Lamb among the beast.
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In Revelation the 17th Chapter
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and I'm looking at verse 12,
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"The ten horns
you saw are ten kings
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who have not yet
received a kingdom,
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but who for one hour will
receive authority as kings
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along with the beast."
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They have one hour,
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all of the
suffering, all of the pain
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that they inflict on
others through the ages
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for one hour of glory
and then it's gone. One hour.
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Verse 13, "They have one purpose
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and they will give their power
and authority to the beast."
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The ten kings
will give their power
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and authority to the beast, why?
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Verse 14 tells us,
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"They will make
war against the Lamb."
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What? What chance does he have?
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A pitiful little
innocent lamb against the beast
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and the kings of the
earth and their armies,
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what chance does he have?
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The Bible tells us
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that the lamb will overcome them
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because he is Lord of
lords and King of kings
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and with him the called
chosen and faithful followers."
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The lamb will overcome them,
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the lamb will win.
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I read the back
of the book already,
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I know who's
gonna win this thing.
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It doesn't look like it,
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doesn't seem
like he has a chance
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but the Bible tells us
the lamb is going to win
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against the beast,
against the kings of the earth
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because He is the King of kings
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and Lord of
lords, he's gonna win.
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And with him is called chosen
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and faithful followers.
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You want to
win, follow the lamb.
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I want you to
notice something here,
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all the kings of the earth
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joined together with the beast.
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In Revelation 16,
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he sees in verse 14,
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unclean spirits coming out
of the mouth of the dragon,
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the beast and the false prophet.
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And there are spirits of demons,
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verse 14, they perform miracles,
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they go out to the
kings of the whole world,
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there they are to gather them
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for battle on the
great day of God Almighty.
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Verse 16, "Then they
gathered the kings together
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to the place that in
Hebrew it's called Armageddon.
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That's the last great
war. Who do they fight against?
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We just read it, the ten horns,
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the ten kings
who receive authority
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along with the
beast, they have one purpose
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and they will give their
power and authority to the beast
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and they will make
war against the lamb.
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I want you to
notice that it does not say
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they make war against Israel,
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and that's what the whole world
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is looking for today.
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But they are gathered together
to make war against the lamb
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and his called chosen
and faithful followers,
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that's you, that's all
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who choose to
follow Jesus Christ.
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The lamb is Jesus,
He will be victorious.
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He is King of
kings, He is Lord of lords.
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Well, we know the lamb is Jesus,
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but who is Jesus?
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Who is Jesus, not who was Jesus?
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The answer to that
question, Revelation 1,
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Revelation 1:17,
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John had just seen a vision
and he saw Jesus in vision,
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he fell to His
feet, he was scared
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and so he placed
his right hand on,
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he said, do not be afraid,
I am the first and the last.
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He saw Jesus and Jesus said,
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I am the first and the last.
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Now there are a lot of people
who like you to believe that
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that wasn't Jesus speaking,
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that has to be
the Father in heaven,
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couldn't have been Jesus.
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Well, you read the next verse.
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It shows you it has to be Jesus.
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He says, don't be afraid,
I'm the first and the last,
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I am the living one,
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I was dead and behold now,
I'm alive for ever and ever
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and I have the
keys to death and Hades.
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I was dead, now I'm
alive, that is not the Father,
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that is the Son Jesus Christ.
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So Jesus Christ is
the first and the last.
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Jesus is the Lord God Almighty.
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In fact, one of my
favorite prophecies,
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Isaiah 7:14,
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"Therefore the Lord
himself will give you a sign,
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The virgin will be with
child and give birth to a son
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and will call him Immanuel."
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Imagine already
in the Old Testament,
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the Bible says a
virgin would conceive,
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give birth to a child, a son
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and his name would be Immanuel.
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Now the truth is that
Immanuel is another Hebrew word,
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actually, it's
three Hebrew words.
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Im in Hebrew means with,
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Manu means us,
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El means God.
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His name would be Immanuel.
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With us God
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or God with us.
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A virgin would conceive
and give birth to a son,
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so that God could be with us
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and we find a
remarkable fulfillment
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to that prophecy
in the Gospel of Luke.
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In Luke 1:26,
"In the sixth month,
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God sent the angel
Gabriel to Nazareth,
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a town in 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 name was Mary."
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Now the Old Testaments
says that Jesus the Messiah
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would come to the world,
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so that God could be with us
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and he would be
born of a virgin.
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The New Testament says
He was, I believe that.
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I believe God that
Jesus was born of a virgin.
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If He wasn't, He
couldn't be the Messiah.
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But watch this,
"He appears to a virgin
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pledged to be married
to a man named Joseph,
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descendant of David,
the virgin's name was Mary.
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And the angel went to
her and said, 'Greetings,
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you who are highly
favored! The Lord is with you.'"
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Now Mary was not very
excited about that greeting.
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She knew all the Old Testament
stories about the prophets,
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the Lord was with them.
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Look at what happened to them,
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they were stoned, hung,
stuck in the hollow logs,
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sword into half,
she knew about all this.
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She says, I'm not so sure
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I want the Lord to
be with me like that.
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I'm not so sure
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I want to be favored
like that, it bothered her.
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In fact, it even
says here in verse 29,
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she was greatly
troubled at his words
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and wondered, oh, oh, what
kind of a greeting is this.
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Verse 30, the angel said to her,
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don't be afraid, Mary,
you've found favor with God.
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And you'll be with
child and give birth to a son
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and you would to
give him the name Jesus
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and He will be great
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and He will be called
the Son of the Most High.
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The Lord God 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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His kingdom will never end.
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What a prophecy, what a promise
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to Mary, a young lady,
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a virgin pledged to
be married to Joseph.
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Wow.
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Now Mary started
thinking about this
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and she thought, wow,
didn't you take the class
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in the birds and the bees.
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How can this
happen, I'm a virgin.
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Verse 34, "And
the angel answered,
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"The Holy Spirit
will come upon you,
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and the power of the Most High
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will overshadow you,
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so that the Holy One to be born
will be called the Son of God."
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Mary what a woman
she must have been.
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God chose her, handpicked
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all the women on earth
to be the mother of His Son.
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What a woman she must have been.
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You know, some times I
think that as Protestants
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we're so afraid of lifting Mary
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up to a position
that's unwarranted
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the way some do that we
almost avoid her altogether.
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But I believe that there
is a real blessing to be had
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when we understand Mary
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and the little
more about who she was
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engaged to be married to a man,
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told that she would be
the mother of the Son of God,
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because the Holy
Spirit would come upon her.
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I would think one
of the first thoughts
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to come into
her mind was Joseph.
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How am I gonna tell Joseph.
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Have you ever
thought about that?
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Joseph, I need to
tell you something,
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I'm gonna have a baby. What?
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Oh, no, no, it's
not like you think.
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You see this angel--
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Now the thing that
really amazes me is
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Joseph believed her.
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Does that tell
you something about
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what she must have been like.
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Joseph believed her.
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Sure, he took a
little help from an angel
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but he believed her.
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What a story.
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So that God to
became a man and be with us.
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What a God, unsearchable love
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Jesus born of God,
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the Holy Spirit
and born of Mary,
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fully God and fully
man at the same time.
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What a God?
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And sometimes I believe that
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we overemphasize
the divinity of Christ.
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You know, we see
pictures of Jesus,
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He has this spotless white robe,
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hair immaculate
clean, His feet are cleated,
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His every hair in
place, a halo around His head.
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But I don't
believe He was like that.
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He was a real man,
lived in a desert country,
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walked the dusty hot roads,
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feet dirty from
the burning sand,
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robes stained with sweat.
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He was a carpenter's son,
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His hands must have been rough
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and callous
from the rough boards
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that He was working with.
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Jesus was a man and He
look so much like a man.
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Isaiah said, there
was nothing about Him
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that men would desire Him.
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If you saw Jesus
walking down the desert road
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with His disciples,
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there would be no
way for you to know
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that He was the Son of God
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unless the Father in
heaven revealed it to you.
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He was a man,
fully God, fully man.
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In fact Paul wrote in
the Book of Hebrews 4:15,
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"We do not have a high priest
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who is unable to
sympathize with our weaknesses."
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No we have one who has
been tempted in everyway
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just as we are yet
He was without sin.
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So Jesus became a
man so much of a man
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that He was tempted in
everyway just like you and I.
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Yet He was without sin.
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It doesn't say He didn't sin.
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That's entirely different.
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We know He didn't
sin, Jesus never sinned
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but this verse
doesn't say He didn't sin.
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This verse says He
was tempted in everyway
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just as you and I,
yet He was without sin.
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Being without sin is something
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far more profound
than simply not sinning.
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The Bible in the
verse we just read said,
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Jesus was born the Holy One.
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We're not born holy.
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We're born with
the sinful nature.
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We're born with
sinful propensities.
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We're born with
tendencies towards sin.
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We are born selfish.
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You don't
believe it, have a baby.
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There's nothing more
selfish on earth than a baby.
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I've never seen one baby
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that wakes up in
the middle of the night
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hungry with the dirty diaper
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getting ready to cry as
oh, no I don't want to do that,
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my mom and dad
need to sleep tonight.
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We're born self-centered.
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Jesus wasn't born
self-centered, He was born holy.
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We're not born holy.
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So how could He be tempted
in everyway just as you and I?
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Yet He was without sin,
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He wasn't born
with that sinful nature
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we have, the tendencies to sin,
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He was without sin, He was holy.
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How can He be
tempted just like us?
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We know that when
we sin it weakens us
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and makes it easier
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to be tempted in
sin the next time.
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Jesus didn't
experience that degradation,
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He was never
hooked on cigarettes,
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tobacco, alcohol, pornography.
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So how could He be
tempted just like you and I.
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I think the
answer to that question
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is found in Luke 3.
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Back to the Gospel of Luke 3,
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John the Baptist
was baptizing people
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in the Jordon River.
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In verse 22, Jesus came down
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and He was baptized
too, the Bible says.
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And when He was
baptized after He prayed
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and while He was
praying "The Holy Spirit
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descended on Him and
bodily form like a dove."
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Now listen, "A voice
came down from heaven
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and said, "You are My Son,
00:17:32.02\00:17:39.38
with whom I am well
pleased and I love."
00:17:39.41\00:17:44.51
That was the voice
of the Father in heaven.
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That was the word of God saying,
00:17:49.62\00:17:54.77
you are my son.
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Now Jesus
Himself was 30 years old
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when He began His ministry
00:18:02.60\00:18:03.81
that lasted
three and a half years.
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Chapter 4:1.
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"Jesus, full of the Holy
Spirit, returned from the Jordan
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and was led by the
Spirit in the desert,
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where for forty days he
was tempted by the devil.
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He ate nothing
during those days,
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and at the end of
them he was hungry."
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I believe that.
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I go four hours
and I get hungry.
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Forty days without eating.
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Now I want you to
think about something.
00:18:31.22\00:18:34.21
Jesus was God, Jesus was man,
00:18:34.24\00:18:38.64
yet He was tempted in
everyway just like you and I.
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In order for that to happen,
00:18:44.39\00:18:46.94
Jesus then would
have to cast aside
00:18:46.97\00:18:50.04
or set aside His divine power
00:18:50.07\00:18:54.13
and be tempted as
a man and not as God.
00:18:54.16\00:18:57.70
Are you following me?
00:18:57.73\00:18:59.68
He couldn't use His divine power
00:18:59.71\00:19:02.23
to withstand temptation.
00:19:02.26\00:19:05.43
He came to demonstrate
that even a human being
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could in fact be obedient
to God and keep God's law.
00:19:09.38\00:19:14.87
He couldn't do it as
God, He had to set aside
00:19:14.90\00:19:17.48
His divine power.
00:19:17.51\00:19:20.99
And so He goes to the desert
00:19:21.02\00:19:22.77
as a human being to be tempted
00:19:22.80\00:19:26.04
and went for 40
days without eating.
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So what do you think
He must have looked like?
00:19:29.21\00:19:33.17
Must have been pretty
weak, pretty frail, skinny.
00:19:33.20\00:19:37.92
Devil came, he always comes
00:19:44.31\00:19:46.71
when you're weak and
frail and skinny and down.
00:19:46.74\00:19:50.88
He always comes at
your weakest moment.
00:19:50.91\00:19:54.48
So the devil came in
verse 3 and he said to Him.
00:19:54.51\00:19:58.24
"If you are the Son of God,
00:19:58.27\00:19:59.61
tell this stone
to become bread."
00:19:59.64\00:20:02.83
Now I don't know about you
but I've never been tempted
00:20:02.86\00:20:05.43
to turn stones
into bread, have you?
00:20:05.46\00:20:12.04
And the reason it
isn't a temptation to me
00:20:12.07\00:20:14.39
is because I can't do it.
00:20:14.42\00:20:18.29
Jesus could have done it
00:20:18.32\00:20:20.90
if He would have
used His divine power
00:20:20.93\00:20:25.73
instead withstand
the temptation as a man.
00:20:25.76\00:20:29.63
You see what's happening?
00:20:29.66\00:20:32.19
He's trying to get him
to use His divine power
00:20:32.22\00:20:34.15
so the devil can
say, you see God,
00:20:34.18\00:20:35.78
man can't obey you.
00:20:35.81\00:20:39.38
He could have done
it with His divine power
00:20:39.41\00:20:43.41
but He have to face
that temptation as a man.
00:20:43.44\00:20:49.04
If you are the Son of God
00:20:49.07\00:20:50.16
tell the stone to become bread
00:20:50.19\00:20:51.56
and Jesus
answered, "It is written,
00:20:51.59\00:20:53.45
'Man does not
live on bread alone."
00:20:53.48\00:20:56.34
Now do you want to know
how to withstand temptation?
00:20:56.37\00:21:00.48
Simple, with it is written.
00:21:00.51\00:21:05.88
But you have to
know what's written first
00:21:05.91\00:21:07.71
before you can
say what is written.
00:21:07.74\00:21:11.14
That's why we need to spend time
00:21:11.17\00:21:12.39
with our noses
in the word of God.
00:21:12.42\00:21:15.65
So when the devil comes,
00:21:15.68\00:21:16.71
you can reply
with it is written.
00:21:16.74\00:21:21.48
"Man doesn't
live by bread alone."
00:21:21.51\00:21:24.70
Pass that test verse 5
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"The devil led
him up to a high place
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and he showed him in an instant
all the kingdoms of the world.
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And he said to him, "I will
give you all their authority
00:21:30.59\00:21:33.06
and splendor, for it
has been given to me,
00:21:33.09\00:21:34.40
and I can give it to
anyone that I want to.
00:21:34.43\00:21:35.90
So if you worship me,
it will all be yours."
00:21:35.93\00:21:38.56
I have never ever been
tempted by a king to worship him
00:21:38.59\00:21:43.20
if he gives me all the
kingdoms of the world, have you?
00:21:43.23\00:21:47.27
I never had.
00:21:47.30\00:21:49.58
So how could He be tempted
00:21:49.61\00:21:52.06
in every way
just like you and I,
00:21:52.09\00:21:54.18
yet He was without sin.
00:21:54.21\00:21:58.13
Jesus answered, "It is written.
00:21:58.16\00:22:03.96
'Worship the Lord your
God and serve Him only. '"
00:22:03.99\00:22:08.77
So you got to
know what's written
00:22:08.80\00:22:11.01
in order to withstand
temptation like Jesus did.
00:22:11.04\00:22:15.11
But there is
something deeper going on here.
00:22:15.14\00:22:18.91
Look at the first one
again, the devil said to Jesus,
00:22:18.94\00:22:23.45
if you are the Son of God,
turn the stones into bread.
00:22:23.48\00:22:30.56
You notice the element of doubt.
00:22:30.59\00:22:34.01
If you are the Son of God.
00:22:34.04\00:22:38.39
And then he says, worship me
00:22:38.42\00:22:43.11
because all
authority has been given to me.
00:22:43.14\00:22:46.50
Can you see
what's happening here?
00:22:51.45\00:22:54.10
What did Jesus look like?
00:22:54.13\00:22:55.37
He was weak.
00:22:55.40\00:22:56.77
What did He feel
like? He was frail.
00:22:56.80\00:23:00.36
He had gone 40
days without eating.
00:23:00.39\00:23:03.38
He was skinny.
00:23:03.41\00:23:05.75
What is Satan look like?
00:23:05.78\00:23:06.84
I can promise you,
he wasn't standing there
00:23:06.87\00:23:09.02
dressed in that
little red jumpsuit
00:23:09.05\00:23:10.48
two horns on his head, long
tail with an arrow on the end.
00:23:10.51\00:23:14.82
He always appears masquerades
00:23:14.85\00:23:16.70
and angel alike, doesn't he?
00:23:16.73\00:23:19.43
So here's this
dazzling being an angel of light
00:23:19.46\00:23:22.68
and here's this
poor hungry suffering man
00:23:22.71\00:23:25.85
who had set His
divinity aside and became man
00:23:25.88\00:23:28.67
and He is there hungry
looking like the first wind
00:23:28.70\00:23:31.21
that comes along is
going to blow you away.
00:23:31.24\00:23:33.95
Worship me, I'm the Son of God,
00:23:33.98\00:23:36.79
you are the
fallen angel worship me.
00:23:36.82\00:23:39.26
Now how did Jesus know
00:23:43.98\00:23:48.65
that He was the Son of God?
00:23:48.68\00:23:51.73
He had set His
divine power aside,
00:23:51.76\00:23:54.84
He had to be tempted as a man,
00:23:54.87\00:23:58.23
He had to learn things
just like any other human being,
00:23:58.26\00:24:01.09
just like you and I.
00:24:01.12\00:24:04.22
So how did He know
He was the Son of God?
00:24:04.25\00:24:07.64
He had just
come from His baptism
00:24:07.67\00:24:10.30
40 days earlier
00:24:10.33\00:24:12.01
and He heard His
Father in heaven say
00:24:12.04\00:24:15.24
you are My Son
and I am well pleased.
00:24:15.27\00:24:19.18
You see the devil
was doing nothing more
00:24:23.50\00:24:26.54
than simply
attempting to get Jesus
00:24:26.57\00:24:29.88
to doubt God's word.
00:24:29.91\00:24:36.26
He was trying to get
Jesus to believe what he felt.
00:24:36.29\00:24:42.59
He didn't feel
like a Son of God.
00:24:42.62\00:24:45.27
He was trying to get
Jesus to believe what he saw,
00:24:45.30\00:24:48.25
He didn't look
like the Son of God.
00:24:48.28\00:24:51.89
He was trying to get
Jesus to believe what he heard.
00:24:51.92\00:24:54.35
He certainly didn't have
00:24:54.38\00:24:55.69
a strong voice
like a Son of God.
00:24:55.72\00:25:01.02
Instead of
believing what God said
00:25:01.05\00:25:05.99
and that's how Jesus was tempted
00:25:06.02\00:25:10.83
just like you and I
00:25:10.86\00:25:13.48
because
temptation is nothing more
00:25:13.51\00:25:16.02
than the attempt by the devil
00:25:16.05\00:25:17.97
to get you to
doubt the word of God.
00:25:18.00\00:25:22.84
Temptation is
nothing more than Satan
00:25:22.87\00:25:25.30
getting you to doubt
that God means exactly
00:25:25.33\00:25:28.63
what He says in the word
00:25:28.66\00:25:30.27
and no matter if everyone else
00:25:30.30\00:25:32.18
in the world sees it differently
00:25:32.21\00:25:34.18
you want to
believe what God says,
00:25:34.21\00:25:38.69
that's how Jesus was
tempted just like you and I.
00:25:38.72\00:25:42.67
And that's the
kind of man and woman
00:25:42.70\00:25:44.93
that God is looking for to
stand through the end time.
00:25:44.96\00:25:52.30
To believe the word
of God no matter what.
00:25:52.33\00:25:59.04
Verse 9, "Then the
devil led him to Jerusalem
00:25:59.07\00:26:00.97
and had him stand on the
highest point of the temple
00:26:01.00\00:26:02.57
and said, "If you
are the Son of God,"
00:26:02.60\00:26:04.51
There he goes again.
00:26:04.54\00:26:06.94
"Throw yourself down from here."
00:26:06.97\00:26:08.81
Because look at
this, It is written.
00:26:08.84\00:26:14.14
'He will command his angels
00:26:14.17\00:26:15.20
concerning you to
guard you carefully,
00:26:15.23\00:26:17.79
they will lift
you up in their hands,
00:26:17.82\00:26:19.19
so that you will not strike
your foot against a stone.'"
00:26:19.22\00:26:22.87
It is written.
00:26:22.90\00:26:25.24
Don't be surprised if
the devil quote scripture.
00:26:25.27\00:26:30.72
He knows it better than you do.
00:26:30.75\00:26:33.86
He was there as it was written.
00:26:33.89\00:26:36.51
He saw it
unfolding with his own eyes.
00:26:36.54\00:26:38.83
He knows what's written.
00:26:38.86\00:26:40.77
He's gonna quote it back to you.
00:26:40.80\00:26:43.91
He did it to Jesus.
00:26:43.94\00:26:46.48
And how did Jesus answered
I like the way Matthew put it.
00:26:46.51\00:26:49.58
Jesus answered in verse
12, "It is also written.
00:26:49.61\00:26:54.16
'Don't put the Lord
your God to the test.'"
00:26:54.19\00:26:57.46
See it's not enough to
know just what is written
00:26:57.49\00:26:59.33
you have to know
what is also written.
00:26:59.36\00:27:02.43
Compare
scripture with scripture,
00:27:02.46\00:27:05.63
that's what Jesus did.
00:27:05.66\00:27:10.88
God is looking for men and women
00:27:10.91\00:27:12.48
that are willing to
believe what the Bible says
00:27:12.51\00:27:15.41
no matter what
anybody else tells them.
00:27:15.44\00:27:20.33
Some of you have been confronted
00:27:20.36\00:27:21.88
with the
challenge at Revelation.
00:27:21.91\00:27:23.49
Now 'cause we dare to
dig into the scripture
00:27:23.52\00:27:28.04
and talk about some things
00:27:28.07\00:27:29.41
that most people
aren't talking about today.
00:27:29.44\00:27:33.00
We dare to dig
into the scripture
00:27:33.03\00:27:35.13
and discover that
according to the Bible
00:27:35.16\00:27:37.54
the seventh day
is the Sabbath day
00:27:37.57\00:27:39.80
and God says I
blessed it, I made it holy,
00:27:39.83\00:27:42.35
I want you to keep it holy.
00:27:42.38\00:27:45.36
Look around
practically the whole world
00:27:45.39\00:27:47.88
is doing something else.
00:27:47.91\00:27:50.41
Practically the whole is
saying it doesn't matter.
00:27:50.44\00:27:55.54
God said it does matter.
00:27:55.57\00:27:58.34
I made it holy
that mean something.
00:27:58.37\00:28:04.28
Are we prepared
to do what God says
00:28:04.31\00:28:06.24
no matter what everybody
else around us is doing?
00:28:06.27\00:28:08.88
What a man Jesus.
00:28:16.16\00:28:21.45
Hadn't even
worked His miracle yet
00:28:21.48\00:28:24.49
but He believed
the word of His Father.
00:28:24.52\00:28:31.37
After this the Bible tells
us that Jesus went to a wedding.
00:28:31.40\00:28:37.35
When they came home He
saw a male sitting there
00:28:37.38\00:28:40.25
a little invitation
all fancy, who's that mom?
00:28:40.28\00:28:43.96
Oh, that's your cousin
in Cana getting married.
00:28:43.99\00:28:46.18
Oh, good let's go.
00:28:46.21\00:28:49.09
He went to the wedding.
00:28:49.12\00:28:50.15
Now why do you think
Jesus went to the wedding?
00:28:50.18\00:28:54.87
Why did He go?
00:28:54.90\00:28:56.22
Wedding are places
where people are happy.
00:28:56.25\00:28:59.53
They are celebrating,
they are having fun.
00:28:59.56\00:29:03.17
I think Jesus went
there because He like to be
00:29:03.20\00:29:05.87
around people that are happy.
00:29:05.90\00:29:09.04
He likes to be around people
00:29:09.07\00:29:10.35
that are celebrating,
that are having fun.
00:29:10.38\00:29:12.42
I think Jesus like to
have fun. He was a human being.
00:29:12.45\00:29:15.73
I think He enjoyed life.
00:29:15.76\00:29:18.34
Oh, that's why I don't
like all the pictures of Jesus
00:29:18.37\00:29:21.30
that are always
showing Him so serious.
00:29:21.33\00:29:23.31
I think He smile sometimes.
I think He laugh sometimes.
00:29:23.34\00:29:28.09
I think Jesus was a happy man.
00:29:28.12\00:29:31.11
He was happy that's why He went.
00:29:31.14\00:29:34.34
He worked His
first miracle there,
00:29:34.37\00:29:35.90
so they could stay happy.
00:29:35.93\00:29:38.33
But He was also a
brave courageous man.
00:29:38.36\00:29:46.05
Tireless, worked
all day for the people.
00:29:46.08\00:29:50.51
And at the end
of day He is tired
00:29:50.54\00:29:52.18
so He says to
disciples, let's get in the boat
00:29:52.21\00:29:53.90
we need to go to the
other side and take a break.
00:29:53.93\00:29:55.65
I'm glad He did that.
00:29:55.68\00:29:58.42
That way I don't
have to feel guilty
00:29:58.45\00:29:59.84
when I feel like I need a break.
00:29:59.87\00:30:02.81
Jesus took a break.
00:30:02.84\00:30:04.68
So He get in the boat,
00:30:04.71\00:30:05.87
they row across the Sea
of Galilee to the other side,
00:30:05.90\00:30:08.99
pull it up on the shore
looking around for a place
00:30:09.02\00:30:11.82
to just rest
kick back a little bit
00:30:11.85\00:30:14.55
and suddenly this man
comes running after Him,
00:30:14.58\00:30:17.83
his arms waving in the air,
00:30:17.86\00:30:20.09
his eyes looking like a mad man,
00:30:20.12\00:30:21.88
his hair wild
blowing in the wild,
00:30:21.91\00:30:23.69
his chains dangling from
his wrist and his ankles,
00:30:23.72\00:30:26.41
he is bearing down on
Jesus and the disciples and--
00:30:26.44\00:30:30.26
you know,
sometimes it's fun to use
00:30:30.29\00:30:31.57
a little sanctified imagination.
00:30:31.60\00:30:33.19
See the disciples,
wow, what's happening here.
00:30:36.69\00:30:40.03
They did run up and
get back in that boat
00:30:40.06\00:30:41.71
row out into the water.
00:30:41.74\00:30:46.16
When they look back,
they see Jesus standing there,
00:30:46.19\00:30:50.43
He wasn't
afraid of this lunatic,
00:30:50.46\00:30:53.83
he wasn't afraid of
this man possessed by demon,
00:30:53.86\00:30:58.32
name was Legion.
00:30:58.35\00:31:02.01
Jesus was brave, He
wasn't scared of the demons.
00:31:02.04\00:31:07.23
The demons were scared of Him.
00:31:07.26\00:31:10.36
They say, we know who you are?
00:31:10.39\00:31:12.02
You are the Son of
God get us out of here,
00:31:12.05\00:31:13.77
throw us into that
herd of pigs over there.
00:31:13.80\00:31:16.98
And Jesus cast out the demons
00:31:17.01\00:31:19.05
and the disciples saw the man
00:31:19.08\00:31:20.45
sitting there in the
sand in his right mind.
00:31:20.48\00:31:23.88
What a God?
00:31:23.91\00:31:26.02
Can't you see them quietly
rowing that boat back up,
00:31:26.05\00:31:29.81
not wanting to make any
noise, sneaking up behind,
00:31:29.84\00:31:32.60
maybe he wouldn't
notice that they ran.
00:31:32.63\00:31:37.40
Jesus was a happy man
but He was bold, courageous,
00:31:37.43\00:31:41.85
not afraid of
anything, not even demons.
00:31:41.88\00:31:47.25
And then one of my
favorite stories about Jesus.
00:31:47.28\00:31:51.01
Some of the Pharisees, the
highest religious preachers
00:31:55.51\00:32:00.33
and teachers of the day,
00:32:00.36\00:32:03.17
the most popular pastors
of the biggest churches around
00:32:03.20\00:32:08.34
were always
trying to trap Jesus.
00:32:08.37\00:32:14.04
They would always come to Him
00:32:14.07\00:32:15.30
with some kind of
a puzzling question
00:32:15.33\00:32:19.88
knowing that there
was no good answer.
00:32:19.91\00:32:24.19
Trying to trick Him, expose Him.
00:32:24.22\00:32:27.75
But Jesus-- I love Jesus,
00:32:27.78\00:32:31.00
He was a kind of man that
could take their question,
00:32:31.03\00:32:34.38
their attempts to expose Him,
00:32:34.41\00:32:37.47
and with one question turn it
all around and flustered them.
00:32:37.50\00:32:43.60
This particular
time they had found
00:32:43.63\00:32:46.23
the woman guilty of adultery,
00:32:46.26\00:32:50.23
so they dragged
her over the Jesus,
00:32:50.26\00:32:53.67
threw her down at His feet
00:32:53.70\00:32:56.30
and said, Moses
says we should stone her.
00:32:56.33\00:33:03.11
What do you say we should do?
00:33:03.14\00:33:06.97
You see they had Him trapped.
00:33:07.00\00:33:10.53
No matter how He answered.
00:33:10.56\00:33:13.20
If He said, well, if
Moses said stone her,
00:33:13.23\00:33:16.51
then stone her.
00:33:16.54\00:33:19.39
Then they could turn Him
into the Roman authorities
00:33:19.42\00:33:22.25
for taking capital
punishment into His own hands
00:33:22.28\00:33:24.99
because it was illegal for a Jew
00:33:25.02\00:33:27.13
to exercise capital punishment.
00:33:27.16\00:33:30.58
If He said, let
her go. It's illegal.
00:33:30.61\00:33:32.76
Then He could
say He doesn't care
00:33:32.79\00:33:35.06
what Moses said,
00:33:35.09\00:33:37.28
He doesn't follow the scripture,
He is scared of the Romans.
00:33:37.31\00:33:41.64
So you see they had Him
either way it didn't matter.
00:33:41.67\00:33:47.56
But they weren't prepared
for the answer that He gave
00:33:47.59\00:33:51.39
because at first He
didn't say anything.
00:33:51.42\00:33:54.07
The Bible tells
us He just knelt down
00:33:54.10\00:33:56.67
and began the write
with His finger in the sand.
00:33:56.70\00:34:02.02
And then it tells
us He looked up at them
00:34:02.05\00:34:06.25
and one by one they
began to make excuses and left.
00:34:06.28\00:34:13.12
And then there
wasn't anybody left anymore,
00:34:13.15\00:34:16.76
just Jesus and the woman
as He is writing in the sand,
00:34:16.79\00:34:21.70
they are gone.
00:34:21.73\00:34:23.26
Oh, I got to go get my
wife, she is getting off work
00:34:23.29\00:34:25.37
in a couple of
minutes, see you later.
00:34:25.40\00:34:27.05
Yeah, my kinds are
about to get out of school,
00:34:27.08\00:34:28.74
I got to go pick my--
00:34:28.77\00:34:29.80
They made
excuses the Bible said.
00:34:29.83\00:34:32.50
They couldn't get
out that fast enough.
00:34:32.53\00:34:36.73
Nobody is left.
00:34:36.76\00:34:38.18
Jesus looks at
the woman and He said
00:34:38.21\00:34:40.45
isn't there anyone
here to condemn you?
00:34:40.48\00:34:43.64
And she said, no.
00:34:43.67\00:34:46.96
And Jesus said,
neither do I condemn you.
00:34:46.99\00:34:50.56
Now go and sin no more.
00:34:50.59\00:34:56.50
Did you ever wonder
00:34:56.53\00:34:58.81
what did He write in the sand?
00:34:58.84\00:35:03.26
What did He write in the sand?
00:35:03.29\00:35:05.53
The Bible doesn't tell us
00:35:05.56\00:35:08.35
but I think I know, I
think I figured it out.
00:35:08.38\00:35:13.46
You want me to tell you
what I think He wrote? No?
00:35:13.49\00:35:18.29
All right, you want me to? Okay.
00:35:18.32\00:35:20.75
I am going to have
to put my Bible down,
00:35:20.78\00:35:23.32
it's not in the Bible.
00:35:23.35\00:35:25.00
I am not preaching
now, I am just talking.
00:35:25.03\00:35:27.72
You don't have to believe this
00:35:27.75\00:35:30.39
but here's what
I think He wrote.
00:35:30.42\00:35:33.28
First of all, whatever He wrote,
00:35:33.31\00:35:35.49
they didn't like
because they started making
00:35:35.52\00:35:39.77
excuses to get out of there.
00:35:39.80\00:35:42.37
Secondly, He said, "Let
the one standing here among you
00:35:42.40\00:35:48.33
who is without sin
cast the first stone."
00:35:48.36\00:35:52.92
And He started
to write some more
00:35:52.95\00:35:55.27
and they really
didn't like this.
00:35:55.30\00:35:58.27
And every single
one of them cleared out.
00:35:58.30\00:36:03.14
I think they were--
00:36:03.17\00:36:05.37
that Jesus was
writing a list of their sins
00:36:05.40\00:36:10.34
in the sand for
every body to see.
00:36:10.37\00:36:14.16
Remember, He couldn't use
His divine power to save Himself
00:36:14.19\00:36:18.23
but He could use
it to save others.
00:36:18.26\00:36:21.99
And He knew what was in
the hearts of those people.
00:36:22.02\00:36:25.48
I think He was writing
their sins down in the sand
00:36:25.51\00:36:28.67
and that's why when He
said, "Let the one without sin,"
00:36:28.70\00:36:32.03
if anybody dare
to say he can just--
00:36:32.06\00:36:33.71
look, it's right
there for everybody to see.
00:36:33.74\00:36:37.75
Oh, I got to get
out of here, man.
00:36:37.78\00:36:39.44
This isn't for me.
00:36:39.47\00:36:42.73
And furthermore, I'll
tell you what else I think.
00:36:42.76\00:36:46.53
I think that one
of those men accusing
00:36:46.56\00:36:49.03
that woman of
adultery was probably the one
00:36:49.06\00:36:53.22
who committed adultery with her.
00:36:53.25\00:36:56.26
And why do I think
that? Where was the man?
00:36:56.29\00:37:02.80
Where was the man?
00:37:02.83\00:37:04.87
He should have
brought the man too.
00:37:04.90\00:37:07.12
He should have been
stoned too. Where was the man?
00:37:07.15\00:37:09.30
I think he was standing there
00:37:09.33\00:37:12.62
and I think he was the first
one to hightail it out of there
00:37:12.65\00:37:16.22
when Jesus wrote all
this down in the sand.
00:37:16.25\00:37:19.32
No, I don't know.
00:37:19.35\00:37:20.67
When we get to
heaven you can go ask Him,
00:37:20.70\00:37:22.32
was Colon right about that.
00:37:22.35\00:37:24.76
The Bible doesn't say.
00:37:24.79\00:37:29.30
This makes sense to me.
00:37:29.33\00:37:32.81
What a God, what a man
00:37:32.84\00:37:37.08
to take this attempt
to crush a human life
00:37:37.11\00:37:39.97
and change it
into the opportunity
00:37:40.00\00:37:41.97
to save the soul,
00:37:42.00\00:37:44.53
that's the kind of
the man that Jesus was.
00:37:44.56\00:37:49.38
And then when it
came time to unmask
00:37:49.41\00:37:52.47
the Pharisees,
the popular pastors,
00:37:52.50\00:37:54.84
the great preaches of the day.
00:37:54.87\00:37:56.61
Jesus was the one who
was man enough to do it.
00:37:56.64\00:38:00.15
Matthew 23, some
of the toughest words
00:38:00.18\00:38:03.89
to come from the mouth of Jesus,
00:38:03.92\00:38:05.65
verse 25, "Woe to
you, teachers of the law
00:38:05.68\00:38:07.89
and Pharisees, you hypocrites!
00:38:07.92\00:38:11.32
You clean the
outside of the cup and dish,
00:38:11.35\00:38:13.12
but inside they
are full of greed
00:38:13.15\00:38:14.41
and self-indulgence.
You blind Pharisees!
00:38:14.44\00:38:16.97
First clean the inside
of the cup and the dish,
00:38:17.00\00:38:19.58
and then the
outside also will be clean.
00:38:19.61\00:38:21.44
Woe to you, teachers of the law,
00:38:21.47\00:38:22.98
you Pharisees, you hypocrites!
00:38:23.01\00:38:24.75
You are like whitewashed tombs,
00:38:24.78\00:38:26.12
which looks
beautiful on the outside
00:38:26.15\00:38:27.53
but inside are
full of dead man's bones
00:38:27.56\00:38:29.64
and everything unclean.
00:38:29.67\00:38:31.39
In the same way, on the outside
00:38:31.42\00:38:32.82
you appear to
people as righteous
00:38:32.85\00:38:35.33
but on the inside you are full
of hypocrisy and wickedness.
00:38:35.36\00:38:37.99
You snakes! You brood of vipers!
00:38:38.02\00:38:40.94
How will you escape
being condemned to hell?"
00:38:40.97\00:38:43.90
Wow, some pretty
straight words, isn't it.
00:38:43.93\00:38:50.08
But you know I sense
00:38:50.11\00:38:54.61
that when Jesus
was saying those words,
00:38:54.64\00:38:58.21
He had tears in His eyes
00:38:58.24\00:39:01.65
because He
loved those Pharisees.
00:39:01.68\00:39:06.23
He loved those
hypocrites, He died for them.
00:39:06.26\00:39:12.28
I think He must have
had tears in His eyes
00:39:12.31\00:39:16.36
but yet
00:39:16.39\00:39:17.42
He was man enough
00:39:22.55\00:39:26.79
to stand up to them
00:39:26.82\00:39:29.12
when nobody else would.
00:39:29.15\00:39:30.34
Jesus was a real man.
00:39:36.25\00:39:37.67
You know there's
some sense of completeness
00:39:37.70\00:39:40.81
about a man like Jesus
00:39:40.84\00:39:44.89
who could meet any emergency
00:39:44.92\00:39:47.66
with steel nerves,
cool headedness like He did
00:39:47.69\00:39:53.30
and yet not be so
bold and brave and callous.
00:39:53.33\00:39:58.05
And He wasn't
ashamed to let His tears
00:39:58.08\00:40:00.30
stream down the
side of His cheek
00:40:00.33\00:40:02.50
at the grave side of a friend.
00:40:02.53\00:40:05.68
The shortest verse in the Bible
00:40:05.71\00:40:07.71
when Jesus went to the
grave side of His friend Lazarus
00:40:07.74\00:40:10.88
and saw his two sisters,
00:40:10.91\00:40:12.56
Mary and Martha
there at the tomb crying.
00:40:12.59\00:40:15.81
The shortest verse in the Bible,
00:40:15.84\00:40:17.56
John 11:36 says, "Jesus wept."
00:40:17.59\00:40:22.96
He was so full of compassion
00:40:22.99\00:40:25.89
and understanding of
what it means to be human
00:40:25.92\00:40:28.99
because He was
just like you and I.
00:40:29.02\00:40:34.24
Tender hearted, He wept.
00:40:34.27\00:40:37.83
Tender hearted, even
the children love Jesus.
00:40:37.86\00:40:42.06
Disciples one day were there,
00:40:42.09\00:40:44.09
and the children
running up to Him,
00:40:44.12\00:40:45.36
"Oh, tell us a story."
00:40:45.39\00:40:46.59
And He--
disciples, shoo-shoo away.
00:40:46.62\00:40:48.37
He doesn't have time for you.
00:40:48.40\00:40:51.22
And Jesus said, don't do that.
00:40:51.25\00:40:54.10
Leave them alone,
let then come here to me.
00:40:54.13\00:40:58.13
And I love to
see pictures of Jesus
00:40:58.16\00:41:01.31
in my mind sitting under a
tree in the shade in the desert.
00:41:01.34\00:41:05.20
Children sitting on His lap
and Jesus telling them stories
00:41:05.23\00:41:10.55
about His Father in heaven.
00:41:10.58\00:41:14.45
You know adults,
we can fool each other
00:41:14.48\00:41:18.57
sometimes, did you know that?
00:41:18.60\00:41:20.65
You can make an adult think
you like him when you don't
00:41:20.68\00:41:25.11
but you can't fool children,
they can see right through it.
00:41:25.14\00:41:31.50
So the fact that the
children loved Jesus meant
00:41:31.53\00:41:33.79
that they knew He loved them.
00:41:33.82\00:41:37.40
What a man, tender hearted man.
00:41:37.43\00:41:40.88
He had physical
needs like we do.
00:41:40.91\00:41:45.56
One morning the Bible
says the disciples had been out
00:41:45.59\00:41:47.68
fishing all night and
Jesus was there on the beach.
00:41:47.71\00:41:51.31
When they came in, He
was fixing breakfast for them
00:41:51.34\00:41:54.73
because He knew
they will be hungry.
00:41:54.76\00:41:57.46
He understood what
it was to be human.
00:41:57.49\00:42:00.03
He had been out working
all day, came in one day,
00:42:00.06\00:42:02.44
He say, "Hey, what you
got to eat, man, I am hungry?"
00:42:02.47\00:42:06.04
Isn't that just like a real man?
00:42:06.07\00:42:09.98
Jesus was a real
man, He understood.
00:42:10.01\00:42:12.52
I believe Jesus
craved human friendship.
00:42:12.55\00:42:17.80
Now don't believe for a second
00:42:17.83\00:42:19.51
all the stories that you saw in
00:42:19.54\00:42:22.14
some of the
movies that they put out
00:42:22.17\00:42:23.66
later that Jesus was
married to Mary Magdalene.
00:42:23.69\00:42:26.18
It's just sheer bunch of lies,
00:42:26.21\00:42:29.60
but I believe that
He did crave friendship.
00:42:29.63\00:42:34.15
I think that He
was a lonesome man.
00:42:34.18\00:42:36.79
He never complained about it
00:42:36.82\00:42:39.52
but there are times when
the curtain is pulled aside
00:42:39.55\00:42:41.54
and we didn't catch a
glimpse of a lonely man, Jesus.
00:42:41.57\00:42:47.40
May be in a time like that
00:42:47.43\00:42:49.52
a rich young man
comes up to Him and says,
00:42:49.55\00:42:52.67
"Master, I think you
are going to make it.
00:42:52.70\00:42:55.58
You are going to build
this into something really big.
00:42:55.61\00:42:59.50
You are going to
have a lot of followers.
00:42:59.53\00:43:01.95
There would be a lot of people
00:43:01.98\00:43:03.21
wanting to contribute,
a lot of money coming in,
00:43:03.24\00:43:08.28
you going to need a treasurer.
00:43:08.31\00:43:10.25
I am a CPA,
00:43:10.28\00:43:12.93
let me be Your
treasures. I will help you.
00:43:12.96\00:43:15.25
His name was Judas.
00:43:15.28\00:43:19.43
Maybe there was a time like that
00:43:19.46\00:43:20.86
when Jesus said, "You know,
00:43:20.89\00:43:24.51
the birds of the air,
they have their nests.
00:43:24.54\00:43:28.00
Foxes have their
holes but the son of man
00:43:28.03\00:43:34.37
doesn't even have a
place to lay his head."
00:43:34.40\00:43:38.83
Sounds like a lonely man to me.
00:43:38.86\00:43:42.45
And He is saying,
"Judas, don't follow Me
00:43:42.48\00:43:45.11
because of what you
think you're going to get here.
00:43:45.14\00:43:49.42
You need to follow Me
because of what's up there."
00:43:49.45\00:43:51.76
And then my favorite thing,
00:43:58.46\00:44:03.11
maybe been an
evangelist that's why.
00:44:03.14\00:44:06.26
Jesus was a
hard burden preacher.
00:44:06.29\00:44:10.77
He had a
passion for His mission.
00:44:10.80\00:44:14.51
He had a passion,
00:44:14.54\00:44:16.03
burning fire
inside for His message.
00:44:16.06\00:44:22.51
One day He is coming
in with the disciples,
00:44:22.54\00:44:24.49
there's the city Jerusalem,
00:44:24.52\00:44:25.86
looking at it out
there outstretched
00:44:25.89\00:44:27.62
and finally Jesus gets quite
like He is pondering something.
00:44:27.65\00:44:31.77
He says, "Look, I want you
to go to this address in town,
00:44:31.80\00:44:34.92
there's a broken
colt, unbroken colt there,
00:44:34.95\00:44:38.67
a donkey, go get
it. Bring it back."
00:44:38.70\00:44:43.44
Well, they
couldn't wait for that.
00:44:43.47\00:44:45.45
They dashed into town.
00:44:45.48\00:44:46.78
They knew the
prophecy in Zechariah,
00:44:46.81\00:44:48.73
it said the son
of man, the Messiah
00:44:48.76\00:44:51.02
would ascend to the throne
00:44:51.05\00:44:52.18
and David riding on the
back of an unbroken colt.
00:44:52.21\00:44:54.59
So they ran in the
town to get that donkey.
00:44:54.62\00:44:57.13
They thought now, finally,
they couldn't understand Jesus.
00:44:57.16\00:45:00.62
They believed
Him, they trusted Him,
00:45:00.65\00:45:02.46
they believed He was a Messiah
00:45:02.49\00:45:04.19
but they never could understand
00:45:04.22\00:45:06.04
why didn't He act like it.
00:45:06.07\00:45:08.53
Because see, their
view of Messiah was one
00:45:08.56\00:45:10.81
who would be a military leader
00:45:10.84\00:45:13.14
that would build
Israel into a mighty nation
00:45:13.17\00:45:15.74
and crush the yoke
of Roman oppression.
00:45:15.77\00:45:18.21
And Jesus, all
He did was go around
00:45:18.24\00:45:20.09
healing people
and forgiving sins.
00:45:20.12\00:45:23.08
When is He going
to be the Messiah?
00:45:23.11\00:45:24.48
When He is going to
act like the Messiah?
00:45:24.51\00:45:26.59
Now, now is the
time, they ran into town,
00:45:26.62\00:45:29.44
they found that donkey,
they brought him back to Jesus.
00:45:29.47\00:45:31.60
In undeveloped countries
00:45:31.63\00:45:32.94
it's amazing how
rapidly the news gets out.
00:45:32.97\00:45:35.24
Everybody knows what's going on.
00:45:35.27\00:45:36.92
They are all gathered together
on the outskirts of town.
00:45:36.95\00:45:39.57
Jesus is there
riding on that donkey
00:45:39.60\00:45:42.41
and there the disciples,
00:45:42.44\00:45:43.56
they are all
pressed tightly against Him.
00:45:43.59\00:45:46.19
They are the inner circle.
00:45:46.22\00:45:47.94
In fact, they had
been fighting over
00:45:47.97\00:45:50.02
who's going to be
first in His kingdom.
00:45:50.05\00:45:52.98
So they are
pressing against Jesus,
00:45:53.01\00:45:54.70
they wanted everybody to
see that they were there,
00:45:54.73\00:45:56.84
they were the inner circle,
00:45:56.87\00:45:58.07
they were going to
be the vice-president,
00:45:58.10\00:45:59.83
secretary of states,
secretary of defense, treasurer.
00:45:59.86\00:46:02.79
They wanted
everybody to see them
00:46:02.82\00:46:04.61
and Jesus is going,
the crowd is gathering.
00:46:04.64\00:46:07.22
They are taking
off their cloaks,
00:46:07.25\00:46:08.86
they are bringing palm branches
00:46:08.89\00:46:10.41
and singing, hosanna,
00:46:10.44\00:46:11.63
hosanna bless it
is the one who comes
00:46:11.66\00:46:13.63
in the name of
the Lord, the Messiah.
00:46:13.66\00:46:16.09
Jesus finally ascending
to the throne of David,
00:46:16.12\00:46:19.58
finally acting like the Messiah.
00:46:19.61\00:46:21.44
The whole city is there
when suddenly Jesus stops.
00:46:21.47\00:46:26.63
The singing stops
00:46:26.66\00:46:29.52
and it's so quite
you can hear a pin drop.
00:46:29.55\00:46:33.22
CNN is there with a 150
microphones sticking on His face
00:46:33.25\00:46:39.57
because they want to get
that kingly proclamation.
00:46:39.60\00:46:43.51
People standing
on their tiptoes,
00:46:43.54\00:46:46.05
wanting to catch a glimpse
00:46:46.08\00:46:47.52
of that kingly
expression on His face.
00:46:47.55\00:46:52.22
Disciples pressing tightly,
they are the inner circle.
00:46:52.25\00:46:58.69
Nobody saw kingly
expression, they saw tears.
00:46:58.72\00:47:05.62
Nobody heard a
kingly proclamation,
00:47:05.65\00:47:10.34
all they heard was Jesus saying,
00:47:10.37\00:47:13.02
"Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
00:47:13.05\00:47:19.95
how many times I
would gather you in
00:47:19.98\00:47:23.09
like a mother hen
gathers her baby chicks
00:47:23.12\00:47:28.10
but you won't come."
00:47:28.13\00:47:32.78
Hard burden preacher,
00:47:32.81\00:47:36.58
tears in His eyes as He looks
00:47:36.61\00:47:39.40
at the rich young
man who walked away
00:47:39.43\00:47:42.24
because he was afraid
00:47:42.27\00:47:43.30
it would cost him
too much to follow Jesus.
00:47:43.33\00:47:48.37
Tears welling up in His eyes
00:47:48.40\00:47:50.23
as He sees the
young teenage girl
00:47:50.26\00:47:53.40
afraid of what her
friends might think
00:47:53.43\00:47:57.55
if she joined with this bunch.
00:47:57.58\00:48:02.09
Hard burden preacher,
00:48:02.12\00:48:03.82
He loved even those
Pharisees standing out
00:48:03.85\00:48:07.82
on the outer edge
with their arms folded.
00:48:07.85\00:48:10.75
He loved them.
00:48:10.78\00:48:14.39
He died for them.
00:48:14.42\00:48:17.97
Finally the crowd left.
00:48:18.00\00:48:21.10
Jesus told to disciples,
00:48:21.13\00:48:22.67
"Go and meet me
in the upper room."
00:48:22.70\00:48:26.86
Place is prepared
there for the Lord's supper.
00:48:26.89\00:48:29.63
So they went and
there was nobody there,
00:48:29.66\00:48:32.46
just the disciples.
00:48:32.49\00:48:33.64
All the
preparation has been made,
00:48:33.67\00:48:35.23
everything was in place.
00:48:35.26\00:48:36.75
The only problem
was that there was
00:48:36.78\00:48:38.91
no servant there
to wash their feet.
00:48:38.94\00:48:40.81
There was table,
basin, put water in,
00:48:40.84\00:48:43.37
a pitcher of water
and the towel there
00:48:43.40\00:48:45.16
but no servant
to wash their feet.
00:48:45.19\00:48:47.26
And Jesus is coming,
00:48:47.29\00:48:48.56
they hear Him
walking down the hall.
00:48:48.59\00:48:49.98
Now remember, they
have been fighting over
00:48:50.01\00:48:51.71
who's going to be
first in the kingdom.
00:48:51.74\00:48:53.45
So when Jesus comes in
00:48:53.48\00:48:55.08
and there's no servant
there, they are scared to death.
00:48:55.11\00:48:57.62
He is going to ask
one of them to do it.
00:48:57.65\00:48:59.13
And if He ask
one of them to do it
00:48:59.16\00:49:00.40
that means they would be
at the bottom of the list
00:49:00.43\00:49:02.28
instead of the top.
00:49:02.31\00:49:03.41
So they are not looking up,
00:49:03.44\00:49:04.74
they are looking
down at the floor.
00:49:04.77\00:49:06.02
When that door open
they turned the other way
00:49:06.05\00:49:10.04
because Jesus might
catch a glimpse of one of them
00:49:10.07\00:49:12.30
and tell them,
"Come wash our feet."
00:49:12.33\00:49:17.95
They didn't hear anything.
00:49:17.98\00:49:20.57
They turned, look out
of the corned of their eye,
00:49:20.60\00:49:25.08
couldn't believe what they saw.
00:49:25.11\00:49:27.25
There was Jesus,
sinless son of God, God.
00:49:27.28\00:49:34.32
Taking off His outer
robe, walking over to the table,
00:49:34.35\00:49:40.27
pick up a towel,
wrap it around His waist,
00:49:40.30\00:49:42.53
dumped the water in the basin
00:49:42.56\00:49:44.98
and began to wash their feet.
00:49:45.01\00:49:49.61
Wow, what a God.
00:49:49.64\00:49:55.69
One by one,
even Judas was there.
00:49:55.72\00:49:59.79
He had already betrayed Jesus
00:49:59.82\00:50:01.66
for 30 pieces of silver
and Jesus washed his feet.
00:50:01.69\00:50:09.04
Later on, he couldn't take it.
00:50:09.07\00:50:10.54
Later on, after
he fled from the room
00:50:10.57\00:50:12.34
he went out and hung himself.
00:50:12.37\00:50:17.94
Disciples celebrated the
Lord's Supper with Jesus.
00:50:17.97\00:50:22.12
It must have been an
event. Love to been there.
00:50:22.15\00:50:27.67
Afterwards they sang with Him,
00:50:27.70\00:50:29.10
they went out, walk through
the city out the eastern gate,
00:50:29.13\00:50:33.81
across the Kidron Valley
to the Garden of Gethsemane.
00:50:33.84\00:50:36.44
Jesus was strangely quite,
00:50:36.47\00:50:40.04
maybe even groaning a little bit
00:50:40.07\00:50:41.74
as though he was
carrying a heavy load.
00:50:41.77\00:50:45.82
Disciples
weren't saying anything.
00:50:45.85\00:50:49.49
They got to the
Garden of Gethsemane
00:50:49.52\00:50:51.23
and Jesus told the disciples,
00:50:51.26\00:50:52.80
"I want you to
stay here and pray.
00:50:52.83\00:50:55.76
Just stay here and pray.
00:50:55.79\00:50:59.48
Peter, James and
John, you come with me."
00:50:59.51\00:51:02.40
So they came and
then He stopped again.
00:51:02.43\00:51:04.94
He said, "I
want you to stay here
00:51:04.97\00:51:06.31
and pray, just pray."
00:51:06.34\00:51:10.10
And then they watch Jesus
as He walked up the pathway
00:51:10.13\00:51:15.12
in the Garden of Gethsemane,
00:51:15.15\00:51:17.59
they could see
Him in the moonlight
00:51:17.62\00:51:18.96
filtering down
through the olive trees
00:51:18.99\00:51:23.22
and finally He stopped
00:51:23.25\00:51:24.54
and fell heavily to the
ground and He began to pray.
00:51:24.57\00:51:31.97
And the disciples heard Him.
00:51:32.00\00:51:35.99
They said,
"Father," He said, "Father,
00:51:36.02\00:51:40.82
if there's any other way
00:51:40.85\00:51:44.46
let this cup pass from me.
00:51:44.49\00:51:50.49
Nevertheless not my will,
00:51:50.52\00:51:54.19
let Your will be done."
00:51:54.22\00:51:56.80
Let this cup pass if
there's any other way.
00:52:01.00\00:52:04.77
You see, Jesus did not want
to go up that hill to Calvary.
00:52:04.80\00:52:12.03
He didn't want
to die on the cross.
00:52:12.06\00:52:14.96
If there's any
other way, Father, please.
00:52:14.99\00:52:19.42
But there was no other way.
00:52:19.45\00:52:24.04
Then not My will,
let Your will be done.
00:52:24.07\00:52:28.42
What were these strange words
coming from the lips of Jesus?
00:52:28.45\00:52:33.38
The one whose will had
always been one with the Father
00:52:33.41\00:52:36.48
and now He is
saying, not My will,
00:52:36.51\00:52:38.22
let Your will be done.
00:52:38.25\00:52:41.09
You think the
disciple would have suspected
00:52:41.12\00:52:43.51
something of an
unusual magnitude
00:52:43.54\00:52:46.26
was happening that night
00:52:46.29\00:52:47.82
and that they
would have been alert
00:52:47.85\00:52:49.37
and they would have been praying
00:52:49.40\00:52:50.83
but the Bible
says they fell asleep.
00:52:50.86\00:52:55.56
Jesus came back and shook them,
00:52:55.59\00:52:58.57
"Can't you pray
for just an hour."
00:52:58.60\00:53:01.47
That's all, just an hour.
00:53:01.50\00:53:06.36
When was the last time
you prayed for an hour?
00:53:06.39\00:53:11.72
Then He went back,
fell to the ground again,
00:53:11.75\00:53:16.26
"Father, if there's any
other way let this cup pass.
00:53:16.29\00:53:19.90
Nevertheless, not My
will, let Your will be done."
00:53:19.93\00:53:22.52
Three times they fell asleep.
00:53:28.02\00:53:30.36
They didn't understand
what was happening that night.
00:53:35.60\00:53:38.49
They didn't understand that
Jesus was taking in His own body
00:53:38.52\00:53:41.48
the guilt for their
sins, for your sins, mine.
00:53:41.51\00:53:49.16
They didn't realize
that Jesus was feeling
00:53:49.19\00:53:51.42
the weight of
the sins of the world
00:53:51.45\00:53:53.66
and they were crushing His life.
00:53:53.69\00:53:57.24
And He would
have died right there
00:53:57.27\00:54:00.50
if it hadn't been for an
angel coming to strengthen Him,
00:54:00.53\00:54:03.49
it wasn't time
for Jesus to die yet.
00:54:03.52\00:54:07.23
No, He had to be
tried as a common criminal.
00:54:07.26\00:54:10.93
Dressed in a purple
robe, stick in His hand,
00:54:10.96\00:54:13.17
crown of thrones
slammed on His head,
00:54:13.20\00:54:15.05
mocked as king of
the Jews, knocked down,
00:54:15.08\00:54:18.10
beat till His back was raw
and bleeding, kick, spit on.
00:54:18.13\00:54:22.21
Stood up again, beat some more.
00:54:22.24\00:54:24.21
He had to have that heavy
cross thrust on His shoulders
00:54:24.24\00:54:27.10
and carry it up
to hill to Calvary.
00:54:27.13\00:54:29.46
He had to be stretched
out on those rough boards.
00:54:29.49\00:54:32.28
He had to have
the Roman shoulders
00:54:32.31\00:54:34.03
pick up the heavy hammers,
00:54:34.06\00:54:35.32
the big nails and
drive them into His hands.
00:54:35.35\00:54:38.27
The same hands
that had reached out
00:54:38.30\00:54:40.16
and healed and touched and love.
00:54:40.19\00:54:42.37
And now they are nailing
them to the old rugged cross.
00:54:42.40\00:54:45.23
It wasn't time
for Him to die yet.
00:54:45.26\00:54:47.25
He had to be lifted
up like a snake on a pole
00:54:47.28\00:54:50.25
and dropped into that hole
00:54:50.28\00:54:51.74
with a sickening
thud that racked His pain,
00:54:51.77\00:54:54.42
his body with pain.
00:54:54.45\00:54:55.84
No, it wasn't time
for Him to die yet.
00:54:55.87\00:54:58.17
He had to be hanging up there,
a spectacle to the universe,
00:54:58.20\00:55:01.50
the emblem of sin,
00:55:01.53\00:55:05.77
guilty for the
sins of the world.
00:55:05.80\00:55:11.63
Bible tells us the
pain of crucifixion
00:55:11.66\00:55:13.98
was beyond human endurance.
00:55:14.01\00:55:17.69
Some of you saw the movie
00:55:17.72\00:55:19.89
and you saw the beatings
with the chains and the pain
00:55:19.92\00:55:23.20
and the torture that He
went through on the cross
00:55:23.23\00:55:25.44
but I want to
tell you something,
00:55:25.47\00:55:27.01
that wasn't the
real passion of Christ.
00:55:27.04\00:55:30.78
I don't even know
that He felt the chains,
00:55:30.81\00:55:33.41
I don't know that
He felt the beating
00:55:33.44\00:55:35.63
because of the pain in His heart
00:55:35.66\00:55:38.10
when His own disciples fled
00:55:38.13\00:55:41.29
and the words of
Peter ringing in his ear,
00:55:41.32\00:55:43.77
"I don't know that cursed man."
00:55:43.80\00:55:47.99
I don't know that He
felt the physical pain
00:55:48.02\00:55:50.58
because of the
pain in his heart,
00:55:50.61\00:55:52.70
a broken heart
because of the ones He loved
00:55:52.73\00:55:56.20
so much had abandoned Him.
00:55:56.23\00:56:01.10
I don't know that He
felt the physical pain
00:56:01.13\00:56:05.74
because as He hung on the cross
00:56:05.77\00:56:08.02
like the serpent on the pole,
00:56:08.05\00:56:09.87
the emblem of
sin, bearing our sins.
00:56:09.90\00:56:14.13
He was made to be sin for us.
00:56:14.16\00:56:17.21
He realize that
His heavenly Father,
00:56:17.24\00:56:19.55
so holy and so pure
00:56:19.58\00:56:21.76
couldn't even bare to
look on the awful spectacle,
00:56:21.79\00:56:25.69
turning His face, causing
Him to feel in His own heart
00:56:25.72\00:56:29.59
the separation that sin brings
00:56:29.62\00:56:31.60
between man and God
causing Him to cry out,
00:56:31.63\00:56:34.86
"My God, my God, why
have you forsaken me."
00:56:34.89\00:56:41.17
For the first time in eternity,
00:56:41.20\00:56:42.95
He felt the
distance from His Father.
00:56:42.98\00:56:47.36
Then He hung His
head and died for you, me.
00:56:51.40\00:56:58.77
He would have done it,
00:57:02.61\00:57:04.42
if looking down through the ages
00:57:04.45\00:57:06.08
He could see that you
would be the only one,
00:57:06.11\00:57:10.07
the only one that
would ever follow Him,
00:57:10.10\00:57:13.93
He would have done it for you.
00:57:13.96\00:57:15.23
Now that story isn't over yet
00:57:18.82\00:57:22.20
because one day soon
the heaven is going to open
00:57:22.23\00:57:26.47
and He is going to come again.
00:57:26.50\00:57:29.71
Not wearing a crown of thorns
00:57:29.74\00:57:32.55
but a crown of glory.
00:57:32.58\00:57:36.75
Follow the Lamb.
00:57:36.78\00:57:40.77
He won.
00:57:40.80\00:57:42.04