Andrew Bramhill – Life-Changing Sayings of the Lord Jesus – Class 3 – Service Re-Examined

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Thank you very much, Ben.
Good morning, brothers and

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sisters.
Good morning young people.

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That was a a better response
than I was expecting actually.

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Well done, well done.
So we’re considering our service

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this morning.
I, I, I wasn’t very good at

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quite finishing off yesterday.
So I, I just want to run

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through, if I may, a little
summary of where we’ve got 2 so

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far.
So I, I put on the screen the

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sayings that we’ve seen of the
Lord Jesus Christ over the last

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two or three days.
You will know all these.

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We’ve spent a little bit of time
looking at some of these.

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These were the ones that we
considered in our devotional

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yesterday.
We were looking at how was it

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the day before?
With God all things are

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possible.
It’s your Father’s good pleasure

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to give you the Kingdom.
Neither do I condemn thee.

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Go and sin no more.
Which has to be one of one of my

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favourites.
Then we were with Nicodemus

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yesterday.
Except a man be born again.

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And we examine this idea of come
unto me.

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And if we’d have had time
yesterday and if I’d have

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managed my time a little better,
we would have spent some time in

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Matthew Chapter 11.
Perhaps you’d just come with me

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there for a moment while we just
look at these wonderful little

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verses that the Lord Jesus
Christ had.

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I was trying to explain to you
that when Christ asks us to come

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to him, invariably it’s for a
good thing.

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He has something encouraging,
something helpful, something

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that He wants to do for us.
And and here he is at the end of

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Matthew Chapter 11, verse 28,
inviting us to come unto him all

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ye that labour.
We’re talking about service this

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morning and our heavy laden.
He’s interested in helping those

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who are burdened and in
difficulty and and and you might

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be in that category that that
might be something which is a a

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problem for you.
It’s all about the curse of

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Eden, you know, isn’t it?
Man had to work.

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Adam had to work until the toil
of until the the the soil of the

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ground and that’s how he would
feed his family.

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Women had to labour in
childbearing.

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And here is the Lord Jesus
Christ saying all of you that

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labour and are heavy laden,
heavy laden by the burden of the

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law.
If you follow that through and

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he’s saying I will give you
rest, you know, right from

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creation the 7th day of rest has
always been a prospect of the

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age of rest to come.
There will be a time when work

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doesn’t exist anymore, when pain
in childbearing doesn’t exist

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anymore, and all those things
are lifted and removed and it’s

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a wonderful time of rest.
And the Lord Jesus Christ is

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saying the way to that rest is
through me.

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You need to come unto me and I
will give you that rest.

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He is the solution to the curse.
And that’s such a wonderful

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thing when you think about it
and it’s mentioned twice there,

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isn’t it in those, in those two
verses there.

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The Lord Jesus Christ wants to
give us that rest and it’s a

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gift from Him to you and me.
And that’s the most wonderful

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thing when you reflect on it.
Sometimes we’re not very good at

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receiving the rest of the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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Think about Psalm 23, where the
Lord, he is our shepherd.

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He guides, He leads, He takes us
into green pastures, He leads us

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besides still waters.
He’s taking us to all those

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places.
But it’s no good Him doing that

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if you don’t allow Him to
restore your soul.

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So there has to be some
connection with the Lord and His

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work for you to be restored in
this time of rest.

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And, and whatever the busyness
of your life and the pressure

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and the burden of your life, you
will need to come to the Lord

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Jesus Christ at some stage and
just take off his rest and, and

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put your burden on him and take
his yoke because that’s easier.

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Cast your burden on the Lord and
take his yoke.

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And he will share that with you
and he will carry that with you.

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And those were some of the
things that I, yeah, I, I didn’t

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get time to comment on.
And I, I, I just raised them

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very briefly for you, for you.
Now I want to concentrate this

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morning on how we respond to
that, how you and I respond to

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this gift, the wages of sin, of
death.

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But the gift of God is eternal
life.

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God sent not his Son into the
world to condemn the world, but

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gave his only begotten Son.
It’s a gift that’s given to us.

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And you and I, brothers and
sisters, young people, we

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benefit from the gift of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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And it’s how we respond to it.
And I’ve just got one saying

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that I want to share with you in
our idea of service this

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morning.
And it’s probably not one that

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you would have put on your list
of life changing sayings of the

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Lord Jesus Christ.
But it’s simply this, without

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me, you can do nothing.
OK, so that’s our, that’s our

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saying.
We’re up to #10 and it’s the

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only one we’re going to look at
this morning.

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But this is the one which is
going to help govern our

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service, because in the next
half an hour or so, I’m going to

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encourage you to serve, but with
the right attitude.

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This is not labour, this is not
work.

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We are not earning anything.
Forget that.

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That’s not going to, that’s not
going to achieve anything.

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You cannot earn your place in
the Kingdom of God.

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You know that.
You can only take it as a gift,

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but that doesn’t mean we don’t
serve.

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So we’re going to try and get
our attitude for service right?

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And this saying is going to
govern our thinking this

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morning.
Let’s start, please, in Luke

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chapter 15, where we met the
prodigal son very briefly on

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Saturday evening.
I’ve already mentioned to you

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that this is the individual who
started out with the give me and

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wanted to get to the make me
stage, which is lovely that he

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made that transformation.
Just want to show you what he

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says and what the Father allows
him to say because this this

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helps as I think understand
where we are in our service to

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God.
So, so, so this is the, this is

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the verse or two which the sun
prepares.

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It’s there in verse 18 where he
practices his little speech.

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So Luke 15 verse 18, I will
arise and go to my Father and

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will say to him, Father, I have
sinned against heaven and before

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thee or in thy sight, and I’m no
more worthy to be called thy

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son.
Make me as one of thy hired

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servants.
So you know that.

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And it demonstrates this
complete change, doesn’t it, in

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this young man who’s now learned
his lessons, realised that he

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was far better off back in his
father’s house.

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He was far better back, better
back home in the fellowship of

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his brother.
That’s interesting, isn’t it?

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He was willing to go back and
comply with the standards and

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the rules of the Father’s house
because this ecclesial

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environment, being in the family
of God, is the best place to be.

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And he can see that having tried
other places and, and he’s going

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to confess, I have sinned.
This is his confession.

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And you might observe that he
sinned against heaven and in thy

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sight.
Now we might think that’s the

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wrong way round.
Actually, He’s sinned against

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his Father, and Heaven observes
it, but he doesn’t say that He’s

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got this the right way round.
All sins are against heaven.

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Every sin that we commit, every
wrongdoing that we commit is

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against God.
It might hurt other people, it

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might damage other people and
probably will, but every sin we

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commit is against heaven and the
Father was party to it.

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And then he’s, he’s going to set
the matters right.

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I, I am no more worthy to be
called thy son.

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So make me as one of thy hired
servants.

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So, so we know that speech and
it makes a lot of sense.

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And, and we might feel like that
when we come to some kind of

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acknowledgement of our own
failure, we confess what we’ve

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done wrong, We realise we’ve not
been very good at something.

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We recommit and we say we’re not
worthy, but we’re going to try a

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lot harder.
That that, that’s the, that’s

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the idea, isn’t it?
But when he comes to his father

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and he makes this speech that
he’s prepared.

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Verse 20 let’s read it.
He arose and came to his father.

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But when he was yet a great way
off, his father saw him and had

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compassion and ran and fell on
his neck and kissed him.

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But the son’s now going to make
his speech.

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The Son said unto his Father,
Father, I have sinned against

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heaven and in thy sight, and I’m
no more worthy to be called thy

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Son.
And he’s about to say the last

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little bit, make me as one of
thy hired servants, and the

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Father won’t let him say it.
The Father intervenes at that

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point.
He only lets him say these words

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on the screen.
I am no more worthy to be called

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thy son.
And he’s about to say, make me

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as a hired servant because I’m
going to try a lot harder.

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I’m going to work for you.
I’m going to earn your respect.

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I’m going to win you back as a
father by things that I do.

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I will be a hired servant in
your house, and the Father won’t

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let him say that.
And the Father won’t let him say

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that because 1, He loves him as
a son.

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And two, the Father knows you
can’t win back God’s respect by

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your hard work.
You might think you can.

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You might think, well, I’m going
to work jolly hard for God and

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win his respects so that he will
be proud of me as a worker for

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him.
It doesn’t work like that.

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And the father in this parable
will not let the son make that

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statement.
He just reinstates him as a son

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because that’s how God works.
He loves us and reinstates.

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He’s not going to have a hired
servant in his house.

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His son is a hired servant.
So he’s giving him the ring and

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the cloak and the and the shoes
and restoring him to his

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rightful position.
That’s the forgiveness of God

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when this wayward son turns to
him.

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So, so I’m, I’m interested in
this attitude.

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Now the son wants to work and
the father won’t let him.

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And it’s the same, it’s the same
with us.

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He, he’s not expecting you to
work and labour and earn, but he

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is expecting something of you.
I wonder if I can show you the

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right attitude from Isaiah
chapter 6, please.

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This, this is how it should
work.

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And maybe you’ll be able to
relate to this if we just work

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our way through this, this
little section of Scripture.

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With apologies to those of you
who might have heard me say this

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before.
So Isaiah chapter 6, perhaps an

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unusual place to go when you
think about service, but but it

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does have a well known verse in
it, which we which we’ll get to

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in a moment.
So, so the the chapter opens

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with a vision and it’s a vision
of the Kingdom.

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And I know it’s a vision of the
Kingdom because Jesus says it is

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in John chapter 12.
It’s a vision of the Lord

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sitting on his throne.
Verse 1 He was high and lifted

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up, and his train filled the
temple above him, sorry, and

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above it stood the seraphim.
Each one had 6 wings.

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With twain He covered his face
with twain, He covered his feet

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with twain He did fly.
And one cried unto another and

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said, holy, holy, holy is the
Lord of hosts.

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The earth is full of his glory.
And that that final phrase

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there, of course, that’s the
great plan of God, isn’t it?

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That the world will be filled
with his glory.

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That that the plan isn’t about
your salvation or my salvation,

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it’s about the world being full
of God’s glory.

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So that that’s how we know this
is a Kingdom vision.

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The time when Christ reigns and
God’s glory is filling the earth

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and the prophet is seeing this
vision of the Kingdom.

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We’ve talked a little bit about
the vision being reinvigorated

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and you having a firm view of
the Kingdom.

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Well, that’s what the prophet’s
now got.

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He’s got a vision of what it’s
going to be like when Christ is

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in the temple.
He’s sitting on the throne, He

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is reigning supreme and the
earth is being populated by

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people, Saints who carried the
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That was always the intention
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And now these Saints are
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the world and filling it.
So everyone knows now what?

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What’s the prophet’s reaction?
What’s the prophet’s reaction to

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that vision of the Kingdom?
Well, it’s there in verse 5 then

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said, I says, Isaiah, woe is me,
I am undone because I am a man

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of unclean lips.
So, so here is the here is the

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prophet who realizes that in
comparison with this, this

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wondrous time when the world is
filled with God’s glory, he

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looks at himself and says, but
look at me, look, look how

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unworthy I am.
Look how unclean I am.

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Look how helpless I am in in
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this righteousness and this
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Just look at me how pathetic I
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And he’s sort of confessing I’m
a man of unclean lips and then

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an Angel.
Verse 6 Then flew one of the

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seraphim unto me, having a live
cold in his hand, which he’d

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taken with the tongues from off
the altar, And he laid it upon

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my mouth, and said, Lo, this
hath touched thy lips, and thine

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iniquity is taken away, and thy
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Well, I I I find that lovely,
because the prophets kind of

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found himself in a sinful
position, and recognise that he

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is of a sinful disposition.
And all of a sudden one of God’s

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angels says, I’ll sort that out.
And we might, we might puzzle a

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little bit about the mechanism
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But he just takes a cold and
touches the prophet’s lips and,

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and the profit without asking
almost that has been made right

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and pure and good and clean.
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He’s not had to to do any tasks
or work anything or, or pay any

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money or, or do anything to
achieve this.

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He’s just had to say I’m
unclean, I need to be made

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clean.
And the Angel says, great, here

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you are.
I sought that out.

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You’re now made clean.
And that’s like us, brothers and

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sisters, we accept salvation in
the Lord Jesus Christ by being

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baptized into him.
You don’t have to work for

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anything.
You don’t have to earn anything.

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You don’t have to pass any tests
or get any qualifications.

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You just have to repent and
believe.

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And then you can be baptized
into the Lord Jesus Christ and

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the blessing of sins forgiven is
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Great.
Now at that point, if God so

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wanted, he could say, right,
I’ve sorted out your sins, you

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are indebted to me now, and
you’re jolly well going to work

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to pay back what I’ve done for
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But, but, but none of us think
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And of course he doesn’t.
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isn’t work to do and there isn’t
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So now look closely at verse 8.
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clean and he hears the voice of
the Lord saying, whom shall I

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send?
Who will go for us?

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So, so, so God has got some work
to do and he’s, he’s looking for

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a volunteer and he’s saying I
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I need to speak a message to the
people who who’s going to go for

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me.
And it’s a little bit like that

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now for you and me, brothers,
sisters, when we’re baptised

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into the Lord Jesus Christ,
there’s work to do and

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volunteers, that’s the word
volunteers are called for.

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Who’s going to go?
And the prophet bless him, he

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raises his hand and he says,
here am I send me.

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That’s the well known verse in
this particular chapter, isn’t

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it?
Here am I send me that.

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The context is important because
God isn’t demanding that Isaiah

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goes, he could have done because
hey, I’ve sorted out your sins,

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you owe me one.
But he doesn’t say that to the

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prophet.
He just says I’ve got some work

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to do here, but who’s going to
do this?

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And Isaiah says I will.
And I wonder how you’re feeling

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now about your service to
Christ, because Christ is saying

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there is work to do.
You’re not obliged.

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You’re not on the hook here.
You don’t have to if you don’t

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want, but Christ is saying
there’s work to do.

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I need you, I’ll go, says the
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And that’s a, that’s a lovely
picture, isn’t it?

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And and then actually as the as
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there’s a message to be
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So this is the work that’s the
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God said go and tell these
people hear ye indeed, but

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understand not see ye indeed,
but perceive not make the heart

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of these people fat and make
their eyes heavy and shut their

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eyes lest they see with their
eyes and hear with their ears

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and understand with their heart
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That’s the the quotes that we
get in the New Testament, isn’t

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that you recognise that that’s
spoken by Christ at the time of

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parables, for example.
So Isaiah is going to going to

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deliver this message and he’s
going to speak to the people

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because that’s what he’s
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And verse 11, he simply says,
how long I’m signing up for

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this?
How long Lord, am I going to do

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this?
Which is quite interesting.

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You might want to know that if
you’ve raised your hand, hand

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and said, yes, I’m going to do
this task, Lord, I’ll be pleased

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to help.
How long are you expecting me to

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do this?
That that might be a valid

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question and the answer is quite
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Verse 11, the Lord said sorry,
then said I to the Lord, how

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long?
And he said, until the cities be

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wasted without inhabitants.
In other words, you keep going

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and you speak and you speak
until there’s no one left to

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listen.
You keep delivering that

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message.
And when you raise your hand as

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a volunteer for the Lord Jesus
Christ and say, I’m going to

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serve, what would you like me to
do?

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This isn’t something that you do
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Isn’t it something that you do
for the next month?

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You keep going and you keep
going and you keep going until

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there’s no more work left to do.
And I, and I think that that

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chapter epitomizes the service
that’s expected of you and me in

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
It’s not compulsory.

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You are certainly not going to
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Christ has gone 1st and
organized your salvation.

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If you want it that while we
were yet sinners, Christ died

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for us.
But now he’s saying, I want your

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help, please, who’s going to
help?

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And we’re going to raise our
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So, so that, that attitude I
find quite helpful, brothers and

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sisters, when it comes to
thinking about our service to

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the Lord.
Now, now, now what?

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What do you think about our
service?

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You know, just put yourself in
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And I’m not, I’m not trying to,
well, I, I, I don’t want you to

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be critical of your ecclesia,
but just think about your

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ecclesial context where there is
some work to do.

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You know, how, how many, how
many willing volunteers are

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there when there’s something to
be done amongst your ecclesial

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members?
You know, we, we, we belong to

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an ecclesia of nearly 50
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If there’s some work to do, are
are you likely to see 50 hands

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raised saying, well, I’ll do it.
No, no, I’ll do it.

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No, leave it to me, I’ll do it.
Is that how ecclesial life works

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or, or do you find brothers and
sisters sort of looking along

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the row and saying, hmm, hmm.
Shouldn’t, shouldn’t you be

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doing it?
You’re best suited for this.

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Why isn’t he putting his hand
up?

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He, he would be ideal for that
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You know, we find others who can
do it better than us, rather

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than Isaiah, who just says, I’ll
do it.

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Wouldn’t it be lovely if 50
hands went up and said, yeah,

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leave it to us, we’ll do this.
Well, maybe before we criticize

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our brothers and sisters, we
ought to look at ourselves and

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say, well, it’s my hand going
up.

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Am I one who is willing to help
and willing to serve in this

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particular work?
Can I take you to the parable of

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the labourers in the vineyard,
please?

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In Matthew chapter 20?
I’m building on this idea of

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correct attitude, if I may so,
so so you know this parable.

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This is where workers are called
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Let’s just read from verse 3 of
Matthew chapter 20.

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The The vineyard owner went out
about the third hour, and saw

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others standing idle in the
marketplace, and said unto them,

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Go ye also into the vineyard,
and whatsoever is right, I will

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give you.
And they went their way again.

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He went out the 6th hour and the
9th hour, and did likewise.

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And about the 11th hour he went
out and found others standing

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idle, and saith unto them, Why
stand ye here all the day idle?

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And they say unto him, Because
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He saith unto them, Go ye also
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OK, so, so you, you, you
remember that parable of the

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employer who is looking for
workers and he starts at 6:00 in

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the morning and he goes into the
Market Square and he hires

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labourers and he contracts with
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Now, I’m told that there are
different kinds of servants in

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Scripture here.
Here is the little hierarchy of

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servant that we read of in the
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So we have bond servants, and
those were servants who were

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bonded to a house.
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Sometimes in modern translations
you read the word slave and the

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current, the current climate
today, slavery, that’s really

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bad.
There’s all sorts of talk of

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reparations being paid.
And look at the cruel British

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Empire with its slaves.
Look at the way slaves were

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treated in America.
Therefore, slavery is utterly

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bad.
And, and OK, certainly a lot of

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slavery was bad, but I just want
you to forget that notion for a

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moment, because if you were a
bond servant, you were OK.

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You were connected to a house,
you belonged to a house.

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Now the idea of belonging
somewhere might bristle with you

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because, oh, I want to be free
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Well, maybe.
But actually, if you’re

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connected to a house, that means
every day you’ve got security,

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you’ve got somewhere to sleep,
you’ve got a family who you’re

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working with, you’ve got food on
your table every day.

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You are going to be OK.
You raise your family in that

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environment.
You’ve got some security.

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Life is not bad as, as a
bondservant, you’re, you’re OK

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with this.
And that’s why when we read of

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it in the, in the letters of
Paul about masters and servants

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and masters and slaves, you
know, that’s seems a bit

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incongruous towards at today’s
age, because we all ought to be

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equal.
These bond slaves are OK.

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They’ve got food, they’ve got
clothing, they’ve got shelter,

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they’ve got salaries, they’ve
got, they’ve got a life that

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works for them.
They’re, they’re in a privileged

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position and they’re happy and
servants, which is the next tier

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down that they were a bit more
peripheral to a family house,

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but they still had some of this
security and some of this

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reliability and it meant a lot.
So, so, so don’t just dismiss

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slavery in scripture as being a
very bad thing.

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These people were OK and were
happy about it.

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If you were a hired servant,
which is actually what the

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prodigal son wanted to be.
If you were a hired servant,

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life is grim.
You are not connected to a

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family.
You you are not guaranteed

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security of clothing and shelter
and food on any particular day.

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You, you have to be at the
Labour exchange at six O clock

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in the morning ready to work and
and what if no one employs you?

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What if no one comes along and
gives you some contracted hours

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that day?
These are the 0 hour contracts

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people.
That’s a phrase we know in the

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UK.
Certainly they’re under contract

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sort of.
But there’s no work.

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00:27:21,160 –> 00:27:26,720
If there is no work, that means
there’s no penny at the end of

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00:27:26,720 –> 00:27:30,160
the day.
That means there’s no evening

428
00:27:30,160 –> 00:27:35,040
meal.
That means there’s hunger and

429
00:27:35,360 –> 00:27:42,160
destitution, and it’s hard.
So life as a hired servant is

430
00:27:42,160 –> 00:27:45,720
grim if no one hires you.
This is bleak.

431
00:27:47,200 –> 00:27:50,920
Now, I’m in a very privileged
position of having never

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00:27:50,920 –> 00:27:55,720
experienced unemployment, but
but there will be some here who

433
00:27:55,720 –> 00:27:59,160
have experienced that, There
will be some here who will

434
00:27:59,160 –> 00:28:03,080
experience that.
And I, my heart goes out to you,

435
00:28:03,240 –> 00:28:06,160
you know, if that, if that
monthly salary or that weekly

436
00:28:06,160 –> 00:28:11,080
wage isn’t arriving all of a
sudden and yet bills keep

437
00:28:11,080 –> 00:28:14,320
coming.
This is not good.

438
00:28:15,360 –> 00:28:17,880
And, and this is where people
lose confidence.

439
00:28:17,880 –> 00:28:20,320
You know, if they can’t get
work, they lose confidence,

440
00:28:20,480 –> 00:28:25,120
their self esteem goes, they
drop into a cycle of anxiety and

441
00:28:25,120 –> 00:28:27,680
worry and concern.
They become depressed.

442
00:28:27,680 –> 00:28:32,560
This is not a good thing.
And and imagine if you go to the

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00:28:32,560 –> 00:28:36,240
labour exchange in the morning
and you’re willing to work and

444
00:28:36,240 –> 00:28:40,440
no one hires you.
So that’s a bad day.

445
00:28:41,520 –> 00:28:46,680
But you go back the next morning
hoping that someone’s going to

446
00:28:46,680 –> 00:28:50,360
employ you.
And a potential employer comes

447
00:28:50,360 –> 00:28:54,760
along and says, ah, I might
employ you today.

448
00:28:54,760 –> 00:29:00,480
Where did you work yesterday?
And you have to say, ah, no one

449
00:29:00,480 –> 00:29:04,400
hired me yesterday.
Oh, I wonder why?

450
00:29:05,360 –> 00:29:07,240
Perhaps you weren’t.
Perhaps you’re not a hard

451
00:29:07,240 –> 00:29:08,840
worker.
Perhaps you’re not worth

452
00:29:08,840 –> 00:29:11,720
employing.
I’ll go and try somebody else.

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00:29:13,320 –> 00:29:16,000
Imagine that happening for a few
days.

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00:29:16,920 –> 00:29:22,280
When did you last work?
Not worked for a week, actually.

455
00:29:23,000 –> 00:29:26,320
Oh, maybe no one ever wants to
employ you.

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00:29:26,320 –> 00:29:29,960
I’ll go and find another worker.
You can see how it might work.

457
00:29:29,960 –> 00:29:33,200
And, and, and getting caught in
that cycle would be really

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00:29:33,200 –> 00:29:35,160
difficult.
And, and, and there’s a hint at

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00:29:35,160 –> 00:29:41,640
that in this particular parable
because these labourers who

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00:29:41,640 –> 00:29:45,960
don’t get hired at 6:00 in the
morning, they’re still there at

461
00:29:45,960 –> 00:29:50,360
9:00 and they’re still there at
12:00 and they’re still there at

462
00:29:50,360 –> 00:29:55,000
3:00 and they’re still there at
5:00, not because they’re lazy,

463
00:29:55,160 –> 00:29:57,920
but because they need someone to
employ them.

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00:29:57,920 –> 00:30:00,720
They’re still hoping that
someone’s going to employ them

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00:30:00,720 –> 00:30:03,880
late in the day.
Please just give us some work.

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00:30:03,880 –> 00:30:07,840
We’re desperate for work in your
vineyard.

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00:30:07,840 –> 00:30:13,760
We’d love to work there.
And that to me is, is enormously

468
00:30:13,760 –> 00:30:19,440
helpful when we think about the
generosity of this vineyard

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00:30:19,440 –> 00:30:22,560
owner who comes along.
We, we might question about what

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00:30:22,560 –> 00:30:24,360
the penny means.
And I could talk to you about

471
00:30:24,360 –> 00:30:27,600
that.
But the vineyard owner comes

472
00:30:27,600 –> 00:30:30,360
along at 9:00 and he takes some
more.

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00:30:30,360 –> 00:30:32,560
And at 12:00 and he takes some
more.

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00:30:32,560 –> 00:30:36,000
And at 3:00 he takes some more.
And at 5:00 in the afternoon,

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00:30:36,000 –> 00:30:38,240
there’s only an hour of daylight
left.

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00:30:39,040 –> 00:30:42,600
He’s going to get no work
whatsoever out of these people

477
00:30:42,600 –> 00:30:44,520
is, you know, by the time
they’ve picked their things up

478
00:30:44,520 –> 00:30:47,080
and walked all the way to the
vineyard and got out amongst the

479
00:30:47,080 –> 00:30:50,880
vines, there’s only a bit of
daylight left.

480
00:30:50,880 –> 00:30:52,800
He’s not going to get much work
out of them.

481
00:30:53,120 –> 00:30:58,520
And yet he still employs them,
these people who might be

482
00:30:59,120 –> 00:31:04,560
unemployable, and yet the
vineyard owner is there and he’s

483
00:31:04,560 –> 00:31:07,160
calling them and saying, you
come and work in my vineyard,

484
00:31:07,160 –> 00:31:08,440
You come and work in my
vineyard.

485
00:31:08,680 –> 00:31:13,640
And everyone of this group said,
great, that’s lovely.

486
00:31:13,640 –> 00:31:16,400
I’d really be delighted to work
in your vineyard.

487
00:31:16,400 –> 00:31:20,840
And they went and they would be
thrilled to work there.

488
00:31:22,680 –> 00:31:27,600
And then just imagine 6 O clock
in the morning tomorrow, they

489
00:31:27,640 –> 00:31:31,360
stand at the labour exchange and
a potential employer comes along

490
00:31:31,360 –> 00:31:33,080
and says, where did you work
yesterday?

491
00:31:33,080 –> 00:31:35,440
And they’re able to say we
worked in his vineyard.

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00:31:35,440 –> 00:31:39,040
And they’d be so thrilled that
they could say that this

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00:31:39,040 –> 00:31:43,600
reputable man, he chose me and I
worked in his vineyard.

494
00:31:43,840 –> 00:31:47,200
You might not say that you chose
me at 5:00 in the afternoon and

495
00:31:47,200 –> 00:31:49,280
only gave me 30 minutes worth of
work.

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00:31:49,880 –> 00:31:52,280
You might not say that, but
you’d be able to say I was

497
00:31:52,280 –> 00:31:55,800
chosen by him and I was able to
work in his vineyard.

498
00:31:56,000 –> 00:32:00,040
Can’t, Can’t you just get a
sense here of the, the delight

499
00:32:01,000 –> 00:32:06,000
to work in the Masters vineyard
that these people would have?

500
00:32:07,640 –> 00:32:13,040
These are individuals who would
be overjoyed at being called to

501
00:32:13,040 –> 00:32:19,080
work in his vineyard and they
would go home that night and

502
00:32:19,080 –> 00:32:22,920
they got that penny.
They could buy bread, they could

503
00:32:22,920 –> 00:32:27,160
put food on the table.
The the, the wife is happy, the

504
00:32:27,160 –> 00:32:31,160
children are happy.
The family home that night is a

505
00:32:31,160 –> 00:32:35,160
happy place because this labour
has been called to work in the

506
00:32:35,160 –> 00:32:37,800
vineyard.
Now I’m trying to give you a

507
00:32:37,800 –> 00:32:43,880
sense here of how delighted
these people are to work in this

508
00:32:43,880 –> 00:32:47,600
vineyard.
And I just ask you then to

509
00:32:48,280 –> 00:32:53,640
compare it with yourself.
Take that spirit back to your

510
00:32:53,640 –> 00:32:56,400
ecclesia when there’s some work
to do.

511
00:32:56,680 –> 00:33:01,040
And these folk, they were
overjoyed to work in the Masters

512
00:33:01,040 –> 00:33:03,800
vineyard.
That would mean everything to

513
00:33:03,800 –> 00:33:07,280
them.
And you go back to your ecclesia

514
00:33:07,280 –> 00:33:10,840
and you will witness some
reluctance.

515
00:33:11,720 –> 00:33:14,520
Is it my turn again?
Is it?

516
00:33:14,920 –> 00:33:17,920
Isn’t anyone else doing that
task this time?

517
00:33:19,120 –> 00:33:21,400
I’ll do it here.
Am I?

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00:33:21,400 –> 00:33:23,760
Send me.
I’d like to work in your

519
00:33:23,760 –> 00:33:27,120
vineyard, please.
Can you see that is.

520
00:33:27,120 –> 00:33:32,120
Is that not just the way our
service ought to be in the Lord

521
00:33:32,160 –> 00:33:35,480
Jesus Christ?
Where’s that spirit gone from

522
00:33:35,480 –> 00:33:39,320
our ecclesias?
You can take that back, you can

523
00:33:39,320 –> 00:33:43,760
be that person, you can lead by
that example, you can re examine

524
00:33:43,760 –> 00:33:49,920
your service and you can show
your ecclesia how to work for

525
00:33:49,920 –> 00:33:54,160
the Lord.
Matthew Sorry Mark chapter 6

526
00:33:54,160 –> 00:34:01,400
please let’s move on the
disciples at work here.

527
00:34:02,800 –> 00:34:04,520
Mark chapter 6 is a lovely
chapter.

528
00:34:07,120 –> 00:34:15,120
It it starts in verse 7 with him
calling his 12 and you’ll notice

529
00:34:15,120 –> 00:34:20,239
he’s going to send them forth
two by two and they’re going to

530
00:34:20,560 –> 00:34:26,120
preach the gospel and they’re
given power to heal and to make

531
00:34:26,120 –> 00:34:30,199
clean and they get various
instructions from the Lord Jesus

532
00:34:30,199 –> 00:34:33,679
Christ and off they go.
These are these are the workers

533
00:34:33,679 –> 00:34:36,239
appointed.
The 12 disciples are going out

534
00:34:36,239 –> 00:34:40,440
in pairs to do the work for the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:34:42,080 –> 00:34:46,560
We don’t need to pursue all the
details, but several verses

536
00:34:46,560 –> 00:34:55,120
later on they return in verse 30
and it says this is what they

537
00:34:55,120 –> 00:34:57,560
reported.
The apostles gathered themselves

538
00:34:58,200 –> 00:35:03,200
together unto Jesus and they
told Him all things, both what

539
00:35:03,200 –> 00:35:06,560
they had done and what they had
taught.

540
00:35:07,440 –> 00:35:12,240
OK, so so here they are that
that there are two things you

541
00:35:12,240 –> 00:35:18,080
need to observe from that.
First of all, they tell Him what

542
00:35:18,080 –> 00:35:24,400
they had done before, what they
had taught, and that that’s not

543
00:35:24,400 –> 00:35:28,120
the right way round.
In your ecclesial life.

544
00:35:28,840 –> 00:35:33,360
When you’re when you’re
considering a practical help

545
00:35:33,360 –> 00:35:37,520
that you might give either to
the community, as in the

546
00:35:37,520 –> 00:35:40,880
Christadelphian community, or to
the community around you, when

547
00:35:40,880 –> 00:35:45,720
you’re thinking of practical
help that does not come before

548
00:35:45,960 –> 00:35:50,240
the teaching that we can give.
Always make sure the gospel

549
00:35:50,240 –> 00:35:54,760
message comes first in your
witness, in your ecclesial life,

550
00:35:54,760 –> 00:35:57,400
in your work.
It’s not about what you do, it’s

551
00:35:57,400 –> 00:36:00,600
about what you teach.
You have the most precious

552
00:36:00,600 –> 00:36:03,520
thing, the key to salvation.
Because you’ve got your Bible,

553
00:36:03,720 –> 00:36:05,400
you understand the gospel
message.

554
00:36:05,640 –> 00:36:08,400
You need to share that.
It’s no good filling empty

555
00:36:08,400 –> 00:36:10,640
stomachs if you don’t give them
the gospel message.

556
00:36:10,800 –> 00:36:12,320
I know we need to fill empty
stomachs.

557
00:36:12,320 –> 00:36:15,400
I know we need to do all those
those kindly things.

558
00:36:15,640 –> 00:36:17,320
But don’t get it the wrong way
round.

559
00:36:17,320 –> 00:36:21,120
The gospel message has to be our
focus.

560
00:36:22,040 –> 00:36:26,320
Disciples didn’t get that.
The other thing which they

561
00:36:26,360 –> 00:36:30,480
didn’t get is they were busy
telling the Lord Jesus Christ

562
00:36:30,480 –> 00:36:39,720
what they had done and what they
had taught, that they’ve not yet

563
00:36:39,720 –> 00:36:43,320
grabbed hold of the key, saying
that without Him they can do

564
00:36:43,320 –> 00:36:47,760
nothing, that they’ve not got
that, That we did this.

565
00:36:48,160 –> 00:36:49,400
Yeah.
Let me tell you what happened in

566
00:36:49,400 –> 00:36:50,920
this place.
Lord, let me tell you how I

567
00:36:50,920 –> 00:36:52,720
healed that person in that
particular visual.

568
00:36:52,920 –> 00:36:59,080
That they had success, but they
are doing it themselves and

569
00:36:59,080 –> 00:37:03,440
they’re claiming that they
achieved it themselves.

570
00:37:04,280 –> 00:37:05,640
And then we had this little
phrase.

571
00:37:05,640 –> 00:37:09,240
I just listed it yesterday in
verse 31.

572
00:37:09,560 –> 00:37:12,920
Come your come ye yourselves
apart into a desert place and

573
00:37:12,920 –> 00:37:15,480
rest a while.
Here is Jesus teaching them on

574
00:37:15,480 –> 00:37:18,840
one, taking them onto one side.
And he’s got to talk to these

575
00:37:18,840 –> 00:37:22,160
disciples.
He’s got to help them recover

576
00:37:22,560 –> 00:37:28,680
and he’s got to try and clear up
this priority and events sort of

577
00:37:28,680 –> 00:37:33,000
run away from them, don’t they,
because the multitude follow him

578
00:37:33,760 –> 00:37:40,480
and they’re being taught.
And after a long time, the day

579
00:37:40,480 –> 00:37:44,120
was fast spent, the disciples
come unto him, don’t they?

580
00:37:44,120 –> 00:37:48,440
And they say, verse 35, this is
a desert place.

581
00:37:49,120 –> 00:37:52,720
The time is now fast spent.
Send them away that they might

582
00:37:52,720 –> 00:37:57,800
go into a country roundabout and
into the villages to buy

583
00:37:57,800 –> 00:38:02,560
themselves bread and, and the
what the, what Jesus says to

584
00:38:02,560 –> 00:38:06,760
them in verse 37.
He answered and said unto them,

585
00:38:07,440 –> 00:38:15,560
give ye them to eat, give you
them something to eat.

586
00:38:17,320 –> 00:38:19,960
I, I, I wonder how the disciples
felt at that point.

587
00:38:19,960 –> 00:38:22,520
You know, they’ve, they’ve just
done all this successful

588
00:38:22,520 –> 00:38:24,520
preaching.
They’ve just done all this

589
00:38:24,840 –> 00:38:29,440
healing and restoration and
they’ve come back to Jesus and

590
00:38:29,440 –> 00:38:32,080
said, let, let, let, let me tell
you what we’ve done.

591
00:38:32,560 –> 00:38:35,200
Let me tell you the successes
that we have had.

592
00:38:35,400 –> 00:38:38,360
Let me tell you how good it was
when we did this and when we did

593
00:38:38,360 –> 00:38:40,640
that.
And then they were sort of full

594
00:38:40,640 –> 00:38:43,160
of it, weren’t they?
And now all of a sudden there’s

595
00:38:43,160 –> 00:38:47,840
a multitude and the Lord Jesus
Christ says to them, go on, then

596
00:38:48,480 –> 00:38:55,280
give them something to eat.
Lord, how are we going to do

597
00:38:55,280 –> 00:38:58,400
that?
Lord, even if we got 200 pence,

598
00:38:58,400 –> 00:39:00,640
we wouldn’t be able to buy
enough bread to feed all these

599
00:39:00,640 –> 00:39:02,280
people.
How are we going to do that?

600
00:39:02,280 –> 00:39:05,480
You know, they, they bring,
bring a, a, a human view, a

601
00:39:05,480 –> 00:39:08,080
human solution.
Well, how much money have we

602
00:39:08,080 –> 00:39:09,040
got?
How much could we buy?

603
00:39:09,040 –> 00:39:10,840
We couldn’t possibly feed all
these people.

604
00:39:10,840 –> 00:39:14,200
Even if we got 200 pennies, we
could not buy enough food for

605
00:39:14,200 –> 00:39:16,480
all these people.
They bring a human solution and

606
00:39:16,480 –> 00:39:19,280
they can’t do it and they know
they can’t do it.

607
00:39:19,560 –> 00:39:22,440
And the Lord Jesus Christ could
have at that point said, ha, ha,

608
00:39:22,440 –> 00:39:24,360
I told you, I knew you couldn’t
do it.

609
00:39:24,360 –> 00:39:26,480
You can’t do it without me.
He could have said that,

610
00:39:26,480 –> 00:39:30,480
couldn’t he?
If he wanted the, the, the Lord

611
00:39:30,480 –> 00:39:33,160
Jesus Christ should have said,
well, you boasted about all

612
00:39:33,160 –> 00:39:35,840
those other miracles, why can’t
you do this miracle?

613
00:39:36,400 –> 00:39:38,520
He could have said that to them,
couldn’t he?

614
00:39:38,520 –> 00:39:44,360
But he, he didn’t he, he could
have been really cross and said

615
00:39:44,520 –> 00:39:47,760
that’s not good enough.
You managed last time.

616
00:39:48,400 –> 00:39:51,120
Let’s say you try harder and do
it this time.

617
00:39:51,120 –> 00:39:54,360
He could have got cross with
them and shouted at them and

618
00:39:54,360 –> 00:39:59,200
raised his voice for
underperformance, but he doesn’t

619
00:39:59,200 –> 00:40:02,680
do that.
He he could have just pulled

620
00:40:02,680 –> 00:40:07,480
rank and said, see, you’re
hopeless people, you’re not able

621
00:40:07,480 –> 00:40:09,360
to do this.
Stand back.

622
00:40:09,480 –> 00:40:11,840
Let me show you how it should be
done.

623
00:40:11,960 –> 00:40:14,360
I’ll do this miracle.
You just watch and understand

624
00:40:14,360 –> 00:40:16,320
how it should be done.
The Lord Jesus Christ could have

625
00:40:16,360 –> 00:40:19,480
said said that.
If he wanted, couldn’t He?

626
00:40:19,480 –> 00:40:23,600
He could have taken control of
the situation and shown them

627
00:40:23,600 –> 00:40:25,160
what to do.
Stand aside.

628
00:40:25,560 –> 00:40:27,520
This is not for amateurs like
you.

629
00:40:27,960 –> 00:40:29,760
This is for professionals like
me.

630
00:40:29,760 –> 00:40:33,520
Watch this.
And there’s none of that from

631
00:40:33,520 –> 00:40:36,160
the Lord Jesus Christ.
There’s none of that.

632
00:40:36,480 –> 00:40:42,360
His disciples have got a
perverted view of service at the

633
00:40:42,360 –> 00:40:46,720
moment and the Lord is going to
show them how it works.

634
00:40:47,680 –> 00:40:56,120
So he says to them, doesn’t he?
Verse 38 how many loaves have ye

635
00:40:56,240 –> 00:41:00,880
go and see?
And when they knew, they say 5

636
00:41:01,280 –> 00:41:05,920
and 2 fish and and it’s
embarrassing isn’t it?

637
00:41:05,920 –> 00:41:11,480
You know, here are disciples now
who are contributing to the mass

638
00:41:11,480 –> 00:41:16,760
feeding of 5000 people and we’ve
got 5 loaves and a couple of

639
00:41:16,760 –> 00:41:18,920
fish.
Here you are, Lord that, that,

640
00:41:18,920 –> 00:41:21,560
that’s it.
It’s embarrassing that they’ve

641
00:41:21,560 –> 00:41:24,160
got nothing more to offer.
And again, Christ could have

642
00:41:24,160 –> 00:41:28,760
said, is that all?
How on earth do you think we’re

643
00:41:28,760 –> 00:41:33,480
going to solve a problem of 5000
hungry people with such a paltry

644
00:41:33,480 –> 00:41:36,320
contribution?
He could have said that, but

645
00:41:36,320 –> 00:41:38,720
but, but he doesn’t.
You see, the Lord Jesus Christ,

646
00:41:38,720 –> 00:41:46,160
he’s looking for something.
He’s looking for something from

647
00:41:46,760 –> 00:41:54,440
you and it doesn’t matter how
big or how small, he’s looking

648
00:41:54,440 –> 00:41:57,920
for you to bring something in
your service.

649
00:41:59,120 –> 00:42:02,800
And even if you’re embarrassed
by it because it’s so pathetic,

650
00:42:02,800 –> 00:42:06,200
this is all I’ve got.
Lord, it’s, it’s 5 loaves and

651
00:42:06,200 –> 00:42:09,480
two fish.
I know that’s absolutely useless

652
00:42:09,480 –> 00:42:11,760
in the context of what we’re
trying to do here.

653
00:42:12,880 –> 00:42:16,280
And the Lord Jesus Christ says,
great, we’re off.

654
00:42:17,560 –> 00:42:21,080
That’s all I need.
I just need something from you.

655
00:42:21,080 –> 00:42:26,200
And then of course, as soon as
he’s got that something, he’s

656
00:42:26,200 –> 00:42:29,000
organizing the disciples,
they’re making the crowd to sit

657
00:42:29,000 –> 00:42:34,200
down in companies of 50s and
hundreds and, and, and a prayer

658
00:42:34,200 –> 00:42:36,800
is given.
Bread is broken and it’s

659
00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:41,600
distributed and it’s given to
the disciples and they are

660
00:42:41,600 –> 00:42:46,440
sharing it out.
Verse 41 when he had taken the

661
00:42:46,440 –> 00:42:50,040
five loaves and the two fish, he
looked up to heaven, blessed

662
00:42:50,040 –> 00:42:55,240
break the loaves gave them to to
the disciples to set before

663
00:42:55,240 –> 00:42:58,280
them, and the two fishers
divided he among them all.

664
00:42:58,440 –> 00:43:00,480
He wanted the disciples to be
involved.

665
00:43:00,480 –> 00:43:04,120
So Christ here takes this little
offering, this insignificant

666
00:43:04,120 –> 00:43:07,120
amount, and in his hands, all of
a sudden it becomes something

667
00:43:07,120 –> 00:43:09,320
special.
And he gives it to the disciples

668
00:43:09,320 –> 00:43:11,400
and the disciples take it and
share it out.

669
00:43:12,760 –> 00:43:15,800
And the disciples have got a
clue what’s going on here.

670
00:43:16,040 –> 00:43:18,520
They do not know where all this
bread is coming from.

671
00:43:18,680 –> 00:43:21,040
How many did we give to him?
Where, where’s all this coming

672
00:43:21,040 –> 00:43:22,600
from?
And out they go.

673
00:43:22,600 –> 00:43:24,280
And they come back and there’s
more to give.

674
00:43:24,280 –> 00:43:26,720
And the the disciples are
involved in sharing it out.

675
00:43:26,960 –> 00:43:28,400
They don’t really know what’s
happening.

676
00:43:28,560 –> 00:43:30,600
And then of course, when the
miracle’s finished and they go

677
00:43:30,600 –> 00:43:34,080
out and gather up, they’ve got
far, far more leftover than they

678
00:43:34,080 –> 00:43:37,720
originally started with.
And it’s the most wonderful

679
00:43:37,720 –> 00:43:41,840
thing, isn’t it?
But here’s the thing, the Lord

680
00:43:41,880 –> 00:43:46,600
Jesus Christ could have done
that miracle on his own.

681
00:43:46,600 –> 00:43:51,320
He did not need his disciples.
His disciples could barely do

682
00:43:51,440 –> 00:43:54,800
anything.
All they’re offering was 5

683
00:43:54,800 –> 00:44:00,800
loaves and two fish.
He doesn’t need them, but He

684
00:44:00,800 –> 00:44:04,920
wants them.
And the reality is, it’s the

685
00:44:04,920 –> 00:44:10,280
same with you and me.
He He doesn’t actually need you.

686
00:44:12,040 –> 00:44:16,360
The the vineyard owner did not
need those labourers.

687
00:44:16,400 –> 00:44:19,160
It might have looked like that
in the paral, but he didn’t need

688
00:44:19,160 –> 00:44:21,320
them.
He’d got lots of other labourers

689
00:44:21,320 –> 00:44:26,160
he could have chosen.
He didn’t need those, but he

690
00:44:26,160 –> 00:44:29,040
chose them and he doesn’t need
you.

691
00:44:30,600 –> 00:44:35,080
You might like to think he does.
So, so, so it’s a wonderful

692
00:44:35,080 –> 00:44:41,040
thing that he’s actually asked
you and he wants you and there’s

693
00:44:41,040 –> 00:44:44,360
a role for you to play.
And these disciples who were

694
00:44:44,360 –> 00:44:50,040
completely belittled by the fact
that they couldn’t do this and

695
00:44:50,040 –> 00:44:54,240
were rather feeling rather
unworthy that the best they

696
00:44:54,240 –> 00:44:55,880
could offer was such a small
thing.

697
00:44:55,880 –> 00:44:59,160
And the Lord Jesus Christ is
saying, don’t worry, I’ll take

698
00:44:59,160 –> 00:45:01,520
small.
I can work with that.

699
00:45:02,120 –> 00:45:06,720
You see, the Lord Jesus Christ
or wants you to bring something

700
00:45:07,200 –> 00:45:11,040
to his service.
He can’t work with nothing but

701
00:45:11,040 –> 00:45:14,920
bring him something and then he
can turn it into something

702
00:45:14,920 –> 00:45:20,040
special.
We can do nothing without the

703
00:45:20,040 –> 00:45:23,400
Lord Jesus Christ and yet with
Him, the tiniest little thing

704
00:45:23,400 –> 00:45:26,600
that you bring, the smallest
little offering that you bring

705
00:45:27,000 –> 00:45:31,000
and your willingness, he says, I
want you.

706
00:45:31,280 –> 00:45:33,240
I there is a role for you to
play here.

707
00:45:33,640 –> 00:45:37,440
Let’s do this work together.
So, so it’s a it’s a wonderful

708
00:45:37,440 –> 00:45:42,840
picture, brothers and sisters,
which helps us appreciate that

709
00:45:42,880 –> 00:45:45,400
the Lord Jesus Christ is calling
us.

710
00:45:45,600 –> 00:45:47,840
He wants us to work in his
vineyard.

711
00:45:47,840 –> 00:45:50,840
It’s a privilege to be asked and
invited.

712
00:45:51,120 –> 00:45:54,120
And it doesn’t matter if the
tiniest thing you can bring is

713
00:45:54,200 –> 00:45:58,040
all you can manage.
He can work with that.

714
00:45:58,040 –> 00:46:00,560
He wants it and we’ll develop
it.

715
00:46:01,360 –> 00:46:03,520
Let’s finish in John Chapter 7,
please.

716
00:46:03,600 –> 00:46:09,960
Sorry, John Chapter 6.
You see, after this has taken

717
00:46:09,960 –> 00:46:18,080
place, the, the, the crowd,
you’ll remember the crowd loved

718
00:46:18,080 –> 00:46:21,520
it.
This is great free meal.

719
00:46:21,760 –> 00:46:24,640
You know, if these were all
hired labourers, 5000 hired

720
00:46:24,640 –> 00:46:28,920
labourers who struggle for bread
on a daily basis, all of a

721
00:46:28,920 –> 00:46:30,880
sudden here is an abundance of
bread.

722
00:46:31,080 –> 00:46:33,520
Whoa, this is good.
We like this.

723
00:46:33,520 –> 00:46:36,080
We’re happy with this man who
feeds us.

724
00:46:36,080 –> 00:46:38,560
Let’s make him king.
That’s what they wanted to do.

725
00:46:38,560 –> 00:46:41,720
And the Lord Jesus had to send
his disciples away.

726
00:46:41,720 –> 00:46:44,800
He had to deal with the crowd.
The disciples get stuck on the

727
00:46:44,800 –> 00:46:47,920
water.
We saw Jesus walking to them on

728
00:46:47,920 –> 00:46:51,040
water and Peter walking
yesterday and they get to the

729
00:46:51,040 –> 00:46:54,520
land at the other side and then
the crowd comes again following

730
00:46:54,520 –> 00:46:59,320
day the crowd come and of course
the crowd aren’t coming for the

731
00:46:59,320 –> 00:47:03,480
correct motive.
I’m in John 6 and at verse 26

732
00:47:05,200 –> 00:47:08,280
Jesus answered them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, ye seek

733
00:47:08,280 –> 00:47:11,880
me, not because you saw the
miracles, but because she did

734
00:47:11,920 –> 00:47:14,680
eat of the loaves and were
filled.

735
00:47:15,040 –> 00:47:17,880
You’re only here for the meal,
aren’t you?

736
00:47:17,960 –> 00:47:21,520
I, I know that you, you want me
to reproduce yesterday’s

737
00:47:21,520 –> 00:47:24,040
miracle.
You’re only here for the free.

738
00:47:24,040 –> 00:47:31,840
The free loaves labour not for
the meat which perishes, but for

739
00:47:31,840 –> 00:47:35,960
that meat which endureth unto
everlasting life which the Son

740
00:47:35,960 –> 00:47:40,680
of Man shall give unto you.
So there it is.

741
00:47:40,680 –> 00:47:46,160
We are encouraged to work, but
not for the meat which perishes,

742
00:47:46,160 –> 00:47:50,600
not for the things of this life,
but in service of our Lord in

743
00:47:50,600 –> 00:47:54,120
response to the things given to
us.

744
00:47:55,480 –> 00:47:57,920
And then verse 28, they said
unto him, what should we do?

745
00:47:57,920 –> 00:48:02,040
That we might work the works of
God.

746
00:48:03,440 –> 00:48:06,160
And they were, they were
interested in doing works like

747
00:48:06,520 –> 00:48:08,960
can I turn stones into bread
works.

748
00:48:08,960 –> 00:48:11,200
They wanted to be able to fill
their own stomachs.

749
00:48:11,200 –> 00:48:12,520
That’s really what they’re
interested in.

750
00:48:12,520 –> 00:48:15,800
So Jesus has to say this is the
work of God.

751
00:48:15,800 –> 00:48:22,400
Verse 29 that you believe on him
whom he hath sent and and and

752
00:48:22,400 –> 00:48:25,080
verse 30 that they’re not really
listening to him, are they?

753
00:48:25,280 –> 00:48:26,640
They’re just interested in
bread.

754
00:48:27,040 –> 00:48:29,800
They said therefore into him.
What signs show us thou then

755
00:48:29,800 –> 00:48:32,560
that we may see and believe that
believe thee.

756
00:48:32,720 –> 00:48:36,040
What dost thou work?
We need you to do a sign Lord.

757
00:48:36,800 –> 00:48:39,480
Forgetting.
Conveniently it’s done lots of

758
00:48:39,480 –> 00:48:42,000
signs yesterday, including
feeding 5000.

759
00:48:42,600 –> 00:48:46,280
Our fathers did eat manner in
the wilderness as it is written.

760
00:48:46,280 –> 00:48:48,720
He gave them bread out of heaven
to eat.

761
00:48:48,880 –> 00:48:50,880
Why don’t you do that miracle
again, Lord?

762
00:48:50,880 –> 00:48:53,400
That would be a good one to
prove to us that your Lord would

763
00:48:53,400 –> 00:48:55,640
like free bread, please.
They were in it for the wrong

764
00:48:55,640 –> 00:48:59,080
reasons.
We’re not in it for the wrong

765
00:48:59,080 –> 00:49:00,840
reasons, Brothers, sisters,
young people.

766
00:49:00,840 –> 00:49:06,080
We are in it because of what has
been done for us.

767
00:49:06,800 –> 00:49:09,520
We have been made clean in the
Lord Jesus Christ.

768
00:49:09,520 –> 00:49:13,720
The way of salvation has been
secured for each of us and the

769
00:49:13,720 –> 00:49:19,160
Lord now is wanting us to work
for Him in His vineyard, and

770
00:49:19,160 –> 00:49:24,520
it’s a privilege to do so.
I wonder if we might be able to

771
00:49:24,520 –> 00:49:29,680
take that back to our eclesias
and re examine our service and

772
00:49:29,680 –> 00:49:32,760
show our brothers and sisters
that we are willing volunteers

773
00:49:33,160 –> 00:49:35,360
for the work of the Lord.
Thank you.