In the 4th chapter
of Revelation, verse 6,
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John wrote, I saw
a lamb looking as if
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he had been
slain standing in the
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center of the throne, a
pitiful, poor, bleeding,
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slain lamb standing in
the center of the throne.
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In Revelation chapter
17, the ten horns you saw,
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verse 12, are 10
kings who have not yet
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received a kingdom,
but who for one hour
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will receive authority
as kings along with the
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beast and they
have one purpose and
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they'll give their power
and authority to the beast
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and they will make
war against the lamb.
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All the kings of the
earth, the powerful beast
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united together in one
purpose and that is to make
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war against the
lamb, the pitiful, poor,
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bleeding lamb
what chance does a lamb
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have against the beast
and the kings of the earth.
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But, the lamb
will overcome them.
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How? How does the
lamb overcome them?
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Who is the lamb?
Because he is Lord of Lords
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and King of
Kings, the lamb is Jesus.
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And he is Lord of
Lords, he is King of Kings
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and with him are his
called and chosen followers,
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those who follow
the lamb are with him
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and those who follow
the lamb will be victorious
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against the beast and
the kings of the earth.
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Who is the lamb? The
lamb is Jesus, who is Jesus?
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Revelation chapter 22 verse 16,
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I, Jesus, have sent
my angel to give you
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this testimony for the churches.
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I am the root and
the offspring of David
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and the bright morning
star, I'm the root of David,
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I'm the offspring of
David, how can Jesus be
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the root of David and
the offspring of David?
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how can Jesus be
the root of David?
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David would have come
through him, how can he
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be the offspring of
Jesus coming from David?
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How can he be both the
root and the offspring of David?
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Because, he is God,
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the King of Kings
and the Lord of Lords.
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In chapter 1 of
Revelation, verse 18,
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in chapter 1 verse 18,
John had just seen Jesus
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in vision and he fell
down to the feet of the
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angel of Jesus as though
he were dead and he placed
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his right hand
on him and he said
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don't be afraid I am first,
I am the first and the last,
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I am the living one, I was dead
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and behold I'm
alive forever and ever.
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Who is Jesus? Jesus is
the first and the last.
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He was alive, but then he died
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and now he is alive again.
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He has to be the Son of God,
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but yet he said, I am
the first and the last.
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Who is the first and the last?
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What does that mean?
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Remember the Book of
Revelation quotes to or
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alludes to the Old
Testament over how many times?
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This is another
one of those 600 times.
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Isaiah, chapter 44, in
Isaiah chapter 44, verse 6,
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this is what the Lord says.
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Now notice the word Lord
is in all capital letters
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in my Bible that's
significant because
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in the New International
version when the word
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Lord is in all
capital letters that means it
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translates what is
called the Tetragrammaton,
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the Tetragrammaton is
for a word consisting of
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four consonants
and no vowels and the
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four consonants the
JHVH, try pronouncing that,
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you can't pronounce
it, it's unpronounceable
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that's the idea,
it's unpronounceable
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because they felt
that pronouncing the name
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of God would be
blasphemy that's why
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they wrote it in
an unpronounceable way
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JHVH, so that every
time they came to the
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Tetragrammaton they
couldn't accidentally
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say the name of
God because it was
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unpronounceable, but
when the Bible was translated
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into English they have
to somehow put something
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there that we could
read when we came to it.
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So, there was another
name for God called Adonai.
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They took the vowels from Adonai
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and place them in
the Tetragrammaton JHVH
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and they got the name Jehovah.
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The Lord God Jehovah, is
simply a manufactured name
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that we could
pronounce when it translates
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the Tetragrammaton
of the name of God.
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And so here is
Jehovah, this is what the Lord
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Jehovah says that God Almighty
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Israel's king and
redeemer, the Lord Almighty,
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I am the first and the last.
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Now, either we have
two firsts and lasts,
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which can't be or Jesus
is the Lord God Almighty.
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Jesus is the first and the
last the Lord God Almighty.
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Yes, there is a
father and he is God
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and there is the Son
Jesus Christ and he too is God,
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and there is the
Holy Spirit and he is God,
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the three become one God.
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The Lord our God
is one and when God
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said let us
make man in our image
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the Father was
there, the Son was there,
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the Holy Spirit was there,
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hovering over the deep,
but it was the Son of God
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that knelt down,
formed the body of man
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from the dust of the ground,
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breathed into that
body the breath of life,
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watched him
become a living soul,
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it was the Son of
God, the Lord God Almighty
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Jehovah, who became a
man to live in this world
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for us, what a God we serve!
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And one of the
most favorite of all the
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prophecies in the Old Testament
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prophesying the
appearance of the Messiah,
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the Lord God Jesus Christ is
in Isaiah chapter 7 verse 14,
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the virgin will be
with child and give
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birth to a son and
will call him Immanuel.
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A virgin would
conceive and give birth to a son
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his name would be Immanuel,
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already in the Old Testament
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the Bible says
that when the Messiah
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appears he will
be born of a virgin,
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his name Immanuel,
Immanuel was a Hebrew
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word actually
three Hebrew words.
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In Hebrew, the
word IM means 'with',
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MANU means 'us',
and EL means 'God'.
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His name will be, 'God with us.'
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A virgin will conceive
and give birth to a son
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so that the omnipotent,
almighty, all powerful God
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can become man and be with us,
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what a God we serve!
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And we find the
remarkable fulfillment
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of this prophecy
in the Gospel of Luke
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in one place anyway
in the New Testament,
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one of my favorites
is the Gospel of Luke
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chapter 1 verse
26, in the six month
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God sent the angel
Gabriel to a town in
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Galilee to a virgin
pledged to be married
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to a man named
Joseph, a descendant of David.
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The virgin's, Mary,
the virgin's name was Mary,
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now remember Jesus
would be the root and
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the offspring of David,
the root of David because he
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was God and now he would
be a descendent of David.
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The angel went to
Mary and said greetings,
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you who are highly
favored the Lord is with you.
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Mary greatly
troubled as you can imagine,
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be awakened from your
sleep, there is an angel
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saying greetings
the Lord is with you.
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Mary says, what's
this? what kind of greeting
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is this? But the
angel said, don't be afraid
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Mary you've
found favor with God,
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you will be with child
and give birth to a son,
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and you are to
give him the name Jesus,
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and he will be great
and he will be called
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the son of the
most high, the Lord God
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will give him the
throne of his father David
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and he will reign over
the house of Jacob forever
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and his kingdom will never end.
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Imagine, a young
girl perhaps like
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some of you here
this evening, awakened
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in the middle of the night,
a virgin and the angel says
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don't be afraid Mary,
I've good news for you,
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you're gonna have a
child, and he will be
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the son of the most high God.
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Imagine the
thoughts that must have
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gone through the mind of Mary.
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Now, I know one
thought she was thinking,
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it tells us right here,
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how can this be?
she said, I'm a virgin.
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And the angel answered
the Holy Spirit will come
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upon you and the
power of the most high God
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will overshadow you
so that the Holy One
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to be born will be
called the Son of God.
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The Holy Spirit will
conceive, the power of
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the most high God
will come over you
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and the Holy One to
be born will be called
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the Son of God,
what unsearchable love
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we can't begin to plumb
the depths of God's love.
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And I believe, I
believe that sometimes
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we're so afraid of
placing Mary in such a high
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unwarranted place as
some do that we don't even
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recognize what God
accomplished through Mary.
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And maybe we ought to
think a little more of the
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life of this young
girl, who was dramatically
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changed forever and she
became the mother of the
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Son of God, Jesus, who was God
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became a man just like
the men that he created.
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So, that he could be among us
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and show us what
God is really like.
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What a sacrifice,
what a price he had to pay
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to give up the
throne of the Universe
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and to live in this
sinful world and I believe that
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so many times we
overemphasize the divinity
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of Christ that we fail
to recognize his humanity.
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He was a man, he was God and
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he was man and he
set aside his divinity,
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it was there, he was
always God, he never gave it up,
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he never stopped being
God, but he set it aside,
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he refused to use it, in
order to demonstrate that
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a human being could in fact be
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obedient to the
Father and the law of God.
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What a God! He was just like us,
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we see pictures of
Jesus in a white robe,
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immaculate, spotless,
clean every hair and place,
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the halo of
light above his head,
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he wasn't that way, he
was the carpenter's son,
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he worked in a carpenter shop,
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his hands must have
been rough and callus,
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he lived in a hot
desert country, I'm sure his
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robe was stained
with sweat, his feet dirty
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from the burning
sand, he was a man.
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Isaiah said there was
nothing about him that
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men should desire him,
if you saw Jesus walking
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down a desert
road with his disciples
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there would be no
way for you to know that
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he was the Son of
God except as the father
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revealed it to
you, he was a man,
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he was a man just like us.
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The Bible says in Hebrews the
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4th chapter and the
15th verse in Hebrews
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chapter 4, in verse 15,
he says we do not have a
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high priest who was
unable to sympathize with our
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weaknesses, but we have
one who has been tempted
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in every way just as we
are yet he was without sin.
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Now, I want you
to notice something
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here it does not
say he did not sin.
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We know he did not
sin, Jesus never sinned,
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not in word, not in
action, not even in thought,
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he did not sin, but that's not
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what it says here, it
says he was without sin.
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That's something far
deeper than not sinning,
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we are not without
sin, we are born sinful,
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we are born with a
natural tendency to be
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selfish, to be sinful,
to do things for ourselves
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and not to be, not to
be the kind of a person
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who is committed
and surrendered to God,
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we are not born that
way, we need to be born again.
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But, Jesus was born
that way, he was born
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the Holy One the Bible says.
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He didn't have the
same sinful tendencies
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that we have,
he was without sin.
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Yet, somehow he was
tempted in every way
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just as you and I are.
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How can that be?
How could he be tempted
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just like you and
I and be without sin,
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how can he be the
Holy One and be tempted
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like us, he was
never hooked on cigarettes,
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he was never hooked on
drugs, he was never hooked
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on pornography, we know
that when we sin one time
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it degrades us, making
it easier to do it again.
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Jesus never experienced
the degradation of sin,
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how could he be tempted
in every way just as we are.
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In Luke 3rd chapter verse 21,
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the Bible doesn't
tell us a lot about
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the early childhood of Jesus.
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But, in Luke chapter 3 verse 21,
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it says when all the people were
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being baptized,
Jesus was baptized.
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We already
studied about that and
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as he was
praying heaven was opened
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and the Holy
Spirit descended on him
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in bodily form like
a dove and a voice came
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from heaven
saying you are my son
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whom I love and with
you I am well pleased,
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he heard the voice of
his father proclaiming
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that he was the Son of
God, remember Jesus had laid
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aside his
divinity, he was a man,
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he lived his life as a
man just like you and I,
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but when he was
baptized he heard the voice of
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his father in heaven
saying you are my son
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and then he was led
off into the wilderness,
00:18:14.04\00:18:17.39
chapter 4 verse 1,
full of the Holy Spirit
00:18:17.42\00:18:20.55
he returned from the
Jordan led by the spirit
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into the desert,
where for 40 days
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he was tempted by
the Devil; he ate nothing
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during those days and at
the end of them he was hungry.
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Oh! I don't have any
problem believing that.
00:18:32.46\00:18:34.69
I haven't eaten in
for hours and I'm hungry,
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40 days without
eating remember he set aside
00:18:39.13\00:18:44.09
his divinity, he couldn't
use it for his own benefit,
00:18:44.12\00:18:48.26
he couldn't use
it for his own power,
00:18:48.29\00:18:50.41
he laid it down and there he was
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40 days praying and fasting.
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Imagine how he must
have looked after 40 days
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without eating, weak and frail,
00:18:58.24\00:19:02.24
first wind comes
along, blows him away.
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Who do you think is always there
00:19:08.33\00:19:10.84
when we're weak in
our weakened condition?
00:19:11.67\00:19:15.23
The Devil comes, what a coward!
00:19:15.93\00:19:18.98
He waits until it
looks like we can't
00:19:20.09\00:19:21.86
defend ourselves
and then he comes,
00:19:21.89\00:19:24.20
he is not afraid to
kick when we're down
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and so he appears
before Jesus and he said to him
00:19:26.45\00:19:29.54
in verse 3, if
you are the Son of God
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tell this stone to become bread.
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And Jesus was tempted in
every way just as we are.
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I've never been tempted
to turn stones into bread
00:19:41.47\00:19:44.45
because I can't,
but he could have,
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he could have done it.
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But in order to do it,
he would have to pick up
00:19:56.82\00:19:59.97
that divine power that he
laid down and do it as God,
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not as a man and had
he done that he would have
00:20:05.74\00:20:10.45
demonstrated that a
human being cannot survive
00:20:10.48\00:20:16.22
the temptations of the Devil,
00:20:16.25\00:20:17.74
a human being
cannot live on this planet
00:20:17.77\00:20:20.74
in obedience to God the Father,
00:20:21.23\00:20:23.19
he couldn't take
up his divine power
00:20:23.22\00:20:25.94
to save himself,
he had to be a man.
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And so the Devil, so
Jesus said to the Devil,
00:20:34.14\00:20:37.26
it is written, man does
not live on bread alone.
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Now, do you want
to know the secret
00:20:43.01\00:20:44.02
as how to withstand temptation?
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There it is, it is
written, all you need to do is
00:20:46.69\00:20:52.72
understand the scripture,
but in order to say that you
00:20:52.75\00:20:55.57
have to know what is written
that's why we need to spend
00:20:55.60\00:20:57.59
time in the word of
God with Jesus everyday.
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It is written man
doesn't live by bread alone.
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And then the Devil
led him to a high place
00:21:05.60\00:21:07.00
and he showed him in an instant
00:21:07.03\00:21:08.06
all the kingdoms of the
world and he said to him
00:21:08.09\00:21:10.29
I'll give you all
of their authority
00:21:10.32\00:21:12.04
and splendor because
it's been given to me
00:21:12.07\00:21:13.95
and I can give it
to anyone I want to.
00:21:13.98\00:21:15.33
So, if you worship
me it will all be yours.
00:21:15.36\00:21:17.83
I've never been offered
all the kingdoms of the world.
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The truth is I gave in
00:21:25.67\00:21:27.65
long before he ever
had to get to that point.
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We sell out for mere pittance,
00:21:32.44\00:21:35.02
Jesus withstood to the very end.
00:21:37.19\00:21:39.80
But, I want you to see
what really happened here,
00:21:42.62\00:21:45.35
how does Jesus
withstand temptation once again?
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Watch this, it
is written worship
00:21:50.05\00:21:53.04
the Lord your God
and serve him only.
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Now watch what's happening,
00:21:58.48\00:21:59.45
he is the Devil, Jesus is weak,
00:22:01.25\00:22:02.77
he is frail, if
you are the Son of God.
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Oh! Notice the
implication of doubt,
00:22:08.25\00:22:11.90
if you are the Son of God
turn the stones into bread,
00:22:11.93\00:22:17.25
he was planting seeds of
doubt in the mind of Jesus,
00:22:18.20\00:22:22.33
you think you're the Son of God?
00:22:24.69\00:22:26.97
man you look like
if a good stiff wind
00:22:28.37\00:22:31.20
comes along
you'll just blow away.
00:22:31.23\00:22:32.93
Now remember, the
Devil was not standing there,
00:22:34.43\00:22:37.16
dressed in his
little red jump suit
00:22:37.19\00:22:39.69
with two horns on his
head, a long tail with an arrow
00:22:39.72\00:22:42.51
on the end and a
pitchfork in his hand, no.
00:22:42.54\00:22:44.63
He appears how, masqueraded
as an angel of light.
00:22:45.51\00:22:51.53
And so here is this
beautiful angel of light,
00:22:52.02\00:22:54.06
here is Jesus in
his weakened condition,
00:22:54.09\00:22:55.84
if you are the Son of
God, you think you're the
00:22:55.87\00:22:59.10
Son of God, if
you're the Son of God
00:22:59.13\00:23:00.74
you wouldn't be
looking like this,
00:23:00.77\00:23:02.03
he wouldn't let
this happened to you,
00:23:02.06\00:23:03.41
look at me I'm
the beautiful angel,
00:23:03.44\00:23:05.30
you're the fallen
angel, I'm the Son of God,
00:23:05.33\00:23:07.39
worship me and I'll
give you everything.
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.52
You see, he is a
master at taking things
00:23:10.69\00:23:13.44
that are wrong and
making them look right
00:23:13.47\00:23:15.48
and taking things that
are right and making them
00:23:15.51\00:23:17.77
look wrong,
everything inside of Jesus,
00:23:17.80\00:23:20.44
everything he saw,
everything he felt,
00:23:20.47\00:23:23.04
everything he heard was
saying that, that is true,
00:23:23.07\00:23:26.15
I don't look
like the Son of God,
00:23:26.18\00:23:27.89
I don't feel like a Son of God,
00:23:27.92\00:23:29.50
he looks like a Son of God,
00:23:29.53\00:23:31.18
but Jesus knew he
was the Son of God.
00:23:31.21\00:23:34.17
How did he know?
Remember, he set aside
00:23:35.05\00:23:39.31
his divinity,
here's how he knew,
00:23:39.34\00:23:42.99
he had just heard the voice
00:23:43.54\00:23:46.65
of his father
saying you are my son.
00:23:46.68\00:23:52.13
The Devil was just
trying to get him to doubt
00:23:53.86\00:23:58.14
God's word and in that
way you and I are tempted
00:23:58.27\00:24:04.89
in every way as he was,
he is tempted in every way
00:24:04.92\00:24:08.93
as we are, because
temptation is nothing
00:24:08.96\00:24:11.76
more than the
attempt by the Devil
00:24:11.79\00:24:14.21
for you to doubt God's word.
00:24:14.24\00:24:16.93
And he wasn't finished yet,
00:24:20.62\00:24:22.04
he comes to Jesus
and he says in verse 9,
00:24:23.64\00:24:28.04
he led him to
Jerusalem, had him stand
00:24:28.07\00:24:29.53
on the highest
point of the temple,
00:24:29.56\00:24:30.95
if you're the Son of God,
00:24:31.36\00:24:32.55
there he goes again,
if you are the Son of God
00:24:32.58\00:24:36.39
then throw yourself
down from here; prove it.
00:24:36.42\00:24:40.80
Now watch this,
because it is written,
00:24:40.83\00:24:45.07
who is speaking, the Devil,
00:24:45.74\00:24:47.77
it is written
he'll command his angels
00:24:48.32\00:24:50.54
concerning you to
guard you carefully,
00:24:50.57\00:24:51.95
they'll lift you
up in their hands
00:24:51.98\00:24:53.06
so you'll not strike
your foot on a stone,
00:24:53.09\00:24:54.49
just throw yourself
off, the angels are going to
00:24:54.52\00:24:56.37
catch you, the Bible says so
00:24:56.40\00:24:57.37
it's written, it is written,
00:24:57.74\00:24:59.16
don't be surprised if
the Devil says it is written,
00:24:59.19\00:25:03.13
don't be surprised if
the Devil quotes scripture.
00:25:04.39\00:25:07.04
He knows it
better than you do folks,
00:25:08.10\00:25:09.99
he has been around a
lot longer than you have
00:25:10.02\00:25:11.77
and he'd seen it all unfold.
00:25:11.80\00:25:13.23
And so Jesus said, I like
the way Matthew remembered it.
00:25:17.24\00:25:20.98
Jesus said, it is also written,
00:25:21.01\00:25:23.77
don't put the Lord
your God to the test.
00:25:24.44\00:25:26.58
Folks, it isn't enough
to know what is written,
00:25:26.61\00:25:29.32
we need to know
what is also written,
00:25:29.35\00:25:31.30
you understand what that means?
00:25:32.83\00:25:34.39
It means compare
scripture with scripture.
00:25:34.42\00:25:37.41
Can't just take one
text and say that's it,
00:25:37.96\00:25:40.54
you need to know
what else the Bible says
00:25:40.57\00:25:43.36
and Jesus knew what else,
he knew what is also written,
00:25:43.39\00:25:46.49
you should know
what is also written,
00:25:46.52\00:25:48.22
temptation is nothing
more than the temptation,
00:25:48.25\00:25:51.57
and the attempt by the
Devil to get you to believe
00:25:51.78\00:25:54.70
something other
than the word of God.
00:25:54.73\00:25:56.78
But, God doesn't want
us to put him to the test,
00:25:58.13\00:26:00.30
he wants us to
believe what he says
00:26:00.33\00:26:02.88
no matter what we see,
no matter what we hear,
00:26:02.91\00:26:06.17
no matter what we
feel on the inside,
00:26:06.20\00:26:08.49
no matter what everybody
on earth is telling you,
00:26:08.52\00:26:11.58
God wants you to
believe what he says.
00:26:11.61\00:26:15.01
God said it, I believe
it, it's good enough for me.
00:26:16.84\00:26:20.62
So, many times
people come to me saying,
00:26:23.63\00:26:26.53
if what you're saying is true,
00:26:26.56\00:26:28.59
why doesn't
everybody else believe it?
00:26:28.62\00:26:30.77
A meaningless question;
a meaningless question.
00:26:30.80\00:26:35.30
The question should be,
what does the Bible say. Amen.
00:26:38.14\00:26:45.18
And that way Jesus was
tempted just like you and I.
00:26:46.57\00:26:50.66
What a man! He
went on from there,
00:26:52.45\00:26:55.48
hadn't even done
his first miracle yet,
00:26:55.51\00:26:57.34
but he went home and
one day after he finished
00:26:57.48\00:27:00.85
doing his work in
the carpenter shop,
00:27:00.88\00:27:02.60
he came into the house,
his mom was just sorting
00:27:02.63\00:27:05.31
through the mail
noticed a little envelope
00:27:05.34\00:27:07.49
with gold trim around the edges
00:27:07.52\00:27:09.31
in nice
handwritten calligraphy and oh!
00:27:09.34\00:27:12.89
that's an
invitation, mom, who is it?
00:27:12.92\00:27:14.91
What is it? and she
opens it and reads it,
00:27:14.94\00:27:18.08
it's a wedding
invitation, she says your cousin
00:27:18.43\00:27:20.83
in Cana is getting
married, what do you think,
00:27:20.86\00:27:23.94
should we go? oh! Let's go.
00:27:23.97\00:27:26.23
Why did Jesus want
to go to the wedding?
00:27:26.26\00:27:28.67
A wedding is a place
where people are happy,
00:27:29.35\00:27:31.95
it's a place where
they're celebrating,
00:27:32.51\00:27:34.12
you know I see so many
pictures of Jesus with a
00:27:34.15\00:27:37.12
long solemn face, I think
Jesus was a happy man. Amen.
00:27:37.15\00:27:41.54
And the fact that
he went to the wedding,
00:27:41.57\00:27:43.08
where people are happy means
00:27:43.11\00:27:44.22
that he wants to
be with happy people.
00:27:44.25\00:27:46.32
What kind of man was
Jesus, he was a happy man.
00:27:47.85\00:27:50.87
But it isn't all.
He was also strong
00:27:52.70\00:27:59.58
and brave, a courageous man.
00:27:59.61\00:28:03.52
He had been
working all day one time
00:28:04.16\00:28:06.03
with disciples and he decided,
00:28:06.06\00:28:08.35
he decided that it was
time to take a little break
00:28:10.27\00:28:13.24
so they jump in the boat and
00:28:13.27\00:28:17.12
they row across
the sea of Galilee,
00:28:17.15\00:28:19.11
pulled the boat
up on the beach and
00:28:20.23\00:28:21.80
then looking around
for a little place to go
00:28:21.83\00:28:23.70
to rest and just
relax away from the crowd
00:28:23.73\00:28:27.52
and when they turned to
walk up the beach they saw,
00:28:28.23\00:28:31.51
they saw this man
come running towards them
00:28:32.21\00:28:35.40
long wild hair,
eyes blazing like demons,
00:28:35.43\00:28:39.03
chains dangling from his
wrist and from his ankles,
00:28:39.06\00:28:41.80
he was a man
possessed by demons,
00:28:41.83\00:28:44.15
his name was Legion
because he was possessed
00:28:44.18\00:28:46.51
by a legion of demons
and he is bearing down
00:28:46.54\00:28:48.83
on the disciples and Jesus, and
00:28:48.86\00:28:51.19
can't you just kind
of see the disciples?
00:28:51.22\00:28:53.07
Oh! They see this guy coming,
00:28:53.10\00:28:54.38
Oh! They turn around, they run,
00:28:54.41\00:28:56.07
they jump in their boat,
roll back out in the water
00:28:56.10\00:28:57.85
and they look
back and there's Jesus,
00:28:59.40\00:29:02.34
he is still standing
there straight and tall,
00:29:02.87\00:29:06.24
he wasn't scared of the
demons, Jesus was fearless.
00:29:07.29\00:29:13.42
In fact, the
demons were scared of him
00:29:14.42\00:29:17.74
and they said oh!
We know who you are,
00:29:20.03\00:29:21.25
you're the Son of
God, get us out of here,
00:29:21.28\00:29:22.85
cast us out, even into that
00:29:22.88\00:29:24.38
herd of pigs and Jesus cast out
00:29:24.41\00:29:26.48
the demons in the herd of pigs,
00:29:26.51\00:29:27.82
the disciples
looked again and they saw
00:29:27.85\00:29:29.98
the man sitting
there in his right mind.
00:29:30.01\00:29:32.21
Little sanctified imagination
00:29:34.55\00:29:36.36
can't you see him
quietly rowing that
00:29:36.39\00:29:38.65
boat back to the
shore, slipping up there
00:29:38.68\00:29:40.91
behind Jesus,
hoping that he didn't see
00:29:40.94\00:29:42.60
they have turned
and runaway, what a man!
00:29:42.63\00:29:47.95
Happy, cheerful
yet fearless, brave,
00:29:48.86\00:29:55.17
not even afraid of demons.
00:29:56.23\00:29:58.01
And yet at the same time
00:30:00.69\00:30:03.14
there was no man on this earth
00:30:04.99\00:30:07.83
more compassionate than Jesus.
00:30:08.11\00:30:13.05
He understood,
somehow even though
00:30:13.98\00:30:18.11
he never sinned he understood
00:30:18.14\00:30:21.06
what it was like to be
like us; he understands us.
00:30:21.44\00:30:27.11
One day a group
of the priests and
00:30:28.05\00:30:31.55
the Pharisees, the
religious leaders of the area,
00:30:31.58\00:30:34.89
oh!, they were so
righteous in their own eyes.
00:30:34.92\00:30:38.26
They found a filthy
woman, guilty of adultery,
00:30:39.18\00:30:44.57
dragged her to
Jesus, casting down,
00:30:45.74\00:30:48.60
her down before his
feet and triumphantly
00:30:48.63\00:30:54.11
declaring, ''we've
found her guilty of adultery,
00:30:54.14\00:30:58.15
Moses says, that
we should stone her
00:30:58.18\00:31:00.95
'' What do you
say we should do?''
00:31:01.45\00:31:03.36
You see they had
him, didn't matter how
00:31:06.51\00:31:11.11
he answered, they had him.
00:31:11.14\00:31:13.48
If he said stone
her, well all they needed
00:31:14.14\00:31:19.92
to do was turn him
into the Romans because
00:31:19.95\00:31:22.17
it was illegal for a Jew
to do capital punishment.
00:31:22.20\00:31:25.32
If he said let her go,
well, they had him again,
00:31:27.53\00:31:32.72
they could discredit
him with all of the rest
00:31:33.27\00:31:36.59
of the people
for ignoring Moses.
00:31:36.62\00:31:40.57
He doesn't care about the Bible.
00:31:41.30\00:31:42.87
He does not follow the Bible.
00:31:42.90\00:31:44.46
You see either
way, no matter how he
00:31:44.98\00:31:46.80
answered oh! they had him.
00:31:46.83\00:31:48.20
They couldn't
wait for him to answer.
00:31:48.98\00:31:50.59
They are standing there,
00:31:50.62\00:31:51.64
holding their
breath, waiting to celebrate.
00:31:51.67\00:31:55.34
They weren't prepared
for the answer that he gave.
00:31:57.09\00:31:59.99
At first, he
didn't say anything.
00:32:00.62\00:32:03.04
He just knelt down in the sand
00:32:05.26\00:32:07.45
and he began to
write with his finger.
00:32:08.54\00:32:11.53
Bible doesn't say what he
wrote, just says he wrote.
00:32:12.89\00:32:16.66
And after a little bit,
he looked up at those men
00:32:19.33\00:32:22.23
and he said, okay.
Let the one that standing
00:32:22.26\00:32:26.56
among you, who is without
sin cast the first stone,
00:32:26.59\00:32:29.63
then he started writing again.
00:32:32.15\00:32:34.65
Now it doesn't
say what he wrote,
00:32:35.73\00:32:37.76
but whatever it
was he was writing,
00:32:38.92\00:32:40.99
they didn't like it
because it does say that
00:32:41.57\00:32:46.18
one by one they
began to make excuses,
00:32:46.21\00:32:48.40
one said, oh! I got a
doctor appointment in 10 minutes
00:32:49.62\00:32:52.40
I'm going to have to
run, another oh! I got to go
00:32:52.43\00:32:54.22
pick up my wife
she gets off work
00:32:54.25\00:32:55.59
in just a few
minutes, pick up my wife,
00:32:55.62\00:32:57.25
another one says,
yeah, I got to go too,
00:32:57.28\00:32:58.99
I've been pretty busy
I got other things to do
00:32:59.02\00:33:01.16
and pretty soon
there wasn't anybody left
00:33:01.19\00:33:04.29
except Jesus and
the woman, and he said
00:33:04.32\00:33:09.47
isn't there
anybody here to condemn you
00:33:09.50\00:33:11.41
and she said no and Jesus said,
00:33:13.36\00:33:17.26
neither do I condemn you.
00:33:18.16\00:33:20.16
Now you go, don't do it anymore.
00:33:21.70\00:33:26.46
He didn't say I forgive
you now you can go do it again.
00:33:28.96\00:33:31.88
He said neither
do I condemn you.
00:33:33.84\00:33:37.55
Now go and sin no more.
00:33:38.50\00:33:41.62
What a man! Took this attempt
00:33:42.58\00:33:46.27
to destroy and crush
a life and changed it
00:33:46.30\00:33:49.37
to an
opportunity to save a soul.
00:33:49.40\00:33:52.04
That's the kind
of man Jesus was.
00:33:53.41\00:33:55.37
You want to know what he wrote
00:33:59.91\00:34:01.54
in the sand, do you? I do too.
00:34:01.57\00:34:10.64
The Bible doesn't
tell us what he wrote,
00:34:11.89\00:34:13.89
but I'll tell you
what I think he wrote
00:34:14.19\00:34:16.35
now I'm not preaching
anymore, I'm speculating.
00:34:17.64\00:34:20.73
So, don't hold me
to this, this is just
00:34:21.64\00:34:23.78
my speculation, I
think it's pretty accurate.
00:34:23.81\00:34:27.51
Whatever it was he
wrote they didn't like it,
00:34:28.37\00:34:31.55
because they started
making excuses and they left.
00:34:32.60\00:34:35.58
And remember what he said,
00:34:37.20\00:34:38.63
let the one who is without sin
00:34:38.91\00:34:41.08
cast the first stone
and start writing again.
00:34:41.89\00:34:44.07
I think he was listing
their sins in the sand.
00:34:45.02\00:34:49.13
That's what I think and
I'll tell you something else.
00:34:49.46\00:34:52.59
I wouldn't be surprised
to find out that one of those
00:34:53.12\00:34:57.19
men or may be more
than one were the one's
00:34:57.22\00:34:59.62
guilty of committing
adultery with that woman.
00:34:59.65\00:35:02.01
Now how do I know
that? I don't know that.
00:35:04.21\00:35:06.19
But, I understand human nature
00:35:08.45\00:35:10.16
enough to read in
between the lines here
00:35:10.39\00:35:12.64
and when I get
to heaven I'm going
00:35:12.71\00:35:13.83
to find out, I got
it on my list of things
00:35:13.86\00:35:16.03
to ask Jesus what did
you write in the sand?
00:35:16.21\00:35:17.90
Now, I'm
preaching again, alright,
00:35:20.88\00:35:22.96
I want to make a
distinction here,
00:35:22.99\00:35:24.38
preaching again, what I'm
00:35:25.09\00:35:26.79
about to say is absolute truth.
00:35:26.82\00:35:28.56
No doubt about it, Jesus was a
00:35:29.52\00:35:31.92
compassionate man, brave man.
00:35:31.95\00:35:36.14
When those Pharisees needed
00:35:36.48\00:35:37.91
to be unmasked,
Jesus was the one
00:35:37.94\00:35:39.08
who was strong enough to do it.
00:35:39.11\00:35:40.61
Matthew 23,
verse 25, Woe to you,
00:35:43.81\00:35:46.07
teachers of the
law of Pharisees,
00:35:46.10\00:35:47.31
you hypocrites! This
is a strong language.
00:35:47.74\00:35:50.72
You clean the outside
of the cup and the dish,
00:35:51.43\00:35:53.79
but inside they
are full of greed
00:35:53.82\00:35:55.57
and self-indulgence
you blind Pharisee,
00:35:55.66\00:35:58.17
first clean the
inside of the cup
00:35:58.45\00:36:00.02
and the dish then the
outside will also be clean.
00:36:00.05\00:36:02.92
Woe to you, you teachers
of the law, you Pharisees,
00:36:03.08\00:36:05.76
you hypocrites! You
are like whitewash tombs
00:36:06.18\00:36:08.68
which look beautiful
on the outside, but inside
00:36:08.80\00:36:10.89
are full of dead
man's bones and everything
00:36:11.15\00:36:14.67
unclean. In the
same way on the outside
00:36:14.70\00:36:16.88
you appear to
people as righteous,
00:36:16.91\00:36:19.21
but on the inside
you are full of hypocrisy
00:36:19.24\00:36:21.92
and wickedness, you snakes,
00:36:21.95\00:36:24.11
you brood of vipers how will you
00:36:24.32\00:36:25.87
escape being condemned to hell.
00:36:26.20\00:36:28.50
Strong words, but they needed
00:36:30.57\00:36:34.49
to be said and he was
the one who wasn't afraid
00:36:34.52\00:36:38.03
to say it, but
you know from what
00:36:38.06\00:36:40.68
I understand about
Jesus I've got to believe that
00:36:40.71\00:36:43.79
when Jesus spoke
those words. There were
00:36:44.00\00:36:47.39
tears in his eyes because
he loved those Pharisees.
00:36:47.42\00:36:53.03
He loved those
hypocrites. He loved them enough
00:36:54.37\00:36:57.87
to die on the
cross to save them.
00:36:58.31\00:37:00.71
That's the kind
of a man Jesus was,
00:37:02.06\00:37:03.37
bold and brave, compassionate.
00:37:05.24\00:37:09.45
You know, there is
something about a man,
00:37:10.09\00:37:11.73
a sense of
completeness about a man
00:37:12.35\00:37:15.09
who can meet any
emergency like Jesus did with
00:37:15.12\00:37:18.75
steel nerves and
cool headedness and yet
00:37:19.34\00:37:21.80
not be so bold
and brave and fearless
00:37:22.36\00:37:25.59
and callus that he
wasn't ashamed to let a tear
00:37:25.62\00:37:28.20
trickle down his cheek at
the graveside of a friend.
00:37:28.76\00:37:30.79
Shortest verse in
the Bible, John 11:35,
00:37:34.07\00:37:37.14
Jesus standing by
the tomb of his friend
00:37:37.39\00:37:39.69
Lazarus with his two sisters,
Mary and Martha whipping
00:37:39.72\00:37:43.28
and the Bible says Jesus wept.
00:37:43.61\00:37:46.21
He understood
sorrow. He understood loss.
00:37:48.41\00:37:52.64
He had emotions and
feelings like we do.
00:37:53.57\00:37:56.25
He wept and yet he
was so tender hearted
00:37:57.26\00:38:03.74
that even the
children loved Jesus.
00:38:03.77\00:38:07.49
Did you know that
adults can fool other adults?
00:38:08.06\00:38:14.60
Make you think you
like them when may be you
00:38:14.93\00:38:16.35
don't, did you know
that. But did you know
00:38:16.38\00:38:17.51
that you can't fool children.
00:38:21.44\00:38:24.74
They can see right through it.
00:38:26.05\00:38:27.88
And the fact that
the children loved Jesus
00:38:30.29\00:38:33.16
proves that he loved
them. They wanted to be
00:38:33.87\00:38:38.39
around him. They were
always coming to Jesus
00:38:38.42\00:38:40.93
and the disciples would
shoo away, we don't need
00:38:41.32\00:38:43.08
you here, Jesus
said, don't you do that?
00:38:43.11\00:38:46.59
These are the
precious ones in my kingdom.
00:38:46.62\00:38:49.52
And I like to see
pictures in my mind of Jesus
00:38:50.24\00:38:53.16
sitting under a
shade of palm tree in the
00:38:53.28\00:38:55.83
hot desert country with
children sitting on his lap
00:38:55.86\00:38:59.16
telling them stories
about his father in heaven,
00:38:59.45\00:39:01.48
or may be fixing a broken finger
00:39:02.89\00:39:04.68
and may be even praying
for a sick pet. Jesus was a
00:39:05.49\00:39:11.74
compassionate, tender
hearted man, human enough,
00:39:12.09\00:39:19.57
human enough to have
physical needs we have
00:39:19.60\00:39:22.71
working all day
comes in and he says
00:39:23.43\00:39:25.87
what you have to
eat, I'm hungry, isn't
00:39:25.90\00:39:27.51
that just like a real
man. Understood it so much that
00:39:27.56\00:39:31.60
when the disciples had
been out fishing all night
00:39:31.63\00:39:33.01
there he was on the
beach, he had breakfast ready
00:39:33.13\00:39:34.86
for them. Because he
understood they'd be hungry.
00:39:34.89\00:39:38.97
I think he also had a
need for human attention
00:39:41.98\00:39:46.76
and affection like we
do. You know, Jesus never
00:39:46.79\00:39:51.60
complained not for
one moment, not in word,
00:39:51.79\00:39:54.75
not in thought, never
complained but I believe
00:39:54.78\00:39:58.37
at times when the
curtain is kind of pulled aside
00:39:58.40\00:40:00.86
in scripture, we can
catch a glimpse of a lonely man.
00:40:00.89\00:40:03.96
Perhaps it was a
time like that when
00:40:06.93\00:40:09.25
an intelligent, good
looking, well dressed
00:40:11.12\00:40:13.93
young man came to Jesus
and he said, master I think
00:40:13.96\00:40:18.53
you got something
going here. This looks to me
00:40:18.91\00:40:22.29
like you really have
the makings of something
00:40:22.35\00:40:25.30
that is gonna grow
and be big and there gonna
00:40:25.33\00:40:28.81
be a lot of funds
coming in and you need somebody
00:40:28.84\00:40:32.10
to help with the
finances, you need a CPA,
00:40:32.21\00:40:34.91
I'm a CPA. I can do
all the book work for you
00:40:35.17\00:40:37.47
why don't you take me
on. His name was Judas,
00:40:37.75\00:40:40.44
maybe it was a time
like that when Jesus said,
00:40:43.17\00:40:45.02
you know, foxes have
their holes, the birds
00:40:46.04\00:40:51.46
of the air have their
nests, but the son of man
00:40:51.49\00:40:54.98
doesn't even have a
place to lay his head.
00:40:55.09\00:40:57.63
Yeah, he was a lonely
man. But you know i think
00:40:59.00\00:41:05.57
the thing I like
best about Jesus was that
00:41:05.67\00:41:10.04
a hard burdened
preacher, an evangelist, who
00:41:10.07\00:41:16.76
really cared about the
souls that he was trying to win.
00:41:16.79\00:41:22.03
One of my favorite
stories about Jesus is
00:41:22.53\00:41:24.41
when he and his
disciples were approaching
00:41:25.36\00:41:26.62
the City of Jerusalem. And
all of a sudden he stopped,
00:41:26.65\00:41:31.72
he said, I want you to
go into town and he gave him
00:41:33.60\00:41:34.60
an address and he says
go there and you're gonna
00:41:36.33\00:41:39.72
find an unbroken donkey,
go get it, bring it here.
00:41:39.75\00:41:45.70
Oh! Disciples couldn't
get down there quick enough,
00:41:46.75\00:41:49.01
they knew about that
prophecy in Zachariah,
00:41:49.97\00:41:51.97
that said the Messiah
would ascend to the throne
00:41:52.16\00:41:54.58
of David riding on the
back of an unbroken colt,
00:41:54.89\00:41:57.03
so they thought now
finally, now he is going to
00:41:57.30\00:42:00.62
become the Son of God,
now he is going to become
00:42:00.85\00:42:03.49
the Messiah, now he
is going to start acting
00:42:04.00\00:42:05.30
like a Messiah, now he
is going to ascend to the
00:42:05.56\00:42:08.02
throne of David, now he
is going to build Israel
00:42:08.41\00:42:10.41
into a mighty nation, now
he will assemble a mighty army,
00:42:11.07\00:42:14.22
now he will crush the
yoke of Roman oppression.
00:42:14.25\00:42:16.33
Oh! They raced into
town, they couldn't get there
00:42:16.44\00:42:19.44
quick enough and
they found it right there.
00:42:19.78\00:42:20.75
They brought that
colt back to Jesus.
00:42:23.79\00:42:25.09
He climbed on that
colt and he began to ride
00:42:25.56\00:42:28.07
into town. Oh! You
know in undeveloped towns,
00:42:28.45\00:42:31.01
it's amazing how
rapidly the word spreads.
00:42:31.37\00:42:33.68
Everybody knows what's going on
00:42:33.71\00:42:35.18
and the whole town
gathers out there to greet him,
00:42:35.33\00:42:37.82
they pressed in close
to Jesus and they see the
00:42:38.14\00:42:40.53
disciples just right
there, right next to him.
00:42:40.56\00:42:42.71
They had been arguing
about who was gonna to be
00:42:42.74\00:42:44.68
in the kingdom and so
there they were next to Jesus.
00:42:44.99\00:42:47.59
They wanted to be
the Vice-President.
00:42:47.62\00:42:48.85
They wanted to be
Secretary of State.
00:42:49.55\00:42:50.80
They wanted to be
Treasurer and there
00:42:51.45\00:42:52.77
they were getting as
close as they could to Jesus.
00:42:53.83\00:42:54.80
They were going into town.
Everybody is there, they're
00:42:54.81\00:42:57.61
lying out their cloaks
before him, they were throwing
00:42:57.64\00:42:59.21
the palm branches in
his path, they're putting
00:42:59.91\00:43:01.76
the flowers in the way
and they were singing out
00:43:02.26\00:43:04.29
''hosanna, hosanna,
blessed it is the one who comes
00:43:04.32\00:43:06.71
in the name of the
Lord'' and Jesus is
00:43:06.74\00:43:09.23
riding in to ascend to
the throne of the Messiah.
00:43:09.39\00:43:11.65
Finally, he'll crush the
yoke of Roman oppression.
00:43:12.75\00:43:14.34
The whole city is
there. CNN is there
00:43:15.21\00:43:17.20
with their cameras and
their microphones sticking
00:43:17.45\00:43:19.40
in his face and he
stops, and hear a pin drop.
00:43:19.54\00:43:29.03
Everybody is
standing on their tiptoes,
00:43:31.45\00:43:33.07
straining to hear,
his kingly proclamation,
00:43:34.86\00:43:39.38
straining to see the
kingly expression on his face,
00:43:39.41\00:43:40.38
but they didn't see a
kingly expression on his face.
00:43:44.84\00:43:49.63
They saw tears. As he
looked at the multitude
00:43:50.92\00:43:55.18
and he said, ''Oh!
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
00:43:56.16\00:44:00.64
how many times I
would gather you in like a
00:44:04.26\00:44:07.19
mother hen
gathers her baby chicks,
00:44:07.29\00:44:10.67
but you won't come.
He looked at the rich
00:44:13.12\00:44:18.96
young man. Who turned
away because he felt like it
00:44:19.13\00:44:23.64
would cost too
much to follow Jesus.
00:44:23.67\00:44:26.81
The pretty socialite,
that was afraid of what her
00:44:27.47\00:44:30.93
friends might think, if
she should followed him.
00:44:30.96\00:44:34.00
He looked at them
and there were tears
00:44:36.09\00:44:38.36
in his eyes as he
wept over his people,
00:44:38.39\00:44:43.06
what a hard
burdened preacher Jesus was,
00:44:44.81\00:44:48.06
and then the crowed
disappeared, he told the
00:44:51.49\00:44:56.65
disciples to go meet
him in the upper room.
00:44:56.75\00:44:58.47
Preparations were there to
celebrate the Lord's supper
00:45:00.34\00:45:02.91
and so they went on down
and they entered the room.
00:45:06.65\00:45:09.04
Everything was in
order except for one thing
00:45:09.88\00:45:13.26
see they had the preparation
for the meal all done.
00:45:14.42\00:45:18.67
There was even a
wash basin and some water
00:45:19.03\00:45:22.35
and a towel for the
servant to wash their feet
00:45:22.38\00:45:25.61
before they took
part in the meal,
00:45:25.64\00:45:28.07
but there was no servant there.
00:45:30.16\00:45:31.78
Jesus was about to come.
00:45:36.42\00:45:37.58
He opens the
door, still no servant.
00:45:38.63\00:45:41.79
Remember the
disciples had been arguing
00:45:41.99\00:45:44.52
just a few minutes
earlier over who was
00:45:44.55\00:45:46.45
going to be first in the kingdom
00:45:46.48\00:45:49.65
and so they
weren't about to look up,
00:45:50.17\00:45:51.67
they kept looking down,
afraid if they looked up
00:45:51.70\00:45:54.13
and caught his eye, he might ask
00:45:54.16\00:45:55.38
one of them to be the servant.
00:45:55.41\00:45:57.66
So, they were
looking down and they are
00:45:59.00\00:46:00.32
waiting to see
what was going to happen
00:46:00.35\00:46:01.86
and they couldn't
believe what happened
00:46:02.98\00:46:04.75
because they saw Jesus walk over
00:46:06.97\00:46:09.88
to that table, pour
the water into the basin,
00:46:09.91\00:46:13.55
takeoff his
outer robe and wrap the
00:46:14.71\00:46:16.32
towel around his waist,
pick up the basin of water
00:46:16.35\00:46:19.78
and approached his
disciples one by one
00:46:21.84\00:46:23.71
and began to wash their feet.
00:46:24.93\00:46:27.51
Almighty God,
Creator of the Universe
00:46:29.36\00:46:34.38
kneeling before the
men and washing their feet.
00:46:34.56\00:46:41.94
Judas was there and Jesus knew
00:46:46.22\00:46:49.88
he'd already betrayed
him for 30 pieces of silver.
00:46:51.03\00:46:53.54
Imagine how he felt.
Peter, Oh! Not me Lord,
00:46:55.43\00:47:02.23
you'll never wash my
feet. Peter, this must be done
00:47:02.26\00:47:06.92
if you want a
place in my kingdom.
00:47:08.78\00:47:10.51
Peter never knew exactly
00:47:11.83\00:47:12.99
what to say, he just said it.
00:47:13.02\00:47:14.54
He said, well
Lord wash me all over,
00:47:15.94\00:47:17.64
no Peter that's not necessary.
00:47:17.67\00:47:19.18
So, they
celebrated the Lord's supper
00:47:22.56\00:47:24.35
and afterwards they sang a hymn,
00:47:24.38\00:47:27.00
the Bible says
and they walked out
00:47:27.03\00:47:29.08
through the Eastern
gate across the Kidron Valley
00:47:31.14\00:47:35.82
to the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:47:38.98\00:47:41.01
Disciples noticed that Jesus
was being strangely silent,
00:47:41.72\00:47:46.83
not saying much,
perhaps once in a while
00:47:48.02\00:47:52.67
groaning as though he
were carrying a heavy load
00:47:52.70\00:47:56.27
and then they got to the garden,
00:47:58.02\00:47:59.32
he told the
disciples you stay here
00:47:59.35\00:48:00.63
and you wait and pray for me.
00:48:01.36\00:48:02.69
To Peter, James and
John, he said come with me
00:48:05.29\00:48:09.02
and they went a little further,
00:48:09.05\00:48:10.80
and he said I
want you to stay here
00:48:11.92\00:48:13.36
and you three pray,
you three pray for me.
00:48:13.39\00:48:18.27
They didn't know
what was happening
00:48:20.42\00:48:21.97
and so they watched
Jesus as he walked down
00:48:24.91\00:48:27.72
the path way in the garden,
00:48:27.75\00:48:29.34
they could see him in
the moonlight filtering down
00:48:30.18\00:48:33.33
through the olive trees.
He went a little ways and
00:48:33.36\00:48:36.35
then he just fell
heavily to the ground.
00:48:36.38\00:48:38.72
And as he lay
there on the ground
00:48:40.62\00:48:41.82
they heard him
cry out my father,
00:48:41.85\00:48:47.32
if there's any other way,
let this cup pass from me.
00:48:50.24\00:48:55.16
Nevertheless, not my
will let your will be done.
00:48:58.45\00:49:03.77
What were these
strange words coming from
00:49:05.75\00:49:08.35
the lips of Jesus,
the one who up until that
00:49:08.38\00:49:12.70
time had been in
perfect harmony with
00:49:12.73\00:49:15.01
the Father and his
will was in perfect harmony
00:49:15.04\00:49:18.99
with the Father
and now he is saying,
00:49:19.02\00:49:21.30
not my will, let
your will be done.
00:49:21.33\00:49:25.64
You think that
disciples would have understood
00:49:26.91\00:49:29.61
that something
unusual was happening
00:49:29.64\00:49:32.31
there and they
should have been alert
00:49:32.34\00:49:34.00
and awake praying for him,
00:49:34.03\00:49:35.19
but the Bible says
they went to sleep,
00:49:35.22\00:49:38.28
the Church slept
while Jesus was fighting,
00:49:40.48\00:49:45.39
the last gasp of
his opportunity to save
00:49:47.43\00:49:52.75
mankind and the Church slept.
00:49:52.78\00:49:56.40
Sometimes, I wonder if the
Church isn't still sleeping.
00:49:57.37\00:50:02.01
He got up and
walk back, shook them,
00:50:05.01\00:50:06.94
can't you pray for
just an hour and then
00:50:07.34\00:50:09.96
they watched him go back
fall to the ground again,
00:50:10.00\00:50:12.30
father if there is any other way
00:50:12.33\00:50:14.08
let this cup pass from
me. You see Jesus did not
00:50:14.11\00:50:17.87
want to march up
that hill to Calvary.
00:50:17.90\00:50:21.63
He wanted to walk
away from the cross.
00:50:22.62\00:50:26.41
Let this pass from me he said,
00:50:29.13\00:50:31.25
nevertheless not my
will, let your will be done,
00:50:31.28\00:50:33.75
the disciples
went to sleep again.
00:50:33.78\00:50:35.60
He woke them up
again. They looked and
00:50:35.63\00:50:38.92
they were stunned that
the agony written on his face,
00:50:38.95\00:50:41.81
the giant drops
of sweat and blood
00:50:41.84\00:50:45.31
from his
forehead, his robe stained
00:50:45.34\00:50:47.31
with blood looking
as though he had been
00:50:47.34\00:50:48.97
trampling in the wine
press. They didn't understand
00:50:49.00\00:50:51.86
what was happening.
They didn't realize that
00:50:51.89\00:50:54.32
Jesus was
bearing in his own body
00:50:54.35\00:50:56.46
the guilt for our
sins. They didn't realize
00:50:56.49\00:50:59.55
that he would
have died right there,
00:50:59.58\00:51:01.34
as he cried out my God,
let this cup pass from me
00:51:01.37\00:51:05.07
and they fell asleep
again. He would have died,
00:51:06.34\00:51:10.41
he would have died
because the guilt of our sins
00:51:13.21\00:51:15.59
would have just
crushed his life right then,
00:51:15.62\00:51:17.76
but it wasn't
time for him to die.
00:51:17.79\00:51:19.64
He had to be betrayed by
one of his own disciples,
00:51:22.74\00:51:27.07
sold for 30 pieces of
silver. He had to be dressed in
00:51:27.10\00:51:31.89
the purple robe
and a crown of thorn
00:51:31.92\00:51:34.53
slammed on his
head. It have a stick
00:51:34.56\00:51:37.41
shoved in his
hand for a scepter.
00:51:37.44\00:51:39.71
He had to be beaten,
knocked down, kicked and
00:51:39.74\00:51:42.22
spit on till his
back was raw and bleeding.
00:51:42.25\00:51:45.81
He had to have
the heavy cross thrust
00:51:45.84\00:51:48.21
on his shoulders he
had to carry it up to hill
00:51:48.24\00:51:50.65
until his legs
couldn't go anymore
00:51:50.68\00:51:52.87
and someone had
to take it for him.
00:51:52.90\00:51:55.09
It wasn't time
for him to die yet.
00:51:55.12\00:51:57.11
He had to be stretched
out on those rough boards.
00:51:57.14\00:51:59.59
He had to feel the pain
as the Roman soldiers picked
00:51:59.62\00:52:02.34
up the heavy hammer
and drove those big nail
00:52:02.37\00:52:03.34
through his hands, the
same hands that reached
00:52:05.34\00:52:07.86
out and loved and
touched and healed.
00:52:07.89\00:52:10.42
And now they are
Being nailed to the
00:52:10.45\00:52:12.24
old rugged cross. It wasn't time
00:52:12.27\00:52:14.27
for him to die yet.
He had to be lifted up
00:52:14.30\00:52:17.21
like a serpent on the
pole as the cross dropped
00:52:17.24\00:52:19.97
into the hole prepared
for it with a sickening thud,
00:52:20.00\00:52:20.97
every cell in his
body racked in pain,
00:52:23.14\00:52:25.82
but it still wasn't
time for him to die yet.
00:52:25.85\00:52:28.37
He had to be the emblem
of sin, hanging on the cross,
00:52:28.40\00:52:31.72
guilty for the
sins of the world.
00:52:31.75\00:52:33.98
I believe that as
excruciating as the pain
00:52:35.92\00:52:38.99
of crucifixion was,
he didn't even feel it,
00:52:39.02\00:52:42.88
because of the
pain in his heart.
00:52:42.91\00:52:46.72
As he looked at even
his own disciples forsaking
00:52:47.93\00:52:50.98
him and running away,
and even that pain is just
00:52:51.01\00:52:59.76
a shadow compared to the
real pain of the feeling for
00:52:59.79\00:53:07.52
the first time throughout
the sinless ages of eternity.
00:53:07.57\00:53:12.24
He felt the awful separation
that sin brings between man
00:53:13.93\00:53:19.75
and God, and it
caused him to cry out,
00:53:19.78\00:53:23.64
''My God, My God why
have you forsaken me''
00:53:23.67\00:53:28.24
and he hung his head and died.
00:53:31.80\00:53:35.03
For you and me
and he would have died
00:53:38.41\00:53:45.13
even if he knew that
you were the only one
00:53:45.16\00:53:50.67
that would ever love
him, he would have done
00:53:50.70\00:53:51.67
it for you and that
story isn't over yet.
00:53:55.98\00:54:02.79
He was buried in the
tomb, but three days later
00:54:04.03\00:54:07.85
He burst forth from
tomb. He ascended into heaven
00:54:07.88\00:54:12.98
and one of these days he
is going to come back in the
00:54:13.01\00:54:13.98
clouds of glory, to
receive you and me and anyone
00:54:17.41\00:54:19.09
else who loves
him. He did it for you.
00:54:27.82\00:54:31.70
Don't let his
death be in vain for you.
00:54:31.73\00:54:38.53
Now is the time
to follow the lamb
00:54:40.24\00:54:42.84
and I just can't go
on anymore in our studies
00:54:47.61\00:54:51.24
without once again
extending an invitation
00:54:51.27\00:54:53.46
to some of you who have
never yet opened the door
00:54:53.49\00:54:57.17
to Jesus and
accepted him as your savior
00:54:57.29\00:55:00.54
and I want to give you
the opportunity to do that
00:55:01.02\00:55:02.89
tonight or perhaps
some of you have done
00:55:02.92\00:55:08.49
already in the past,
but you have wandered far
00:55:08.52\00:55:10.79
away and now is the
time to come back home.
00:55:10.82\00:55:13.90
So I am going to
invite you to come forward
00:55:15.72\00:55:18.77
in just a moment as Dena sings
00:55:18.80\00:55:22.00
and then the third
group, you've been Christians
00:55:22.49\00:55:26.22
all along and coming
to the front doesn't mean
00:55:26.25\00:55:30.05
that you're not a
Christian, but it does mean
00:55:30.08\00:55:31.05
that you have
heard some new things.
00:55:32.92\00:55:34.74
And you've learned
new truths about Jesus
00:55:36.12\00:55:38.18
and what he stands for.
00:55:38.21\00:55:39.54
And you want to take
your stand along with him
00:55:40.56\00:55:43.04
Perhaps to be
baptized like Jesus was,
00:55:43.07\00:55:46.51
Perhaps to keep the
Lord's day holy like he did.
00:55:52.96\00:55:53.93
Perhaps there are
some lifestyle issues
00:55:53.94\00:55:54.94
in your life,
alcohol, tobacco, other harmful
00:55:54.97\00:56:00.21
habits that you need to
surrender and give to Jesus.
00:56:00.24\00:56:05.16
For you coming to
the front doesn't mean
00:56:06.62\00:56:08.21
you are not a
Christian it just means you
00:56:09.49\00:56:10.46
taking another step
in your journey to the
00:56:10.47\00:56:12.35
kingdom as you follow the lamb,
00:56:12.38\00:56:14.80
so three groups I want
to call tonight those of you
00:56:14.83\00:56:17.23
that had never
been to the cross,
00:56:17.26\00:56:18.75
those who of you that
have and you've wandered
00:56:18.78\00:56:20.44
away and finally those of you
00:56:20.47\00:56:21.84
who have been
Christians all along,
00:56:21.87\00:56:23.29
but you have a new
decision to make about
00:56:23.32\00:56:25.85
new things you
learned about God.
00:56:25.88\00:56:27.46
So while Dena sings,
while every head is bowed,
00:56:27.49\00:56:30.47
every eye is closed,
praying for the outpouring
00:56:30.50\00:56:33.03
of God's Spirit, would you just
00:56:33.06\00:56:34.61
stand right now,
just stand and come,
00:56:34.64\00:56:37.64
And meet me down
front, would you do that,
00:56:37.67\00:56:39.62
just come right now. Right now,
00:56:39.65\00:56:41.73
If God is
speaking to your heart.
00:56:41.76\00:56:43.44
Just stand and come,
please come down front.
00:56:43.47\00:56:45.74
Oh! Lord, we just
thank you and we praise you
00:56:45.77\00:56:48.82
for what we have
seen here tonight.
00:56:48.85\00:56:50.56
First of all we thank you
for Jesus and the great love
00:56:50.59\00:56:56.03
that he has shown
for us in the cross.
00:56:56.06\00:56:58.31
Lord our minds can't
even begin to comprehend
00:56:58.34\00:57:01.24
it and then we thank you
00:57:01.27\00:57:03.31
for each person standing here.
00:57:03.34\00:57:05.08
You are the one who knows
the desire of their hearts,
00:57:05.81\00:57:09.07
Lord, You know the
needs that they have,
00:57:09.10\00:57:11.52
you know why they
came and I just pray Lord
00:57:11.55\00:57:14.89
that you will touch each
one and that you give them
00:57:14.92\00:57:17.48
exactly what they
need, draw them close to you,
00:57:17.51\00:57:19.99
you said in the Bible that
00:57:20.02\00:57:21.96
when just one comes
all heaven rejoices.
00:57:21.99\00:57:24.89
I can hear that
choir singing right now
00:57:24.92\00:57:25.89
Lord and I rejoice with them,
00:57:26.95\00:57:30.04
I rejoice with each one,
but yet there is still a note
00:57:30.07\00:57:32.52
of sadness because
there are some who are seated
00:57:32.55\00:57:35.75
out there who should
be standing here tonight.
00:57:35.78\00:57:38.03
For one reason or
another they didn't come.
00:57:38.06\00:57:41.01
Lord, let there be no
rest let's just keep striving
00:57:41.04\00:57:43.60
with every heart until
every single soul is standing
00:57:43.63\00:57:46.78
safely inside
the ark. We thank you
00:57:46.81\00:57:49.45
and we praise you
in Jesus name. Amen.
00:57:49.48\00:57:52.89