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Doug Batchelor: Hello friends.
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Welcome to
"Sabbath School Study Hour."
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We're glad that you could
join us today for the study.
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We're going to be going
through a very important lesson.
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We're continuing in our
lesson dealing with the subject
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of education, and in a moment,
we'll get to our lesson today
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talking about Jesus
as the master teacher.
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and then it's
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Well, there is an
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For some of you that are
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Well, the Bible
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October 23 to November 14.
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All right, with that I
think it's time we pray
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and get into today's study.
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Loving Lord, we just thank You
again for the gift You gave us
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in Your Word and the
gift You gave us in Jesus
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who is the living Word.
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And as we focus our attention
on Him today and His example
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to us as a teacher, I
pray that we can all be edified
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and learn and follow.
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And we pray this
in Jesus's name, amen.
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All right, well, today
we're dealing with the subject
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in our lesson on education.
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We're looking at
Jesus as the great educator,
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and we have a memory verse that
comes to us from 2 Corinthians
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4, verse 6, and it says, "For
this is God who commanded light
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to shine out of darkness, who
has shone forth in our hearts
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to give us the light of
the knowledge of the glory
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of God in the
face of Jesus Christ."
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The only way that you and I
can behold the Father is really
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as it is reflected in the
life and teachings of Jesus.
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Jesus came as a
reflection of the Father,
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and I should probably begin
by just laying out some simple
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but important truths.
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Christ came
principally for three reasons.
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One, He came to show us
what the Father is like,
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and we'll get into those
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Scriptures more
in just a moment.
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Two, He came
as--to give us an example
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that we should live as He lived.
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He teaches us not only
about what God is like.
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He teaches us how we should
live for and love each other.
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And the third reason,
He came as a sacrifice,
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our substitute,
to die in our place,
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and each of us then must
accept Him as our sacrifice,
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and then we study Him as our
example and our demonstration
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of who the Father is.
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So, with that in mind, let's
talk a little bit about how
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was Jesus a great teacher.
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How did He teach?
What was His method?
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Well, for one thing--this
is not in your lesson,
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but I thought I wanted
to start out with this.
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Jesus astonished His students.
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You know, I
think it's so important
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for teachers out there.
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Keep your students engaged.
Yeah, keep their attention.
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That doesn't mean you need to
resort to silly antics to do it,
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unless there's a
good lesson in it,
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but I struggled through school,
I've just got to tell you.
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And one of the big problems
I had when I was in school
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is every now and then I
had some boring teachers,
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and, you know, I
learned to hold my breath
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for four
minutes and ten seconds.
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You can do it.
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People who hold the records,
I think it's like 16 minutes.
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People can hold their
breath much longer than that,
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but most people, after a minute,
they're ready to pass out.
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But I can hold my breath for
four minutes and ten seconds,
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and one of the
ways I learned doing
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that is I was so bored in class.
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There was this big
Wes clock on the wall.
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I'd wait for it to get to where
it buzzed me on to the next
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class so I could get through
the school day I was enduring,
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and I'd just see--I'd
hyperventilate and see how long
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I could hold my breath,
just for something to do.
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I'd count the ceiling
tiles because sometimes
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the teachers were so
difficult to listen to.
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You know, if you're going to
be a teacher, be interesting.
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The Bible says Jesus
astonished His students,
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and one way that you do that
is when people hear the truth
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for the first time it's amazing.
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That's why I like
the name "Amazing Facts."
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Right away, people say, "I
want to hear something amazing.
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I want to be amazed."
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And the word "astonished"
here, it actually means
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in the original--it
means shocked, amazed, struck.
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And when they heard
Him teach--let me give you
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a few verses that
help illustrate this.
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Luke 4:32, "And they were
astonished at His teaching,
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for His Word
was with authority."
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Jesus taught with conviction.
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You know, sometimes
you hear people teach,
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and they go, "Well, you
know, it could mean this,
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and it could mean that.
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Nobody really knows
exactly what it means."
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And that doesn't leave you
with anything definitive to hang
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your faith on, so there needs to
be a teaching with conviction.
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You read similar verse
after He gives the Sermon
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on the Mount in
Matthew chapter 7.
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Jesus says in
verse 28, "And so it was,
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when Jesus had
ended these sayings,
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the people were
astonished at His teaching,
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for He taught them
as one having authority,
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not as the scribes."
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No, the scribes
didn't teach with authority.
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I think that if
you're going to be a teacher,
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a Bible teacher, if you're
teaching on any kind of subject,
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don't be wishy-washy about it.
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Teach with authority.
Teach with conviction.
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Put yourself in what you're
teaching so that people know
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that you really believe what it
is that you're actually saying.
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So, He taught them,
and they were astonished
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because it was so unusual.
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Another reason we know
that Jesus was an interesting
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teacher, how many times was it
that Christ taught all day long?
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And the Bible
tells us that He said,
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"Look, we need to send
the people away to eat,
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because they
haven't eaten all day."
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They'd sit and
listen to Him for hours,
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and yet most churches
where I preach or teach,
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I know if I go a little
long I can see the body language
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of the people
out there listening.
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And they start
kind of looking around,
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and they
start--they try to--you know,
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and I've done it before myself.
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They try to find graceful
ways to look at their watch
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without looking like
they're looking at their watch,
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and so they kind of
take their hand and slip it
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upon their sleeve,
and look down, wondering,
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"How long is this going to be?
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Well, he's going long.
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Dinner is going to be
cold when we get home."
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But Jesus's
teaching was so engaging,
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people lost track of time.
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You've probably heard
some good storytellers before.
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That they can just keep
you on the edge of your seat
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indefinitely, or you maybe
heard a good sermon or something
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where you just can't
wait to hear more in a series.
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Well, when we teach we want
to follow the pattern of Jesus
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and be an interesting teacher.
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That means you may need to
look around for some sermon
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illustrations that provide
windows into the subject,
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help people to see
what you're saying.
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If you quote--and I
do this a lot, I know.
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If you just quote
one verse after another,
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people's eyes can
tend to glaze over.
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But if you create
pictures for them to see while
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you're teaching, a lot
of people think in pictures.
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Help them to see
what you're saying.
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Seeing is a very important
part of teaching the gospel.
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The Bible tells us
that Paul saw the Lord,
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that Zacchaeus
wanted to see the Lord.
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That the thief
crucified with Christ,
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that was saved, he saw the
Lord, and so we need to be able
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to help people see the message.
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You're looking in
Matthew chapter 13, verse 54.
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"When He had come
into His own country,
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He taught them in the
synagogue," taught them
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in their synagogue,
"so they were astonished,
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and they said, 'Where
did this man get this wisdom
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and these mighty works?'"
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Astonished again.
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Look in John
chapter 7, verse 45.
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"Then the officers came to the
chief priests and the Pharisees,
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who said to them, 'Why
have you not brought Him?'"
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See, the chief priests and
Pharisees sent the temple guard,
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and they said, "Go arrest Him."
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They didn't want to
do it themselves because
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they were afraid of the mob,
so they sent the temple guard.
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Well, the temple guard stood
on the outside of the crowd,
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and they
listened to Jesus teach.
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They thought, "We'll arrest
Him at the end of His sermon."
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But as they were listening,
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they just could not
bring themselves to arrest Him.
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Why?
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They said, "Why
haven't you arrested Him?"
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They said, "No man ever spoke
like this man," and so there
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was definitely something
powerful about the teachings
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of Jesus, and, of course,
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we have those
teachings in the gospel.
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I sure wish I could
hear an audio tape and,
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of course, I understood
Aramaic, but I wish I could hear
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an audiotape of
Jesus and hear His voice,
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hear the
inflection, hear the melody,
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hear the
resonance of how He taught,
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because, you know, a lot of what
happens when you're teaching
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is not just the words.
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It's in the tone.
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It's even the body language,
what's happening visually
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when a person's
teaching that says a lot.
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And I look forward in heaven
to asking my angel to take me
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to the video library so I can
say, "I want to see the videos
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of Jesus teaching and how He
could keep thousands of people
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spellbound all day
long, hanging on every word."
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Even the children
were not distracted.
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They were keyed in
on what He was saying.
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"Never a man
spoke like this man."
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All right, so one of the
principal things that Jesus
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did as a teacher is He
came to reveal the Father,
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and when we are
teaching, of course,
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we want to be revealing
Christ, and in revealing Christ
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we're revealing the Father.
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In John chapter 1, verse 18, "No
one has seen God at any time.
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The only begotten Son, who's
in the bosom of the Father,
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He has declared Him."
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Now, the reason this
issue is so important
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is because the
world doesn't know God.
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Eternal life
comes from knowing God.
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The Bible tells us, "This is
life eternal," John chapter 17,
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"that they might know
thee, the only true God,
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and Jesus Christ
whom You've sent."
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What will Jesus say to the lost?
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"I don't know you."
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And the world has a
terrible misconception of God.
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Now, there is--some people view
God as a policeman up in the sky
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with a billy club, and He's
waiting for us to do something
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wrong so He can thump us.
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Or they view Him like an angry
Greek god that is just watching
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so that He can be entertained
by zapping us with lightning,
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or sending us through trial
and tragedy so that it could
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entertain Him and
keep Him interested.
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Or then there's
the opposite extreme.
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Some think that God is
sort of a heavenly Santa Claus,
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like a grandfather
that you can do no wrong.
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They don't see
Him as a just King.
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And even in the church, there's
a lot of people out there
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that have terrible
misconceptions of God.
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Not
understanding who God is, yeah,
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it can lead to not
knowing Him and not being ready
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for His coming.
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We need to know who He is.
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Jesus came to clear up the
misconceptions about who God is,
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to show us in word and in deed
and in action what God is like.
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You know, sometimes I'm
frustrated because I meet
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people, and they say,
"You know, I like the God
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of the New
Testament, but I don't care much
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for the God of
the Old Testament."
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And I'm always amazed
by that because I say,
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"They're the same God."
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They say, "Oh, well, in the
Old Testament you've got plagues
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and blood and fire.
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In the New
Testament you got Jesus's love
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and mercy and forgiveness."
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And I say, "Wait a second now.
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In the Old Testament
you've got God's love."
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He says, "My
mercies are new every day.
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I love you with
an everlasting love."
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And in the New
Testament, go to Revelation,
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you got blood
and fire and plagues,
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and so it is the same God.
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That's why Jesus said--well,
let me read it to you here.
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Revealing the Father.
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John 14, verse 6, and I'll
be reading through verse 11.
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"I am the way, the
truth, and the life.
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No one comes to the
Father except through Me.
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If you had known Me--"
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Notice the
emphasis on "knowing Me."
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"If you had known Me, you
would have known My Father,"
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so that's the key right now.
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If we know Jesus,
you will know the Father,
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'cause They're the same.
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Christ is a mirror image.
They are one of the Father.
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"If you had known Me, you
would have known My Father also;
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and from now on you know
Him because you've seen Him."
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And they don't
know what He's saying.
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Christ is saying,
"If you've seen Me,
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you've seen the Father."
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"Philip said to Him,
'Lord, show us the Father,
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and it's sufficient for us.'"
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Now, there's nothing
wrong really with what Philip's
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saying, because after
all, what did Moses say?
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What was that
audacious prayer of Moses?
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He said, "Lord,
let me see Your glory."
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And God said, "Well, no
man can see My face and live."
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And so, for those in the Bible
where it says they saw the Lord,
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they probably did not
look into the unveiled,
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undiminished
glory of God the Father,
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because people have
seen the glory of the Son,
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but no man has seen the
unveiled glory of the Father.
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There are times when Michael,
Christ in His pre-incarnate
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position, he appeared,
when Joshua knelt down before
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the commander of the
Lord, and when Jacob wrestled,
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and when Manoah and his
wife, the parents of Samson,
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they said, "We've seen God.
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We're going to die."
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Well, they
probably saw God the Son,
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who veiled His
glory in some way,
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but no man has seen
the Father at any time.
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The best we can do is to look
at the Father through Christ.
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I remember several times--
you ever seen an eclipse?
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Well, you can't stare
into the sun in an eclipse.
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It's very bad for your eyes.
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You can injure your eyes.
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But I remember even as
a kid in New York City,
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we had a
comparatively clear day,
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and there was an eclipse,
and we went to Central Park.
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And our teacher told us how
to make a pinhole in a piece
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of cardboard, and then
we had a piece of paper,
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and we let the light of the
sun shine through that pinhole
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on the piece of paper.
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Held it at a certain distance,
and you could see the moon
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moving across the sun
through that little pinhole.
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We couldn't look directly
into the undiminished glory
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of the sun, or we
couldn't handle it.
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You'd be injured.
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But we can look
through the reflection,
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and this is sort
of what Jesus did.
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He came kind of like--when I
used to weld--I used to do a lot
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of welding, and when you use
an arc welder it's a very bright
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light, and it
will hurt your eyes.
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And so, they got a special
lens you wear on your helmet.
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The helmet is
partly to keep the sparks
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from burning off your hair.
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No, that's not
what happened to mine,
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but you've got the sparks,
keeps you from burning you.
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But then, there's that little
tinted--it's like hyper-powered
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sunglass that shields your eyes.
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You can look at it, but
you have to look at it through
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this special filter, or
it will just burn your eyes.
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Christ came to basically
filter down the glory of God
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so we could see God.
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We could handle it.
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That's why Paul says when
it gets--you finally do get
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to heaven in your glorified
body and your glorified eyes,
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says then we will see His face.
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And that's why Paul
says the eye has not seen,
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the ear has not heard the things
that God has prepared for those
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that love Him, because
in our earthly condition
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we couldn't handle the glory.
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So, "God so loved the world
He sent His only begotten Son,
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that whoever believes
in Him might not perish,
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but have everlasting life."
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We can see what God
is like through Jesus,
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so Philip says,
"Lord, show us the Father."
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Like Moses, "I
want to see Your glory."
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And Jesus said, "Have
I been with you this long
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and you've not
known Me, Philip?"
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He calls him by name.
There's tenderness there.
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"He who has seen Me
has seen the Father;
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so how can you say,
'Show us the Father'?
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Do you not believe
that I am in the Father,
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and the Father is in Me?
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The words that I speak to
you I do not speak on My own
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authority; but the Father
who dwells in Me does the works.
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Believe Me that I am in the
Father and the Father is in Me,
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or else believe Me for the
sake of the works themselves."
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When we are moved by the
Spirit, when we look at the Son,
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we are seeing the
Father, because the Father,
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the Son, and the
Spirit, hear, O Israel,
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the Lord our God is one.
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They are perfectly united.
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They're interconnected,
and so their characters--
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there's no conflict
in their characters.
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And so, when the
Spirit speaks to us,
00:19:49.82\00:19:51.42
when Jesus speaks to
us, when we behold Them,
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we see the Father.
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And then, He says,
"Believe that I'm in the Father,
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the Father in Me, or
believe Me for the sakes
00:19:57.79\00:20:00.80
of the works themselves."
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Look in 2 Corinthians
4:6, and this is, of course,
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our memory verse.
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"For it is the God who commanded
light to shine out of darkness,
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who has shone in our hearts to
give the light of the knowledge
00:20:12.97\00:20:17.65
of the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ."
00:20:17.68\00:20:21.72
There's a light
of God that shines
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in our hearts through Christ.
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We can actually experience
the Father in our hearts.
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And if you look
in Colossians 1:15,
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"He is the image
of the invisible God,
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the firstborn over all
creation," still talking about
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the image of the invisible God.
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The firstborn over all creation.
Jesus is the image of God.
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Now, we're not supporting
idolatry or making images,
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but Christ is the
reflection of what God is like.
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And if you look at
it in Hebrews chapter 1,
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verse 2 and 3, it says, "God
has in these last days spoken
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to us by His Son, whom He's
appointed heir of all things,
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through whom also
He made the worlds."
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That's an interesting verse,
00:21:09.93\00:21:11.23
'cause it says He
not only made all things,
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He made other
worlds, it's plural there.
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"Who being the brightness of
His glory and the express image
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of His person--"
00:21:21.44\00:21:24.01
And so Jesus is
the express image
00:21:24.05\00:21:26.21
of the person of God.
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So, when you talk
about the Holy Spirit,
00:21:28.38\00:21:30.85
He's a little
difficult to describe.
00:21:30.89\00:21:32.45
Holy Spirit's got--you
know, He's sometimes portrayed
00:21:32.49\00:21:37.19
as fire, wind, dove,
water, these ethereal forces.
00:21:37.23\00:21:43.50
And so, when I
say picture Jesus,
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you get a picture in your mind,
and depending on the paintings
00:21:46.47\00:21:49.17
that you saw when
you were growing up,
00:21:49.20\00:21:50.94
probably one of those will
drop into your mental picture.
00:21:50.97\00:21:54.51
When I say picture the
Father, typically people picture
00:21:54.54\00:21:57.78
the Father with a body
with arms and legs and a head
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and eyes and a
mouth, often a beard.
00:22:01.95\00:22:04.39
I've never heard anybody
say, "I pictured God the Father,
00:22:04.42\00:22:07.26
and He didn't have a beard."
00:22:07.29\00:22:08.96
It's just hard to picture God
the Father shaving, you know?
00:22:08.99\00:22:11.83
So, He's got a beard, and He's
often sitting on His throne,
00:22:11.86\00:22:16.13
not so much walking
around, but He's got a body.
00:22:16.16\00:22:19.13
And so, Christ is the
express image of the Father.
00:22:19.17\00:22:22.17
We do believe that we
were made in the image of God,
00:22:22.20\00:22:24.57
and we were made with
bodies, and there's probably
00:22:24.61\00:22:27.48
a lot of similarity between
our body and that of Adam
00:22:27.51\00:22:30.95
and that of God, and so
Christ is a reflection of that.
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"Express image of His
person, and upholding--"
00:22:35.52\00:22:37.59
Still in Hebrews chapter
1, verse 2 and 3, and it says,
00:22:37.62\00:22:43.16
"Upholding all things
by the word of His power,
00:22:43.19\00:22:46.16
when He had by
Himself purged our sins.
00:22:46.19\00:22:49.10
He sat down at the right
hand of the Majesty on high."
00:22:49.13\00:22:53.80
And then, if you
look in John 12, verse 44.
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"Then Jesus cried out and said,
'He who believes in Me is not
00:22:56.94\00:23:01.28
in Me but in Him who sent Me.
00:23:01.31\00:23:03.51
And he who sees Me
sees Him who sent Me."
00:23:03.55\00:23:07.62
How could that be more clear?
00:23:07.65\00:23:09.65
That if you see Jesus,
you're seeing the Father.
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Sometimes people
have a misconception,
00:23:12.79\00:23:14.69
talking about the
misconceptions about God,
00:23:14.72\00:23:17.13
that God is the angry judge.
00:23:17.16\00:23:19.36
He's up in heaven, He's
sitting at His judicial bar,
00:23:19.39\00:23:21.86
and He's got a great big
wooden mallet in His hand,
00:23:21.90\00:23:25.07
and He's just waiting to
slam the mallet down and say,
00:23:25.10\00:23:27.20
"Guilty, guilty, execute him."
00:23:27.24\00:23:30.04
And Jesus is the loving God.
00:23:30.07\00:23:31.61
He's up there, and He spreads
out His nail-pierced hands.
00:23:31.64\00:23:33.88
He's pleading with the Father,
"Father, please don't be angry.
00:23:33.91\00:23:36.54
Forgive them for My sake."
00:23:36.58\00:23:38.01
"Oh, all right, if you insist."
00:23:38.05\00:23:39.81
And so, it's almost got
the picture of God the Father
00:23:39.85\00:23:42.35
is the angry one, and
God the Son is the one who's
00:23:42.38\00:23:46.45
the merciful
one pleading for us,
00:23:46.49\00:23:48.36
but that's the wrong picture.
00:23:48.39\00:23:50.03
Jesus said God so loved
the world He sent His son,
00:23:50.06\00:23:54.40
and Jesus said the
Father Himself loves you,
00:23:54.46\00:23:58.50
so Jesus is a reflection
of the love of God for us.
00:23:58.53\00:24:01.87
And not only is
God a good judge.
00:24:01.90\00:24:04.54
He is a just King and a Judge.
00:24:04.57\00:24:06.74
Jesus is also
going to be a judge,
00:24:06.78\00:24:09.54
and the Bible talks
about the wrath of the Lamb.
00:24:09.58\00:24:12.58
So, people often focus
on just the mercy of Jesus
00:24:12.61\00:24:16.05
and the justice of the Father,
but you've got the justice
00:24:16.08\00:24:18.79
of Jesus and the
mercy of the Father.
00:24:18.82\00:24:20.42
You've got both of Them
because They're the same.
00:24:20.46\00:24:22.99
They both have all those
characteristics of being loving,
00:24:23.02\00:24:26.83
longsuffering,
meek, merciful, just.
00:24:26.86\00:24:31.67
There is
judgment, there is wrath,
00:24:31.70\00:24:34.67
and there's ultimate punishment.
00:24:34.70\00:24:37.31
They both have all those
characteristics that you see,
00:24:37.34\00:24:40.88
and Jesus came to reflect that.
00:24:40.91\00:24:43.78
And you read,
of course, in John,
00:24:43.81\00:24:45.71
the Gospel of John,
chapter 1, verse 14,
00:24:45.75\00:24:48.22
"And the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us,
00:24:48.25\00:24:51.69
and we beheld His glory, the
glory as of the only begotten
00:24:51.72\00:24:55.66
of the Father, full
of grace and truth."
00:24:55.69\00:24:59.06
And so, we see that God
the Father is full of grace
00:24:59.09\00:25:01.80
and truth, and that's
reflected in Jesus, God the Son.
00:25:01.83\00:25:06.94
You know, there's a good
quote in the book "Education"
00:25:06.97\00:25:10.47
by E.G. White on the subject.
00:25:10.51\00:25:12.44
It says, "Everything
Jesus did in His life
00:25:12.47\00:25:15.21
on Earth had a single purpose:
00:25:15.24\00:25:18.11
the revelation of God for
the uplifting of humanity."
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In a little bit we're going to
be doing that "Revelation Now"
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program, and the first words
in the book of Revelation are
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"the revelation of Jesus Christ,
which God gave unto him."
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And so, the whole
book begins by saying,
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"This is a revelation of Christ,
and Christ is a revelation
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of the Father," and so
says that there in that quote.
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You know,
there's a touching story
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that's given in the lesson.
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When Billy Graham was
going through a hospital,
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it was a field hospital
during one of the overseas wars,
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and came to visit the troops,
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and he's getting a
tour with a general.
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And they pass by one particular
soldier who is in very grave
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condition, and he
must stay on his stomach,
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and he's in a metal contraption.
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And he's been severely injured,
and he's kind of in traction,
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and he can only look down below
the canvas that's holding him.
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And when he hears that
the general is walking by,
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he said, "General, I'd
like to see your face."
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He said, "I'd like to see who
it is I've been fighting for."
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Well, the only way the general
could talk to him was he had
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to get on his hands and
knees and scooted underneath
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the soldier's
contraption that was holding him
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and looked up into his face.
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And Billy Graham said he saw
a tear fall from the soldier's
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eyes on the face of the general.
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He stayed under there,
and he talked to the soldier.
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And Jesus did that.
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He showed compassion
on us, and He got down
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so that we could see His face.
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You know, someday
we'll be in heaven.
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We'll see the
face of the Father.
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God Himself will be with us.
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We've been
separated from God by sin,
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but that's the purpose
of the plan of salvation.
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When you read about
Michael in the Bible,
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the archangel,
people wonder, "Who is he?
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Is he the same as Gabriel,
just a different angel?"
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People often get
confused about this and,
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you know, in the
church, some of the churches,
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they say you got a
angel called Michael,
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and you got an
angel called Gabriel.
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Then, you got an
angel called Raphael.
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Raphael is not
mentioned in the Bible,
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but in the Catholic Church
they've got Raphael thrown
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in there somehow.
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But Michael in the
Bible is called the archangel.
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Most of the
Protestant theologians believe
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this is really--this is
the captain of the Lord's army.
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It is a
pre-incarnation name for Christ.
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No, Jesus is not an
angel. We don't believe that.
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We believe Jesus is
the perfect Son of God.
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He is equal with the Son
of God, but the word "angel"
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simply means "messenger,"
and the primary messenger
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to our Earth is
Christ that God sent.
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And now, let me give
you some proof for that.
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1 Thessalonians chapter 4,
"The Lord Himself will descend
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from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel,"
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the Lord with the
voice of the archangel.
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The Bible tells us
in Daniel chapter 12,
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"At that time
Michael will stand up,
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the great prince that stands
for the children of thy people."
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Who is our great
Prince of princes that stands
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on our behalf?
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That's Christ.
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You read in the
book of Jude, verse 9.
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It says then Michael, when
disputing with the devil over
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the body of Jesus, he
comes to resurrect Moses--
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not the body of
Jesus, the body of Moses.
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He comes to resurrect Moses.
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And he says, "The
Lord rebuke thee."
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Same words that Jesus spoke
to the devil in the wilderness,
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and so he comes to resurrect.
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Jesus is the resurrection.
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So, when you look at the
characteristics of Michael
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in the Bible, the
few times he appears,
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he is usually--it's
a term that describes
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the pre-incarnate Christ,
the great messenger of God.
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And then you go to Revelation,
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and you got the
head of all evil.
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It says the dragon.
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Now, the dragon is a
symbolic name for the devil.
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It's a symbolic
name in Revelation.
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He fights Michael,
and his angels fight.
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Well, if the word
"dragon" is a symbolic name,
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we shouldn't be surprised if
the word "Michael" is a symbolic
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name for the greatest
power of good, which is Christ.
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So, yes, many of the Protestant
scholars believe that--people
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like Adam Clarke and
Matthew Henry and others--
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they believe Michael
is just really a name
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for the pre-incarnate Jesus.
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In Matthew 11, verse 27, "All
things have been delivered to Me
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by My Father, and no one knows
the Son except the Father,"
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meaning no one on
Earth really knows the Son,
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except the Father.
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"Nor does anyone know
the Father except the Son,
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and the one to whom
the Son will reveal Him."
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And so, Jesus came to
reveal the Father to us.
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How do we get that revelation?
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Through constant
association with Him.
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We'll be talking about
this later in our sermon today
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when we talk
about abiding in Christ.
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John 5:37, "And
the Father Himself,
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who sent Me,
has testified of Me.
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And you have neither
heard His voice at any time,
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nor seen His form."
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Now, there again you've
got those verses that remind us
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no man has seen God
the Father, but Jesus,
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who is the Son, He
came to reveal Him.
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And Christ is the
revelation, of course, of God.
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John 17, verse 20, "I do
not pray for these alone,
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but also for those
who will believe in Me
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through their word;
that they may be one,
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as You, Father, are in Me--"
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Now, there is
an important truth,
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that God the
Father was in Christ,
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reconciling the
world to Himself.
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"You, Father, are
in Me, and I in You;
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that they also may be one in
Us, that the world might believe
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that You sent Me."
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Now, how important is it for us
to understand who the Father is?
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Says that "the world
might believe that You sent Me."
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It's through seeing the Father
in the Son, knowing who God is.
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"And the glory that You
gave Me I have given them,
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that they may be
one just as We are one."
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That's a pretty tall order.
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The oneness that the
Father and the Son experience,
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through the Holy Spirit in
us we can experience with God
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the Father and the Son.
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Wow, don't you
want that experience?
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"I in them, and You in Me; that
they may be made perfect in one,
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and that the world may
know that You have sent Me,
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and that You've loved
them and You've loved Me."
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So just picture
for a second here.
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You've got this raspberry juice,
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and you've got
this blueberry juice.
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And you pour the raspberry
juice into the blueberry juice,
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and now you've got a new berry
cocktail when you have those
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two things, the
Father and the Son in one.
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But then, you take
the water, that's us,
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and you pour it in, and
all of a sudden it takes on
00:31:59.65\00:32:02.92
all the characteristics of the
raspberries and the blueberries.
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And so, you've
got God in Christ,
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and then They are together.
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They are one, but when we are
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in Christ we are
also in the Father.
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We get in the mixture.
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We get all the sweetness and the
nutrients of that relationship.
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So, there's another great quote
from the book "Education," page
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74 through 76, and it said,
00:32:24.94\00:32:27.91
"Christ came to
restore this knowledge.
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He came to set aside the
false teachings by which those
00:32:30.51\00:32:34.08
who claim to know God
had misrepresented Him.
00:32:34.12\00:32:37.52
And He came to manifest the
nature of His law and to reveal
00:32:37.55\00:32:41.39
His own character--
in His own character
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the beauty of holiness."
00:32:43.99\00:32:46.26
Christ came to tell
something about the beauty
00:32:46.29\00:32:48.03
and the holiness of
God and His character.
00:32:48.06\00:32:51.37
All right, moving on.
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We're going to talk now about
reading the Master's-Teacher's
00:32:54.57\00:32:58.44
mind, reading into the
mind of the Master Teacher.
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If you look in
Philippians chapter 2, verse 5,
00:33:02.41\00:33:05.41
"Let this mind be in
you which was also in Christ
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Jesus, who, being
in the form of God,
00:33:08.82\00:33:12.42
did not consider it
robbery to be equal with God,
00:33:12.45\00:33:15.86
but made Himself
of no reputation."
00:33:15.89\00:33:18.23
So, He said, you know,
He was fully equal with God.
00:33:18.26\00:33:21.26
He's in the form of God.
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Wasn't robbery for him
to compare himself with God.
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He said, "Before
Abraham was, I am."
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He said that He is
like the self-existent One.
00:33:28.67\00:33:32.27
But, "He made
Himself of no reputation,
00:33:32.31\00:33:36.54
taking the form
of a bondservant,
00:33:36.58\00:33:38.38
and coming in
the likeness of men."
00:33:38.41\00:33:40.68
So, having the Teacher's mind.
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When we have Christ in us, while
we might have an experience
00:33:42.15\00:33:46.45
of God, we're not to act
like God in being domineering,
00:33:46.49\00:33:50.63
but we're to have a
spirit of meekness as Jesus did.
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Jesus came. He said,
00:33:54.00\00:33:55.26
"Look, I'm your teacher.
00:33:55.30\00:33:56.63
I'm your Lord and
Master, yet I'm kneeling down.
00:33:56.67\00:33:58.57
I'm washing your feet, so
if I, your Lord and Master,
00:33:58.60\00:34:01.64
have washed your feet, you ought
to wash one another's feet."
00:34:01.67\00:34:05.04
Said, "I did not come to rule."
00:34:05.07\00:34:07.04
Jesus did not come to domineer.
00:34:07.08\00:34:09.74
He didn't come
to boss us around.
00:34:09.78\00:34:11.11
He said, "I've come as one
to serve," and so we should
00:34:11.15\00:34:14.58
be servants as Jesus was.
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And then something else
that we learn about Jesus
00:34:16.79\00:34:19.49
is the style of His teaching.
00:34:19.52\00:34:20.99
Jesus was what you would call--
00:34:21.02\00:34:24.26
He used the
Socratic method of teaching.
00:34:24.29\00:34:27.86
Now, that phrase
most of you know.
00:34:27.86\00:34:29.73
The Socratic method of teaching
is based on that ancient Greek
00:34:29.76\00:34:33.64
philosopher
Socrates, who was famous
00:34:33.67\00:34:36.94
for teaching his
students by asking questions.
00:34:36.97\00:34:40.58
And from all we
read about Socrates,
00:34:40.61\00:34:42.41
he was a good man.
00:34:42.44\00:34:43.98
He basically died for not
accepting the pantheon of Greek
00:34:44.01\00:34:47.68
gods, and he said we
should spend our time
00:34:47.72\00:34:51.22
in seeking after God, our lives.
00:34:51.25\00:34:54.06
And, you know, they
made him drink hemlock,
00:34:54.09\00:34:56.39
but he was famous for teaching
his students by asking the right
00:34:56.42\00:35:01.13
questions to draw out answers
and teaching them to think
00:35:01.16\00:35:04.70
for themselves and how to
arrive at the right conclusions.
00:35:04.73\00:35:08.47
Now, it's not that Jesus
learned this from Socrates,
00:35:08.50\00:35:11.01
but I think
probably the Spirit of God,
00:35:11.04\00:35:13.44
of Christ taught
this to Socrates,
00:35:13.48\00:35:16.54
because all knowledge
comes from God, really.
00:35:16.58\00:35:19.31
But Jesus used this method
of asking questions to teach
00:35:19.35\00:35:23.89
and let me give you an example.
00:35:23.92\00:35:26.52
And he started
young in doing this.
00:35:26.55\00:35:28.49
Luke chapter 2, verse 45,
"So when they didn't find Him--"
00:35:28.52\00:35:32.39
They're coming--this is
after--Jesus was 12 years old.
00:35:32.43\00:35:36.03
He went to the
Passover with His family,
00:35:36.06\00:35:38.43
and when the Passover
was over all the family
00:35:38.47\00:35:41.17
got in the procession,
started heading back north,
00:35:41.20\00:35:43.20
up towards Nazareth.
00:35:43.24\00:35:44.97
And in the process,
after a couple of days,
00:35:45.01\00:35:46.81
they noticed, "We
haven't seen Jesus."
00:35:46.84\00:35:48.64
Oh, He was 12, you know,
and He's pretty responsible,
00:35:48.68\00:35:51.11
and they weren't
worried about Him,
00:35:51.15\00:35:52.48
but after two days
they didn't see Him,
00:35:52.51\00:35:53.85
then they
really started to fret.
00:35:53.88\00:35:55.52
They turned
around, they backtracked,
00:35:55.55\00:35:57.22
and they couldn't
find Him anywhere.
00:35:57.25\00:35:58.59
And they asked everybody
and finally they all went back
00:35:58.62\00:36:00.92
to the place where they
last saw Him in the temple.
00:36:00.96\00:36:04.73
And there He was, and it says,
"Now when after three days they
00:36:04.76\00:36:10.63
found Him in the temple, sitting
in the midst of the teachers,
00:36:10.67\00:36:14.60
both listening to them
and," here's this precocious
00:36:14.64\00:36:19.91
12-year-old genius,
"asking them questions."
00:36:19.94\00:36:24.78
And He was probably asking
questions that would evoke
00:36:24.81\00:36:27.85
answers, and He was
teaching somewhat through these
00:36:27.88\00:36:30.32
questions, because as a
12-year-old you wouldn't
00:36:30.35\00:36:32.05
want to dare say, "Listen
up, sit up, pay attention,
00:36:32.09\00:36:34.16
I'm going to teach you,
you Pharisees, something,"
00:36:34.19\00:36:36.73
so He did it meekly in
the form of a question.
00:36:36.76\00:36:40.00
"And all who heard
Him were astonished."
00:36:40.03\00:36:42.16
There you've got His
astonished teaching again.
00:36:42.20\00:36:44.23
"All who heard Him were
astonished at His understanding
00:36:44.27\00:36:47.07
and His answers."
00:36:47.10\00:36:48.74
So, He's not only
asking, he's answering.
00:36:48.77\00:36:51.17
"And when they saw Him,
his parents were amazed,
00:36:51.21\00:36:53.21
said, 'Son, why
have You done this to us?
00:36:53.24\00:36:55.18
Look, Your father
and I have sought You
00:36:55.21\00:36:57.21
sorrowing, anxiously.'
00:36:57.25\00:36:58.98
He said to them,
'Why did you seek Me?
00:36:59.01\00:37:01.12
Did you not know I must be
about My Father's business?'"
00:37:01.15\00:37:04.02
There He is again,
here reflecting the teaching
00:37:04.05\00:37:06.86
and the business of the Father.
00:37:06.89\00:37:09.19
"But they did not
understand the statement
00:37:09.22\00:37:11.39
which He made to them."
00:37:11.43\00:37:13.60
Jesus taught with questions.
00:37:13.63\00:37:16.26
This is part of
a good education.
00:37:16.30\00:37:17.80
Matthew 16, verse 13 through 16.
00:37:17.83\00:37:21.27
You know, when I
teach-- I do evangelism,
00:37:21.30\00:37:24.44
and I'm probably more of
a teacher than a preacher.
00:37:24.47\00:37:27.51
And, of course, depends
on what your concept is.
00:37:27.54\00:37:29.58
I know there are
some pastors that--they
00:37:29.61\00:37:32.85
kind of romp around the
stage and yell and scream
00:37:32.88\00:37:36.48
and wave their arms, and
they call that preaching,
00:37:36.52\00:37:41.26
but I think I
like to use questions.
00:37:41.29\00:37:44.46
And if you've ever been to one
of our evangelistic programs,
00:37:44.49\00:37:47.86
I started using lessons with a
question-and-answer format right
00:37:47.86\00:37:51.23
when I entered into evangelism,
because if you just sit
00:37:51.27\00:37:54.20
there and drone on you
lose people's attention.
00:37:54.24\00:37:56.24
But every time you
ask someone a question,
00:37:56.27\00:37:59.34
you grab their attention.
00:37:59.37\00:38:00.78
We're kind of trained by our
social lives that when someone
00:38:00.81\00:38:03.38
asks us a question, you've
got to redirect your attention
00:38:03.41\00:38:06.38
and tune back in, and
so Jesus often did this.
00:38:06.41\00:38:09.72
He asked questions.
00:38:09.75\00:38:11.85
And Matthew
chapter 16, verse 13,
00:38:11.89\00:38:14.46
"When they came into the
region of Caesarea Philippi,
00:38:14.49\00:38:16.99
He said to His disciples,
'Who do men say that I,
00:38:17.03\00:38:20.23
the Son of Man, am?'
00:38:20.26\00:38:22.60
They said, 'Well,
some say John the Baptist,
00:38:22.63\00:38:24.43
some say Elijah,
others say Jeremiah
00:38:24.47\00:38:26.10
or one of the prophets.'
00:38:26.13\00:38:27.60
He said, 'But who
do you say that I am?'"
00:38:27.64\00:38:29.54
Again, another question.
00:38:29.57\00:38:31.41
"Simon Peter answered
and said, 'You're the Christ,
00:38:31.44\00:38:33.68
the Son of the living God.'"
00:38:33.71\00:38:35.21
Was Jesus asking
because He didn't know?
00:38:35.24\00:38:37.08
He knows all
things. He knew the answer.
00:38:37.11\00:38:38.75
He was asking to
draw out their thinking.
00:38:38.78\00:38:41.88
Did they really know who He was?
00:38:41.92\00:38:44.35
And sometimes you
need to articulate it.
00:38:44.39\00:38:46.59
He got them to say it.
00:38:46.62\00:38:48.72
In Luke 20, verse 24, Jesus
said, "'Show Me a denarius.
00:38:48.76\00:38:54.10
Whose image and
inscription does it have?'
00:38:54.10\00:38:56.60
They said, 'Caesar's.'"
00:38:56.63\00:38:58.17
Again, He's going to
teach them by asking questions.
00:38:58.20\00:39:01.20
Luke 10:36.
00:39:01.24\00:39:02.60
And I could use a
lot of examples of this.
00:39:02.64\00:39:04.81
He said, "So which of these
three do you think was neighbor
00:39:04.84\00:39:08.18
to him that fell among thieves?"
00:39:08.21\00:39:09.91
He tells the parable
of the Good Samaritan.
00:39:09.94\00:39:12.25
He closes with a
question to get them to think.
00:39:12.28\00:39:16.12
They had a hard time admitting
that it was the Samaritan
00:39:16.15\00:39:18.95
that was the neighbor.
00:39:18.99\00:39:21.42
Luke 7:42, "And when they
had nothing with which to repay,
00:39:21.46\00:39:25.93
he freely forgave them both.
00:39:25.96\00:39:27.40
Tell Me, which of
them will love them more?"
00:39:27.40\00:39:30.07
And He poses this
question to Simon.
00:39:30.10\00:39:32.50
He's teaching with questions,
that's Socratic method.
00:39:32.53\00:39:36.64
Now, let's talk a
little bit about--well, wait.
00:39:36.67\00:39:39.27
I want to tell you a
story talking about Jesus
00:39:39.31\00:39:42.34
as the Master Teacher.
00:39:42.38\00:39:44.51
I remember hearing this
story-- I believe it's true--
00:39:44.55\00:39:47.78
about years ago, there was
a missionary that was going
00:39:47.82\00:39:53.12
to some islands in the Hebrides,
and the boat he was on,
00:39:53.15\00:40:01.53
it was caught in a storm, and
it was turned over, capsized.
00:40:01.56\00:40:08.80
Well, he was separated from
the other three missionaries
00:40:08.84\00:40:11.44
that he was traveling with,
00:40:11.47\00:40:13.31
and they somehow
made it into the lifeboat.
00:40:13.34\00:40:16.54
He got a piece of driftwood.
00:40:16.58\00:40:18.28
He ends up floating
for a day and a half,
00:40:18.31\00:40:20.72
nearly dying of thirst.
00:40:20.75\00:40:22.08
He's washed up on this island.
00:40:22.12\00:40:23.42
In the process of being
washed up on this atoll island,
00:40:23.45\00:40:26.99
he's beaten on the coral
by the waves as he comes in.
00:40:27.02\00:40:30.53
He tries with his hands and
his feet to walk on the coral
00:40:30.56\00:40:33.80
without cutting
himself up too badly,
00:40:33.83\00:40:35.33
and he terribly scars
his hands and his feet
00:40:35.36\00:40:37.77
and his side and his head.
00:40:37.80\00:40:40.57
He gets to the
island, and he collapses.
00:40:40.60\00:40:43.57
The natives see him, and
they're not threatened because
00:40:43.61\00:40:45.31
he's obviously very
weak, and they kind of give him
00:40:45.34\00:40:47.84
some coconut water and
nurse him back to health,
00:40:47.88\00:40:50.45
and he ends up living with them.
00:40:50.48\00:40:54.08
Takes a while. He
learns the language.
00:40:54.12\00:40:56.05
He doesn't have his
missionary materials,
00:40:56.08\00:40:58.25
he doesn't have his Bible, but
he does his best to show them
00:40:58.29\00:41:01.66
what Jesus was like.
00:41:01.69\00:41:03.79
And so, he has some
knowledge of medicine.
00:41:03.83\00:41:06.39
He healed some
of their sicknesses.
00:41:06.43\00:41:08.60
He prays for them and
many of them are made well.
00:41:08.63\00:41:11.03
As much as he
learns their language,
00:41:11.07\00:41:12.80
he tries to
demonstrate what the gospel is.
00:41:12.83\00:41:16.24
Well, he lives with
them for several years,
00:41:16.27\00:41:18.34
and he goes and he
visits the different villages
00:41:18.37\00:41:20.58
that are on this island.
00:41:20.61\00:41:23.01
So, ten years later a boat with
three missionaries paddles up
00:41:23.04\00:41:27.95
to this island.
00:41:27.98\00:41:29.32
Lo and behold, it's his
companions that had launched
00:41:29.35\00:41:31.95
on this original
mission trip with him,
00:41:31.99\00:41:34.66
that were
separated in the shipwreck.
00:41:34.69\00:41:36.39
They had ended up landing on
another island and after some
00:41:36.42\00:41:38.99
successful work there now
00:41:39.03\00:41:40.36
they're going to
outlying islands.
00:41:40.40\00:41:42.26
They come to this island,
00:41:42.30\00:41:44.07
and they've got a
translator with them.
00:41:44.10\00:41:46.10
And they assemble the villagers,
and the villagers all eagerly
00:41:46.13\00:41:48.80
come down to the
shore, and they say,
00:41:48.84\00:41:50.14
"We're going to teach
you about the true God."
00:41:50.17\00:41:53.48
And they've got
these picture scrolls.
00:41:53.51\00:41:55.88
They've got two or three
pictures that they use to try
00:41:55.91\00:41:59.31
to teach about Jesus
and the plan of salvation
00:41:59.35\00:42:01.95
with the translator.
00:42:01.98\00:42:03.28
Well, it so
happens their friend,
00:42:03.32\00:42:04.65
he's in another village on
the other side of the island.
00:42:04.69\00:42:07.39
They don't know that he's there.
00:42:07.42\00:42:09.36
He doesn't know that
they're on the same island.
00:42:09.39\00:42:12.79
Well, as they begin
to teach about Jesus,
00:42:12.83\00:42:15.30
they finally come to the
picture that shows the cross.
00:42:15.33\00:42:18.60
And they're all listening.
00:42:18.63\00:42:19.93
They're going, "Yes, yes,
yes," in their native tongue,
00:42:19.97\00:42:22.50
and they seem very interested as
they sit with their legs crossed
00:42:22.54\00:42:25.37
on the shore, and
they're looking entranced.
00:42:25.41\00:42:28.78
And then, they
say, "And Jesus died."
00:42:28.81\00:42:33.98
And these men
become very disturbed.
00:42:34.02\00:42:36.28
"And they put Him in a grave."
00:42:36.32\00:42:38.92
And they got really upset, and
they began to jabber and chant.
00:42:38.95\00:42:42.32
And the translator
says, "They seem very upset.
00:42:42.36\00:42:45.03
They say you're liars."
00:42:45.06\00:42:46.39
And they say, "Well, why
do they say that we're liars?"
00:42:46.43\00:42:47.86
They say, "He's not dead.
00:42:47.86\00:42:49.86
He's on the other
side of the island."
00:42:49.90\00:42:52.67
Their friend had been living
so much like Jesus among them,
00:42:52.70\00:42:55.54
that when the other missionaries
came and began to talk to them
00:42:55.57\00:42:58.27
about Jesus,
they immediately said,
00:42:58.31\00:42:59.71
"Oh, we know who that is.
00:42:59.74\00:43:01.68
This is our friend, this
missionary that has been living
00:43:01.71\00:43:05.78
among us, who's been healing
and teaching and loving us."
00:43:05.81\00:43:09.48
He had lived like Christ so much
00:43:09.52\00:43:11.92
that they
mistook him for Christ.
00:43:11.95\00:43:13.99
That's what
we're supposed to do,
00:43:14.02\00:43:15.32
is as Jesus came to
reflect the Father--
00:43:15.36\00:43:17.93
He says, "As the Father
sent Me, so send I you."
00:43:17.96\00:43:21.80
We are to go, then,
and we are to reflect God.
00:43:21.83\00:43:24.53
Doug: Yeah, right, here's
a question from social media.
00:43:24.57\00:43:26.80
They're asking, "Can we
have the same relationship
00:43:26.84\00:43:29.74
with the Father that Jesus had?"
00:43:29.77\00:43:32.27
Well, to say it would be
identical would be probably
00:43:32.31\00:43:34.84
presumptuous, but
through the Spirit,
00:43:34.88\00:43:37.98
in the same way that we're
connected with Christ or Christ
00:43:38.01\00:43:41.08
is connected with the Father,
we can be connected with Jesus.
00:43:41.12\00:43:44.59
And Jesus actually
says there in John 17,
00:43:44.62\00:43:47.69
"As I am in the Father
and the Father is in Me,"
00:43:47.72\00:43:49.92
so we are to be in Christ.
00:43:49.96\00:43:52.53
He wants us to have that
Spirit-filled experience.
00:43:52.56\00:43:56.30
And isn't that your longing?
00:43:56.33\00:43:57.57
I mean, the greatest longing of
my life is to have Christ in me,
00:43:57.60\00:44:01.64
the hope of glory, amen?
00:44:01.67\00:44:03.64
That's what we're all
yearning for and longing for.
00:44:03.67\00:44:06.44
Well, I've got a
little left and a little time.
00:44:06.47\00:44:08.81
It says, "Jesus is the master
teacher and reconciliation."
00:44:08.84\00:44:13.05
Colossians 1:19
through verse 22,
00:44:13.08\00:44:16.55
"For it pleased the Father that
in Him all the fullness should
00:44:16.58\00:44:21.26
dwell, and that by Him to
reconcile all things to Himself,
00:44:21.29\00:44:27.30
by Him, whether things on
earth or things in heaven,
00:44:27.36\00:44:29.86
having made peace
through the blood of His cross.
00:44:29.90\00:44:33.13
And you, who were once alienated
and enemies in your mind
00:44:33.17\00:44:36.50
by wicked works, yet
now He has reconciled--"
00:44:36.54\00:44:39.51
in spite of how wicked we might
have been, He can reconcile us--
00:44:39.54\00:44:42.84
"in the body of His
flesh through His death,
00:44:42.88\00:44:45.45
to present you
holy, and blameless,
00:44:45.48\00:44:48.38
and above
reproach in His sight."
00:44:48.42\00:44:51.15
Yeah, He can make us one
with Him in reconciliation.
00:44:51.19\00:44:55.02
And then, if you look
in 2 Corinthians 5:16,
00:44:55.06\00:44:57.76
"Therefore, from
now on, we regard no one
00:44:57.79\00:45:00.26
according to the flesh.
00:45:00.30\00:45:01.73
Even though we have known
Christ according to the flesh,
00:45:01.76\00:45:04.47
and yet now we
know Him thus no longer.
00:45:04.50\00:45:08.47
Therefore, if
anyone is in Christ,
00:45:08.50\00:45:10.37
he's a new creation;
old things have passed away;
00:45:10.41\00:45:13.44
behold, all
things have become new.
00:45:13.48\00:45:15.94
Now all things are of God,
who has reconciled us to Himself
00:45:15.98\00:45:19.91
through Jesus Christ, and
has given us the ministry of
00:45:19.95\00:45:22.88
reconciliation, that is, God was
in Christ reconciling the world
00:45:22.92\00:45:27.19
to Himself, not imputing
their trespasses to them,
00:45:27.22\00:45:30.46
and He's committed to us
a word of reconciliation."
00:45:30.49\00:45:33.46
So, reconciling means, you
know, if people are separated.
00:45:33.50\00:45:37.50
A pastor, if he's
doing marriage counseling,
00:45:37.53\00:45:39.30
tries to bring reconciliation.
00:45:39.33\00:45:41.67
We were separated
from God by our sin.
00:45:41.70\00:45:43.84
Christ came to
reconcile us to the Father.
00:45:43.87\00:45:46.68
We, as priests of God, are to be
reconciling the world to Christ.
00:45:46.71\00:45:51.91
We do similar work.
00:45:51.95\00:45:53.31
Doug: Question
from social media.
00:45:53.35\00:45:55.18
"Is Jesus still teaching us
now through the Holy Spirit?"
00:45:55.22\00:45:59.12
Yeah, Christ said, "It's
expedient for you that I go
00:45:59.15\00:46:01.86
away, that the Holy
Spirit, the Comforter,
00:46:01.89\00:46:04.79
might come, and He will
lead you into all truth,"
00:46:04.83\00:46:08.30
so it is--the Holy Spirit,
of course, is glorifying Christ.
00:46:08.33\00:46:12.27
It says, "He, the Spirit, will
bring to your remembrance all
00:46:12.30\00:46:15.80
things that I've said."
00:46:15.84\00:46:17.44
And, of course, some of
the last words of Jesus is,
00:46:17.47\00:46:19.57
"I will be with you
always, even unto the end."
00:46:19.61\00:46:23.28
Well, then, we go
to the last section.
00:46:23.31\00:46:24.88
It talks about the
Master's-Teacher's first pupils,
00:46:24.91\00:46:28.62
and then here we read about
00:46:28.65\00:46:30.22
the wonderful story of
the shepherds who came.
00:46:30.25\00:46:33.46
Now, Christ is--you know, you
kind of have to push the idea
00:46:33.49\00:46:37.13
that He personally is teaching,
but when He first came into
00:46:37.16\00:46:40.66
the world during the
incarnation, people were taught
00:46:40.70\00:46:43.80
by what they saw of Jesus,
00:46:43.83\00:46:46.07
not so much the words He
spoke, because he's a child,
00:46:46.10\00:46:48.60
but when He entered the
world in that humble state,
00:46:48.64\00:46:52.41
and the angel
said to the shepherd,
00:46:52.44\00:46:53.78
"You'll find the babe.
00:46:53.81\00:46:55.38
This is the sign to
you: He'll be in a manger."
00:46:55.41\00:46:57.95
Oh, it's a trough
for feeding animals.
00:46:57.98\00:47:00.38
It could be wood
or it could be stone,
00:47:00.42\00:47:02.68
but I always thought it
was interesting that Jesus,
00:47:02.72\00:47:04.89
who is the bread of
life, was born in Bethlehem,
00:47:04.92\00:47:09.19
which is the House of Bread, and
He came to give us that bread.
00:47:09.22\00:47:14.20
And He's put in a trough
that's made for providing bread
00:47:14.20\00:47:17.27
for animals, so it
says bread, bread, bread.
00:47:17.30\00:47:20.34
Jesus is the bread of life.
00:47:20.37\00:47:22.87
And then, of course, it's also
when He comes to the temple.
00:47:22.90\00:47:27.11
His humility speaks when
He was dedicated as a baby,
00:47:27.14\00:47:30.55
the simple, humble way
that He came into our world.
00:47:30.58\00:47:33.62
And the wise men
came, and they bowed down,
00:47:33.65\00:47:36.22
and they worshiped Him.
00:47:36.25\00:47:37.62
They just
worshiped this child king,
00:47:37.65\00:47:39.72
and so He was even teaching
by his example when He first
00:47:39.75\00:47:42.59
entered the world as
this innocent little infant,
00:47:42.62\00:47:47.13
and He says we must
receive the gospel the same way.
00:47:47.13\00:47:49.96
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I just always had this emptiness
in my heart I wanted filled.
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I just felt like I
went my whole life,
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you know, just
searching for something.
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And when my father died
and that ruined me a lot.
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My father didn't
believe in suicide,
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and I didn't want to live,
but rather than disrespect him
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I decided I would just become so
mean and someone else would do
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it to me and I wouldn't have to,
so I joined the army thinking,
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"What better place to
get killed than in the army?"
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And while I was in the
army, my daughter got injured.
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She was in an accident, and
she was blind and paraplegic,
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and it's just like
I felt the whole world
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was coming down on me.
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And one morning, I
just really got mad,
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and I gave God a cussing
like you wouldn't believe.
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I said, "I'm not Moses.
I'm not Abraham, you know?
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I don't--but I put my
sandals on just like they do,
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and I'm a man.
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I don't want to know
why this is happening to me.
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I just want to know
it's happening for a reason.
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If You tell me right now
that this is all for a reason,
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then You can stack it on me
from here to the end of time,
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and I will
never complain again."
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And that little TV came on.
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It'd been sitting there
just static all night long,
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and there was this minister.
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He pops up and says, "Today's
lesson is from the book of Job.
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God only lets those
suffer that He loves the most."
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And I said, "Well,
that's all you got to say, Lord.
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I appreciate it greatly"
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From that day forward,
I knew that He was there,
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and He was in my life
and that He would help me.
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I went to prison just
almost immediately after that.
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I was in prison
for aggravated assault.
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I was in one of
the worst prisons
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in the state of Tennessee.
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It was full of gang
activity. I got my throat cut,
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52 stitches in my neck.
00:51:35.46\00:51:38.06
I could take these
fingers and stick them all
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the way throughout my mouth.
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I'd gone to the library that
day because it was really about
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the only thing to do, but I ran
across this little book called
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"The Richest Caveman."
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This book is
hilarious, but it is great.
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I'm sitting here
with this big beard.
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I'm thinking, "Hey,
I know what it's like
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to look like a caveman, but."
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[laughing]
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I'm not an educated
person, I guess you'd say,
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but I'm a simple guy.
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I'm just really a simple guy.
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That's what I loved
about Doug Batchelor,
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because this guy is just
straight out as you can get.
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And my wife now, we've kept
contact through all these years,
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and so much has
gone on, and I told her,
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I said, "Listen now, this is the
center of my world right now."
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And I said, "I really want you
to be involved in it with me.
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I need it."
00:52:29.21\00:52:30.55
And I said, "And you will, too,
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if you ever just
take hold of it."
00:52:31.95\00:52:33.25
I told my wife, I said, "Listen,
I've got this Amazing Facts
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Bible study going here, and
this is the best way for you
00:52:36.22\00:52:40.49
to get this information."
00:52:40.52\00:52:41.86
And I think I said,
"Because it's broken down,
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and they give you
questions and--to make you look
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for these things, you know?
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So, it's not anyone telling you.
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You find it on your
own, and they teach you
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to actually use the Bible."
00:52:57.21\00:52:58.94
She was there
faithfully every Wednesday,
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until we decided, you know,
she wanted to be baptized also.
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She saw it coming
around. The choice was made.
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On October 4, 2014, my wife and
I were baptized in the water,
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at the same time, and we
started our walk together,
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I guess you'd say.
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I went through everything that
a man could possibly go through,
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I guess, from marital trouble,
00:53:26.80\00:53:31.17
loss of family
members, death in my family.
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My children were harmed,
00:53:34.34\00:53:35.64
and my daughter was
handicapped for life.
00:53:35.68\00:53:39.28
I went to prison, but still
I kept my word to God that He
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could stack it on
me as much as He wanted
00:53:44.95\00:53:47.66
and I'd never
question Him again.
00:53:47.69\00:53:49.12
And I didn't, but I could say
this much: He never put nothing
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on me that I couldn't handle,
00:53:54.36\00:53:56.73
and He walked
with me through it all.
00:53:56.77\00:53:59.03
And I'd like to say
that-- to anyone who
00:53:59.07\00:54:01.07
is in prison not to give up.
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Don't lose hope.
00:54:05.87\00:54:07.31
Put your faith in the
Lord and study and seek Him,
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and He will seek you.
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And my name is Charlie
Green, and I want you to know
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that you and Amazing
Facts have changed my life.
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Doug: What can be more
irresistible than a kitten?
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These guys might look cute
now, but some of their ancestors
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have grown into man eaters.
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[roaring]
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We're here in a lion
park in South Africa now where
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we can view these
creatures in relative safety,
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but there's a reason they're
known as the king of beasts.
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So, what is it that people find
00:55:02.03\00:55:03.33
so enchanting and
frightening about lions?
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Is it their speed, their
claws, their sharp teeth,
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or all of the above?
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Might also be some of the
stories about man-eating lions.
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Like in 1898,
right here in Africa,
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they were building a bridge
over the Tsavo River in Kenya,
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and two brother lions terrorized
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the construction
process, eating 135 workers.
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Did you know lions are mentioned
in the Bible over 100 times,
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and you can
find them all the way
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from Genesis to Revelation?
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It's usually in
reference to their ferocity
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and how dangerous they are.
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Of course, Samson killed
a lion with his bare hands.
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David killed a lion.
00:55:41.97\00:55:43.27
There are
man-eating lions in the Bible.
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The way that they punished
criminals was by throwing
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them in the lions' den,
and early Christians were even
00:55:47.91\00:55:50.81
fed to lions, but, amazingly,
as the Bible mentions,
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not all lions are to be feared.
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There have been a few
friendly lions in history.
00:55:56.69\00:55:59.45
For example, in
the 1950s, a couple,
00:55:59.49\00:56:02.99
George and Margaret Westbeau,
who lived up at a ranch near
00:56:03.02\00:56:06.39
Seattle, Washington,
adopted an abandoned lion cub.
00:56:06.43\00:56:10.57
They named it Little Tyke
because they felt sorry for it,
00:56:10.60\00:56:13.50
but they discovered
as they tried to feed her
00:56:13.54\00:56:16.07
she refused to
eat any meat at all.
00:56:16.10\00:56:19.24
They were concerned,
thinking there was no hope
00:56:19.27\00:56:21.08
for this little lioness to
survive, and everybody told them
00:56:21.11\00:56:23.88
the same, because we
know in the wild lions survive
00:56:23.91\00:56:26.98
on almost an entirely meat diet.
00:56:27.02\00:56:29.82
Then someone showed
the Westbeaus that verse
00:56:29.85\00:56:31.95
in the Bible that talks
about in heaven the animals
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are vegetarians, and the
lion will eat straw like the ox.
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That encouraged them,
and so they began to feed
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Little Tyke a
purely vegetarian diet.
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Not only did she
survive, she thrived,
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growing into a lion
that was over 352 pounds
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and over 10 feet long.
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In fact, zoologists that
examined Little Tyke when
00:56:54.04\00:56:56.41
she was full-grown said
they have never seen such
00:56:56.44\00:56:58.91
a perfect specimen of
a lioness in their life,
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a pure vegetarian.
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You know, when we hear
incredible stories about that,
00:57:04.62\00:57:06.79
of Little Tyke, it reminds
us that God's original plan
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was to make a
world of total peace.
00:57:10.29\00:57:12.86
He describes it
here in the Bible
00:57:12.89\00:57:14.30
in Isaiah chapter 11, verse 6.
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"The wolf also will
dwell with the lamb,
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the leopard will lie
down with the young goat,
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the calf and the young
lion and the fatling together;
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and a little
child will lead them."
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Nothing is going to hurt
and destroy in the new heavens
00:57:26.61\00:57:29.21
and the new earth that
God is going to create.
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Wouldn't you like to live in
a kingdom where there's perfect
00:57:31.41\00:57:33.55
peace, where there's no
more death or killing or pain?
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God says that He
wants you in that kingdom.
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The Lamb of God made it
possible for you to have
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an encounter with the
Lion of the tribe of Judah.
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Wouldn't you like
to meet Him today?
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