245: Ryan King – What Went Ye Out To See?

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Welcome to Good Burger selfie
and talks.

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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
Brian, thank you for joining us

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this week.
On this podcast, we select one

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taco week to help us get the
Bible in our daily news feed.

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We post a new episode of the
start of each week with a short

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intro before.
Hand to kind of set the stage

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for the talk.
You’re about to listen to and

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now let’s talk more about this
week’s talk.

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Welcome to the good
christadelphians talks podcast.

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This is brother Brian.
This week’s talk is a class from

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a series that was just given at
a regional Gathering here on the

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East Coast.
Brother.

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Ryan King gave six classes on
John the Baptist.

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And today we’re listening to
clash 3 which is entitled.

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What went ye out to see the
entire series is phenomenal.

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And I’ll work on getting all the
links coordinated to be able to

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post on the extended podcast.
Because brother Ryan had great

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slides to go along with the
classes and coupled with a

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recent trip that he had taken to
Israel itself.

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There’s just a lot of cool
content to take in that you want

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to see as you’re listening to
the classes.

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I would at the very least,
highly recommend that you listen

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to the class before this one,
which is class 2, as that was

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Sensational in and of itself,
but it sets the stage even

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better for what this class laid
out, which was a visual

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breakdown of the events from
Luke 3, With John’s excitation

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in the wilderness between the
symbology of his appearance.

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The back and forth between the
various groups of people.

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And ultimately, the Legacy, the
John set up for Jesus to pay off

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in Matthew 11, when being asked
about the signs and the rumors.

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And if he was in fact, the
Christ Jesus is declaration to

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the crowds.
Being truly, I tell you that

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among those born of women, there
has not been any one greater.

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Than John the Baptist.
So I’d like to think that it’s

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not just confirmation bias
because I’m posting this series,

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but I think that this class and
particularly two and three

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combined are some of the best
material that I’ve heard in

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years between the mix of
scriptural connection historical

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context and practical
application.

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So I’ll refrain from waxing
poetic any further and just

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encourage everyone to please
make the time for the full set.

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Once it’s posted So as always,
we hope this strengthens your

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faith and brightens your day
brother.

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Ryan King what went ye out to
sea Good afternoon.

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Once again, brothers and sisters
have everybody’s refreshed for

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the back half.
When John was asked by a

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deputation of the Jews that were
sent to him, who are you?

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it’s interesting to see that the
more John said, actually, the

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less he said, The Jewish leaders
asked, are you the Christ, his

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answer?
I am not the Christ.

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Are you Elijah?
I am not.

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Are you the prophet of
Deuteronomy 18?

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no, well will then who are you
Nothing.

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Just a voice.
The very fact that John saw

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himself as nothing brothers and
sisters is what allowed God to

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make him a voice.
See if there’s one thing that

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prevents God speaking through
people, it’s when we insist on

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speaking for ourselves, It’s
only when were able to divest

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ourselves of self that God can
take our mouth in and use that

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mouth for his purpose.
If we don’t need brothers and

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sisters, who go around the
Ecclesia, speaking their mind,

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what we need is brothers and
sisters who are going to speak

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God’s mind and we can only do
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As John is going to show us when
we empty ourselves of our own

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thoughts, that we might be
filled with God’s.

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I am not the Christ.
I am not know.

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Lynn.
Who are you just a voice?

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It was interesting that he of
whom it was said that he’s the

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greatest Prophet born among
women.

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We have just one verse of
scripture that spans 30 years of

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his life and like, you just
focus on that verse of

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scripture.
Now, if with me in Luke chapter

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1 and at verse 8 e much like the
testimony about our Lord Jesus

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Christ, we have just a glimpse
of him.

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They are don’t weigh in the
temple dazzling, the the doctors

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of the law.
But although this one verse Is

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spans 30 years of John’s life?
It it really fits his purpose.

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Absolutely beautifully.
Luke 1, the very last verse The

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child grew and waxed strong in
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His parents are probably have
now passed off the scene and was

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in the deserts until the day of
his showing unto Israel.

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And as we’ve been repeating
throughout the classes, he’s in

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the deserts.
That’s where God’s voice can be

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heard.
That’s where he can be

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understood.
We have to isolate.

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Don’t we ourselves from this
world?

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You don’t think that God expects
any of us brothers and sisters

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to live.
Like John the Baptist.

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You were taught in the Book of
Ecclesiastes to live a basic

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life, having contentment with
food and raiment.

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You, he doesn’t expect us to
live, like, John the Baptist.

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But what he is saying is that we
have to cut off ourselves from

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this world, go out into a
desert.

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Even if in our minds and their
uncluttered from society, we can

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hear the voice of God and that
was his message.

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He He lived his message, he was
in the desert for all of those

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years in a world that seized and
Intrigue and all of its class

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distinctions, the voice was
crying.

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Come out here, come out here and
learn something about God. but

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that first says, Something else,
John the Baptist claim to be

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just a voice.
Now I understand that when you

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have a voice you listen, but
what does that verse say he was

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in the deserts until the day of
his showing.

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Unto Israel.
So they were looking at

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something.
It wasn’t just that they were

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hearing a voice.
They were seeing something, as

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well, you in the Lord.
Jesus Christ.

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Spoke about John.
He said in Luke 7 verse 24.

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What went she out to sea?
So, it wasn’t just a voice.

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Although, John claimed to be
only that they were seeing

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something about there was
something they saw in his

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character.
That was Was impressive too.

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And we need to go down this
morning and we need to have a

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look at him.
This was efficient in the

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wilderness, his exhibition in
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Well, well, what do we see?
Let’s come to Matthew chapter 3

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because Matthew gives us those
details.

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What went ye out to see said the
Lord Jesus Christ?

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Well, here he is.
And everyone would have seen

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him.
You guys, we turn up that

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reference.
Let’s just have a look at the

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layout of the land where John
was John was in the wilderness,

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the deserts until the day of his
showing.

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So he was here in the the
Wilderness of Judea which is

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very inhospitable terrain, very
difficult to to walk through

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because it’s just up and down
and up, and down, and up, and

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down.
Very dry.

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He was in the wilderness until
the day of his show.

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Showing unto Israel.
Now when John appeared on the

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scene to the, to the nation of
Israel, he moved out of the

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Wilderness.
And he went down here on the

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valley floor, which is we know
is the lowest spot on the earth,

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just north of the Dead Sea on
the Jordan River and there he

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manifested himself to the people
and everyone would have been

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looking down on him.
These Hills were you see this?

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This rough part of the map,
those Hills are about A thousand

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feet above sea level.
John is down here on the valley

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floor.
Probably about fourteen hundred

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feet below sea level.
So everybody’s looking down on

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him.
It’s like they’re in a

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grandstand and down there on the
valley floor.

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Is this, this Apparition what
were they all?

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Looking at.
Everybody would have seen him

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looking down the valley floor,
down the amphitheater of nature.

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Matthew chapter 3.
This is what they saw.

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First three, this is he that was
spoken by the prophet, Isaiah

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saying, the voice of one crying
in the wilderness prepare.

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Ye the way of the Lord, make his
paths straight.

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And this same, John had his
raiment of camels hair and a

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leathern girdle about his loins
and his meat was locusts and

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Wild Honey.
Now that is the total of John’s

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possessions.
One leather girdle.

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And one camels hair garment he
had nothing.

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He was completely undistracted
by this world.

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That was all he had.
As we said, a camel skin doesn’t

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have to be dry cleaned too often
and grasshoppers, don’t need

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much cooking, and because of
that, he was available.

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God could get through to him,
God could speak to him.

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Now, it’s interesting that
there’s a fascinating

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difference.
We saw the parallels, didn’t we

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with Elijah and Elijah was
dressed in nature.

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Like, I’d like a piece of
granite that was just cut out of

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The escarpment of Gillian.
But of Elijah, it said that his

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clothing was the skin of an
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It doesn’t say what one but of
John, we’re told what animal it

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was because it says there in
verse 4, that it was camels.

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Hey, Now, why would the
scriptures note that?

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Well, you know, the camel of All
Creatures bows and sisters is

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made by the Creator for the
desert.

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It’s the ship of the desert.
You look at the unique features

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of a camel.
A camel has special foot pads,

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which mold itself to the sand of
the desert.

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If you put a camera on Rocky
ground, he’s hopeless.

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But if you put them on the sand
of the desert, he’s absolutely

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sure.
He has a hump in which to store

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his food.
The poor camel doesn’t know how

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long he’s going to have to be
trotting.

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So he has a hump that stores
food.

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He’s got a massive three.
Bird stomach in which to store

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water so that he can constantly
have a replenishment.

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Its nostrils are all pinched in.
So, you see the blowing, Sands

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of the desert, can’t get in his
nose, because they’re pinched

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in. it has lips that are like
leather, so can eat cactus and

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all of the plants that are that
are in the desert it sheds its

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coat just before the hot
weather.

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So, it has a thick coat in the
winter and it has a small coat

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in the summer.
It can go 100 miles in 12 hours.

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And if it needs, it can go for
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Without a rest.
Keeping going and keeping going

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and keeping going.
And keeping going and John’s

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clothes in.
And now, you look at, look at

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those characteristics Doesn’t
the word of God need to be in

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several chambers of our
thinking.

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Don’t we need to have special
shoes to get through the terrain

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of the world.
You don’t, we need to have food

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stored up in case of a long
trial that we’re going through,

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don’t we need to have our
nostrils, you know, pinched in.

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So we don’t get the, the, the
degrading Sands of criticism and

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negativity in there.
You know, we need to wear warm

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coats in the winter to prepare
for the trials of the winter.

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And then when the hot weather is
beating down on us, we need to

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have our thin coats.
He’s adapted to his

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circumstances.
And John’s clothes in and that’s

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what God is saying to us in that
Camel.

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He is made for the desert and so
must we, we’ve got to be made,

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not for this world and to be
conformed to that.

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But to be made for the desert.
And you know, the camera was

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unclean under the law of Moses.
He’s a priest.

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And John’s clothes in him.
What?

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God has cleansed brothers and
sisters?

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No man.
Was the dare call common or

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unclean.
That message was reverberating

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out of John, what went ye out to
sea well he’s dressed in that

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because that’s the way that we
have to be adapted to hardship

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adapted to the difficulties of
the desert, having the word of

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God, in several chambers of our
are thinking, and what was his.

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His energy bar has entered his
strength.

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It was locusts.
Now who would live on Locust?

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I’m told they taste like armpits
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proof but that that’s what I’m
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Now this seems like a strange
thing to eat locusts until the

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days in which we live and you
can go to Whole Foods and pick

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up yourself a bag of chirps
which are sort of a cricket

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based potato chip.
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man is Clint is linked with the
desert He’s eating Locust.

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Now, locusts were clean under
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Depending on what type you see,
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could could spring above the
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God didn’t authorize them to eat
anything that groveled in the,

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in the dirt.
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go doing like that he’s clean.
Do you think about the message

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of John, the Baptist?
What is he counseling us to do

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get Above This Life Spring?
Off by setting our affection

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upon what’s above.
Get away from the world, get

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away from the earth, go out into
the desert if you can spring

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above your clean.
And he’s eating those

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grasshoppers.
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You, he wasn’t asking us to do
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himself.
He lived his message.

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You’ve got to get away from this
world.

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If ever, God is going to speak
to you.

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Now, what were the Locust
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Well, they’re flavored there
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Now, it doesn’t mean sort of
angry, honey, that is wild in

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that sense.
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honey.
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land of Israel?
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under a rock.
So Deuteronomy chapter 32 talks

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about how I gave them honey out
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Now, this picture here is a
picture of bethsaida, which is

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one of the places you can visit
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Now, what happened when we went
to bethsaida is in all of these

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rocks that you see here, the
bees had made their nest and

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they were making honey in
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Actually, there were so many
bees and so many wasp, but we

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actually couldn’t visit
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Yeah, we have been stung.
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rock submit get everything about
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This man is connected with the
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And note the context of
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talks about how God In His
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He gave them honey out of the
Rock.

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And you know what?
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It says I have brought you into
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I might instruct you.
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about honey out of the rock.
Now, what is, what is John

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doing?
Come out into the Wilderness and

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learned something about God,
that I might instruct you, it

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was in the wilderness where the
instruction of the word takes

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place. we can’t do that,
literally But we have to do it

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in our minds.
Close the door to our studies.

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Go out at least in our minds
walkout to the backyard and sit

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down and open the word.
But how’re we ever going to do

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that, where we sit down and we
open the Bible and we read for

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five minutes and then Bing.
And then we we address whatever

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the ding is.
And okay, when it was his first

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saying to me, read Real 2
minutes and then Bing, How’re we

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ever going to understand the
Bible like that?

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How’re we ever going to hear
God’s voice?

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You put those things away,
they’re being, they’re dragging

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us away all the time, put the
cell phone away, turn the Wi-Fi

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off, and transport yourself to
where the voice of God is heard

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and he will speak to your heart.
As Hosea said, I will lure her

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into the Wilderness and there, I
will speak to her heart to see

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the point of these studies
brothers and sisters is really

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not very hard to grasp.
Laughs, what’s very difficult is

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the application.
And it’s, perhaps harder now

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than any other age in human
history, you can read articles

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on, you know, that have been put
out by people who have no

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connection with the Bible.
No belief in God at all.

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And they’ll tell you that the
internet destroys your mind.

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They’ll tell you that
television, damages the

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left-hand hemisphere of the
brain, whether it’s a good

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program or not, That’s what
people in the world, you know,

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they’ve got no connection at all
with with the Bible.

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So we’ve got to put away those
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He had no status, you had a very
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But he lived what he taught.
And God was able to get through

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to him his clothing, his desert,
his food is Desert, he lives in

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the desert.
So let’s come to have a look at

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him.
Now in the desert, in Luke

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Chapter 3, The Day of His
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What?
When she out to sea the sea, ask

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the Lord.
Jesus Christ.

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Well here, here it is.
Now, good.

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Bible study is always based as
we’ve been taught on good Bible

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reading.
And here is one of those

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passages of scripture where all
you have to do is read it

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because the message is so,
Didn’t first one of Luke chapter

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3, it lists, all of the world’s
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Now in the fifteenth year of the
reign of Tiberius Caesar,

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Pontius Pilate being governor of
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Being the tetrarch of Galilee
me.

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How’s this for, a who’s, who of
names and his brother Philip

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tetrarch of it Sharia and the
region of track and itís in.

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Lice Aeneas, the tetrarch of
Abilene e, Aniston Caiaphas

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being the high priest.
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Came unto John, the son of
Zechariah swear.

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In the wilderness.
You see there’s all the world’s

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greats real prizes, some of them
and there’s all their territory

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and it finishes up with the last
two, the high priest of the god

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of Israel himself.
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every single one of them and it
goes to John in the wilderness

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wearing a camel skin.
In the wilderness really whose

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territory?
None of those guys would have

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wanted.
Your God can’t get through to

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Tiberius Caesar.
He couldn’t get through to Herod

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John tried, with Philip and
Herod Antipas, but gods were

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just wouldn’t find room in their
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But God could get through to
John, because he was

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unencumbered with the things of
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He couldn’t speak through Herod.
He couldn’t speak through

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Tiberius Caesar because the
things of this world were two

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important, they had to position
to protect, they had riches to

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preserve.
But when you thinking about

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those things brothers and
sisters, you can’t think about

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God.
And so the word of God goes past

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every one of them and it comes
to John in the wilderness

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wearing a camel skin.
He’s not asking us brothers and

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sisters to do any more than what
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There is his message.
We have to leave the world.

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We have to leave.
Our possessions have to put

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behind materialism.
We don’t need those things.

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All we need to live a Godly
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With contentment is the things
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raiment and and time to study
the Bible.

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So John was down here in verse 3
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It says the baptism of
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sins.
Now, to a christadelphians

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course, is a very familiar
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Baptism.
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but you see you have to
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Pharisees top.
See they thought they taught?

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There was a difference between
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Gentiles but they called them
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And a Jew when he came to the
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as a sign of the Covenant in a
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But but what if a gentile wants
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what do you have to do?
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Baptism was something that Jews
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unclean Gentiles.
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This is absolutely staggering to
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It’s not just Gentiles have got
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You’ve all got to get baptized
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Go down into the muddy stream of
Jordan confess that all flesh is

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grass.
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going to find Repentance.
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having to lower his dignity to
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robes and his broad.
Phylacteries, you’ve all got to

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get down into that.
Muddy mess and confess who you

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are.
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do.
Come back to John’s chapter

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Isaiah 40.
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here in every session because
this is the work of John all

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spelled out.
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predicted here by Isaiah In view
of John’s preaching, the glory

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of Yahweh was to be revealed,
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The glory of Yahweh was to be
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of Isaiah 40, shall see it
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The word together.
They’re really means to become a

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like it’s the were decade which
means to be United to to become

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alike.
This Glory will bring everyone

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to a common level, whether
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poor, no matter your race.
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common level by what John is
about to do, all distinctions

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will disappear and it was the
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It says that will that will do
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Now in John 1:14, you need turn
into it but it says the word

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became flesh and dwelt among us
and we beheld, his glory The

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glory, as of the only begotten
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truth.
So there’s the glory of verse 5

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being revealed that’s in John
chapter 1, John chapter 3 deals

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with Nicodemus, a man who
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everybody else’s was red.
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corrupt, Evil Woman of Samaria,
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And God brought them together.
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met the woman of Samaria at the
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He said to Nicodemus, God, so
loved the world.

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He said, to the woman of
Samaria, salvation is of the

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Jews.
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He narrowed Nicodemus has
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Yeah, he brought Nicodemus, his
perspective and he narrowed the

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woman of Samaria use because all
status All positions.

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Everything Fades into
insignificance in the view of

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that glory and every Valley was
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Every Mountain Hill, was to be
made low, the Crooked places

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shall be made straight and so
those lives that were crooked

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in, God’s sight would be
straightened out and the rough

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places smoothed over and there
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There’s The Valleys, there’s the
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There’s the Crooked places and
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And we come to the record of
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There are only four classes of
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There’s the common people that
he elevated.

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The scribes and the Pharisees
that he leveled the tax

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collectors with all, their
crooked dealings is tax

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collectors.
He straightened them out and

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down came the Roman soldiers,
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he said do violence to no man.
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What?
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There is of Isaiah chapter 40.
Those are the only four classes

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that ask them questions, the
common people whom he elevated,

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the scribes and the Pharisees
home.

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Level.
The tax collectors, he

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straightened out and the rough
brutal.

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Roman soldiers.
They said, what are we going to

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do?
He’s smooth them over what we

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want.
Now, want to consider is what he

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said.
In fact, to each class come back

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to Luke chapter 3.
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revealed and All Flesh will be
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So who comes there?
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scribes and the Pharisees.
As you can expect that that come

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for first, they make their
presence known immediately, Luke

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chapter 3, and verse 7, then
said, he to the multitude that

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came forth to be baptized of
him, o Generation of Vipers.

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Who hath warned you to flee from
the Wrath to come.

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Now, in verse 7, where it says,
they’re the multitude.

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We know from the parallel
account in Matthew chapter 3

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that this is In fact was the
scribes and the Pharisees.

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They come first to be baptized.
Do you know what a Pharisee

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means the word Pharisee?
That means a separate one.

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It’s a separate one.
Have a look at who they’re

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talking to who’s separate.
John the Baptist or then down,

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00:27:54,400 –> 00:27:59,200
come the separate ones and and
John doesn’t even let them open

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their mouth.
The Pharisees who, you know,

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could talk who make long prayers
for a pretense.

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They don’t even get one word in
this record, John, just cuts

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them off before they even get
there.

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He says, o Generation of Vipers
who hath warned you to flee from

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the Wrath to come bring forth.
Therefore fruits Worthy of

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repentance.
So in Isaiah’s prophecy, the

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mountains are now going.
Because they were the mountains

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of that day and Jewish Society.
They were the clergy, the

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mountains are now.
John doesn’t even let them get a

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word in bring forth therefore
fruits meet for repentance.

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And what he’s actually doing is
he’s really drawing on the

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figure of the land.
You see, Jordan overflows, its

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banks during the time of
harvest, Every Spring, And if

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you’ve ever seen a war, you
know, a river flood and then

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recede, what it does, is it
leaves behind it, all the debris

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and trash in the, the sticks and
the leaves that leaves that

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behind it.
As it as it recedes, then, in

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the land of Israel gets really,
really hot.

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And it bakes, all of the debris
in the Bracken and the trash

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that the Jordan has washed up
and it makes it really, really

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hard.
It’s really caked.

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And in John’s day, you know, who
got down into and all that

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debris and all that Bracken
snakes you in Zechariah the

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prophet in, Jeremiah the
prophet.

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He warn people about the Jordan,
they were vipers down there.

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They were Lions down, there was
a dangerous place.

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And so, what the farmers used to
do is they would sometimes put

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the torch to that trash and all
of that Bracken down there along

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the Jordan and outcome.
All the snakes fleeing away.

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Oh, serpents and Generation of
Vipers.

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Who hath warned you to flee from
the Wrath to come says, John

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bring forth therefore fruits
meet for repentance.

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See the mountains are being
leveled.

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Malachi 4:1 said, this the day
is coming, that shall burn as an

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oven and ye upon all that are
proud and all that do wickedly

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and he will need him, neither
root nor branch.

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And the end of that chapter
says, behold, I send you Elijah.

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So here is John Drawing on the
figure of the of the times, you

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know, who hath warned you to
flee from the Wrath to come, you

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Generation of Vipers bring forth
fruits meet for repentance

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before I ever baptize you, they
don’t even get a word in, they

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don’t even get a word in.
You see there in verse 7, where

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it says, o Generation of Vipers.
The word actually is a little

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brew, a little brood of snakes.
That would be fleeing from this

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fire.
That the farmer would would use.

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00:30:52,800 –> 00:30:56,800
To burn up all that trash, the
little little brood of snakes.

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Many years later.
Jesus came along and he called

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them a Generation of Vipers.
But then he said o Generation of

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Vipers.
He said ye serpents and he used

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a mature word, therefore for
serpents.

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They’re just a little brood
here.

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But by the time the Lord comes
along and Matthew chapter 23,

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where a absolutely up a braids
them for their iniquity.

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He calls them serpents since
little brood and now matured,

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00:31:25,400 –> 00:31:29,900
and it’s iniquity and had become
a Full-blown serpent.

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You have to change your thinking
before I’ll ever baptize you.

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00:31:35,200 –> 00:31:39,300
By the time, the Lord came they
hadn’t changed and they had

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grown up.
Now, just to remind ourselves

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where we are, John is baptizing
right here, where this, this

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00:31:46,300 –> 00:31:50,900
arrow is at bethabara.
Bethabara, you may remember, was

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where the children of Israel
crossed in the days of the exes.

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He’s not baptizing in the Dead
Sea.

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He’s baptizing a little further
north in the Jordan at

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bethabara.
Nobody says next.

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He says, don’t think to say
within yourselves that we have

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Abraham to our father, but I say
unto you that God is able of

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00:32:13,100 –> 00:32:18,300
these stones to raise up
children unto Abraham, give me

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00:32:18,300 –> 00:32:20,600
what Joshua did with the stones
when they crossed.

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You see, they were stones in the
Jordan in the muddy filth of

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00:32:24,900 –> 00:32:29,500
Jordan at the priest had to pick
up 12 of them and put them in

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the land.
And then Joshua, not the priest.

518
00:32:33,200 –> 00:32:37,700
Joshua took 12 Stones that were
native to the land, native to

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the land.
He took those 12 Stones and put

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it back in Jordan and Jordan
washed him over.

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Joshua, did that?
God is able of these stones to

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00:32:49,400 –> 00:32:55,000
raise up children unto Abraham.
So just because you’re native to

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00:32:55,000 –> 00:32:59,000
the land just because you’re
Abraham’s natural, descendants

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00:32:59,600 –> 00:33:02,000
that doesn’t mean anything.
Joshua took the stones that were

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native to the land and stuck
them in the Jordan and then

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stones that were not native to
the land.

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00:33:07,400 –> 00:33:10,400
You could say Gentiles stones
that aren’t native to land were

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picked up out of the muddy,
filth of Jordan and put in glory

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in the promised land.
God is able of these stones.

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To raise up children unto
Abraham.

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He’s just keeps on going.
I mean, the indictment just you

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00:33:24,600 –> 00:33:28,000
get a feeling here for the the
way John thought about these

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00:33:28,000 –> 00:33:30,400
people.
He knew they absolutely needed a

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00:33:30,408 –> 00:33:37,600
dressing down and he says, the
ax is laid first nine at the

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root of the tree.
Every tree which bringeth not

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00:33:41,800 –> 00:33:45,000
forth.
Good fruit is hewn down and cast

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00:33:45,200 –> 00:33:48,400
Into the Fire.
When Israel planted a fruit

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00:33:48,400 –> 00:33:51,400
tree.
They weren’t to touch it for

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00:33:51,400 –> 00:33:54,900
three years.
They were to leave that alone

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00:33:55,400 –> 00:34:00,000
and give it to God.
The did bear fruit in the fourth

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year.
They chopped it down.

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00:34:03,400 –> 00:34:06,300
So John is here at the beginning
of the ministry of our Lord.

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00:34:06,300 –> 00:34:09,500
Jesus Christ.
Which lasted three and a half

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00:34:09,800 –> 00:34:15,400
years and he’s saying is an axe
at the root of that tree.

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00:34:17,199 –> 00:34:23,500
You got three years, bring forth
therefore fruits meet for

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00:34:23,699 –> 00:34:26,500
repentance.
Three years later.

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Jesus comes along, and he gives
a parable in Luke Chapter 13, a

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00:34:30,600 –> 00:34:33,800
parable of a fig tree in a
Vineyard, it been going for

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00:34:33,800 –> 00:34:35,800
three years.
It hadn’t brought forth fruit.

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00:34:36,300 –> 00:34:39,400
And he says, cut it down and
someone says, well, let it go a

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00:34:39,400 –> 00:34:42,500
little further.
Let’s see if it brings fruit,

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00:34:43,000 –> 00:34:48,600
but doesn’t and cut it down.
Look at the correlation now

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00:34:48,600 –> 00:34:52,400
between John and Jesus and their
teachings and your brothers and

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00:34:52,400 –> 00:34:53,699
sisters.
We don’t know how much longer we

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00:34:53,699 –> 00:34:56,300
have.
Is it three years?

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00:34:57,000 –> 00:35:00,700
I don’t know.
There’s an axe, it’s there.

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00:35:00,700 –> 00:35:05,100
If we don’t bring forth, fruits
meet for repentance.

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00:35:05,400 –> 00:35:07,500
I like to think about that verse
because I think, you know, I

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think I’ve got an unlimited
amount of time in life, you

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00:35:10,300 –> 00:35:11,700
know.
I’m always one of my worst

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00:35:11,700 –> 00:35:13,600
problems is, I think I’ll do it
tomorrow.

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00:35:14,700 –> 00:35:18,900
But there’s an axe if I don’t
bring forth fruit.

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00:35:19,900 –> 00:35:22,700
We’ve got to do it now today, if
you will hear his voice.

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00:35:22,900 –> 00:35:25,200
Said the song Harden?
Not your hearts.

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00:35:25,400 –> 00:35:26,400
He’s yeah.
What.

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00:35:26,400 –> 00:35:29,500
A-what, a verbal blast this is
from John who could stand up to

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00:35:29,500 –> 00:35:33,000
that, the mountains, not accept
it.

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00:35:33,000 –> 00:35:35,000
Don’t come here until your
attitude changes.

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00:35:36,700 –> 00:35:39,900
What about the valleys?
What about the used in me is

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00:35:39,908 –> 00:35:43,000
what about the working class
verse 10?

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00:35:44,200 –> 00:35:48,000
The people this is the common
people asked him saying, what

572
00:35:48,000 –> 00:35:52,000
shall we do?
John you know, the common people

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00:35:52,000 –> 00:35:55,000
they would have just witnessed
the Pharisees, you know, getting

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00:35:55,000 –> 00:35:57,100
up writing native been a little
bit more confident, you know,

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00:35:57,107 –> 00:36:01,500
John, we’re not like those guys,
you know, we’re not proud, we’re

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00:36:01,500 –> 00:36:04,600
not materialistic.
You know, we’re just we’re just

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00:36:04,600 –> 00:36:06,200
common folk.
We’re not like those Pharisees.

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00:36:06,200 –> 00:36:11,900
What what should we do?
He that’s got two coats.

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00:36:13,300 –> 00:36:18,000
Give one away.
And every eye in that audience

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00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:24,800
would have been on his coat.
And if he offered you, his coat

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00:36:25,200 –> 00:36:26,800
brothers and sisters, you
wouldn’t take it.

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00:36:29,100 –> 00:36:32,900
And he that has food.
Let him share it.

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00:36:34,200 –> 00:36:39,500
And all eyes are looking at a
handful of grasshoppers if he

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00:36:39,500 –> 00:36:41,500
invited you to dinner, brothers
and sisters.

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00:36:42,600 –> 00:36:46,700
You’d feel sick.
Those are the only two things,

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00:36:46,700 –> 00:36:49,800
in fact that we know about
John’s personal circumstances

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00:36:49,900 –> 00:36:53,100
and they’re the only two things.
He tells the common people, what

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00:36:53,100 –> 00:36:55,700
he ate.
And what he wore?

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00:36:56,800 –> 00:37:00,100
you know, as I was going through
these notes, this morning I was

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00:37:00,100 –> 00:37:03,600
thinking to myself You know, I
would love to be in that

591
00:37:03,600 –> 00:37:06,500
position.
Yeah, I would love to be able to

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00:37:07,000 –> 00:37:11,000
tell you today to, you need to
do this in your life and you

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00:37:11,000 –> 00:37:13,800
need to do that your life.
And in every one of those things

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00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:19,700
that I’m telling you, I do in
mine, but but I don’t, The Siege

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00:37:19,700 –> 00:37:24,800
on could say that, you know,
without any hypocrisy at all.

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00:37:25,500 –> 00:37:29,600
You know, I’ve, I’ve got a nice
suits, I’ve got a car, I live in

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00:37:29,600 –> 00:37:33,000
a better than average home.
You know, I wish I could stand

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00:37:33,000 –> 00:37:35,500
up here and say, yeah, whatever
you see me, do do the same

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00:37:35,900 –> 00:37:39,900
yourself but he could.
He wasn’t asking any of us to do

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00:37:39,900 –> 00:37:43,800
what he hadn’t done himself,
share your coat and share your

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00:37:43,800 –> 00:37:47,000
food.
You know, hearts hearts would

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00:37:47,000 –> 00:37:50,200
have melted, the common people
come up confident, they’ve just

603
00:37:50,200 –> 00:37:53,000
watched the Pharisees, get
blasted, this, we’re not like

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00:37:53,000 –> 00:37:56,700
those guys, what would we do?
John and then they all look at

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00:37:56,700 –> 00:37:59,500
his coat.
And they all look at his food,

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00:37:59,800 –> 00:38:03,300
they think.
Well, now they have something to

607
00:38:03,300 –> 00:38:06,700
think about.
Now they have something to think

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00:38:06,700 –> 00:38:08,900
about John.
Didn’t let anybody off easy.

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00:38:10,700 –> 00:38:12,500
And what he told, the common
people that those are the only

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00:38:12,500 –> 00:38:16,900
two things we know about his
food and what he ate.

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00:38:17,200 –> 00:38:18,600
So they now have something to
think about.

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00:38:18,600 –> 00:38:21,600
So the common people as opposed
to the scribes the Pharisees.

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00:38:21,600 –> 00:38:25,400
The common people are elevated,
if they could take that advice

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00:38:25,400 –> 00:38:28,200
and put it to practice, they
would be elevated.

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00:38:29,600 –> 00:38:34,600
Now, who’s next?
Class number three, the

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00:38:34,600 –> 00:38:36,900
publicans now, these of course,
are the people.

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00:38:37,000 –> 00:38:40,500
They are the Crooked places of
Isaiah chapter, 40, the all

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00:38:40,500 –> 00:38:44,000
their crooked dealings as tax
gatherers, and they’re going to

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00:38:44,008 –> 00:38:47,600
be made straight, they’re going
to be smoothed over.

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00:38:47,600 –> 00:38:52,600
You know, the tax system in that
day was was known as the farming

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00:38:52,600 –> 00:38:54,500
system and it was full of
corruption.

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00:38:55,100 –> 00:38:58,500
You had the treasurer in Rome
who was at the head.

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00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:02,500
And he would say to his under
Treasurer, you look, I don’t

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00:39:02,500 –> 00:39:05,500
care what you charge.
This is my cut.

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00:39:06,500 –> 00:39:08,600
And then the under Treasurer
would say to the under under

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00:39:08,600 –> 00:39:13,200
Treasurer, look, I don’t care
what you charge, but the Roman

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00:39:13,200 –> 00:39:17,000
treasure needs this.
And I need this and well,

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00:39:17,000 –> 00:39:20,000
whatever you charge is your
business and then the under

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00:39:20,000 –> 00:39:23,900
under Treasurer would go to the
Matthews and would go to the, to

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00:39:23,900 –> 00:39:26,500
the Zacchaeus has and say, well,
the Roman treasury wants this

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00:39:26,500 –> 00:39:28,500
and the undersecretary wants
this and the under under

632
00:39:28,500 –> 00:39:34,400
secretary wants this and I don’t
care what you get, but this is

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00:39:34,400 –> 00:39:36,600
what we need.
And so people You’ll like

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00:39:36,600 –> 00:39:39,400
Zacchaeus and people like
Matthew had to charge exorbitant

635
00:39:39,400 –> 00:39:43,200
amounts just to get to get any
way to survive.

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00:39:43,300 –> 00:39:48,900
It was called the farming system
controlled by the treasure in

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00:39:48,900 –> 00:39:51,100
Rome.
They had to charge incredible

638
00:39:51,100 –> 00:39:53,100
amounts which is why people
hated them.

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00:39:53,900 –> 00:39:56,200
You know, I thank God that I’m
not as other men, are

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00:39:56,200 –> 00:40:01,400
extortioners unjust adulterers
or even this public.

641
00:40:02,000 –> 00:40:05,200
I mean, it’s hard to
overemphasize how much these

642
00:40:05,200 –> 00:40:08,600
these guys Tax Collectors were
despised.

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00:40:08,800 –> 00:40:10,900
So what does John say to them?
Taking.

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00:40:10,900 –> 00:40:17,700
Let them off easy.
Verse 13, Exact no more than

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00:40:17,700 –> 00:40:20,400
what is appointed.
You that really hurt.

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00:40:21,100 –> 00:40:24,100
I mean, there’s there’s no place
that you can hurt someone in the

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00:40:24,100 –> 00:40:26,200
world more than hitting them in
their pocket.

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00:40:26,600 –> 00:40:29,600
Every time you hear of a tax
increase you, every time you get

649
00:40:29,600 –> 00:40:31,500
a bill in the mail, I mean it
hurts.

650
00:40:32,400 –> 00:40:37,500
He says If the taxes say, that’s
how much you receive and that’s

651
00:40:37,500 –> 00:40:43,400
what you receive only tax.
What you need, exact, no more

652
00:40:44,200 –> 00:40:46,700
than what is appointed to you.
I hope that would hurt because

653
00:40:46,700 –> 00:40:51,300
you see all the cream is gone.
All the all the extra that that

654
00:40:51,300 –> 00:40:54,600
a tax collector would want.
That’s all gone only tax.

655
00:40:54,600 –> 00:40:56,100
What you need?
I mean, he may get a little bit

656
00:40:56,100 –> 00:40:59,200
of commission, but all the
cream, all the extra money is

657
00:40:59,200 –> 00:41:03,000
gone.
If you follow that advice, you

658
00:41:03,000 –> 00:41:08,700
live paycheck to paycheck.
Just exact no more than what is

659
00:41:08,700 –> 00:41:13,700
required.
You only take what you need and

660
00:41:13,700 –> 00:41:17,800
nothing more.
That the rough places would have

661
00:41:17,800 –> 00:41:19,600
been straightened out, wouldn’t
they?

662
00:41:19,600 –> 00:41:23,200
The Crooked places they would be
straightened out in the view of

663
00:41:23,600 –> 00:41:28,600
that advice you know one thing
that impresses me every day Is

664
00:41:28,600 –> 00:41:32,700
when Paul said the love of money
is the root of all evil, there

665
00:41:32,700 –> 00:41:36,600
is not a crisis in this world,
there is not a crime that is

666
00:41:36,600 –> 00:41:39,400
committed.
That does not have somewhere.

667
00:41:39,400 –> 00:41:45,200
Along the line to do with money.
Money is at the bottom of every

668
00:41:45,600 –> 00:41:49,100
ill that we see in the world and
that’s where John hit them.

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00:41:49,600 –> 00:41:52,700
Exact, no more than what is
appointed.

670
00:41:53,800 –> 00:41:56,700
Exact no more.
That would have really hurt.

671
00:41:56,700 –> 00:41:58,700
I mean, these are already
people, who are ostracize,

672
00:41:58,700 –> 00:42:02,900
people who are hated people who
maybe need a needed a lift up in

673
00:42:02,900 –> 00:42:08,000
life.
He said, you only take what you

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00:42:08,000 –> 00:42:11,400
need even necessarily tell them
to give up their vocation.

675
00:42:12,100 –> 00:42:18,900
He said only take what you need.
Be content with what you have

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00:42:19,700 –> 00:42:22,900
the crooks.
Were straightened out.

677
00:42:24,000 –> 00:42:26,900
And you were the fourth class.
Was that came down of all people

678
00:42:27,900 –> 00:42:32,500
down, came the Roman soldiers,
and all their brutality, and as

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00:42:32,500 –> 00:42:34,400
they sent their delegate, to
John, you know, the guy would

680
00:42:34,400 –> 00:42:36,500
have plunked his spear in the
ground and say, what do we do?

681
00:42:38,300 –> 00:42:40,500
In a threatening manner.
Hey you what do we do?

682
00:42:41,500 –> 00:42:46,000
What do you have to say to us
the John shrink back in fear?

683
00:42:47,800 –> 00:42:52,700
John told them three things.
He said do violence to no, man.

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00:42:54,400 –> 00:42:56,000
Don’t accuse.
Anyone falsely.

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00:42:57,600 –> 00:43:01,600
And be content with your wages.
Now, the three things really all

686
00:43:01,600 –> 00:43:04,800
have to do with one thing and
that’s money.

687
00:43:06,200 –> 00:43:08,900
Do violence to no, man.
What they would do is the Roman

688
00:43:08,900 –> 00:43:12,700
rations were very, very small.
And so, what would they do to

689
00:43:12,700 –> 00:43:15,600
make extra money?
Get extra rations.

690
00:43:15,600 –> 00:43:18,300
They would threaten people.
They would do violence to them

691
00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:21,200
and take their rations.
He says do violence to, no, man.

692
00:43:22,700 –> 00:43:26,300
Newark use any man falsely.
If they wanted to get in the

693
00:43:26,300 –> 00:43:32,600
good graces of a high-ranking,
general or Legion in the Roman

694
00:43:32,600 –> 00:43:36,400
army, Legionnaire they go to him
and say, well he you know, so

695
00:43:36,400 –> 00:43:40,500
and so is plotting against you
and there’s this there’s this

696
00:43:40,600 –> 00:43:44,000
aim to take down your position.
I’ll tell you all about it if

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00:43:44,000 –> 00:43:48,600
you pay me.
And be content with your wages.

698
00:43:48,800 –> 00:43:53,300
The Roman soldiers did not make
very much all three of those

699
00:43:53,300 –> 00:43:56,900
things actually have to do with
one thing money.

700
00:43:58,400 –> 00:44:00,700
Brothers and sisters.
How much did John have in the

701
00:44:00,700 –> 00:44:05,400
bank?
Think money worried him how

702
00:44:05,400 –> 00:44:12,300
Diversified was his portfolio.
Are we content with our wages?

703
00:44:14,800 –> 00:44:17,700
If I was to tell you that,
you’re going to get a 20% pay,

704
00:44:17,700 –> 00:44:20,400
cut starting next month.
How did you feel?

705
00:44:22,100 –> 00:44:26,000
25% pickup.
The 30% pick up.

706
00:44:26,500 –> 00:44:30,300
How would you feel?
Would you still be content?

707
00:44:30,500 –> 00:44:32,700
It’s one thing to say, I don’t
have a problem with money when

708
00:44:32,700 –> 00:44:34,900
you got plenty.
But what if what if someone

709
00:44:34,900 –> 00:44:37,300
started sort of poking and
started taking more and they’re

710
00:44:37,300 –> 00:44:39,900
taking more?
Now, how would you feel?

711
00:44:41,500 –> 00:44:43,900
Be content with what we have.
And I think what that means, at

712
00:44:43,900 –> 00:44:46,100
the end of the day, brothers and
sisters, is that we always live

713
00:44:46,100 –> 00:44:49,300
within our means.
We should always live within our

714
00:44:49,300 –> 00:44:51,600
means.
We don’t rack up credit cards.

715
00:44:51,600 –> 00:44:54,400
You know, we don’t spend beyond
what is necessary.

716
00:44:54,900 –> 00:44:59,200
We live within our means.
If we’re a wife, we learn to

717
00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:02,400
live within our husband’s
salary, we don’t spend Beyond it

718
00:45:02,400 –> 00:45:07,300
or look for ways to get around
the barriers that he is set.

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00:45:08,400 –> 00:45:12,900
We’re content always with what
we have.

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00:45:14,500 –> 00:45:17,500
John says, take the salary.
You’ve been given Roman soldier

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00:45:18,500 –> 00:45:22,400
and be happy with that.
The rough places were made

722
00:45:22,400 –> 00:45:24,800
smooth.
You know, I wonder how you could

723
00:45:24,800 –> 00:45:28,200
have been a Roman soldier after
implementing those three things.

724
00:45:29,300 –> 00:45:31,000
I mean, I don’t know if you
could, I mean, this is a verse

725
00:45:31,000 –> 00:45:33,900
that back in the days of the
Vietnam War our Brethren would

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00:45:33,900 –> 00:45:36,900
be getting hit with, you know,
soon as you John doesn’t say

727
00:45:36,900 –> 00:45:39,600
give up their their job as
soldiers, does he?

728
00:45:40,100 –> 00:45:43,000
Well, if you put into practice
that advice, I don’t know how

729
00:45:43,000 –> 00:45:47,100
good of a Roman soldier you’d be
because that was their lives.

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00:45:47,100 –> 00:45:53,100
That was how they survived.
But he smooth them over.

731
00:45:53,600 –> 00:45:59,200
And so there is the summary,
every Valley Shall be exalted,

732
00:45:59,200 –> 00:46:01,900
the common people were elevated
Every Mountain and Hill.

733
00:46:01,900 –> 00:46:06,400
The scribes and the Pharisees
were level, the Crooked places

734
00:46:06,500 –> 00:46:10,900
were made straight.
And the rough places plane or is

735
00:46:10,900 –> 00:46:13,400
Isaiah 40 put it.
The glory of Yahweh shall be

736
00:46:13,400 –> 00:46:18,300
revealed and All Flesh shall
become a like everybody’s on one

737
00:46:18,300 –> 00:46:23,900
level after that exhibition. the
crowd would have gone home, and

738
00:46:25,400 –> 00:46:27,800
Not only would they’ve been
really struck with what they

739
00:46:27,800 –> 00:46:32,000
heard brothers and sisters, but
It says in verse 15 that all men

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00:46:32,800 –> 00:46:38,300
mused in their hearts, whether
he was the Messiah or not, if

741
00:46:38,308 –> 00:46:41,100
you’re thinking, oh boy, I hope
he’s not the Messiah because if

742
00:46:41,100 –> 00:46:44,900
he’s the Messiah boy, have I got
a clean up my life because his,

743
00:46:45,000 –> 00:46:48,900
his example was, so unhip a
critical, everything he said he

744
00:46:48,900 –> 00:46:53,200
did in his own life.
Now you can imagine the common

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00:46:53,200 –> 00:46:56,500
people, you know, heads down low
and thinking, well, you know, I

746
00:46:56,900 –> 00:47:00,800
I really wanted a vacation and,
you know, I really wanted to

747
00:47:00,808 –> 00:47:04,200
live in prosperity, like a
Pharisee but, you know, I guess

748
00:47:04,200 –> 00:47:06,300
it’s best that I share what I
have.

749
00:47:07,700 –> 00:47:09,900
The Pharisees would have the
Pharisees would have murdered in

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00:47:09,900 –> 00:47:11,500
themselves.
You know, who is he to call us

751
00:47:11,500 –> 00:47:13,600
those names in front of the
people?

752
00:47:13,600 –> 00:47:16,200
I mean, we came down here with
with good intentions.

753
00:47:16,200 –> 00:47:19,600
We thought we were serious and
he said all those things about

754
00:47:19,600 –> 00:47:23,100
us about fleeing from the Wrath
to come and, you know, the

755
00:47:23,100 –> 00:47:27,100
publicans would would go away.
And, you know, they’d say, well,

756
00:47:27,200 –> 00:47:31,400
you know, it’s one thing for him
to say, not to charge more but,

757
00:47:31,400 –> 00:47:35,500
you know, I’ve got to make a
living and I’ve got to do what

758
00:47:35,500 –> 00:47:37,200
I’ve got to do.
And well, the truth Maybe.

759
00:47:37,300 –> 00:47:40,000
Important and I may need to get
down to my Bible study and I may

760
00:47:40,000 –> 00:47:42,600
need to go visit those who are
sick but you know I gotta earn a

761
00:47:42,600 –> 00:47:46,800
living too.
And if I do what he does, if I

762
00:47:46,800 –> 00:47:48,900
play it straight, then I’m not
going to get the things that I

763
00:47:48,900 –> 00:47:52,000
want.
And the soldiers might say,

764
00:47:52,000 –> 00:47:54,800
well, you know, it’s one thing
for him to be living in a

765
00:47:54,808 –> 00:47:56,500
desert.
But how can we do this

766
00:47:56,500 –> 00:47:58,500
occupation?
If we’re not violent, if I’m not

767
00:47:58,500 –> 00:48:02,300
Roth, if I don’t, you know, mess
people up and hurt them, then

768
00:48:02,300 –> 00:48:06,500
how can I make a dollar and it
all that, that really hurts.

769
00:48:07,400 –> 00:48:09,200
So, they’re all amusing in their
hearts.

770
00:48:09,200 –> 00:48:14,400
Whether John is the messiah.
You know why?

771
00:48:14,400 –> 00:48:20,100
Because all of them, Pharisee
commoner Publican and Soldier

772
00:48:20,100 –> 00:48:21,600
would have to say in their
hearts.

773
00:48:21,600 –> 00:48:24,200
Finally, that, however,
difficult it may be for me, I

774
00:48:24,200 –> 00:48:28,400
cannot say that guy’s a
hypocrite, What whence you out

775
00:48:28,400 –> 00:48:31,400
to sea, ask the Lord, Jesus
Christ.

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00:48:32,200 –> 00:48:34,700
Yeah, that tells us brothers and
sisters about the power of an

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00:48:34,700 –> 00:48:37,200
example.
The name of John became a

778
00:48:37,200 –> 00:48:39,400
household word all over the
world.

779
00:48:39,400 –> 00:48:42,900
As we saw, in our opening point,
they knew him in Asia, Minor,

780
00:48:42,900 –> 00:48:45,100
they knew him in Egypt, he was
all over the land.

781
00:48:46,200 –> 00:48:49,000
Not because he broadcasted how
great he was but because of his

782
00:48:49,000 –> 00:48:52,500
awe-inspiring example of
singleness of mine, he lived

783
00:48:52,500 –> 00:48:56,200
what he said.
Now do we if we say something,

784
00:48:57,700 –> 00:48:59,800
Do we do it?
We say we’re going to do

785
00:48:59,800 –> 00:49:00,800
something.
If we say, we’re going to

786
00:49:00,808 –> 00:49:03,100
fulfill a commitment.
Do we do it or do we drag our

787
00:49:03,100 –> 00:49:05,800
heels?
You know, heads would have been

788
00:49:05,800 –> 00:49:09,100
hung in shame on that day, but,
you know, Luke doesn’t leave it

789
00:49:09,100 –> 00:49:11,300
there.
I’d like to finish with Verse

790
00:49:11,300 –> 00:49:15,200
18.
You know, the people would have

791
00:49:15,200 –> 00:49:18,400
all gone away in their hearts
and all that hurt.

792
00:49:18,400 –> 00:49:20,000
How am I ever going to apply
that?

793
00:49:20,000 –> 00:49:23,600
But that’s not all John did on
that day.

794
00:49:24,500 –> 00:49:28,000
Well, in verse 18, it says and
many other things in his

795
00:49:28,000 –> 00:49:31,700
exhortation preached.
He unto the people I’d like to

796
00:49:31,707 –> 00:49:35,700
just give that to you from from
the dive lot and exhorting, many

797
00:49:35,700 –> 00:49:40,200
other things.
He proclaimed Glad Tidings.

798
00:49:41,000 –> 00:49:46,200
Unto the people Glad Tidings
that’s Isaiah 40.

799
00:49:47,200 –> 00:49:50,400
Unto the people.
So you pictured on John down

800
00:49:50,400 –> 00:49:54,500
there on the valley for he had
left them with stinging, rebukes

801
00:49:55,300 –> 00:49:59,000
advice that that would have been
really really hard to implement.

802
00:49:59,000 –> 00:50:03,000
It would have hurt.
I mean the be to tell the public

803
00:50:03,000 –> 00:50:06,200
and you got to you got to only
charge what is necessary and

804
00:50:06,200 –> 00:50:09,800
what the system says would have
been very difficult.

805
00:50:11,800 –> 00:50:14,300
You’re telling the soldiers, you
essentially have to give up your

806
00:50:14,300 –> 00:50:15,600
jobs.
If you want to survive, would

807
00:50:15,600 –> 00:50:19,100
have been very, very difficult.
But, you know, the strength of

808
00:50:19,100 –> 00:50:23,200
that beautiful, golden voice
didn’t just dwell upon the – he

809
00:50:23,200 –> 00:50:25,900
also went to the positive.
You, he would have said to the

810
00:50:25,900 –> 00:50:27,600
Pharisees, he would have said to
the people.

811
00:50:27,600 –> 00:50:30,800
Let me tell you what the kingdom
of God is going to be, like he

812
00:50:30,800 –> 00:50:33,700
gave them encouragement.
Yes, yes, I know.

813
00:50:33,700 –> 00:50:36,400
I’ve had some hard things to
say, yes, I know I’ve had some,

814
00:50:36,700 –> 00:50:39,700
some difficult things to say,
but, but let me tell you what

815
00:50:39,700 –> 00:50:43,500
the kingdom is going to be like.
See, he gave them an incentive.

816
00:50:44,900 –> 00:50:49,100
To press on.
He gave them motivation to

817
00:50:49,600 –> 00:50:52,000
continue and you won’t stoop to
bark at people.

818
00:50:52,100 –> 00:50:57,700
They have its place.
We have to supplement

819
00:50:57,700 –> 00:51:00,100
everything.
We say that’s hard with some

820
00:51:00,100 –> 00:51:04,000
sites with some kind of
encouragement and make people in

821
00:51:04,000 –> 00:51:07,100
our number feel like it’s worth
carrying on like the kingdom is

822
00:51:07,100 –> 00:51:11,300
worth fighting for otherwise
we’ll never really change

823
00:51:11,800 –> 00:51:15,100
anyone.
So Verse 18 says there that, you

824
00:51:15,100 –> 00:51:18,200
know, yes, John had some hard
things to say and we have some

825
00:51:18,200 –> 00:51:21,400
hard things to say at times to
especially in this age, where we

826
00:51:21,400 –> 00:51:24,500
can see the world making inroads
into the Brotherhood.

827
00:51:24,600 –> 00:51:27,100
Yeah, we can see that that
things are Challenging and we

828
00:51:27,100 –> 00:51:29,500
have to point out those
challenges but but let’s make

829
00:51:29,500 –> 00:51:33,400
sure that we’re also giving
people a reason to carry on.

830
00:51:33,900 –> 00:51:38,100
That’s what John did with many
other things in his exhortation.

831
00:51:38,100 –> 00:51:42,200
He preached Glad Tidings unto
the people.

832
00:51:43,600 –> 00:51:47,100
You know, it’s the Majestic and
Powerful expositions that have

833
00:51:47,100 –> 00:51:51,200
changed me.
Far more than getting a lecture

834
00:51:51,200 –> 00:51:53,900
from someone.
You know, it’s those positive

835
00:51:53,900 –> 00:51:56,800
things that we hear from the
word, even the most simple

836
00:51:57,000 –> 00:52:00,500
excerpt ations have been the
most powerful because they

837
00:52:00,500 –> 00:52:04,400
encouraged me that.
Yes, it is worth going on.

838
00:52:05,500 –> 00:52:07,500
So what went ye out to see
brothers and sisters.

839
00:52:07,500 –> 00:52:09,700
Look at those four classes.
Put yourself there.

840
00:52:10,200 –> 00:52:13,400
How are you going to apply that
advice?

841
00:52:14,900 –> 00:52:18,200
It says, we lay in bed tonight
as we go to bed.

842
00:52:18,500 –> 00:52:21,600
Let’s let’s try to get a mental
picture of that, of that day.

843
00:52:21,600 –> 00:52:25,300
As John is down there on the
valley, floor exhorting, all of

844
00:52:25,300 –> 00:52:29,000
these people.
You know, let’s let’s say in our

845
00:52:29,000 –> 00:52:32,700
prayers before our God that we
will try to make the most of the

846
00:52:32,700 –> 00:52:35,200
time that we have left.
Let’s take away those things

847
00:52:35,200 –> 00:52:38,400
that in our lives are not
necessary.

848
00:52:39,600 –> 00:52:41,100
To say that, you know, I’m
sorry.

849
00:52:41,100 –> 00:52:45,300
Lord for the time that I’ve
wasted my life and I want to use

850
00:52:45,300 –> 00:52:49,500
it better and grind on in this
Wilderness and help me to make

851
00:52:49,500 –> 00:52:54,000
time to hear the voice, the
voice that kings and queens and

852
00:52:54,400 –> 00:52:57,200
and prime ministers and
presidents will never ever hear.

853
00:52:57,900 –> 00:53:01,700
That’s the wonderful voice of
God’s word. and let me never

854
00:53:01,700 –> 00:53:06,700
cease to be impressed with the
power of what I went out that

855
00:53:06,700 –> 00:53:26,400
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856
00:53:26,400 –> 00:53:30,100
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857
00:53:30,100 –> 00:53:32,000
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00:53:32,000 –> 00:53:35,000
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