53:02.14
There's a young man
here or not so young
00:53:02.18\00:53:04.81
that needs to make
that decision with you Jesus
00:53:04.85\00:53:07.05
right now speak to him.
00:53:07.08\00:53:09.68
So I'm talking to you, boy...
00:53:09.72\00:53:12.45
I want you to
give your life to me.
00:53:12.49\00:53:16.12
You'll find that with me,
00:53:16.16\00:53:18.33
what looked
impossible becomes possible.
00:53:18.36\00:53:20.96
Stay with me, the
best is yet to come.
00:53:21.00\00:53:23.50
There's a young woman here.
00:53:23.53\00:53:26.07
She knows what it
feels like to be abandoned.
00:53:26.10\00:53:31.47
Human love let her down.
00:53:31.51\00:53:34.68
Oh, Jesus, step into that
space and put Your arms around
00:53:34.71\00:53:38.45
that heart and whisper,
00:53:38.48\00:53:41.22
the Maker of all
things loves and wants you.
00:53:41.25\00:53:45.92
Come with me.
00:53:45.95\00:53:47.99
We'll write the
next chapter together.
00:53:48.02\00:53:51.19
Father, please
don't let us forget
00:53:51.23\00:53:55.30
the truth as it is in Jesus,
00:53:55.33\00:53:59.27
that all the
people say amen and amen.
00:53:59.30\00:54:03.17
Who am I that the highest King
00:54:41.24\00:54:44.68
Would welcome me?
00:54:44.71\00:54:49.52
I was lost but He brought me in
00:54:49.55\00:54:52.72
Oh His love for me
00:54:52.75\00:54:57.16
His love for me
00:54:57.19\00:55:01.00
Who the Son sets free
00:55:01.03\00:55:05.23
Oh, is free indeed
00:55:05.27\00:55:09.37
I'm a child of God
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Yes, I am
00:55:13.17\00:55:17.61
In my Father's house
00:55:17.65\00:55:21.85
There's a place for me
00:55:21.88\00:55:26.05
I'm a child of God
00:55:26.09\00:55:29.82
Yes, I am
00:55:29.86\00:55:33.06
Not forsaken
00:55:36.53\00:55:38.83
I am who You say I am
00:55:38.87\00:55:42.54
You are for me, not against me
00:55:42.57\00:55:47.14
I am who You say I am
00:55:47.18\00:55:50.88
I am chosen not for taken
00:55:50.91\00:55:55.32
I am who you say Iam
00:55:55.35\00:55:59.09
You are for me, not against me
00:55:59.12\00:56:03.73
I am who you say Iam
00:56:03.76\00:56:07.90
I am who you say Iam
00:56:07.93\00:56:13.74
Who the Son sets free
00:56:13.77\00:56:17.91
Oh is free indeed
I'm a child of God
00:56:17.94\00:56:25.78
Yes, I am
00:56:25.81\00:56:30.29
In my Father's house
00:56:30.32\00:56:34.49
There's a place for me
00:56:34.52\00:56:38.66
I'm a child of God
00:56:38.69\00:56:42.50
Yes, I am
00:56:42.53\00:56:46.97
In my Father's house
00:56:47.00\00:56:51.17
There's a place for me
00:56:51.21\00:56:55.51
I'm a child of God
00:56:55.54\00:56:59.68
Yes, I am
00:56:59.71\00:57:03.12
Thank you for taking the time
to join us in worship today.
00:57:07.12\00:57:09.72
I'd like to spend
another moment with you here
00:57:09.76\00:57:11.16
at the end of our
program to share a word of hope.
00:57:11.19\00:57:13.50
In fact, that's what
this sort of book is all about
00:57:13.53\00:57:15.66
in these uncertain
times, and let's face it,
00:57:15.70\00:57:17.53
they're uncertain
all over this planet.
00:57:17.57\00:57:19.63
This book entitled,
00:57:19.67\00:57:21.00
The Great Hope
will help you understand
00:57:21.04\00:57:22.90
not just what God has
planned for your future,
00:57:22.94\00:57:25.31
but for the future of
the entire human race.
00:57:25.34\00:57:27.84
Light keep shining
on this dark old world
00:57:27.88\00:57:29.84
and new truths long forgotten
00:57:29.88\00:57:31.61
are being
constantly rediscovered?
00:57:31.65\00:57:33.82
If you need a fresh dose of hope
00:57:33.85\00:57:35.22
for your life these days,
00:57:35.25\00:57:36.58
or you know somebody else
00:57:36.62\00:57:37.95
who could sure
use that gift of hope.
00:57:37.99\00:57:39.89
Then I'd like to
invite you to grab your phone,
00:57:39.92\00:57:41.52
dial our toll free number
877-the two words HIS-WILL,
00:57:41.56\00:57:45.53
877-HIS-WILL.
00:57:45.56\00:57:47.50
And at no charge to you,
00:57:47.53\00:57:48.86
we'll get a copy in
the mail to you right away.
00:57:48.90\00:57:51.77
Till the next time we meet,
00:57:51.80\00:57:53.23
may the peace and hope
00:57:53.27\00:57:55.00
of the Lord
Jesus be with you 24/7.
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